The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-23
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS
Potter and Harris the Nominees.
 Outline of Platform.

Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. 22.-The Re- publican State Convention, which met here yesterday and nominated Judge 'Wm. P. Potter of Pittsburg for Su- preme Court Judge, and State Repre-
 sentative Frank G. Harris of Clearfield for State Treasurer, was a most un- usual gathering. It was understood the ticket was to be nominated by ac- | clamation.
 United States Senators Quay and Penrose and other party leaders, were absent. There wns an unusually small attendance of active party workers, and a large majority of the delegates never attended State Convention De- fore.
 Judge Potter was formerly Governor Stone's law partner and was appoint ed to the supreme bench last year to | succeed the late Judge Green. MT.
 Harris is serving his third term Tn the House of Representatives ana has
 always been a follower or Sna'o.e Quay and Penrose' The platform in dorses the National and State admin istrations and the official actions or Pennsylyania's United States Senator's comments the last Legislature. con ceded the right of labor and capital 10 organize, and dcnounces yellow Jour- nalism." . l I q. Brown, Pittsburgs Director oI | Public Safety, was temporary CnaIr- | man of the conyention and Davio n. Lane of Philadelphia. permanent | chairman. Mir. Brown Is the personal | representative of Senator Wiham | Flynn of Allegheny. former ieaoer ot ] the anti-Quay Republican organization | in Pennsylvania.
 1ir. Flynn was urged by Governor | Stone and other leaders at a confer ence last night at the executive man. sion to serve as temporary chairman, but he declined He was delegate | and for the first time in many years | took an active part in the proceedings | of the convention. MT. Lane Is az per-
 sonal and political friend of Mayor | Ashbridge of Philadelphia.
 | General Frank Reeder of Raston was
 reelected chairman of the State Com
 mittee at a meeting ot the candidates after the convention. The speeches of
 the chairman and the nominating
 speeches were noteworthy for their
 brevity.
 The platform says in part: We are amused, rather than concerned, by the
 State Convention for we readily recog-
 nize as all the people must. the coop
 eration of certain newspapers in theii
 preparation, which papers, failing IT
 their attempt to disrupt the Republican
 party. have crawled under the tents of the Democracy with their stale ant
 false charges and succeeded in having
 them adopted as a Democratic plat
 form.
 We believe in surrounding the rrcs'
 with every constitutional guarante'
 vouchsafed to 1t since the foundation
 of the government, but it Is public menace that these constitutional guar
 antees should be so misused as to hay permitted many of our newspapers t' l; have degenerated into a yellow journal ism such as is detrimental to any Stat or country. We charge the so-calle'
 yellow journals with being subsidized
 by the full page advertisements whicl , they carry. The advertiser Is permitte' to dictate their policy and at this be hest these newspapers have perverte the news columns and the editoria ! page from being an honest record 0 daily events to @ labored attempt t
 misrepresent facts.
 We arraign the Democratic party a !; incompetent, incapable. insince:e an untrustworthy. The citizens of ou , State within a very few days have wit ; messed a spectacle seldom seen in tn history of a political party asking tn , suffrages of the people. The Democrat iC party, dSHdhhCu VI A@S AS~S - - past and afraid to name a single issu of A national character on which 1t willing to appeal for support, asks tn people to forget that in the past, wheI l entrusted with the administration o public affairs. 1t has ruined our busi ness enterprises. shut down our mills closed our factories. put in idleness ou , great laboring classes, and ruiner th credit of the State and nation. w
 condemn it in the administration O
 our State affairs as much as in the In competency shown in it's administra ton of our national affairs"