Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-08-24
Hon. John q. MC7enry'S
Most Excellent Address

natlon Oh the ople ol great STATE by gang
tor the election of men for high Office who TAX e
orders from Philadelphia or Pittsburg. The
I'm his official capacity, resembles the potter's
clay in the hands of the trust manlpulators
and evil political bosses.
The day of ofreckoning has come: The call
from the people is on and the Democracy of
Pennsylvania In responding to that call now
hnds before her II duty which cHnnot honor
ably be evaded. The sumbering intelligence
of the people of great State has been Quick
| ened into action by the God-given dii ection
of the forces of right, civic honor and justice.
We have come to the parting of the political
ways which means that henceforth Pcnnsyl-
vania shall no longer deserve the contempt OF
men and nations for government of imam
Gus political treachery. ON November 9Th
will be completed another step In the ad.
vancement of the evolution of governmental
reform and higher citizenship, by throwing of
election of n chief executive who will repre-
sent the peoples wishes, who win give us
once more n government of and for the people
BY placing IN r,,h the "a, Governors chair Lewis
vicsory for the Democratic party alone but Il
victory for all honest citizens, who believe In
honest representation and honest government
and when the votes are finally recorded II will
be found that this Congressional District has
contributed 5000 majority toward the peo-
pies cause.
The Tariff.
The Republican machine and its followers
| are filled with alarm at the outlook. The
word has gone out from Washington, from
Philadelphia and from Pittsburg to stand by
the administration; stand by the organiza.
tion, and stand pat for pro ection.
desire here and now to define my attitude
on the tariff issue. l will cast my vote, Il
elected, to sustain any tariif measure wheth.
or II is a Republican or Democratic measure
that can be shown to benefit the majority OF
the people of this District. j will cast my
vote, If elected, against any tariff measure re
gardless OF whether IL Is a Republican or
Democratic measure II II can be proven to be
detrimental to the majority of the citizens OF
nv District.
The diversity of our industries and the diff
ferent nationalities and occupations of our
people constitutes us an integral part of these
United States and of our Government to the
extent that that form of legislation which
works n benefit to this District caunot helu
but be beneficial to all o. her classes of people
in the United States, and that which proves
to be harmful to this District will prove eq ual
ly harmful to all other districts in the coun.
try. Therefore, we will stand for our own Dis.
trict interests first Assuming the higher pa.
triotic attitude that whatever benefits our
own Dlstric works an equal benefit TO the
whole United States.
a combination OF capitalists to build up a mo.
nopoly of any enterprise to the destruction
OF home industry, amassing large individual
fortunes at the expense of the multitude
then my voice and vote can be counted on as
| being used against any such tariff measure
with all the energy possess.
Taxation without Representation.
When we consider that all taxation is but
| and State and National Government, II be
c 'mes Immediately apparent that not only
should the affairs of our state and Nation be
honestly and economically administered but
that the people, the toiers who ma Ike up and
| constitute this Nation, should have a Just
representation which under the present sys
TEN of corporate graft and political control
| they do not get. The corporations control tn,
political bosses of all parties and that repre-
Sentative In State or National legislation who
| is dominated either directly by corporate con
| troll or indirectly through his subservience tc
| political bosses Is not representing the peopl.
who elected him.
| ate taxation of this country with the taxation
| of our farms and the homes of our citizens Il
becomes manifest Immediately to any stud
| Pennsylvania and the people of the United
! States have the same condition Confronting
/ them through the political chlcanery of theli
chosen representative as that which confront
J ed our revolutionary fathers, namely, taxa.
/ ton without representation.
In every act of his official life your repres
: tative should hold allegiance to no party as
against the best interests of the people of hi,
. District, and i'm my humble Judgment there i.
not so much need OF new and better laws n,
there Is for the intelligent execution and hon
est enforcement of the laws we now have.
| In II progressive nation such as ours new
conditions must necessarily arise and must b,
met and placed under proper COVE nmenta
contro', The will and voice that Should deter
| mine what this method of governmental con
| troll shall be, should be the voice of he people
! in the interest of all the people, and not In,
voice of the grating politician, who for his
own self ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or for the selfish in
tcreSts of political bosses whose private for
tunes have been made Mt the expense of tn,
taxpayers, perverting the peoples wishes
That issue of State or National Importance ms
affecting the interests of the whole peopl,
which viii not bear the light of discussion il
always u dangerous issue. The stand nat cry
is the cry of the dark ages; the echo of slavery
and an insult To the intelligence of the Ameri
can voters OF to-day.
Business Administrator Of Government.
When see large deficits In certain branche.
of our Government departments IL would
seem to me to be the province of your repre-
sentative to cndeavor to so regulate and ad
just such departments the same he would
do ia his own private business when he dis
covered that certain departments OF his bust
ness were beng operated at loss,
Take for instance the Postoiice Department
with our second class mail service being opcr
ated vt a loss of one Hundred and sixty Mil
lion Dollars each year
This loss comes from the pockets of all tax
! payers. BY the establishment of n Parcel,
Post this one item of loss would he converted
into Il profit. This, of course, would not please
the railroads nor express companies, but with
the advent ofa DemocrNtie House the day o
Railroad Government will be replaced by q
Government of the people.
AZ see the farmer working in the field, the
miner with his little lamp coming from the
bowels of the earth; the throngs of working
men and women pouring from our mills and
factories at the close of their days toll II
would seem to me that the one thought which
should pefmeate tne nina OF your representa-
tive and the one desire that should penetait
his heart should be the desire to do every
thing which may lay In his power to help ad
vance the interests of these working men and
women, for 1t IN an undenable truth that any
law or condition which can be created to helr
them, the same law or condition which helps
every channel of business enterprise.
From the days of my childhood at my
mothers knee and from my own personal eX
pericnce in life, have had drilled into my
very existence the teachings of the Bible and
the teachings of the Constitution, both OF
which declare all men to be free and equal.
hold, therefore, that the men and women who
carry the d Inner pail; and all toilers, whether
contributing to our Nations good, constitute
the most useful members of society; the
foundation and strength of our Government
whose voice and judgment should be the sole
directing power for the guidance of your chos
en- representative.
Let our efforts be to not only see that the
dinner pail is loaded full but that prices may
be so regulated by honest competition through
the wise regulation of the tariff and the de
, struction of unlawful trusts that the man who
MI the dinner pail for himselfand for his
family, The true prosperity and happiness
ofu nation can only come by and through the
prosperity and happiness of the individual
men and women who make up this nation,
thank you gentlemen and the citizens whom
you represent for this honor. Upon this plat
form of equal fairness to all and special privi
leges to none-ever standing for the best inter
ing the representative OF every man, woman
and child this District regardless of station oI
calling; untpmmeled by party pledges oi
corporate control; above and beyond the die
tation ofany party boss or stand-pat orders,
accept this nomination in the name of the
people of the Sixteenth Congressional District
and confidently abide their Judgment on tho
9Th of November.