The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-14

onvention then adjourned.
Fourth Senatorial District.

CoNNELL RENoMINATED BY AccLAMATIoN
The Republican Convention for the Fourth
district completed its work in short way
Hiram Miller, of the Twenty-eighth ward.
acted as President,
The name of George Connell being proposed
he was unanimously nominated, and, being in
troduced, addressed the convention as follows
Mr.. President and Gentlemen Of the Convention: -
After an unusually long and tedious session OF the
Legislature, return home to find myself again
unanimously renominated by the Cow ention or the
Republican party OF the Fourth Senatorial District.
This cordial endorsement and expression of YOUR
cSmn9 d 70 o5 @ t9s @ a s you
ration OF another term of service in which important
and complicated questions had to be met and de-
clded, ls extremely gratifying, and am happy to
receive SO emphatic an approval OF my conduct as
yonr representative. tW 'aI
significant mark Of your appreciation, and assure
you that In the future, as In the past, / shall
high ofice to which the generous conadenceSof NV
constituents has so often returned me- In review
ing the twelve years have served the people in the
Senate OF pennsylvania, the record OF the great
party with which have acted looms up before me
with brightness SURPRISING that OF any other
State since the establishment OF our Government.
These great accomplished facts hold up to you
trunphanty as the work of that great party OF pro-
gress whose candidate you have again made me to-
day-a party having within irsef all the elements
necessary to secure pure and economical govern
ment, and TO protect and preserve the rights and
Shall either the nation or the State change the
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such wonderful results? No, gentlemen; the time
has not yet come when Grant and the heroes who
fought for the ag OF united country and the party
which sustained him In the field, shall be showed
aside to make rooIA for those who denounced and
resisted every measure fer the support and prosecu
tion OF the war; Not yet shall rebels rebel SYM
pathizers be elevated to supreme power in the land
we have lately witnessed at Harrisburg the quality
restoration OF the so-called Democratic party to
power. In vain did l. with my Republican asso-
clates, In compliance with the clearly expressed
Wlsnes or the people, endeavOY to pase n hiIl nro-
WONG Ior a convention to amend our State CoIsti-
tuition We were steadily voted down by the acct
dental Democratic majority In the Senate, only one
single man OF whom manifested the SLIGHTEST inte
rest in the subject -A''
We saw in the Dechert and Lyndall case clear
and palpable disregard OF law. The sworn petition
OF nfty respectable citizens, setting forth aepa-
uons OF fraudulent votes counted In the election
more than sufficient to overcome the majority re-
turned Tor the Democratic candidate, was treated
with contempt: and the act of 1882 which reouires
the drawing OF special committee by lot to try
every such contested case, boldly set aside and
treated as q dead letter. ~ 70' - 7 71N'S' W
TO the demands for change in party or of prin
ciple made by such men or their organs in order
that they may be placed In power and entrusted
with the management Of the AFFAIRS OF this vast
country, which has marched steadily forward To
greatness under Republican administration the re.
sponse OF che people OF this district of PhiladeI-
phia, and OF our renowned old Commonwealth viii
be, "We seek no change, and least of ali. such
change as they would bring u.s." -