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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1902.

try immensely benefited by the maintenance of low rates of transportation. Under Republican neglect the canal system of the state, a priceless asset ot the people, has wasted In value and in utility from OP GOLER NOT. FULLY SUPPRESSED. CBLER'S POLITICAL CAREER ACTIVE ifl MANY SIDED. 1 MENTION OF BRYAN.

CHARLES N. BULGER OF OSWEGO. Graduate of St. John's College, Eord ham Still a Young Man. Charles N.

Bulger, the candidate for lieutenant governor, is 41 years old. He was born in Voluey, Oswego County, August 19, His parents were Patrick and Bridget Bulger, who were uoru In Castle Corner, Queens County, Ireland. Coming to this country in 1S40, Patrick Bulger and his who settled upon a farm in the town of Volney, and there they prospered. Charles N. Bui gcr entered Falley Seminary in Fulton, ut that time an educational institution of considerable note in that part of the state, and graduated with honors in 1870.

He was then sent to St. John's College. Fordham. 10 finish his classical course and graduated with erodit in June, Returning to his home he taught school for a year and then entered the law otllee of Stephens Pardee, Fulton. He afterward moved to Oswego and resumed the study of law in the otllee of Albertus Perry, now of New York, and was admitted to the bar in June.

1879. For sixteen years he has been city judge of Oswego. Close as the vote in that town is. Judge Bulger last fall was elected by a majority of 1,200 votes. In 1K92 he was ti delegate to tho Democratic National Convention.

Mr. Bulger ts recognized as 'one of the strangest lawyers in northern New York. He enjoys a largo practice and Is much in demand as public speaker. Its passage had gone, and Is simply another ignis fatuus preposition of procrastination Intended to prevent Immediate remedial legislation. The Republican party cannot escape responsibility for existing trust conditions.

In full control of all branches of the national government, as well as of this state, its failure to enact adequate legislation or to successfully enforce existing anti trust laws, attest either the Insincerity of its professions or the' incompetency of its administrations. We condemn the neglect of the federal and stale administrations to enforce the provisions of the statutes known as the Sherman Anti Trust law, the Donnelly Anti Trust law and the conspiracy laws defining crimes against the trust combinations violating them. No British Colonial System. We believe in territorial expansion the expansion of Jefferson and Polk and in the honorable acquisition of desirable territory which can be erected into states In the Union and whose people are willing and fit or capable of becoming fit for American citizenship. We favor trade expansion by every peaceful and legitimate means.

But we are unalterably opposed to' the seizing or purchasing of distant lands to be held as colonies analogous to the British colonial system, to be governed outside of the Constitution and whose people can never become citizens. Philippine Policy Condemned. We condemn the Philippine policy of the present administration. The Filipinos cannot become citizens without endangering our civilization: they cannot be subjects without imperiling our form of government. The national policy toward them should not remain uncertain rupt and debasing has not been government that openly violated the statute law.

Men may be dishonest in public office without stealing direct from a public treasury." This idea was still further developed In all article in the Independent, a weekly magazine, during August. 1900. The article was prefaced by the quotation from Croker's testimony before the Mazet committee: "I am working for my own pocket all the time." He went on to say: "Place a thoroughly organized party or faction in absolute control of every department of a great city like New York and that power can be used to enrich favored corporations and individuals and crush out any and every legitimate business that refuses to eugape in questionable transactions with the man whose word is law." Other phrases In the article are as follows "When It is known that favors of a government are for sale there is never a dearth of buyers. "There are men in New York and others In almost every large city in the country receiving large incomes from the business of felling political favors, who would resent as a gross libel a suggestion that they were dishonest. They have simply engaged in the business of politics and are making out of it what they can.

With the trade of such men ft is not an easy matter to say when: business ends and blackmail begins. "With an unscrupulous and corrupt political party or organization in absolute control of every department of government in a great city like New York, every Inhabitant, from the millionaire banker or manufacturer to the penniless bootblack or newsboy on the street, can be forced to recognize the power of commercialism in polities. The secret channels through which favors and punishments may be conveyed are beyond the reach of investigation or exposure." Some people have wondered why Croker was so bitter in his opposition to Coler two years ago in face ot the known preference for him on the part of men like "Big Tim" Sullivan, John B. Sexton, also a friend of Devery. John F.

Carroll nnd others of the Tammany district leaders. The answer can be inferred from the fact that Croker considers himself solely responsible for and from the fact that In his article on "Commercialism in Politics," Coler without year to year, until the public calamity of tnelr entire destruction and abandonment can be averted only by measures of improvements. Our Republican "opponents, cowering under the responsibility of the incompetence and corruption through which nine millions of the people's money was irrevocably squandered on an Ill advised project of canal enlargement, dare not ask for a fresh authorization and further funds. Their insincere platform discloses their deliberate intent to postpone the Issue until the ruin of the canals shall have become complete. We pledge ourselves to save and build up and improve the canals.

Believing that state money spent In makeshifts and half way measures would be wholly wasted, we covenant with the people to prepare and submit to them immediately for their sanction a plan of canal improvement providing for a barge capacity of 1.000 tons for the Erie and Oswego canals and adequate and necessary Improvements of the other canals of the state. The maintenance of water transportation by modern methods between the Atlantic seaboard and the Great Lakes will meet the needs and promote the prosperity of the communities of the Interior, and will give to the farmer, tho manufacturer and the tradesman the benefit of low rates of transportation, will attract to the waterways of New York traffic that tho Republican policy of neglect has diverted to other channels, and will establish the export and import trade of our great seaport city in unconquerable supremacy. Good Boads. A Democratic Governor first recommended the establishment of a wise system of good roads. A Republican Legislature refused Its sanction.

Roads connecting one county with another, thereby forming a complete system ot continuous highway through the state, are desirable and may be secured by intelligent legislation. The defect in tho present law is the possibility of adding many millions of dollars to public cxpendltures wlth out procuring for the state consecutive highways, but merely detached and widely separated pieces Of road of local benefit only. The Republican party i3 responsible for the present law. What is needed is such legislation as will provide a system of well located highways through each county connecting" with those in adjoining counties, in order that the benefits of public expenditures for good roads may inure to the whole people. Home Rule in Excise Matters.

We favor a just and equitable excise law in which, among other things, the home rule principle shall be recognized. Excise functions are essentially local in their character and should be administered by local officials and not by a centralized political State Department at Albany, with Its hundreds of officers, counsel, spies, informers and inspectors, all of one political party and appointed, controlled and directed by a single head. All excise revenues should belong to the respective local cities where the licenses are Issued and should be applied in reduction of their own burdensome local taxation. Local revenues for local purposes and state revenues for state purposes is the just and proper rule. Excise reform is demanded for the promotion of the best and truest interests of this great state and its numerous cosmopolitan cities.

Preservation of the Adirondack Forest. We condemn the policy of the present Republican government in abandoning the purchase of lands within the limits of the Adirondack Park. These woods are necessary for the protection of the water supply of the rivers and canals of the State and: serve also as a pleasure ground and health resort for the people. If intrusted with authority, we pledge ourselves to the Immediate resumption of the policy inaugurated by a Democratic Governor for the acquisition, for the sole benefit of the people, of the Adirondack forest lands, and we recognize the necessity of furnishing full and adequate protection for game animals, fishes, song and game birds, and we pledge ourselves to secure the enactment of just laws to this end. State Hospitals and Charities.

We demand that the administration of the state hospitals for the care and medical treatment of the Insane, and also the charitable institutions ot the state, be absolutely free from all partisan influences; that hey be conducted on progressive lines, with due' regard for economies and for the welfare of the inmates of the institutions and the protection of the state. That citizens of the state acquainted by service and experience with its philanthropic activities should share in the management of these institutions, in order that they may be preserved from all partisan influence which would be a grave danger and dotriment to the unfortunate Inmates and a lasting Injury to the state. The past year has witnessed the arbitrary legislative removal from office of over 'one hundred distinguished citizens, who were giving their time and efforts gratuitously to the amelioration of the condition of the insane. Simultaneously with this removal of the local supervision was enacted a scheme of increasing the bureaucratic administration of the state hospitals and centralizing the details of administration in the control of the commission. We condemn this policy as a subversion of tho true interests of wards of the state, and call for legislation looking to the creation of strong local bodies of supervision and oversight.

We condemn the refusal of the Republican administration to fix the hours of labor of state hospital employes in accordance with the spirit of the labor legislation of the state at eight hours a day, instead of twelve and sixteen hours a day. Persecution of the Roumanian Jews. We sympathize with the oppressed of the monarchies of Europe, and especially do we deplore and condemn the outrageous persecution of Jews of Roumanla. Thousands of women are fleeing to America to escape the Injustice and oppression of their own country. A natural protest against the wrongs Inflicted by the Roumanian government is prompted by the dictates of humanity and justice.

The Civil Service. We believe tbt the competitive system of appointment in the civil service has demonstrated the utility of the system, and we condemn the many evasions and flagrant violations of both the lettor and spirit of the law for partisan purposes, and the improper increase In the number of persons exempted from competitive examination by the present State administration. Election of Senators by the People. We favor the election of United States Senators by the people of their respective States. Taxation of Savings Banks Depositors.

We favor continuing the exemption from taxation of the deposits in savings banka due depositors, representing as they do the savings of the poor, produced by thrift and economy an held against misfortune and disaster beneficent purposes which should not be thwarted by taxation. Interference With Judiciary. We arraign the administrations, both national and state, for their attempted interference with the independence of the judiciary. The national administration has traded national and state judges for partisan advantages. The state administration has attempted to secure to itself the control of the designation of Supreme Justices wlio Bit in districts other than their own, undertaking thereby to pervert a purely Judicial function into a scheme for partisan and personal favoritism.

The Interest of Labor. The Republican party In convention boasts of pretended effort for the protection of labor, and the enactment of laws in labor's Interest, notwithstanding the fact that nearly all the statutes of the state in' behalf of labor were enacted by Democratic legislatures and signed by Democratic governors, forced during Republican administrations by the demands and votes of united Democratic minorities. Also In face of the fact that while proclaiming protection to the rights ot labor it maintains in state and nation a condition of things in the interest of monopoly, Its chief ally, and In violation of the rights of labor. The Democratic party of New York presents this declaration of its principles as applied to the issues which now confront us and asks for its platformand Us candidates the support ot the people. Protest Given to Associated Press After Ruse of Sullivan Men Had Failed.

BASED ON THE MILK CHARITY. Colsr's Opposition When Controller Recalled Flat Refusal to Support the Nominee. iSpcclal to the Eagle. I Saratoga. October 2 The solemn protest of Nnthun Straus against the nomination of Bird S.

Coler for governor wa.s perhaps the mnsi remarkable feature of the Democratic state convention Mr. Straus, as the Eagle dispatches told yesterday, was recognized by the chairman and invited to come to the platform. He came. Then he began to read his protest. Before the first paragraph was ended the business man was stopped by a point of order.

Littleton ruled that the point was well taken, and Mr. Straits left the platform. One of Tim Sullivan's East Side delegates tried to get the copy of the protest, saying "I am the Associated Press reporter here." "No you're not." said Manager Graham of the Associated Press. Thereupon the Sullivan man subsided, and Mr. Straus gave the copy of his intended remarks; to Graham.

It was as follows: "Mr Chairman: May 1 lv.ivc tho lluor for five If the gr nt 1. men will give me their close attention. I will not take up your time longer. I will ask you for close attention because I am not accustomed to public speaking, and 1 am very anxious to have you understand thoroughly what I am going to say. I am not presumptuous enough to suggest what you should do.

but I have an important suggestion as to what you should not do, if you expect to win. "I havo always myself upon being a straight Democrat. 1 voted and worked for Mr. Bryan both limes he was nominated. Why did I vote for Bryan Because he was nominated iu the regular wa by the Democratic party, and though I disagreed most emphatically with his platform, I knew the man was sincere ant! honest ami had a big heart.

And when a man is honest, my friends, hr will come pretty near doing the right, thing when he is placed in power. "To day some of you arc trying to put a man in power who has no heart. Now, fellow Democrats, a number of you seem to be anxious to nominate this man for the Governorship, hut when I tell you on what my objections to that gentleman is based I am inclined to think you will change your opinion. 8in not here to show a vindictive spirit. There is nothing personal in it.

There was a time when I had personal differences with Mr. Hill, but such differences never changed my opinion as to his sterling honesty, integrity and ability. "If a man Injures me, I can forget and forgive; but if a man shows a willingness to sacrifice thousands of helpless infants to repay a petty political favor, as this man did, then I am against him. And. if that is the kind of man you want for Bovernor, then go ahead and nominate him.

"I think I need not speak of the distributing in New York of proper milk to the poor tenement children. You all know about It. I need not speak of the number of lives it has saved. That is a matter of record. And the man who is seeking the nomination for a office is the man who tried to stop that wnrk; is the man who solemnly pledged his word to help it along, but broke his word: is the man who was thoroughly conversant with the good it accomplished, the misery it prevented, the lives it saved and then tried to stop it.

"Is it possible that one who teaches on Sundays that beautiful doctrine that so strongly appeals to you and me, 'Sulfer tho little children to come unto me. and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of should on Monday vote to deprive these little ones of that which enables them to live 7 "Just a word more and I am done: a word to ray friends of Tammany Hall. You all know my political record in New York City. You know that I have worked for you atii with you, and I hope to continue. "Now.

my fellow Democrats. I appeal to you in the name of humanity to select a candidate who has tit least bis heart In the right spot, as you all have always had. And. if there is one thing more than another about which I am proud of Tammany, it is that she always comes to the rescue of suffering humanity, not only at homo, but abroad. I remember well when you had a meeting in Tammany Hall and donated $20,000 to the suffering women and children of Cuba, and how that touched nty heart cannot be pictured in words.

"In conclusion, I give, you fair warning that if, in spite of what I have said to you today, you insist on nominating Mr. Coler for governor, you will compel me to do v.hot I hope I shall never be compelled to do go back on my party. Then I owe It to my conscience I owe It to the children that Coler was willing to sacrifice that I do all in my power, even though he be nominated, to defeat him. Although I have always been a Democrat, the lives of the children are dearer to me than all the political parties combined. "I yield to no man in devotion to his friends and his party, and my record proves that; but, gentlemen, this is too much.

I should not be worthy of your friendship if I did not use every power I possess to thwart the nomination and election of Mr. Coler. And I hope you will not. nominate him." NEW STATE COMMITTEE. John L.

Shea's Name Substituted for Anthony J. Burger's in the Eighth District. Albany, N. October 2 The new Democratic State Committee with two vacancies where selections have not yet been made, 1' as follows: Senate Dlntrict. First John .1.

Kenney. Second Joseph Casskly. Third Huch MoLaus hlln. Fourth lohn VC. Wr ber.

Fifth William A. Doyle. Sixth ltinies Sh'. vlm. S' venth Mcc'ai rt n.

KlKhtii 1.. Sh a. Ninth Glincen. Tenth Daniel K. Finn.

Eleventh Time thy D. Twelfth John T. Oakh'y. Thirteenth Patrick II. Kchoe.

Fourteenth Charles V. Mnrf.hy. Fifteenth John F. Sixteenth (Jeoi Be P. Sc.innoll.

SventeenLh Daniel F. Me.Mahoa. KiKhteenth Thomas J. lJUon. Nineteenth Harry Hurt.

Twentieth Tnnmas F. ii. cr. Twenty drst Louis F. Haffen.

Twenlv ceccnd Michael J. Twenty thin! Michael Mcl'. il.e. Twcntv fnnrth Jn a. IJureell.

Twcntv Wth Ira M. Black. Twenty flxth Kllot Danfc.rlh. Twent fe.venth N'o st clien. Twcntv elKhth lames H.

I'ilavln. Tw rntv nlmli Patrick K. McOabo. Thirtieth David Morey. Thlrtv llrst Jeremiah T.

Finch. Thlrtv eeond OeerKc Hall. Thirtv thlnl Clinton tfcckwlth. Thtrtv fotirth James H. FUanasan.

Thli'tv nuh W. Carlisle. Thirty sixth John iJunfeo. ThlrtV X. Uulser.

Thirtv Henry G. Jnrksen. Thhtv nlntll ChHr'CB F. Rartlsan. Fca tlelh Dank 1 sheehan.

For? nn Frank. Campbell. Fortv sccond Charlos A. I.ux. Fertv thirci William F.

Balkan. Foriv fourth lacob Oarlltw. Fnrtv lHth Oeorgft W. U.lttn. Fertv flxth Frank W.

Urown. F.mv seventh John J. Kennedy." 'hth William II. Fltzpatrlck. F.rt'v tiliith Henry Iliirituru.

select ten. This involves no change in the Kings County list except the substitution of John Ij. Shof. ot" Coler's Seventeenth Atreernbly district for Anthony J. Burger, in the Kig hUi Senate tlistriet.

Mr. Burgor vas defeated at the Sixteenth Assembly district primaries but the. main reason for the change ir. that Ex Bridge Commissioner Shea, Coler's political backer, ought to have something to do with running the campaign. An Exponent of the New School of Politics and of Its Methods.

HIS RECORD AS A REFORMER. Why Croker Opposed His Nomination in 1888 Bond Sales His Try for Mayoralty Nomination. People, and even Democrats, differ' so much about the character and motives of the Democratic candidate for governor, Bird S. Coler. that a dlspasslonaie study of his career Is certainly worth while making.

Mr. Coler has been much In tlio public eye now for five years, and during that time It cannot be said to havo voluntarily allowed interest in him to lag. In (act. he Is typical perhaps of the new school of politics, the representatives of which believe the first requisite of success is to keep to the foro front. For that reason tho things he has done and said and his method of getting prominence are interesting.

To begin with, Coler became a public character in the municipal campaign of 1S97, when Tammany won because of a bad split in the Republican party and a quarrel with the reform forces. Mr. Coler like Mayor Van was elected by a plurality vote, really as by a minority of all the votes cast. He was the choice of Richard Croker and not of Hugh McLaughlin and was imposed upon the Kings County Democracy by Croker as a condition of the Democrats here getting the controllershlp. That is one important point.

The most important feature of his career Is the series of attacks he has made on. representatives of the Democratic party. Those began, soon after his Induction into office, and have had the effect of bringing him Into great prominence. Xext in importance is a fact to he borne in mind that he has been a candidate for higher office every year but one since he was so signally honored, when opportunity was offered for preferment. He has at times apparently been a candidate on both sides, which is also an interesting development' ot twentieth century politics.

But strangest to old fashioned public men was an apparent confession on Mr. Coler's part that he attacked certain men for the effect that it would have on others. For instance, he once said that he desired tho enmity of Richard Croker, when he was a candidate for governor two years ago, to get the help of the country Democrats. While successful In his efforts to arouse Crolter, the strangest feature of his career has been that he was able to retain the regard of the Tammany district leaders, great and small, good' and bad. Another peculiar circumstance in his career nas been his advocacy of the most radical policies in government, while being himself engaged in making a fortune out of the things condemned by the radicals.

Ho is engaged in exactly the same business as Mr. Sheldon, whom the Republicans rejected as a candidate for lieutenant governor. While he has been considered an ardent churchman, a Sunday school superintendent and a counselor of young men, ho nas at the same time been close to Timothy Dry Dollar Sullivan, John B. Sexton, John F. Carroll and men who vyero accused of being much more responsible' than Mr.

Croker for the partnership between government and vice and crime. Witness the fact that Sullivan tried to secure Coler's nomination secretly last fall, and the fact that he and Big Bill Dcvery were the earliest advocates of Coler for governor this year. Mr. Coler entered politics about ten years ago. He was then known as the son of his father, a Wall street banker, and as some of the boys thougiit a "good thing." Coler was under the tutelage ot John L.

Shea for several years, until 1S93, when ho blossomed out as a candidate for Alderman at large, and was defeated with Mr. Boody, then candidate for Mayor of Brooklyn against Charles A. Schieren. It. is related that young Coler first came under the notice of Hugh McLaughlin in a mild way by his organization of a Bryan club in his district.

Mr. McLaughlin was not taking much of an interest In tho campaign of He is reported on, one occasion to have called the Nebraskan a "crazy man" and "populist." But the antics of Coler seemed to tickle the old man's fancy. During these years also Coler became interested In Sunday school work. He became superintendent of the Sunday school of the New York avenue Methodist Episcopal church, and delivered frequent addresses at Sunday school conventions and other religious gatherings of young people. This practice lie has kept up until recently.

Next came the municipal campaign of 1S97, when the Republicans were badly split on the nomination of Soth Low for mayor. Tammany during the early stages ot the con tost and until shortly before the nominations were made was run by John C. Sheelian, who had succeeded Croker In control after the revelations made by tho Lexow investigating committee. Sheehan declared up to the last minute that Manhattan and the Bronx would take both mayor and controller and that he might give Brooklyn the president of the Municipal Council. He intended to nominate Charles W.

Dayton for mayor. Sheehan's plans were upset by the return of Richard Croker, who told his friends that he had learned of a design on Sheehan's part to supplant him in the leadership. At any rate Croker's return was a fortunate circumstance for Bird S. Coler. New representations were made to Croker by Mr.

McLaughlin's lieutenants, that it would be a grave mistake to so far ignore Brooklyn as to deprive It of one of the two biggest nominations. It is related that Senator Michael J. Coffey was sent to beard Croker, because Coffey was known to have the courage to speak up to the Tammany boss. The upshot of the whole matter was that Crokor retorted somewhat angrily that Brooklyn could have the controllershlp If it would stand for a young man named Bird S. Coler.

Beforo this decision was reached various delegations had been sent to Croker by Coler without the knowledge of McLaughlin. Under the circumstances, with Tammany In full control of the situation, the old man of Wllloughby street was glad to take anybody. It happened, however, that Coler's strength with Croker was due, not to any representations made to him by Color's friends in Brooklyn, but to the Intercession of his father, W. N. Coler, whom Crolter had met In Europe and had learned to know verv well.

Of course, Color went into office on the Democratic tide, and was duly inducted on January 1. 1808. Soon thereafter a demonstration of his great independence was made. He began to hold up contractors' bills, and quite a howl was made about the way the city was being robbed. This lasted several months and caused the contractors delay and annoyance.

He also denounced political machines as "fungus growths." It. will be recalled that the Tammany administration was investigated In the summer of 18M. On the witness stand Mr. Croker had been so baited by Frank Moss that he exclaimed: "Yes, I am working for my own pocket all the time," in answer to a question relating to his interest In the Van Wyck administration. Soon thereafter Mr.

Coler began to deliver addresses at church gatherings, Sunday school picnics and similar affairs descriptive of the corruption in the ROvernment of greater New York In June, 1900, he made a commencement address at the University of Illinois, In which he referred to conditions in this city and went on' to say that the new way of making money was by the sale of privileges. He explained that the modern way was not to steal directlv from the treasury but to loot the municipality by Indirect methods. This he called "commercialism in politics." He said: "It has been demonstrated acaln and again that really bad Rovernment never pcr manentlv reformed by changing its politics. The government of sta'tes and cities in this country that has been most expensive, cor Full Text of the Document Which Expresses Views of Present Leadership. FOR 1,000 TON BARGE CANAL Government Ownership of Anthracite Coal Mines Insisted On Tariff Eemedy for Trusts.

Saratoga, N. October 2 The Cull text ol the platform adopted yesterday by the "wuuuaiii; otnte. Aonveniion is as iouows: tlon assembled, renewing their allegiance to the time honored political principles oi Thfimnn I tt 1 1 ,1 1. tion of those principles of federal and state governments is particularly essential at the present time to tho welfare of our country. "For six years at Washington and for eight years at Albany the Republican party has had absolute control of the executive, legls I.Hkh .....1 rrnir ernment.

There has been no divided political re sponsionity ror existing ovus permitted oy wron.g policies and for grave dangers threat ened by radical departures from true conceptions of American purposes. Conditions frequently require new measures and impose new responsibilities, but true regard for the country's interests demands that the application of those measures and the discharge of those responsibilities shall be guided by steadfast fidelity to fundamental American principles. Measured by that standard, the Republican party has been unfaithful to its trust, has made expediency its god, and iu its zeal for power is even attempting to transform our American Declaration of Independence. Relief can only come by prompt return to the sound principles promulgated by Jeffer eon, observed by our country through two thirds of its history, believed in Dy mo vocated bv the Democratic party. That the people demand such a return to the Ideal of Justice, equality and liberty upon which our government is founded is clearly evidenced by dencies and by the unmistakable signs of UC11IU1 ailtllllll 111 L1IC l'l 1J i.i.uaiuii; them.

The Democratic party stands for Jefferson principles, as reiterated from time to time in our national and state piattorms, aim those which are now regarded as timely and to wnicn public attention is at present largely directed may appropriately be restated: (jomruerciai ireeuom ana tno revision oi tariff. 'freedom. 1U1 J.tHlL ACV1Q1UU. Tariff taxation, like all other should be limited to the necessities of the government economically administered. It snouia be imposed for public objects only and never for private purposes.

It is not the province of the government to abuse the power of taxation by enriching the few at the expense of the many. Protection to the consumers from unjust tariff exactions is the uiulccliuii wuicu vue peupie ueiuanu; uul "the manufacturers of the country require relief from imposts upon their raw materials that by Increasing the cost of their product thwart iT'elr efforts to. enter foreign markets. When tariffs, are not needed for revenue they should be eliminated and thereby extend nu piiiuuie uui umijiei tiuiutiu. i lit; jjuih.

of reciprocal trade is the traditional Democratic policy and is in harmony with the cjjiiiL Lii Limes, xiie penuu ui eAuiusive 'ness Is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. The immediate revision of the tariff is the supreme duty of the hour. We are opposed to any system of taxation that raises hundreds of millions of dollars jfflorejthatj lr necessary the expenses oi me government ana to iock tne same in the vault of the Treasury, thereby cantract ing the circulating medium of the country that, is needed by the people in the transaction of their business, creating a stringency in the financial centers of our country and compelling merchants and manufacturers to pay exorbitant rates of interest. Trusts and Monopolies.

The Democratic party is opposed to those qorporaie comDinauons commonly known as trusts, which nraot.ioallv pstahlifih monopolies, destroy competition, control raw material and increase the price of nnisned product, thus injuriously affecting both producer and consumer; they lessen the employment of labor, arbitrarily fix the terms and conditions thereof and deprive individual energy and small capital of their opportunity for betterment. They effectually appropriate the fruits at the expense of the many millions of the people, thus concentrating wealth In certain limited classes rather than In the masses ot our citizenship. We especially condemn the Beef and Coal trusts, which have unrea ROnnhlv rniaprt tha nrla nf moat anil in nn ovtonf whieh throtana tlia mnnvor. ishment and lives of the Deople. These trust evils are the legitimate prod of Republican policy.

They are fostered by Republican laws and excused, applogized for, defended and protected WpnnhHenn a Hmin intra Inn In roHirn for campaign subscriptions and political support. We Dromise the neonle relief from the present exorbitant high prices of the necessaries of life and from the abnormal and illegitimate increase in the present cost of living, and particularly occasioned by trust exactions. Existing laws against trusts must be enforced, more stringent ones mubi ue enacivo, reasonaDie limitations and restrictions should bo imposed upon the extent to which wealth shall be permitted to combine and virtually monopolize any branch of industry or the production of any article of merchandise; and the whole 'nrtnat 1 til Inn. 1 nnwfti" nf fnnopoca nvar tno ouujci.k ul lainuuu, luiui aiaut; uuiHUlCl uv, auu an uiuuca ui iutct oinic uuiu munlcation should be exercised by the enactment of comprehensive laws, and the vast legislative powers of the states should "be invoked to the end that the people have adequate relief from present intolerable trust conditions. As another means of immediate and practical alleviation the present Republican tariff laws should be amended by putting those products of trusts 'which are essential to the life, comfort and necessities of the upon the free list, and thereby pre vent the further continuance of monopoly under the plea of protection.

Tana Breeds Trusts. we reiterate that provision of the national Democratic platform which declares that condemn the Dingley tariff law as a trust breeding measure skillfully devised to give to the few favors which they do not deserve and to place upon the many burdens which they should not bear." TV. 1 in. 1 ilic ikcjiuuiiv.au uai ijf uumuoQua iiami unwilling or incompetent to deal with this problem. Its national and state platforms contain cunningly devised phrases which, however, scarcely conceal tho insincerity of their pretensions and are only designed to still further deceive and mislead the people and postpone the, relief which they de mand, while the diffuse, evasive and contra i Mnn.tf.nn i.

1. t5 i uiuiuij 111.1 uaau ajfccuiicb ul luu ricoiuvLiii In which he criticises every simple and Dlain remedy proposed and hintfa at redress in the far distant future by means of an lmprac tlcable, dangerous and doubtful scheme of a. constitutional amendment, only exhibits the grotesqueness of his attempt to Hue two horses upon tne subject in his endeavor to "please the people and at the same, time not 'offend the trusts. No Middle Ground. There is no middle ground on this ques tuose wuu tut; uui asauiai tuts are In favor of them.

'Tho Qiii7iMMnn nf ronstltlltlnnfll nmpnd. ment is not new. It was previously proposed in tho Republican House of Representatives just before tho national election of 1900, and thereafter immediately dropped from consideration; it was not approved in i the Republican national platform of that year nor recommended in the messages of any Republican President since, and has only been revived after the recent adjourn ment of Congress when the opportunity for JOHN CLINTON GBAY OF N. Y. Benominated by the Democrats for Judge of Court of Appeals.

Judge John Clinton Gray has beer, a member of the Court of Appeals, for which hlfih tribunal he lias been nominated by the Democrats, since 1SSS. In that year he was elected with a plurality In New York City 20.000 greater than ihal of Orover Cleveland and 7.0(10 greater than that of Governor Hill. Before he went on the bench Judge Gray never held office and he has never been a member of any political organization, though generally voting as a Democrat. Judge Gray was schooled in Berlin and was graduated from the Harvard Law School In 1S04. For twenty years he was a member of the firm of Gray Davenport, and their business ws largely in railroad and other corporation practice.

He was appointed by tho courts as referee In many Important litigations. of the many opinions which he has delivered on the bench the one which attracted most public intention, perhaps, was the opinion in the case of Carlyle W. Harris. He Is 58 years old. F.

H. MOTT OF CHAUTAUQUA. Former Political Editor of Buffalo Times in Bryan Fight. Frank H. Mod.

who hiis lioen nominated for Secretary ot State, was born in Russell, February 1S7H, the son of A. V. Mot.t of Jamestown, N. V. He went to Jamestown at the age of IT) anil entered the high school, leaving it to become it law student in the firm of Cook.

Fisher Wade, leaving them on the completion of his studies for a course in the Buffalo Law School. He was admitted to practice in 1S00 and immediately opeii' rl an office, becoming associated later with G. W. Judo, a stanch Republican. During the lust Bryan campaign Mr.

Molt was the political editor of the Buffalo Times. He was also delegate to the last National Democratic Convention at Kansas City. CHABLES M. PBESTON OF ULSTER. He "Was State Superintendent of Banks for Two Full Terms.

Charles M. Preston, who has been selected by the Democrats, for State Controller. Is a New Yorker and r2 years old. When a young man he left Roxbury. Delaware County, where he was born, and settled in Poughkeepsie, where he became lawyer after a course at the Albany Law School.

In lRflO ho was appointed Superintendent of State Banks and Hanking, which position he held for two terms. He then became president of the Equitable Trust Company, with headquarters in New York, which office l'e held until about six months ago. Mr. Preston has since been the president of the Kingston City Consolidated Railroad. GEORGE E.

FINCH OF WARREN. He Was Recently Appointed Flood Commissioner by Governor Odell. George R. Finch, for state treasurer, has always been a popular Democrat. He was a candidate for state senator in 1S0S and carried Clinton and Warren Counties, which are both normally Republican.

Governor Odell recently appointed Mr. Finch a Flood Commissioner. This is the commission appointed by the Governor of the state to investigate tho causes of the Hoods in the sprinR in the rivers of the state. Mr. Finch Is a merchant of Glens Falls, where he has lived since ISlil, and has been idontilied with the leading financial Interests of northern New York for many years.

He was engaged in the manufacture of wood pulp, but was never connected with the trusts having the monopoly of that industry. He was born at Sandy Hill, January 1, 1S56, and was educated at the Glens Falls Academy and the River View Military Academy at Poughkeepsie. Ho has large lumber interests, is a director of the Glens Falls National Bank, director and treasurer of the Racquettc Falls Land Company, director of th Schroon River Pulp and Paper Company and a heavy stockholder in the Imperial Wall Paper Company and also the International Paper Company. He is also interested in the Indian River Company. R.

W. SHERMAN OF ONEIDA. Candidate for Engineer Not a New Man to His Profession. Richard V. Sherman, named for the office of state engineer and surveyor, was born in Utlca in 1S48, the son of the late General Richard U.

Sherman. His education was received in the schools of Utica and New Hartford, whither his father moved in lSaS. At an early age Mr. Sherman decided to become a civil engineer, and in lSiii! he became a member of the engineering corps engaged in the construction of the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railroad, now a part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western system. From 1SCS to 1S73 he was connected with the engineering department of the Ontario and Western Railroad.

In 1S75 he formed a copartnership with Emmett Flagler of West Troy and the firm constructed water works at West Troy. Green Island, Glovers vllle and Richfield Springs. In 1SS1 the firm of Sherman ct McDonough was formed. It was dissolved in 1S8S, when the business was Incorporated into the Troy Public Works Company. In .1886 ahd 1SS7 Mr.

Sherman was appointed county engineer and served two years. Mr. Sherman has constructed water works at Lanslngburg. Little Falls, Sandy Hill, Oneonta, Camden. Canastota, New Berlin.

Norwich and Utica. He also performed Important work for the state. Mr. Sherman was chosen Mayor of Utica in 1SH0, his term of office expiring January 1 last. JOHN CUNNEEN OF ERIE.

Native of Ireland and Prominent Lawyer of Buffalo. John Cunncen, who will be the next Attorney General of this state if the Democrats win, is a native of Ireland, having first seen the light at Ennis, County Clare, on the 18th of May, 1S48. Ho came to this country In IStU and studied law. He is regarded as one of the foremost lawvers of the state. He has always taken an active part in Democratic politics and is chairman of the Erie County General Committee of that party.

RESOLUTIONS ON SIMON ASH. At a meeting of the Seward Republican Club of the Sixth Assembly District, hold last evening, resolutions of condolence were unanimously adopted on the death of Assemblyman Simon Ash. The committee on resolutions consisted of Francis M. Bartow. Charles H.

Rollings. J. Harvey Waite. G. P.

Bagnall and Thomas P. Crowno. An engrossed copy of the resolutions will bo sent to the family of the late assemblyman. and vacillating, but the purpose of the nation as to the ultimate government or disposition of these islands should be In harmony with our traditions and should be explicitly declared. Demands Justice for Cuba.

As the original friends and advocates of the cause of Cuban independence, to the support of which a Republican administration only reluctantly yielded, Democrats demand Justice for Cubaureductlon of tariff upon her principal products, not a mere paltry reduction of 20 per cent, of existing duties which our President professed a willingness to grant and to which even his own party in Congress does not assent, but the full measure of justice Involved in the reduction of the thrift to a strictly revenue basis. The refusal of the present Republican Congress, under the direction of special selfish Interests, to give Cuba, through proper tariff concessions, a living chance to establish a stable and efficient government under her flag was a shameful betrayal of national honor. We call the attention of the people to the equivocal character of the Republican platform of this state, which only favors that relief to Cuba "proposed by the Republicans In Congress," while some of the Republicans in Congress proposed one thing and some another, and nothing whatever was accomplished. Adequate justice to Cuba can only be obtained through tho election of a Democratic Congress. National Ownership of Coal Mines: We advocate the national ownership and operation of the anthracite coal mines by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, with Just compensation US owners.

Ninety per cent, of the anthracite coal deposits of the world being In the State of Pennsylvania, national ownership can but be In the interest of the whole people. Fuel, like being a public necessity, we advocate national ownership' and operation as a solution of the prob lemwhich will relieve the country from the sufferings which follow differences between labor and capital in the anthracite mines. This course will insure peace in the mining regions and remove the cause for differences leading not only to suffering, but ofttimes to bloodshed and insurrection. It will relieve the consumers of coal got only in this estate, but throughout the whole country; insure steady employment and. ample compensation to labor; transfer children from the mines to the schools; insure, strengthen and preserve the stability the business interests and popular institutions of pur country.

Whatever, differences of opinion may exist over other propositions of public ownership, the propriety of that poUcy as applied to anthracite coal mines must be apparent to every, citizen. Extravagance in State Government; control of executive and legislative branches of state government for eight years has increased appropriations $7,000,000, or nearly 50 per cent. The disbursements of the chief administrative offices for salaries and expenses have increased over or 130 per cent. The cost of state printing has increased nearly 3500,000, or nearly 200 per cent. The extravagance in all branches of government betrays the insincerity of the Republican party's profession of economy.

The Democratic administration left the state free from bonded debt. To day it has a bonded debt of $10,000,000, most of which, largely incurred in canal expenditure, was shown official report to have been scandalously wasted. To conceal extravagance and cause the people to believe that their government is economically administered, the Republican party claims to have abolished direct state taxation. This alleged achievement is a fraud on the taxpayers. What has actually been done is to aw'y to this year's appropriations a treasury balance of 55, 500,000 accumulated from taxation previous to Governor Odell's administration, and to authorize by special legislation the borrowing of $6,000,000 to make up any deficiency in state revenues.

Such financiering is unworthy of the Empire State. The Democratic party points with satisfaction to its own record of economical administration, which stands out in proud contrast. Home Rule for Municipalities. We favor home rule for municipalities. We are opposed to the dangerous and unwarranted centralization of power In the state government which has characterized recent Republican legislation.

The Republican policy is the exaltation of the state and the bellttlement of localities and Individuals. The Republican governor and Legislature have been engaged in steadily but surely absorbing functions which properly belong to localities. They have talten away from localities all control of local excise matters. They have deprived local assessors of the power of assessment of local property of the value of hundreds of millions of dollars and vested it in three Republican politicians appointed by a Republican governor. They have deprived local surrogates of many counties of the function of valuing the estates of deceased persons and transferred It to appraisers appointed by a state officer at Albany.

They have deprived boards of supervisors of many of their local functions which they had exercised from time immemorial and conferred them upon officials appointed by tho Legislature itself, in defiance 6f all principles of local self government. For political purposes they have legislated out of office local school officials elected by the people and appointed others in their places named by the governor and the Legislature. They have in numerous instances deprived counties of the privilege of naming the dates for the election of their town officers agreeable to their own convenience and wishes and arbitrarily fixed the times thereof. They have almost uniformly disregarded the vetoes by mayors and common councils of proposed legislative enactments affecting the municipalities. They have assumed control of elections in Greater New York through the instrumentality of a "state" superintendent of elections, thereby usurping the functions of local election authorities.

It is unnecessary to multiply instances. Each year the effort to concentrate power in state officers and deprive localities of power in local affairs becomes more pronounced. Opposition to a State Constabulary Bill. The leader of the Republican party in this miiiHnlv dpclarpd that in swlc nao i case of Republican success in the ensuing election a state consiauuiary oui win ue passed by the next Legislature. The deprivation of localities of right to select their own police would be the crowning triumph of their rapidly increasing and dangerous policy of centralization.

Improvement of the Canals. The canals have given to the State of New York the commercial primacy of the Union. They have earned millions of dollars in direct revenue from tolls over and above the cost of construction. Improvement and operation, while bv their traffic the wealth of the state has been incalculably increased, a chain of populous cities stretching from Albany to Buffalo created, and the trade of the coun indulging In libel practically accused Croker of being the fountain head of all municipal corruption in the Van Wyek regime. Before leaving this side nf the relations of Coler and Croker it is well to recall that Color stated that his reason for attacking the Tammany boss was to secure the support of the country Democrats whose hostility to Croker is well known.

His design was to so far stir up feeling that the country Democrats would howl for his nomination as governor In 1898; he then believed they would be Joined by the Brooklyn men through the influence of Hugh McLaughlin, and that his friends Sullivan. Sexton and even men accused of being members of the gambling syndicate, would join the countrymen and the Brooklyn people In a stampede. But that did not occur. James Shevlln and Senator P. H.

McCnrren believed that, being under obligations to Croker and Tammany, it might be considered rather ungrateful, to say the least, to help indict him for corrupt practices and to convict the whole city administration of rottenness, Just to secure support for Coler from the country. So the stampede did not occur, and Coler was not nominated. There Is another phase of this attack on Croker Coler. Last year, when he was a candidate for Mayor on the Tammany ticket, Coler announced to a group of reporters: "I never said anything derogatory about Mr. Croker except in jest." Coler has made a good deal about the de feat of the Ramapo contract.

He goes so far as to say that everybody who Is not friendly to him has secret connections with the water company. He claims to be the original antl Ramapo agitator. As a matter of history, attontion was first directed to the matter by Borough President Grout, the present Controller. The contract in question was proposed by a Tammany Board of Public Improvements, In the summer of 1900, and the effort Coler made against it was by request of his friend, Bridge Commissioner Shea. The files of the newspapers show that Coler did not have precedence In the agitation over the Ramapo contract.

The matter was first brought up by Borough President Grout on June 1, 1898. which was more than a year before Coler began his agitation. At a hearing on June 14, 1898, Grout brought out all the facts In connection with the company that have ever been published. When the contract was finally sprung Coler knew nothing about It and was informed of the fact hy Mr. Shea.

Mr. Grout was at that time In Europe. When he returned Mr. Grout secured an Injunction which prevented the carrying out of the scheme until a bill was passd and signed by Governor Odell preventing the contract being made. Richard Croker told his friends that the real reason tor his opposition to Coler was not so much a desire to uphold his own integrity as to the fear that Coler's bond sale transactions would be brought Into the campaign.

It will be recalled that in June, 1900. Jacob W. Mack, a well known banker, brought charges against Coler and asked Governor Roosevelt to remove him for what he regarded as a queer award of bonds to a syndicate in which Coler's brothers were interested. Mack is a reputable man and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Ho charged a breach of trust on tho part of the Controller and gave figures to show that the syndicate.

Including Color's brothers and the Produce Exchange Trust Company, made about fl.000,000 out of the deal. At any rate this sale of bonds was made at an extremely low figure. Mack called attention to the fact that previously Coler had made a series of attacks on the city's credit. The defense made to Mr. Mack's charges by Mr.

Coler was that the law allowed him to make such awards as he considered most advantageous. Governor Roosevelt dismissed the charge on this technical ground. Croker also claimed that Coler was able to "get in on the ground floor" on City Trust Company stock, by using his power as Controller. The stock soon sold for 406 per cent, and Mr. Croker said Coler made $206.

000 out of tho deal. At tho time Color admitted all this but said he paid $200 per share, which is the price at which all shares were issued. It was claimed at the time that this trust company started off so well because it was promised city deposits. This is the same company in which George R. Sheldon and Frank H.

Piatt are interested. Mr. Coler was not drawn into the Ice Trust scandal very much. He was a member of the Sinking Fund Commission, which gave the Trust exclusive leases and shut out competition. Mr.

Coler admitted that at the time he held 4,200 shares of American Ice stock. He is now close tp John F. Carroll, the principal figure in the trust and is president of a trust company organized by Charles W. Morse, former president of the American Ice Company. Carroll Is a large stock holder In" the same company.

Last year, as Is well known, Mr. Coler made an effort to capture, first the Fusion nomination, and to this purpose secured the support of a certain element In the Citizens' Union, and then the Tammany nomination. He tried to get on the Fusion list of ellglbles, or at least his friends tried to huve him placed. It is claimed by Colonel Ogden and others that this was for the purpose of forcing a Tammany nomination. At the same time, as has since been learned, iie had a compact with Tim Sullivan to secure Tammany delegates enough to unite with Brooklyn arid overthrow Croker.

Mr. McLaughlin declined to make an alliance with Sullivan, and so the plan fell through. It is not often that one man is on both sides of a great moral issue at once, as seems to have been the case with Color. Devery, Carroll, Sexton and Sullivan were the original Coler boomers this year. In spite of his glowing reform record concerning other matters, Coler absolutely declined to express any opinion on the issues of the last campaign either before or after the nominations were made.

Members of the Fusion organization declared that under the circumstances there was no reason why he should receive their confidence. He declared at the time that the chief Issue was Ramapo and that red lights, protected gambling and other questions have never been referred to by him. The refusal to allow the purchase of land for the BrooKlvn approach to tho Williams burgh Bridge by private sale caused much complaint and considerable suffering. The property has been laying Idle for nearly two years, with no compensation to owners and no move on the part ot the city to acquire It. Mr.

Coler has been adversely criticised for his campaign against various Institutions for the care of the poor and sick, hospitals and the like. The feeling of Nathan Straus, with reference to'hls action on the sale of sterilized milk, was shown at the convention.