New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-10
THE DEMOCRATS AT ERIE.
CYRUS L. PERSHING FOR GOVERNOR ON AN
INITIATION PLATFORM.

| THE VICTORY OF TIE HARD-MONEY MEN II
COMMITTEE LOST IN THE CONVENTION.
A DAY OF TURMOIL AND KxcITEMENT-THE CON-
MTTEE 25 TO "a on THE FINANCIAL QUESTION
TWO HARD-MONEY MEN DRAGOOSED INTO
CHANGING THEIR vOTEs-A GOVERNOR N0NI-
MATED ON TIE TENTH BALLOT.
The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania
at Erie completed its labors yesterday. The night
before, the hard money men carried the Committee
Oh Resolutions by vote Of 25 to 81. An adjourn
ment was then had. Meantime pressure was brought
to bear on two hard money members, and they
were made TO change their votes. platform was
reported TO the Convention similar in spirit to tho
Ohio platform. After great excitement it was finally
adopted. Ten ballots were taken for the nomination
for Governor. There were nine candidates, the
leading ones being William Bigler Cyrus l.. Per-
shing, James p. Barr and Amos c. Noyes. Judge
Pershing was nominated late at night.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION.
SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAY THE IMITATION VIC
TORY WAS woN-A PLATFORM ADOPTED MORE
PRONOUNCED THAN TIE OHIO PLATFoBM-TgN
BALLOTS FOR GOVERNOR.
fBY TELEGRAPH FROM srArF CORRESPONDENT OF THE
TEIBUsE.I
Committee on Resolutions by the hard-money men
last night proved transient and illusionary. The
vctOrs were cheated out of the fruits Of it this
ing by the bad faith OF the Chairman Of the Com
mttee, Z. w. Hughes Of Schuylkll, who refused to
make the report and under the hypocrtical preiense
Of wishing to reassemble the Committee, so as to
make them entirely harmonious, secured an adjourn
ment. Two weak-minded members Of the Commit
re. who had opposed initiation, were tempered with
in the mean time, and thus the tables were COM
pletely turned The Ohio platform, without any
important modification, was thus forced down the
threats of the hardmOney men. The history OF this
business Onght to be fully understood
by the friends Of an honest currency in
side and outside the Democratic party.
The anti-in0ationsts won their victory in the Com
mttee last night by majority of one. Until after
midnight their cause looked hopeless. The rag
money advocates were boisterous and exultant
They captured the craftsmanship, and thus got pos.
session of the subcommittee appointed to draft the
resolutions during the sittngs Of the full Commit
tee, which lasted with few short reecsses from
o'clock in the afternoon until after 1 this morning.
They did threefourths Of the talking and tried by
clamor to silence their opponents. When the sub
Committee reported the Ohio platform almost word
for word, almost all the friends of an honest cur
rency outside the Committee who had been
anxiously pacing the corridors Of the Reed House,
went away disheartened, to hide their chagrin and
escape the taunts Of the jubllant niationists.
THE VICTORY OF THE HARD-MONEY MEN.
About midnight the hard-money men on the COM
mttee, having found each other out and discovered
that they were stronger than they supposed began
to show fight An Outspoken specie platform they
saw was an impossibility; but they still hoped that
the venom might be taken out Of the Ohio resou-
tons, so as to render them comparatively innoxons
The sub Committee sent ont again, and repre-
sentative Of the resumption element placed upOD it.
When it came back Mr.. W. II. Sowden Of
Lehigh offered q shrcwd amendment, inject
ing gold and silver into the first resolu-
ton, and making it alike oppose imitation
and contraction. There were three roll-calls.
on various motions before final vote. At last the
amendment was carried by rs Yeas to "a Nays.
One member was absent As soon RS they saw that
the game was lost of the widest OF the inia-
tiOnists rushed from the room, gesticulatDg and
shouting. They've taken all the life out OF the
PLATFORM" screamed one. "Ies completely emascu-
lated,n cried another "but Wen kill it in the Con-
venton" EYES, to the Conventionl to the Conven-
ton yelled another with theatrical gestures, and
went tearing down the stairs into the street. fol-
lowed by half dozen men, who. in their excite
ment, seemed to think the Convention was then in
session. and that they being led on to storm it.
COMPARISON WITH THE OHIO PLATFORM.
Just what was thus gained by the har-money men
will be seen by comparing the first financial resolu-
ton of the Ohio platform with the modified resou-
ton adopted by the Committee. The Ohio resolu.
ton reads as follows:
That the contraction Of the currency heretofore made
posed by Il with view to the forced resumption OF spe
~ the Country and threatens general bankruptcy
We demand that this policy be abandoned. and that the
of trade leaving the restoration Of egaepders TO par
in gold TO be brought about about ny pronouns tue III
dustries VI the people, and not by destroying tnem.
As altered by the Committee, the same resolution
was made TO read thus:
That the contraction OF the currency and the circulating
medium heretofore made by the Republican party. and
resumption Of specie payment, has already brought dis
the business Of the country and threatens gen,
principles that a sound currency should be gold and
silver or redeemabe therein we are Opposed TO either
SSad ssHe III
people, and not by destroying them.
DESPERATE AND UNFAIR TACTICS OF THE INfLA-
TIoNIsTs.
The desperate nhationists resolved this morning
to win by foul means, II fair means should fail.
They refused to accept the report of the Committee
on Resolutions agreed to last night. as fnality.
Two weak minded members Of the Committee, who
voted for the amendment, were persuaded that they
did not understand the effect Of their votes. The
next step in the direction TO keep the re-
port out Of the Convention, until the Committee
could be reconvened. When tho Convention met at
IL o'clock, Mr.. Hughes. whose duty was TO make tho
report. kept it in his pocket The ragnoncy faction
insisted on an adjournment, and made dilatory mo-
lions, with roll-cas upon each, to kill time until
the patience Of their adversaries was wcared out
About noon, recess until 3 o'clock was consented
to- Mr.. Hughess part in this business was not at all
creditabe to him. He acted in bad faith toward the
Committee and the Convention. On the votes On
adjournment the party that wanted the report made