The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-07-02
BALLOT REFORM.

every American voter throughout their
State.
BALLOT REFoRM.
We charge the members of the next
General Assembly with the duty to pass
such laws, and, If necessity should arise,
to provide for such changes in the Consti~
tuition of our State as will insure to every
voter perfect secrecy and freedom in exer-
cising his right of suffrage.
For almost 80 years the finances of this
State have been under the control of our
party. During the time we devised a sys-
tenn of taxing corporations, which serves
as pattern for, and has been taken as a
guide, by many sister States in their efforts
to collect revenue for public purposes. We
have paid off the debt which the Demo-
cratic party of this State created during q
| time of peace; we have almost eXtin-
| guished the debt which the Democratic
party of the Southern States inflicted upon
| us during the Civil War, and years ago
we lifted from the lands and homes of all
our fellow citizens the burdens of State
| taxation. But the depression under which
| our agricultural interests now suffer has
made the present system of taxation bear
too heavily on them, and we therefore
| pledge ourselves to tighten that burden
and as far as possible to equaliZe taxation.
| To that end, we recommend that the sur
plus revenue derived from State taxation
| be used to lessen the taxation now laid
upon real estate for local purposes, by ap-
| plying it, so tar as it will in legislative
| wisdom avail, to the increase of the appro-
| priation for the support of the common
| schools, and to making appropriation for
the care of the INDECENT insane, for the eX-
| penses of the jury system, and of holding
the general elections.
! TAXATION OF CORPORATIONS.
If thereby there should be necessity for
| enlarging our surplus revenue, we favor
1 IL TO- h.
| ton of property of corporations. We rec
| ommend that the local system of taxation
| be so reformed as to permit the taxation
of money capital for local purposes to such
an extent as to enable the local authorities
| to reduce the rate of taxation upon real
estate to an equitable basis.
We require of the General Assembly
vigilance in making appropriations of the
public money, and of our charitable insti-
| tutions receiving State aid the Strictest
economy in expenditures.
The phenomenal increase in our popu-
lation and of our commerce, foreign and
domestic, with the decrease in the circula-
ton of our National banks, renders it inn
peratively essential to the general good, in
our Judgment that there shall be speedy
and substantial increase in the currency
of the country. Uncompromisingly hos
tile to monometalism, whether of gold or
silver, and earnestly faVoring the use OF
of Pennsylvania demands the enactment
by the Congress now in session Of such
legislation as will, while securing the full
est use of silver as money, most certainly
secure aud maintain parity between the
two metals,
ENDORSING THE ADMINISTRATION.
| We heartily indorse the administration
of President Harrison and declare that its
wise conservatism, its undoubted integri.
ty and its manifest efficiency, deserve the
unqualified approval of the whole nation
We gratefully record the continued conf
dence of the Republicans of Pennsylvania
in the wisdom, integrity and statesman
ship of the Hon. j. Donald Cameron, Oul
senior Senator at Washington, so emphat
ically manifested in his past services, anC
we accept them as positive assurance of his
faithfulness and efficiency in the future.
For the chairman of our National Com
mittee, Mr.. Quay, we feel Il lasting sens
of gratitude for his matchless services il
the last Presidential campaign and com
mend his bearing under the slander
which his successful leadership of ou
party has purchased for him. As a citizen
a member of the General Assembly, a
Secretary of the Commonwealth under tn
two successive administrations, as Stat
, Treasurer by the overwhelming suffrage
of his fellow citizens and as Senator of tn
! United States, he has won and retains on
! respect and confidence.
We commend the course of tho Hon
Thomas b. Reed, Speaker of the NatiOna
House of Representatives, in manfull.
, preventing the distractions OF Legislation
and the waste of public time and money
. and we tender him the congratulation
g and thanks of the Republican party c
Pennsylvania.
, We express our qualification with tn
administration of Governor James A
! Beaver, and congratulate him upon tn
fact that his course has been marked b
wisdom, integrity and that devotion to tn
welfare of all the people which will entitl
i him to the esteem and gratitude of th
citizens of the State in all coming years.
REPUBLICANS who are dissatisfe
, with the nomination of Delamate
may find hint and an example in tn
manly speeches Of General Hasting