Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — POLITICAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL MATTERS.

New York Democrats Endorse Cleveland’s Administration. ~ •I ’■ ! Many Meetings of Politician* and Note* of Interest—The Equal Soflteagiata Nominate Belva Lockwood. NEW YORK DEMOCRATS The New York State Democratic Convention assembled at the Academy of Music, in New York City, Tuesday. Hon Fredrick R. Conduitt was elected chairman, Alfred C. Chapin, of BrookIvn; Edward Cooper, of New York; George O. Baines, ot Rochester, and Roswell O. Flower, of New York, were elected delegates at large to the St. Louis convention. The-resolutions say: The representatives of the Democratic party in the State of New York, assembled for tne purpose of selecting delegates who shall make known the Democratic sentiments of the State at the approaching national convention of the party, direct thoughtful attention to the fact that all the pledgee and assurances' made at the Democratic convention of 1884 have been fully kept and realized. The allegiance and adherence of the State Democracy to the principles an nounced by the convention of 1887 are hereby again declared, with an explicit approval of the doctrines affirmed in the last annual message of the President to the Congress, that unnecessary taxation is unjist taxation; that taxation for the mere purpose of unfairly benefiting the few at the expense of the many is a perversion of the national power; that the correction of the evils resulting from such a system will bast serve the healthful condition of American industry and enterpri'e, and promote the public welfare; that a large surplus in the national treasury, drawn by vicious taxation from the channels of trade, is a daneerous and indefensible abn-e, and that in reducing taxation the interest of American later should be carefully regarded. The Democracy of the State is justly proud of the fact that one of its members was selected to carry to a successful issue, in the last national campaign, the cbntest for the supremacy of the principles of popular government and for the defeat and destruction of the false theories and corrupt practices which threatened the happiness and the welfare of the American people. His wise guidance and administration of public affair* as chief executive of the Nation has exhibited to the Democracy of the land and to all our citizens the value and the benefldeut result of the faithful discharge of public duty. During his incumbency our system of government has been restored to .the honest simplicity impressed upon it by its founders; integrity and ability have been substituted for artifice and incapacity in public place; the civil service has been purified, elevated and improved: economies have been inaugurated, useless offices have been abolished, and business methods have been introduced in the management of public affairsmillions of acres of the public domain have been wrested from the grasp of foreign and domestic speculators and restored to settlers seeking homes; the waste and corrupt misuse of funds appropriated for the rebuilding of our navy have been exposed and corrected, and the scandals arising therefrom no longer offend the moral sense of the people; thousand of the names of the deserving Union veterans have been added to the pension rolls; the right of every citizen has been maintained at home and abroad; sectional bate has been discouraged and friendly relations among our people have been promoted In the light of such achievements, in recognition of faithful public service, and to the end that reforms already inaugurated may be fully completed, and in strict obedience to the mandate of the Democratic and independent voters of the State, the delegates selected by this convention are instructed to present to the national Democratic convention the name of Grover Cleveland as their candidate for President of the United States. And said delegates are further instructed to act as a unit in all matters intrusted to their charge, said action to be determined by the vote of a majority of said delegatee. That the combinations of capital commonly called trust* are inconsistent with Democratic principles, oppressive to the people, and detrimental to the public welfare in this es pecially, that they tend to monopoly, destroy competition in trade, prevent the employment and reduce the wages of labor, arbitrarily control the production and enhance the price of the necessaries and convenience* of life, aggrandize •orporate power, circulate and concentrate wealth in the hands of particular classes, and so create and aggravate an inequality of fortune incompatible with popular institutions.

UNION LABOR. The Union Labor party met in National Convention at Cincinnati Tuesday. Twenty-eight States were represented. Hon. 8. F. Norton, of Chicago, was made chairman. Several prominent leaders ot the party made speeches, but other than this the proceedings were exclusively preliminary. EQUAL RIGHTS The National Contention of the Equal Righto party was held at DeeMoines, lowa, Tuesday. Belva A. Lockwood, of Washington, was nomipated. for President and Alferd H. Love, of Philadel310 votes. There were forty reittering votes for Blaine, Allison, Clinton “B. Fiske, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Busan B. Anthony and others. The convention adopted a platform favoring woman suffrage; pensions for all needy soldiers and sailors; protective tariff, with free sugar and lumber, and repeal of tax on whisky and tobacco, and against unrestricted immigration, after which the convention adjourned sine die.