The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-16
DEMOCRATS OF NEW YORK.
Free silver Expected 10 Dominate
To-daY's Convention.

Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 15.-Free silver viii
dominate the democratic state convention
tomorrow. The candidates. and other is
sues will be relegated to second place. The
platform will determine the ticket. The
extreme silverltes hope to out-Chicago the
platform, and thus prevent the nominl>
ton of a conservative democratic govern
or. This will be opposed by leaders VINO
desire above all things to prevent split,
and the nomination of a second state dem-
ocratic ticket.
Chief among these leaders is Senator
Hin, who will not be here, but whose in
fluence win be felt. All talk of the aban-
donment of the party to its fate by the
senior senator, is nonsense. He has ac-
tive ieutenants on the field and the lons
distance telephone is part of the stare
machine.
Whether Senator Hill and the old lead
ers can control the convention Is "a ques-
tion that the convention will determine
A slate has been made and If 1t is put
through, 1t will be plainly apparent that
Senator Hill is still at the helm. Here is
the slate:
For Governor-John Boyd Thatcher of
Albany.
For Lieutenant Governor-Gen. Isaac
Catlin Of Kings
wing G. Vann of Onondaga.
For Chairman of the State Committee
Elliot Danforth.
For Member of the National Committee
Frank Campbell.
For Temporary Chairman of the Con-
vention-Thomas f. Grady of New York.
For Permanent Chairman-EN-Con-
gresham II. II. Rockwell of Chemung.
The platform, which has been shown to
Senator Hill, and approved by him, in its
references to state Issues and by Chair
man James X. Jones of the democratic
national committee, and its attitude on
national questions, will endorse Bryan and
Sewall, declare for free and unlimited
! coinage of silver, denouncing trusts and
corporations, condemn bond issues in
time of peace, and denounce the Raines
| law the last republican legislature and
| republican extravaganza in general
If this platform can be put through,
| and Thatcher and Catlin are nominated,
it is believed that the party can be held
| together and the placing of a ticket in
| the field by the Shepard democracy pre-
| vented If, however the extreme silver
men succeed in their avowed programme
| of endorsing every plank of the Chicago
platform, including that referring to the
| income tax, a more pronounced silver
| man than John Boyd Thatcher win bC
| nominated and the Shepard democrats
| ticket. The friends of William SulzeI
and other extreme advocates of the Chi
cago platform are bending all their en-
erg.es to accomplish this result.
A platform representing their views has
been prepared by their friends. and 9
strong effort to force its adoption VIII be
made Should they succeed, the slate will
go to smash and the field will be open foi
all other candidates. II the machine wins
the name of Gen. Isaac Catln for lieu
tenant governor may be replaced by thai
of Edward M. Grout, or some othei
Kings county man. 1t is generally conced
ed that Kings is to have the second place
There is still plenty of talk of James w
Ridgeway.
Ex-senator Charles =. McClelland o.
Westminster is out of the race and declare!
that he never was a candidate.
Elliott Danforth was elected a member
of the state committee from the Twenty
sixth district to-day, and he will be Sc
lected as chairman of the committee, t
succeed ]. w. Hinckly, who will resgr
after performing his duty of calling thu
convention to order.
1t was decided this evening that ex
Congressman Hosea II. Rockwell, an orig
inal man who voted for silver In congress
two years ago, should be permanent
chairman.
The state committee met this evening
but transacted only the routine business
mapped out by the leaders. There was
conference late tonight, at which most o
the influential men here were present
and the work Of the convention wa
blocked out, but no man can say to-nigh
whether the convention will follow tn
orders Of the leaders or run itself