The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-08
An Elector WithGraws.


Democratic ticket as an elector for
/ the twenty-eighth congressional dis
tIict OF Pennsylvania, has withdrawn
from that ticket. Mr.. Hall is also
UNITED States district attorney for
Pennsylvania.
+ The following is the full text of Mr..
Halls letter written in response TO a
personal inquiry by Mr.. Garman as to
his position:
PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. 26, 1886.
I Hon. John NJ. Garman, Chairman
i Democratic State Central Commit
/ tee, Harrisburg, Pa.
MY DEAR SIR:-I have this day for
warded to Secretary of State my res
ignation as a candidate for Presiden-
/ tial elector on the Democratic ticket
/ in Pennsylvania. ] have contemplated
/ this action ever since the Chicago
+ convention, but have deferred it un-
til this time in order that the public
might knowit TO be the result of care
full and mature elaboration and not
an act Of ill-considered haste
4 | believe an the rights Of the indivi-
dual the right of local self-govern-
ment and the honest fulfillment of all
public and private obligations. | be-
lieve that public taxes are a necessary
evil, but that they should be levied
J@Qr public purposes only and should
i be made as low as is consistent with
+ the expenses of the government econ
omically administered. ! believe the
/ best governed are the least governed
and am opposed to paternalism and
/ class legislation in every form, and
am consequently opposed to all legis-
/ latiOn which, under the guise of tax
alton and in the name OF protection,
I takes from one individual to give TO
another and lays the burden on the
many for the benefit of the few, thus
creating enormous fortunes by legis-
lative favoritism and inducing selfish
F, interests to corrupt legislation.
believe in a strict construction Of the
constitution of the United States, and
am opposed to any encr0achment Oh
the rights of the state by the federal
government beyond its Constitutional
limitations. believe that all pater-
nal legislation tends to socialism and
is hurtful to the best interests of our
country.
This is my confession of political
faith. These are the fundamental
principles of government laid down
by Jefferson, which for more than a
hundred years have formed the creed
Of the party he organized. | have
been lifelong Democrat, because |
believe that upon the survival and
enforcement of these principles de
ponds the perpetuity OF all Republi-
can institutions.
The platform adopted by the recent
sO-called Democratic convention at
Chicago is opposed to everything the
Democratic parry has stood for, every
: thing it has taught and every declara-
ton it has made in the past
1t is not the platform of Demo
cratic convention, but of a convention
of socialists maSquerading under the
name of the greatest party that was
ever organized TO protect the right OF
the common people; a convention com
posed of men who are not Democrats,
but who by false pretenses succeeded
in having themselves elected as dele
gates to destroy the party and to deny
the principles upon which it was
founded, at the same time taking pos
session of it's organization. The ma
chimney Of the party to-day is in the
hands Of the Representatives of the
! revolutionary element of our popula-
ton. It's candidate is preaching the
gospel of hate, sowing the seeds of en-
nifty between the rich and poor, and
striving to carry the employed in hos
tility to employer.
This campaign is not between the
Republican party upon the one side
and the Democratic party on the other
as we have heretofore understood the
terms. 1t is battle in which the
force of law, social order and patriot
ism are arrayed against those Of anar-
chy, dishonesty and disorder. With
those who would take from the thrifty
the accumulation of honest effort for
the benefit of the thriftless have no
sympathy, and feel that a supine
adolescence in the action of the Chi
cago convention would be an act for
which | should forever forfeit my self
respect, for | should regard success
I upon such a platform as the greatest
misfortune that could befall the ma
ton.
We are approaching a crisis in our
affairs more dangerous than any we
have ever encountered as a nation
1t can only be averted by vigorous, I'M
selfish and patriotic action on the
part of every honest thinking citizen.
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