The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-25

properly shift from his own shoulders to those of a party convention the duty of deciding a matter of public and pri- Vate honesty"
 Conceding as we do to a majority of party organization the power to de- termine any affair which exclusively concerns itself or it's own management. we deny it's right to interfere with or thMart the higher duty a citizen owes to his conscience and to his country. Tammany Hall and it's ally in Kings county, controlling almost majority of the delegates, hastened to commit their respective organizations to the support of the platform and nominees, thus foreshadoWing the result at Buff falo. The voice of indignant protest could no longer be stided. A band of brave and patriotic men had met at h. dianapolis and relying on the sympa- thies of their fellows throughout the Union, had issued a caM for national convention. They pressed forward till it's elimination. No one was left in doubt that if the Buffalo convention should not approve the Chicago plat form any proper nominees of that body for state candidates would be endorsed bY the adjourned Syracuse convention, and that contrary result would follow in the event of such approval. Impell- ed by a fatalism which has no parallel in the history of politics, the Buffalo convention lashed itself to the corpse of populsm, while the delegates stood by and exulted over the heroism of their own political suicide When it Is asked:
 Why this offense against democra- cy and consequent ruin of the organi- zation?"
 The answer is: "We would rather ruin both than have the organization fall under the control of anyone else than ourselves"
 We express the hope that the prin- ciples of democracy, enshrined in the present of a majority of the American people are still there preserved.
 Is the offense in the platform palliat- ed and are democrats to be placated by the inharmonious opinions of its opinions so little respect ed even by himself, that he will re- pudiate them by his vote? No, in the contradiction between the platform and the candidate we can discover the downfall of an organization which will permit itself to be thus flouted and de- ceived, but we can see snothing to com mand our respect Acknowledging the humiliation which has been inflicted upon the democratic party by the Chi cago and Buffalo conventions we call on all who would not have the Ameri- can people summed as lepers in the world of trade and commerce who be- lieve "it is the duty of the people to support the government, and not the duty of the government to support the people," that individual enterprise and achievement should not be blighted by the incipient populst once called pro- lection, but now answering only the ame--McKinleyism that responsible democratic state government in New York should supplant irresponsible re- publican bossism, to unite in support ing the principles and nominees of the national democratic party"
 Theodore Bacon of Monroe was chos- en as an elector- at-large in place of Judge Earle who was found to be in- eligible. Oswald Ottendorfer, the other elector- at-large, was chosen at Syra- cuse.
 Electors for the thirty-four congress sional districts were then named.
 The following nominations were then made by acclamation:
 For governor-Daniel G. Griffin of Water.own.
 For lieutenant governor-F. w. Heinrichs of Brooklyn.
 For judge of the court of appeals Spencer Clinton of Buffalo.
 A resolution endorsing the Indianap- oils platform and ticket was adopted amid cheers.
 The work of the convention being completed, General Palmer the candi- date of the national democracy for president, was introduced and made a rattling speech. He was enthusiasti- cally received.
 D. G. Griffin of Watertown was born in Wilma. Jefferson county, New York, in 1S4S. He was for five years superin- tendent of city schools in Watertown. He then read law and was admitted to the bar in 1876.
 The state committee announces that reports received by it indicate that the candidates of the national democracy will poll 100000 votes in this state; that Bryan will get 100000 and Mckinley upwards of 1000.