The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-09
DEMOCRATS NOMINATE.
State Convention Held Last Week at
Harrisburg.

Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 3.-The Demo
cratic state convention was called to
order by State Chairman Hall. Will
lam j. Brennan of Pittsburg, who had
been selected temporary chairman by
the executive committee, accepted the
position in a brief speech.
After the contests in Luzerne and
Westmoreland counties had been re-
ferred to the credentials committee,
the standing committees were an
nounced.
The convention then took a recess
to allow the committees on permanent
organization, credentials and plat
form to dispose of the business re-
ferred to them.
When the convention re-assembled,
Thomas B. Alcorn of Pittsburg, from
the committee on permanent organiza-
tion, reported that Senator Webster
L. Grim of Bucks county had been Sc
lected for permanent chairman.
The following platform was then
adopted.
The organized Democracy of Penn
| sylvania, addressing Pennsylvanians
of all political parties, again calls upon
them to unite with it in a supreme eff
fort to rid our commonwealth of that
selfish, corrupt, extravagant and be-
basing rule which still controls its af-
| fairs.
We repeat the charges elaborated
| in the platform of our last state con-
venton and reaffirm that to the
| pledges and to the candidates of the
Democratic party alone can the peo-
| pie of our state turn for deliverance
from the evils under which they suffer.
Not one pledge made by the Re-
publican machine as a condition of its
continuance in power has been kept.
Today we witness the astonishing
spectacle of almost the entire Repub-
lican press OF the state and country
denouncing the governor for his ap-
proval of the Grady-Salus libel law,
the product, as they declare, of the
worst motives and purposes of the
Republican machine. This law they
charge was deliberately intended by
its authors and promoters as an as
sault upon the freedom of the press.
To the repeal of this measure the
state can safely count upon the vote
and effort of every Democratic men,
ber of the next legislature. To the
defeat of the candidate who stands for
the purposes behind it and the meth
ods of it's adoption. we pledge the
best efforts of our party and invite
the aid of Republican voters.
We demand the enactment of bal
lot law which shall provide for per-
sonal registration of voters in the cit
les of the state, insure a free, equal,
secret ballot, and the opening of bal
lot boxes obligatory when demanded
by citizens charging contemplated or
accomplished frauds.
We deplore the continued existence
of labor troubles and express the hope
that through concession, moderation
and fair dealing, early adjustments
may be reached. While we concede to
capital and to employers the utmost
protection guaranteed by the consti-
tuition and the laws, we also declare
II to be our conviction that labor has
the right to that protection which
comes through organization and union.
The platform opposes the present
system of taxation and favors the re-
peal of all mercantile license taxes
and a return into the local city county
and borough treasures Of all other
license taxes collected therein.
A minority report on national issues
was ruled out of order The following
nominations we're made:
Senator Arthur G. Dewalt of Lehigh
county. auditor-general; Senator Joel
G. Hill Of Wayne, state treasurer;
John A. Ward, Philadelphia, and ex'
Judge Calvin Reyburn of Armstrong
county, judges of the superior court.