The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-26
ALDRIDGE IN THE LEAD
EMPIRE STATE REPUBLICANS IN
 CONVENTION dSSEMBLED.

| CONVENTION dSSEMBLED.
 Morton's Successor Unnamed-Ex-senntor Platt Refuses Absolutely to Have His
 Name Presented-Platform Adopted--It
 is an Able and Clear Enunciation of the | Principles of the Party-Nine Candidates
 Nominated for Governor-McISinley and Hobart Eulogized--The Effective Opera
 ton of the Raines Bill Dwelt Upon. | Saratoga, N. Y, Aug. 25.-At the re-
 publican state convention held here to-
 day and at the conclusion of his speech General Woodford called for the report of the committee on resolutions. Lem-
 uel E. Quigg of New York read the l platform, as follows:
 The republicans of New York in con-
 vention assembled congratulate their fellow citizens throughout the country
 upon the distinctness of the issues by
 which, in the present campaign, the
 great political parties are divided | There is no equivocation in any of the party platforms, nor doubt as to what
 the candidates intend The allied dem
 ocratic and populistic parties say their
 success will lead at once to the free 1 coinage of silver
 | The republican party says the pres | T. ;,.+ ;,,a
 and that the way to recover our lost
 prosperity Is to return to the wise in
 dustrial policy by which under repub- lican rule prosperity was achieved.
 The attempt to make an ounce of
 gold equal in value to only sixteen l ounces of silver when it is now worth | thirty ounces, is hopeless and absurd l The United States could neither take nor
 use one-half the silver that free coin
 age law would bring to their mints | This fact is so plain to the world of | commerce and business that the mere | announcement of the success of the
 democratic ticket would send gold at | once to premium, drive debtors into
 cruel liquidation and cause further
 withdrawal of capital from investment
 and further suspension of industry. No injury could be inflicted upon l trade and commerce, no fraud perpe- 1 trated upon labor, no shame visited upon the national reputation more hurt full than would be the enactment of a
 law compelling the people to accept, in | the payment of debts, a coin for one dollar which they could spend for not much more than half that sum. l To aliege that our stock of money 1 is not now sufficient for the transaction l of business is mere assertion, but if it
 were true, the evil 1t implies would not 1 be cured by law the first and instan-
 taneous effect of which would be to l drive out of circulation our entire SUD- l ply of gold money, more than one- third | Of the whole. The employment of all | the minting resources of the govern
 ment in the coinage of silver dollars | only could not in period of fifteen | years make up for the deficiency of | circulation that would result from the
 retirement of gold The currency per
 capita Is to-day greater than it ever | has been. The people can take no more
 money than they can buy with their
 labor and what they can buy is value
 and not mere denominations.
 | To the maintenance of pure circu-
 lation of dollars of full and equal value
 the republican party is resolutely
 pledged and for the firm establishment
 of that policy 1t asks the support of
 every citizen who wishes neither to
 cheat nor to be cheated
 | It must be constantly borne in mind
 that the conditions cut of which this
 agitation for free silver has arisen were
 created by the democratic assault on
 the country's manufacturing industries
 If there had been no Interruption of the | protective policy there would have been no interruption of business, no failure of revenue and no lack of profitable en- ployment for the people. The increase | of $262, 135, 900 to the fact of the bonded I debt, which four years of democratic
 rule has compelled, while In some measure due to the attacks in congress upon the public credit by the pressure
 of Free silver bills, has it's origin in
 a tariff act which converted a monthly 1 pluS OA ISSCHuC lutO d luOEItilly u6- felt and exposed domestic production l to unjust competition.
 The republican party Is welded to no
 set of rates and schedules, but it's car l dinal principle is the protection of | American industry. A tariff must be
 enacted which will provide revenues
 sufficient to meet the ordinary and
 necessary expenses of the government l and so adjusted as to place American | labor without the sacrifice of our high water system on at least equal terms
 in our own market with the labor of | other lands.
 1 The nomination of William Mckinley | and Garret A. Hobart by the republi- | can national convention is received by tte republicans of New York with en- I thusiasm and confidence. We endorse l the platform on which they were plac- ed before the country and assure to l them the active support of every re- publican within the borders of New l York
 i We commend the wise, dignified and
 popular administration ot Governor
 Levi P. Morton and cail attention to 1 the contrast it affords with preceding l democratic administra tions in its free | dom from every form of public scan- 1 dal
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