The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-01
PATRIOTISM ABOVE PARTY
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS REPUDlATE
 THE REPUDIAToRS.

tion-Delegates Elected to Sound Money
 Conyention-A Platform Adopted Which
 Clearly Defines the Reasons Why the
 Chicago Ticket Should be Defeated
 Speeches by General Fairchild, Hon.
 William Everett and Others-Cleveland
 Eulogized.
 Syracuse, N. Y, Aug. 31.-The com mittee on permanent organization of the New York gold democrats selected Charles s. Fairchild as permanent chairman of the convention. The fol- lowing delegates at large and alter mates to the Indianapolis convention were elected by the committee:
 Delegates at large-Roswell F. Flow CT of WatertoM n, General Charles Ira cey of Albany, Edward M. Shepard of Brooklyn, General George Magee of Watkins.
 Alternates-F. M. Scott of New York, Henry A. Richmond of Buffalo, George A. Broadway of Cortland, Charles J.
 
 Bissell of Rochester.
 At $40 Temporary Chairman Griffin called the convention to order and stated that while they were awaiting the reports of the committees Dr. Will liam Everett of Quincy, Mass, would address the delegates. Dr. Everett has served n congress. When introduced he said that Massachusetts stood shoul- der to shoulder with New York for honest money, honest politics and a united union.
 MT. Everett's reference to New Yorks s great president-Mr. Cleveiand-arous ed the greatest enthusiasm and the del- egates waved their hats and cheered vociferously.
 The report of the committee on per manent organization reported the name of Charles $. Fairchild.
 General Charles s. Tracey of Albany and Theodore Sutro of New York city escorted MT. Fairchild to the platform. MT. Fairchild was warmly received by the delegates.
 MT. Fairchild's announcement of the intention of the Buffalo convention to endorse the Chicago nominees in order to preserve the regularity of their or .sanization was enthusiastically conn., mended His declaration that true pa- triots should save the Chicago leaders from their own unwise declarations was likewise well received.
 z The resolutions committee then pre- (sented the platform, wtich was adopt nt1tl siastic outbursts of approval The plat form is as follows:
 vThe democrats of the state of New York, assembled in convention at Syr- acuse adopt tho following platform;
 '"The maintenance of the constitution in it's integrity, the preservation of the national credit unimpaired and the na- tional honor Unsulliad, the freedom of the individual to engage in all the pur- suits of life, unhampered by the inter- ference of paternal government, and the right of every citizen to receive the reward of his labor undiminished by a debased standard of values, are funda- mental and essential principles of the democratic party. We repudiate the Chicago platform and its supplement, the populistic platform adopted at St. Louis, because both violate and attack all these democratic principles.
 We repudiate the nominations of the Chicago convention. Its candidate for president stands as much upon the populistic platform, with it's demands for unlimited paper money, distributed direct to the people, and Its socialistic and anti American demands for the ex- tension of paternal government, as he does upon the platform adopted at Chi cago. He actively sought the populis- tic nomination. Having obtained it, he has never rejected it and he has never repudiated the declarations of the pop ulistic platform.
 More than all, we deplore the out burst of sectional hate which attended the adoption of the Chicago platform and the detestable attempt to divide a democratic people, all standing with equal rights and opportunities before the law, into rich and poor, and, under the stimulus of the class prejudices thus aroused. to treat with reckless contempt the views of the large minor ity in the c)rvention who sought to confine its utterance to declaration of democratic principles.
 "This platform is accepted by the presidential nominee of the convention in the spirit in which it was adopted. Every speech he delivers is fired With inflammatory appeals to the poor against the rich in base, un-American and anti-social effort to obtain votes by creating and stimulating a passionate ciass-hatred among our people. We appeal to our democratic fellow citizens seriously to consider this, which is the gravest feature of the pending election. How long can our democratic institu- tions endure if this assault upon them succeeds? The Chicago platform at Jacks the constitution beth in it's let ter and spirit. It threatens to over come decisions Of the supreme court displeasing to the party caucus by packing the court through an increase of the number of judges, thus striking a deadly blow at the vital constitution al principle of the independence of the judiciary.
 ''Under the guise of resenting federal interference in local affairs it impliedly condemns the exercise of the constitu- tional powers of the federal executive to protect the transportation of the mails, to ensure freedom of commerce among the several states and to enforce the decrees of the federal courts when resisted by force and riot. In proposing to open the hints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of Is to 1 when the relative market values of silver and