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Show I loon arrived, ami General Sickles presented ldm to the audience In these words: "1 present to you. gentlemen of the convention, tiie young Hickory of democracy, our presidential presi-dential candidate, David H. Hill." Then came more cheers, and, when the noise finally subsided BtinTcietitly, Senator Hill spoke at considerable leuutli. BOWED DOWN TO HILL. The New York Democratic Convention Sees In the Trickster the Young Hickory of Democracy. Ai.basv, Feb. 31. The democratic convention conven-tion that yesterday selected the delegates to the national convention was for Hill first, hist and all the time. All protests of the opposition op-position were laid on the table ami never taken therefrom, They still rest there. (leneral Daniel K. Sickles was permanent chairman. The national delegates at large chosen are Uoswell P. Flower, Edward Murphy, Mur-phy, jr.; General Daniel E. Sickles and Henry W. Sloeum. Alternates: Manton Msrble, John BlftlOW, Sidney Webster and Alfred C. C'hapln. The committee on resolutions reso-lutions reported as follows: "The democratic party of New York renews re-news Ub pledge of fidelity to tariff reform and to democratic faith and tradition as affirmed In the national platforms from ISTd to INNS, as as well as in the slate platforms, concurrent concur-rent with the opening of Governor Tilden's and the close of Governor Hill's long, thrice approved and alike illustrious service in the chief magistracy." The state platform of 1S74 is epitomized, and the document continues ; "We now, as ttien, steadfastly adhere to principles of sound Unsure. We are against the coinage of any silver dollar which is no: of the Intrinsic In-trinsic value of every other dollar of the United States. We therefore denounce the Sherman stiver law, under which our silver output is dammed up at home, not only as a false pretense, hut as an actual himlersnee of the return to free bimetallic coinage, and as tending ouly to produce a change from one kind of monometallism to another. "We therefore unite witli friends of honest money everywhere in stigmatizing tiie Slier, man progressive silver basis law as no solution solu-tion of the gold and silver question, and ns a lit appendage tn t lit subsidy and bounty swindle, the McKinlcy worse-than war tariff, the Hiaino reciprocity tmrnbug, the squandered surplus, tbo advancing deficit, the defective census, and the falsified representation repre-sentation and revolutionary proceedings of the billion-dollar congress, justly coudeinncd by the people's great uprising, a verdict which, renewed this yearj will empower democratic statesmen to guide the people's peo-ple's councils and execute the people's will." The platform recalls with proud memory the inflexibly sound finance of Governor Tilden, "who led the democratic party In pushing on the compulsory republican advance ad-vance of currency coinage redemption." It also refers with graceful pride to the inllexi. My sound finance of Governor Hill, who, by efficient economy, has accomplished the practical extinction of the, state debt; has faithfully urged the nation's release from unjust taxation; and, likewise, "with a statesman's energy, and a true, foresight for the seventy-cent dollar pushing for birth In the body of the Sherman silver luw, lias taken up the people's cause, assailed republican repub-lican degradation of silver money, and led the advance of the democratic party in New York to that solid ground of high justice upon which they stand today, without ills cord or division, demanding with him that every dollar coined ill these t'nited States shall he equal to every other dollar so coiued, and demanding a redress of their present shameless inequality." "The democrats of New York," says the platform, "point to the nomination of Mill to the office of president as a tit expression of democratic lallh and tradition, and of our settled purpose to rescue this perverted government gov-ernment from the clutch of autocrats and plutocrats, from a spendthrift adininistra lion, from excessive tax and debased money. The delegates selected by this convention 'are instructed to present the to the national democratic convention the name of David P Hill, a democrat who has led his party from victory to victory for seven successive years, and Mho has never known defeat, as a candidate for president of the United Stales." The delegates are further instructed instruct-ed to vote as a unit. The people of the state an- congratulated upon the auspicious opening of Flower s administration. When the paper instructing for Hill was read, the air w.is shaken by a tremendous outburst of applause, and after the resolu tions were unanimously adopted a commit b e was appointed to wait upon Hill and request re-quest him to address the convention, lie |