The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-12
JUDGE PENNYPACKER
IS NOMINATED


of ruin, whenever Pennsylvania Rcpub-
licans have presented the spectacle or
divided strength and distracted councils.
The nomination was seconded by j.
Hampton Moore. of Philadelphia. This
concluded the nominations for governor
and the roll was called for nominations
for lieutenant governor. Jeremiah A.
Snyder, of Lehigh, nominated Mayor
Fred Il. Lewis. of Allentown, Walter
n. Merrick, of Tioga. William M. Brown
of Lawrence. Ex-Representative George
kunkel. of Dauphin. and Fred L. Cleve-
land, of Erie. presented the name OF
Major Isaac V. Brown for secretary OF
internal affairs. After the nominate
ing speeches Congressman Joseph G.
Sibley. of Venango, was elected per-
manent chairman. Mr.. Sibley made a
speech sounding the keynote OF the
campaign in accepting the chair.
MI. Sibley's Remarks.
Representative sibley. in outlining the
party's state policy, said:
The Republican party OF the keystone
state will strike the keynote for that har-
mony and concert of action which snail
insure the continuance of our present
national prosperity and the realization or
that more glorious destiny whose open
doors we have but entered. The record
of her progress is the history of all that
is truest, highest and best in our. ma
tional life for the past forty years.
Under the leadership of William Nc
Kinley what pledge of the Republican
party remains unfufilled? What promise
has been broken? He found deficit IN
our national budget and left us with an
overwhelming surplus. The last Demo-
cratic administration was engaged in sell
ing bonds to meet the expenses OF the
government. The Republican party has
been engaged in the payment or these
bonds and lifting the burden of obliga-
tions from our citizenship.
In time of peace 1t had been prob
lem with the Democratic party how to
provide sufficient revenues. Under Will
lam Mckinley, even with the great en-
pense of carrying on to successful ter
mination two wars wagcd for humanity,
the problem which confronted the present
congress was what disposition to make of
and how to reduce our surplus revenues.
He found the artisans of the nation idle.
His policy opened the mills and set them
to work.
The last Democratic administration left
us a nation overwhelmed with disaster
and almost in despair. The Republican
party shows you nation whose traffic is
so congested that the greatest railway
systems of the world find it impossible to
move the offered tonnage.
Concerning Senator Quay, Mr.. Sibley
said:
Our leaders pay but the penalty which
successful leadership compels. and there
is no life so high. SO lofty. so pure, so
true in it's purpose. that it can escape the
malignity Of a vcnal press or disap-
pointed politician.
Continuing. he said the Republican
party of Pennsylvania possesses a re-
cord which challenges admiration; that
in the condust of her domectic affairs
she sets high mark.
Speaking of the approaching cam
paign, Congressman Sibley said:
A Democrat who has twice been hon
orcd as chief executive of this common
wealth is now urging the same pretences
which insured success to him before. He
urged that our treasury was being robbed
and the peoples money misappropriated.
But for eight years. with the fullest Op-
portunity to investigate and know, he
never found a stolen dime or pointed to
misapproprated dollar.
The committee on resolutions reported
the platform, and it was read by Rob-
ert NJ. Yardley.
The Ballot.
Then followed the taking of the ball
lot for governor. Pennypacker was
nominated on the first ballot. The vote
by counties follows: