New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-18

were to be adopted-the Assembly rules-in the
convention. and put him on his guard IN regaro
to any attempt to shut him out from oHer'hs
an additional plank to the platform by pariia-
mentary devices. Mr. Miller learned from MT
Saxton that he could not be deprived OF the op-
portunty of debating for at least half an hour
the proposed Sunday liquor plank and each
voter had at least five minutes to explain MS
vote This warning OF Mr. Saxton was probably
directed especially against Speaker Fish. VINO
was to be the chairman OF the Committee on
Resolutions. Mr.. Fish did. indeed. try to gag Mr.
Miller in the convention In the afternoon when
the latter offered his plank on the Sunday liquor
question. claiming that the resolution was mot
dcbatable" but Senator Lexow. who was acting
as chairman. ignored Mr.. Fish's demand. Mr..
Miller said afterward that II the chairman had
refused 10 permit him 70 speak on his proposed
nlank he should have left the convention. and he
believed that two-thlrds OF the members or the
convention would have walked out Of the hall
with him.
MLHOLLAND'S ATTACK on THE PLATFORM.
Mr. Fish carried out Mr. Platt's plan Of
ignoring the Sunday liquor question. No men
ton was made OF 1t In the Republican State
nIotform The first attack made upon the
platform by John r. Milholland Of New-York
Az a member Of the Committee on Resolutions.
Mr. MIholand presented a minority report "a
voring the enforcement Of the Sunday liquor
law He also had plank nstructing the fe-
publican State Committee to present next year
n plan for the enlargement Of that committee
and It's Improvement as a piece or party ma
chinery william A. Sutherland. who sat AT
Mr. Patt's side. pretended that he thought Mr.
MilhoIland had committed the awful crime or
limiting that the Republican State Committee
was an incompetent body In impressive tones
he moved that Mr.. Mlhoand's minority report
should he tabled and had the audacity to claim
that the Republican majority OF 1ooooo over
Isaac II. Maynard and Of 10000 over David D.
HI, was due to the genius Of the Republican
state Committee. Chairman Lexow put Mr'
sutherlands motion to table the Milholland
minority report before the convention under-
stood clearly It's object. Fully half Of the dele
gates nevertheless. voted against Mr.. Suther-
lands motion. and yet Mr.. Lexow declared u
carried He also would not grant Mr.. MilhoI-
land a yea and nay vote on the proposition'
right ne clearly had under the rules OF the
Assembly.
II WAS then that Senator Warner Miller IN
slated upon recognition. He had claimed the
floor 10 speak upon Mr.. Mlholland's minority
report but Senator Lexow had not seen him'
Mr.. Miller now demanded In stentorian tones
that he should be seen, and Senator LeNo" hau
. Vision and saw him. Mr. Miller pushed his
plank demanding the enforcement or the ouh-
day laws upon the attention OF the convehtion.
Few persons who attended the convention VIII
ever forget his speech 1t was earnest II ""'
concise 1t was spirited and filled with oe-
,eru,nation to carry the convention with him.
The Republican party should stand TOT the INV
It should support all laws, Sunday laws OF
ak-da
written a letter which he Senator Miller wouid
ot baaitate ID declare Infamous. IL was
AGAINST the enforcement Of law. Every one
Lrev that the Sunday liquor law In New-forK
had been made the instrument OF gigantic
Matchmaking operations Mr.. Miller warned MS
fellow Republicans that they could not doose
: The Sunday Iiuuor question. III you aVoio IL
bare ne said you will meet II on the musings
and at the polls. / believe and think ma
,or,tv Of the delegates to this convention De-
leve that all laws should be enforced. whether
they are Sunday laws or other laws.
PREFERRED BEING RIGHT TO BElNI "o'-
ERNoR.
Tn the course Of his speech he aroused keen IN
tarest In the convention by declaring tnat ne hao
heen told that day that II he had not advocated
high license system in 1888 he would nave peen
e,ected Governor OF the State Il never nave re-
gretted for one moment" he said, that maoe
that campaign for high license. II had 10
choose between being Governor and not adVocat-
inc b,ob license would have resigned the Gov
ernorship.'
Great applause followed this declaration. He
then closed his speech by declaring that o'a'e
could not surrender its sovereignty to a CITY, and
therefore it could not grant to New-iorh Vi any
other city the privilege of saying whether 1t
The convention was obviously carried over to the
support of Mr. Mlllers plank by MS speech. Mr.
pIatt saw 1t. and. as already stated. told Hamil-
ton Fish as chairman of the Committee on heso-
lutions. to accept It, Mr.. Fish did so, and the
plank was adopted by the convention ana 'hus
the platform was made complete
The days work of the convention was MAGE
highly valuable to the Republican party III the
State by the delivery of speech In the recess
between the first session and the seconu oy
Chauncey NJ. Depew, in which, with priiiiant
force he assailed the Democratic National Al
mnIstration and with high ability depicted the
excellent record Of the Republican State officers
A resolution was passed by the convention OF
very quiet not to say perfunctory, nature
expressing the hope that Governor Morton
would be nominated for President 1t was OBJ
vious from the tone of this declaration. that
Platt Republicans are not "whoopins up" the
canvass of the friends of Governor Morton 10
secure him the nomination for President.
THE BOss's ONE VICTORY.
Mr. Platt did score success during the day.
He did contrlve to smother Mr.. Milhollands reso-
luton for the enlargement Of the Republican
State Committee But such powerful public sup
port TO this idea has been secured by one short
campaign that its triumph is assured In a short
time J. Sloat Fassett in an able speech showed
how rea sonable was Mr. Milhollands suggestion
that the Republican State Committee should
itself reform itself. but Mr.. Platts machine
,rould have none of IT, They are Bourbons that
a few years will see deprived Of political power.
THE BOSSES ORDERS OBEYED.