The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-09-24
HERRICK FOR GOVERNOR
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS SELECT
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
TO HEAD TICKET.
ENDS lONG SERIES OF CONFERENCES
ONE CANDIDATE AFTER ANOTHER
DROPPED UNTIL AN AGREE.
MENT RESULTED.
ENDS LONG SERIES OF CONF ERENCEs

Saratoga, Sept. 22.-The agreement
upon Supreme Court Justice d. Cady
Herrick of Albany as the candidate
for governor to head the Democratic
state ticket cane after a long series OF
conferences beginning just before mid
night and continuing till nearly 2
a. NJ; resumed before Z a. m. and car
ried on up almost to the very moment
Of the presentation Of Justice Herrick's
name to the convention. He is essen
TALLY a compromise candidate between
Edward M. Circuit and Edward M. Shep-
ard, both OF Brooklyn, who practically
drove each other from the field. When
the nomination of either became plain
ly impossible the rest of the available
list was canvassed and by a gradual
process of elimination along a line OF
least resistance among the conflicting
interests the James Of Palmer, Nc
Clellan and Stanchheld were dropped
and that Of Herrick agreed upon.
The convention was called to order
by Temporary Chairman Hornblower.
VINO, after the report of the committee
on permanent organization had been
adopted, gave way to the permanent
chairman, Duncan Campbell Lee OF
Tonpkins county, who addressed the
convention.
George Raines of Rochester, chair
man of the committee on resolutions,
read the platform, which was adopted.
Former Governor Hill then took the
platform amid cheers to present the
name of Justice Herrick for governor.
w, Bourke Cochran and Luke d. Sta
pleton Of Brooklyn seconded the nom
ination of Herrick.
Herrick was then nominated by the
secretary casting a single ballot for
the convention.
The balance of the ticket follows:
Lieutenant governor, Francis Bur-
ton Harrison, New York; secretary OF
state. John Palace, Jr., Monroe; attor-
ney general, John Cuneen, Erie; COMP
troller, George Hall, St. Lawrence;
state treasurer, William Muench. Onon-
daga; state engineer and surveyor,
Thomas II. Stryker, Rome; chief JUS
tice of the court of appeals, Edgar M.
| Cullen, Kings, Dem, now an associate
Judge of that bench and the Repub-
lican nominee; associate justice of the
court of appeals, William E. Werner.
Monroe, Rep, now of that bench by
designation Of Governor Odell and the
Republican nominee.
Resolutions Score Governor odeII.
The resolutions as reported by the
committee were long and chiefly de-
voted to state issues. They "arraign
before the bar of public judgment the
one man power that today dominates
the Republican organization of New
York state.
The people elected Benjamin &.
Odell. Jr., to be governor. In %palpable
violation of his sworn obligation to be
the impartial servant of the whole peo-
pie he has assumed to act as state
chairman of a political machine. His
present dual relation constitutes a
public scandal and amounts to the
grossest contempt of duty in the his
tory of the state. The Democratic
party is pledged to divorce the state
government from corruption and graft
and to the enforcement of the civil
service laws; non-partisan control of
the public schools is advocated and
good roads favored. OF national issues
the platform says:
I'VE endorse the Democratic ma
tional platform and resolutions adopt
ed at st. Louis in July last as a COM
plete exposition of Democratic prin-
ciples and policies upon all the living
issues of the present time. We ap-
prove the sound sentiments so admira-
bly, expressed by our national candi-
dates in their speeches of acceptance.
I'VE cordially endorse the Demo.
cratic nominations for president and
vice president of the United States.
"The signs of the times point aus.
piciously to a Democratic triumph.
Not in many years have the independ-
ent voters manifested so decided a dis
position to act with the Democratic
party.
I'VE unhesitatingly- promise the
Democracy of the nation that the cleo
toral vote OF the Empire state will be
cast for Alton G. Parker and Henry G.
Davis"