People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — MORTON IN THE HARNESS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MORTON IN THE HARNESS.

Tlx® Ex-Vice Prciidcnt Nominated for Governor of New York. Saratoga, N. Y., Sept .19.—The state republican convention, called to nominate a state ticket, was called to order here Tuesday at 12:40 p. m. Congressman Lemuel Quigg, of New York city, was made temporary chairman. Dr. Carey, of Saratoga, offered prayer, at the conclusion of which Chairman Qnigg made a short address. His sallies at Tammany Hall and the democratic party were applanded. He said that Senator Hill was vthe only man in the democratic party faithful to his trust, at which there was a burst of applause. During the address Mr. Quigg read a dispatch announcing that; Gov. Flower had declined to be a candidate for governor. There were cries of “Good,” “good,” and applause and cheers. Members of the convention

expressed the greatest surprise at Gov. Flower’s action. At 1:35 the convention took a recess uptil 4:30. The convention reassembled at 4:55. Warner Miller was made permanent chairman. The Resolutions. Congressman Sereno E. Payne, chairman of the committee on resolutions, presented the platform, which extends greetings to the republicans of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Oregon, Vermont and Maine, “for their prompt and just judgment of an incompetent democratic administration.” National affairs are referred to as follows: “The democratic president of the United States and the democratic chairman of the ways and means committee of the house of representatives have announced that the war against the protected industries of the country has but just begun, and that it is to be prosecuted to bitter end. On behalf of the wage earner, the agriculturist, the business man and of every sacred interest in the empire state of the union, the republican party of the state of New York, in convention assembled, accepts this challenge and pledges itself to defend against all assaults the rights of the workingman and his employer, both wantonly invaded by reckless demagogues." Then follows an arraignment of the democratic administration, declaring:

“Its most important achievement thus far has been fitly characterized by tho chief executive as one of perfidy and dishonor. It has rewarded the largest contributors to its campaign fund by the bestowal of foreign missions; denouncing trusts, it permitted one of them to formulate Its tariff bill; promising a continuance of the vigorous foreign policies established by the lamented James G. Blalne.it substituted a "policy of Infamy" when Hawaii was freely offered up; denouncing the Sherman act as a 'cowarly makeshift,’ It was enabled to repeal the sliver-purchasing clause of the act only by tho help of republican senatorv arraigning protection as ’a fraud upon labor,’ it passed a mongrel protective measure, so tainted with scandal that it barely escaped the veto of a democratic president; advocating free raw materials and an extension of our foreign trade, it destroyed all the profitable reciprocal agreements made by President Harrison; pledging itself to the payment of ‘Just and liberal pensions,’ it treats the union soldiers as if the Grand Army badge were the badge of beggary and brigandage; pledging retrenchment, it exceeded at the last session of congress tho expenditures of the corresponding session of the last republican congress by 827,000,000 in the face of decreasing revenues, and after it had added $"'0,000,000 to the public debt; while pretending to bo in favor of individual freedom, it hastened to enact an odious income tax force bill, empowering deputy collectors to enter the homes of citizens and compel them by threuts of official summons and heavy penalties to discloso their private affairs. Denounce the Tax on Sugar. “We denounce the federal administration for surrendering an annual revenue of $8,090,000 on wool and imposing a burden nearly ten times greater by levying a tax on sugar, the commonest household necessity. “Wo favor an honest dollar and oppose any effort, whether by the removal of the tax on state bank issues or the free coinage of silver, to lower our currency standard, and we favor an international agreement which shall result in the use of both gold and silver as a circulating medium.” Morton Nominated. Gen. B. F. Tracey in an extended speech placed in nomination ex-Vice President Morton. There was storm of applause as Gen. Tracey finished. Col. Baxter, of Elmira, placed in nomination J. SI oat Fassett. Silas B. Dutcher, of Kings county, nominated Gen. Stewart L. Woodford. John S. Wise, of New York, formerly of Virginia, seconded Morton’s nomination. E. A. Nash, of Cattaraugus, named Gen. Butterfield. Ex-Congressman Parker, of St. Lawrence county, presented the name of Judge Leslie W. Russell. ‘ Cries for a vote followed, and the chairman ordered the roll to be called by counties. Before Ontario was reached Morton had been nominated, and when the vote was finished the clerk, amid great confusion, announced: “Morton, 532 >s; Fassett, 69; Woodford, 40; Butterfield, 29; Russell, 20; Bliss, and Arkell, 1.” The nomination of Morton was made unanimous. At 12:20 a. m. Charles T. Saxton was nominated fo’* lieutenant governor on the first ballot- Judge Haight was nominated for judge of the court of appeals on the second ballot The nomination, on motion, was made unanimous.

LEVI P. MORTON.