The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-09-18
PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY.

state treasurer The convention WAS dccl
! dedy stormy and was in session three or ioHl
! days but the row was not over the candI
!, dates-thc great and only disturbing element
being the particular plank of the platform re
; referring to the currency question.
The convention seems to have been pretty
) equally divided on the question, one party
, favoring Il distinct enunciation in favor Of
q hard money and an early resumption OF
; specie payments, and the other party favor
, ing the adoption Of the semLsott money
> milk andwatery resolve of the Ohio De,
mocracy. The war first broke out IN the
committee on resolutions, which, like the
: convention itself was about equally divided
ON the question. After hard fight OF two
days, the committee, by a vote of25 to 2i
agreed on the following plank;
That the contraction Of the currency and
1.-The circulating medium heretofore made 10y
1.-The Republican party, and the further con
traction proposed by it, with forced resump.
ton of specie payment, has already brought
disaster To the business of the country and
Threatens general bankruptcy, and while we
IcXpicsSly enunCiate the principals that Il
sound currency should be gold and silver, or
redeemable therein, we are opposed To either
a contraction or initiation Ofthe present cur
rency. and would leave the restoration of
legal tenders to par in gold to be brought
about by promoting the industries OF the
people and not by destroying them.
The committee had come to this resolution
at 12 O'Clock at night, but before they could
report next morning the in6ationists got hold
of several weakened members OF the com
m,tee and persuaded them to change their
vote, and finally, after another hard fight
the resolution got into the convention IN this
shape, in which it was adopted
That the contraction ofthe money curron.
CIV and circulating medium heretofore made
by the republican party, and the further con
TRACTION proposed by 1t with avew to forced
resumption OF specie payments, has already
brought disaster TO the business of the coun-
try, and threatens bankruptcy. We demand
that this bolcy be abandoned, and that the
volume of money be made and kept equal to
the wants OF trade, leaving the restoration OF
legal tenders to par in gold, to be brought
about by promoting the industries OF the
people and not by destroying them.
This is substantially the Ohio platform,
with the only difference that it is possibly
little worse. OF course, like the OHIO article,
IL makes no positive declaration in favor of
initiation, and Thurman and Pendleton could
doubtless, as they have done in Ohio, show
that the resolution really means return to
gold and silver But the intent of the
thing is unmisiakable, and the meaning is
so thoroughly understood that any other In
depreciation OF 1t than that it means imitation
if not even Kelyism, would be untru,hful
and dishonest.
The unpleasant truth must be admitted
that the democracy of Pennsylvania, like the
democracy of Ohio, stand committed to an
anti.hard money platform. The serious
questions arises, wha, is to be the eff
feet of these imitation declarations by two
such important bodies? Doubtless the stu
alton in Ohio has much, if not ALL to do with
the action at Erie. 1t is palpable to the most
stolid observer of the signs of the times that
the democracy of Ohio will succeed the fall
by an overwhelming majority. The lntia-
tonists OF course, made the most of the splen-
ded outlook there, and used 1t with tremen-
dous effect IN Pennsylvania, though the hon.
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