The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-02
BOoMsBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY

ccutivc Committee shall be chosen by
the State Convention and his eight as
sociates shall be selected by the Chair.
man and the nominees of the Conven-
tlon for State officers, and they shall, as
far as practicable be chosen, three from
the west, three from the central and
three from the eastern portions of the
State. NJ.
Third. That the Chairman of the re.
spective County Committees of the
State shall compose Il Committee to be
known as the General State Committee
and the said General State Committee
shall meet at such times and places as
may be designated by the State Execu-
tive Committee, and preside at all such
meetings.
Fourth. All vacancies in the said
State Executive Committee shall be
filled by the Chairman and the remain.
ing members of the said Committee.
After some struggling, WIN. A. WAL
LACE, of Clearield, was elected Chair
man of the State Committee, by vote
of SO to 80 for WIN. M. RANDALL, of
Schuylkill. The nominees were then
introduced to the Convention, who
spoke as follows:
Capt. Cooper, the nominee for Sur
veyor General, said that he had always
recognized the orders of his superior
officer; and as Gen. McCandless had
asked him TO speak first he would do
the best he could. lie was no speech
maker, and therefore, would content
himself with the grateful duty of re.
turning his sincere thanks to the Con-
vention for the honor conferred upon
him, and he was now ready to 60 t
work and achieve victory at the polls,
which he had no doubt would be the
result in October next.
General McCandess said he joined his
comrade, Capt. Cooper, with all his
heart in returning his sincere and heart
felt thanks for the honor the Conven-
tion had conferred upon them both, by
making them the standard bearers of
the great Democratic party in this Com
monwealth during the campaign just
inaugurated-a contest for the supre-
macy of the great party to which he
was proud to belong. 1t is true that
Capt. Cooper and himself had gone
through campaigns on quite another
field of warfare, where they had poured
out their blood like water in defense of
the supremacy of the laws and Consti-
tuition of their common country, but,
even in those trying times, those cam
paigns were not as important, or so vi
tai to the liberties Of the people as the
contest now opened before them, when
by Federal encroachments, through
profigate Congress, they were threaten
ing the very citadel of our liberties.
He said see before me the repre-
sentatives of at least n quarter of amill-
ion of freemen of this State. 1 sec be-
fore me an army of white freemen who
arc advancing to grapple with those
living issues that, like principles, are
eternal.
1t is but week since / stood in those
halls and heard the annunciation, from
the lips of my opponent, DIR Stanton,
of charge which was SANDER upon
the pure and patriotic men who had
perilled everything to defend their
country in her hour of need. But such
statements need no other re efutation
than tho fact that both his colleague,
Captain Cooper, and himself were here
against whose characters no tongue Of
slander dare wag, for their record is
spotless in all the relations of citizens
or soldiers. He commended the action
OF Governor Geary in his rebuke to the
administration and to the Radical party,
when he, the Governor, took ground
against the Federal interference of the
General Government in the elections Of
the peaceful citizens of Philadelphia
last Fall, and said that these usurpa-
tiOns had become so glaring that even a
Governor of the great State of Penn
sylvania had to minister rebuke to
them in the hope of staying the ten
dency of that party to Capitalization of
power and the establishment of mill
tary despotism in this country. After
again thanking the Convention for the
high honor conferred upon him, he re.
tired, amid the applause of the men,
bers of the Convention, who were vo-
ciferous in their demonstrations of ap.
probation of the Generals remarks.
After which the Convention on mo.
tion adjourned sine die.