The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-08-14
MR.. WALLACE IS A CANDIDATE.

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In answer to the question, "Are you
candidate for Governor at the approach
ing Democratic Conventions" the Sena-
Tor said
Until within three weeks | was not.
Within that time the earnest desires of
partial friends like Senator Coxe, Judge
Yarkes, Mr.. Mutchler and others, haye
Aiade me see thTt it Is my duty to my
friends and the organization to accept a
nomination II it should seem to the con-
Sention that air. the man to unite the
Democracy and bring iIs whole vote to
the polls. l have made no bargains,
sought no alliances, written no letters
ASKING for delegates, and shall not go to
the COW efition to attempt TO shape its
results. have record rs Democrat
n Sanstof and Democrat and have
positive opinions tpeh edrreht govern.
nsental topics If the convention wishes
me as Its candidate It must take ME with
Chat record and the enunciation of those
epinionsp
''Well, what is THAT record, and what
are those opinions as you see them that
would be Objectionable or otherwise?"
SENATOR wALLACE's RECORD.
~ entered the State Senate in Janu-
ary, 1858, and my record during all of
that period and since has been that of
pronounced Democrat. / voted against
the amendment to the Constitution Civ
ing the soldiers the right to vote in the
field, because / did not believe they
could vote their opinions as freemen ,and
that giving the negroes the right of suf-
frage. ] voted against the calamity
bill, aud at every stage of legislation
affecting labor l was active and earnest
In voting to ameliorate the conditions
OF workingmen in the mines and else
where, but / would not vote for what
seemed to me to be unreasonable pro
positions in that direction. voted for
she. nine million bill because it benefited
the locality represented and was di-
rect appropriation of State fdnds to help
develop that locality. But believe no
man ever charged me with corrupt prac-
tices, either in legislation or in buying
votes for a seat either in the Legislature
or in Congress"
''Will yon state what opinions you en-
tertain in regard to current government |
al questionsF
lone of tte most important of those
rAfaxr afrif rot it4fr q Z
the question of railroad control and
those affecting discrimination by them |
In the sessions of the State Legislature
of 1888 and 1885, made an une9uiyoral
record upon the subject of enforeing, bv
appropriate legislation, the proYislcns of
the seventeenth article of the Constitu-
tion by introducing bills affecting ther5
and speaking and voting in their favor. |
The Democracy should boldly assert its
defense of those provisions and charge
the Republican party with the neglect
of its plain duty on that subject"
What about prohibition?'
PRnHBIrIoN TO BREAK THE REPUB-
IIC.\NS.
81 believe the Republican party is 60
ing to- pieces on that question, and we
should make u bold and wise declaration
OF our opinions looking to the future as
well as the present, Tie masses of the |
people are not for free whisky, nor for
remedy worse thar the disease. Wise
legislation recognizes the habits and
customs of the people to be governed,
and reformation can better be effected
by that recognition than by an enact
menJ that will become dead letter.
Men cannot be made moral or pure by
statute, Z do no5 believe that prohibi-
ton will prohibit, and | tlink that tie
Democracy should declare against sulnp
tuary laws ami for license system of
universal application under the control
OF the judiciary and without discretion.
save as'to' the fitness of the applicant:
BUT with rigid enforcement of 'thrpeu
aities now in existence aud such ad-
ditional legislation as will aid i'm con-.
trolling the evils of ihtemperance. i'll
Guiding high license, but not so high as
to forbid licensing. The proceeds of the
hcenses should be sent to the treasury
Of the county in which they are granted
in ease Of taxation there"
But, Senator, didn't you at the ses-
sion of 1875 vote in favor OF submitting
10 the people an amendment to the Con.
stitution prohibiting the liquor tratlic?'
Yes, did so, and as Democrat
Jhought l could do nothing else. for
whenever q portion Of the voters of
free State; respectable in Numbers and
character, ask their representatives to
submit to- tlIeia any question, purely adj
niinistrative; for adoption OF rejection
AZ part of the organic law. it is the
duty of their representatives to give
them the right to vote upon It, At the
polls, however, as an individual citizen,
l would have voted No. for, as have
already said, | do not believe in sump-
tuary laws"
Tlfs LABoR QUESTION.
what have YOU to say as to labor
legislatienT'
ut would be folly not to recoupiza
the existence of difficulties between en-
plOyers and employed, and we sbould
declare for such legislation as will amel-
iOrate the condition of the latter while
we do not interfere with the Just rights
of the former. l5Oycotts, strikes and
iock-Outs ave methods of violence and
not OF peace, Snd payment of wages in
ANYTHING but cash is II weapon of op.
preston. No man or set Of nren ounh,
To be permitted TO dictate the control of
anothers business. | endeayored ID
Elculeate TIE theory of concession and
forbealancS ia the enactment of the an.
bitration statute in 1888. for I believed
that when employers and employed
were brought together as equals to dis.
clSs their difficulties the contest wa.
half settled. This statute was but the
reassertion OF Penn's old theory of
peace, and the point ] sought to attain
WAS not arbitration under that special
statute, but the reatfirmance Of tho doe
tElnes contained la the ancleut laws OF