Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-24

the express authority should be given to the president by congress to purchase United States bonds in advance of their maturity until surplus shall have been exhausted. and that all schemes to deplete the treasury by which private individuals rather than the public good would be subserved, and which are pressed upon congress by lobbyists, who are to receive large share of appropriations to be made in pursuance of such schemes, are to be deprecated and condemned as erroneous in principle and corrupting in tendency.
 That the country is to be congratulated upon the maintenance of the dignity of the government abroad and of peace and tran quility at home, under the wise and patriotic administration of President Cleveland
 ''The delegation this day chosen to repre- sent the Democratic party of Pennsylvania in the Democratic national convention called to meet at St. Louis, June 5, is hereby in- structed to cast it's united vote for the re- nomination of the president
 s'That the large annual appropriations for pensions, now exceeding t4e entire cost of the Federal government before the civil war, are due to the fact that a Democratic con- gress passed the arrearages of pension bill :; that the pensions paid under the present Democratic administration are almost double in amount those paid under Republican ad-
 
 favors just and proper pension act, which shall do ample justice to all deserving volun- teer soldiers and sailors of the United States now living, ana to the widows and orphans of such as have died from causes traceable to their service under the flag of their country.
 That the decrease in the number of farms containing less than 200 acres, the increase in the same containing more than 1,OOO acres, and the consequent decrease in the number of independent farmers and the increase in the number of tenant farmers, shows an alarming tendency toward centralization of land titles in the hands of speculative capital ists, due to systems of Federal and state taxa tion which bear in disproportioned severity upon agriculture, and which must be cor rected if the actual operative farmer is not to become helpless dependent
 "That the Republican party is justly re- sponsible for the failure of the late legislature to give relief to the taxpayers by the enact ment of an equitable and judicious revenue law, and that the scandal connected with the | failure of the revenue to become a law should work forfeiture of all claims of that party to legislate for the people of the common wealth.
 "That the present state administration is to be condemned for it's failure to enforce the provisions of the constitution against the con- soldatlOn or corporations, and the actlon or the last Republican legislature in the defeat of the bill for the relief of producers and re- liners of oil, known as the BilIingsley bill was in the interest of monopoly, and opposed to the interests of the people of that large sec tion of the state for whose relief the bill was intended E
 "That the Democratic party sympathizes with the oppressed of all natinns, and sends greeting to the patriotic supporters of Par nell, Gladstone and Davitt in their efforts to establish home rule for Ireland.
 "That while the material benefits which this country has received from immigration are not to be disputed, the importation of foreign labor under contract, and the land ing of foreign paupers and criminals on American soil should ke strictly and effect 1 uany prohIbited.
 | "That it is recommended to the delega- tion this day chosen to the Democratic na- tional convention that when two-thirds of the delegation agree its vote shall be east as 8 unit on all matters submitted to the convention"
 After the adoption of resolutions in mem. ory of Jacob H. Zeigler, of Butler county and Auditor General Norris, together with g resolution authorizing the state committee tc nominate at the proper time a candidate fo1 auditor general, the convention adjourned | e;,,