The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-08-21

/ morning at IL o'clock. The meetin.
was called to order by Geo. W. Esser
and the business of the dav proceeded
with. Hon. Allen Craig, Pat. Lawler
a, j. Durling, James Sweeney and Ed
Rouse were nominated for State dele
gates, which resulted in the election Of
Craig, Sweeney and Lawler. After the
adjournment James Sweeney, of Summit
Hill, withdrew his name as the delegate
substituting Hon. A. j. Durling. Mr..
Sweeney expressed himself very, en-
phatically on the matter of the commit.
tee ignoring the lower end in making It's
choice of delegates.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The meeting was called to order by
Geo. w. Esser, and upon motion Hon.
VIM. Rapsher was unanimously made
the presiding officer of the meeting. In
accepting the office Mr.. Rapsher ex-
pressed himself in the following terms:
Gentlemen Of the Carbon county Demo-
| cracy thank you for the honor which you
nave conferred upon me by choosing me as
your presiding officer, over such a distingu-
ished body of representatives of the Demo
cratic party of the county of Carbon. And
shall also at this time take the liberty to call
your attention to what deem q few of tie
cardinal issues involved in the comingcam-
palgn. We are to elect a Governor of this
great commonwealth on the second Tuesday
OF November next We can easily do this. if
the delegates at our State convention on next
Wednesday viii properly gauge the public
pulse and sentiment, and place man in
nomination for Governor who will represent
the principles and sentiments of the people
OF this State upon the great labor question. I
understand the sentiment of the people to be
opposed to all kinds of monopoly and dis
elimination, and laws in favor of corporate
greed, and unequal and unjusttaxation of the
people-commonly called protective tariff
tariff is nothing but tax, If man will
only use the word tax in place of tariff, then
the whole thing is very plain. And any tax
that is more than sufficient for the purposes
of revenue is robbery and II is the laboring
people of this country who arc being robbed
The corporations and the manufacturers
pocket the mholy money-the laborer, his
wife and little ones are the ones who are be-
ing robbed. Is it not a strange paradox that
protective tariff or tax has this eifect-a
poor man buys woolen blanket and PAYS
the tariff or tax on it-that is he pays, say 81
more Tor 1t, than he would have to pay for it,
If the patriot protective tariff or tax was not
levied. This they say is protection to Ameri-
can labor. Yet we behold the curious spec
tlcle every day of seeing hundreds Of foreign
laborers imported to make labor cheaper in
all our boroughs and townships-withou
tariff or tax on them-this so-called protective
tariff protects the rich and robs the poor 1t
Is wonderful policy, it protects the wrong
man and impoyerishcs the labor of this coun-
try-the labor which produced all the wealth |
IN thlS country Is this sound political econ |
omy? is 1t right morally or politically? say
not-labor is entitled to its Just reward and |
Its share OF the produce Of the earth God |
never created this earth for n few rich men |
and that the great majority of men should |
be their perpetual slaves. These are Demo- |
cratic principles as | understand them, and |
II our State convention can find man who |
VIII faithfully represent them and carry
them INTO practicable effect he can be elected |
next November by majority that will be |
truly triumphant. But the people want man |
that they have implicit faith n-not promis- |
ing demagogue who will vote with monopo-
ly and its kindred sins, the very first chance |
he gets, and deceive the people worse than
satin even did =, ~.
We want union and harmony in the party
and labor for the common good. The ten |
dency OF the Republican party has always
been towards ceniralizatiOn-a grasping for
more power-they want to regulate ii mans
eating and drinking and by and by they will
want to regulate his religion. These tenden-
cieS and doctrines l cannot subscribe too. l |
believe that the government should interfere
as little as possible with the natural ishts OF
IFS citizens. This is Democratic! | again
thank you for your attention.
The following gentlemen were named
as yicc-presidents: Il. D. Clauss, Sam
uel Rickert, j. G. Zern, A. j. Durling.
Elwen Bauer, DIR. Gillispie; secretaries,
George ". Morhimer; James w. Nal.
10y, L. II. Ranch, II. $. Rinker.
During the period occupied by the
secretaries in making up their list of the
new county committee and election Of
iicers, the committee on resolutions re-
ported the following which were hearth
ly approved:
REsoLNED-First, That the Democracy of
Carbon county hereby rencws its pledges to
strictly adhere TOO and support the platform
OF principles adopted by the National Con-
yention OF 1881; firmly believing that an i'm
mediate revision and equalization of the tar
III is necessary to afford Just compensation
for labor and TO encourage and stimulate the
great mining and manufacturing and general
business interests of Pennsylvania.
Second, That the National administration
OF President Cleveland, and the state admin
istration of Governor Pattison are cordially
and Internationally endorsed.
Third, That we recognize the record made
by our representative in Congress, Hon John
B. Storm, as well as that of our represent
t!ves In the Legislature, Messrs. John Craig
and James Maloy, as truly Democratic and
deserving our approval and commendation.
Following the report of the committee
on resolutions, Hon Allen Craig ad-
dressed the meeting by calling their at
tention TO the cleanliness of the present
administration. He enjoined the dele
gates to the State convention to be wise
in their selection of candidates; that the
Republican party had put in nomina-
tion the creature of machine and that
the creature can never rise higher than
than the creator. He called attention
TO the fact, that in union there is
strength, and begged of the Democratic
party to stand united on the day of cleo
tiOn-to take a united and eternal stand
in the principles of our party. In tho
past we have not stood together as we
ought and the result is we fritter away
the Democratic majority of 500 or 6CO
to a considerably less figure at every
election. lTe should stand together
like brothers in the contest; we should !,
stand up to meet the opposition as our