The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-12
CLEVELAND IS ENDORSED
PRESENT ADMINISTRATORS is
HLGHLY PRAISED.

Pennsylvania Democrats in Their Platform
Say That the President Led the People
Out of the Slough of Despond to the
High Ground of Substantial and Increas-
ing Prosperity.
Wililamsport, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE dele
gates to the democratic state conven-
tion were slow in arriving at the opera
house this morning, a condition probab-
ly due to the changing of the hour of
meeting from II o'clock, as originally
selected, to 10 o'clock, and which change
torlum was tastily decorated with flags
and bunting and a brass band was
stationed in the first gallery. While
the delegates We're assembling the air
was full of rumors regarding the ju-
dicial nominees. EX-State Chairman
Stranahan, one of the party counsellors,
and who was named as temporary
chairman of the convention, stated
| prior to the opening of the proceedings
| that it was evident that Moorehead of
Westmoreland, Noyes of Warren and
| Yarkes of Bucks would be nominated as
superior court judges on the first ball
| lot. Mr.. Stranahan thought that the
other three judicial nominees would
probably be Bower of Centre, Smith
| of Lackawanna and Bechtel of Schuyl-
| kill
In calling the convention to order Mr..
| Stranahan expressed his appreciation of
the honor conferred upon him, and
referred briefly to the resumption of
| business throughout the country as a
| result of the democratic administration
| The roll of delegates was called and a
| recess taken.
The convention reassembled at 1:50
| o'clock. John M. Garman, ex-district
attorney of Luzerne county, was made
permanent chairman Mr.. Garman
made brief address. He said: Con
| trast this convention with that of
| two weeks ago in Harrisburg. For
weeks, yea months, nearly one-half of
| the republican forces were engaged with
the other half in a bitter struggle for
| supremacy. 1t was an uncompromising
battle of factions. You read and heard
| their respective opinions Of each other
| You heard their charges and counter
charges of corruption and dishonor, and
| doubtless believed all the charges to be
true. You saw their hypocritical pre-
tensions of reform. Why the star-eyed
! goddess actually became cross-eyed
/ la f,.O, 40, .
| other"
A platform was then adopted. 1t re-
news allegiances to, and declares faith
| in the principles of democracy formu-
| lated by Jefferson and illustrated by
Madison, Monroe Jackson and Cleve-
! land. 1t congratulates the American
| people upon the first fruits of the demo-
cratic administration, which inherited
| from its republican predecessor a bank
| rupt treasury and unwise financial leg
| islation, impaired public credit and
widespread disaster and which under
| the sagacious, courageous and patriotic
| leadership of it's great president, Grover
| Cleveland, led the people out of the
| slough of despond to the high ground
| of substantial and increasing prosper
| ity. 1t declares that the repeal of such
| iniquitous legislation as the Sherman
| silver purchasing act and the Mckinley
| tariff law and the substitution of more
| moderate tariff laws have found their
| immediate results in the resumption of
| business and the resolution Of the ma
| tional credit. AS vindicating the prin-
| ciples of tariff reform the platform
| challenges especial attention to the fact
! that such prosperity and the conse-
| quent material increase of wages has
| been much more pronounced in the in
dustries whose existence the republican
party claimed were dependent upon
| high tariff duties. 1t declares that the
| gloomy prediction that the iron and
| steel industries of Pennsylvania would
| be destroyed by a reduced tariff has
| been contradicted by their present un-
| exampled prosperity.
The platform invites the attention of
| the wage-earners to the fact that the
| present voluntary increase of wages of
those employed in the manufacturing
| industries, amounting to not less than
| $3.50 600, ,000 was absolutely unknown un-
der the Mckinley tariff act. TO pre-
| NeTC IHe lCeeItiolely leSlSldlloh tHledC-
ened by the republican party of Penn
| sylvania in their recent convention,
which would again depress business by
| destroying faith in the stability of pres
| ent conditions it invites citizens
| throughout the land, irrespective of
party, to so act together as to insure
by the election of a democratic presi-
dent in 1896 the maintenance of the
present prosperity.