The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-27
JERSEYS NEXT GOVERNOR.
CHANCELLOR TGFLL THE DEMO-
CRATIC NOMINEE.

Augusta W. Cutter His Only oppO-
nent I'm the Convention for the
NominntiOn-The Chancellor suc-
ceSsfuI on the First RaIIot-The
business OF the Body PAT Through
with DisDatch-Extracts From the
Platform.
Trenton, n. J., Sept. 26.-The democratic
state convention met here to-day TO nom.
mate a candidate for governor.
Allen McDermott. chairman of the state
committee, called the convention to orde1
at 1920 o'clock.
Samuel Kalisch Of Newark. well.
known criminal lawer. was made tenn.
porary chairman.
business was put through with dis.
patch, the speechmakIng and appointment
of committees being concluded by
o'clock. when a recess was taken until
O'Clock. Business was resumed at 2:Sg
O'Clock, with Judge Howard Carrow Of
Camden as permanent chairman.
Promptness was again the order. Tho
platform was presented, read and adopted
unanimously.
Then there was some talk as to whethe1
the new state committee or the guberna.
torlal candidate should first be named.
The point was settled in favor Of making
the nomination. But two names were
placed before the convention, ChancelIoa
McGin and Augusta W. Cutter. Chancel-
lor McGill was nominated on the first bal.
lot, Mr. Cutter receiving only 1i3 votes out
Of 952 Chancellor McGiITs nomination
was then declared 20 be unanimous, al.
though handful of delegates protested.
The convention then adjourned
The following are excerpts from
the platform: I'VE reafiirm the
national democratic platform adopt.
ed at Chicago In 1892, and
cordially indorse the administration Of
President Cieveland. with whose determI.
nation to protect the people Of this coun.
try from the evils ever attendant upon a
debasenfent Of the national currency we
are In most earnest sympathy.
we congratulate the people upon the re-.
NlVal OF prosperity, everywhere evident
n our land and we assert that the in
qustrlal depression with which we have
been afflicted during the past three years
IS chargcable to the national LEGISLATION
enacted BY the Republican party The
puichdse OF SILVER 70 be stored In the
treasury and the enactment Of unjust tar-
M laws, 70 enrich a few favorites by the
oppression OF millions OF consumers, were
the main causes Of the paralyzation OF
our markets. That paralysis with an
empty national treasury, were the lega-
tration.
The battle against a system fostered In
VOCATION or self-evident laws OF political
economy has been won. Every STRUGGLED
AGAINST intrenched wrong IS attended 81
pflNation and suffering. but these are
never endured IN vain. The lesson ~
cause and effect has been thoroueblv
learned, and We are willing to abide ~
the decision Of an intelligent people who
are now entering uDor a period Of PROS
and enduring"
The remainder OF the platform is wholly
ueEoted 70 state issues excepting the Last
paragraph, which Is a tribute to the mem
oIy Or recently deceased distlnguished
members Of the Democratic party IN New
Jersey, Leon Albeit. Rodman IL Price
Joseph u. Redle and Robert S. Green
chancellor Alexander T. McGUl is a
Pennsyiyanian by birth and 81 years old
lie graduated from Princeton college in
ieo4 and two years later from the Colun1-
bih law school, New York. He has been
Q member of the bar since 1857. He was
counsel for the city Of Bayonne in 1876 and
lot3 ana during the same years was 4
member OF the House of Assembly from
the old First district OF Hudson county.
t1e WAS later made prosecutor OF pleas IN
Hudson county and district tudge Ha
was appointed chancellor by Gov Green
IN Mareh, 1887, and was reappointed last
year by GOV. Werts. 1t is said that ne
" WIN resign the enancellorship In order to
be free to take the stump