Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-09-03
Review.
Another Note of Warning.

The National Republican League di-
rected letter to each delegate to the Re
publican State Convention in reference to
the nomination of "a candidate for State
Treasurer The address is signed by
the members of the Executive Committee
consisting OF Wharton Barker, Chairman
Samuel S. HollingsWorth, Samuel w.
Pennypacker, Edward r. Wood, Henry
Reed, Mayer Sulzberger and Silas w.
Petit. The document reads as follows:
To the Delegates elected to the Republican
State Convention:
We address you in full cofdencc that
you will not make the mistake of suppos
ing the nomination Of candidate for
State Treasurer at the present time to be
a matter of minor Importance, and that
the out come of your deliberations will
show that you have been guided by wise
counsels and have had regard solely to
the best interests Of the party. Though
the Office of Treasurer is not in itself one
of the highest moment, it SO happens
that this is the first Republican State
Convention which has assembled since
the new issues arose within the party,
and upon you will rest the responsibility
of saying where the Republicans Of Penn
sylvania shall stand. Back Of the queS-
ton of candidate lies the question
whether the party is to enter the cam
paign wheeled into line beside the Woun-
ded President of the United States or be-
side the late Senator from New York and
his adherents; and by your choice you
will determine it. 1t has now become
reasonably certain that the forces that
compelled the last State Convention in
Pennsylvania to support Il policy which
if it had not been defeated at Chicago,
would have been ruinOus to the party and
disastrous to the country, will be brought
to bear upon you. All the influences
that arc potent in swaying the actions OF
men will be eXerted npon you to induce
YOU to attempt to reverse the events of
the last two years, full Us this period is
with the story Of Republican prosperity
and success to prevail upon you to set
your approval upon policy which has
met deserved condemnation and to put
yourselves in opposition to the sentiment
or good men everywhere and to the head
Of the party and the nation. The attempt
will be made, Notwithstanding the fact
that the wishes of the great majority OF
tnc HluSScS VI lllC parry arc IHdHIlcSICu
too plain to be mistaken, in the hope that
any result will be accepted. But we ask
you to remember, for the welfare of the
organization 50 dear to US all, and whose
future is now SO full of promise, that, in
the changed condition Of things, party
ties can no longer compel men to say by
their votes that that is right which they
know to be wrong; and to forget this
fact is to insure disaster and defeat. The
Tesolute determination Of hundreds of
thousands of Republicans not to vote in
favor OF third term in the Presidency,
if the issues had been forced on them, the
recent change Of party control in the
strongly republican ciucS OF Philadel-
phia and PittSburg are only warnings to
the wise; but to the blind or pervcrsc
they mean wreck and destruction. How
ever much our party pride might wish it
were otherwise, these are the facts and it
behooyes you and all Of Us to recognize
them.