Show s- s f r f r. i i t s CLEVELAND DEMOCRATS The Now York Men l Who Wise Favor Ills IU Candidacy Candidacy Can Can- Hold loll a Convention I IThe The convention of New York democrats favorable to the of Mr Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- Cleye land met In Syracuse on the The convention was wa called to t. t order to-order order shortly shorty I after noon nol by Secretary ex-Secretary ex of the Treasury Charles Charle S. S Fairchild chairman of the state committee The convention met at the the Alhambra Alhambra Al- Al hambra rink a great hall ball hal with a gallery along along either side and another at the rear The building wits was wl well wel crowded Mr Fairchild Pair Fair child chUd made a few tew remarks and called caled upon John D. D Kernan Kernau to act as a temporary chair chair- man Mr Ir Kernan made a rousing address In the te course of which he said Certain leaders and managers selected Washington's birthday for the patriotic purpose purpose pu- pu pur pur- of New NewYork NewYork NewYork pose asserting their ownership of York Democrats and amid curses and pr protests protests pro pro- tests test loud and deep held a snowshoe convention convention con con- venton at Albany They sent delegates to present to the national convention to be bc held four months later the culled and nd barren outlook outlook out out- out look of February as a the ful- ful full flow full flowered ered June sentiment of Democrats Democrat in this state as 18 to candidates upon a platform which disloyally and venomously represented New York Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- Demo Democrat crat as deliberately Ignoring the clean and ami sturdy record of the only Democratic national administration that had heel blessed our country In Hamlet over thirty years They played Hamlet without any The February convention was a n mistake from every standpoint in some Bome aspects it i w wits was s a crime indictable at Chicago When Mr Kernan Keran reached that portion porton of f his speech where ho he referred to Grover Groyer Cleveland the convention seemed to be upon its Is feet with wih lifted voices waving arms slashing canes hats and tv wavIng hands and handkerchiefs Umbrellas The ladles ladies caught the enthusiasm of the moment and added to t the scene the waving of their fans and kerchiefs The Th usual committees were then selected d dby by congressional districts The temporary organization on was wa made permanent J. J Ellery Elery A Anderson chairman of the committee on OD resolutions submitted a long platform the substance of which was va as a follows The Republican party in Congress is denounced de do de denounced for extravagance and for the McKinley McKinley Mc- Mc e Kinley tariff tarl law Iw satisfaction expressed with wib the administration of Grover Cleveland The platform also alo condemns the machine methods method introduced by the party lea leaders ers In New York declares dec ares its Is loyalty to Mr r. r Cleveland and urges his nomination re-nomination at Chicago o in regard regard re reo re- re gard to silver siver it says We Wc approve the use ue of both gold and silver as money anti and Ind we demand that all al dollars ol aIS whether gold or silver siver shall be equal in value to each cach other In fact ct as well as a by declaration of law We are opposed to the free coinage of silver by the Unite d St States tes alone at the ex cx- rate race of 10 to 1 because we believe that free coinage at that ratio will wi result resul in the immediate disappearance e of gold from the business of this country in the use of silver siver with wih certain loss to every wage earner and every savings bank depositor with impairment impairment impair impair- ment of credit and disastrous disturbance ol 01 olevery olevery every kind We demand demaud the te repeal of the Sherman silver siver law of 1890 as a an obstruction of international bimetallism and because it 1 Is rapidly bringing this country to silver mono mono- mono with wit all al its is attending evils evis The platform was va adopted amid great en eu- Judge of Schuyler then read rend the list of delegates at delegates at chosen by the committee com coin on delegates to the Chicago convention They were F F. R. R Coudert New York Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander E. E Orr Oc-i Oc Brooklyn Hon on Carles Charles P Bishop Buffalo Edmund dmund F Fitzgerald Troy Adopted v i- i It I was wa agreed to accept the two seventy to presidential electors decided upon up upon n by the Albany convention Adjourned J. J |