The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-09-13
THE RESOLUTIONS
Adopted at the Republican County Con-
Nentinn ON Monday.

yention on Monday.
WHEREAS, We the delegates representing the
. f,t-truutiratis- UurUuu county III convention
assembled, are desirons to lay before the voters
Of the county our claims for the support of our
ticket, and not desirouS to dodge any issue OF
the campaign, therefore be it
RESOLVED, 1st That we heartily and en-
Enthusiastically endorse the Republican platform
adopted at Chicago in 1855, and approve of the
declaration contained in the State platform OF
1880.
conservative administration Of President Harri-
SON tn general action of our United States
senator from Pennsylvania. and the actions OF
the Republicans in the House of Representa-
tives headed and led by that great ana brave
man, the Hon. Thomas Reed, its presiding
officer.
Srd That we commend the action of the
House OF Representatives in promptly passing
the Mckinley Tari4 BIZ and the Election Bill,
and deprecatc the slow work OF the Senate on
these two great measures. We are anxious for
their passage for two reasons. First, on ac-
count OF the persistent, lacllonal ana unfair 0p-
position of the Democracy, every Democrat,
every Democratic politician and every Demo
crat editor with one accord from Maine to
Georgia, from the Lakes 10 the Gulls, ana liOm
the Atlantic TO the Pacific denouncing themi ithe
Mckinley Taril Bill because they desire to aar
down our manltactur ng interests IN order to
build M those OF England and Continental
Europe: the Election Bill, because IL means
free ballot and fair count which they know
rull well will be the death knell of their hopes
/
on account of their own intrinsic yalue-Ihe
Mckinley Tariff bin bee luse II means. prosper
| 10y To our land, bread TO our people, education
| to Our children, and unprecedented growth To
our nation. The Election Bill because II means
! that the viii Of the people honestly expressed
! shall elcctOur congressman and our Presidents,
| and keen our government on that plane among
| the hest and greatest ON earth, and make il In
| fact government "oi the people, ny the people
an. That we commend the acts of Governor
! Beaver and state officers as having been honest,
/ just wise, and above CRITICISM
! 5th That we heartily endorse Hon. George
| Wallace Delamater, the Republican candidate
! for Governor of Pennsylvania, knowing him 10
! be entirely worthy OF the great honor and fully
competent to peri, I'm the duties of the great Of
! flee to which he Will bring clean hands and hon
! est purposes. We likewise endorse the whole
Republican State ticket ana pledge 1t our united
Gih we urge the next Legislature to pass
such acts ms are for the benefit OF the people aud
! tend TO honest government We are in favor Of
] those planks To The platform lately adopted by
! the Republican state Convention winch looks 10
! the heftcring of Our agricultural interests aud
we favor the enactment of such laws as will re-
! lieYp the farmer, mechanics, miners and labor
ers of an grades nom all unnecessary taxation,
and favor that all taxes that must be levied shall
] be equally assessed upon all prOnerty, eOmpell-
| ing the corporations To pay for their corporate
! privileges all taxes that can ne iarly assessed
OH them We are In favor OF az legislation that
| will make the ballot free and fair one Hon
| est and fair elections We consider the tOunda-
/ uOn that supports our free institutions. We
nletlge 10 the people that the candidate to-day
/ mt In nomination for assembly will support
measures looking 10 tuat end.
! 7ih. That we most strongly condemn the ac-
/ ti6ns Oi the present Board of County Commits
/ siOnerS as having been eNtrayagant 20 the very
/ verge of dishonesty We pledge the Republican
| candidates tO "a careful administration of the
! affairs OF the county and as an earnest we point
! with pride To the record made by the Board VI
! Commissioners when controlled by the ltepuh-
! bcanS. When they retired 10 was with "a tax
] levy of three mills. HE county was free from
] debit and "a sufficient amount of money in the
! treasury % me ct an coming demands that would
] be PAYABLE before the new duplicates could he
collected. What is tie condition of affairs now?
! We simply refer YOU To the printed statement of
the expenditures in 1889, ana the great load Of
debt hanging over the people of the county with
AN assessment of nine mills ON the dollar for
| county purposes which Is said viii scarcely re-
| duce the dfht unless strong, economical and
/ honest administration OF the AFFAIRS OF the coun-
! Is is mauguIated ana carried ont. We ask the
] voters of Carbon county TO place the affairs of
the county la the hands of a Republican Board
of Commissioners which we will pledge 10 care
for the interests of the people of the whole
county,
sth.-We pledge a hearty support 10 the ticket
named to-day until the polls close ON the night
of the election,
gth.-We most heartily endorse the Hon.
! Samuel s. Dreher, the present incumbent, iuT
President Judge of the t3rd Judicial District
His course as a Judge for the past twenty years
has been honest, just ana imparlial AS "A private
gentleman he has our unqualified esteem