The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-04-20
THE EMPIRE State
SOLID FOR PARKER.
Result Of the New York Democratic
Convention.
Delegates Elected to the Demo
cratic National Convention to
be Held at st. Louis.

Democratic State Convention, for
the election of delegates to the Nation
al Convention, selected the following
delegates at large:
David B. Hill of Albany; Edward
Murphy, Jr., of Troy; George Ebret,
of New York city, and James W.
Ridgeway, of Brooklyn. AS alter
mates it selected G. N. Bulger, of
Oswego w. Caryl Ely, of Buffalo: G.
H. Ackerman, of Brooklyn, and
Francis Burton Harrison, of New
York.
The delegates we're instructed, by a
vote of 301 to 149, for Alton B. Parker,
as the States candidate for President.
Tammanysswas~ not treated as badly
as had been predicted, being allowed
to name ade1egate at large, Mr. Ehret,
and an alternate, and one of the two
electors at large, Harry Payne Whit
ney, the other being John z. Wood
| ford.
The platform adopted is brief, and
in addition TO instructing for Parker,
compels the delegation to vote as a
unit.
Among the district Presidential
electors are: Isador Straus. Robert
B. Roosevelt. Hugh J Grant, Herman
Ridger and John d. Crimmins.
The list of district delegates to the
National Convention includes the
following: Perry Belmont, P. Fl.
| McCarren, George q. Lindsay, Mar
tin W. Littleton, Controller Edward
NJ. Grout, Andrew Sullivan, formerly
postmaster of Brooklyn; James Shev-
lin, Congressman. 7. D. Sullivan,
Congressman Sulzer, John Fox, Lewis
Mon, M. Worley Palatzek, Bird S.
Coler, Nm. McAdoo. ". Bourke
Cochran, Robert A. Van Wyck,
Charles F. Murphy, Frankli1 Bart
lett, Charles A. Towne. Thomas F.
Grady, Harry Payne Whitney, Jefer-
son NJ. Levy, Former Postmaster
Charles ". Dayton, Asa Bird Gardi-
ner, VIM. Temple Emmett, John n
! Carlisle, Elloitt F. Danforth, George
Raines and John B. Stanch6eld.
TIE platform adopted is as follows:
The Democrats of New York in re-
newing their pledges of fidelity to the
essential principles of Jeffersonian
Democracy. as repeatedly enunciated
in our national and State platforms,
make these further declarations upon
| the nationa! issues Of the hour re-
serving an expression upon State issues
until the fall Convention. when State
candidates are to be nominated:
l. This is Government of laws,
| not of men; one law for Presidents,
Cabinets and people; no usurpation ;.
no executive encroacbment upon the
legislative or judicial department.
2. We must keep inviolate the
| pledges of our treaties; we must renew
and reinvigorate within ourselves that
respect for law and that love of liberty
and of peace which the spirit Of mill
tary denomination tends inevitably
to weaken and destroy.
8. Unsteady nationa.. policies and
a restless spirit of adventure engender
alarms that check our commercial
growth: let Us have peace, to the end
that business confidence may be re-
stored and that our people may again
in tranquility enjoy the gains of their
toll.
4. Corporations chartered by the
State must be subject to just regula-
tion by the State in the interest of
the people; taxation for public pur-
poses only: no government partnership
with protected monopolies.
5. Opposition to trusts and combi
nations that oppress the people and
stifle healthy industrial competition.
6. A check upon extravaganza in
public expenditures: that the bur-
den of the peoples taxes may be light
ened.
7. Reasonable revision of the tariff
1Redless duties upon imported raw
materials weigh heavily upon the
| manufacturer, are menance to the
American wage. Garner and, by in
creasing the cost Of production, shut
out our products from the foreign
markets.
8. The maintenance of State rights
and home rule; no Capitalization.
9. Honesty in the public service;
| vigilance in the prevention Of fraud:
| frmness in the punishment of guilt
when detected.
10. The impartial maintenance of
| the rights Of labor and of capital: no
unequal discrimination 10 abuse of
! the powers of law for favoritism or
oppression.
The Democracy of New York favor
the nomination for President of that
distinguished Democrat and eminent
iurist of our own State-Alton Brooks
Parker; and the delegates selected
by this Convention are hereby in
structed to present and support such
nomination at the approaching Nation
al Convention.
That the said delegates are hereby
further instructed to act and vote as
unit in al matters pertaining to
said Convention, in accordance with
the will of the majority of the said
delegates: and the said delegates are
further authorized to fill any vacan-
cies which may arise from any cause
in said delegation, in case of the alb
sence of both the delegate and alter
nate.