Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-21
Nominee Of Pennsylvania Republican
Convention for Judge.
FRANK G. HARRIS FOR TREASURER
Ticket Nominated byAccIamation--
Little Interest Manifested.
TEXT OF THE TFORM

the Harrisburg Opera House today to
nominate Judge William P. Porter OF
Pittsburg for supreme court Judge and
State Representative Frank G.. Harris Of
Clearfield for state treasurer, was most
unusual gathering. The ticket was nomi-
mated by reclamation. United States Sem
ators Quay and Penrose and other party
leaders were absent. There was an un-
usually small attendance Of active party
workers and large majority Of the dele
gates never attended state convention be-
fore.
Judge Potter was formerly Governor
Stones law partner and was appointed to
the supreme bench last year to succeed the
late Judge Green. Mr.. Harris Is serving
his third term in the house of representa-
tives and has always been follower OF
Senators Quay and PenrOse The platform
on which they Were nominated indOrseS the
national and state administrations and the
official acts of Pennsylvania United States
senator's, commendS the last legislature,
comedies the right of labor and capital to
organize, and denounces yellow Journal
iSm
Text of the Platform.
Following is the PLATFORM
The republican party of Pennsylvania,
in convention assembled, makes the fol-
lowing declaration of purposes and prin-
ciples, upon which it invites the support
of the people of our commonwealth:
We congratulate the American people on
the good sense shown in the reelection of
President Mckinley. His administration
has met every question with which it has
been confronted in a wise, patriotic and
statesmanlike manner. In all the vexed
questions growing out of the war with
Spain our national administra ton has
nd fhy-
OF the greatest public confidence
We congratulate the people of PennsyI-
vanla on the splendid prosperity which
they now enjoy. The farmer the mechan-
ic, the laborer and the professional man
all either have, or may have, remunerative
employment. We regret that under such
prosperous conditions contests should arise
between capital and labor but we hone
and believe that these disputes will be
finally settled on an equitable basis that
will dc full justice to the contending par
ties The right of capital to make proper
and legal combinations has been recop-
nized by legislative enactments in many of
the states, and this carries with it the
right OF labor to organize in proper and le-
gal ways for Its protection and advantage:
but neither capital nor labor has the right
to resort to violence or Illegal methods to
redress wrongs or obtain rights. The spirit
of mediation and concession should prevail
IN all disputes between capital and labor
Harmony In the Ranks.
We congratulate the republicans Of Penn
sylvanfa that there is no longer any divis-
ion in the republican party; that harmony
has been restored; that respect for the will
of the majority prevails, and that we pre-
sent a united front, arrayed only against
the common enemy-the democratic party.
We are amused, rather than concerned
by the declarations of the late democratic
state convention, for we readily recognize,
as all the people must, the cooperation of
certain newspapers in their preparation
which papers, failing in their attempt to
disrupt the republican party, have crawled
under the tents of the democracy with their
stale and false charges and succeeded in
having them adopted as a democratic plat
form.
The platform of the late democratic state
convention will be found in the files of the
sO-called yellow journals during the past
few months. We believe in surrounding the
press with every constitutional guarantee
vouchsafed to 1t since, the foundation of
our government, but it is public menace
that these constitutional guarantees should
be so misused as to have permitted many
of our newspapers to have degenerated into
a yellow journalism such as is detrimental
to any state or country. We charge the
sidized by the full page advertisements
which they carry. The advertiser is per-
mitted to dictate their policy and at his
hehest these newspapers have perverted
from being an honest record of daily events
to a labored attempt to misrepresent facts.
Democratic Party Arraigned.
We arraign the democratic party as in
competent, incapable, insincere and un-
trustworthy. The citizens of our state,
within a very few days, have witnessed
spectacle seldom seen in the history of a
political party asking the suffrage Of the
people. The democratic party, ashamed Of
its record in the past, and afraid to name a
single issue of national character on
which it is willing to appeal for support,
asks the people to forget that in the past,
when intrusted with the administration
of public affairs, 1t has ruined our busi-
ness enterprises, shut down our mills,
closed our factories, put in tdleness our
great laboring classes, ruined credit of
the state and nation, and now appeals to
the public on what it chooses to call local
issues. We condemn 1t In the admins
tration of our state affairs as much in
the incompetency shown In its administra-
ton of our national affairs. When the de-
mocracy went out Of power In our state it
left to the republican party legacy of
almost 4O,O0O,OOO of debt. This debt by
wise administration under republican rule,
has been almost entirely paid. We have
increased the appropriations to the COM
mon schools until we stand at the head of
the American states in support of popular
education. Under republican administra-
tfon there has been paid each year for
educational purposes more than was ap-
propriated by the democratic party in their
quarter Of century of misrule. We have
| increased our appropriations for charitable
and eleemosynary institutions until we
can make the boast that no state between
the two oceans supports these institutions
as well as does our own.
The platform concludes with an fndose-
| ment Of Gov. Stones administration and
eulogies of Senators Penrose and Quay.
j. O. Brown Temporary Chairman.
J. O. Brown, Pittsburg's director of pub
lie safety, was temporary chairman of the
convention and David H. Lane of Philadel-
phia permanent chairman. Mr. Brown is
the personal representative of Senator
william Flynn Of Allegheny, former leader
of the anti-Quay republican organization
! in Pennsylvania. Mr.. Flynn was urged by
Governor Stone and other leaders at a con-
ference 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 no active
part In the proceedings OF the convention.
Mr. Lane is a personal and political friend
/ OF Mayor Ashbridge Of Philadelphia.
/ General Frank Reeder OF Easton was re-
| elected chairman Of the state committee at