Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-26
EVERYBODY INDORSED.
FULL TEXT OF THE STATE REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM.

Protection and n Free Ballot Receive the
Customary EuIogy-some Lengthy Opin.
ions Upon State Taxation-Paymeut of
the Border Rnid Claims Demanded.
HARRISBURG, June 25.-The following
is the full text of the platform adopted by
the Convention:
once more the Republicans of the Common
wealth OF Pennsylvania, in convention assem-
bled, send fraternal greetings to their party
brethren throughout the nation and congratu-
late them and ourselves upon the victory won
in 1888 by the purity of Republican principles
and the patriotism of Republican citizenship.
In keeping with the sympathy and the duty
of our party we make the following declaration
of principles for the betterment of political
government and the benefit of our fellow citi-
zens: We believe that every lawful voter has
the right to cast free ballot at every public
election, and have it properly counted and cer-
titled, and we call upon Congress to adopt such
legislation as will prevent a suppression or
Justification of the votes of our fellow citizens
at elections for officers of National Govern
ment, and will end political slavery throughout
the nation.
Pensions for all Until They Die.
Our care for the welfare of those who, upon
the field of battle, carried triumphantly the
principles of Republican faith will end only
when the last loyal soldier of the Civil War
we ask Congress to grant a per diem service
pc sion to every Union soldier and sailor who
served in and was honorably discharged from
the army or navy of the United States.
The claim which the citizens of the Dorder
counties of our Commonwealth make upon the
General Government for reimbursement for the
loss they sustained in their homes and property
at the hands of the enemy during the late war
is one which national patriotism should respect
and honor and we urge uson our Congressman
the use of every proper effort to have 1t quickly
and completely satisfied.
We indorse the tariff bill called the ''McKin-
ley BILL" in the form in which it was passed by
the House of Representatives, and we de-
nounce the criticism passed upon that Dill In
the English Parliament as an unwarranted IN
reference by foreign nation with the rlgnt OF
the American people to protect American in
dustries. hna6nR
Protection Demanded for Everybody.
We reafirm one of the earliest principles Of
our party when we declare that American
workers should, like American manufacturers,
receive national protection, and we request of
the general Government the strictest enforce
ment of the laws forbidding entrance into and
the employment in this country of pauper and
contract laborers of foreign nations.
We urge upon Congress the immediate ne
cessity of passing sucn legislation as will pre-
vent the importation and sale of oleomargarine
and OF Intoxicating liquors in this Common
wealth. contrary to our acts of assembly regu-
lating and restricting the same, and empower
every State to enforce its local laws relating
thereto in the manner ana in accordance with
the intent and purpose with which they were
enacted.
Ballot reform is and will remain the watch
word of our party in every State, and we
especially congratulate our political brethren
In New York upon the fact that although their
Democratic Governor could deform. he could
not wholly defeat their efforts to secure a free
ballot for every American voter throughout
their State.
To Provide for a Secret Ballot.
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 Constitution of our State as will
insure to every voter perfect secrecy and free
dom IN exercising his right of suffrage.
For almost 30 years the finances of this State
have been under the control of our party.
During the time we devised a system of taxing
corporations. which serves as pattern for,
and has been taken as guide, by many sister
States in their efforts to collect revenue for
public purposes We have paid off the debt
which the Democratic party of this State Gre
ated during time of peace; we have almost
extinguished 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 fel-
low citizens the burdens of State taxation.
But the depression under which our agrlcul-
tural 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
surplus revenue derived from State taxation
be used to lessen the taxation now laid upon
real estate for local purposes by applying it so
far as it will in legislative wisdom avail, to the
increase of the appropriation for the support
priation for the care of the INDECENT insane, for
the expenses of the jury system, and of hold
ing the general elections.
Further Taxntioa of Corporations.
If thereby there should be necessity for en-
larging our surplus revenue we favor a lust
and equitable increase in the taxation of prop
erty of corporations. We recommend 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 vigi-
lance in making appropriations of the public
money and of our charitable institutions re-
ceIving State aid the strictest economy in ex-
penditures.
The phenomenal increase in our population
and of our commerce, foreign and domestic
with the decrease in the circulation of our Ma.
tional banks, renders it imperatively essential
to the general good, in our judgment, that
there shall be aspeedy and substantial increase
in the currency Of the country. Uncompro.
misingly hostile to monometalism, whether of
gold or silver, and earnestly favoring the use
OF both as coin metals, the Republican party of
Pennsylvania demands the enactment by the
Congress now in session of such legislation as
will, while securing the fullest use of silver as
money, most certainly secure and maintain a
parity between the two metals.
Indorsing the Present Administration,
We heartily indorse the administration of
President Harrison and declare that its wise
conservatism its undoubted integrity and Its
manifest efficiency, deserve the unqualified an
proval of the whole nation. We gratefully re-
cord the continued confidence of the Repub-
licans of Pennsylvania in the wisdom, integrity
and craftsmanship of the Hon. ]. Donald Cam
eron, our senior Senator at Washington. SO
emphatically manifested in his past services
and we accept them as po-itive assurance of
his faithfulness and efficiency in the future.
For the chairman of our National Commit
tee, Mr.. Quay, we feel lasting sense OF graft
tude for bis matchless services in the last Pres
idental campaign and commend his bearing un-
der the ISLANDERS which his successful leader
ship of our party has purchased for him. Asa
citizen, member of the General Assembly, as
Secretary of the Commonwealth under the two
successive administrations. as State Treasurer
by the overwhelming suffrages OF his fellow
citizens and as Senator of the United States.
he has won and 1stains our respect and conf
dence.
B. Reed, Speaker of the National House of
Representatives, in manfully preventing the
obstructions of legislation and the waste of
public time and money. and we tender him the
congratulations and thanks of the Republican
party of Pennsylvania
We express our qualification with the ad-
ministration of Governor James s. Beaver and
congratulate him upon the fact that his course
has been marked by wisdom, integrity and that
devotion to the welfare of all the people which
will entitle him to the esteem and gratitude of
the citizens of the State in all coming years.
ALL PLEAD GUILTY.
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