Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-09-04
Republican State Platform.

The platform adopted by the Re
publican State Convention reads:
The Republican party OF Pennsyl'
vania in Convention assembled makes
the following declaration of principles.
We accept unreservedly the deter
mination enunciated by the Repubh-
can National Convention of 1892;
that we demand the use of both gold
and silver money, with such restric-
tions and under such provisions, to
be determined by legislation, rs will
secure the maintenance of the parity
of values of the two metals, so that
the purchasing and debt paying pow
er of the dollar whether OF silver.
gold or paper, shall at all times be
equal. Faithful to the Republican
party, and believing it to be the set
tied doctrine of the party that the
honor of the nation snd the interests
of its citizens require the maintain
apce of national currency, every
dollar of which, whether in gold, sill.
vec or notes. shall be of staple value
and of equal purchasing power, this
convention hereby declares it's oppos-
ition to the debesenent of the nat
ional currency by the admission of
silver to free and unlimited coinage
at the arbitrary ratio of 16 to 1.
We declare our continued adher-
ence to the protective policy which
has been 50 sturdily champioued for
one hundred years by the great men
of our State and of our Nation, and
to the acceptance of which policy by
the Republican party the country
owes all the prosperity it has enjoy
ed during the last thirty-five years
We insist upon the passage CT such
legislation as vii secure the restora-
ton aud maintainapce of this policy
without qualification Or aoatement.
We charge the Democratic party, un-
der Mr.. Cleve!and's leadership, with
the precipitation up,n the country in
the early par. of 1895 of the most
disastrous industrial and financial
panic in our history. which was caus-
ed by the opsn threa. Of Mr.. Cleve
land to destroy the protective policy,
and by The fear that other radical
and destructive Legislative changes
would be attempted uader the same
leadership. The country has had an
object lesson in destructive states
manship which it will not soon forget.
We rejoice that the scheme of Presi
dent Clevrland and other free strade
leaders to inhict upon the country,
the Infamous Wilson Tariff bill as
passed by the House of Representa-
tives was defeated in the United
States Senate.
One year ago tariff bill which
embodied substantial although not
complete concessions to the protec-
tive policy became law without the
Presidents signature. Such mea-
sure of prosperity as the country en-
joys to day is due to the radical
changes made by the United States
Senate in the Wilson bill, and to the
subsequent election of a new Con-
gress pledged to resist the Cleveland
free trade policy. We thank the Re-
publican members of the House of
Representatives from Pennsylvania
for the activity in exposing the des-
tructive chal acter of the Wilson Tar
if bill as passed by the House of
Representatives, and we thank the
Republican Senator's from Pennsyl
vanIa for their efficient help in secur-
ing its defeat. Especially do we
thank Senator Matthew Stanley
Qnay for his heroic resistance to the
bill throughout many weary months,
leading the Republican opposition to
it's enactment, and ioally compelling
the Democratic majority in the Sen
ate to agree to the substitution of
many protective duties for its free
trade provisions.
We charge upon the Democratic
party the present condition of the
Federal Treasury, which presents a
constantly growing deficit in receipts
as compared with expenditures, com,
pelling the borrowing of money in
large amounts at exorbitant prem
iums in time of peace to maintain the
credit of the government. For two
years the Democratic party has had
complete control of the Executive
and Legislative branches of the ma
tiona. government, yet it has failed
utterly to provide sufficient revenue
to meet the ordinary wants of the
government. For this failure it's re-
sponsibility is absolute, and it has ex-
hibited to the world such inability
and faithlessness in the discharge of
the high trust committed to it's care
that its history continues to excite
the contempt and distrust of all
thoughtful citizens.
We favor the adoption of a fixed
and we'll considered policy for the
permanent betterment of the high.
ways of the State, so that the means
of communication by private convey
ance between the farms of the State
and the neighboring markets shall be
improved, and an encouragement be
given to the enlarged use of the high
ways by our citizens.
We continue to demand the enact
ment of such legislation as will pre-.
vent the migration of paupers, crimi-
na!s and persons incapable, either
physically or mentally of self sup
port, and We endorse the bill that
passed the House of Representatives
prepared and introduced by our dis
tinguished Congressman, Honorable
William A. Stone.
We commend the splendid admin
istration of Governor Daniel 81. Hast
ings, which has fully justified the
cOnfidence in him of the voters of the