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Show . . . . . j BUFFALO, Sept. 27. Ai. session which began at 7:13 last nigbt and continued until 2:20 this morning, the Democratic State convention named a State ticket with William Eandolph Hearst at the head of it. Mr. Hearst already was in the field as the Gubernatorial Guber-natorial nominee of the Independence league, .which he was instrumental in organizing. The Democrats also took from the Independence league ticket Lewis Stnyvesant Chanler of Duchess, for Lieutenant-Gorernor, and John 8. Wha-len Wha-len of Monroe, for Secretary of State. The other nominees have no place on the Independence league ticket. ; Mr. Hearst was nominated with 309 votes, of which only 226 were necessary for a choice. Congressman William Sulzer received, for Governor, 124 votes, and John A. Dix of Washington received re-ceived the complimentary vote of seventeen seven-teen delegates, making 450 in all. The nomination ot Mr. Hearst was made in the face of the bitterest opposition opposi-tion ever waged in a Democratic convention con-vention in this State. The minority which cast its ballots for Mr. Sulzer has known for several days that.it was beaten. This fact was made snre in the last session, when a test vote on the maiority report of '-the committee on contested seats showed Hearst sup-.porters sup-.porters to be in absolute control. Fn of ethen , bciu woert the oatUr or operation xceds arniiifa, the deacit Dait b made up by taxation, and this would be socialistic and therefor hostile to justice jus-tice and - subversive Democratic OTrn-ment. OTrn-ment. . . It is the daty of the Government, therefore, there-fore, to ascertain the actual cost of operation ot all public service corporations and to fix from time- to time reasonable rates for the service they perform. VV denounce as a crime against morals and decency the refusal, of the Republican administration to permit 'as investigation of the different departments, especially . tbe banking department. If entrusted with, the administration of the State government we promise that there shall be su impartial and public investigation of every department of the Sum. The recent investigation of insurance companies com-panies affords bnt a faint idea of the grots corruption which has governed ' their administration ad-ministration : foe. a long periodJ It ii a I scandal of unparalleled dimensions thst these shocking exposures have resulted merely mere-ly in the discharge ot a lew officer wfeoc inefficiency for plunder was established by the fact that they had allowed the enormities to be discovered, while th mora desperate culprits, who were most adroit in plotting these .villainies and who profited by them most extensively, have been allowed to remain re-main in control of the vast trust, funds they have pillaged and wasted. We demand passage of such legislation at will deal effectively with tbe whole subject of life insurance and' encourage this form of economy by making it fruits absolutely secure. W are resolved, above all, that every rogue who haa aidod in planning this plunder, who has connived at it or shared in its profits, shall be pursued by every punitive -wespen of th Isw. wielded by honest, fearless, loyal public prosecutors. Sympathy, for the Jews. W ask the Federal Government to exercise ex-ercise its influence to bring about speedy cessation of the atrocities now being com. matted against the Jews in Bussta. In common with, th demsnds of all th States, and expressing the sentiment of th high-minded eititenship of the Republic, without psrty, we view with pride and tat-isfsction tat-isfsction the hospitality and acclaim which have been accorded, at horn and abroad, to that great Democratic leader and typical American, William Jenning Bryan, to whom th Democrats of New York extend most cordial and sincere felicitations. Finally, we record our solemn belief that corruption in the public service or in corporate cor-porate management cannot be . eradicated, while schemes of plunder ar implanted in the very body of the law itself. Where the lew sot only permits,' but empowers em-powers the great trust to exact for their products from the -people of this country prices rastly exceeding those asked in foreign for-eign countries, and tnis power to plunder our citixens is trested as the property of certain private corporations, capitalised for billions of dollars, the vast volume of tribute draws from the masses of the community is th least pernicious of 'its results. The wide emulation m plunder which it evokes is its worst result. The speotacl of th Gorernment taking from maa.es of men some of the profit created by their labor to -enrich a few favorites fa-vorites encourages the socialist to insist that. ' the Goveroemnt should monopolise the entire field of industry and divide all ot its profit among the whole people. . We denounce the eocialism which seeks to make th Gorernment tbe sole agent of production as nothing less than 'a proposal to re-establish the institutions of tyranny and slavery which perished before the advance of Christian '.civilisation. . For th very essence es-sence of despotism is. to vest in -the State absolute control of all industry - as 4 therefore there-fore ownership of all its products; while 'th' essence of Democracy is to confirm in every msn the right: to dispose of his n labor: and possess in peace everything produced by it. Realising vry socialistic proposal however how-ever disguised under sonorous and mislesd-ing mislesd-ing phrsaee to be a tftep lesding inevitably toward the re-eatablithment of despotism in Government and servitude in lsbor, th Democratic Dem-ocratic party must always be vigilant in unmasking un-masking it and inflexible in opposing it. In this opposition we ask the co-operation and support of all citizen who feel that the issue now before the country is no mere struggle for offic er for advtntsge between political parties, but a contest for the existence ex-istence of Christian civilization and of Democratic Dem-ocratic government its last and most valuable valu-able fruit. . Nearly every paragraph received applause, ap-plause, notably, that denouncing the Jewish massacres in Bussia. There were cheers for the paragraph para-graph extending felicitations to Wil-j Ram Jennings Brvan, but the demon stration was brief. The platform was adopted unanimously. unanim-ously. "W. V. Cooke of Albany countv then took the platform to nominate nomi-nate NV. B. Hearst. B -ter Attacks Maae. , Under the guise of advocating the eondidacy of Mr. Sulzer, a number of Mr. Hearst's party opponents took the stags, and amid storms of cheering cheer-ing and hissing, denounced and arraigned ar-raigned the man they knew was to be the party candidate, in. the most remarkable series of speeches ever hurled at a man to be named for the highest office at the gift of the convention. con-vention. ' The advocates, of Mr. Hearst inswered these attacks, the most effective of the utterances being uttered in his behalf by Congressman Bourke Cockran of New York, who declared de-clared that Mr. Hearst was not his personal choice, the demand that he be nominated having come from every section of the State, and was not to be denied William Schuyler Jackson of Buffalo was chosen for Attorney-General. For State Treasurer, Julius Hauser of Suffolk Suf-folk was chosen. Martin H. Glynn of Albany was unanimously chosen for State Comptroller. Comp-troller. Frederick W. Skene of Queens Was chosen for State Engineer and Surveyor, Sur-veyor, completing the nominations. The convention adjourned at 2:20 a. m. Abstract of Platform. At this time, when 'the authority of Democracy Dem-ocracy is invoked to, defend plunder of the masses by a few rich men, through partial laws on on hand, and on th other to justify jus-tify many extravagant and revolutionary proposals, which, if adopted, must inevitably produce worse disaster than the abnses they seek to cure, - we ' deem it eminently fitting to declare that the whole Democratic principle prin-ciple is embraced in the injunction laid on . the first man that in the sweat of their brows he and aU his posterity must eat their bread. We affirm it to be as mnch supreme duty of , the Government to prevent any man from taking by violence, fraudulent device or legislative legis-lative favor one dollar or ite equivalent produced by the labor of another man. aa it is to protect every msn in the enjoyment of all property, . however extensive, produced by his own labor. We therefore denounce Republican high protection, which enables a few to plunder the whole body of their ft How citizens by charging extortionate prices for the neees-aaries neees-aaries of life and the essentials of industry. W deplore, as the most sinister conse- 2uence of the corruption and graft which egrade our political and industrial life, tbe widespread distrust and discredit of Republican Repub-lican rule which they hsd produced and which have led- many men of undoubted probity and ardent patriotism to listen patiently, pa-tiently, if not approvingly, to proposals distinctly dis-tinctly socialistic, which, -if adopted, must inevitably break the foundation of repub- . lican government and render th fabric ot Christian civilisation. Socialism Not Cure. We hold that th cur for these abuses is not in socialism, which, by enormously extending ex-tending the power of government, must aggravate ag-gravate them, but in Democracy, which, by excluding government from any interference whatever with private industry, must cur them. Every propsal that a municipality assume operation of all public utilities and reduce rate to persons using them, regardless of what the service may actually- cost, - is an attempt to force some men to bear the ex- |