Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-07-12
PROCEEDINGS

CONVENTION,
Held at St. Louis, on Tuesday, Jun
26, 1875.
In accordance with tho proclama
ton Of the National Democratic Com
mittcc, the Democratic Convention 70
the nomination of candidates for Pres
ident and Vice President, assembled /
the Chamber of Commerce in the cit,
of st. Louis, Mo, on Tuesday tho 27tl
day of June. Tho Convention wa
composed Of 73G delegates, just doubl
the number of United States Senator
and congressman each State is entitle'
to. For instance, Pennsylvania is en-
titled to two Senators and twenty
seven members of Congress, making
twenty-nine in all. Hence she ha,
ffty-eight delegates in the Convention
who elected Senator Wallace Chair
man, and cast their votes under tn
unit rule-solid for Gen. Hancock, a
will be observed by cvotc by State
elsewhere in this report. In Demo
cratic National Conventions, IL takes
two-third vote to nominate, while tn,
opposition have always been satisfied
with q simple majority. As the Con
vention was composed Of 73s delegates
ii took 492 votes TO make nomina
tion. But we will hasten 10 the pro
ceedings of the Convention as they
transpired;
| At 1920, Hon. Augustus Schell
Chairman of the National Committee
called the Convention to order.
| Mr.. Schcll, in calling the Convention
to order, submitted brief remarks upor
the purposes Of this Convention tt
nominate candidates whose election
shall change the government, and over
throw corruption and produce the ad
ministrational reforms demanded by
the people. [Applause.1 He said th,
corruption now existing in the gov
crnment must be buried. This duty
must be confded to the hands not Of
those who now hold the government
but to the Democratic party. The
thing TO be reformed can't be reformed
by itself The people are intelligent
and sagacious; they understand then
rights and will not again trust their
interests to the Republican party. lie
referred TO the Democrats as the hard.
money mon from the first. He said il
was trick to try to saddle on It the
existing policy, inconsistent with hard
money principles. All the acts au'
thorizlng paper money as legal tender
in the opinion OF the Supreme Court
sustaining them, were done during the
Republican administration. lie then
rcicrreu priony W .ne ci'iiresui.s' ine
a~sna ~ 20 ,. Ivy ,"pa -, H. 49, ,o.'',d,, ~ H.
~ V ,i,;s ,;raa !" H. D .ounoi ,ao O 80 ,ha =.
sr,nn,;on I 90, M ~, and o;ro ,ho
namoava,;e @ % na,, ,ho % rs;na r 81 sov Sovorn re
mont and ',bo;r yoI;cy Of ,be ops mon.
o,' % and @ sornd T snpnno @ ,v;ll hr;ua snac;a
n,rrnen, ~ snaad;ly rAnnlanss In
ih;s Centenn;al ~ National Indcnend.
once we have mot 70 adont means to
restore The country N nrosperitv Nav
,se ] NO, hone at,ey ,he ~ yeors ~ RennI.
lico nism hat Tho Democratic Marty
nav resume i,s snnremacv in the goy.
ernmont9 Tba rnlas that will govern
,ha Conven,ion viii insure GOOD nomi.
na,;ona I Ia avhar,ad ,ha Sonran,;on
10 u;sJom in mak;ng the nlatform
NJ SchaIltben non7;na,ed Henry Wa.
,orson oditor oe tbe J,ou;sv;lle 1Kv ,
Oayy;e, 40 temnorarv Chairman which
no. uYw, I r;,,,aniI,, asroad 20 NJ Wa,
,orson ,ras rooo;vef w;,h Io,d ohaars
and made tbe fnllow;na romarks.
''''' - Wv .
srhhoh VI hhNhi "Arrh"aoN'
Gentlemen of me Convention. we are
called together TO determine by our
wisdom whether honest government,
administered by honest men, shall be
restored to the American people, or 10
decide by our folly that 1t is the desti-
ny OF this country to pursue an end
less, ever-revolving circle OF partisan
passion and corruption until, with loss
OF our material well-belng, we lose the
poor mans last hope--civil liberty
ITSELF Every citizen OF the Republic,
be he of one party or the other feels
and has felt for many a day the de.
pressing influence of what are called
hard times. We look about us and
we see neglected fields and vacant
houses, the factories closed the fur
mace door is shut there are myriads
of idle hands; the happy activity Of
prosperous life is nowhere to be found ;
loyalistsfatten while honest men starve.
Empty the mart and shipless the bay.
What is il that has wrought so great
change in the land that, under the
rule of intelligent, progressive Consti-
tutional party, advanced within half n
century from the condition of n hud.
die Of petty and squalid provincial SOW
crcignties to foremost place among
the nations OF the earthY The reason
OF men must answer, partisan misrule
and sectional misdirection. The Re
publicans, my friends, are not alone re-
sponsible with them rest the disgraces,
with us the follies. These twin agents
of national mischance, working under
the miserable rule of contraries, have
kept the people of the North and
South apart, and have supplied sus-
tenance to corruption. They have dis
turbcd values, they have unsettled
prices, they have made our whole
financial system a cheat and snare.
They have driven the best elements OF
political society into exile, and have
organized charlatanism into sort OF
public polity, enabling the rogue to
got cheap advantage OF his dupe, and