The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-24
In VIGOROUS TERMS.
Keystone State Republicans on the
Administration.
KISSES FOR CLEVELAND In THE
CONVENTION.

General Daniel Il. Hastings Nominated for
Governor by Acclamation-The Plat
FORMS Points-Our Weak Kneed For
eign Policy and the Democratic
nounced-Hoke Smith Received Some
Attention.
Harrisburg, Pa, May 23.-A dull and
threatening morning greeted the Republi
can State convention delegates and the
hosts of politicians who have invaded the
State Capital today. Eleven o'clock was
the time fixed for the calling of the con-
vention to order in the Opera house, and at
that hour the hall was crowded with dele
gates and spectators.
1t was sixteen minutes past eleven O'Clock
when State Chairman Gilkeson raped for
order and Secretary of the State Committee
Jere B. Reed of Huntington read the call
for the convention
Two hundred and f1fty-seven delegates re-
sponded to the roll call. Gen. Louis Wagner
of Philadelphia was made temporary chair
man. In assuming the chair Gen. Wagner
spoke for but minute, and said the con-
vention was ready for business. The minor
officers of the convention were then desig-
mated. At II. 10 p. m. the convention took a
recess till 1.30 o'clock.
The convention got down to business after
the noon recess at LAO o'clock. Rev. DR..
Theodore L. Flood of Meadville was made
permanent chairman and the other tempo
rary officers were made permanent.
DR.. Flood on taking the chair, scored the
Democratic party and predicted victory in
November for the ticket nominated today.
When Chairman Flood mentioned the name
OF Grover Cleveland the assemblage hooted
and hissed for about minute, one indi-
v1dual in the gallery leading off with pro-
longed "Whoop." 1t took the permanent
chairman half an hour to deliver his ad-
DRESS
The platform adopted reads as follows:
We favor the expansion of the circulating
medium of the country until the same shall
amount to $40 per capita of our population,
and approve the proposition to issue
national bank notes to the par value of the
amount of bonds deposited to secure their
circulation.
We declare that the obligations of the
government should be discharged in money
approved and current in all civilized
nations, to the end that largely increased
reserve Of gold should be gradually accumu-
lated and maintained. ~
The platform then quotes and endorses
the plank of the National platform in favor
of bimetallism. Continuing, it says:
we denounce the Democratic attack up-
on the American protective system because
its effort already has been to reduce to idle
ness two millions of workingmen and values
to an amount greater than the national
debt created for the suppression of the
Rebell1on; because it enlarges the free list
only upon products which employ the
greatest number of American workmen; be-
cause it strikes with equal cruelty the
farmer, the miner, the lumberman, the iron,
the glass and the textile worker; because it
transfers work from our own mills mines
and workshops to foreign countries; be-
cause it is sectional aimed directly at
Northern industries and fosters the planta-
tion system and destroys the farm because
it is vicious in it's changes from specific to
ad valorem duties, in it's reduction of the
revenues of the government by many
millions dollars, and its resort to war taxes
and internal and direct taxes to make up
the deficiency it needlessly creates.
''We commend and approve the efforts of
our Senators and members of Congress to
delay and defeat the passage of legislation
hostile to any American industry, and we
denounce the treatment of our working
men by the Democratic committee of the
Senate, which in violation of courtesy and
of all legislative traditions, denied them
nearing, when they desired, in a oonstitu-
tional manner, to demonstrate against this
destructive legislation.
1--WE denounce the selection of Southern
Democrat for the secretaryship of the in
terror as a deliberate betrayal of the well
fare of our soldiers and sailors, and deplore
the needless prosecutions, suspicious and
privations to which they have been subjected
under the hostile administration.
"We denounce0 the unpatriotic and un-
American management of our foreign rela-
tions by the Democratic National Admins
tration, which surrenders American treaty
rights in Samoa, and which has unjustifiably
planned and labored to uphold and restore
an odious monarchy in Hawaii and prevent
the establishment there of a sister republic,
in conflict with that principle of self-gov-
eminent upon which our own republic was
founded.''
Chairman Flood announced that nomina-
tions for governor Were in order, and ex-
Governor James A. Beaver of Bellefonte, in
long speech proposed the name of Gen.
DeliiOi IL. haStlHSS. Oenefdl hastings WAS
nominated for Governor by acclamation.
Hon. Walter Lyon of Allegheny county,
was unanimously nominated for Lieut.-Gov-
ernor and Amos H. MyIin was nomi mated
for Auditor-GeneFal by acclamation.
James W. Latta was nominated for secre-
tary of internal affairs by acclamation and
Galusha Grow and George +. Huff were
nominated Congressman at large by accla-
nation,