Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-03-12

resentativcs was crowded with en-
thusiaslic delegates, called together
from every district in the Common
wealth. The attendance is the largest
ever witnessed at Sta.e Convention
in Pennsylvania, the number of per
sons present being not less that five
thousand.
At II m. the Convention was called
TO order by the Hon William A.
Wallace, Chairman of the State Cen
tral Committee.
The list of delegates having been
called, Mr.. Wallace proceeded TO ad-
dress the Convention, as follows:
ADDRESS OF HON. W. A. WALLACE,
Gentlemen of the Convention: The
political events of the past year are
full of reasons for pride in your
strength and confidence lin your future.
Success has crowned your efforts
and the great principles of civil liber-
ty and constitutional government have
asserted their power over the minds
of the people
These great doctrines gave birth to
our organization, and when we are
defeated in their support, like the
fsbled Antacus when hurled to his
mother earth, we gather thereirom
renewed vigor and arise stronger and
more determined than before.
Tie war and its attendant train of
horrors are remembered in sadness.
Reason resumes its throne, and de-
sigring men can no longer attain their
selfish ends by appeals to passion.
Christian charity now fills the place
that rancor had usurped and hate and
bitterness are slowly passing away.
The Radical party have shown their
inapacity 10 govern the Republic,
and the mass Of their own adherents
recognize the fact.
Famine and crime, military rule,
insecurity of life and property, the
negro dominant, the white race OPP
pressed, are the proofs of this in one
section, while grinding taxation, un.
certainty in business and financial
distress pervade the other.
Il has given us "a broken and di-
versed Union J" corruption and ex-
travagance in the use Of the public
money confusion in momentary affairs,
and mismanagement of the immense
revenues it has wrug from the people.
1t can unite upon no policy, but the
perpetuation Of its own power. In
The mad spirit Of faction, il seeks TO
strip the Executive Of his prerogative,
and TO ignore the sacred functions Of
the Judiciary.
1t tramples upon the organic law,
reverses our traditions, and brands as
criminal every attempt to stay its
wild career.
Our form Of Government is the ex-
ternal evidence of our capacity for
self-government, for governments are
what the people make them.
If we can govern ourselves, we can
sustain the government we love, and
can safely trust 70 the force Of ideas,
to the march of mind, to public opin-
ion TO crush with the ballot those who,
through the forms of law, attack the
vital spirit Of our institutions.
The people have ordained free
system OF laws and n complex yet
simple organism; the people the States
and the onion. The preservation of
the rights 0feach Of these is essential
to the existence Of the whole.
To maintain these they have created
the thee great coordinate branches
of the government-the Executive,
the Legislative and the Judicial
Public good and private rights demand
the preservation of the integrity of
each.
Sovereignty is in the people the
government is their creature, woven
to protect their liberties; its division
into independent branches was Of the
very essence of the system the de-
struction of either, is a stride toward
tyranny. The organic law defines
the powers of each, and to that law
each must be conformed
The Constitution is the Supreme
law. 1t is the only evidence of pow
ers granted by the States and the
people. Itmust be strictly pursued
and implicitly obeyed TO sustain
these truths more than three hundred
thousand men, in conscious strength
and quiet dignity, await your call, and
this day speak through you for obedi.
ence TO law for the Government Of the
Con stitution and for the Federal
Union of the States
On motion OF Hon. S. E. Ancona, oi
Berks, the Hon. William NJ Randall
Of Schuylkill county was chos en- TEN.
poary Chairman ofthe Conven ton.
Mr.. Smith, Of Lancaster, offered
the following:
Resolred That a committee Of thirty -thrce-ih,
members thereof to hc named by the delegation,
from the different Senatorial districis-he appoint
cd to report permanent officers Of this Convention
The resolution was agreed TO.
The Convention then proceeded to
select the committee
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention re-assemblcd at
O'Clock p. m.
Mr.. Potts, from the Committee on
Permanent Organization, made the
following report
PERMANENT OFFICERS.
Presidcni-ool. William Hopkins.
Vice Prcsidcnts-Jamce A. Brooks, George A.
Quigley, Joseph Caldwell, Dr. J. l.. Forswood
Daniel X. Widhcr, G. +. Eldred, X. r. Bridrcns
VIM. T. Forsyth, Andrew NJ. Frania, David
Whcrry, J. r. Hacke;, George jackson. Wm. |.
Corbet, Benz. 7. Kane, D. NJ. Donchoo, jane,
shcakicy, Thomas A. M'Dcvitt, Bryce NJ Purcell
Dr. G. y. Shultz, Isaac Bcchiel, Andrew GcisclnAn
Henry c. Eyer, Col. John M'Crrary. G. W. Worm.
] lev Hon. Hiram Fiulpv Jacob Ouilnan Jos,,,l