Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-05-25
The State Convention.

Two thousand persons were present IN the
hall at Harrisburg, Wednesday noon when
the Republican State Convention was
called to order, and 257 delegates answer
ed to their names. Only seven districts
were unrepresented.
Ger. Wagner was elected Temporary
Chairman over Maj McCaully, by vote
of 1873 to Ga, Lyman d. Gilbert was made
Chairman of the Committee in Resolutions
and Everett Warren Chairman OF the Com
mittee on permanent oI ganlZatlon, and the
Convention took recess till 1:30.
In the afternoon DIR. Flood was made
permanent Chairman; Gen. Beaver nomi-
mated Gen. Hastings for Governor, q. 4.
Smith seconded the nomination and the
convention by rising vote made the NOM
ination unanimous.
C.L agee nominated Walter Lyon for
Lieut.. Gov, W. 1. Shaffer of Delaware Co
nominated Jack Robinson and Lyon was
nominated by vote of 1913 to 81.
Gen. Latta, of Philadelphia, was nomin-
ated for Sec'y of Internal Affairs without
opposi ion; also Mylin, OF Lancaster, for
Auditor General.
After Grow and Huff were placed in
nomination for Congressman t-Large,
S.H. Miller. of Mercer Co., nominated
Mai. Mcdowell, but Mcdowell withdrew,
and the two first were nominated.
All the candidates appeared before the
Convention and spoke; the platform was
read and approved, and the Conven tion
adjourned.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform reaffirms the plank of 1893
calling for an expansion of the circulating
medium to $40 per capita, and also e-af-
firms the financial plank of the Minneapo-
I.n IL q tho fhrpQta
and efforts of the Democratic party to de-
stroy the protective system have wrecked
our manufacturing establishments, destroy
ed the value of our farm products, ruined
our employers, beggared our workingmen,
and brought distrust upon the honesty of
their proposed legislation The Democratic
assaults upon our industries embodied in
the pending tariff legislation are strongly
denounced. and the platform approves the
efforts of our Senators and Representa-
tives to delay and defeat such legisla-
tion.
The choice of a Southern Democrat as
Secretary of the Interior is characterized as
a deliberate betrayal of the welfare of our
soldiers and sailors, and the prosecutions,
suspicious and privations to which they
have been subjected under that hostile ad
ministration are deplored. The Cleveland
administration, the platform declares, has
realized the worst apprehensions of those
who opposed its election. 1t has shown
incapacity to govern, alike in foreign and
domestic affairs, incapacity to wisely ad-
wise even its own party followers. SO that
Democratic Congressman are adrift upon
all questions where the power of public
patronage does not compel them to think
alike. Msjorities are justly chargeable
with all the affairs of government, but
majorities which were PERMITTED to drift in
the sea Of impotency deserve the contempt
Of all thoughtful citizens.
President Cleveland is denounced for
his Hawaiian and Samoan policy. A more
stringent system of immigration laws,
which would prevent criminals, paupers
and persons physically or mentally incap-
able of supporting themselves coming to-
this country, Is demanded. The platform
recommends such changes in our natural
ization system as will deny the rights of
American citizenship to Anarchists, and
all other hostile to our government and to
the liberty of the law upon which it is
based.