Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-09-25
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET
Corners Tammany Program
Goes Through With Whoop
at Rochester.
New York, Sept. 49,
Governor-Lewis Stuyvesant Chan.
Ter.
Lieutenant Governor-John A. Dix.
Secretary Of State-John S. Whalen.
Comptrolier-Marin n. Glynn.
Attorney General-George M. Palmer.
Treasurer-Julius Hauser.

On the call OF the roll for a nomina-
ton for governor, the only name placed
before the delegates was that of Lieu
tenant Governor Chanler. His nomi-
nation was made by reclamation. John
A. Dix, of Washington county, was
nominated without opposition for lieu
tenant governor, and the rest OF the
ticket went through in the same man
ner
This slate, with the exception of the
candidate for lieutenant GOVERNOR Is
the same as was decided upon at the
end of an all night conference. The
selection by the leaders of Dix. as the
candidate for lieutenant governor came
as a big surprise, as 1t was taken for
settled that Francis Burton Harrison.
of New York, would be the choice. 1t
Is believed the leaders desired to
strengthen the ticket by naming the
far up state man Dix is a member
Of one of the oldest families in the
state. The preference of Harrison for
congress was considered in making the
substitution.
Brief Halt in Program.
There came a halt in the celebrity with
which slate lead leaders were being put
through when the Office of state engi-
neer and surveyor was reached. When
the conference candidate, Philip p.
Farley, of Kings county. was placed in
nomination, Queens county offered
Leonard G. l.. Smith in OPPOSE
ton. Senator McCarren arose. as
he said, to resent the insult.
He protested vigorously against Far
ley's nomination, saying the Kings
county organization did not want him
and had no candidate for any Office.
McCarren closed with seconding the
nomination of Smith. Farley was nom
mated, 321 to 81.
The Platform.
The platform heartily indorses the
platform and candidates nominated by
the national convention and pledges
both the hearty, earnest and enthusi-
astic support of the candidates. 1t
says:
mi. Bryan for years has been con
~spicuous in the public eye, and against
his character, motives OK private life
no suspicion of n kind has ever
arisen. With no army OF public Of
ficials ready at his beck n call to
control the party machinery, with no
government departments organized so
as to coerce corporations and financial
interests into contributing to his cam
paign fund, his nomination has come
as a spontaneous response to the wish
of the great mass of his party and rep
reSentS the aspirations anu hopes OF the
rank and file of democracy throughout
the nation. Like Thomas Jefferson n
Andrew jackson, great leaders of The
democratic pArty in it's early days, his
policies and political motives have been
bitterly assailed by the privileged in
terests whose supremacy is dangerous
to the institutions of our country. Like
jefferson and Jackson, he has repealed
all attacks made upon him.. He is
tronge today han ever before in the
affections and confidence Of the people.
BRYAN does not stand for an attack
upon honestly acquired wealth. His
election will restore the administration
of the federal government to the ideas
of the fathers, and assure to the coun-
try q safe, sound, stable, economical,
constitutional execution of the law.
mo greater praise can be given t.
Kern, no less is his due, than to say
he is in every way worthy to be
Bryan's associate on the national
ticket
The platform charges the republican
state administration with gross waste
fulness.
The convention adjourned without
delay after Senate Gore, of Oklahoma,
made a brief address.