Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1891 — NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.

Roswell P. Flower Is Nominated for Governor. A Brief Svnopsla of the Ticket, the Platform and Proceedings. New York Democrats Oh"thel6th and nominated the, following ticket: Governor—Rosswell P. Flower. Lieutenant-Governor—Wm. F. Sbcehan. Secretary of State—Frank Rice. Controller—Frank Campbell. Treasurer Elliott F. Danforth. --- - s - Attorney-General—Simon Rosendale. /ind Engineer—M. Schenck, The candidates for the gubernatorial nomination were Roswell P. Flower and Alford C. Chapin. Tho nomination of Flower before the vote could be polled was made unanimous. The platform favors a sound finance, and “We therefore unite with the friends of honest money everywhere in stigmatizing the Sherman progressive silver basis law as no solution of the gold and silver question and as fi( appendix to the subsidy and bounty swindle, the McKinley worse-than-war-tariff: the Blaine reciprocity humbug, the squandered surplus, the advancing deficit, the detective census, the falsified representation and the revolutionary procedures of the billion Congress—all justly condemned by the people’s great uprising last November.” The platform is then devoted almost wholly to the discussion of State matters. The convention was largely attended, harmonious and enthusiastic.