Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-04-11
DEMOCRATS OF
NEW YORK MEET
0'Gorman Headsl big Four"
to National Convention.

ing to agreement before the state con
here at noon The delegates will prob
ably not be instructed since Charles
Murphy Is In apparent control OF the
situation and he is set against instruc
ton. He will also insist upon the unit
rule Of delegation voting at Baltimore
In the keynote" speech Of the con
%yentlon, which was made by Seymour
Van ~Santvoord, legal aid to Governor
Dix, the administration Of the COVER
nor Is highly praised. The record OF
the party In performing the promises
made In the Rochester platform OF
1910 Is dwelt upon and reviewed. The
direct primary law is declared to have
ton is made for its improvement by
Qualification and simplifcatlon.
After the temporary chairman had
finished his address the committees on
resolutions. national delegates and ma
tional electors were named, following
which adjournment was taken until
s o'clock this evening.
Following Is the personnel of the
big Four as tentatively agreed upon.
United States Senator O'Gorman, Gov
ernor DIX, Alton Brooks Parker and
Charles Francis Murphy.
Ninety delegates to the Baltimore
convention are to be chosen. The
situation appears to be entirely in the
hands of Charles F. Murphy and the
Tammany hall delegation.
Fitzgerald Permanent Chairman.
When the convention reassembles
Congressman John j. Fitzgerald will
be elected permanent chairman and
reports of the various committees will
be heard and-acted upon. after which
the four delegates at large from New
York state will be chosen and the con
vention will adjourn. The state con
v~ention under the new law does not
choose the new state committee. which
was elected at the primaries.
In his address Chairman Van SAINT
voord said:
II challenged to define In a single sen
tenco our party ideals l think / would say
that the Democratic party demands the
eACokoet koOd U kl6 HIebtfSI 1lIip6T
and believes that in all things which do
not involve the inalienabls rights Of man
the majority should decide. That's Dem
ocratfc faith in q nutshell.
1t Ia my earnest hope and belief that
tho expression of this convention shall
be an emphatic message to the Demoo-
racy OF the nation that between the "Ap-
peal 70 Reason OF the extreme Socialists
and the appeal to hysteria Of the Column
bus platform tho Democracy OF the EN-
pire State sees nothing to choose.
Believing to the u~tternost in human
progress and realizing that all progress
necessarily implies change. let us reme1n-
her that all change Is not necessarily
progress Clinging still TO the ancient
Democratic faith in which we have been
reared, let us make our appeai. to sanity,
TO self restraint, to the manifest lessons
Of experience. An appeal for a simple
g~overnTrent, for economy and lower taxes,
for death without mercy to every device
which enables one man TO appropriate
the fruits Of another mans industry.
Rochester Platform Satisfactory.
Any pointed discussion OF present day
Democratic policies In this state must be
predicated upon the platform adopted by
the state convention in 1910, Speaking as
an observation-disclosures I know that my
conviction in this respect has been enter
tained by many-I have found three Incl
| dent. IN +ba historv -, tbn poohaato~a IL.
form which should arord varn,n. s.tts
action 10 all Who ara concsrnad for tba
maintenance Of nonuIar rlybts ,,ndar ths
ma rtv system
First there ia the fac, that III. n,ottoru
was framed ia rne.t tho nrevo i,,na a.
mands OF the marty 49, wbo,. $50 49,
OF tho go called leaders. And In these
| DAVIS when the whole ones,,or - nonI,InT
| oho,c, ia be,ne 40 thoroIphlv dissscte5
and discussed IL ia refresbinv to ma o.
ca sionel nroof thar the i've
idea upon which orr form Of ooverrmepI
has been based Ia not utterly p,orr ont
And 80 II hammered that while tho Rorb.
ester platform did not contain everythine
which some OF those who prepared IT may
nave DESIRED ana whlle 1t aid contain one
"r w 'h'1Ss when Tor one am frankly
"ilihs 10 CONFESS 1 dld not at the time
laNor' IL was an absolutely honest Dem
ocrhtic doctrine
For Income Tax,
For sxamnIe tbere ts tha dec1o rattan IN
! favor Of the income tax n he i,nnnsad
by the federal government Mors tbor
one OF those who assistad In the nranarn'
posed TO the principle of a federal income
tax. but the party had become so mani
testify enlisted In the income tax PROPOSE
ton as a tenet of party faith that, as the