The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-10

county.
The closing hour of the Republican
state league convention this afternoon
was devoted to filling out committees.
etc. At the failure of the committee
10 agreeing to a meeting place, the
matter was left to the committee. Har-
risburg and Willles-B Barre want the
honor.
Tonight the clubs turned out in a
magnificent street parade. Governor
Hastings fred the first gun in the
campaign in Pennsylvania and receiv-
ed an ovation. Congressman at large
Grow, Colonel Hoyt of Cleveland;
Colonel Stone. of Pittsburg, prospec-
tive candidate for governor In Penn
sylvania. also made addresses. Secre-
tary Of Internal Affairs Latta, Galu-
sha Grow and Others addressed the
Fassett meeting. Charles Emory Smi,h
of the Philadelphia Press shared hon
ors with Governor Hastings at all the
meetings.
HASTINGS ADDRESS.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies' and Gentle
m"n:-ln the national debates of the
past. as we'll a. in state and local
political contests. the disposition to
magnify the Importance of the result
upon tie country or the locality has
been generally apparent No argument
is necessary 10 produce that condition
of mind among the people of the coun-
try in the campaign upon which we
have now entered. Every voter has be-
come Il student of political economy.
involved. Party lines have been
trampled under foot. Old issues which
for years formed the dividing line have
become side issues. Many statesmen.
leaders and party men who still adhere
to the long-establishcd faith of Delnoc-
racy are ardent supporters of McKin-
ley some also have abandoned the
Republican faith. \ Democrat tic presi-
dent ana cabinet are al war with their
own party Old leaders of Democracy
have resigned or been dismissed from
service, and when the conflict is ended
am Of the opinion that the occupants
of the cots in the political hosnital of
the vanquished will be strange bedfel-
lows to large extent.
The st. Louis convention reaiiirmcd
the well-known principles of the Repub-
lican party and registered the will of
ley.
1t reiterated It's faith in the American
protective policy. in reciprocity and in
the Monroe doctrine; declared that the
Republicans of this country were unal-
terably opposed to every measure cal
culated to debaSe our currency by inn
pairing its credit: il opposed the free
coinage of silver. except by internal
tiOnal agreement with the leading COM
merCial nations of the world. which
they pledged themselves To promote;
declared that the existing gold stand
ard should be preserved until such
agreement could he obtained. and that
all silver and paper currency must be
maintained at a parity with gold.
The Chicago convention found itself
in condition of bad temper. confused
ideas of policy and a general Indefinite
ness of purpose. The delegates who be-
lieved i'm the Republican position ON
the money question We're in Il hopeless
minority. The supporters of President
Cleveland and his administration We're
equally helpless. Confusion of thought
and purpose was fairly portrayed in
the worse ConfOunding attempts at de-
Lucrative action. The outcome was Il
logical product. The president was
censured for issuing bonds and "traf-
ticking with bank syndicates" i'm order
to pay the expenses of the government
which the failing revenues of the Will
son bill could not provide. The SUI
premc court of the United States was
denounced because OF its decision on
the income tax law. and threatened
with course of discipline. The Fed
eral judges were assailed because of
their attitude toward the railroad
str los in uyii iif.,, Len in,
The utterance of that convention on
the money question has aroused the
people as they have not been aroused
probably since 1861. The new issue has
created practically and for the time be-
ing two new parties. AT the outbreak
of the war of '6l Douglas declared that
there could be but two narties-Union
men and rebels. In the present cmcr-
gency the national honor IL as much
involved as then. Old party lines to-
day are Obliterated. and a new line is
drawn between patriots and Populists.
Unon the one side are the leaders Of
those who carry the red flag of an
archy: those who would array class
against class; employed against en-
ploycr; labor against canital: who
would follow the phantom of socialism
rather than the emblem Of peace and
~
honestly enrich themselves than de-
fend the nations honor: who would
sink the ship in order to get the sal
wage The representatives of these
elements won at Chicago Disappnint-
ed. disguised dismayed, the followers
uf jefferson and Jackson retired from
that convention to contemplate the
fact that If II Of the II planks in its
platform are truth their political lives
have been Il deiuSiOn, Il fraud Or Il self
deception.
It required no unusual gift of obscr-
walton to compreh.n the quickly form
cd determine ton OF those who place
patriotism before party. national and
jrdiviGual honor above partisan sue
coss. Amcricansm above socialism
party policy could wait until Il reunited
country would own allegiance to hut
one flag and one destiny, so in '96 they
waive the question of tariff. reciproc-
ity and kindred issues until it he settled
once for all that national and individ-
ual honor is as sacred as the Declara-
ton of Independence.
THE EFFECT IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The Chicago convention called for Il
radical revision of Democratic princi-
pies. 1t stole the banners of DemOc-
racy. while it trampled on its princi-
pies. The mental gymnastics employed
in recunstructing the Democratic SEN
timent of the country was. to say the
least, painful. In Pennsylvania the
Democratic state convention, held q
short time previous to the Chicago as
semblage. declared that they were in
favor Of firm, unvarying mainten-
ance of the gold standard" and that
they were ''unalterably opposed to all
devices and schemes for the debase-
ment of our currency and to all evas-
ions and compromises of "A question so
closely affecting individual and national
credit and honor When they found
that all devices and schemes had been
employed to debase our currency they
received staggering blow. They stood.
however, to their own guns. The for
mer chairman of the national commit
tee announced that he had retired from
politics; the chairman of the state COM
mittee resigned his office! the electors