Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — PENDING POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

PENDING POLITICS.

N«w Terk Democrats and Massacliusettts Republicans. Both Nominate Tickets and Adopt I'latform*—Hnrmoiiioua Procteding* iu Both Ui,die*— Text* of Platform*. HfIVT TOR*: DEMOCHtATS. The NewjYork State Democratic Convention met at Saratoga, Wednesday. Horn George Rains was made chairman. The report of the committee on credentials, which was adopted, divided the seventy-two seats of New York city evenly between the County Democracy and Tammany Hall. Irving Hall had no representation on the floor. Governor Dorsh'rimer presented tinreport of the committee on resolutions which is in substance as follows: The uneetssnry federal taxation of the tint fiscal year exeeded tlO.,li*o,#oe. • nneoonaary taxation is unjust taxation. Therefore the DemoeMi New York demand that fedef/tl taxation be xbrnightwny reduced by a sum not sbo,t'ot)ooo a year, and also respeotfully urge upon Congree* thut a measure shall be adopted width will, in the language of ihe President's in - "SUgU'ial address, relieve the peopTb from urinteessary taxation, bavins a due regard to the interests of capital invested: and workingmen employed in American industries.” The taxes to be first reduced, or altogether removed, are those on imported raw materials, common neoesharies of life, and the price of the common daily clothing ofall our people. Besides these, several -hundred articles now taxed, should he swept oIF the tax list into the freelist. The Democracy of New York reiterate their support of the civil-service laws in the United States, and of the state of New York, and their purpose to uphold them both. We oppose all sumptuary laws. We believe that excise revenues, like other proper looal revenues, should be applied in lessening local burdens and to the reduction of local taxation. The resolutions'then indorse the administrations of the "President, and of Governor Hill, and continue as follows: To all citizens born in foreign lands, and to the multitude, or every native citizen who desire to obtain and securely hold their own homes, the Democratic party has rendered inestimable service iu reclaiming from speculative railroad corporations the public lands which such corporations. by the corrupt aid of Republican administrations, had seized, to be disposed of for their private gain. Many mill )n of acres of these lands have been so recove wd oy the Democratic administration, and retui ted-to' the pfcople' far the use of actual settlers. The Democratic party is the proved friend of all who have come to our country seeking.to beemn partners in its wef- i fare, aua' citizens obedient to its laws. Tiler* is in Our America breadenou land work enough for all, and the federal law ' now on the statute book for tile promotion a d protection of for-: i ign emigration do not, in our opinion, ii thev shall be faithfully executed by the proper federal and State authorities, require present enlargement or amendment. Then follow, in succession, an expression of sympathy with the Irish home-rulers; a declaration in favor of the improvement Of the canals, and expressions favorable to a revision of the exciselaws and the right of local selfgo vernmenL.. Th<> resolutionb also favor legislation which will suppress the manufacture of simulated products of I the farm and dairy; declare in favor of a limit ot the hoars of labor to not exceed ten, and affirm that the Democratic party

has been the only one to legislate in the interests of workingmen. Before the platform was read, resoluin the memory of Samuel J. Tilden, Horatio Seymour, Hendricks, McClellan and Hancock were adopted. A resolution indorsing the administra-tion-of the treasury under Mr. Manning was also passed amid cheers. The platform was then read. The planks relating to the civil service, the canal and the liquor traffic were received with ap plause. The plank relating to the workingmen was well received. The indorsement of Governor Hill and President Cleveland was greeted with tremendous applause, continued for several minutes, though that in regard to the President was t.ue most tumultuous. The plaUorm was unanimously adopted. Frederick Cook was renominated for Secretary of State by acclamation. Edward Wemple was nominated for Comptroller by acclamation, and Lawrence J. Fitzgerald received the nomination for State Treasurer. For Attorney General Charles E. Tabor was nominated unanimously. John Belong was nominated for State Eneineer and Surveyor by acclamation.