The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-25

rected-we favor the rigid maintenance of the present gold standard as essen tial to the preservation of our national credit, the redemption of our public pledges and the keeping lnviOlate of our country's honor. We insist that all our paper and silver currency shall DC kept absolutely at a parity with gold.
 The democratic party has ever been and is the hard-money party, and it will preserve that record. It is oppos- ed to legal tender paper money as a part of our permanent financial Sys- tenn, and it refuses to sanction any paper currency inconVertible with coin. The United States notes and treasury notes, being, in fact, debts of the gov ernment, should be gradually paid off, retired and cancelled. This should and must be done in such a manner as to cause no contraction of the circulating money of the country. So long as such paper currency exists, however, ana is permitted to circulate as money, it should be redeemable at all times upon demand in the standard money of the country.
 The democratic party is pledged to the resolute maintenance of the public credit at all times and under all cir cumstances, and it is therefore oppos- ed to the repeal of any existing stature which enables the secretary of the treasury, by the issue of bonds or 0th erwise, to provide an adequate fund for the redemption in gold of our paper obligations whenever necessary.
 We reiterate our adherence to the principle of a tariff for revenue only. We are opposed to government part- nership with protected monopolies, and we demand that import duties, like other taxes, should be impartially laid and their imposition limited to the ne- cessities of the government, economi- cally administered. Federal taxation should not be imposed to benefit indi- vidual interests fat the expense of the general welfare.
 We repudiate the doctrine that it is the province of the government, by the exercise or abuse of the power of tax ation, to build up che mans business at the expense of another's, or to in- pose burdens upon one class of citizens for the benefit of other classes, and we insist that mo public taxation, except
 
 for public purposes, is the true theory upon which our system of government is based and upon which it should be honestly and impartially administer ed." Upon this principle of revenue reform the democratic party takes no step backward.
 We endorse the administration of President Cleveland and particularly commend him for his determined efforts to maintain the financial credit of the United States. It is hereby further re- solved that the delegates to the na- tional convention selected by this con- vention are hereby instructed to enter that convention as unit and to vote and act as unit in accordance With the will of the majority thereof
 The platform was adopted unant- mously. Governor Flower offered the following which was also adopted:
 Whereas Party devotion at Chicago on the silver question will endanger democr& tit success, and
 Wheras, Republican ascendency in the nation would undoubtedly be fol- lowed by another attempt to establish minority rule in the democratic south ern states by means of force bill; therefore be it
 Resolved, That the democrats of New York appeal to the democrats of the south in the name of their political liberty and their properties to avert the possibility of a force bill by unit ing with the democrats of the east and west in framing a platform on which all democrats can stand and the united support of which will lead to glorious democratic victory.
 Congressman SulZer offered the fol- lowing: Resolved, That we sympa- thize with the brave and heroic Gu bans in their struggles to achieve their freedom and independence and con- demn the atrocities, the outrages and cruelties perpetrated by Spanish sol diers under the Spanish flag in Cuba"
 An amendment urging the goVern- ment to intervene with view to end ing the war in Cuba was laid on the table. The original resolution was then adopted The following delegates at large were then elected to the national convention: David B. Hill, Roswell P. Flower, Edward Murphy, Frederic R. Coudert. At 4:10 the convention ad- journed sine die.