The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-28
PENNSYLVANIA.
Democratic State Convention.

| 1liiooI Nun, august 81 lie DcliO-
cratic State Convention reassembled at
9:l5 this morning and proceeded with
the ballotting for candidate for supreme
judge. On the sixth ballot Hon. Warren
j. Woodward, Of Berks county received
one hundred and thirty-eight votes;
Henry P. Ross, Of Montgomery, one hum
dred and eight. Woodwards nomina-
tion was made unanimous.
Hon. John Latta, of Westmoreland
county, received the nomination for lieu
tenant-governor on the fifth ballot. The
convention adjourned until p. m The
Committee on Resolutions ana Platform
are now in session.
The Convention reassembled at 8 p.
VI. Justice F. Temple, of Greene county,
received the nomination for Auditor
General. ...
.., Resolutions.
The Committee on Resolutions report
ed as follows:
The Democracy of Pennsylvania, in
Convention assembled, declare that
the Republican party since its accession
to power has violated the Federal Consti-
tuition, degraded the judiciary, prcstrated
industry, plundered the people, usurped
power, loaned its credit to corporations
without constitutional sanction, fostered
corporations to the detriment of the az
ricultural interests of the country, intro
duced frauds and corruption into the de-
partments of the Government and among
its office-holders, and failed to dismiss
them when exposed and convicted, ap-
pointed spies and informers to oppress
the business interests Of the country, in
creased taxation till labor can hardly
live, business prosper and trade and
commerce. earn their fair rewards or
manufacturers continue their operations;
overawed and ignored the civil power, in
vaded and subverted the sovereign rights
of the States, revived the sedition laws,
and by Federal legislation attempted to
destroy the liberty Of the press, domina-
ted the white by the negro race in some
States, and by its proposed civil
rights bill made war Of races
imminent; therefore, charging these
ohFenses on the Republican party, we
call on all honest and upright citizens to
redress them by SO voting in November
as to produce a change, and cxpcl their
authors and ubettorS from all places Of
public trust and confidence.
Resolved, That the following are
among the leading principles Of our po-
litiCal belief:
!. That the present prostratiOn of the
industrial and commercial interests of
the country has been brought about by
the unwise Legislation of the Republican
party, and that prosperity can only BE-
restored by a change in the adminlstru-
tion of the Government.
=. That we are opposed to the govern
mental grants Of public lands to corpO-
rations, as tending to the general corrup-
tion and the decentralization of the public
service.
3. That we favor an honest, economical
government, the taking of of every need
less expense, a reduction of the number
of Office holders, the abolition of the fee
system-local and national-and the re-
turn to the moderate salaries and plain
customs of former days.
4. That we cherish grateful remem-
brance of our brave soldiers and sailors,
and We will give recognition to every
just claim in their behalf, or in that of
the widows and orphans.
g. That n steady effort should be made
to bring the government notes to a par
with gold and to secure a return to specie
payment at the earliest possible period
that resumption can be effected with
safety.
6. That we dcnouncc the civil rights
bill of the last Congress, believing that
its passage would be gross invasion Of
the rights of the States TO control their
domestic affairs in their own way, and
that il would result in incalculable evil
to both the white and cOlorcd races.
T. That while We recognize to the full
est and broadest extent that it is the duty
of the State to secure to all the blessings
of education, and hence that our
public school system should be
generously sustained, we cmphat.-
callv declare against establishing mixed
schools by law, in which black and white
children shall be ecompulSoriy associated; /;
believing as We do that the interests of
the two races will he hest served by
training the children in separate schools
Sth. That the leaders of the Republican
party having opposed the present con-
stitution of this State, invoking the Su
prcmc Court to proclaim, in advance of
tn" vote for its ratification, partizsn Oh
j"CtionS to is provisions, and selecting 10
preside over its late State Convention
one who refused to sign the Constitution
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