Show and confirmed the utterances ot the Democratic platform of 91 and 92 and the Democratic national platform of last year in denunciation of the Sher raan law providing for the compulsory purchase and storage of silver bullion and in reiterating that condemnation we again demand the speedy and unconditional un-conditional repeal of the obnoxious provisions of the laws The platform further favors liberal provisions for all disabled Union soldiers widows and dependents congratulates Cleveland Cleve-land on the auspicious beginning of M his administration pledges earnest support in l efforts to secure the enactment of Democratic measures and the carrying out of Democratic policies I especially approves of his patriotic polces action in convening Congress Con-gress in extra session The calling of a state constitutional convention for next year to provide for woman suffrage was recommended recom-mended Before proceeding to the nominations nomina-tions Mrs Lillie Deveraux Blake Tvas accorded the privilege of the stage to present the claim of women for representation in the constitutional constitu-tional convention and Mrs S Washington of Wo ington a representative the mans Christian Temperance Union was allowed to address the convention conven-tion on the theme of temperance r J Q T The following ticket was then nom mated Secretary of state Cord Meyer Queens county Comptroller Frank Campbell re nominated Treasurer Hugh Duffy Cortland county Attorney generalW Rosendale Albany renominated State surveyor Martin Schenaker renominated Assoc te judge of the court of appeals ap-peals J H Maynard now filling that position by appointment May nards nomination caused considerable considera-ble opposition p J the grounds that his record was not clear but it went through nevertheless sine The die convention then adjourned TIE NEXT PRESIDENT A Cranky Prediction by Members of the 1 > O 1 Syracuse N Y Oct 5The indications in-dications before the assembling of the Republican state convention are that there will be a good deal of tangle to straighten out Buffalo wanted Haigh nominated for judge of court of appeals New York City wanted Judge Ramsey Syracuse wanted Judge Vann The New York City folks are at odds among themselves them-selves Jacob Patterson wanted John Sabine Smith for the judgeship Tom Platt wanted E T Bartlett John M Palmer Albany seemed Unopposed opposed for secretary of state but Buffalo and Central New York are at odds over the other officers An effort will be made to have Buffalo accept the comptrollership for Web ber of that city Chauncey Depew and exSenator Platt and exSenator Hiscock were conspicuous in nrplim inary consultations P W Culli i mon Oswego was chosen temporary chairman In his speech of acceptance accept-ance he contrasted the administration te administrton of Harrison wlh the present adminis tration to the detriment of the lat ter The speakers reference to the McKinley bill brought out significant rounds of applause and the great I te geat Ohioan was given three cheers while one delegate shouted hell be our next president too After the appointment of usual committees recess was taken till 330 pm Upon reassembling Hon C K De pew spoke He referred to the resumption re-sumption of labor and the closed fac tories But he added wages are cut He declared that in one year of Democratic rule labor had lost in wages a large percentage of the benefit ben-efit assured to them in twentyfive years of Republican administration He demanded that the ship of state now drifting on the rocks of bankruptcy bank-ruptcy and distress be entrusted to the Republican crew again for safe pi lotage Judge Frank Brundage of Erie county was reported for permanent chairman and after his speech nominations nomi-nations for the court of appeals judgeship judge-ship were first made these names being be-ing presented Judge William Rumsey of Bath Edward T Bartlett of New York and John Sabine Smith A ballot bal-lot was had and Bartlett chosen by this vote Bartlett 538 ½ Rumsey 97 Smith S The committee on resolutions next presented it report V The platform starts out with this sentence The time has come t rescue the state of New York from the despotic control of an uterlYselfh and personal machine ma-chine All are invited to join the Republican Re-publican party to effect reform Then follows V the recitation of Judge Maynards acton in the election of 1891 and a denunciation of what he did and what his party were V enabled to do as the result re-sult His reappointment and the subsequent legislation in the Democratic Demo-cratic House and Senate were ana Ivsed and tvinrif > mnf > rl V Amnnf ita pledges the platform promises to I prevent the prostitution of the ballot bal-lot the burglary of the ballot box and the larceny of election returns The principles of the Minneapolis platform were reendorsed and the present industrial uncertainty attributed attri-buted V to the fear of an indiscriminate indiscrimi-nate reduction of tarriffi duties now in progress at Washington The only reference to silver is embodied em-bodied in a clause Commending the Republican senators and representatives representa-tives in Congress for adherence to the cause of sound money and sta ble currency Nominations being resumed General Gen-eral John Palmer of Albany was nominated by acclamation for Secretary Sec-retary of state James A Robertsof I Buffalo was also by acclamation named for comptroller Adisqn Col vin of Warren county was nominated nomina-ted for state 1 treasurer and Theodore Theo-dore Hancockof Syracuse was nominated nom-inated V for state attorneygeneral and the ticket was concluded by placing V Campbell W Adams of On ediain nomination for state engineer The constitutional convention delegation dele-gation is headed by Joseph H Choate of New Yorir The new state committee was named and the convention adjourned sine die I |