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PENNSYLVANIA. 



of liquors, which will be submitted to the Le- 

 gislature when in session. 



The National Greenback-Labor party as- 

 sembled in State Convention at Altoona on 

 July 15th. In the permanent organization 

 Samuel K. Mason was made President. For 

 State Treasurer, Henry 0. Baird was nomi- 

 nated and declined ; Peter Sutton of Indiana 

 County was then nominated. The following 

 series of resolutions was then adopted : 



The National Greenback-Labor party of Pennysl- 

 vania, in convention assembled, declare : 



1. That it is in favor of the payment of the na- 

 tional debt strictly in accordance with the stipulations 

 of the contract under which it was created, and that 

 no more interest-bearing bonds of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment be issued. 



2. That the Federal Government only shall issue 

 money ; that such money shall be a full legal tender, 

 and that full legal-tender greenbacks shall be substi- 

 tuted for national-bank notes. 



8. We demand, for the sake of economy and con- 

 venience, that the trade-dollar and fractional silver 

 coin be replaced by fractional paper currency. 



4. We demand the repeal of all laws that foster in- 

 equality in condition and opportunity, as they are in 

 violation of universal justice. 



6. We demand the enactment of an income-tax law. 

 with heavy penalties for perjury in its violation, ana 

 that said tax oe graduated in proportion to income. 



6. That all deots due for laoor performed take pre- 

 cedence of all other claims. 



7. That we demand the passage and approval of an 

 act abolishing the store-order or truck system, and 

 compelling the payment of all wages due laborers at 

 regular stated rates, and in the lawful money of the 

 United States. 



8. That we demand the passage and enforcement of 

 such laws as will prevent all combinations, discrimi- 

 nation, or the granting of rebates by transportation 

 companies, and compel common carriers to furnish 

 the service for the same price to all men. 



9. We demand that no more public lands be voted 

 to corporations, but that they be held for actual set- 

 tlers. 



10. We demand that education shall be free and in- 

 dustrial, and no child shall be allowed to grow up in 

 ignorance. 



11. We demand that there shall be a contraction in 

 official fees and salaries to correspond with the re- 

 ductions of incomes in other directions ; that there 

 shall be a specific tariff placed on all raw materials 

 produced here for the protection of American indus- 

 try ; that the hours of labor shall be reduced to eight 

 hours per day : that the contract system of labor in 

 our prisons and reformatory institutions shall be abol- 

 ished. 



12. We denounce any attempt at coalition with any 

 other party ; we favor the establishment of national 

 and State labor bureaus. 



The Democratic State Convention assem- 

 bled at Harrisburg on July 16th. A. H. Cof- 

 froth was appointed permanent chairman. D. 

 O. Barr of Pittsburgh was nominated for State 

 Treasurer. The following resolutions were re- 

 ported by the Committee on Resolutions : 



1. That we, the Democratic party of Pennsylvania 

 in convention assembled, renew our vows of fidelity 

 to the fundamental principles proclaimed and practiced 

 by the illustrious men who settled our free institutions 

 and founded the Democratic party to protect and pre- 

 serve them. 



2. That the just powers of the Federal Union, the 

 rights of the States, and the liberties of the people are 

 vital parts of one harmonious system; and to save 



each part in its whole constitutional vigor is to " save 

 the life of the nation." 



8. That the Democratic party maintains, as it ever 

 has maintained, that the military arej and ought to be, 

 in all things subordinate to the civil authorities. It 

 denies, as it ever has denied, the right of the Federal 

 Administration to keep on foot at the general expense 

 a standing army to invade the States for political pur 

 poses without regard to constitutional restrictions, to 

 control the people at the polls, to protect and encour- 

 age fraudulent counts of the votes, or to inaugurate 

 candidates rejected by the majority. 



4. That the right to a free ballot is the right pre- 

 servative of all rights, the only means of peacefully re- 

 dressing grievances and reforming abuses. The pres- 

 ence at the polls of a regular military force and of a 

 host of hireling officials, claiming the power to arrest 

 and imprison citizens without warrant or hearing, de- 

 stroys all freedom of elections and upturns the very 

 foundation of self-government. We call upon all good 

 citizens to aid us in preserving our institutions from 

 destruction by these imperial methods of supervising 

 the right of suffrage and coercing the popular will ; in 

 keeping the way to the ballot-box open and free, as it 

 was to our fathers ; in removing the army to a safe 

 distance when the people assemble to express their 

 sovereign pleasure at the polls : and in securing obe- 

 dience to their will when legally expressed by their 

 votes. 



5. That Eutherford B. Hayes, having been placed 

 in power against the well-known and legally expressed 

 will of the people, is the representative of a conspiracy 

 only ; and nis claim of rignt to surround the ballot- 

 boxes with troops and deputy marshals to intimidate 

 and obstruct the electors, and his unprecedented use 

 of the veto to maintain this unconstitutional and des- 

 potic power, are an insult and a menace to the country. 



6. That the Democratic party, as of old, favors a 

 constitutional currency of gold and silver, and of 

 paper convertible into coin. 



7. That we are opposed to the system of subsidies 

 by the General Government under which, during the 

 period of Kepublican ascendancy, political rings and 

 corporations profited at the people's expense, and to 

 any appropriation of the public moneys or the public 

 credit to any object but the public service. The re- 

 forms and economies enforced by the Democratic 

 party since its advent to power in the Lower House of 

 Congress have saved the people many millions of dol- 

 lars, and we believe that a like result would follow its 

 restoration to power in the State of Pennsylvania. 



8. That the Democratic party, being the natural 

 friend of the workingman and having throughout its 

 history stood between him and oppression, renews its 

 expression of sympathy for labor and its promise of 

 protection to its rignts. 



9. That wo look with alarm and apprehension upon 

 the pretensions of the great transportation companies 

 to be above the fundamental law of this Common- 

 wealth which governs all else within our borders ; and 

 until they accept the Constitution of 1873 in good faith, 

 they should remain objects of the utmost vigilance and 

 jealousy by both Legislature and people. 



10. That the recent attempt, under the personal di- 

 rection of ruling Kepublican leaders, to debauch the 

 Legislature by wholesale bribery and corruption, and 

 take from the Commonwealth four millions of dollars 

 for which its liability had never been ascertained, is a 

 fresh and alarming evidence of the aggressiveness of 

 corporate power in collusion with political rings, and 

 should receive the signal condemnation of the people at 

 the polls. 



11. That the present condition of the State Treasury, 

 a bankrupt general fund, and even schools and chari- 

 ties unable to get the money long since appropriated 

 to their support, is a sufficient illustration of the 

 reckless financial mismanagement of the Republican 

 party. 



From the minority of he committee the fol- 

 lowing resolutions were then offered as a substi- 



