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ed the abolition of contract labor in prisons ; the 

 abolition of tenement cigar-factories; factory- 

 inspection so as to permit no child under four- 

 teen years of age to be employed ; the enforce- 

 ment of the compulsory educational act; and 

 the reduction of the hours of labor to ten hours 

 a day in all the factories of the State ; the es- 

 tablishment of a Bureau of Labor Statistics, to 

 be managed by officers appointed upon the rec- 

 ommendation of the State labor organization ; 

 the repeal of the sections of the penal code that 

 aim to prevent the lawful assembling of work- 

 ing men and women ; the establishment of a 

 printing-office for the State documents instead 

 of letting the same out by contract ; the enact- 

 ment of an employers' liabilities act, making 

 the employers responsible for accidents occa- 

 sioned through the carelessness of employes; 

 a law giving mechanics and laborers first lien 

 for labor performed ; that all employers of 

 labor pay cash weekly, in lawful money, for 

 labor performed. 



The Anti-Monopoly Convention took place 

 at Saratoga on the following day. No nomina- 

 tions were made, but a platform of extraordi- 

 nary length was adopted. Among the more 

 practical propositions which it contained were 

 the following : 



3. Corporations have the right to make charges for 

 service which, without favoritism or unjust discrimi- 

 nation, will pay the expense of their economical ad- 

 ministration and reasonable dividends on the capital 

 actually invested, but commissioners should be pro- 

 vided to supervise and control them. When they con- 

 form to the law and the objects of their creation, they 

 are entitled to efficient protection. 



4. Canals, rivers, and water-ways of the country 

 should be constantly and efficiently maintained free of 

 tolls. 



5. The Federal Government should own the tele- 

 graph lines, and operate them as a part of the postal 

 system, establishing a tariff of rates limited to the cost 

 of maintenance ana transmission. 



6. Savings-banks should be established in connec- 

 tion with the Post-Office ^Department, in which the 

 poor can safely deposit their earnings. 



7. The currency issued to the national banks should 

 be retired. All currency, whether metallic or paper, 

 should be issued and controlled by the Government 

 only, and be redeemable in gold and silver. 



8. The lavish grants to railroads should be discon- 

 tinued, and those which have been forfeited by reason 

 of non-compliance with the terms of the grants should 

 be restored to the national domain. 



9. Combinations to innate or depress prices, with- 

 out regard to value, are immoral and wicked, and 

 should be prohibited by law. 



10. The penal code should be amended and objec- 

 tionable sections repealed ; a labor bureau should be 

 added to the State departments, to collect statistics and 

 procure information, and make reports and recom- 

 mendations to the Legislature for the benefit of pro- 

 tection of labor, with adequate powers in cases of 

 public emergency to arbitrate and arrange questions 

 arising between laborers and corporations, and where 

 laborers are employed by public corporations to estab- 

 lish and alter the wages to be paid. 



12. State-prisons and penitentiaries are established 

 to prevent crime and to reform criminals, not to make 

 profits for private persons, or to injure the interests of 

 labor. Therefore, the contract system in these insti- 

 tutions should be abolished, and the labor of the con- 

 victs be so employed as not to injure the interests of 

 merchants and laboring-men. 



14. The civil service must be divorced from poli- 

 tics and reformed. Honesty and efficiency must be 

 made the conditions upon which subordinate offices 

 may be secured or retained. 



15. Women have the same inalienable right as men. 

 Taxation without representation is odious. There is 

 no sufficient reason why men should monopolize the 

 ballot. Therefore, men and women should be equal 

 before the law. Women should have equal pay with 

 men for equal work, and if they desire to vote they 

 should be allowed to exercise that right. 



16. The present demand of the people is the elec- 

 tion of a Governor and a Legislature which will carrv 

 into execution the Eailroad Commission Bill, abolish 

 free passes on railroads, reform the laws of assessment 

 and taxation, and establish labor bureaus, with suffi- 

 cient power to protect labor. Therefore, it is the duty 

 of every anti-monopolist and anti-monopoly league to 

 ascertain whether the candidates of existing parties 

 will favor these necessary reforms as soon as they are 

 nominated, and, if they will not, to see that a candi- 

 date is nominated and elected who will obey the voice 

 of the people. 



On the morning of September 20th, previous 

 to the assembling of the Republican State Con- 

 vention at Saratoga, there was a meeting of 

 the State Committee, at which thirty-two of 

 the thirty-three members were present, or 

 represented by proxy. Stephen B. French, of 

 New York, appeared in place of W. H. Rob- 

 ertson, of Westchester, presenting what pur- 

 ported to be a proxy sent by telegraph. The 

 selection of a temporary chairman for the con- 

 vention by the committee was regarded as a 

 test of the strength of Cornell and his oppo- 

 nents. E. M. Madden, the candidate of the 

 latter, was selected over E. L. Pills by a vote 

 of 18 to 14 ; Mr. Carpenter, chairman of the 

 committee, who had been regarded as an 

 " anti-Stalwart," voting for Madden, as well as 

 French, who acted as proxy for Collector Rob- 

 ertson. The result was a victory for the anti- 

 Cornell men. An attempt was made in the 

 convention to set aside the choice of the com- 

 mittee for temporary chairman, but it was de- 

 feated by a vote of 251 to 243. Mr. Madden 

 made a brief address, counseling harmony and 

 a united support of the action of the conven- 

 tion. Subsequently the temporary organiza- 

 tion was made permanent. The first important 

 business of the convention was the nomination 

 of a candidate for Governor. The names of 

 Alonzo B. Cornell, Charles J. Folger, James 

 W. Wadsworth, John H. Starin, and John 0. 

 Robinson, were presented in complimentary 

 speeches, and the first ballot resulted as fol- 

 lows: 



Whole number of votes cast 497 



Necessary to a choice 249 



Charles J. Folger 223 



Alonzo B. Cornell 1 SO 



James W. Wadsworth 69 



John H. Starin 19 



John C. Eobinson 6 



A second ballot was taken, and considerable 

 excitement was caused by changes of votes in 

 various delegations to the Cornell or Folger 

 side of the account. The result was : 



Whole number of votes cast 497 



Necessary for a choice 249 



Charles J. Folger 257 



Alonzo B. Cornell 222 



James W. Wadaworth 18 



