Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-12
KEYSTONE DEMOCRATS,
In the Long Platform lust Adopted al
Their State Convention,
M0destly Claim Credit tor All the Prosperity
Country Ever Had.

Williamsport, Pa, Sept lin the
Democratic state convention, today, John
M. Garman, ex-district attorney of Luzeme
county, was made permanent chairman.
The platform Adopted renews allegiance
to and declares faith in the principles of
Democracy formulated by jefferson, Illus
trated by Madison, Monroe, Jackson and
Cleveland.
1t congratulates the American people
upon the first fruits OF the Democratic adj
ADMINISTRATION, which Inherited from its Re
publican predecessors, a bankrup5 treasury
and unwise financial legislation, au i'm
paired public credit and widespread dis
aster, which under the sagacious, courage
Gus and patriotic leadership of its great
President, Grover Cleveland, led the PEG
pie Out of the slough of despond, to the
high ground of substantial and increasing
prosperity.
1t declares that the repeal Of such in
iquitous legislation as the Sherman silver
purchasing act and the Mckinley tariff
law, and the substitution of more moder-
ate tariff laws have found Immediate re
suits in the resumption of business and
the restoration of the national credit, as
indicating the principles of tariff reform
to which the Democracy is unalterably
pledged
The platform challenges especial atten-
ton to the fact that such prosperity and
consequent material increase in wages has
been pronounced in the industries whose
existence the Republican party claimed
were dependent on high tariff duties.
1t declares that the gloomy predictions
that the iron and steel industries of Penn
sylvania would be destroyed by a reduced
tariff, have been contradicted by their pre-
sent unexamplcd prosperity.
The platform Invites the attention of
the wage earners to the fact that the pre-
sent voluntary increase of wages of those
employed in the manufacturing industries,
amounting to not less than S21S, 000 600,
absolutely unknown under the Mckinley
tariff act.
The prevent the reactionary legislation
threatened by the Republican party of
Pennsylvania in the recent state conven-
ton, which would again depress business
by destroying the faith in the stability of
the present. conditions, 1t invites the citi
zcns of the land, irrespective of party, to
50 act together as to insure by the cleo
ton of Democratic President in 1896,
the maintenance of the present prosperity.
The platform especially rea1firms so
much of the platform of the last Demo
cratic national convention, as calls for the
use of both gold and silver as the standard
money of the country. But the dollar
unit of coinage of both metals must be of
equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or
be adjusted by an international agreement
or such safeguards Of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance Of party of the
two metals, and equal power of every dol
lar at all times, in the payment of debts.
Such parity it claims could not be main
tanned by the free coinage of silver, at the
ratio of I6 to L. and it Is therefore opposed
to legislation looking to that end.
The remainder of the PLATFORM deals
with state matters.