Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-09-06
7II BsHecRAFE coNvESfos

I?II BgMoCRATE coNrESfioN.
Its Candidates, Piatiofih and Prospect,
The Democratic State Convention met
at Harrisburg on the 24th ul:. The no.
torieus Dick vad4 Of Philadelphia was
appointed President. The irrepressible
Dict, after a characteristic flourish of
! big words about Constitution, defiance,
knayes, Democracy, dignity, manhood
and social equality, subsided and inform
ed the convention that the chair was ready
for business In order to screen family
jars from the public eye, the FIRST motion
m ade was to appoint a committee, to
whom all resolutions on Federal or State
policy must be referred without debate
The convention, being thus muzsled and
headed off from any public expression
and discussicn Of cpiniohs, set itself down
to wait for platform. After two hours
patient waiting it became evident that
there was trouble in camp. and il was soon
known that big fight was going on in
committee. The convention becoming
anxious and excited a committee was
sent to see what was the matter, but get
ting no satisfaction it vas determined to
adjourn until evening. On re-assembling
the committee on resolutions reported a
platfor m and the convention proceeded to
the nomination Of candidates, which re-
suited in the nomination for Auditor
General of Colonel Davis whose prin-
cipal recommendation seems to have been
that he was in the service long enough to
acquire the militia ry title of Colonel, then
quit the service in the darkest hours OF
the rebellion and went home to edit a
copperhead newspaper in Bucks county,
thereby assisting to embarrass the govern
ment aud making amends to the rebels
for any harm he might Ha1e dote them
while in the Union service
The man Linton was in the same Regi-
ment with Col. Campbell We know him
like a book-in fact we once published
pamphlet in partnership. We know him
so we'll that we can not now give him jns
tice. On another occasion ,sc hope to do
him the justice of pruvidg that he ought
not TO be elected 20 Office.
The platform we have already charac-
terized as a re-hash Of the Chicago plat
form, as a matter of course, some Of the
more unwicldly planks of that immortal
,locume mt have been left out, such as the
End, pronouncing the war failure and
demand ding an armistice and peace at any
price, also the 5th denouncing tie gov
ernment, instead Of the rebels, for not
taking better care Of our soldiers, Ian
gushing and starving in Southern pTis-
ous, such a resolution jus! ror might
have borro heavily on Lee, Davis an d
Werz &c, which is not desired ty the
Democracy. A few new features have
been introduced, the principal Of which
are the 9Th, deprecating social equality,
(shades Of Richard n. johhsot1 and the
ancient Democracy J and the 7th, a quasi
enforcement Of President Johnson's pol
icy, with an addition Of butts and ifs and
ans, that turn the whole resolution into
one Of ccnsure and denounces the trial
and execution Of the assassins of Presi-
dent Lincoln as murder, and finally winds
up with the astonishing announcement
that the Democracy are no longer in favor
Of compromise. -.....
altogether the prospects Of the Democ-
racy are any thing but bright. The peo-
pie of Pennsylvania last fall repudiated
Mcclellan and the Chicago platform by a
majority of 10000, aud this re-hash of
that defunet institution, with its proteses,
is doomed to a still more overwhelming
defeat on the second Tuesday Of nett
October.
@r The SENTINEL never had an fdca
of its standing in the Union Party. 1t
appears from the last Democrat that when
the SENTINEL whistles the whole party
says amen-ehat because Se said civil
rights ought not depend on color, there
fore the Democrat flies off the handle
and goes on about the "detestable doctive