NEW YORK. 



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the great struggle of the pant fifteen years, who has 



riutiast in equal rights uml financial honesty, 

 aiitl tin- untlincliingi-xponent of Republican principles, 

 an.l who possesses tin- c\p. rienec, capacity, courage, 

 ami tirmne-is which Duality him to give strength and 

 honor to the Government, we present Roscoe Conk- 

 lintf to tin- National Republican Convention as our 

 choice lor tin- nomination lor President. 



f.. As tin- delegated repreMntetlVM of the half- 

 million KcpuMicaii voters of New York, we send cor- 

 dial greeting t<> <nir ]>atriotio brethren throughout the 

 hind ; and e.|:i;tll\ earnest with them for the success 

 of our common cause, and pledging ourselves to the 

 faithful support of the Cincinnati nominations^ we 

 give especial assurance that the nomination ot our 

 candidate will secure beyond question the thirty-five 

 electoral votes of New York for the Republican ticket. 



Mr. Curtis submitted the following as a sub- 

 stitute for the last two resolutions, and ad- 

 vocated its adoption in a vigorous speech : 



Retolced, That while we would rejoice with pride 

 that the candidate for the presidency in the election 

 of this year be selected from among the Republicans 



of national reputation in the State of New York, 

 whom New York most highly honors, yet, recognis- 

 ing that the nomination should be the result of the un- 

 trummeled deliberation of the National Convent ion, 

 we ant willing to leave the selection of the candidate 

 to the patriotic wisdom of that body, in full confi- 

 dence that it will present the name of some tried 

 and true Republican, whose character and career 

 are the pledge of a pure, economical, and vigoroua 

 administration of the Government. 



This was lost by a vote of 118 yeas to 250 

 nays, and the resolutions reported by the com- 

 mittee were adopted. 



The Democratic Convention for the appoint- 

 ment of delegates to St. Louis was held at 

 Utica, on the 26th and 27th of April. There 

 were several contesting delegations, including 

 all those from the twenty-one districts of New 

 York City. These consisted of the delegates 

 chosen under the auspices of the Tammany So- 

 ciety, and those of opposing Democratic organ- 

 izations. The Tammany delegations were ad- 



BUFFALO, FROM THE SPIRE OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN DELAWARE STREET. 



mitted. Speeahes were made by Senator Fran- 

 cis Kernan, the Hon. Horatio Seymour, and 

 others. Four delegates at large, and two from 

 each congressional district, were chosen to rep- 

 resent the party of the State in the St. Louis 

 Convention. The following resolutions were 

 adopted: 



Resolved, That the Democratic party of New York 

 renew their pledge of fidelity to the principles set 

 forth in their platform adopted in State Convention 

 in 1874 and 1875, thrice approved at the ballot-boxes 

 of the Empire State, well vindicated in the illustrious 

 administration of Governor Samuel J. Tilden, and 

 commended anew to their faith nnd their adoption 

 by the indorsement of an increasing majority of their 

 fellow-Democrats of sister States throughout the 

 Union. 



Resolved, That the Democratic party of New York 

 readopt also the resolution adopted in the State Con- 

 ventions of 1864, 1868, and 1872, to wit: 



Retolved, That the delegates to the Democratic 

 National Convention, to be appointed, are hereby 

 instructed to enter that convention as a unit, and 

 act and vote us a unit, in accordance with the will of 

 a majority of the members thereof. And, in case 

 any of its members shall be appointed a <lelepat.e 

 thereof by another organization and should not forth- 

 with in writing decline such appointment, his seat 

 shall be regarded as vacated, ana the delegates shall 

 proceed to fill the same ; and it is hereby also em- 

 powered to supply all vacancies by death, absence, 

 resignation, or otherwise. 



Retained, That the Democratic party of New York, 

 while committing to their delegates the duty of join- 

 ing with the delegates of their fellow-Democrats of 

 all the States in the momentous deliberations of a 

 National Convention, declare their settled convio 

 tion that a return to the constitutional principles, 

 frugal expenditure, and the administrative purity of 

 the founders of the republic is the first and most 

 imperious necessity of the times, the commanding 

 issue now before the people of the Union ; and they 



