The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-25
TO DEFEAT THE USURPERS
NEW YORK NATIONAL DEMOCRATS
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 Griffin and Heinrichs will Head It-They Win Not League Themselves With Those Who Would "rouch With Coarse Hand the National Honor''-A Convention of l Men Who Are Democrats in Name and Principle-An Address That Tells of the Conspiracy That Throttled the Chicago CGnvention-An Earnest Campaign to be Conducted.
 Brooklyn, Sept. 24.-The state conven- tion of the sound money democracy which met at Syracuse and which ad journed on August 31 to meet in Brook lyn reassembled at the Academy of Music here tonight and completed it's work. The decorations included DOT traits of Palmer, Buckner, Cleveland and Jefferson. The hall was crowded and hundreds of people were turned away. Charles S. Fairchild, the per manent chairman, called the conven- tion to order and Secretary Sherman called the roll. A number of counties in the state failed to respond. Edward M. Shepard of Kings offered resolu- | tion providing that the name of this organization shall hereafter be the na- tional democratic party instead of the democratic party reform organization as heretofore known, and that such name shall be used in all nominations subject to the right of any convention or committee of the party to use the old name, if such use shall be deemed necessary or expedient. The resolu- 1 tion was adopted. MT. Roe offered a resolution providing for the nomination of congressman and judges in case no primaries are held for the purpose in the different districts in the state Adopted
 F. M. Scott said that it was as i'm portant that warfare for congress- rhent should be made as for presiden- tial candidates. He offered the follow ing, which was adopted:
 Resolved That the electors of the national democratic party in the sev- eral congressional districts be advised
 to neither nominate endorse nor sup port any democratic candidate for con-
 gress who does not unequivocally &C., cept and endorse the platform adopt
 ed by the national convention at In-
 dianapols.
 John De Witt Warner presented an address, prepared by the state commit 1 tee, and was adopted as a declaration of principles for which the convention stands. It is substantially as follows: The democratic party from it's for nation as exemplified by the teachings of its illustrious founders and leaders in its formal actions and in the senti- ments of the great mass of it's adher- ents, has always contended for a faith
 ful performance of public and private
 contracts an honest currency, respect for and to judicial authority. While these principles do not embrace all the
 claims the party has on public regard
 they are it's chief glory and have en-
 abled 1t for a hundred years to win renown in the administration of public
 affairs and overcome It's too frequent adversities and mismanagement.
 Vindicated by two recent national vic tories and disciplined by the stern les
 sons of offormerdefeatst the party as na-
 tional organization could never more truthfully claim the virtues alluded to than at the time of the assembling of the late Chicago convention. But for months
 while the trusted guardians of democ- racy were unsuspectfng, a conspiracy
 was progressing in distant states, SUD- ported by the avarice on the one hand and reckless fanaticism on the other to commit the party to the support of the
 undemocratic dictrines later enunciated in the Chicago platform.
 | Its first manifestations were in states
 where the leaders of the party from fear or other ignoble motives had dal-
 lied with or openly embraced the follies of populism; but in time the conspir- acy blazed forth in every community where political and business discontent seemed to promise it success. Finally
 the party in New York was thoroughly aroused by the danger it saw impend- | ing. So unanimous were the views of democrats in New York that when the state convention assembled at Sarato- ga last June it declared for every essen- tial principle which was later repected from the Chicago platform and still later embraced in that adopted at h. dianapolis.
 l And yet because we maintain that
 the principles declared at Saratoga and
 reiterated at Indianapolis are too i'm portant and sacred to yield to the
 clamor of party regularity we are now charged with attempting to disrupt the party Let our fellow citizens compare the Saratoga and Buffalo platforms and | mild @ term to characterize the conduct | of our critics, and whether it is a worse offence to disturb the cohesion of par 1 ty organization than to attempt to sub- vert it's principles.
 | A majority of that misguided body the Chicago onvention-trampled un- | der foot the chief principles of democ- racy and declared against the inviola- i bility of public and private contracts in favor of dishonesty. Against this on- slaught the New York delegation con- 1 tended with an energy which justified the hope that the party organization | would meet the emergency and main- | tain the honor of the democratic name, | but instead of openly repudiating the | action of the convention the delegation i choose merely to refrain from further participation in the convention, after l the adoption of the platform, and later united with other delegations in ap- l sider plan.