Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.

Remarkable State Convention at Saratoga. Senator Hill Nominated for Governor— Hill’s Speech. ** Temporary < Chairman. The New York State Democratic convention convened at Saratoga, Tuesday, Sept. 25, Senator D. B. Hill was chosen as temporary chairman and made a lengthy speech on taking the chair. He said:

The unterrifled Democracy of tho Empire State assemble here today undismayed at the premature boasts and assumed confidence of our adversaries. We are accustomed to their annual and moss-covered game of political bluff, although renewed this year with vehemence and unblushing effrontery. If vain boasts alone could bring victory their battle is indeed won before it is actually commenced, but we beg to remind them that there has not been a campaign in this State during the past, twelve years when they did not assume in August and September that they had carried it, when, in truth and fact, during that whole period, with a single exception, victory has perched upon our banners on the first Tuesday of November in each year. We win our victories on election days and not by exuberant braggadocia in convention halls. Continuing, the Senator said that New York was a democratic State, and challenged.ccimpMfeui.ot re?ojrds of the two parties in State affairs. Proceeding, he discussed the McKinley bill, which he characterized as the culminating atrocity of Republican legislation, and said that without retracting a single word of what he had said, he considered the Gorman bill a great improvement. Indirectly he condemned tho A. P. A., and gave the administration of Gov. Flower his endorsement. At the conclusion of Senator Hill’s speech the convention adjourned until Wednesday. Wm. C. Whitney had been regarded as the probable nominee for Governor, but he was interviewed at quarantine, having just returned from Europe Wednesday morning, and positively declined to accept. When the convention assembled at noon, as soon as the nominations were reached there was a wild stampede for Senator Hill, which he was not able to check, and he was nominated with enthusiastic zheers. Delegates were standing on ihairs, crowding the aisles, pushing toward the platform and yelling themselves hoarse, and shouting “Hill!” ‘Hill!” Senator Hill stood pounding the tavel, his face pale and his lips shut. He hammered vigorously, but as he did so the iin Increased. “Three cheers for the next governor of the State!” shouted a man in the rear, and up went a mighty shout. After five minutes of this remarkable icene, there was some order restored, and Senator Hill said: “I am grateful to Democrats for this showing of their good will and faith, but I cannot accept the nomination you offer me.” At 3:30 p. m. Daniel Lockwood, of Buffalo, was nominated for lieuteuant-gov-srnor. A full State ticket was also nominated. The platform congratulates the people an the improved industrial conditions; soncurs with President Cleveland that the new tariff law does not embody the full issue of tariff reform, but with him also indorses its provisions for cheaper and free raw materials, and lower taxes, as a substantial recognition of Democratic principles, and bespeaks for the law an Impartial trial, confident that its successful operation will convince the people of the wisdom of the Democratic policy. While favoring such wise modification and readjustment of particular schedules, by the enactment of separate bills, as future conditions and the fulfillment of Democratic pledges may require, it deprecates any further general tariff revision, which under present, conditions would be likely to retard improvement in business, and thereby prolong the evils brought upon the country by Republican folly.

The prima donna, who died near Plainfield, N. J., last week, spent her last days in abject poverty at a farm house far removed from other habitations. A year ago last spring the Madame was receiving 1400 a performance. Her health failed and she was compelled to abandon the stage. In times past Fursch-Madi had earned a great deal of money and was a popular star, but sheMvedfnothing. The opera queen's funeral was pathetic in its exhibition of poverty and in the meager attendance. Not one of her legion of fair-weather friends was present.

DAVID BENNETT HILL.

MME. FURSCH MADI,