The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

FLOWER NOMINATED
For Governor of New York by the State Democracy,
THUS PLAYING INTO HILL'S HAND
There Was Some Harmony, but it Was All One Sided and Came into Existence After the Minority Had Been Sat Upon--Lots of Acclamation.
SARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 16.—The ticket as nominated by the Democratic convention stands:
Governor—ROSWELL P. FLOWER.
Lieutenant Governor—WILLIAM F. SHEEHAN.
Secretary of State—FRANK RICE.
COMPTROLLER—FRANK CAMPBELL.
TREASURER—ELLIOT F. DANFORTH.
Attorney General—SIMON ROSENDALE.
SURVEYOR and Engineer—MARTIN SCHENCK.
With the decisions made on all contests, with the slate solidly settled, with the platform all nailed down to its bed pieces, the delegates to the Democratic State Convention retired last night with a purpose to sleep to the latest moment before convention time this morning.
The result was that matters about town, which means about the nest of hotels, were sluggish this morning.
There seemed to be no burrs of contention to irritate the throngs, and there was little anticipation of pyrotechnic scenes in the convention to quicken the political pulse.
Breakfast was indolently discussed, and then squads of delegates sauntered complacently down the hill to the rink, but as the time approached for the assembling of the convention the rink filled more rapidly.
At 10:15, Temporary Chairman Raines called the convention to order, and the committee on credentials was called upon for its report. Chairman McMahon, of Oneida, read the report on contested seats, and in addition submitted a preamble and resolution, which were adopted unanimously:
The preamble and resolution recite the irregular action of the county Democracy, and declare the right of Tammany Hall to nominate all the inspectors of election, poll clerks and ballot clerks to which the Democratic party may be entitled in the city of New York.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The committee on permanent organization was then called and submitted its report as arranged yesterday. The report was adopted without a dissenting voice. Chairman Raines thanked the convention for the honor bestowed upon him and called on the committee on resolutions for its report. Daniel G. Griffin read the report of the committee, which was unanimously adopted.
The platform begins with a reaffirmation of the doctrine of the National platforms of 1884 and 1888, and then comes the silver plank, as follows: "We now, as then, steadfastly adhere to principles of sound finance. We are against the coinage of any dollar which is not of the intrinsic value of every other dollar of the United States. We therefore denounce the new Sherman silver law, under which one-tenth of our gold stock has been exported, and all our silver output is dammed up at home, as a false pretense but artful hindrance of return to free bi-metallic coinage, and as tending only to produce a change from one kind of mono-metallism to another.
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 a fit appendix to the subsidy and bounty swindles; the McKinley worse-than-war tariff, the Blaine reciprocity humbug, the squandered surplus, the advancing deficit, the defective census, the falsified representation and the revolutionary procedures of the billion dollar Congress—all justly condemned by the people's uprising last November—a verdict which, renewed next year, will empower Democratic statesmen to guide the people's councils and to execute the people's will."
THE PLATFORM.
The platform then refers to State issues, congratulates the people on the election of a Democratic Senator, and praises and reviews the work of the Democratic Legislature of New York; denounces the former Republican Legislature; declares for home rule for counties and municipalities; believes in low taxes and economical administration; demands a revision of the various confused statutes regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors and the enactment of a just, equitable and comprehensive excise law, framed in accordance with existing public sentiment as repeatedly manifested, believing that all revenues, whether called license fees or taxes, should belong to the treasuries of the localities under whose authority licenses are issued, to be applied in reducing the burden of local taxation.
The platform then declares against sumptuary legislation; demands an extension of electoral reform; favors legislative provision for a proper exhibit at the World's Fair; protests against the prosecution of Jews in Russia, and heartily endorses the administration of Governor Hill.
The reading of the platform was received with cheers. The silver plank was greeted with applause, and Governor Hill's name was also applauded.
Mr. Cantor, of New York, offered a resolution welcoming the colored fellow citizen to the ranks of Democracy and viewing with gratification his growing friendly attitude toward the party. It was adopted unanimously.
Thomas F. Gilroy then moved to proceed with nominations, and Mayor Porter nominated Roswell P. Flower for Governor. In the course of his speech he said that the Democracy of the State, at their primaries and district gatherings, with a unanimity rarely equalled, have pronounced their choice of the person whom they desire to be made their leader by delegates to this convention. He closed with a sketch of Flower's career. Col. John
R. Fellows seconded Flower's nomination for Governor in behalf of Tammany.
CHAPIN NOMINATED.
Thomas DeWitt, of Kings county, after Fellows had finished seconding the nomination of Flower, mounted the platform and placed Mayor Alfred C. Chapin, of Brooklyn, in nomination for Governor. Mr. DeWitt, in placing Chapin in nomination, said: "We shall vote for him at the beginning and we shall vote for him at the last." He stated that Kings county would support the ticket nominated by the convention, but if defeated would retire with that sullen surly temper that would dash the action of the party.
The sentence was broken by yells and hisses.
The convention then proceeded to a ballot. Hugh McLaughlin, of Kings county, cast the first vote for Chapin. On the first ballot. The only votes for Chapin were cast by Kings county. The ballot resulted as follows: Flower, 843; Chapin, 43.
On motion of Charles P. Adams, of Kings county, chairman of the delegation, the nomination of Flower was made unanimous amid enthusiasm.
William F. Sheehan, of Buffalo, was unanimously nominated for Lieutenant Governor.
The minor offices were filled with unanimous consent and the convention adjourned.