The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-27

the chairman announced the committee
on resolutions, credentials and perma-
nent organization and at 1:45 the con-
vention took a recess. The platform is
as follows:
The depression of business, the dis
turbances between labor and capital, the
reduction of wages, the unequal distri-
button of profits in economic questions
and the gross disparity in social cOndi-
tions, which have resulted from the Op-
erations of the Republican laws, will
continue SO long as those laws are unre-
pealed and the Mckinley tariff bill is in
full force and operation
"a Democratic administration left
$10O,O00,OO0 surplus in the treasury; a
Republican successor in four years con-
verted this into deficit of $50, 900, 900.
We declare that this condition has fol-
lowed Republican administration and
that business depression has resulted
from vicious legislation for which the
Republican party is solely responsible.
I'VE are opposed to the reckless in
hatIon OF the currency to forty dollars
per capita demanded by the Republican
state convention in 1891 and 1894 and
while we favor the circulation of consti-
tutional money, gold and silver at
parity of value, we are unaltera bly, Op-
posed to any debasement Of the currency,
or the depreciation of any dollar issued
by the government to the people.
''We denOunce the dereliction of the
Republican party in the legislative
branches of the state government; we
arraign for prohigacy and condemn it
for refusal to enact wholesome laws de-
manded for the public welfare.
I'VE deplOre all differences between
employer and elnploye and we deprecate
the resort to force for settlement of CUES
tions that should be determined by
peaceful arbitration; we recognize the
right of every citizen to be protected in
the free enjoyment of his property and
of the privilege to work when, for whom
and at what wages he will 1t is the
duty of the state to maintain for him
that right The highways of the COM
monweaIth should be open to all who
lawfully traverse them and the path to
proper employment should not be OBJ
structed by any unauthorized power.
'sNone the less we condemn the in
sincerity and Inconsistency of those who
clamor loudly for protection to Ameri-
can industries and yet seek every Occa-
sion and lose no opportunity to supplant
it with cheap, imported pauper labor
We denouEce the hypocrite who pre-
tends zeal for the improvement of the
social condition of the American work
ingmen and yet displaces them for aliens.
We are opposed to all organic
ations which strike at freedom
of conscience, and we declare that 10
party can justly be deemed national,
constitutional or in accord with Ameri-
can principles which is animated by
spirit of political prescription OF relig-
ious intolerance"
The convention reassembled at 2:25.
The chairman of the committee on cre-
dentials re ported in favor Of john N. Nor
rett. the sitting delegate in the Four
teenth district, and George s. Fleming
and I. NJ. BrOphy. the contestants in the
Fourth Allegheny district.
A minority report was presented from
the committee III the case of the Ale
gheny delegates by VIM. J. Brennan.
The majority report was adopted and
then the committee on permanent or
ganization reported that William Q.
Hensel of Lancaster had been selected
for chairman.
The convention then proceeded to the
nomination of candidates.
Mr.. Jones Monaghan of West Chester
nominated William NJ. Singerly of Phil
adelphia for governor. The nomination
was seconded by Maurice F. Wilher,
of Philadelphia. Singerly was nomi-
mated by reclamation.
John ). Killing Of Erie was nominated
for Lieutenant governor unanimously.
Ex-Judge Joseph G. Bucher, of Lewis
burg and H. K Sloan, of Indiana, were
nominated for congressman at large.
David MCGEE, of Lancaster, was nOmin-
ated for auditor, and Gen. w. w. Green
land for secretary of internal affairs.
Convention then adjourned.