The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-08-29
CHAIRMAN N. S. QUAY
He Was Elected to the Position by
the Pennsylvania Republicans.
THE TICKET AGREED UPON
Resolutions That Are Not Alto
gether Friendly to Silver
Cleveland and the Will
son Bill Scored.

Harrisburg. Pa, Aug. 2S.-The re-
publican state convention met here to-
day and unanimously agreed upon the
following ticket: State chairman. NJ.
s. Quay; state treasurer. Ben j. Hay
wood; superior court judges, (six to be
elected James A. Beaver of Center
county; Il. N. Willard Of Lake county;
Charles L. Rice of Lucerne; George r.
Orlady of Huntingdon; John ]. Wick
ham of Beaver; Howard Reeder Of
Northampton. Tonight Senator Quay
is the hero as well as the ideal of
Pennsylvania politicians of all degrees
OF prominence. His rooms at the Loch-
lei hotel have been constantly besieged
since the convention. men calling to
congratulate him upon his matchless
leadership. The senator takes all Of
the praise and congratulations that are
being showered upon him with his
| usual stoicism. and so far as outward
appearances go his demeanor Is the
same as when the fight seemed to be
going against him.
| No state political convention hereto
fore held In this city ever drew SO
many people here as that which came
to watch the convention OF the repub-
licans to-day. Hotels were inadequate
to the demands made upon them and
many men were Obliged to walk the
streets all last night. occupy benches
In Capital park or lounge about the
hotel lobbies The tickets to the con-
vention hall were limited to the dele
gates. newspaper correspondents and
100 followers of each faction. The hall
opened at 10 O'Clock, but the delegates
did not begin to put in an appearance
before IL o'clock. and 1t was another
hour before the meeting was called to
order 1t had been confidently pre-
dicted that there would be the biggest
kind of fight in the convention. but
in last nights meeting the peacemak-
ers were finally successful and when
the conference adjourned at o'clock
this morning 1t was with a full under
standing that matters were going to
go smoothly in the meeting. The
agreement arrived at was that but one
convention should be held: that the six
superior court judges shall be renom-
mated and that the convention roll
shall be made up with each OF the six
contestants. the contesters allowed half
a vote.
Mr.. Stone. after giving a brief sketch
of Senator Quay, from the time of his
birth in York county In 1888 up to the
present time, said: "In Senator Quay
the people recognize a great political
leader, who Is not afraid to trust his
cause in their hands. His election in
the present case means not only a
great republican majority In Pennsyl-
vania this fall. but 1t means the elec-
tion of a republican president in 1896,
for his election as chairman of the re-
publican state convention in 1895 means
his election as chairman of the republi-
can national convention In 1896 and dis
aster and defeat to the democratic par
ty. 1t means also better and cleaner
politics In the state"
Senator Quay was then the unan.
imous choice for state chairman. He
declined to make speech. A gavel
made from part of a rafter in the
house where Blaine was born was pre-
sented to Chairman Quay by Governor
Hastings. The report of the resolu-
tions committee was then adopted SUBJ
stantially as proposed by Quay.
Following is synopsis Of the speech
Of Congressman Dalzell on the money
plank in the platform:
"There is not an industry that does
not demand the maintenance of sound
money and by sound money. / mean
money good at par at any market in
the civilized world An impression has
gone abroad that there is a free silver
party in Pennsylvania and that that
party Is republican. In my judgment,
1t is a crying necessity for the repub-
licans of Pennsylvania, in this conven-
tion assembled, to declare unequivocal-
ly against the free and unlimited COIN
age Of silver at any other ratio than
that fixed by international agreement
There are thousands Of republicans
west Of the Missouri river who claim
that the republican platform as adopt
ed at Minneapolis. means the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver. I want to
get rid of that impression. In order
that there may be no straddling, In
order that no man can stand up and
say Pennsylvania republicans are seek
ing to catch votes by straddling the
free silver question, add to your plat
form that the republican party OF
/
free and unlimited coinage OF silver at
any ratio other than that fixed by in
ternational agreement"
The platform to which the resolution
reaffirming the currency plank of the
national convention Of 1892. was adopt
ed after some heated discussion. and is
as follows 'The republican party OF
Pennsylvania, in convention assem-
bled. makes the following declaration
OF principles: We accept unreservedly
the determination enunciated by the
republican national convention of 1892;
that we demand the use of both gold
and silver money with such restrictions
and under such provisions. to be deter
mined by legislation. as will secure the
maintenance Of the parity OF values Of
the two metals, so that the purchasing
and debt-paying power OF the dollar
whether OF silver. gold or paper, shall
NJ all times be equally faithful to the
republican party and believing II "a
be the doctrine OF the party that the
honor of the nation and the interests
OF Its citizens require the maintenance
OF the national currency. every dollar
of which. whether in gold. silver OF