The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
New YOrk's IS Delegates In
structed for the Judge.
Must Vote as a Unit i'm st. Louis
Convention.
OPPOSED BY TAMMANY.
Hill Runs His Band Wagon
Over the Tiger.
Platform Declares for :. Reason
able" Revision of Tariff.

Albany. N Y. April 1e.-The Demo-
cratic state convention for the election
OF delegates to the national conven-
ton tonight selected the following del
egates at large: David B. Hill of Al
I bany; Edward Murphy. jr.. of Troy:
George Ehret of New York City and
James w Ridgeway of Brooklyn The
delegates were instructed by a vote -
S01 to 14s for Alton B. Parker as
states candidate for president. Tam
many was not treated as badly as had
been predicted. being allowed TO name
delegate at large. Mr.. Ehret, and an
alternate and one of the two electors
at large. Harry Payne Whitney, the
other being John T. Woodford.
The platform adopted is brief. and
in addition to instructing for Parker
compels the delegation 10 vote as
unit
Among the district presidential cleo
tors are Isadore Straus. Robert B.
Roosevelt. Hugh J. Grant Herman
Rider and John D Crimmins
The list of district delegates 10 the
national convention included the fol-
lowing: Perry Belmont P H Nc
Carren, Martin W. Littlejohn, Comp
troller Edward NJ. Grout James
Shevlin. Congressman T. D. Sullivan.
Congressman Sulzer. Lewis Nixon Bid
;. Coler, William McAdO0. w. Bourke
Cochran. Robert A NanWyck- Charles
F. Murphy. Franklin Bartlett. Charles
A Towne. Thomas F. Grady. Harry
Payne Whitney, Jefferson NJ. Levy.
Charles W Dayton. A Bird Gardiner.
Elliot Danforth George Raines and
John B. Stanchfield-
When the doors of the convention
opened al Gas last night there was a
rush that swept before IL ushers. door
tenders and police. The word had
gone forth that there would be a fight
on the floor Of the convention and
within a few minutes the balcony. gal
lery and stage were damned The pO-
lice elected hundreds of persons who
had pre-empted the delegates seats.
1t was not until almost 9 o'clock that
the convention was called to order
Senator McCarren presented the re-
port of the committee on platform as
follows:
The Democrats in renewing their
pledge Of fidelity to the essential prin-
ciples of Jehersonian Democracy IS
repeatedly enunciated in our national
and state platforms. make these fur
Their declarations on the national is
sues of the hour. reserving an express
sion on state issues until the fall con-
Vention. when state candidates are to
be nominated.
First-This is a government OF laws
not OF men. one law for presidents.
cabinets and people, no usurpatiOn; no
executive encroa chrnent on the legfsll-
tive or judicial department
SecOnd-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 domination tends inevitably to
weaken and destroy.
Third nSteady national policies
and restless spirit Of adventure en-
gender alarms that check our commcF-
cial growth. let Us have peace, to the
end that business confidence may be
restored. and that our people may
again In tranquility enjoy the gains OF
their toll
Fourth-COrporation chartered Icy
the state must be subject TO just regu-
latfon by the state IN the interest Of
the people; taxation for public Dur-
poses only; no government partnership
with protected mOnopolies-
Fffth-Opposition TO trusts and cOIr.-
binations that Cypress the people and
stifie healthy industrial competition.
Sixth-A check on extravaganza in
public expenditures. that the burden Of
the peoples taxes may be Hghtened-
Seventh easona bic revision Of the
tariff: needless duties on imported raw
materials weigh heavily on the manu-
facturer. are a menace to the Ameri-
can wage Garner and by increasing the