Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-09-19
ThE CAMPA OPEN.
The Issue Plainly2 Defined by
General Hastings.
AT THE BIG CLUB CONVENTION.


Gems Of Every Party to Give Thsm Con-
.Ideration-A Convincing Argument for
Republican votes.
The Pennsylvania campaign of 1894 was
formally opened at Harrisburg last week
when the League of Republican clubs Of
the state met in annual convention. It was
an occasion never to be forgotten by the
enthusiastic members of the party who
participated in it, and il the zeal there
manifested by the young men is contin-
ued throughout the campaign there is no
room to doubt that the verdict of Penn
sylvania in November will be entirely sat
isfactory to the friends Of the policy Of
protection and most demoralizing to the
few remaining advocates of free trade.
The great interest naturally centered in
the speech of General Hastings, which
was delivered at the Opera House on We'd
nesday evening in the presence Of a crowd
of enthusiastic Republican workers that
filled every inch of space in the large
building.
General Hastings was escorted from his
hotel by delegation of clubs from Har-
risburg and Stcelton, and it was fully fif-
teen minutes after he appeared on the
stage before there was quiet sufficient for
him to proceed with his address. Such an
ovation has seldom been accorded any
man in Pennsylvania. On being intro
duced General Hastings spoke as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Con-
vention of the Pennsylvania Republican Club
League:
II was h oped that before the campaign in
Pennsylvania opened the tariff issue would be
settled and that the long and weary contro-
versy would be ended, at least for the pres
ent. This would have been n great relief to
the country. However much the people may
have entertained this dSsrc. the country Is
notified by the president himself in his letter
to Representative Catchings that the agltR-
ton will be resumed in December. at least
10 one of its most important features, that of
free raw materials. l think il is not too
much TO say that the immediate dangers incl
dent to this agitation may be avoided if the
verdict of the people at the November cleo
tions throughout the country will sustain the
desire of the senate to stop the controversy
over the tariff and IL is that sentiment more
than oil other issues in this campaign which
the Republican party is called upon to direct.
The people rarely determine more than one
issue at any given time. and the overshadow
ing question now before US is that of Aneri-
can protection.
Nothing has transpired since the defeat of
1892 that ought to change Republican vote
In 1894. The Republicans who then voted for
a change appear to be ready To help bring
about another change. and the signs of the
times indicate that the people generally are in
favor of a return to Republican supremacy.
During the past two years we have followed
our banners in defeat as Loyalty hen they
led the way TO victory. and it is a matter of
pride and abiding sat -,faction that in the cam
paign before us there is not an achievement Of
Republicansm for which apology is here
or elsewhere required. We have not aban-
doned principle hitherto espouscd and will
not. Our party's record illuminatts every
page of our country's history since lSG0 and
there Is not II sentence or n syllable We would
eradicate il we had the power
Today the young Republicans OF Pennsyl-
vania come together TO do their part for No
vember's conquest. The enthusiasm OF this
convention is but another evidence that our
party is united in every section with a single
ness of purpose never before known in the his
tory of the state. With unshaken confidence
and unbrokcn ranks we will again seek the
public iudgm.n mt after thorough discussion.
PEOPLE NOT SATISFIED.
The people are anxious to vote. They are
dcsirous of recording their judgment and en-
tering their protest against existing condi-
presented. and the people of Pennsylvania By
an unparalleled majority notified the country
that they were not satisfied with the ruling
conditions at Washington. Time has only in
tensifed the desire 10 enter another and a
more emphatic protest.
PENNSYLVANIA. with her great population
her growing cities her diversity of industries,
her native wealth. her intellectual advance
mcnt and unfaltering patriotism, has never,
when duty required, failed to blaze the way
for the other states to follow. In this crisis
Pennsylvania will be looked TO to lead the
way
Nature has blessed no other state with such
wealth and boundless resources. The found
of our country made her the keystone of
the federal arch and her native wealth united
with the industry. thrift and intelligence of
her people. have made her equally the Key
stone Of American protection. Every indus
try within her borders. with its teeming en-
ergy and chcery music, contented and happy
workman and prosperous employer. was a
monument erected TO the protective policy.
Today they the forceful but silent protests
against free trade. She stands. by virtue of
her imperial position. at the head of the col
umn of protective states She has long set the
standard for the nation. and every principle
of self preservation and patriotism should he
incentive 10 hold her advanced position in the
coming struggle.
Pennsylvania stands for he fair and rational
protection of her own material interests and
her own people, but demands nothing for
them which she does not accord to every other
the great majority of l'r people are confident
In the belief that fu' progress. indepen-
dence. thrift and cont, men: are largely de-
pendent upon The sure and intelligent enforce
ment of the protective policy. They will so
ieclarc in unmi.iakable tones al the first op-
portuuity.
If L. shall lie asserted that national issues
have n place in the state campaign. we reply
that there is no citizen. 10 business. no inter
est, M occupation in the commonwealth that
is state ia all the union vitality inter
ested Pennsylvania.
The well irtcntioned citizen who has not
yet decided how To vote at the coming cleo
ton may well consider his ground. hope he
will inquire of himself how he likes the con
ditions since the Republican party has gone
out of power. How has il been with him in
dividually, Has he had steady employment.
l. he paid the old Republican wage rate. Does
he find the cost of living cheaper. and the
ability to meet that cost better Is his bust
ness prosperouss Is he as contented and
confident of the future as before: When
he has answered to himself these vital ques-
tions. let him, on his way to the polls, pass the
silent mill. the cold furnace, the broken bank,
the deserted forge. let him pass by poverty
and want, business paralyzed and confidence
vanished. and then record his judgment of the
responsibility for these conditions and his
hope for the future in the ballot which he
places in the box.
ALL vITALLY INTERESTED.
Let him consider what would be left, II 1t
we're possible 10 strike out of the country's his
ory that which had been accomplished
through the agency of the Republican party
epudiation OF the public faith, discOrdant
states human slavery. civil war. dishonored
nag. and the taunts of other nations that the
American form of government was a failure.
This is the time for the best endeavors of
patriotism. If it shall grasp the great oppor
tunity now presented, the Republican party
will enter upon new. if not n grander career
in the redemption of the land from material
and industrial paralysis from the lack of con-
fdence which the father of panics. from that
commercial frenzy which drives solvency to
the wall and from that unscrupulOus quality
Of demagogy which seeks to array class
against class. capital against labor. and Sec
tion against section.
WHO Is REsPoNsIBLEf
Thu efu dept of ippe has been IN