The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

Threatening to Bolt Unless Reoog-
 nized in the Convention To-day Met Last Night and Were Themselves Af- hlcted With a Bolt-HilI Gets Control
 of the State Committee.
 Syracuse, N. Y, Sept. 2S.-The demo- cratic state convention which organized temporarily here to-day has little, if any, idea tonight as to what it's course will be tomorrow. The man who to- night would name ticket and expect that his prediction would come true would indeed be daring. It may be definitely stated that the only thing finally decided upon and not subject mention or commendation either of the Chicago national platform or of silver. Long before the platform committee met there were indications that this would be so.
 In the convention Delegate J. c. Pierce of Monroe offered a resolution endorsing the Chicago platform, but was not allowed to speak upon it and it was not read. Still later in the day l the silver adherents applied to the com- mittee on resolutions to put in plank 1 of endorsement, but met with refusal. l The result of all this was meeting of l a number of the silver men and the se- | lection of a state ticket which they claim they will put in the field if they are not recognized. The proposed tick | ct is as follows: Governor, William Clark of Oswego; lieutenant governor, 1 Charles B. Matthews of Erie; secretary of state A. c. Fiske of New York; | comptroller, Levi s. Lewis of Albany; state treasurer, John G. Boyd of New York; attorney general A. D. Wales of Broome; state engineer, Martin Schenck of Rennsalaer.
 MT. Croker, who up to to-day had not been especially enthusiastic over the candidacy of Van Wyck, came out f1atfooted for him this afternoon and there is alleged to have been a stormy scene in the conference when he de- manded his selection. The Kings coun- | ty delegation shows vigorous objection to Mr. Van Wyck's candidacy, and ex- Senator Hill is shrewdly holding to- gether the Titus Garfield -Danforth booms to prevent nomination on the first ballot. It was said tonight that the adjournment of the convention had greatly hurt Van Weeks chances. 1 C1-. cago platform democracy at a meeting tonight to organize bolt of the regu- lar democratic ticket should the plat form of 1896 be ignored was split nearly even by bolt among it's own members. Dissatisfied by ruling of Chairman Henry M. McDonald of New York, half, or nearly half. of the delegates followed the lead of Calvin E. Reach of Lan- singburg and quilted the hall after a meeting at which disorder prevailed to an extent that the presiding officer was powerless to control. The report of the committee on permanent organization was adopted.
 The declaration of party principles was read and adopted without serious conflict. It reaffirmed the Chicago platform; indorsed the approval of the platform by the democratic state con- vention held at Buffalo in 1896; con- demned the republican administration of the nation and state, alleged extrav- agance and canal corruption; declared "so-called democrats' who in state and municipal platforms ignore the Chicago platform to be the tories of today" , advocated the retention of all territory l ,ryJa ba Ao of S+ot lac e b been hoisted; advocated the giving to voters the opportunity of making first second and third choices; favored the income tax; advocated the abolition of road and bridge tolls opposed biennial sessions of the state legislature and fa- vored government control of telegraph and telephone lines.
 Colonel w. J. Bryan was memorial ized and the secretary directed to send him a copy of the resolutions. Dele- gate Pierce of Monroe opposed a motion to confer the power of appointing a committee upon the chairman the meeting, declaring that time was not ripe to consider nominations. He dis approved unity with the peoples party claiming the regularity of the Chicago plat fOrm was strictly democratic Heated debate was indulged in by a score of delegates at the same time The McPartlin petition was lost sight of E. M. Futile of Kings county had offered resolutions to provide for inde- pendent nominations In the event ot } the democratic state convention ignor- , ing the Chicago platform.
 The disorder eliminated in a loud voiced wrangle that continued for an hour The disposition of the resolutions was suggested by motions of nearly , every conceivable form. At length Cal win B. Reach of Lansingburg, moved , that the resolutions be laid upon the table and become a special order oi business at an adjourned session ot the conference to be called two hours , after the adjournment of the state con. . ventfon motion to table was lost MT Reach and his followers ther bolted.
 Hill Gets Control.
 Syracuse N. Y, Sept. 2S.-The cha
 otic condition of the delegations to tht state democratic convention at mid. 1igbt 11,as accantuatnd bv q coptact