The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-20

HARRIsBURG. Aug. Ie.-The execu-
tive committee of the Democratic SOcie-
ties of PENNSYLVANIA has issued the fol-
lowing address:
-.Phe general assembly of the Demo
cratic Societies OF Pennsylvania Is
hereby cal ed to meet on the 2Sth day
o. September, at WilkeSbarre, that
city having been selected as tie place
bv the general assembly of last year.
We respectfully advise that every
Democratic society III the state COM
DIV promptly with the cOnGIuOns of
representation, choose their deputies at
an early date and certify the same to
the secretary, that the Ioll may be
made up III good time, and our hosts ut
WilkeSbarTe informed as nearly as
possible Of the number to be expected.
New societies viii report their organi-
ZatlOn with lists OF officers and mem
berS according to the constitution.
The means by which the candidates
of the democratic party. headed by
William J Bryan, were defeated last
wear are well known. We need not re-
count them. Every Intelligent citizen
underSta ands them and every good citI-
zen condemns them The contest was
between the people the laboring and
producing CIasSes-On the one side and
the money and cOerclye power of a
large number of powerful corporations
and mOnOpOlles on the other, associated
together for political action in further
ance of private as against public inter
ests. The combined temptations and
terrorism of the latter prevail ed for the
tine. But the reaction has 4 II sharp
and decided There l. no longer any
cuncealment of the purposes for which
the election OF a monopoly PRESIDENT
and congress was carried by means Sc
corrupt and brutal. The interests con
Cerned could not wait a needless hour
Tor the spOIlS.
Congress was Immediately convened
IN extraordinary session 10 distribute
the enormous plumber promised among
the trusts and other greedy associates
IN the national crime of 1896, by the
passage OF an act imposing fresh taxes
upon the people, not TO supply the pub
nc treasury. but TO turn new and
swelling stream of private profits into
private pockets. The people under
stand and resent 1t. They know also
that the gold currency monopoly is to
be perpetual " maintained Tor the same
puTp sc, and that so long as this mo-
uOp1lv party remains III power the
people are TO be forced to pay increased
taxes, the greater profits of the trusts
and interest on loans IN gold It.ficlaIlv
enhanced by the practical and ,Ontinu-
Gus decentralization of silver. one OF the
money metals of the constitution, the
period of whose coinage on eIuai terms
with gold was the period OF lCa-t tinau-
cIul disturbance and of greatest pros
Derity IL the histO of the United
States. Everywhere throu ghout the
country the people are iucensed and
eager to reverse the mistaken action OF
. last year.
In our own state we find no man
bold enough 10 defend the remarkable
eXcesses of the Republican party, in
full power In every branch of the gov
ernment If the people of the COM
mOnwealth were nos, like the people of
other states, vitally interested in the
event OF the battle for the restoration
OF honest and constitutional govern
ment ut Washington every honorable
citizen OF PENNSYLVANIA would find in
the record OF the last two years ire
slSuble incentives TO stand with every
other honorable citizen IN common
effort to wIest the several develop
ments OF our state government from
the party whi h has 50 grossly abused
Its trust. We shall not here review
these abuses in detail. They are fresh
IN the minds of the peOple-the reck-
less extravaganza and corruption. the
consistent contempt for awakened pub
llc opinion and remOnstrance of those
III authority, with the present diff
culueS of depleted treasury, confased
finances, unSystematic. entangled and
unconstitutional taxation are the sub
lccts OF daily thought and denunciatlon
among all classes of the people.
If there were no issues but state is
sues TO be determined this year or next
year or IN l9GO-when the American
pc pie propose IN one grand sweep to
take possession of their own-we should
nave every reason to expect that the
selt-reSpeotlng voters of our state would
do themselves the justice of changing
radically the conditions under which
we suffer at home. We look for that
change in the vote of this year, and of
the years coming, until the reformation
shall be complete. The evidences of
Its approach are on every side.
u nder these cIrcumStanc the duty
OF the Democratic party. of the Demo-
cratic societies and of the individual
Democrat Is plain They have ONLY to
show ~ the conduct of their own
party affairs, that they are worthy of
the publ confidence by the naming of
true and honorable Democrats for pup-
he offices, hy steadfastly adherIng TO
the sound principles of their national
and state platforms, listening TO no in
sldlOUS cOunSels of the common enemy
to desert and betray them for any sup-
posed temporary or local advantage. by
pUrglng and strengthening their organi-
ZatlOn at all points, that II may not fail
rs heretofore, IN the hour of trial-to
secure the deliverance of the common
wealth III good time
I'VE hope to greet the representatives
of every live Democratic society in the
state at Wilkesbarre to indOrse and
ratlfy the wise and patriotic action
which this committee has every reason
10 believe Will be taken by the regular
Democratic convention at Reading"