The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-29
HERE IS THE PLATFORM.
ONE GREAT ISSUE, AND THAT'S
DoWN VT BRYANISM.

Either the Candidates or This Party Will NJ.
rect tho Destinies or tho New city or Tam
raans VIII slisrulo It vita tho Spectre OF
Disorder FrowninE Over Her Shoulder.
The Republicans OF tho city Of Now York, in
convention assembled. make this declaration OF
their position and principles:
There Ia one great issue before tho people at
this time. 1t cannot DO separated from any po.
htical contest. 1t is the issue created by the
Chicago platform, and nothing can be moro OBJ.
vious than that tho results OF every election,
national, State, or municipal. until that plat.
form has been formally abandoned by the party
that made it, must count for or against its obi.
Gus and destructive principles.
Every intelligent voter knows that the first
Mayor of the Greater New York, with all his
tremendous power for good or evil. will be
either the candidate of this convention or n
Tammany Democrat. Every intelligent voter
knows that If the first Mayor of the Greater
New York is the candidate of this convention a
mighty impulse will be given in support OF every
sound principle Of government, and the city will
obtain tho services as its Chief Magistrate OF n
statesman OF the very highest rank in ante
cedents, in character, and in ability.
Every intelligent voter knows. on tho other
hand, that IL tho first Mayor of the Greater
New York is a Tammany Democrat the effect
Will be greatly to revive the hopes and promote
the schemes that are grouped In the public mind
under the name OF Organism. and ut the same
time to deliver this magnificent metropolis into
the hands of an organized conspiracy for public
plumber.
The cause Of good government, meaning there.
by honest and intelligent administration can
never be divorced from the Republican party.
and this convention will furnish to the cleo.
torate Of New York in the personality of its
CanuidRtea and In thcir puhlir recprds N N asaur.
anoo OF good goyernment than which none could
BE- more convincing: The welfare Of the city Of
will be their highest duty.
We indorse the st. Louis platform. We be-
gent and patriotic people OF 2Sw York as much
to-day as 1T did one year ago: 1t is not only tho
cause OF social order. Every vote cast against
the candidates Of this convention places both in
We indorse the patriotic and successful Ad.
ministration of William Mckinley. He was
truly the advance agent OF prosperity"
of a Republican protective tariff bill and pdiI point
10 the revival of business he,o and throughout
the country as the first fruits OF its enactment.
No duty can be more obvious than that OF the
people Of this commercial city to sustain the
party which has so swiftly and so completely
rescued the country from the financial distress
into which 1t had been plunged by Democratic
We indorse the administration Of Gov. Black
and The excellent record of the last Republican
The Greater New York. first among American
cities and soon to be first among the cities OF
the world. is the creation Of the Republican
party. Its charter grants to the people of the
consolidated municipalities almost a complete
right OF sclf-goyernmcnt., les enactment will
leadership which. undismayed by factious
opposition. stendfastly persisted In accomplish
Of the Greater SisT New york SasIii through ali the 't years
that were occupied In completing it, was bitterly
U SppiSeesa ~ tSe psaoeFH'i and Pa ws re IL Is npW
urge upon the electors that tho organization OF
the new city Government should be committed
10 those VINO conceived ana executed the plan OF
consolidation and not to those who were It's con-
slant enemies.
A vote for any other than the Republican
ticket is n vote to restore to power. with multi
piled opportunities for harm. the self.snme in
huences and tho self-same individuals that were
cast ont OF office in so mighty a storm of
righteous wrath three years asu. The crimes Of
which the Tamnany Democracy was then con-
victed should never be forgotten or for:
given. They struck at the very heart OF
tenSce but that the characterization Of The
last three years has been in every
depnrtment OF the city Governments OF New
the administrations that preceded it. To return
to the conained corrurtions Of Tammany Hall
and WihOughby street instead of progressing to
the attainment OF Republican ideals should not
be possible to any, voter who remembers the
past and observes the present.
We Commend and insist upon the rigid en-
forcement of the wise provisions OF the new
charter with regard to the letting of public
franchises. Such franchises should not become
the unreserved or unlimited property Of inhi-
and should be enabled to reap its due benefit
for the bestowal OF such franchises, ant from
such increases in their value rs result from the
increase or population and the extension OF pub
lie improvements. We direct particul r attcn-
ton to the fact that the adoption OF these prin-
ciples was largely due to the strenuous efforts
of the Chairman of the Charter Commission.
Gen. Benjamin +. Tracy.
We commend the principle embodied in the
law that now regulates the sale OF liquor. The
abolition Of local excise boards and the conces-
sion o. the right TO sell liquor 10 any citizen who
! paws the tax and observes the law nave taken
the saloon out of politics and has liberated tho
saloon keeper from tho thralldoul of dishonest
politicians. In these respects the present law is
features have operated to the great advantage
of this municipality and of the whole state.
The city OF New York. however. Is unique in
its cosmopolitan character, and excise pro-
which are not suited 10 ours. The provisions OF
the law relating to the times and conditions at
and under which liquors may be sold in the city
OF New York and the police provisions for the
enforcement OF tho law are wisely to be left to
the will of the people OF the city of New York
and to the judgment of their duly constituted
authorities.
The Republican party. has been especially
mindful OF the interests OF wage-ea, ners. 1t en-
acted the Factory Inspection law. the Mechan-
les Lien law. the law regulating the employ
the Anti-sweaters law. the law guaranteeing
union wages on all public works. and tho law
preventing the suhletting of contracts. The
single Republican Legislature OF 1897 passed
request than had been enacted during the entire
ten years of Democratic State Go ernment. II
the cendidates OF THIS convention are eiectGd tue
forcement OF these laws In every department of
the city Government.
SHARP Talk OVER THE CONTESTS.