The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-12
New York Delegation of Ninety Will Go to Balti-
 more Unpledged
NATIONAL GUARD IN
 CONVENTION HALL
Taft Says Advocates of Recall of Judicial Decisions Are Insincere Demagogues-He Gets the
 Kentucky Delegation

New York, April 11.-A delegation of % members, uninstructed for any presiden- tial candidate. but bound by the unit rule. was chosen to represent New York state at the democratic national conven- ton in Baltimore at the democratic state convention here today.
 The proceedings were marked by com plete and unbrol1en harmony, there being only one note of protest sounded-that of Mayor Sague of Poughkeepsie against the resolution providing for the unit rule. This, he declared, bound the New York delegation hand and foot" and was un- democratic in principle.
 Almost Unanimous
 we should stand for fair convention and may the best man win,'' said Mayor Sague. By viva voce vote the original dozen delegates voting against the unit rule.
 The principal plank of the platform and the leading theme of the speech of Con gressman John J. Fitzgerald of Kings county, the permanent chairman. was the revision of the tariff. The platform de- nounced the action of President Taft in vetoing the tariff bills last August and charged the President and the republican party with gross deceit of the people in promising downward revision of the tariff.
 The four delegates at large who with the S6 congressional district delegates will go to Baltimore are Gov. John A Dix, United States Senator James A. OGor- man, Alton B. Parker and Charles F. Mur- phy. leader of Tammany Hall.
 The platform was adopted without any speeches being made for or aganist it and without one vote in opposition.
 Keeps Two Engagements
 MT. Taft came to New York tonight to keep two engagements. The first was with fellow members of the class of Yale '7S at the University club; the other with the Union League club, which recently announced it's indorsement of his candi- dacy.
 The President thanked the Union League clubs of New York and Phila- delphia for their recent inducements of his candidacy. It has been unusual for these organizations, he said, to take any part III pTe-cOnNSnllOn CdHipdlBHS. but he added, "circumstances have made the present pre-convention campaign of such a character that both the Philadelphia and New York clubs have indicated in resolutions conviction on the part of nearly all their members that there is something at stake in this campaign that should awaken the interest and arouse the action of all who believe In the prin- ciples and form of government that are embodied In our present constitution"
 "In this contest for the preservation of our ancient landmarks of government" !" he continued, 'and for the security of life. liberty and property involved in the maintenance of an independent judiciary, we may from time to time suffer tenn porary defeat, but those of us, and they are most of us who have an abiding faith in the judgment and good sense of the American people, may well have confidence that in the end the real ben eft of the people will prevail and that they will defend and protect these in- sttutions that have served them so long and so we'll"