Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13
DENIS In DELAWARE.
Nominate a Full State Ticket and
Adopt Lengthy Platform.
AN ATTACK ON THE FORCE BILL.
Delamater Makes Little Speech to
Dauphin Republicans.
STATE AND GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS

DOVER, DEL, August 12.-Robert J..
Reynolds was nominated for Governor on
the first ballot by the Democratic State con-
vention here to-day. Ex-Governor Charles
G. Stockley was chosen permanent chair
man of the convention. At P. M. Hon.
L. e. Bayard, Chairman of the Committee
on Platform, personally read the platform
amid great applause.
The platform reafirms fdelity to the
principles of civil liberty contained in the
charter of our National Government, ar
raigns the Republican administration and
Congress for the reckless and wanton ex-
penditure which has converted the treasury
surplus into a deficit, denounces and pro-
tests against the action of the Republican
majority in Congress in adopting code of
rules designed to cripple the essential powers
OF self-government and pave the way for ar
bltrary legisation; condemns the substitu-
tlon for the high discretion of the House,
the will and autocratic
POWER OF ONE MAN,
who under the name of Speaker" has
proved his readiness to exercise shameless
power in sitting debate, counting quorums,
arbitrary rulings and recklessly Fastening
Objectionable legislation, earnestly protests
against the force bill, and its assumption of
exclusive control over popular elections in
the Congressional district, declares that the
enactment of measure so atrocious, would
deprive the State of local selfgovernment,
and that the people of Delaware in
dignantly resent the menace and in
suit of bayonets at the polls offered by
the Republicans of the House, clearly re-
cognizing the object of this desperate and
revolutionary measure to be the perpetua-
tion of sectional and class control over the
taxing powers of the Union, and see in the
bill distrust of the intelligence and virtue of
the American people, revealed in the shame
less proposition to subject the control of the
elections and the counting of votes to the
paid instruments of party; denounces and
protests against the Mckinley tariff bill,
which increases taxation while it lessons
revenues, strangles commerce, enhances
THE COST OF LIVING
and of production, obstructs the enterprises of
ship-building and the employment Of which
enhances navigation and piles new burdens on
wider market for single product; deplores
the impoverished condition of our agricul-
tural interests which is manifestly result
of continued, excessive and unnecessary tax
alton, condemns the prospective increased
tax on tin plate as an especial blow upon
every grower of fruit and vegetables, adding
immensely to the cost of canning, of tin
roofing, of kitchen utensils and even to the
humblest laborer's dinner pail; denounces
the use of money at the polls and urgently
recommends the enactment OF the Australian
or some equivalent ballot system; recites
the satisfactory condition of the State
finances; recommends careful economy and
rigid accountability in the levying and dis
bursement of taxes and pledging the De-
mocracy of Delaware to rise above petty
dissensions and personal animosities, and
inscribe upon its banner, Equality be-
fore the law, with justice to all and spe-
cial favors to none;" invites all good men
and true to assist in keeping Delaware in
the column of the great national party,
which mas for its object the fulfillment Of
the mission of great and free country,
governed by the people and for the people
under the limitations of the Constitution.