Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-08-30

The following are the resolutions
adopted by the convention:
Resolved, That the Democrats of Luzerne
county heartily endorse the administration of
Grover Cleveland and his efforts to secure su h
legislation to relieve the country from the op-
pressve influence and disastrous effects of the
Republican legislation of the past thirty years.
Resolved, That we also endorse the able and
honest administration of the affairs of the state
of Pennsylvania by her favorite son, Robert E..
Pattison, who, by rigid economy, faithful en-
forcement of the law, has given our grand old
state good financial credit; has demonstrated
that in Pennsylvania the government is one of
law and not of anarchy, and has given us an
administration free from scandal-clean, pure
and able.
Resolved, That we charge the Republican
party with the political crime of false pretense,
by ITS representatives in congress, in that
whilst having obstructed all efforts to relieve
the stringency of the times by honest legisla-
ton, they braZenly charge the Democratic
party with cowardice and hypocrisy, for hav-
failed to keep its pledges made to the people of
the United States in the platform accepted at
the national convention held in Chicago in 1892
| We charge that the Republican party has
shown itself to be incompetent and hypocriti-
cal in that with thirty years of absolute power
| held by large majorities in both branches of
congress their laws have produced the drest
results; thus demonstrating their incompetence.
Their admission that the silver bill was bad
| legislation cOnvicts them, against every effort
to relieve the country of the oppressive bur-
| dens OF their vicious legislation. They have
presented solid front in congress- thus DEM
| onstrating their dangerous tendencies.
Their fight for trusts and favored interests
convicted them.
| By imputing the late hard times to the Demo-
cratic management they demonstrate their hy-
pocrisy 1t is the old cry of stop thief of the
criminal and as means to direct attention
from the evil results of their bad laws, and this
is sufficient to prove them ANONYMOUSLY
guilty.
Resolved, That we commend the ticket NOM
mated this day to all well thinking citizens
as being composed of men who have always
| fought In the front ranks of the party, who
have always stood for the administration of
| government in favor of the masses instead of
the classes; the party of patriotism and virtue
to which the United States as Il nation is every
thing and individuals, us such, are not protect
ed in such a manner as to demoraize the
whole.
Resolved, That the Democratic party is the
only party that can be trusted to emancipate
the people of the United States from the en-
forced and unwilling slavery into which they
have been plunged by Republican msrule, and
that the only method to regain the full liberty
due to American citizens is to give to the
Democratic party the same aboslute power by
| large and untrammeled majority to emanci-
pate, as the Republican party had to enslave.
Then and not until then will the power of mon
opoes and trusts be impotent and harmless.
We therefore, conjure every Democrat here
today to go home from this hall, and TO bend
every effort to the interest of our great and
glorious cause, by using every honest effort
to give to our grand old party the majorities
necessary to show their approval and to show
the might of eternal Justice.