The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-06-05

The Pennsylvania Republican State
convention which met at Lancaster on
Wednesday last, for the ostensible pur-
pose of nominating candidates for gov
ernor and state treasurer was COM
posed of mass of professional place
holders and demoralized politicians.
Its delegates were almost invariably
chosen by irresponsible county COM
mittees usually run by local Office
holders. In Philadelphia, where the
delegation was chosen by II pretended
expression OF the party, the "mysteri-
Gus Pilgrims" the Tweed ring of that
city, merely made up ticket of ballot
suffers and lightning calculators, who
were, of course, elected without resist
ance, and who in the state convention
assumed to speak for the sixty thou
sand republicans of Philadelphia.
Elected by their own agencies, with
out any charter from the people of the
party, and without sympathy with the
honest, earnest purposes of the repub-
lican masses of Pennsylvania, the self
appointed delegates met, and, in obe-
dience to the behests of Cameron and
his debauched lieutenants, nominated
ticket and adopted n platform pre-
termined weeks ago. The nominees of
a convention so odiously constituted
are almost certain to be consigned to
overwhelming and justly merited dis
comfiture. The Philadelphia Times,
al. independent republican, had this to
say just previous to the assembling
conventions:
The party that has the convictions
of clear majority of the voters of
Penn ylvania is morally certain to
prove unworthy of itself at Lancaster,
and make from thirty to fifty thou
sand conservative and independent
republicans stand aside to learn the
path of duty hereafter. While Penn
sylvania is republican, us between the
old issues of Republicanism and Democ-
racy, it is not republican after the
Cameron school, nor is it republican
after the Grant school. On the con-
trary it is overwhelmingly opposed to
the corrupt and despOtic personal DOM
ination of Cameron, and to the arbi-
trary, illiberal and debauching person.
al control of Grant, and if the Lancas-
ter convention shall, as now seems in
evitable, simply declare the predeter-
mined programme of Cameron, and
endorse the policy of the national ad-
ministration, the most blameless cam
didates the state could furnish would
be defeated, unless saved by demo-
cratic folly.
No empty declaration against the
third-term insanity will retrieve the
situation if there is approval of the
revolutionary southern policy of the
president, and his decentralization of
the appointing power, which are but
the muddy streams from the corrupt
third-term fountain. Nor will any
platform, nor any names of men as
candidates, make success certain
against the field, unless the party shall
Enthusiastically sever the Cameron place
hunting shackles which now hold it
pitiably in leading strings.
General Hartraft will be renomi-
nateu IOr governor, anu IL VIII pe Il
mistake. His administration is free
from the blame that attaches to the
iobber, and has been negatively credi-
table throughout, but General Hartraft
as candidate of the debauched politi-
tical domination that has now abso-
Lutte control of the republican party,
has no personal attributes to weigh
against the curse that is certain to be
hurled upon the men who are to NOM
mate him.