Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-09-02

On Monday, the 2Srd ult., the Jet
ferson Democratic Association and .
great crowd of citizens Of York, Pa
formed In procession, headed by a
band. and marched to Willow Bridges
/ the suburban home of the HIM. Chaun.
cey +. Black, the democratic NOMINEES
for Governor of Pennsylvania, to paw
their respects and extend their con-
gratulations on his nomination. Gen.
George w. Heiges, chief burgess OF
York, acted a. marshal of the process
sion and delivered the salutatlon all
dress. to which Mr.. Black responded
Following Mr. Black. congratulatos~
addresses were made by Mr.. A. b.
Farquhar, York's largest manufactur.
er and a prominent republican, who
also publicly profered his earnest sup.
port; Congressman JAS. II. Hop
kins, DR.. John Weist, ex Congressman
Lew Marsh, t. ID. Ziegler. Deputy
Master Gerard e. Brown, of the State
Grange, and others. The demonstrs.
tion was one of the largest witnessed
in York. for many years. Mr.. Black
spoke as follows:
"Dc"'ocrats q York County 1t is
hardly necessary for me to say that
nothing in the events, and nothing in
all the proceedings leading up to the
event upon which you congratulate,
has given me such deep-seated and
abiding pleasure as the steady, geuer-
Gus and unsel6sh support OF my friends
at home. | can never repay it. |
know no fitting terms in which to ac-
knowledge it, but you will not regret
it. | lam snre, If when called TO the great
office Of Governor, as | have every
reason to believe | will be, shall ad-
minister that high trust with personal
honor and official integrity. That l
promise you | will do. Since Janua.
ry, 1885, the executive administration
has been above reproach. No charge
of official corruption, no suggestion OF
dereliction of moral or legal duty, no
scandals like those which hung in
clouds over the Capitol for many years
before has been known. The people
SggEsa Shst dH oP PrS%afa sUGa af ans
determined by their independent ac-.
ton they would have-a pure admin
istration in the interest of the people,
a marked contrast with the evil rules
Of the monopolies and rings.
Should | be elected think | en-
gage for no more than can perform
when | say, as lido here and now,
that the state of affairs shall continue
at Harrisburg. This, fsllow-citizens,
is to be an aggressive campaign, il !
have the power to make it 80. and by
this term | mean that we hope to raise
the people of all conditions and in all
employments to an assertion Of the
rights OF the many, to the full enjoy
ment of their natural and lawful priv
ileges. Under the constitution OF this
Commonwealth We ask every good cit
izen, whether republican or democrat
to stand up with us for these organic
principles OF State government which
We all unite in ordaining. They give
to every man of Pennsylvania an
equal right, open every highway es-
tablished for the public use, aud they
forehead the gigantic conspiracieswhich
have heretofore controlled transporta.
ton and traffic, and incidentally the
prices of commodities, the wages OF Ia
Dor, and to large and disastrous eA-
tent the whole multifarious business
of the people of the State. These pro-
visions of the constitution must be en-
forced and obeyed. They were in
tended to liberate the people from the
cruel grasp o: unlawful monopolies.
and if you confer the honor upon US
they shall not be disregarded. But
remember. fellow-citizens, summon
you to no crusade against legally test
ed rights. We are men of the law
We insist only that that law which
which protects offending corporations
in that which Justly belongs to them
shall protect the millions of Pennsyl-
vania toilors in that which by the
same charter, If not by previous and
more sacred title, justly belongs TO
them. We ask also that, without re-
gard to party. the people Of Pennsyl-
vania shall stand up with Us for JUS
tice to the multitude of rural workers
whose ceaseless sndeavors create the
vast treasure which il SO unceremoni-
ously. divided by those who never
eai.ed it, in calm contempt of those
fundamental laws to which have al
ready referred.
Some of the reforms In this direc.
tion upon which We are resolved are
sufficiently indicated in our platform,
and this Is not the place for me to dis
cuss them further. | can only say
here that !. at least, mean it, and that
if any body voted for me under the i'm
preston that am playing demagogue
and making promises to laboring men
to oe trified with after election, be
will be sadly uudeceived should !
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