New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-19
NCARREN WINS HIS POINT
Committee on Resolutions VOteS TO
Instruct for Parker.

Albany. April 1S-The feature of the day was
naturally the meeting of the committee on reso-
lutions in the afternoon, presided over by Sena-
tor p. II. McCarren as chairman 1t developed
into heated controversy over the proposed
adoption of the plank in the platform instructing
the delegation to vote for Judge Parker as the
nominee for President. Senator Thomas F.
Grady, Congressman W. Bourke Cochran and
Charles A Towne all of Tammany, opposed
that section. Senator McCarren read a set of
resolutions outlining the platform of the con-
vention. follows:
Corporations charatered by the state to be
subjected to the regulations of the State; objec-
ton to trusts and combinations in opposition 10
! healthy industrial competition; check upon pub
lie expenditures so that the burden of the tax
payers be reduced; the maintenance OF state
rights and the home rule policy; equal rights OF
labor and corporations; delegates to ST. Louis
to be instructed for Alton b. Parker TO vote
as a unit and to fill AM vacancies that may
occur in the delegation
w Bourke Cochran offered amendment to
the resolution regarding the instruction of the
delegates for Parker by proposing that they be
sent uninstructed and to take counsel at St
Louis with the other delegates from the differ
ent States and then state their choice Mr.
Parker, if he was found to be the choice of the
other States.
Mr. McCarren spoke at length in favor OF
having the delegates instructed for Parker. de-
claring that they would be then showing to the
other States of the Union that the people OF
New-York were solid for Mr.. Parker. He
further said that uninstructed delegation
from the State of New-York would make an
impression on the minds Of the people of the
South and West that the people OF the State
OF New-Yorl1 divided in their choice of
candidate and that it would be injurious to the
cause of Democracy.
Senator Thomas F. Grady said that he had
never been, and hoped he never would be. in
structed by convention, and that he believed
1t would be to the detriment OF the Democratic
party TO send delegates instructed for Parker
or any other man, for the reason that between
now and next July things might arise that
would affect the party policy most gravely and
tend to change its opinion. That Mr.. Parker
the choice of the people Of the State OF
New-York he was not prepared 10 galnsay, but
let the delegates state that after learning the
minds OF the other delegates from the other
States of the Union. This convention, he said,
should not consider the State Democracy at this
time, but should consider the national Democ-
racy. and If they insisted on sending instructed
delegates to St. Louis II would he reineinper
at the polls and those opposed to this policy
would revenge themselves at that time.
James W. Ridgway. OF Brooklyn, spoke in
favor of the delegates going Instructed for Par
ker He said that II they were uninstructed 1t
would give the people of the Union the impress
sion that the people OF the State OF New-York.
or rather. the Democracy Of the State OF New
York. had no choice. on the other hand, II they
went to st LOUIS instructed, II NOuiu De FOlilN-
ed out that the State Of New York was support
ing a State candidate whose nomination would
secure the State in the Democratic column
Congressman Cochran again addressed the
committee in support Of his amendment 10 the
resolutions OF Senator McCarren. saying that the
platform was matter for the delegates at St.
Louis TO determine and construct without pre-
vious Instructions and that the candidate should
likewise be selected by the national convention
Mr.. CoCkran's amendment to send the dele
gates uninstructed was lost by n vote or - 10
- A vote WAS then taken on the original reso-
luton Of Mr.. McJ,arren and resulted as follows;
Ayes Is: noes. II. and IL absentees. The alb
sentees were mostly from the New-York dis
triCts. II further resolved that the reso-
luton as presented by Chairman McCarren be
adopted as whole