The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-08-25

TON COMMITTEE The platform
upon which we were nominated at
the Altoona convention declares,
that the paramount issues in the
campaign on which we have entered
are honest government, home rule
and clean politics, and pledges the
party to wage 'unceasing warfare
against the vicious system of politi-
cal profligacy and corruption that
pervades our entire system of state
and municipal affairs
This succinctly states the Issues
that now confront Our people for
solution at the ballot box on the Sth
of next November, and upon their
decision will depend in very large
degree the future happiness and
general welfare Of the great mass of
the inhabitants of our grand old
commonwealth.
In accepting the nomination to
the high and responsible Office for
which l have been named I pledge
the voters of this state that if / am
elected l will Use my best endeavors
faithfully to serve the whole people
and their best interests, in the dis
charge Of my official duties, and will
zealously strive to secure for them
the reforms promised i'll the Altoona
platform.
The people of this commonwealth
are sorely perplexed and are right
eously indignant over the malad-
ministration Of their public affairs
and they are resolutely determined
to wrench their government from
the hands of its usurpers and de-
spoilers who have used their high
offices of trust to rob and plumber in
order to enrich themselves at the
public expense.
The peoples government must be
restored to them and the political
bosses who have been abus.
ing their trusts must be re1egated
to the rear. This is a government
of the people, by the people and for
the people, and the time has come
when no political boss shall longer
rule and govern them. National
politics and political questions that
affect the federal government have
no place in this contest for honest
local and state government and clean
politics, for none of our state off
cials have any voice in the federal
affairs.
We were all united in Our support
of President Mckinley in the war
with Spain. There were happily no
differences of opinion amongst us
upon this important question, and
Our country never presented
grander spectacle before the world
than it did in the complete unifica-
tion of all her citizens in our recent
ly ended war with that foreign ma
ton. Every loyal American must
necessarily feel proud to have OBJ
sci we'd such an exhibition amongst
Our people and the manner in which
they SO cordially supported the fed
eral government in its present emer-
gency. Thank God, there were no
differences Of opinion amongst lis
upon this patriotic question of the
war and that we are all in accord in
supporting Our government in this
hour of its trial.
We are, and always were, for our
country, its flag and the federal ad-
ministration in waging a most Wig
orous war against Spain until an
honorable peace was secured and
the terms of Our government ac-
cepted. Our country first and party
afterwards, for without a country,
there can be no need for any great
political parties.
Any man who would seek to
build up a political issue in this
state out of Our international con-
and war with Spain and
to create a division amongst
the people now so happily united
upon these patriotic questions, in
order to advance his own Do1itical