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appoint the chairman of tho State Committco; 



and callcil for 11 liuirty support of tin- (Vul.-n- 

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Tin- I Mnocratic Convention took place at 

 I'itt4uirg, on tho 20th of August. The nomi- 

 nations were as follows: tor .Judge of tho 

 Suproine Court, \\ nrren J. Woodward, of 

 lurks County; for Lieutenant-Governor, John 

 I.atta, of Westmoreland County ; for Auditor- 

 : al, Justus F. Temple, of Greene County ; 

 (rotary of Internal Affairs, General \Vm. 

 McCandless, of Philadelphia. The following 

 platform was adopted : 



The Democracy of Pennsylvania, in convention 

 assembled, do declare : That the Republican party, 

 since its accession to power, Las violated the Fed- 

 eral Constitution and degraded the judiciary ; pros- 

 trated industry ; plundered the people ; usurped 

 power; loaned the Government credit to corpora- 

 tions without constitutional sanction ; fostered cor- 

 porations to the detriment of the agricultural inter- 

 eats of the country ; introduced frauds and corrup- 

 tion into the departments of the Government and 

 among its office-holders, and failed to dismiss them 

 \vhenexposed and convicted; appointed spies and 

 informers to oppress the business interests of the 

 country ; increased its taxation till labor can hardly 

 live, business prosper, trade and commerce earn 

 their fair rewards, or manufacturers continue their 

 operations; overawed and ignored the civil power 

 und set the military up as the exponent of the laws ; 

 invaded and subverted the sovereign rights of States ; 

 ivvivi-d the sedition laws, and by Federal legislation 

 attempted to destroy tho liberty of the press ; domi- 

 nated the white by the negro race in some States, 

 and by its proposed civil-rights bill made a war or 

 races imminent. Therefore, charging these offenses 

 to the Republican party, we call on all honest and 

 upright citizens to redress them by so voting in No- 

 vember as to produce a change and expel tneir au- 

 thors and abettors from all places of public trust and 

 confidence. 



Resolved, That the following are among the lead- 

 ing principles of our political belief : 



1. That the present prostration of the industrial 

 and commercial interests of the country has been 

 brought about by the unwise legislation of the Re- 

 publican party, and that prosperity can only be re- 

 stored by a change in the administration of "govern- 

 ment. 



2. That we are opposed to governmental grants of 

 public lands to corporations, as tending to general 

 corruption and demoralization of the public service. 



8. That wo favor an honest and economical gov 

 ernment, lopping off every needless expense, a re- 

 duction of the number of office-holders, the abolition 

 of the fee system, local and national, and the return 

 to the moderate living and plain customs of former 

 days. 



4. That we cherish a grateful remembrance of our 

 brave soldiers and sailors, and will give a prompt 

 recognition of every just claim in their behalf, or 

 that of their widows and orphans. 



5. That a steady effort should be made to bring 

 Government notes to par with gold, and to secure 

 a return to specie payment at the earliest possible 

 period that resumption can be effected with safety. 



6. That we denounce the civil-rights bill of the 

 last Congress, believing its passage to be a gross in- 

 vasion of the right of the States to control their 

 domestic concerns in their own way, and that it 

 would result in incalculable evil to both the white 

 and the negro races. 



7. That while wo recognize to tba fullest and 

 broaden! extent that it in the duty of the Ktate to 

 secure to all the blessings of education, and bunco 

 that our public-school nyvU-m should he generoiuly 

 sustained, we emphatically declare against the e- 

 UblUhment "f mixed schools by law, in which white 

 ai.'l Mark children shall be couipuUorily associated, 

 bi -lieving as we do that the int.-n u of the two race* 

 will In: best served by training the children in sepa- 

 rate schools. 



8. That the leaders of the Republican party, hav- 

 ing opposed the present constitution of this State, 

 inviting the Supreme Court to proclaim in advance 

 of the vote for its ratification partisan objections to 

 its provisions, selecting to preside over its late Stato 

 Convention one who refused to sign the constitution 

 as adopted, and nominating for State officers avowed 

 opponents of the instrument, cannot deny the hos- 

 tile attitude on their part to constitutional reform, 

 and deceive people with false pretenses in regard to 

 their future policy. 



The State election, in accordance with the 

 provision of the new constitution, occurred on 

 the 8d of November instead oi the second 

 Tuesday of October, as in former years. The 

 Democratic candidates were elected. The 

 total vote for Lieutenant-Governor was 549,711, 

 of which Latta received 277,195 and Olmsted 

 272,516, making the majority of the former 

 4,679. Benjamin Rush Bradford, Temperance 

 candidate, received 4,632 votes. Both Wood- 

 ward and Paxson were elected Judges of the 

 Supreme Court under the new constitution. 

 Twenty-seven members of Congress were 

 chosen at the same election, of whom 17 were 

 Democrats and 10 Republicans. The new Leg- 

 islature consists of 20 Democrats and 10 Re- 

 publicans in the Senate, and 110 Democrats, 

 89 Republicans, and two Independents in the 

 House ; giving the Republicans 10 majority in 

 the Senate, and the Democrats 19 in the 

 House. 



An occasion arose on the 28th of March for 

 the use of the military in enforcing the laws at 

 Susquehanna Depot. The employes in the 

 shops of the Erie Railway at that place struck 

 for their pay, which was two months in ar- 

 rears, and took possession of the road, refusing 

 to permit the trains to run until they were 

 paid. The sheriff was unable to subdue the 

 rioters, and called on the Governor for assist- 

 ance. Troops were sent, under General E. 8. 

 Osborn, to assist the sheriff in preserving the 

 peace and securing to the railroad company 

 the control of its property. This action 

 promptly brought the strikers to terms, and the 

 difficulty was amicably settled. To a protest 

 of some of the citizens of Susquehanna Depot 

 against military interference, Governor Hart- 

 rant't made this reply : 



HARRIBBURO, March 29, 1874. 

 \V. J. FALMNBUBO, urgttt y Sutquehanna Depot: 



As an individual I may sympathize with your peo- 

 ple in their misfortune in not receivingprompt pay- 

 ment of their dues; but, as the chief Executive of 

 this State, I cannot allow creditors, however merito- 

 rious their claims may be, to forcibly seize property 

 of their debtors and hold it without due process oV 

 law. Much less can I allow them to take and hold 

 illegal possession of a great highway and punish the 

 innocent public, either as passengers or transport- 



