Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-24
NeWYOrk rkDerOCratiC
 State Convention
ENDORSES THE FEDERAL SUE.
 TRACE AMENDMENT
STATE VOTE ON LIQUOR
William Church Osborn is to Remain a Candidate For GubernatoriaI No imitation as Long as William Ran doIph Hearst Does.

Saratoga Springs, N, Y. July s. Endorsement of the war policies of President Wilson. arraignment of the republican management of state affairs under the administration of Governor Whitman. demand that United States senators from New York support the federal suffrage amendment, and a declaration of fifteen principles as to state issues upon which the fall cam paign will be waged, were dominant notes of the platform presented to the mocratic state convention tonight by the resolutions committee.
 We will agree to no inconclusive peace" declares the win-the plank. "We will not quit the fight until we have destroyed the German autocracy and made the world safe for democracy"
 The suffrage plank reads:
 The Suffrage Plank.
 'tWe believe in equal suffrage, with out regard to sex, and we recognize i that the present. juncture, when our nation is engaged in a great war for equal rights and individual freedom, 1 is a time peculiarly appropriate for | it's adoption by the people of the 1 United States. We, therefore, urge the immediate adoption by the United | States senate of the concurrent reso- ! lution amending the constitution so as
 to confer the right of suffrage upon 1 women. We demand that the United
 States senators from New York rep
 resent their constituents by voting for the proposed suffrage amendment"
 The state issues enumerated inClud- ed a short home rule for municipali- ties plank and a declaration for 8 state wide referendum on the fedora l prohibition question.
 Business of Opening Session.
 The convention at it's opening ses-
 sion today did little except organize listen to keynote" speech by the temporary chairman. former Supreme
 Court Justice J. Augustus Kellog~ O Glens Falls, and adopt a vigorous res
 olution pledging ''whole-hearted sup . port and confidence in President Will
 sons struggle to make the world saf'
 for democracy and repudiating ever.
 trucker with our country's enemie
 who strives to eXtenuate or excuse
 German crimes and atrocities, ant "who seeks or, has sought to SOW dis sension among our allies, or who nov
 seeks to capitalize by election to pub lie office the latent treason, whose to tai annihilation is the most pressin
 need of the hour
 The resolution was offered by Sam uel Seabury, former judge of tn court of appeals, who resigned in 191
 to become the party's candidate fo
 governor. He had great difficulty a first in getting it before the conven tion, as many of the delegates, know ing his antagonism to William Ran dolph Hearst and the latter's candi
 dacy for the goverrorship. apparent believed he was striving to offer a Hearst resolution. Judge Sea bury, however, finally was permitte I to read the document, and when it . contents became known it was imme 2 diately adopted under suspended rule v All at Sea on Ticket
 t The delegates began the night ses S sion still much at sea regarding
 state ticket. with the possibility of S 1 three -cornered primary fight facin r the party. The movement behind A = fred E. Smith continued to gain in Q petus the campaign of the adheren n of MT. Hearst progressed public 3 through the distribution of hundred o of pamphlets and priva tely in confer
 ance, and William Church Osbor . withdrawing his name from the Ii | under consideration by the "committt . of fifteen,' announced that he wou : remain a candidate as long as M e Hearst did, no matter who the choit e of the convention might be.