The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-04
she Pennsylvania Democratic Con-
YGnfiOn.

The Pennsylvania Democratic State Con-
vention, rs our readers know, completed its
nominations and the adoption of Il "plat-
FORM Oh the 3lst ultimo. On national is
sues, the resolutions declaring for the limited
| powers of the General Government and the
| rights of local self-goycrnnIcnt say that
| 1.-The Democracy of Pennsylvania can find
| no better platform upon Which to stand than
| the great leading principles enumerated in
| the inaugural of President Jefferson and the
| farewell address of the immortal jackson.
tpOn these two great State papers we plant
ourselves and cntcr into the contest OF
1872" The resolutions call for reform in
matters of State government, and, among
other specifications, affirm "that the grant
by the Radical Legislature of this State OF
numerous charters creating such corr ora
| tons as the Southern Improvement Com
pany,' continental Improvement Com
pany,' and others of similar character, is I'M
lust to the interests Of trade, Is dangerous
to the rights and liberties of the people, and
| it, such meets with our unqualified condcm-
| nation" A resolution instructing the na-
| tional delegates to vote for straight ticket
! introduced in the Committee on Platform)
was voted down by 2G nays to 7 yeas. A
| resolution endorsing Hancock was also voted
down.
Charles r. Buckalew, the Democratic nomi-
nee for Governor of Pennsylvania, is ma
tive of Columbia county, in that State, now
i'm his fifty-first year. He WAS State senator
from 1850 to 1856, Minister to Ecuador under
President Buchanan, and United States Sena-
tor from Pennsylvania for the term ending
1869. At the expiration of his congressional
term ne was again chosen to the State Senate,
and has remained there since.
James Thompson, nominated by acclanla-
ton for Judge of the Supreme Court, IS Il
native of Butler county, and siNty-siN years
of are. deserved various terms in the State
Legislature, in Congress- and as districtjudge,
and in 1851 was elected a judge Of the SUI
preme Court Of Pennsylvania for fifteen
years, which office lapses by limitation this
year.
William Hartley, nominated for Auditor, Is
native of bedford county, Pa, born in
1892 lie passed his early lileon farm, and
in 1859 graduated at the Mechanicsburg
Academy. For the next five years he was
engaged in the hardware business, and in
1864 made extensive purchases of land in the
oil regions, and since that time he has been
heavy producer and shipper of petroleum.
Speaking of these nominations, the Phila-
dclplia InQtt,rer (LiberaD says that they are
4 recognition Of the demand by the people
of all parties that the candidates put forward
for offices of honor and responsibility shall
possess the requisite qualifications and COM
inand the support of the community. John
". Forney, writing in the Philadelphia
Press. SAYS "it is folIy--worse than folly-to
suppose that the Republican State ticket can
be elected us it stands" The Scranton Re
publican comedies that the nomination OF
| Buckaiew and Thompson at Reading is the
| strongest ticket the Democrats could have
| made, and imtimates that the prospect for the
| success of the Republican ticket is not en-
couraging. The, Philadelphia Age says :
-rhe platform addresses itself to the needs
of the hour: the restoration Of the Govern
mcnt TO the simplicity and purity that once
made it government for the people and by
The people. 1t processes nothing that any
one true TO the principles ON which the
American Government is founded will not
heartily endorse"
Ex-senator. ,Buckaiew, in his speech ac-
cepting the nomination for Governor, said
| !. NV ideas Of the duties Of the Governor OF
the Commonwealth are, Isuppose, somewhat
peculiar. My idea that be Ia magistrate,
~ he Is called tint IN his high, his important
otlice~-I mean In the actual discharge .ol Ills