PENNSYLVANIA. 



749 



Resolved, That the Eepublicans of Pennsylvania, 

 in convention assembled, place themselves on record, 

 as heretofore, against the disfranchisement of the col- 

 ored citizen, come from what source it rnay, whether 

 by tissue-ballots, by a false count, by intimidation, by 

 murder, by amendment of the Constitution, or by 

 congressional action. 



Resolved, That the Eepublicans of Pennsylvania 

 demand of Congress that the limitation c<f arrears of 

 pensions bill, whereby unjust discrimination was 

 made against applicants for pensions after June 30, 

 1880, should be repealed, and all soldiers and sailors 

 entitled to pensions should share equally and justly 

 in the payment of claims by the Government. 



We approve of the bill which has received the al- 

 most unanimous vote of the United States Senate, and 

 is now pending in the House, regulating commerce 

 between the States, and call upon the Legislature to 

 adopt a like measure to regulate and supervise freight- 

 charges within the State. 



Whereas, There is an evident desire on the part of a 

 large number of intelligent and respectable citizens of 

 Pennsylvania to amend the Constitution by inserting 

 a clause prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxi- 

 cating drinks as a leverage within the limits of this 

 Commonwealth : Therefore, 



Itesolved, That it is the opinion and judgment of 

 this convention that the Legislature of the State 

 should at once adopt measures providing for the sub- 

 mission of this question to a vote of the people, in ac- 

 cordance with the true spirit of our free institutions. 



On August 18 the Democratic State Con- 

 vention met in the same city, and made the 

 following nominations : For Governor, Chaun- 

 cey F. Black ; Lieutenant-Governor, R. Bruce 

 Ricketts; Auditor-General, William J. Bren- 

 nen ; Secretary of Internal Affairs, J. Simpson 

 Africa; Congressman-at-large, Maxwell Ste- 

 venson. The following is the platform adopted : 



1. The Democracy in Pennsylvania, in convention 

 assembled, do declare that we reaffirm the Chicago 

 platform of 1884, approved by the people in the elec- 

 tion of Cleveland and Hendricks ; that vye favor a just 

 and fair revision of the revenue laws in accordance 

 with the letter and spirit of that declaration of Demo- 

 cratic principles, and in such revision care should be 

 taken that such changes shall be made in a spirit of 

 fairness to all interests, and without depriving Ameri- 

 can labor of the ability to successfully compete with 

 foreign labor, and without imposing lower rates of 

 duty than will be ample to cover any increased cost of 



E reduction which may exist in consequence of the 

 igher rate of wages prevailing in this community. 

 '2. That we indorse the Democratic reform Admin- 

 istration of President Cleveland. It has given confi- 

 dence to the business industries of the country, purged 

 the departments of corruption, checked extravagance, 

 discouraged class legislation and monopolies, elevated 

 the civil service from the partisan debasement to which 

 it had been reduced by previous Administrations, and 

 has made the people of the United States feel an as- 

 sured confidence in the perpetuity and safety of the 

 nation. 



3. That we indorse the Democratic reform adminis- 

 tration of Gov. Pattison. It has rescued the Com- 

 monwealth from flagrant corruption, vigilantly guard- 

 ed the public treasury, scrupulously protected the 

 rights of the people, economically administered the 

 Government, earnestly endeavored to enforce every 

 provision of the Constitution, reformed the manage- 

 ment of State institutions, exposed and corrected 

 abuse in the Soldiers' Orphans' schools, redeemed the 

 Pardon Board from scandals, and executed all prom- 

 ises made by the candidates and party in 1882. 



4. That we sympathize with labor in its efforts to 

 make industrial and moral worth, not money, the true 

 standard of individual and national greatness, and to 

 secure to the workers the full enjoyment of the wealth 



they create and sufficient leisure in which to develop 

 their intellectual, moral, and social faculties ; to this 

 end we desire the enlargement of the Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics, the abrogation of all laws that do not bear 

 equally upon capital and labor, and the prevention of 

 the hiring out of convict-labor ; the adoption of meas- 

 ures providing for the health, and safety, and indem- 

 nification of injuries to those engaged in mining, 

 manufacturing, and building industries j the enact- 

 ment of laws by which labor organizations may be 

 incorporated and arbitration extended and enforced, 

 and a suitable apprenticeship act for the purpose of 

 creating a better class of artisans and mechanics ; the 

 prohibition of the employment of children under 

 fourteen years of age in workshops, mines, and facto- 

 ries; the strict and exact enforcement of the laws re- 

 lating to pluck-rne-stores and store-orders, and those 

 relating to the accounting of industrial works ; the 

 appointment of inspectors to carry out these provis- 

 ions, and a rigid enforcement of existing immigration 

 laws, and exclude pauper, contract, and assisted im- 

 migration. 



5. That we pledge ourselves to the enforcement of 

 Articles XVI and XVII of the State Constitution, 

 relative to private corporations, railroads, and canals, 

 by appropriate legislation. 



6. That the State and local tax laws should be so 

 altered and amended as to relieve farms and real es- 

 tate from the present untair and large proportion of 

 taxation, and equalize the same, so that personal es- 

 tate would be made to pay its just part. 



The Prohibition State Convention met on 

 September 18, also at Harrisburg, and nomi- 

 nated: For Governor, Charles S. Wolfe; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, A. A. Barker; Auditor-Gen- 

 eral, Charles L. Hawley; Secretary of Internal 

 Affairs, John N. Emery ; Congressman-at- 

 large, John M. Palmer (colored). Following 

 are the essential portions of the platform : 



That the administration of Government and the ex- 

 ecution of the laws is through officers chosen by party, 

 and party must be held responsible for unfaithfulness 

 in the discharge of its duties ; therefore we arraign the 

 Kcpublican and Democratic parties as having been 

 untrue to the people on the liquor question, false to 

 proclaimed principles of " equal justice to all and spe- 

 cial favors to none"," and of protection to the weak and 

 dependent ; callous to the wrongs which the liquor- 

 trade inflicts upon wives and children, upon industry, 

 trade, and domestic happiness, thrift and prosperity ; 

 and conspirators against the people by the repeal of 

 the local-option acts, against their will and protest, 

 and by three successive' Legislatures elected by them 

 rejecting the petitions of thousands of the best citizens 

 of the Commonwealth, asking for the submission to 

 popular vote of an amendment to the Constitution 

 forbidding the drink-trade. The Prohibition party 

 pledges its co-operation and influence in the prosecu- 

 tion of whatever measures, and to whatever degree, 

 our mothers, wives, and sisters may deem needful for 

 protection of home from the drink-cuive, including 

 civil equality under the law, and their counsel and 

 labor in our party work of *' down with the saloon 

 and up with the home " is cordially invited and wel- 

 comed. 



The Prohibition party is the only party which gives 

 the citizens the opportunity of voting for public offi- 

 cers not in complicity with the liquor business. 



That corporations arc created to subserve the public 

 welfare, and should be held to a strict compliance with 

 the objects of their creation and its subjection to the 

 law. That corporation monopolists, office-seeking and 

 office-holding monopolists, with the liquor-trading 

 monopolists, now form a triple alliance in the Repub- 

 lican and Democratic parties for influencing the execu- 

 tive, legislative, and judicial branches of the govern- 

 ment. 



That we favor the enforcement by law of section 7 of 



