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Show th at mm m Th How York Ei'publican Oonventiga G011 "W id at ti.j Hsitiua cf liiaiue of Maine. EILL, THE HODERIT COLOSSUS, A Striking- Ficturs of ttu Uneornpuloul Djuiocratio Eo.'i Iq Etard tt Silver Ooitiaga. I!' ii'IU.sti'.i;, X. V., Sept. 9. At noon to. lay (.niieral Knapp, cl airmail of tlm f!aie cniiini'tio, called the republican stale convention to order, lie uptkt brirlly and I'.'h releri'iice to the "match-lis:i "match-lis:i man frnui Maine" wan received with Icrnlio ajd prolonged appiause, lu lcs addrcM lm bai.1 that iuccb.-.l , this jear meant iicci's next jemi, with party led by the Holdier Mil "lati's'iian now occupying tho executive execut-ive c'.ia.r (applatisel or by that lnatcli li.-s man Irjiu Jai.ie. At tii'11 thuia wis Wild and tumuiloin applause and c!:i".i rmi;. Some one proposed three ' chrrr mr J. i. Jila.ne aad they wet H i vi n w itli a vim. W . . Cnodricli nil then cIiomju , tomporarv chairman. On taking the chair he made au address, lie point d with piide to the record of the republican repub-lican party smco itn fonndation, and said that four years of democratic ruin had convinced the people of the duty cf 1 'ailaiu; the partial po er con ferru I upon tho party which had been on Um wroii sidii ever mice the day it clmnip'.onod the cttension ol i f lumiaii slavery into fiea territory. At the last eleotioa, however, it had Bj;.iin obtained tho majority of tha lower house of coogrcti. This was accomplished ac-complished by a cii.upa'a of colossal ly iiitf and detnpliou. lie pointed with pride to the pure, sagacious and conservative administration administra-tion of J'residont Harrison; to tlm growing commerce of the country under un-der rec'piouty with our American i,i!;blmrs induced bv Ihe matchle.-is foiesig.it of .Secretary lllaiue and to a navy already ranking with thoso of thn otiter great inariliuja powers of tlm world. T.ie speaker reviewed the tar. If 'lues-tiori 'lues-tiori al great length and siok in high tu-ae of the Mckinley bill. Upon lh sai'.iect o f silver he said: "An honest doliar for an honest debt. W e applaud i ho courageous utterances of J'tcsuJetiti Harrison in his recent speech at Albany. Al-bany. TI. in is to bo a campaign of ol-oration ol-oration and not of deception. decep-tion. The republican parly will never tear au iuvest!g.iion of iu principles or its practices. "The democratic party is like a li.tvrd, ehsngin t 'ts cdor according to Us en- irons. In tee south it stauds for prohibitum; pro-hibitum; in the north for free rum; on tho I'acilic const mid mountains it demands de-mands the lroe coinnire of silver; in tha Ohio convention it auopled a free coinage coin-age plank by a bars majority and placed plac-ed a hard money man upon its ticket and in the east it deminds gold and silver coinagu on an equal basis." "vV'e Horiowfully behold the governor gover-nor of this frrcat state as he siau'is like a modern Cob ssus one foot ia tlm e-ecutive chamber Albany and tha other in the senate chamber t Washington, Wash-ington, los hands grasping tha lev.T of the democratic machine, which he controls by tho lilling of public olliceiii with his subservient toil,.-!; ois ryes greedily fixed on tha pre.iidc'itiiil chr.ir in which he will never sit; pondering to the liipior interest in-terest ; playing with tho t;uestion of honest money ; cheating tha laboring men by defeating lor years the Australian Austra-lian ballot t-ystem; obstructirg the en'ire legislation of the state to prevent iuves-,' igat'e n. into bis partise.il water rales in the canal, ca-nal, rising to no higher level thnii that of a ward politician. Verily, tho coming contest is that of llillisni grafted on to Taniiiianyism against the political conscience of the voters of this commonweal! h and on such an issuts wh shall sober no Uefcat." When rn.eienco was made by Cood-rioh Cood-rioh to Tresideut Hairiaju and Secretary Secre-tary lliaine in counei-tiiui with the recent re-cent reciprocity measures, there was hesrtv cheorine; about evenly livided bei ween the two. The usual committees commit-tees wcr appointed and a recess taken until 4 this afternoon. It is believed tho convention Will tinish today. Ther- Mill bo a bitter contest over tho nomination for tho head of the ticket. |