Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-04-30
TnB Plato RM.

For fidelity to the principles OF Repub-
licanisp Pennsy wanna holds the first rduk
among all the States Year after year II
has returned great majorities tor candi-
dates of tha. party, with DO selfish de-
mands for recognition of any OF its own
citizens as national candidate. The
time has come when the State which has
so long sud faithfully led the Republican
column many justly and properly submit
its own preference for the Republican
nomination for the Presidency. In the
presentation of the Hon. Matthew Stanley
Quay the Republicans, not alone ot Penn
sylvania, but of the entire Union will
recognize one of the foremost leaders
wise in counsel, and brilliant and able in
action at once the type of the American
citizen, scholar, soldier and statesman.
First of all national issues stands protec.
tion, and first among its advocates have
been the Republicans Of Pennsylvania.
We believe in protection as right to all
American industries, but as a special favor
to none 1t should be neither partial,
sectional nor hypercritical: it should be
as nearly as possible equal and universal.
We are not pledged to any schedules, but
we demand a restoration of the policy of
protection, and we pledge it az soon as the
Republican party shall ba fully restored
TO power in the executive aud CoDgresslon-
al departments rt the Government, ana ii
| shall be restored equlrably to the farmer
and the MINER To the manufacturer and
artisan.
We demand the restoration of that wise
policy of reciprocity which was framed by
James G. Blaine and adopted by the wise
and beneficent administration OF President
| Harrison to the great benefit of the com
merce of the country. and which has been
abandoned by the present Democratic at-
| ministration. We prove the policy OF ma
tional protection to our shipowners and
| the ship-building interests, by discriminat-
| ing duties in favor of American shipping,
in order that the American flag be restored
| upon the high seas.
The Republican party has always main
tanned the national honor and credit. 1t
| inforced the resumption of specie payments.
| 1t kept faith as TO every debt created for
the preservation of the Union, and has
paid the greater part of it IN accordance
with the spirit and the letter Of the laws
under which it had been contracted. II
| largely reduced th5 interest charges upon
| the balance of the debt by refunding al
| lower rates. 1t substituted for the Huctu-
atng and inadequately secured notes OF
| the STATE Sanks uniform national currency
of stable value, and of equal purch asing
and debt paying power. Faithful to its re-
cord, believing that the people are entitled
to the use of the best money, and anxious
to restore and preserve the industrial and
commercial prosperity of the Union, the
Republican party favors international
bimetallism, ana until it can be establish.
ed upon a secure basis opposes the coinage
of silver, except upon Government account,
and demands the maintenance of the exist
ing gold standard of value
There should be no statute of limitation
against grateful recognition by the Govern
! ment Of the services and sac rifices of the
soldiers and sailors who preserved the
| Union. We denounce the present admin
istration OF the Pension Bureau for its be.
trayal Of the interests of these heroes and
its attempt to nullify existing laws.
We believe in the enactment of such re-
strictive legislation as will admit to oui
shores only those immigrants who have the
capacity and desire to become good Amer.
ican citizens.
We congratulate the administration o.
Governor hastings upon its wise discrimi
nation in keeping expenses within theil
proper limits, and yet remembering thai
1t reflects tue interest snd views of q grea
and progressive State. 1t is Justly entitled
to the continued confidence Of Pennsylvs