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Show ! w York Republican Platform. i New Yobk, Sept. 22. The Tribune's Saratoga Sara-toga special on the Bepublicau Convention says: Several persons have been preparing planks for the platform, and an effort wiill be made to have it concise and at the same time embrace the issues upon which the party will appear to the voters. Senator Miller proposes a protection plank which will accept a revised tariff as settling the tariff question until the new census is taken, and deprecating any further agitation of the question until trade is better and wages of labor higher: Corporal Tanner will propose a Civil Service plank, which will declare that war xeterans should have priority in certification certifi-cation after passing an examination. A separate resolution will charge a violation of the principles of Civil Service reform by the recent appointments in the New York Custom House, and in other ways. Another plank will be proposed declaring in favor of the stoppage of the coinage of the silver j dollar. Other planks will declare in favor j of municipal reform, legislative reform, and will demand that the colored voters in the j South be given the right to cast their ballots j and to have them fairly counted. If the j Convention should last beyond one day, as now seems probable, the platform will not ! be reported to-day. j ! Sabatog a, Sept. 22. The morning opened I with bright sunshine, and at an early hour J the corridors of the leading hotels presented j an animated cene. The Convention will assemble in the Casino at 12 o'clock. Indi cations point to a very lively scrimmage for the nomination for Governor. Were it possible pos-sible for New York City men to join hands upon a candidate before going into the Convention, Con-vention, there is no doubt such man would receive the nomination with a hurrah, but all hope of this has been abandoned for the present, and the situation is decidedly a mixed one. Out of several hundred Bepub-licans Bepub-licans now in th6 field there is not one man rash enough to predict who will be nominated. nomi-nated. New Yobk, September 22. At 12:20 o'clock James D. Warren, chairman of the State Committee, called thelConvention to order, i The roll having been called the chairman announced that the State Committee had j agreed upon Senator Warner Miller for tem-! tem-! porary chairman. Applause. SENATOB MXLLEB's BEGBETFUL BEMABKS. In his address Mr. Miller called attention to the fact that the Republican party of the State, for the first time in twenty-five years, was confronted by both Federal and State governments in the hands of the Democracy. The future generations of the heroes of the late war, he said, would be placed alongside the revolutionary heroes of our first peruwL He advocated rigid adherence to protection of American industries and American labor. rCheers.1 When we turned over to the opposition op-position the civil service of the government no better civil service existed under the sun. Referring to the political complexion of the Southern States, the speaker maintained that throughout the length and breadth of that land there was not to be found a single Government which holds the reins of government govern-ment bv the will of the people. The Republicans, Repub-licans, he said, to prove this statement, only asked for a fair field and a- fair ffcnt "m-tinuing, "m-tinuing, in reference to alleged illegal balloting ballot-ing inthe South, the speaker said the men - - ' who have managed the polls in that seotion would not continue to do work without with-out pay. Upon the question of the civil service ser-vice of the government, Miller said the Republican Re-publican party had put the law into practical prac-tical use and were committed to it. He would suggest, however, that the Civil Service Ser-vice Commission be at once summoned together to-gether and directed to add a clause providing provid-ing that "all jail birds and ex-convicts" are iorbidden to hold office. This he thought would greatly relieve the President of the United States. . He closed by predicting a viotory in November next. The chairman was authorized to appoint the usual committees, and the convention took a recess until 4:30 p. m. |