The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-09
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCH.
PENNSYLVANIA.

Row Among the Allegheny Repubicans-A
y Reform Movements In General Ne8ley's
Conversational District.
Tho proposed convention OF republican malcon.
Gents In Allegheny county. Pa, was held in Pitts.
burg on the 9th inst. The attendance was not very
large, but the proceedings were rather spirited. r.
B. Oarnahan ofieiateo chairman. The rollowinp
Were among the resolutions adopted,-
That reform in the administration of our marty
4natr5 Ii Indispensable to the maintenance v0f re-
publican ascendaney In Pennsylvania. The General
assembly mas become reproach to the state, and
Pie public confidence has been Withdrawn from 1t.
Corrupt special legislation has grown into an en-
crossing public evil, debauching me public moral
4ty and entang enormous burdens on the State.
Is publicly charged III the newspaper press, and
generally believed that the high onices In the gilt
W tue Legislature are bought and sold. Ihe remedy
OF these evils Is with the people, and can be exer
Pissed only BY the selection Of honest and capable
representatives and by restricting the legislative
power or the General Assembly through constitu
tona convention.
3t the present time is the corruption that peryades
fhe public service and the wild scramble for ONCE
The doctrine that to the vct0rs belong the spells Is
demOralizIng and destroying the government and
We therefore insist that the despotism OF patronage
and public o1ces be taken from partisans and given
only to competent persons, on the principle OF the
Senckes Civil Rignls bill That the true policy Of
Che national government Is the reduction OF taxa
Zion. which can be accomplished by the funding Of
Pie debt at low rate OF interest thus extending the
Pine OF payment and we especially call for the re-
0val OIL all tnqusitorial taxaons which REQUIRES an
army OF ofncers for their collection.
The administration OF President Grant and Gov.
ernor Geary were endorsed, and the following
nominations OF candidates for Congress ana the State
Legislature were made:-
4. COn0ress-Twenty-se second district, william Frew;
Ewenty-third district, feltx r. Brunot.
< State OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Gordon.
LeDtstature-F. A. Hutchinson, Joseph Walton,
Thomas Penney, Alexander Nimick, Richard G.
Gray, d. N. White.
The name OF General J. s. Negley, for Congress,
mas authoritatively withdrawn.
report in the Pittsburg Dispatch gives the fol-
lowing ss among the concluding scenes OF the Con.
Fentlon:-
AZ the members were leaving the room comments
Pm the d0inRS OF tle convention were as varied as
Keneral One forlorn looking man declared that the
whole affair was the work OF "Keeler, Kirk, karna-
han and the Komntercai, all spelled with K.u
Another ventured prophecies OF speedy descension
pf the worried spirit OF political convention 20 sui.
Nbhurous pits.
| The Pittsourg Commercial cordially endorses the
action OF the Convention, and SAYS
How well the Convention accomplished their OBJ
1ect we can safely let the pubic Judge. There need
be no fear OF the verdict. We know what II VIII be-
the prompt ratification OF the action or the COnven-
Hon by the great body Of the republicans OF Ale
khany county
Allegheny county gave about 1900 majority for
Grant, and s regarded one OF the strongholds Of
The republicans In the Keystone State,