Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
STAND FOR PROTECTION.
The Hero of JOhrstOwn Nominated
for Governor by Pennsylvania
Republicans.


cious Opera House was packed to sutto-
cation at noon to-day when B. F. Gilk-
inson, of Philadelphia, called the Re-
publican state convention to order.
The event has attracted to the state
capital the biggest crowd of receIt
years, and the enthusiasm is at fever
heat. The stage and balcony Of the
Opera House are decorated with AmerI-
can flags and portraits of Republican
leaders of the past and present. Life
size pictures Of Gen. Harrison and Gov.
Mckinley were suspended over the
chairman's desk. The delegates were
seated in the parquette. While the up
per portions of the house were given
over to spectators not half of those to
whom tickets of admission had been is
sued could get beyond the Hobbies.
There have been few Republican
conventions in this state of recent years
that have been preceded by less of cut
and dried business than the one which
assembled to-day. There have been
half dozen candidates for nearly every
position to be filled, and the war
fare between them has been vigorous.
The various district delegations were
early on the scene, and all day yes
terday and last night, and almost up to
the opening of the doors this morning,
caucuses without number were being
held all over the city. AS q result, by
the time the convention was called to
order the political sky had considera-
bly, cleared. Early in the day it was
conceded that the nomination for gov
ernor would so to Gen. ID. II. Hastings.
The roll call showed the presence of
257 delegates out of 264. Gen. Louis
Wagner, of Philadelphia, was chosen
temporary chairman by 1873 votes to 64
for L. P McCauley, of Chester, who was
nominated 10y the adherents of Con-
gresham Jack" Robinson, the candi-
date opposed to Walter Lyon, for the
office oflieutenant-governor Gen. Wag-
ner, in assuming the temporary control
of the gathering, called attention to the
fact that this Republican convention
was held to nominate a state ticket,
and considered it important for that
reason if for no other. After the Sc
lection of committees on resolutions
with Lyman ID. Gilbert, of Harrisburg,
as chairman, and on organization, with
E. P Warren, of Scranton, as chair
man, the convention at 1910 p. ~. took
a recess for one hour.
When the convention recOnvened the
committee on resolutions submitted Its
report, as follows:
The Republicans of Pennsylvania, in
convention assembled repeat, for the reg
lation and government of the national
currency, the following principles of
finance, which were announced by us at
our last state convention, and which since
then have received the overwhelming APP
prevail of our fellow citizens:
We favor the expansion of the circulat-
ing medium of the country until the same
shall amount to $40 per capita of our
l i
issue national bank notes to the par value
of the amount of bonds deposited to Sc
cure their circulation. We declare that
the obligations of the government should
be discharged in money approved and cur
rent in all civilized nations, to the end
that a largely increased reserve of gold
should be gradually accumulated and
maintained.
We declare our belief to be that no
| legislation can make our currency meet
the needs of the American people unless
| it conforms to the following utterance
of our last national convention: THE
American people from tradition and in
terest favor bi-metalllsm. and the Re
publican party demands the use of both
gold and silver as standard money with
such restrictions and under such proyis-
ions, to be determined by legislation, as
will secure and maintain the parity of
values of the two metals, so that the
purchasing and debt-paying power of a
dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper,
shall be at all times equal. The inter
estS of the producers of the country its
| farmers and its workingmen, demand
that every dollar, paper coin, issued
| by the government, shall be as good as
any other"
The threats and efforts which the
| Democratic party, now in control of the
executive and legislative departments of
the national government, is making TO
destroy the system of protection to Amer
lean industries have wrecked our manu-
featuring establishments, destroyed the
value of our farm products, ruined our
employers, beggared our wOrkingmen,
and brought distrust upon the honesty
of their proposed legislation.
We denOunce this Democratic assault
| upon the American protective system be-
cause its effect already has been to re-
duce to idleness 100000 of WOrkmen,
and values to an amount greater than
the national debt created for the suppress
sion of the rebellion: because it enlaroes
the free list only upon products which
employ the greatest number of American
wOrkmen; because it strikes with all
cruelty the farmer, the miner, the lumber
man, and the iron, the glass and the tex
tile worker because it transfers work
from our own mills, mines and workshops
to foreign countries; because it is section
al and aimed directly at Northern indus
tries and fosters the plantation system
and destroys the farm; because it is vic
ious in it's changes from specific to adj
valorem duties and in it's reduction of the
revenues of the government by many mill
ions of dollars, and because it resorts to
war taxes and increased internal and di-
rect taxes to make up tie deficiency II
needlessly creates.
We commend and approve the efforts
of our senator's and members of Congress-
to delay and defeat the passage of iee.is-
latior hostile to any American Industry
and we denounce the treatment of orr
workingmen by the Democratic committee
of the Senate, which, in violation of court
esy and all legislative tradition, denied
them a hearing when they desired in a
constitutional manner to remonstrate
against this destructive legislation.
We denounce the selection of q South
ern Democrat for the secretaryship of the
interior as a deliberate betrayal of the
welfare of our soldiers and sailors, and
deplore the needless prosecutions, susDi
cions and privations to which thew have
been subjected under that hostile admin
istration
We denounce the unpatriOtic and nm
American management of our foreign re-
lations by the Democratic national adj
ministratiOn, which surrenders American