The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-08-24

same condition and they now declare that
they have waited and lived on promises long
enough and that they will vote for the party
| that has had the courage to denOunce the
| protligate waste of the money, wrung from
/ the people for the benefit Of few by Op-
| pressive taxation and lavish appropriation of
the recent Republican State Legislature and
Congress, which has kept taxes high while
the labor that pays them is unemployed and
/ the products of the peoples toll are depressed
in prices, till they no longer repay the cost Of
] production
We declare ourselves unaltenbly opposed
/ to the importation from the old world Of
cheap labor under contract by hire, TO com.
/ pete with our American labor, thus prevent
/ ing proper remuneration to those for honest
/ industry, who are industrious, moral and
I thrifty, aud who have sworn allegiance 10
our country and support to her cherished
institutions and we demand that our ports be
closed against the admission Of servile races
untitled by habits training or kindred for
ABSORPTION in the great body of our people or
| for the citizenship which our laws confer.
The extravagance crime and corruption
INDUCED in by the Directors of the Poor and
County Commissioners of Schuylkill county
call loudly for the displacement Of those
| term-servers and tricksters, by men with
courage to maintain and administer the
duties of their respective Offices with true
and unswerving fidelity to the interest of
the people,
We denounce as hypocritical the expression
and declaration Of the recent Republican
convention charging that the extravaganza
crime and corruption of public officers in
Schuylkill county were attributable to Demo
cratic mismauagement when the fact well
and widely published is, that the great Com
mOnwealth Of Pennsylvania has never been
| so humiliated as all good citizens have been
| by the chicanery, trickery, dishonest eXtrava-
/ gance and attempted speCulatiOns of the
] 4 u IL
/ sented such class Of obnoxious legislation
that Governor of their own choice found
| the dose too nauseating to swallow, and
! checked them in their wilful and criminal
waste of the peoples money, and this same
extravaganza and misrule has found the echo
in the office of Poor Director and Commits
sioner in SchuylkiD county, where extrava-
gance, corruption negligence and misman-
! agement has run rampant, the Republicans
being in full control of the said offices and
being the only persons responsible; we declare
that the Dingley bill passed by the recent
| Republican Congress is against the interest of
the people, taxing as it does the necessities of
life, building, supporting and encouraging
trusts and mOnOpolies thus interfering with
individual enterprises and impoverishing the
people
We declare the record of the last Republi-
can Legislature is a record of crime and
corruption and deserve the condemnation Of
/ every honest citizen. Never in the history of
legislation has there been such schemes de-
vised by legislators TO rob the treasury as i'm
the last Legislature Legislators with free
railroad passes in their pockets from cor
pOrations in working out bills of expenses
added railroad fare to their other question
able charges. The general appropriation bill
is full of excessive items of different
amounts to be paid for by taxes to be levied
upon an already overburdened people. We
declare that the people should rise in their
might and hurl from power those who are
favoring oppressive taxation invoked to aid
trusts and make pooling profitable The
people have already waited too long for
legislation in the interest of the masses, and
the tax-ridden mOnOpoly-Oppressed people
demand now that the burden that has been
crushing out their life be removed and be it
Resolved That the course of Hon Il. A.
Grifliths, our able representative from the
First Legislative District Schuylkill county,
is hereby endorsed by this convention.
EDWIN SCHLICHER,
GEORGE f. WAGNER,
NJ. w. FEHR,
J. /. BLAKsLEE, JR.,
VIM. DUFFY.
This volume of words was received with
painful silence, until the name of Representa-
tive Grifiiths was reached which elected
much applause. The reading of the resolu-
ton was no sooner concluded than the chair
man proceeded with its adoption, but hitch
occurred in the program. 1t was mutually
agreed between the extreme slvertes and
the conservative members Of the committee,
that there should be no minority report
presented to the convention, in Difference to
the wishes Of the nominees. But the friends
of Bryan and free silver could not accept the
endorsement of Cleveland Democracy by a
Schuylkill convention, and William Anderson,
of New Boston, mounted the platform and
in creditabe speech presented a minority
report as follows
Whereas, In labor troubles there is a ten
dency by judges to hurl writs of injunction
rights which are older than the writ itself,
and which the people have enjoyed ever
since they became nation;
Resolved That we protest against the
prostitution of this solemn jud cial power for
the use of corporate greed and for the sup
preston of the peoples rights and privileges ;
that the rights of the people for speech and
to peacefully assemble and petition for re-
dress of grievances are guaranteed by the
federal and State constitution, and we
, emphasize our adherence to the Chicago plat
form and renew our protest against govern
ment by injunction.
f The reading Of the resolution was received
with yells and cheers, and struck respOn-
sive chord. 1t was evident that the oonven-
tion was as firmly welded to Bryan and his
pet theories as was the Chicago convention
Both the minority and majority reports were
accepted, and the party goes before the people
on the Chicago platform.