The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-18
CHICAGO MEN AND PRINCIPLES
INDORsED BY THE NEW YORK
DEMOCRATS.
SILVER PLATFORM FORCED.
ADOPTED UNDER THE PREVIOUS
QUESTION WITH NO CHANCE
FOR DEBATE.
THACHER
FOR GOVERNOR.
Nominated ON the First Ballot, and
the Rest of the Ticket by Ac-
cIamation.

BUFFALO, Sept. 1.-THE ticket
| nominated by the Democratic state
convention today is as follows:
For governor, John Boyd Thacher, the
present mayor of Albany. ex-state senator
! and New York's worlds fair commissioner.
For lieutenant governor, Wilber F. Porter,
| Of Watertown, ex-commissioner of the court
| of claims and political leader in Northern
| New York for many years.
For judge of the court of appeals Robert
G. Titus, of Buffalo, Judge Of the supreme
court and former district attorney of Erie
county.
The platform is an equivocal en-
dorsement of the Chicago platform
| and ticket, and denunciation of Re-
| publican state legislation.
This, in brief, is the work Of the
| Democratic state convention, which
| closed it's labors in this city today, If
| merely the perfunctory work of the
| convention is looked at. 1t is, how
! ever, significant fact that the state
| leaders, who have heretofore control
led the conventions of the party, are
| still at helm. Senator Hill, Senator
Edward Murphy, Ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor VIM. F. Sheehan, Richard Gro
| ker and each one Of the smaller lights
of the party are undoubtedly satisfied
with the work of todayS convention.
1t has been predicted up to last night
that these leaders would have no
| they themselves would practically be
read out of the party in order to make
room for more youthful aspirants. The
result of the convention today Is this:
| A ticket, made up of strictly organ1Za-
! ton men has been nominated. The
selection of the leaders who did not
attend the convention has been adopted
| for chairman Of the state committee,
the national committeeman to be Sc
lected next week will be a man favor
able to the organization leaders and the
| platform Is not as radical as it was
| intimated some weeks ago 1t would
/ be.
Those who are inclined to be ex-
tremely radical in their advocacy Of
| silver, display some little disappOint-
ment to night over the platform, but
as whole it is taken with q very good
grace. The state committee as con-
| Stituted contains a majority of strictly
| state organization men, and in the Sc
| lection this afternoon Of Elliott f. Dan
| forth to be chairman, Calvin j. Hud-
| son to be secretary, and an agreement
to make Frank s. Campbell, Of Bath,
| the national committeeman, as soon as
Senator Jones has notified the commit
tee of the resignation of William F.
Sheehan, it has evinced desire to con-
| duct the campaign from the stand
| point of a state organization.
The refusal of Tammany to indorSe
the candidacy of one of its own mem
| bers was not due to any personal OBJ
lection to him, but rather, as explained
| by Senator Grady, because 1t believed
that Tammany would embarrass itself,
and be accused in the event Of Mr..
Bryans defeat, of selling out the ma
! tional ticket to secure the election of
one of it's members to a state office.
1t is very generally conceded to night
among the more prominent Of the dele
| hot "a nP Tr
! Thacher and Mr.. Porter will not be
successful in preventing the gold stand
ard men from nominating q third
ticket.
John Boyd Thacher, the gubernato-
rial nominee, decided late tonight that
he would make public statement dur
ing the early part of next week, as he
wishes 1t to be published before the
! state convention Of gold Democrats in
Brooklyn on Thursday. He will either
make his statement at mass meeting
in this city on Monday or Tuesday
night of next week, when the Demo-
| cratic national and state tickets are to
be ratified, or else in a letter to the vot-
ers of the state. He has decided to fol-
| low the course of Senator Hill in his
campaign, and confine himself to the
state issues.
SLOW IN STARTING.
|
platform committee was the reason as
signed for the lapse Of an hour after
the time for the assembling Of the
Democratic state convention before
that body was called to order today
Business then proceeded with expedi-
tion. The report Of the committee on
credentials having been adopted, the
| committee on permanent organization
reported, naming ex-Congressman H.
Rockwell. Of Chemung for permanent
| chairman.
The report was accepted without dis
sent. Mr.. Rockwell was greeted with
much applause as he appeared upon
the platform He was introduced by
Temporary Chairman Grady.
! In opening his speech on assuming
| the chair Mr.. Rockwell gave his un-
| qualified approval to the platform and
candidates of the Chicago convention,
adopting as his own the sarcastic OBJ
seryation of Gov. Flower, that "the
platform was just suited to the can
didates and the candidates to the plat
| FORM" He attributed the financial
| panic Of 1893 to "a false and mischiev-
GUS financial system, and in that con-
nection quoted the words of Senator
Hill, uttered In the senate that year
as follows: The paramount remedy
for all our financial evils is q return
to the system of bimetallism which ex-
listed prior to 1872 This quotation
Mr.. Rockwell supplemented with the
words of Senator Hill, spoken In the
Chicago convention: I'VE are Demo
Gratis and not revoiutionists." Mr.
Rockwell defended the bimetallic sys-
tenn as having the sanction of the con-
stitution and the founders of the Dem
ocratic party. He added:
I'm spite of this, since 1873 any man
could take gold bullion to the mints
and have it coined, but since then there
has never been day that he could do
the same with silver. Notwithstand-
ing the makeshifts of the Bland and
Sherman laws, silver has been and still
is discredited. Gold is the sole stand
ard, and by 1t silver and all other
property must be measured The rep
resentatives of the monopoliStS and
syndicates who controlled the ST. Louis
convention realized fully that their in.
terests were at stake. Two hundred
and sixty-nine millions of dollars oi
bonded Indebtedness had been created
ostensibly to maintain the gold reserve
In the sale of these bonds a great scan
da1 had been created, and it was cur
rently stated, and generally believed
that the profits of the Morgan syn
dicate on a single issue was about $12,-
| 600, 900. While a senatorial committee
was in session. trying to ascertain the
truth or falsity of this statement, TIN
Republican leaders Of the ST. Louis
convention prepared the gold plank OF
their platform. wired 1t to ]. P. Morgan
g. Co. for approval. receiving q reply
that 1t was eEinently satisfactory
and adopted It.
'1t is the first square declaration on
sny plssform In favor of the single
stsndard and in opposition 10 the use