Show DAVID 0 conventions CONVENT IONI the kickers receive cold comfort WANT I 1 NO FREE SILVER COINAGE denounce the mckinley bill pronounce reciprocity a humbug and indorse hill etc AI BASY feb 22 sunshine and booming cannon opened the convention day and such crowds as filled the streets were never before seen in una this city at 10 01 c lock a great mob surged about the state c committee omm it headquarters where the orace grace ander noil eon committee was to make its formal kick mr anderson on entering the room was r recognized by chairman murphy and exola explained n the nature of their appointment and the reason for their visit copies of tha the action of the cooper union meeting he lie said had been sent to each member of the state committee before they were here to ask for an answer chairman murphy said he chehad had not placed the matter before the state committee mr NIT grady said he thought the committee had no answer to make as a committee his 11 1 9 individual answer had been sent by mail A copy of the communication WB was 15 then read whereupon cockran asked if the cooper union meeting was held pursuant to the call issued by the committee at the office of fairchild Faire hild anderson said aid the meeting was held in answer to a c call all numerously bignel and that lie did not ot think there was such a meeting at I 1 fairchilds air office cockran moved that the protest and resolution be received and laid on lie the table grady said his 0 opinion was that the original purpose of tee the protestors protesters prot estors at their was to protest against calling the convention too late and that the plan was changed because it was called too bento earl early to s suit nit them now anderson comes here e for or the purpose of having them con sider this as a sen serious as proposition 0 s 1 it I 1 oil wm win II 11 grace said said ee he had a d never heard of a meeting b being e 1 held hald 1 4 for protesting against an ea early 5 y 0 or r nt lato e convention he ifo took part in this committee with the understanding der that it should not be a protest against the candidacy of any person but a against ll 11 dinst calling the convention at thia this dime inie ge Cockran oc krans 3 motion to table tho the resolution was carried unanimously and the kicking committee withdrew we were treated as wp wo expected to be said they and we will hold a meeting this aCter afternoon noon that will astonish these ea people pie I 1 from the scenes of the tile kick the crowd poured to the convention hall which was abundantly abundantly y decorated with red white and blue banting chairman murphy called the convention to order and judge ileese was escorted to the chair as temporal temp temporary presiding of officer licer ills was warm warmly y received but the greatest grea great fest est applause was accorded fits his reference to hill under whose leadership the tile democracy of the state had never lost a battle secretary de freest called the roll of the convention and the names of prominent democrats were greeted with wild applause contesting delegations were present from the fourth albany district the second chautauqua and the first oswego resolutions were adopted making pro for the appointment appointment of the various committees ar 1 mess was then taken until when the convention was called to order the report of the committee on contested seats favored the seating ot of the sitting delegate 3 in the albany and chautauqua cases the oswego contest was withdrawn and lind the report adopted general daniel M E sickles was made permanent chairman and spoke at some length ae n ill ih the course of his ills speech he said if we shall again be invited by our comrades in other states to put forward a candidate for the chief magistracy odthe of the nation we are prepared to ask their suf frages for a statesman whose re record cordal already rea I 1 places him in a croup rou made mad illustrious ill I 1 by the tile names of van fan borew g NI marcy y seamour and tilden a callac leader whose banner is inscribed inscribe bauar with many victories victorie 3 a leader who was elected to the senate of tho tile united states without the expenditure of a dollar a leader in whom the veteran soldier always found a steadfast friend a leader whose election to the presidency would give the tile whole people an all administration guided and directed in all its measures by the tile principles the yoila policy and nd the traditions of jefferson and jackson 1 keport i committee on oil re resolutions alu then the n re read a 71 as follows the democratic party of new york renews its pledges of fidelity to tariff reform a and nd to the democratic faith and to the tradition as affirmed in fit the national plat platforms us fro from n 1878 1876 to 1888 as well as in state platforms 1 t m concurrent with ith the opening I 1 GI 01 governor tiddens Til dena dens and the close of governor or 1111 hills long thrice approved and alike illustrious service in tile lie chief magistracy the state platform of 1874 is epitomized and the document continues we now as then steadfastly adhere to principles of sound finance we are against tho he coinage of any silver dollar which is not of the intrinsic value of every other dollar of the united states Wel we therefore denounce the sherman silver law under which oar our silver output is dammed up at home as the false pretense but an actual hindrance odthe of the return to free bimetallic coinage as bendi tending only to produce a change from one ednd kind of to another we therefore unite with the friends of honest money everywhere in sti stigmatizing at z I 1 ng the sherman progressing silver basis asis law as no solution progressing of t the t je gold and silver q question ue a and as a fit a appendage pendair to the aulbi subsidy s I 1 d all and d bounty swi swindle n is le the I 1 Ic Kinley wo worie r t e than war tariff tho tile maine r reciprocity e I 1 t humbug the squander surplus elkoe the 0 ay advancing deficit the defective census and the falsified representation and revolutionary proceedings of the billion dollar congress all justly condemned by the people P a great uprising the verdict which reo 13 r renewed this ye year arwill will empower democratic 0 state statesmen to guide the peoples councils and execute the peoples will the platform recalls with ith proud memory the inflexible sound finance of governor tilden who led the democratic party in pushing on the compulsory republican publican Ite advance vance to current coinage redemption it biro also refers with grateful fride pride to the tile inflexibly sound finance 0 or governor hill who by efficient economy has accomplished the practical extinction 0 n of the state debt has faithfully urged the nations N at I 1 ons release from front unjust taxation and likewise with a states nian mans s energy and true foresight of the leventy cent dollar pushing for birth in the body of the sherman silver law haa has taken up the peoples cause assailed the tile Ite republican publican depredation degre dation of silver money and led an advance of the democratic party of new york to that solid ground of high justice u upon w which anstice non they hey stand today to day wl without hout discord 1 cord or division demanding with him that every dollar jar coined I 1 in a these united states shall bethae be the equal of every other dollar no so coined and demanding redress of their present shameless Ine inequality the Dento democrats crati of yf new york says the platform point to tho the nomination bof of hill to ill tho office of president as a lit fit expression of democratic faith falth and tradition and of our settled purpose to rescue thia this perverted government from the tile clutch of antoc autocrats rats and plutocrats from a spendthrift administration excessive tax and debased money the tile delegates selected by this tills convention are instructed to present to the tile national democratic convention the name of david 1 it hul a democrat who haa has led his party from victory to victory for seven re ven successive years and who has never known defeat as a candidate for pre president ident of the united I 1 I 1 11 ll I 1 I 1 A 4 I 1 1 1 1 1 states 11 the delegates are ard further instructed ted to vote aa as a unit the people yde of i the state are congratulated upon on ge the h auspicious lits pi ea opening p ningon of flowers 10 r a a administration aam in istrati on vh when m th the apsa passage ge I 1 instructing nat ng for hill was read the air w was as 8 shaken h k ell b by y a tremendous outburst outburst of applause and after the resolutions were unanimously adopted a committee was appointed to wait upon hill and request guest re him to address the convention ven tion lie soon arrived and general sickles presented him to the audience in these words 1 I present to you gentlemen of the convention the young hickory of democrat democracy Demo crac our next presidential candidate davia davi ibur B hill then lien came more cheers c h e and when the noise finally subsided d T sufficiently senator hill 8 spoke e at considerable length he ile thanked t the he gentlemen of the convention for the unanimous vote which made known their approval to authorize the representatives of the tile democracy of the country and which 11 will be recorded record ed in the annals of the national convention the reawakening of the democracy nil all over the tile ian land I 1 afi he lie said paid esthe is the most auspicious c sign of t the e times all our troubles all our dangers at this very hour after so many years of Ite republican publican rule flow from front unconstitutional legislation by the very men who sit in shivering fits over what the democrat democracy Demo crac will do with their power tho the democratic party is one whose creed has ever been a strict interpretation of the constitution ution and confinement of the government to a few specific granted powers ers he ile commends these contrasted fo facts ae t to his fellow countrymen for meditation the Ite republican publican party neither trusts the people nor obeys them it isnow now requires another U upheaval hearal at the ballot box like that of IM 1800 to abe be convinced that the wicked work of the billion dollar congress must be repealed and the peoples will ob obeyed c ed we are ad advancing said he be to the fi final M renewal of the nations nation a verdict the one man insensate reign of autocrats and plutocrats whereby their verdict now scoffed scon edat at shall have efficient execution in the election of both brandies branches of the federal congress con gress gresa and a federal executive obedient to the tile sovereign peoples people will swill turning his attention to the tariff the senator said the cause of tarin tariff reform has lately made m al a L le a great practical advance secretary Seare tary manning in liis his report of IW advised congress to begin practical tariff reform by single act an a act for free wool one year later the secre report report was writ large in the message of I 1 the I 1 ie pre president how now five years lone later one of our most enlightened yo economists david A wells writes to the chairman of the ways and means committee that the path of or ogress which secretary manning blazed progress Sr Er estand and alone is the true path path etisa it is a maxim of sound policy better fitted tiled to 0 win elections than lose them better dividing i into chapters chapter the lessons of a long campaign of education abolish whenever when everyou u can one indefensible tax at a time this jo h 8 is true progress the speech was loudly cheered and at p ni the convention ada adjourned ou arned sine die they meet in convention and effect a temporary organization ST louis lout a feb 22 at terrill called the convention to order without the formality of an address and caused a smile by announcing that the congregation would rise while the proceedings were opened NO with th prayer by alev mr basher of eville brayer ill 11 miss alice mitchell of the national comans womans alliance sang the star spangled banner and the audience joined in the chorus considerable merriment was elicited when terrill went right on as a matter of course acting as chairman as though there were no such thing aa as temporary or permanent organization terrill it was generally understood does not favor an all immediate third party presidential nomination and it began to 6 look as if he lie had concluded to shape things a bit while he held the reins this impression deepened when lie proceeded to read a typewritten type written document urging the convention to confine their deni demands ands to land I 1 transportation taxation and money 1 leaving av I 1 the mor moral I 1 reform till they half had more tite time this would leave tho the prohibition issue out in the cold and toward tile rear of the stage sta a among n 1 oil the distl distinguished nF guests u c s t 1 1 I coul could le be t men e ell miss il ss F Francc ra sW il larda lards fea features t u res quickly shaded bf by a frown of portent lous ious proportions while the third party or bust delegates throughout tha tile hall ball gave equal signs of dissatisfaction president polk of the national alliance was introduced by terrill and the announcement no made that folks address would be followed by one from powderly Pois derly and another from donnelly Uon nelly at the mention of these three possible candidates the convention manifested much interest president polk said the farmers had assembled here to perform a solemn and responsible duty on oil wall street and in the boards of trade tride money was 1 li per cent in many man small towns in the wes wea t money was from 10 to 20 per cent this had to be ri righted the farmer paid ov over er 20 per cent ot of the taxes and if money can be borrowed in new york on oil cotton cotto aud wheat at 1 14 11 er cent why cannot the same thing be R ser one in the west he ile compared the gain in wealth of the new england states as compared with the producing stated of the tile wesl west and south as five to one of the former against the latter ho ile entered a solemn protest against these unequal u conditions dit ions in closing mosing polk raid said we want relief we demand relief and I 1 repeat now what I 1 have repeated from maine to california we must have relief if we have to wi wipe pe the old parties from the tile face of the ea earth r th this was greeted with tremendous applause something afan of an anticlimax anti climax wag was created by some polk enthusiasts in the gallery fl flinging ingin to the breeze at this juncture a a huge banner anner inscribed with a quotation from polka apparently extemporaneous speech powderly was then introduced and was warmly greeted he spoke of the big bridge from the tile east side of the river owned by a man to whom everyone who wanted to enter st louis had to pay a tax the time had come when tho the people would wo uld surmount these difficulties it was not a powderly nor a polk but tile people who would remedy this when the proper time came powderly also spoke on the question of the restriction of immigration years a ago he contini continued led when we nominated general fo weaver of iowa A great burst of cheers greeted the mention of the greenback presidential candidate weaver er beamed smilingly upon the cheering multitude from the platform but sobered up when powderly icily warned the convention to cheer not the man mail but the principles pl es Jg ignatius donnelly next appeared on the r rostrum strum the coming gatherings of democrats coats and republicans he said as compared with this convention would be simply coagulations of unprincipled politicians to fo divide divide the tile plunder ho ile predicted redl ted a wedding noon soon to occur that of 0 democracy democracy and the republican publican Ite party the ceremony would be performed at ar the altar |