The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-05
KEYSTONE DEM CIR ITS.
Chauneey Blacks Great Speech
to Pennsylvania League
Clubs at Lancaster.

LANCASTER, Pa, Sept. 5, 1895-This
| city is filed with visiting Democrats in
attendance on the seventh annual gen
eral assembly of the Democratic So
cieties of Pennsylvania. When the con-
vention was called to order at eleven
o'clock by President Chauncey F. Black
oyer 500 delegates from an parts of the
gates being accompanied in number
Of cases by large delegations headed by
held in Maenerchor Hall, which is hand
somely decorated with tropical plants
and bunting.
| the conventions session to begin, but it
was long after that hour before Presi-
dent Black called the body to order,
which shade the graves of Thomas JEFF
| ferson and Andrew Jackson
ing the convention to order spoke at
some length in an encouraging manner
as to the prospects of success for the
| coming fall election. He said the roll
| of this convention contains the names
of six hundred regular delegates. the
active Democracy of the State The
| assemblage of these disinterested and
| patriotic democrats with no nomlna-
| tions to make and no offices to get show
| that the ancient Democratic party is in
destructible and immortal
Meyer did we assemble. cor continued lara
encouraging. 1t has apparently become
plain tot thousands of conscientious citi-
| Zens who have heretofore adhered to
the other party or to no party that only
| the hope of honest or even moderately
| decent government in this State depends
| upon the restoration to power of the
| Democratic party The spectacle. pre-
| sented today by our disgraced and tur-
| bulent opponents is most scandalous in
Mr.. Black quoted at length from his
| speech of last year at the Altoona meet
ing. of Democratic societies in which ne
sequences which would result from the
| election of a Governor and, members OF
ing bosses and corrupt state and ,muni-
| cipal rings This warning, he said, was
unheeded and the Democratic ticket
wend csai6ned down bT IN The the "fnad BAD @ times 9
fore the relief afforded by the Wilson y il
howlers elected Hastings Goyernor on
the false issue Of "taTiff at o,Ide The conse Sc
quences nave ,1d peeh Iee, Sent to tSe Gov
/ er1l5r more odious measures than the
repeal Of the pipe line law the religious
| izing the consolidation OF street car com
/ panies; and no Governor could have
! has shown Had Delamater been elect
/ ed ed on the tariff in 1890. instead of Pat
| tison he could not have been more reck-
/ less i serving corporations and monopo-
| lies than has Governor Hastings. The
chief sponsor Of Mr. Delamater Mt
! troll of the Republican organization
| though it is true that SOME of the dis
/ louder municipal bosses who promptly
/ took advantage of the new law to con-
ssolidate traction companies a are nowhere, where
5lne5 Sl@ slass ars D Den9sfssle Taise %ers Hss
csaeia1 s times rhs
| country has entered upon an era Of un-
aou s. App sql pug 11lJsdsiold WIZ PaEaSexa Sa
ssstisa ssstis Nominating Convention at viii
the thtspp pphicaSo 90 platform for sound money
and tariff reform and endorsing ,Cleve,-
land. Carlisle and the Wilson bill and
! llrer and six fit men for Superior Court
Judges. The personal and, professional
characters Of these men will recommend
| them for the BENCH"
| IN closing Mr.-SBlack said
"Win the people SANCTION. the scandal
the ADMINISTRATION. defeated and hunil-
/ lated in the Republican State Convention,
Rgnyi IN the eapdi9aen fer Of h
Court Judges? When the bench becomes
not merely partisan but factional when
| ties of political bosses. and judicial nom
| nations are huckstered for delegates in
a rough and tumble war of @ factions: the
| has been reached Bosses, rings and
great corporations have ruled us. Leg
| islatures and administrations have delib-
| erately betrayed the people to serve the
monopolies. Cities have been turned over
to combines. The public funds have been
| sQuandered: taxes have BEEN unequal.
! A free secret ballot has been denied
/ But through all this the bench has re-
| resnect and condence Of the people. The
| question nov! is: Shall the bench be sac
! Tdficed also?''