Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-06-15
s.. B. ROW. EDIron AND PROPRIETOR.


THE STATE CoNvENTIoN.-We give in an
other column the proceedings OF the Peoples
State Convention, which assembled at Harris
burg on the Sth inst. We were present our
self, and are free to say that it was not only
one of the largest, most respectable and IN
telligent Conventions that has for many years
assembled in this State, but that its delibera-
tions were marked with degree of goodwill,
harmony and enthusiasm that has been rarely
witnessed. Every district was fully represent
ed, many of them by the ablest men in the
party. Although an exciting struggle for the
Office of Auditor General ensued, yet every
thing passed off agreeably, and as soon the
name of the successful candidate was
nounced, the nomination was at once acqui-
esced in, ard the motion to make it unani-
nous carried without dissenting voice.
The candidate for Auditor General, Thomas
E. Cochran, of York county, is well known as
man of fine talents,a good lawyer, and of un-
impeachabIe integrity as an individual. He
has always been hard-working opponent of
the Sham Democracy, was the American-Re
publican candidate for Canal Commissioner in
1856, cat which time, it is thought, he was
cheated out of an election by the frauds per-
petrated in Philadelphia,) and is in every re-
spect we'll qualified to discharge the duties of
the office for which he has been nominated,
and to which, beyond all doubt, he will called
by the votes of the people in next October.
Gen. VIM. II. keim, OF Berks county, is the
nominee for Surveyor General. He was elect
ed to Congress for the short term, as the i'm
mediate successor of j. CLANCY Jones, over
the regularly nominated Leeompton candi-
date, last fall. He proved himself true to the
interests of his constituents, and made an a.
BILE speech on the Tariff question. He is a
fayorite with the workingmen of old Berks,
and will doubtless again carry that Democrat
ic stronghold. His election is sure, and he
will make an honest and efficient officer.
The resolutions conservative, yet deci-
ded, and will, We believe, prove generally sat
isfactory to all the elements of the party.
They denounce Executive intervention to de-
feat the will of the people-oppose a slave
code for the territories, the revival of the Af-
rican slave trade, and the further extension of
the Institution into territory now free-advo-
cate the encouragement and protection of
Home Productions and American Industry
the preservation of the purity and safety Of
the ballot-box the enactment of laws to pro-
tect us against the importation of foreign
criminals and regard the defeat of the Home
stead bill by the q. S. Senate, last winter, as
a direct blow at the laboring classes of the
country. They also endorse and approve the
course of Hon. Simon Cameron, and that of
our Representatives in Congress who support
ed the protective policy and opposed the ty-
rannical course of the NationalAdministrati
relative to Kansas; and invite all to assist in re-
storing the Government to its purity, and pre-
serving the proud heritage of American insti-
tutions, transmitted to us by our fathers, COM
plete and unimpaired.
With such candidates and such platform,
success is certain.