The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-29
WASHINGTON,

a6ellfy in the public sevice. keep
ing service 20 the country ever
foremost when accompanied by aali-
Ity and firess. We demand that
public office should be for the public ben
eft. an! that subordinate positions should
be during good behavior. Ne public en-
ploye or officer should be permitted TO IN
fuance primaries or elections. nor upon
any pretenss TO be assessed upol his sal
ary. ard al unnecessary posificns ard
salaries should he abolished. and expenGi-
lures and taxation reduced There should
be a uniform basis Of valuation of prop
erty for public purposes. Corporations
en- joyinE public privileges should pay for
thern and schools should be divorced from
politics and kept absolutely free from po-
niicsl influence and control
The resolution was adopted.
The committee on permanent orCaniZa-
tion was then chosen. with no great diff
Guilty, and went through the form OF agree
ing ON Gov. Hastings for permanent chair
man.
\ resolution reafTirming the currency
plank OF the Republican national conyen-
ton Of lsa2 was adopted.
Congressman Stone nominated Senator
Quay for chairman of the state central
committee Mr.. Stone, after giving a
brief sketch OF Senator Quay. from the
time of his birth In York county in 1851 up
TO the present time. said:
In Senator Quay the people recognize
great political leader. who is not afraid
to trust his cause in their hands. His
election In the present contest means not
only great Republican majority in Penn
sylyania this fall. but il means the cleo
tion OF a Republican president in 1886
for his election as chairman OF the Repub-
lican state committee in PENNSYLVANIA in
1895 means his election as chairman of the
Republican national committee in 1886
and disaster and defeat 10 the Demo
cratic party. IL means also clean politics
in the state. IL means the enact
mept of such legislation as will
make faithful service the surest
tenure of office. 1t means also the elm
ination from our local politics of official
interferences. At his time OF life he does
not aspire for higher honors. and his only
ambition is TO continue TO serve the people
OF his state. and 10 close his political ca
reer with their confidence and approval
He has been tried and found 10 possess
every qualification necessary TO success
fully conduct a campaign against the
Democratic party. If there We're any
doubts about his ability to do so before
this political contest, those doubts ought
now TO be removed. There are many m
the Republican party in this state whose
ability. skill and courage have been dis
played on many political battle fields bat
the Gen. Grant OF the Republic
an party, the genius of the Republic
an party, the inspiration of the Republic
an party in Pennsylvania, sits as a dele
gate in this convention from Beaver coun-
ty. / nominate as chairman of the Repub-
Hcsn state committee Hon. Nj. $. Quay. of
Beaver county,
On motion Of p. F. Gilkeson the election
or Senator Quay was made unanimous.
GiIkeson in a speech announced that he
Withdrew in the interest of party harmony
Senator Quay was then unanimously
chosen state chairman. He declined to
make a speech A gavel mades from part
of the rafter in the house i'm which Blaine
was born was presented 10 Chairman
Quay by Gov. Hastings
The state ticket was nominated as stated
above. The convention passed resolutions
OF thanks TO Chairman Gilkeson, and ad-
journed sine die al 2.4s D. m