Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1904 — PARKER THEIR CHOICE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PARKER THEIR CHOICE

New York Democrats Name Him for President, and Instruct Their Delegation. HIS MAJORITY IS TWO TO ONE Platform Declare* for ’‘Reasonable Revision" rtf the Tariff and Generally Hits at Roosevelt. - Albany, N. Y., April 19.—The Democratic state convention for the election of delegates to the national convention selected the following delegates-at-large: David B. Hill; Edward Murphy, Jr. of Troy; George Ehret, of New York city, and James W. Ridgeway, of Brooklyn. As alternates It so

looted C. N. Bulger, of Oswego; W. Caryl Ely, of Buffalo; C. H. Ackerman, of Browne, and Francis Burton Harrison, of New York. The delegates were Instructed by a vote of 301 to 149 for Alton B. Parker a* the state’s candidate for president. Tammany I* Duly Recognised. Tammany was not treated as badly as bad been predicted, being allowed to name a dielegate-at-large, Ehret, and an alternate, and one of the two electors-at-large, Harry Payne Whitney, the other being John T. Woodford. Among the district presidential electors are: Isador Straus, Robert B. Roosevelt, Hugh J. Grant, Herman Ridder and John D. Crlrami ns. Salient Point* of the Platform. The platform adopted pledges again fidelity to Jeffersonian principles; opposes "executive encroachment upon the legislative or judicial department;” declares for keeping Inviolate our treaties: opposes “unsteady national policies” and a “restless spirit;” declares for regulation of corporations by the state, and “taxation for pnbllc purposes only;" opposes trusts that oppress the people; urges economy in public expenditure*; favors “reasonable revision of the tariff,” and the maintenance of state rights and home rule, and declares for the impartial maintenance of the rights of labor and capital.” What I* Said About Parker. The presidential plank says: "The Democracy of New York favors the nomination for president of the United States of that distinguished’ Democrat and eminent jurist of our own state, Alton Brooks Parker: and the delegates selected by this convention are hereby instructed to present and support such nomination at the approaching national convention.” Also the delegates nre Instructed to vote as n unit according to the will of the majority of the delegation.

ALTON B. PARKER.