The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-09-03
The Erie Contention.

The Democratic State Convention
will meet at Erie on next Wednesday.
A very weighty responsibility will rest
upon it, aud the result of its delibera-
tions Will be awaited with intense in
terest. From our knowledge of the
delegates who will compose it, person
ally as well as by reputation, it will
not fail short, if it does not surpass, in
intellect and character most of the
State conventions which of late years
have preceded it. AS much is expect
ed of it, we trust that its members will
fully appreciate the necessity of full
and thorough interchange ofviews, and
the reasons upon which they are
founded, before taking final action on
the important business committed to
their charge. "Make haste slowly"
is a motto which every delegate to the
convention ought steadily to keep in
view. 1t is an old saying, that in a
multitude of cOunsellors there is wis
dom but. like all other general prop
istions, it has its exceptions. We
have known more than one Democratic
State Convention which has brought
wreck ana disaster to the hopes and
prospects of the party, by hasty and
inconsiderate action, merely to gratify
the impcrious and unreasonable de
mands of few of its prominent and
leading members. Personal consider
ations are only entitled to respect when
they are in harmony with the political
fitness of things, and when they Will
-, > Inn a Ia Mt
success What the people now de-
mand Is an honest, economical and
figh-toned State government, and they
are not so much interested in the NOM
ination of any two particular men for
Governor and State Treasurer as they
are that the candidates will fully meet
their expectations in that respect after
thev have been elected -..
Samunl j. Tilden Governor of New
I York, is living and most notable ex-
ample of what an honest and coura-
geous man can do as a reformer, when
he enters upon the work with fearless
courage and an indomitable will. AL
ready, at the very commencement of
his administration, his bold and vigor-
GUS measures have caused a terrible
shaking ofdry bones among the thieves
and plunderers of that State, who will
be made to disgorgc their ill-gotten
spuils and restore them to the treasury.
Have we Tilden, or a man who nearly
approaches to him, in Pennsylvania p?
If we have, let the Erie convention
summon him to the front, and the
people will call it blessed and hail him
with loud acclaim. They want no
counterpart of the gOod-natured, easy,
negative HarCranft in the Executive
chair, nor of the adrOit, speculating
Mackey to take charge of the treasury
vaults; but honest, positive men-men
who own themselves and are not owned
by corrupt lings-men who see the
right and dare the right pursue We
will not of course undertake to fore
shadow who the coming man will be-
MANY names have been mentioned in
connection with the nomination, most
of them from feeling of local pride
merely and without any ultimate
chance of success There are, how
ever, several first class names on the
list chief amongst which, as we have
heretofore expressed our deliberate
conviction, is Cyrus l.. Pershing, now
President Judge of the SchuylkiIl dis
trict. From careful study of the
whole field, we believe him to be the
strongest candidate named, and that
with his nomination the Democracy of
the State would be thrown less on the
defensire-a most important consider
ation-than they would encounter with
that of any other man. There NAV be
just a possibility that we are mistaken.
but we confess that we are utterly un-
able to see it, We feel that with him
we could certainly win. We will not
say, because we do not believe it, that
with another we could not do so, pro-
vided he possesses some Of the same
elements of strength that Judge Perish
ing unquestionably does. 1t is our
own Judgment, however, that such a
man will be difficult to find. If She
members OF the Erie convention will
rise to the full responsibility of the
occasion, they can make the first Tues
day of Novembera political Austerlitz,
or they can just as easily Curn it into a
political Waterloo.