The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-06
NOMINATIONS MADE.
Eloquent Address by A. J. Colburn, Jr.
Major Warren's Acceptance.

Eloquent Address by A. J. Colburn, Jr.
Major Warrsn's Acceptance.
The convention re-assembled at 2 30
o'clock when Chairman Hicks, of the
committee on resolutions submitted
the resolutions which were unanimous
ly adopted. He also read supplement-
tary plank, as follows, which was
adopted:
In republic, whose cornerstone is the
equality of all men before the law, the
rights and protection guaranteed by the
constitution and the laws should be sa-
cred to all men, rich and poor, black and
white. 1t is the cardinal principle Of our
government, national and state, that no
citizen shall be peprived OF life, liberty or
property except in accordance with law
righteously and justly administered. 1t Is
with regret that we see this great princi-
pie almost daily violated in the southern
states Of the union, and this regret is deep
ened by the fact that almost invariably
our colored fellow.citizens are selected
as the victims of this iniquity. The
constant lynching of colored citizens
throughout the south without any effort
to invoke the law and secure to the ac-
cused the constitutional right of fair
common humanity, a violation Of the con-
stitution and laws of the United States
and of the states and disgrace to civiliza
tion, In the name of justice, humanity
and law, we protest against the crimes
perpetrated upon the colored people of the
south.
Nominations for officers of the con-
vention being in order, A. j. Colborn.
jr., OF Scranton, arose to place in nom
inatiop Major Everett Ware j, of Lack.
awsnna county, for president of the
league. His speech was frequently in
terrupted by applause. Mr.. Colborns
address was in substance as follows:
The Republican party points with pride
to the great achievements of its past and
offers as au earnest of its future faithful
ness an unbroken record of services per-
formed for freedom, union and national
prosperity. 1t suppressed the most gigan-
tic rebellion the world has ever known,
and through its great leader, the immortal
Lincoln, lifted race from servitude and
unpaid toll to manhood and citizenship,
and by it's wise financial legislation it sue
ceeded in protecting the credit and cur
rency of the nation from repudiation and
initiation. 1t stands today for the pro-
lection Of popular government on
the American continent; stands for the
protection Of governmental and interna-
tional rights: stands for the protection Of
tho life, liberty and property of the indi-
vidual; stands for the protection Of
all the rights, privileges and
immunities Of American citizenship:
stands for the protection Of the ballot box
from fraud aud intimidation; stands for
the protection of American commerce,
American manufacture and American ag'
riculture from destructive foreign compe-
tition: stands for the protection Of home
invention, home skill and home labor
against the free trade hereses embodied in
the recent Democratic bill which tends to
pauperize and degrade them all, and which
strikes a deadly blow at our industrial
prosperity; stands for the protection Of
both capital and corporation from confis-
cation and mob violence; and, above all,
it stands for the sanctity and happiness of
the American home. 1t welcomes to our
shores the downtrodden and oppressed of
every land, but it insists that the inestim-
able blessing of American citizenship shall
be extended to those who are in full SYM
pathy aud accord with the fundamental
principles OF our government, and who
will loyalty support the sacred provisions
OF the constitution of the United States,
and conform to its laws and institutions.
1t holds that this country Is great and
broad enough for all true lovers OF liberty,
but 1t is too small and too narrow for an
anarchist, socialist or a communist; that
the free winds Of heaven which sweep over
it are freighted with freedom and will
bear on their breasts the folds of no other
flag save those of the Stars and Stripes.
The Democratic party was entrusted less
than two years ago with entire charge Of
the government for the first timo in thirty
two years and its administration has only
been satisfactory to those who hold office
under it. Its loyalty has received the ap.
proval of every enemy of the government.
The courage Of its foreign policy has
amused the world and pleased every cow
ard. Its justice to the disabled soldiers
has won golden opinions from those who
gave them their wounds. Flushed with
triumph two years ago, today it is hu.
INFLATED by the consciousness of unspeak
able shame and astonishing failure 1t
promised retreuchment of expendi-
lures, but it has passed approprla-
tions for the coming year larger
than those OF the "bilion congress-
at its first session. 1t promised abolition
OF protective duties, tariff for revenue
only aud destruction of trusts and monop-
olies. 1t has surrendered to trusts and
monopolies, and its unparalleled straddle.of
the tariff question has been n source of
wonderment to ''gods and men," Never
has party failed more completely and
disgracefully. 1t has been strong only in
the imbecility Of 'innocuous desuetude," 4"
and deserves to live as a reminisence Of
promises forgotten and pledges unre-
deemed The result has made capital
timid, closed our mills and manufactures,
depleted our treasury, paralyzed business
and brought penury and want to the peo
pie, who now turn to us for succor and re-
lief.
There are those who have said that the
Republican party had completed its work
that its mission was ended. Is that he
message you bear? No; its work is not
ended its glorious mission has just begun.
The Republican party is immortal can
never die. 1t principles-ts vital princi-
ples-trutb, justice patriotism-these,
these are eternal, immortal, imperishable.
The porty today stands united. unfettered,
free. 1t points to its glorious record Of
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