Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-07-10
Union Republican State Convention.

nesday morning June 26th, at ten o'clock,
for the purpose of nominating candidate
for Judge of the Supreme Court, and ini-
tiating proper measures for the ensuing
State canvass The Convention was COM
posed of Representative and Senatorial
District delegates, chosen In the usual way,
and equal in numbers to the whole number
of Senators and Representatives in the
General assembly. On calling the list ee
delegates, every county in the State was
found to be represented; also the Repubf-
can Association at Washington. Col. Fraak
Jordan, Secretary of State and Chair
man of the Central Committee, delivered
the opening address Gen. james L. Sci
fridge, of Northampton county, was elected
temporary Chairman. and Messrs. Hitch
cock, of Luzerne, and Newman, OF Phila-
delphia, temporary Secretaries.
After the appointment of committees on
permanent organization and resolutions,
Thomas NJ Marshal, of Pittsburg, was
called upon TO address the Convention while
the committees were preparing their re-
ports The Hon. Thomas j. Bingham. of
Allegheny, also addressed the Convention
on the issues of the day.
Mr.. John Walker, of Erie, Chairman of
the Committee on Permanent Organization,
then made the following report, which was
unanimously adopted: For President, John
Scott. of Huntingdon county; Vice Presi-
dents. one representative from each Senate
rial District; Secretaries, Edward McPher-
son, James Bryarly, James W. Tremlin, h.
q. Grey.
On taking the Chair, Mr.. Scott delivered
brief and eloquent address.
The convention then proceeded to put in
nomination candidates for the office of Judge
| of the SuDreme Court The following
gentlemen were nominated: The Hons.
Henry w. Williams. Allegheny county
Edwin Owen Parry, Schuylkill; NJ. Russell
Thayer, Philadelphia Wm. Butler. Ches-
ter Thomas E. Franklin, Lancaster; Isaac
G. Gordon, Jefferson Samuel Lynn, Cen
tre; George Taylor, Huntingdon; John G.
Pearson, Danphin; Henry w. Williams,
Tioga; Joshua w. Comley, Montour.
On the first ballot the vote stood: Thay
er, %; Williams, of Allegheny, 25 But
Ter, If; Pearson, l3; Gordon, 10; Comley,
9; franklin, 8; Lynn, 7; Taylor, - Par,
ry,4; Williams, of Tioga, 4. The second
| legheny, %; Thayer, ,2T; Pearson. Is; Butler,
IS; ali other candidates having less than 10
votes. On the third, fourth and fifth bal
lots, there was no choice. On the sixth
vote the ballot stood as follows, the names
of other candidates having been withdrawn:
Williams, of Allegheny, Al Thayer, of
Philadelphia, Sc; Pearson. of Dauphin. %;
Lynn, of Centre, D. The seventh ballot
stood Williams, 46; Thayer, 35; Pear
son % Linn, %. The eighth Williams,
AZ; Thayer, So; Pearson, Il; Linn, 25.
On the ninth ballot the vote stood: Will
liams, 65; Thayer, 40; Lynn, %. The
Hon. Henry w. Williams, of Allegheny,
was thereupon declared the unanimous
To-
Judge for fifteen years from the second day
of December next.
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.
Hon. Edward McPhe.son, chairman of
| the Committee on Resolutions and Plat
| form, reported the following:
| The Republicans of Pennsylvania appeal
ing again to the people, take pleasure IN re
calling the repeated occasions In which the
/ voters Of the Commonwealth have sustained
and ratified their candidates and principles,
and strongly impressed with the Importance
of the ensuing election, make this declara-
tion of their opinions and principles:
First That, in the name of the nation
saved from treason, we demand security
against its repetition by exacting from the
vanqulshed such guarantees as will make
| treason SO odious as to be forever impossi-
| bic.
Second. That, as in the past we cordially
| justified the administrations OF Abraham
Lincoln in all necessary acts for the suppress
| sing of the rebellion, we record 1t as our
judgment that the administration of An
drew johnson has been chiefly faitl less, be-
cause it has failed to try to gather up and
fix in the organic and statute law the great
principles which the war has settled, and
! without whose adoption as a rule of action
peace is but a deusion and a snare
Third That, in the completion of the
task of reconstruction, so firmly as to be
perpetual, it is indispensable that traitors
beaten in the field shall not find sanctuary
in the courts; that the laws shall not be tor
tured to justify on palliate the crimes of
which the country's enemies have been
guilty, and that the law of war shall be so
distinctly declared by the courts that nc
paralyzing doubts may ever be raised, as in
1861, effecting the essential rights of the
| Government or personal duties of citizens.
Fourth. That this convention speaking
for the Republicans of Pennsylvania, unre-
servedly endorses the reconstruction mea-
sures Of the Thirty ninth and Fortieth Con-
crosses as basis upon sound principles, es-
sentIally just and wise, and promise an early
legal and permanent restoration of the rebel
States to their share in the government of
the Union; that we denounce and condemn
the efforts of President johnson, through
his plant Attorney General and a majority
OF his Cabinet, to evade these laws by inter
feung to obstruct and prevent their enforce
meht in thespirit in which they were pass
ed, and that we call upon Congress, soon to
meet, promptly to dispose of this new null
! lifcation.
Fifth That the thanks of the loyal men
of this Commonwealth are hereby rendered
to Major General Sheridan and Major Gen