The herald., 1894-05-24

manufacturing establishments, de-
stroyed the value of our farm products,
ruined our employers, beggared our
workingmen and brought distrust upon
the honesty OF their proposed legisla-
ton. We deuounce this Democratic
assault upon the American protective
system, because its effect already has
been to reduce to idleness 1000, 900 OF
workL.en, and values to an amount
| greater than tbs national debt created
for the suppression of the rebellion !;
because it enlarges the free list
only upon products which employ
the greatest number of Ameri-
can workmeR; because it strikes
with all cruelty, the farmer. the miner,
the lum herman. the iron, the glass and
the textile workers; because it trans-
fers work from our own mills, mines and
workshops to foreign countries because
it is sectional and aimed directly at
northern industries, and fosters the
plantation system and destroys the farm,
and it Is vicious in its changes from spe-
cific to ad valorem duties in it's reduce
ton OF the revenues of the government
by many millions of dollars. and its re-
sort to war taxes and increased interests
and direct taxes to make up the defici-
ency it needlessly creates.
We commend and approve the efforts
OF our senators and members of congress
to delay and defeat the passage of leg
islation hostile to American Industry,
and we denouncs the treatment OF our
workingmen by the Democratic finance
committee of the senate, which, in vio-
lation of courtesy and of all legislative
traditions, denied them hearing when
they desired in constitutional manner
to demonstrate against this destructive
legislation.
We denounce the selection OF q south
ern Democrat for the secretaryship of
the interior as deliberate betrayal of
the welfare OF our soldiers and sailors,
and deplore the needless prosecutions,
suspicious and privations to which they
have been subjected under that hostile
administration.
We denounce the upatriotic and I'M
American management OF our foreign
relations by the Democratic national
administration, which surrenders
American treaty rights and vital inter
ests in Samoa, and which has unjustif-
ably planned and labored to uphold and
restore an odious monarch in Hawaii
and prevent the establishment OF
sister republic, in conflict with that
principle of safe government upon which
our own government was founded.
We demand the enactment OF such
legislation as will prevent the immigra-
ton OF paupers, criminals and persons
incapable, either physically or mentally,
Of sef-support.
We demand such a change in our
natur alization systsLj as will deny the
rights Of American citizenship to an
archists and to all other persons hostile
to our government, and to the liberty of
the law upon which it is based.
The Cleveland administration has
verified the worst apprehensions OF those
who opposed its entrance into office. 1t
has demonstrated it's incapacity to gov
ern both foreign and domestic affairs.
1t has shown itself powerless to counsel
wisely even its own party followers, so
that Democratic congressman are adrift
on all questions on which the power of
public patronage does not compel them
to act alike. Immediately upon it's
accession to power the Democratic party
betrayed the confidence the American
people had reposed in it, and since then
it has continuously shown itself 80
thoroughly unequal to the discharge OF
the high trust committed to Its care that
its history excites the contempt and
distrust of every thoughtful citizen.
General Beaver excited great enthusi-
asm by q speech nominating General
Hastings, the hero of Johnstown, for
governor.
Hastings nomination was made unan-
imous by rising vote.
Walter Lyon of Allegheny county, and
4 r i n L o.
nomination for ieutenant-governor The
roll-call resulted in favor of Lyon.
The remainder OF the ticket was made
up as follows: Auditor, Gen. Amos
Myling, Lancaster; secretary of internal
affairs, James w. Latta OF Philadelphia;
at-large, Gaiushs A. Grow
of Susquehanna, and George I. HUFF of
Westmoreland.