Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-09-05

that the name of Thos. G. Mahen be
substituted in his place as Representa-
tive delegate.
Leave was granted and the substtu.
ton made.
Jos. Hunter, Chairman of the Com.
mittee on Credentials, submitted the
following report:
CONTESTED SEATS.
The Committee on contested seats
respectfully report that the following
gentlemen are entitled TO their seats as
delegates;
First Senatorial District tphiladslphia)--P. II.
0rmsby.
Second Representative District (Philadelphia)
james Cunningham and John Il. Kennedy.
Sixth Representative District (philadelphia) y
John 0'Conucr.
Ninth Representative District PHILADELPHIA y
NJ II. Daugherty.
Seventeenth Representative District (philadcl-
phla)-Thomas Il. Burns.
Lyonming gcounty-Samuel j. NJ Mnllaine,
JosErn HUNTER, Chairman.
We. PAulIs, > Secretaries
On motion the report of the Com.
mittee was adopted
On motion the report Of the Commit
tee on permanent organization was
adopted.
Tho Chairman appointed Messrs.
Bridges, of Lehigh, and Sherman, of
Crawford, to escort Mr. Stenger to the
Chair.
Mr.. Stenger said;
Gentlemen Of the ConumtiOn Accept
my sincere thanks for the honor you
have conferred in calling upon mo to
preside over your deliberations. con-
gratulate you that we meet to day with
q full representation from every district
in the State.
There is one striking popularity
about the Democratic party.--it never
dies [Applause.l Other parties may
rise and fall, come and 60 with the ideas
out OF which they were born, but the
Democratic party lives on because its
principles are the principles of the
Constitution. APPLAUSE Defeated
laid out for dead-defrauded IA voice,
That's i'll [applause] it may be, but
nevertheless our opponents may as well
take notice that, judging from its vitali-
ty and recuperative power in the past,
while the earth lasts, like seed time
and harvest Democratic Conventions
will not cease Applause.1 Defrauded,
| say, because | am not unmindful of
the fact gentlemen OF the Convention,
that while ! speak to you today the
chair Of Washington and Jefferson, is
filled by man who was rejected by
quarter Of million Of majority of the
American people, and by majority of
the Electoral votes of the States. TIRE
mcDdous applause.l The wisdom Of
recent Democratic policy has been win.
dicated most marvelously by the Hayes
Administration. Let me call your at.
tention to two points In 1874 Dem
ocratic majority was elected to the
lower House Of Congress and they in.
stituted a plan for the adjustment OF
the difficulties Of the country on a basis
of retrenchment, economy and reform
in every department Of Government.
Steadiastly and steadily they adhered
to that policy, opposed all the way
through by solid front on the part Of
the Republican gentlemen ofthe House:
and the result today is that s6O,0OO,.
600 have been saved by that very poll.
cy to the people OF this country. Not
a Republican newspaper in the land
but said that the Democratic House
has crippled the Government, not a
Republican orator in the land but said
that the Democratic House is cruel to
the employees of the Government. But
what do we find The financial Sec.
rctary of the Government goes to Ohio
the other night and makes a speech to
the people there and claims credit for
the Hayes administration because in
the last month they have dismissed
from the Treasury and the customs
service ofthe country nearly one thous.
and of the employees, compelled by the
retrenchment of the Democratic House
claimed credit for by the Hayes ad.
ministration [Applause1
Another point; The policy of the
Democratic party has been TO remove
from the Southern States the army of
the United States. Wby2 1t was
felt, just as experience has demonstrat.
ed, that II the army was once removed
not only peace but prosperity would
come to the Southern States that the
paralys of trade and the arrangement
Of the business interests Of the South
would cease, and that in the future
they. would march on to prosperity.
SO the Democratic House stood firm as
a stone wall against the proposition
that the army Of the United States
should be paid for remaining in the
Southern States unless provision were
engraftcd upon that bill that they
should not be used to sustain any ille.
gal, bogus government in tho South.
Democrats in the Senate and House
were unit for the army bill with that
provision included. They were a unit
against it unless that provision was in.
cluded. And now ali over this coun.
try the gentlemen upon the Republican
side are ringing the changes in favor
of Mr.. Hayes administration because
he adopted the Democratic policy in
that particular, and withdrew the army
from the South and left them TO man.
age their own affairs in their own way.
Another case compelled by the Demo.
cratic House claimed credit for by tho
Hayes administration.
Now, gentlemen of the Convention,
| do not propose TO detain you any
longer. / shall follow the example set /
by my venerable predecessor-perhaps
he will not allow me to say venerable
in years | will say venerable in Dem.
ocracy--ln that you are perfectly com.
potent TO deal with the questions that I.
are TO be brought before you for your
action. All that | have to say is, that
| invoke upon your deliberations the
utmost harmony and good feeling. But c
why should do that in Democratic S
Convention The Democratic party 9
is the party of law and order, because :
| conceive that in all tho history of d
this world there is no grander specta. {
nlc than that exhibited by the great L
Democratic party Of this country last 7
March in quietly submitting, for the c
sake of peace and order and the pres 0
Of our free institutions, to {
Ihc most monstrous outrage and usur. |
patton that has ever disgraced the an.
nails Of American history. [Tremend-
,us applause.l ! can only say that the I
act OF the Electoral Commission which g
placed Mr.. Hayes in the Presidential
hair is foul STAN upon the National A
honor which all the rain in the sweet o