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tories should be closed through foreign competition, 

 and the working-men of the country deprived of em- 

 ployment. 



Resolved, That we demand a continued adherence 

 to the policy, hitherto preserved under Kepublican 

 auspices in our State and in the nation, of a steady 

 and gradual reduction of the public debt. The inter- 

 ests of the people require that the most rigid econo- 

 my should be practised in the administration of both 

 the national and State governments, and that the 

 taxes should be reduced in both as rapidly as is con- 

 sistent with the honorable maintenance of the pub- 

 lic credit and the certain extinguishment of the pub- 

 lic debt. 



Resolved. That we are earnestly in favor of the ear- 

 liest possible removal of duties on tea and coffee, and 

 the prompt passage of the bill for that purpose now 

 before Congress. 



Resolved, That the Kepublican party has given full 

 evidence during the past eleven years of its ability 

 to administer the Government honestly, faithfully, 

 and successfully ; it has within that time maintained 

 the honor of our national flag at home and abroad, 

 preserved the Union from disruption and restored it 

 to its integrity, secured to all classes and conditions 

 of men the rights given to them by their Maker, and, 

 having proclaimed liberty throughout all the land, 

 and to all the inhabitants thereof, has given to that 

 proclamation the full effect to which it was entitled, 

 and we, therefore, in its name, claim from the people 

 a continuance of their confidence, and fearlessly chal- 

 lenge their scrutiny into its acts. 



Resolved, That we point with pride to the record 

 of General Grant's administration of the national 

 Government: not only has the weight of internal 

 taxation been almost wholly removed from the peo- 

 ple's shoulders, but $300,000,000 of the national debt 

 have been paid off a result never before attained by 

 any other people under like circumstances, and for 

 which we are indebted to the rigid honesty, strict 

 economy, and sterling integrity, which the President 

 has brought to the administration of national affairs. 



Resolved, That we will stand by the Government 

 in the foreign policy so firmly marked out and ad- 

 hered to by President Grant. The honor of the na- 

 tion, we feel, is safe in his hands, and the flag under 

 which he never suffered defeat will not be dishonored 

 while he is kept in the front. 



Resolved, That the oil-producing, mining, lumber- 

 ing, and manufacturing interests require protection 

 from the efforts of dangerous combinations, and that 

 such laws should be enacted by the Genera^ Assem- 

 bly of the Commonwealth as will protect said inter- 

 ests both in their development and the transportation 

 of their productions to market. 



Resolved, That we present with peculiar pride, and 

 with an assured confidence of their success, the 

 names of General John F. Hartranft for Governor, 

 Ulysses Mercur for Supreme Judge, General Harri- 

 son Allen for Auditor-General, and the gentlemen 

 this day named for delegates at large to the Consti- 

 tutional Convention. They are all men worthy of 

 an active and ardent support at the hands of the Re- 

 publican party, and we call upon our friends through- 

 out the State to rally as one man to secure their tri- 

 umphant election. 



After the reading of these resolutions, and 

 before their adoption, an additional one was 

 offered by a delegate, namely : 



Resolved, That this convention do earnestly recom- 

 mend our Senators and Eepresentatives in Congress 

 to vote for the speedy passage of an act of Congress 

 extending pardon and general amnesty to all persons 

 engaged in the late rebellion. 



Which was not agreed to. 



The Democratic party assembled at Reading, 

 on the 30th of May, to nominate their candi- 

 dates for State offices, etc,, as follows: For 



Governor, Charles E. Buckalew, of Columbia 

 County; for Supreme Judge, James Thomp- 

 son, of Erie County, who was nominated, 

 without ballot, by acclamation; for Auditor- 

 General, William Hartley, of Bedford County. 

 The following resolutions were adopted by 

 the convention unanimously : 



Resolved, That the Democratic party, while, in the 

 future as in the past, firmly upholding the Constitu- 

 tion of the United States as the foundation and limi- 

 tation of the powers of the General Government, 

 and the safe shield of the liberties of the people, 

 demands for the citizen the largest freedom consist- 

 ent with public order, and for every State the right 

 of self-government ; that, to uphold the former and 

 protect the latter, the Democracy of Pennsylvania 

 can find no better platform on which to stand than 

 the great leading principles enunciated in the in- 

 augural address of President Jefferson and the fare- 

 well address of the immortal Jackson; upon these 

 two great state papers we plant ourselves and enter 

 the contest of 1872. 



Resolved, That abused as the public confidence has 

 been, by a long period of official mismanagement, 

 waste, and fraud, this convention invites the cooper- 

 ation of all citizens of the Commonwealth in the ear- 

 nest effort which the great constituency it represents 

 is about to make, to remove from our State adminis- 

 tration every taint of political corruption. The in- 

 terest of every Pennsylvanian is directly and vitally 

 concerned in the eradication of all unjust usages and 

 practices by which individual fortunes may be cre- 

 ated at public cost, and the attempt to do this can 

 "be mada certainly successful, by the union of upright 

 and fair-minded men of all parties, and by sustain- 

 ing candidates of unquestioned abilities and unspot- 

 ted names. 



Resolved, That this convention appeals to the peo- 

 ple of Pennsylvania for the support of the candidate 

 for Governor whom it has placed in nomination, he- 

 cause his election will secure at once a correction of 

 existing wrongs and the permanent future prosperity 

 of the State. It asks for his support, because he has 

 been nominated not to subserve the views or pro- 

 mote the interests of any section or faction, but to 

 meet the requirements of an urgent and common 

 need ; because he fully represents and in his life and 

 character fairly illustrates the true spirit and prin- 

 ciples of popular government j because he has been 

 an earnest, sincere, and efficient opponent of the 

 fraudulent practices and false doctrines of the party 

 that has held power through many long years of 

 misrepresentation and misrule; because he stands 

 pledged, by the record of his whole life, to admin- 

 ister" his office, if elected, for the benefit, and only 

 for the benefit, of the people; because he can he 

 trusted to secure careful, economical, and responsi- 

 ble control of the agents and officials and the treas- 

 ury of the Commonwealth ; because he can be relied 

 on to withstand unfounded and unjust demands to 

 the prejudice of public rights, to oppose with rigor 

 the encroachment of powerful corporations, and en- 

 ergetically resist the grant to aggregated capital of 

 privileges which could be used to injure, hamper, 

 and impede the efforts of individuals in the various 

 enterprises and fields of labor which the State affords, 

 and because his action in the past is proof that his 

 official influence will be used hereafter to prevent 

 the mischief of special legislation, and to destroy the 

 possibility 'of procuring the enactment of any statute 

 by the use of money or any other corrupt means. 



Resolved, That, in presenting the Hon. .Tamos 

 Thompson for Judge of the Supreme Court, we have 

 only to invite the consideration of the people to the 

 integrity, impartiality, and preeminent lecral attain- 

 ments which have characterized the discharge of his 

 judicial duties during his fifteen years' service upon 

 the bench of the. Supreme Court. 



