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PENNSYLVANIA. 



electoral ticket. The following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That we hereby reaffirm the platform 

 adopted by the Republican State Convention at Lan- 

 caster in 1875, and, in view of recent events at Wash- 

 ington, we emphatically indorse that part of it which 

 demands honest men in office men with brains 

 enough to know dishonesty when they see it, and 

 courage enough to fight it whenever they find it. 

 The Eepublican party is committed by its origin, its 

 traditions, its history, and its duties, to an intrepid 

 and honest administration of public afl'airs, and 

 wherever in national, State, or municipal life mal- 

 administration has existed, or does exist, we de- 

 mand that it be exposed, corrected, and the'guilty 

 punished, and to this end we pledge the full measure 

 of our support as citizens and as voters. 



Resolved, That we look to the Cincinnati Conven- 

 tion to give us candidates for President and Vice- 

 president who are above suspicion, and in whose per- 

 sonal integrity the nation can most surely trust, and 

 that we also look to our friends throughout the State 

 to make sure that in presenting the candidates for 

 Congress and the Legislature they secure those only 

 who are known to be honest, capable, and faithful 

 to the Constitution. 



Resolved, That the Republicans of Pennsylvania, 

 having nothing in their past history which they wish 

 to blot out, or to apologize for, or would have the 

 nation forget, arraign the Democratic leaders in Con- 

 gress, and their abettors, for the preference shown 

 to deadly principles and for the subserviency shown 

 to the defiant leaders of the late Confederacy, now 

 dominating for the removal from office of Union 

 soldiers, and the appointment of Confederate sol- 

 diers; for the repeated indications of their purpose, 

 only controlled by fear, to open the Treasury of the 

 nation to alarming and unjust pecuniary demands 

 from the insurrectionary States, for the persistent 

 effort to force amnesty upon men too proud or unre- 

 pentant to ask it, or too guilty to deserve it, and for 

 the combined recklessness and cowardice of their 

 course on the final question, and the recklessness 

 which mischievously holds out a threat to overthrow 

 existing laws and a cowardice or incapacity to origi- 

 nate a substitute for them, all of which exposes the 

 Democratic party as without national instinct or an 

 unsectional impulse, or an affirmative policy, and as 

 unfit to be trusted by the country, as, when last under 

 their control, they madly hurried it into the vortex 

 of civil war. 



Resolved, That recent events in the late slave States 

 clearly expose a purpose on the part of the Demo- 

 cratic'party to seize them all and wield them as a 

 unit in the next presidential election, and to this end 

 brutal and bloody conspiracies have been made to 

 coerce voters, and base legislative conspiracies are at 

 this moment in operation in order that nn unprin- 

 cipled and fraudulent majority may deprive the 

 properly-chosen officers of their rights; and as 

 against these outrages we take an appeal to the peo- 

 ple of the nation. 



Resolved, That the common safety demands that 

 our public schools shall not only be free to all, but 

 shall be preserved from all special or partial control. 

 All attempts to divide the school-fund for any pur- 

 pose whatever, or to divert any portion of it into a 

 channel not under popular control, is to be frowned 

 upon and resisted with unyielding firmness. There- 

 cent defeat in the Democratic Legislature of Mary- 

 land of the constitutional amendment to secure the 

 common-school fund of that State against division 

 reveals at once a great danger, and its source, and, 

 with other like facts, makes plain the duty of Con- 

 gress to submit such an amendment to the Constitu- 

 tion of the United States as, when adopted, will 

 effectually defend the common-school system from 

 all enemies, open or cover I,. 



Resolved, That the attempt of the Democratic 

 House of Representatives at Washington, in the 



face of the depressed condition of American indus- 

 try, to inflict upon the nation a free-trade tariff, is 

 an insult to the intelligence of the people, and an 

 evidence of the inability of the Democratic party to 

 meet the present wants of the country. The remedy 

 for our suffering is in a higher, not a lower tariff. 



Resolved, That the neglect of the public business 

 of the State by the present majority of the lower 

 branch of a Legislature, and the plainly apparent 

 purpose of the majority to prolong the session, with 

 the sole object of thereby increasing their pay, is 

 worthy of the strongest censure, and must, if per- 

 sisted in, awaken the just indignation of the out- 

 raged people. 



Resolved, That the uniform policy of the Repub- 

 lican party of Pennsylvania in keeping down the 

 taxation burdens while steadily reducing the public 

 debt should be persistently maintained. When the 

 debt is wiped out, the public expenditures should be 

 confined to the civil expenses of the State govern- 

 ment, the support of her public institutions, and the 

 soldiers' orpnan-schools, and efficiency or her re- 

 formatory and penal institutions. 



Resolved, That the recommendation by Governor 

 Hartranft of a uniform system of municipal govern- 

 ment throughout the State, and of the adoption of 

 effective measures to prevent a further increase of 

 municipal indebtedness, is worthy of all commenda- 

 tion, and should be carried into practical operation 

 at as early a day as possible. 



Resolved, That in recognition of the eminent ser- 

 vices, both in the field and cabinet, the rare execu- 

 tive ability and unswerving rectitude of Governor 

 JohnF. Hartranft, the Republicans of Pennsylvania, 

 with great pride, present his name to the consider- 

 ation of the Republicans of the United States for 

 nomination to the presidency of the United States, 

 in the full confidence that the great qualities which 

 have rendered his administration of State affairs a 

 model, even by the confusion of political foes, will 

 insure as wise, as capable, as unflinching, ats honest, 

 and as successful a conduct of the vast and varied 

 interests of the nation ; that the delegates from 

 Pennsylvania in the National Convention are hereby 

 instructed to present Governor Hartrant't's name to 

 the convention as the choice of Pennsylvania, and 

 to give him an earnest, constant, and united support, 

 and upon all questions to be brought before or aris- 

 ing in the convention to cast the vote of Pennsyl- 

 vania as a unit, as the majority of the delegation 

 shall direct. 



At the election, on the 7th of November, the 

 whole number of votes cast for presidential 

 electors was 758,869, of which the Republican 

 candidates received 384,122, the Democratic 

 candidates 366,158, the "Greenback" ticket 

 7,187, the Prohibitory ticket 1,319, and the 

 Anti-Secret Society ticket 83. The Republican 

 plurality over the Democratic vote was 17,964 ; 

 majority over all, 9,375. Of the 27 members 

 of Congress chosen, 17 were Republicans and 

 10 Democrats. The State Legislature chosen 

 at the same time consists of 31 Republicans 

 and 19 Democrats in the Senate, and 120 Re- 

 publicans and 81 Democrats in the House of 

 Representatives. The Republican majority is 

 therefore 12 in the Senate and 39 in the House, 

 or 51 on joint ballot. 



The total vote of the city of Philadelphia 

 for presidential electors was 139,218, of which 

 77,075 were for the Hayes and Wheeler ticket, 

 62,110 for Tilden and Hendricks, 23 for Smith 

 and Stewart, and 10 for Cooper and Gary. The 

 Republican plurality over the Democratic vote 

 was 14,965; majority over all, 14,932. 



