Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-21
PARTY LEADERS WERE ABSENT.
Republican Convention in Har-
 risburg a Tame Affair.
Senator Quay Was Not Present Judge Potter Was Nominated-The Speeches Were Short and Very Little Enthusiasm Was shown At Any Stage of the Game.

Harf1SDurS Ia, Aug Zl.-Ine fepuU- lican state convention which met here to-day and nominated Judge William F. Potter ot Pittsburg, for supreme court judge and State Representative Frank c. Harris, of Clearheld, for state treasurer, was a most unusual gather ing. It was understood that the ticket would be nominated by exclamation United States Senators Quay and Pen rose and other party leaders were ab- sent, and large majority of the dele gates had never attended a state con vention before.
 Judge Potter was formerly Govern or Stones law partner and was ap- pointed to the supreme bench last year to succeed. the late Judge Green. MT Harris is serving his third term in the house of representatives and has all ways been follower of Senators Quay and Penrose.
 The platform endorses the national and state administrations and the ofti- cial acts oi Pennsylvania's United States senators, comments the last legislature, comedies the right of la Dor ana capital to organize and de. nounces yellow journalism" J. o. Brown, Pittsburg's director of public safety, was temporary chair man of the convention and David Il. Lane, of Philadelphia, permanent chairman.
 The speeches of the chairman and the nominating speeches were note worthy for their brevity.
 The platform says:
 The republican party of Pennsyl- yania, in convention makes the follow ing declaration of purposes and prin- ciples upon which it invites the SUD- port of the people of our common wealth.
 In 1896, near the dose of the last democratic administration the business interests of the country were prostrated, capital remained un- invested and labor was idle and unproductive. The electing of Mckinley revived our Ianguishing industries and started the nation on au era, of prosperity such as it never American people on the god sense shown in the reelection of President Mckinley. His administration has emt every question with which it has been confronted in a wise, patriotic and statesmanlike manner. In all tine yeXed questions growing out of the war with Spain our national adminis- tration has shown itself entirely capa- ble and worthy of the greatest public confidence.
 We congratulate the people of Penn | sylvania on the slpendid prosperity which they now enjoy. The farmer, the mechanic, the laborer and the pro fessional man all either have, or may | hnVQ a po iva | regret that under such prosperous con- ditions contests should arise between capital and labor, but we hope and 1 believe that these disputes will he finally settled on an equitable basis | that will do full justice to the contend ing parties. The right of capital to
 make proper and legal combinations has been recognized by legislative en- actments in many of the states and | this carries with it the right of labor to roganize in proper and legal ways for its protection and advantage; but | neither capital nor labor has the right to resort to violence or illegal meth ods to redress wrongs or obtain rights. The spirit of medietio and concession should prevail in all disuptes between cpaital and labor.
 We congratulate the republicans of Pennsylvania that there is no longer | any division in the republican party
 that harmony has been restored; that | respect for the will of the majority prevails, and that We present united front arrayed only against the com mon enemy, the democratic party. Our past troubles and dissensions are for gotten in the determination to stand firmly together in the future. Faction al disputes only benefit the democratic party and our purposes and actions should be to avoid all cause of dis sension.
 We are amused, rather than concern ed. by the declarations of the late dem- ocratic state convention for we readily recognize, as all the people must the cooperation of certain newspapers in their preparation. which papers. fail ing in their attempt to disrupt the re- publican party. have crawled under the tents of the democracy with their stale and false charges and succeeded Tn having them adopted as a demo- cratic plaform. The platform of the late democratic state convention will be found in the files of the so-calIed yellow journals during the past few
 months. We believe in surrounding the press with every constitutional guarantee vouchsafed to it since the
 foundation of our government, but it i! is public menace that these consti-
 tutional guarantees should be so mis-
 used as to have permitted any of our
 newspapers to have degenerated into
 a yellow journalism such as is detri-
 mental to any state or country. We
 charge the so-called yellow journals with being subsidized by the full-page | advertisements which they carry. The
 advertiser is permitted to dictate their ! policy and at his behest these news papers have perverted the news col.
 umns and editorial page from being an
 honest record of daily events to la
 borer attempt to misrepresent facts. We arraign the democratic party as
 incompetent, incapable. insincere and
 untrustworthy.
 l FORTY BUILDINGS DFSTROYTD