The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-23
Republicans of Pennsylvania
Assemble in Convention,
To Nominate the "HerO OF
JOhnstOwn,"
GEN. DANIEL HASTINGS
The Generals Nomination is
Made Unanimous
A Strong Platform Adopted
Without Dissenting Voice.

HARR1sBURG, Pa, May 23.-The big
gest crowd seen at a state convention for
years, packed the big opera honse when
the convention to nominate the candidate
Of the Republican party for governor,
lieutenant governor, auditor general, sec
retary of state and congressman at-large.
was called to order.
Roll call showed the presence of 25I
delegates out of 264. General Louis
Wagner of Philadelphia, was chosen
temporary chairman
Walter Lyon of Allegheny was nOmi-
mated for lieutenant governor, by G. l.
Magee.
The following is the platform:
The Platform.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania in
convention assembled, repeat for the reg
ulation and government of the national
currency the following principles OF
finance which we're announced by US at
our last state convention and which since
then have received the overwhelming ap-
proval of our fellow citizens.
We favor the expansion of the circula-
ting medium of the country until the
same shall amount to $40 per capita of
our population, and approve the PROPOSE
tion to issue national bank notes to the
par value of the amount of bonds depos-
tied to secure their circulation. We de-
clare that the obligations of the govern
ment should be discharged in money, ap-
proved and current in all civilized ma
tions to the end that largely increased
reserve of gold should be gradually ac-
cumulated 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
"a nd fnfa nGf m fal nd ha
Republic an party demands the use Of
gold and silver as standr-d money with
such restrictions and under such prOvis-
ions to be determined by legislation, as
Will secure and maintain the parity of
values of the two metals so that the pur-
chasing and debt-paying power of silver,
gold or paper shall be at all times equal.
The interests of the producers of the
country, its farmers and its workingmen,
demand that every dollar, paper or coin,
issued by the government shall be as
good as any other.
The RuinatIon of Business.
The threats and efforts which the
Democratic party. now in control of tn Q
executive and legislative departments of
the national government are making to
destroy the system of protection to
American industries have wrecked our
manufacturing establishments, destroyed
the value of our farm products, ruined
our employers, beggared our working
men and brought distrust upon the hon
esty of their proposed Legislation.
We denounce this Democr attic assault
upon the American protective system be-
cause its effect already has been to re-
duce to idleness 100000 of work men
and values to an amount greater
than the national debt created
for the suppression of the re-
bellion, because it enlarges the free
list only upon products which employ
the greatest number of American work
men, because it strikes with all cruelty
the farmer, the miner, the lumberman,
the iron, the glass and the textile worker,
because 1t transfers work from our own
mills, mines and workshops, to foreign
countries; because it is sectional and
aimed directly at northern Industries,
and fosters the plantation system and de-
stroyS the farm; because il is vicious in
Its changes from specific to advalorem
duties, in its reduction of the revenues
OF government by many millions of dol
lars, and 1t resorts to war taxes and in
creased internal and direct taxes to make
up the deficiency it needlessly creates
Approve of Republican Obstacles.
We commend and approve the efforts
OF our senators and members of congress
to delay and defeat the passage of legis-
latlon hostile to any American industry,
and we denOunce the treatment of our
work. ngmen by the Democratic COM
mIttee of the senate which in violation
OF courtesy and OF all Legislative tradi-
ton, denied them a hearing when they
desired in constitutional manner to re-
monstrate against this destructive legis-
lation-
We denounce the selection of a south
ern Democrat for the -secretaryship of
the interior as deliberate betrayal of
tie welfare of our soldiers and sailors
and deplore the needless prosecutions,
suspicious and privations to which they
have been subjected under that hostile
administration
We denounced the unpatriOtic and un-
American management of our foreign
relations by the Democratic national ad-
ministratiOn which surrenders American
treaty rights and vital interests in Samoa
and which has unjustifiably planned and
labored to uphold and restore an odious
monarchy in Hawaii and prevent the es-
tablishment there of sister republic in
conflict with that principle of self-gov-
ernment upon which our own republic
was founded
We demand the enactment of such leg
lslation a. will prevent the emigration
OF paupers criminals and persons incap-
able either physically or mentally of self
support
To Keep Out Foreign Agitation.
We demand such change in our nation
allzatiOn system as will deny the rights
OF American citizenship to anarchists and
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