The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-09-07
SOCIALISTS
NOMINATE
A Full County Ticket is Placed In the
Field.
ALL ARE SHENANDOAH PEOPLE |
The Nominees Are Pierce Walker John
skivingtOn, Samuel miesel, John
Medals, Prank Balshanick
and Joseph Ryan.


spending weeks in drafting and doliberating
upon a platform, the Socialist-Lab Party Of
this county yesterday filed its nomination
papers setting forth its candidates for offices
to be filled at the state and county election
next fall. The nomination papers for
Congress, Senate and Legislature were
filed at Harrisburg and for the
remaining three offices at Pottsville,
both filings being made simultaneously. An
the candidates are residents of this town aud
they are as follows Congress, Pierce Walker
former Justice of the Peace Senate John
Skivington Poor Director, Samuel Miesol 4;
Controller, John NJ Medals Legislature,
Frank W. Balshanick Coroner, Joseph J..
Ryan. The Party, Of course, endorses the
ticket Of the state organization.
The platform Of the party was submitted
to the HERALD to-day for publication
coming through the hands of Mr.. John NJ
Medals, and it is as follows:
We, the Socialist Labor Party. of Schuyl-
XIII county, in convention assembled do
hereby assert our devotion to the cause of
the people and pledge ourselves to exert
every honest eudeavor to correct existing
evils.
We denounce, as tending to place a
premium on crime, the custom of allowing
county officials who have been tried and
| found guilty of offences punishable by i'm.
prisonment to escape the lust penalty OF
their crimes by compromise. That is: by
resignation from the offices they have pros
| tituted
| We denounce this because it is fupda.
mentally wrong, and also because it does not
seem TO dove-tail with our time-honored
stereotyped Schuylkill county verdict, Not
guilty, but pay the costs"
we place ourselves on record as being op-
posed to the system of administration Of
county affairs that denies assistance TO
worthy people in destitute condition, on ac-
count of scarcity Of money in the treasury
and pays Judges munifcent salaries for ser
vices they do not perform.
We denOuuce the system of election CON
test that obtains under our present laws An
lnsuperable burden is placed upon the tax
payers ana The contests are drawn out from
year to year until the contest is decided.
We denOunce the system of administration
that allows the railroads, the common
carriers, IN direct opposition to the laws of
the country, to discriminate against the
interests OF the anthracite coal region by
giving cheaper freight rates to the bitumin-
Gus districts, thereby running the anthracite
coal trade and driving the people of the
region to bankruptcy poverty and destitu-
ton.
We dcnounCe, condemn aud censure. under
protest. the iniquitOus system of fixing the
wages OF the miner and labOrer Of Schuylkill
county, as every mean advantage is taken of
the wage Garner to substitute lower grades of
coal than that which was agreed upon be-
| tween the operators and the W. b. A.
! organization, and feel confident that the
contract has long been broken and ought to
be discontinued, as the w. b, A, has long
ceased to exist.
Certain collieries in this region have taken
upon themselves the privilege of making
rules IN direct opposition to the laws of the
state in regard to the hosting of men from
the mines, &c, thereby subjecting the men
| To various dangers and discomfOrts, by com.
peillng them to remain at the bottom until il
SUITS the convenience of the authorities to
| hoist them.
! We denOuLCe the arbitrary system of
making rules, together with the starvation
wages paid to miners, and the inhuman and
| DarharOus treatment accorded to labOrers who
40 not understand the laws well enough to
defend themselves.
We denounce the system of contract labor
where the labOrer is subjected TO the greatest
abuse and receives the least pay.
We denounce the passage by the Assembly
! OF what Is known as The W0rkingmen's
Compensation Act" making EMPLOYEES re-
sponslble for any injuries his workiugmen
may receive, unless such injuries are due to
lhe WOrklngmen' $ own Careessness
We reathrm the constitutional privilege of
the people to peacefully assemble and petit
tlon for the redress of grievances; and we
denounce, rs legaliLed murder, the shooting
down of men peacefully marching along the
highways that has occurred at various time
and places under the system of government
by injunction
We declare ourselves unalterally opposed
TO the system of government by representa-
ton, and demand for the people the right t.
vote directly.
Resolved, That we will use our best
eRdeavors to accomplish such reforms and to
eradicate such glaring evils as have been
| enumerated.
COMMITTEE on RESOLUTIONS.