Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — TAMMANY IN CONTROL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TAMMANY IN CONTROL

RULES THE N£W YORK DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. State Democracy Men Leave the Hall, an J Senator Hill and Hia Friends Have It All Their Own Way—The Platform and Ticket. Bow to the Tiger, There was an exciting scene in the New York Democratic State convention at Syracuse when the delegates of the

State Democracy rose in a body and left the hall. This action, according to a press dispatch, was caused by the adoption of the report of the Committee on Credentials. The anti-Tammany Democrats of New York City considered a fifth of a loaf worse than no bread at all. The proposi-

— -- - -mm l tion to give one-fifth of a vote Jo each of their delegates, giving four-fifths to Tammany, was rejected by them, though indorsed by the convention. A final struggle was made by the Cleveland men in a motion to allow them one-third representation. or 35 votes to 70 for Tammany. This was Voted down aud they left the hall, taking their one-fifth representation with them. Senator Hill voted with Tammany for the report and against the motion, an early morning conference having resulted in a patching up of his differences with the tiger. The State Democracy might have accepted the one-fifth representation if it had not been coupled with the hard conditions of a recognition of Tammany Hall as the regular party organization, entitled to recognition in all future conventions. The one-fifth representation was to be accepted not as a right but as a sop to harmony, and the State Democracy promptly decided to reject it and enter a vigorous protest. Charles S. Fairshild, of New York, said when he left the convention: “The Associated Press can announce that we will have a ticket of our own on all local issues.” r lhe resolution adopted by the Committee on Credentials read as follows: “Tammany Hall is entitled to recognition in all future conventions as regular, and its delegates are to be placed upon the preliminary and'other rolls thereof, and, in the appointment of inspectors of elections, the use of the party emblem and in every other way in which the question of party organization may arise, said Tammany Hall organization shall be recognized and seated as the regular organization of the party in New York County, but in the interest of harmony at this time the committee recommends, subject to the aforesaid conditions, that the sitting delegates, as well as the delegates known as the State Democracy, be admitted to the convention with one-fifth of a vote to each State Democracy delegate and four-fifths of a vote to each Tammany Hall delegate.” The resolution was adopted by a vote .82 to li. Senator Hill voted yea and Milliam B. Kirk, of Onondaga nay. A

motion to give the State Democracy one-third of a vote each was lost by a vote of 22 to 27, the nays including Hill and Kirk. The rank and file of the State Democracy were atfirst inclined to accept the half loaf, but when Mr. Fairchild arrived he vig-

orously protested against surrendering any rights. The Graee-Fuirchild people left the hall, and as they filed out there was a repetition of the scene in the Democratic convention of 1894 at Saratoga. They were alternately cheered and hissed. When the tumult had subsided the report of the Committee on Permanent Organization was read, and the chairman appointed John Boyd Thatcher and James N. Sheppard to escort ex-Gov. Flower to the chair as permanent chairman of the convention. The platform as adopted declares for home rule in cities, economy in public expense, an orderly Sunday without blue laws, home, rule in excise, equal taxation, honest elections, good roads, opposition to trusts, Federal taxation for revenue only, “sound money,” and a vigorous enforcement of the Monroe doctrine. The administration of President Cleveland is indorsed and that of Gov. Morton denounced. The following ticket was nominated without opposition: Judge Court of Appeals. .. .Judge Teller Secretary of State Horatio C. King Comptroller John B. Judson Attorney General Norton Chase Treasurer D. C. Dow State Engineer Russell Stuart

D. B. HILL.

B. P. FLOWER.