The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-25
IT WAS LEWIS DAY
Morton's Barrel and Platt's Machine
Working in Fine Shape.
SOME NOISY M'KINLEY MEN
Silver Gets Not a Ghost OF a Show
In the Convention-TheD Dele
gates Declare Firmly for
the Gold Standard.

New York, March 24.-The republican
| state convention was called to order by
Chairman Hackett shortly before noon.
Cornelius r. Parsons of Rochester was
| made temporary chairman. In his
speech Parsons said: Next June the
| republican party, for the first t'-1e in
ITS history. will name as its standard
bearer a citizen of the Empire state
and we will to-day initiate the cam
| paign which will restore our party to
power. Never was there such great i'm
patience for the return of the party
to power as now possesses the great
majority of the American people. They
miss many blessings which they did not
know they had until they were de-
prived of them by republican defeat
four years ago.
THE democratic party is an aggrega-
tion of sectional groups at war with
each other, each contending for mar
row, local, even individual advantage,
irreconcilable with the welfare of the
people. The republican party stands
for something definite. Its treatment
of the public credit and finance has in
variably been conservative and eff
cient. The business world knows from
experience THAT it has not only a we'll
defined policy, but has character and
strength when in power to cause it's
policy to be eXemphfied In laws. The
certainty of its restoration has already
begun to inspire popular confidence
that the present industrial depression
will soon cease. How different was the
feeling which attended the advent of
democracy to power. With the growth
of the union and the development of di-
versified local interests the difficulties
OF our government will increase. In
the new states of the West, as in some
of the old states of the South, local
feeling Is often stronger than national.
There the emagogue, in the shape of
the popular orator, panders to delu-
sions and plays on the weaknesses OF
the people. 1t requires little to excite
them to a condition in which the idea
OF this union seems less repugnant
than their fancied grievances.
Our party is committed to a cur
rency that will command the world S
confidence, without which lucrative do
mestic production and progressive for
eign commerce are impossible. AT a
time when predominant problems pre-
sent themselves for solution, as per-
tains to trade and finance, no man is
better equipped for the position of
chief executive of the nation than that
successful business man and statesman,
Levi p. Morton. I confidently believe
our candidate will be the choice of our
party and of the nation and that, as
president of the United States, a spe-
cial session of a republican congress
will be called for the relief of a suffer-
ing people on the 4th of next March by
President Levi p. Morton"
Senator Lexow was made chairman
of the committee on resolutions. After
being in session for an hour, the con-
vention adjourned until 1880 O'Clock
this evening.
The committee on contested seats
met in the afternoon and adjusted the
differences between the delegations in
the several districts. The committee
on nominations also met this afternoon.
Thomas G.. Platt, Warner Miller
Chauncey M. Depew and Edward
Lauterback were nominated as dele
gates-at-large to the national conven-
ton, and Hamilton Fish, c. III. Bah
cock. Frank witherbee and Daniel
Mcmillan as alternaJtes. One dissenting
vote prevented unanimous nomination.
General Tracey of New York and Z. II.
Butler of Buffalo were nominated as
ctors-at-large, but one vote in oppo-
sition being cast