The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-01-10

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lusha A. Grow, and his nomination
was made by acclamation amid the
greatest enthusiasm. The old "war
horse" of Republicanism was brought
forward after the nomination was
made and delivered a short but most
stirring address, showing that the
fire of his younger days was still
there. The platform is not lengthy,
but makes up in earnestness and
soundness what it lacks in bulk.
THE PLATFORM.
ResolUed, That the Republican Conven-
ton of Pennsylvania, recalled to nomi-
nate a candidate for Congressman at
Large, needs not to be reminded of the
fact that this is representative Office,
that the situation in Washington gives it
not only State but National importance,
and that it invites the fullest possible ex-
preston of the public view on Tuesday,
the 10th of February next, to the end
that all our land may know the tenor of
current thought upon the most imme-
diate and vital issue presented in the
Wilson bill.
The simple anticipation of this mea-
sure has closed thousands of workshops.
1t has reduced to idleness two millions
of workmen and soup houses now dis
place former hives of industry.
1t has reduced values to an amount
greater than the National debt.
1t will enlarge the free list only upon
products which employ the greatest
number of American workmen.
1t will strike with equal cruelty the
farmer, the miner, the lumberman, the
iron worker, the glassworker and the
textile worker.
1t will transfer work from our own
mills, mines and workshops to those of
foreign countries.
1t is sectional in is authorship, and is
all too plainly aimed at Northern indus
tries.
1t strikes southern industries only
where the same blow reaches greater
Northern industries.
1t fosters the plan tation system and de-
stroys the farm.
1t is an attempt upon free traders of
the South TO reduce the industries of
the North to the level of those of the
South.
1t is vicious in its change from specific
to ad valorem duties, the latter inviting
foreign undervaluations and leading to
constant and cumulative frauds npon the
revenues.
1t is vicious in reducing instead of in
creasing revenues.
1t will reduce the revenues many mil
lions of dollars, and the reductions will
grow with time.
1t is vicious in compelling the Govern
ment to make up these deficits by means
of increased Internal and direct tax.
Ii is doubly vicious in compelling its
supporters to resort to the most odious
war taxes or borrow money.
1t is wholly erroneous in the theory
that the less work there is to do in this
country the higher will be the wages of
the workman. The protective policy
conveys the opposing thought, and says
that the policy which secures the largest
amount of work at home is the one which
secures the best wages to the home work.
man.
If the Wilson bill does all those things
in the threats which it conveys, what
will it do in its fruitlon?
The Republicans of Pennsylvania, and
the people of our great Commonwealth
as well, declare war upon it, unceasing
war in House and Senate, and its Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress, in
Guiding the Congressman-at-La Large NOM
mated to day, are requested to make this
warfare felt in every wise and patriotic
way, to the end that by the defeat of the
Wilson bill American workingmen, pro-
ducers and manufacturers NAV resume
that prosperity which the country had a
single year ago.
Inc defeat of the Wilson bill and the
consequent retention of the protective
system will bring this prosperity within
thirty days, not alone to the farms. mines.
furnaces and mills and workshops of
Pennsylvania, but to every section of
our country heretofore devoted TO de-
Velopement and improvement. It will
restore values, and in all ways contribute
to the welfare of the land and the happi-
ness of the people.
ReSoted, That Pennsylvauia's recent
majority of 1874, COO was most emphatic
endorsement of our party's National and
state platforms, both Of which are now
readirmed, with the additional declara-
ton that the Republican partV favors tha
long-established policy of ourrepublic to
encourage sister republics however weak.
and foster the spirit of liberty wherever
lts hres are lighted, so long as this can be
done without promoting or encouraeinS
dangerous foreign alliances" and in
TINS connection we denounce the unpa-
trlotlc foreign policy of the Democratic
national administration in the Hawaiian
matter.
IN nominating ex-Speaker Grow,