Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — POLITICAL MELLANGE. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL MELLANGE.

Meetings of Politician* in Vari on* State*. ~ MazHachußattH, Pennsylvania, Texaa and Maioa Republican*— Campaign Mot**. PENNSYLVANIA. The Pennsylvania Republicans met at Harrisburg on the 24tb. Samuel H> Mills wes elected chairman. M S. Quay, Gen. D. H. Hastings, Nelson P. Reid and Henry W. Oliver were elected delegates at large to Chicago. A State ticket was also nominated. The platform embodies the following declarations: For the direct tax-bill now pending in Congress to repay the States for taxes paid directly fiom the State treasuries daring the war; for the dependent pension bill; indoniugthebighlicenre bill; reasserting the party’s purpose to subnet the prohibition constitutional amendment to a vote of tbe people, fora continuation of tbe Republican system of protection, and denouncing the Mills bill; denouncing the administration of President Cleveland as a failure and recommending the passage bv the Legislature, next winter, of a bill to amend and reform the revenue laws of the State. The tariff and wool planks read as follows: We declare that the object oi the American system of tariff legislation, besides securing reve nue, is the protection of American inauetry. The wonderful prosperity of this country is the best evidence of the Success of this policy, and the most conservative care should he taken in disturbing many industrial interests which have grown up under this system. The principle of all American legislation is to securo the happiness, the elevation, tbe prosperity and independence of each individual American citizen, and this principle is best maintained by a protective tariff which has for its object the elevation and fair compensation of American labor. The lasi message of President Cleveland is an open assault upon our industries, which will, if unresisted, result in a policy of free trade which will in the near future paralyze or destroy those industries, reduce the compensation of labor, and impoverish the Nation. Inasmuch as we have a large debt unpaid, harbors unimproved, aud inadequate public buildings for the purposes of tbe ?;overnment, and a navy Incapable of oommandng the respect due the dignity of a great nation, the Democratic administration is responsible for allowing the accumulation of a large surplus 1b the United States Treasury, which should have been approoriajed for these purposes. Excessive revenue can and should be prevented by the reduction or repeal of internal taxes 'Containing, as our State does, some of the most celebrated wool growing territory In the United States, we protest against the attempts of Democrats in Congress to strike down this induttry by placing the product on the free list, as provided In the Mills Dili. Conservative estimates by the leading mew among both the growers and manufacturers place the number of persons dependent for their subsistence upon wool growing at 4.000,000; tbe number of acres dependent for their value upon it at 112,000,006, and tbe loss 1b wages and value of land, and in the produce which the withdrawal of protection from this one industry would entail upon the country at 1 0,000. They are also agreed that the only persons who would be benefit ted by the enormous loss are the foreign preducers. MASSACHUSETTS. Massachusetts Republicans met at Boston on the came date. The mention of Blaine's name created wild enthusiam and three cheers for him were given. Gen. Wm. Cogswell was elected chairman and Senator Geo. L. Hoar, F. L. Burden, Henry S. Hyde and A. W. Beard delegates at large to Chicago The tariff plank of the platform is as follows:

The Republicans of Massachusetts now, as always, demand that the revenues of the Government shall be so collected as to afford protection to United States industries and labor, and to preserve the home market to tbe home producer. While they favor a proper revision of the tariff, they oppose such revision as has for the primary object the abandonment of the protective principle, and they claim that tbe propositions made by the Democratic party, through the message of the President and the Mills bill, warrant the opposition of every citizen who prefers the welfare of his country to that of another. The Republican party devised methods of securing the revenue to carrv on the war, and when the necessity was ended a once began to reduce that revenue both by tariff revision and by cutting off needless internal taxes. Tnis reduetion of revenue to the current needs of the Government, the Republican party will continue when in power. As to civil service reform, the plat'orm says: The reform of the civil service, which was inaugurated under laws passed by a Republican Congress, and approved by a Republican President, has, so far, made progress only under a Republican administration A Democratic President, by the confession of bls strongest partisan, is guilty of “self stnltiflextlon” and “surrender*’ in regard to this principle He has made great professions and has broken them, and we call upon the people to restore the work of destroying the spoils system to the only organization that has shown a desire to accomplish it. The platform also dedans in favor of high-license and local option. TEXAS. Texas Republicans met on the same date and elected nninstructed delegates to Chicago. The sentiment of the convention, as well as of a large proportion of the delegation to Chicago, is decidedly for Blaine if there is any possibility of his nomination. Blaine being out of the queston, Allison, Harrison and Depew are named as likely to receive support from the Texas delegation. MAINE. The Maine Republicans met on the 26tb. H. C. Burbank was made permanent chairman. Joseph H. Manley, Chas. H. Prescott, 8. H. Allen andC. A. Boutelle were elected delegates at large to Chicago. The platform declares for American protection ar against “Bourbon Democrats and British press” methode; favorj partial abolition of internal taxes; endorses Mr. Blaine’s Paris letter; favors the par sage of the direct tax bill; renews its hostility to the liquor saloons and favors civil service laws.