Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
Democratic State Ticket and Plat
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Democratic State Ticket and Plat
form.
Last Wednesday the Democratic
State Convention, which met at Har-
risburg, nominated Hon. John Trun-
key. of Mercer county, fer the office
OF Supreme Judge Hon. John Trun
key was born in Mercer county, Pa.
and is between 45 and so years old.
He was admitted to the bar in 1851.
Mr.. Turnkey was originally an Old
Line Wing, but n 1854 he joined the
ranks of the Democracy, and has
steadily adhered to that faith ever
since He was elected President
Judge of the Mercer and Venango
district in 1866, and in 1876 he was
reelected in the Venango district.
His nomination in the convention was
effected only after severe struggle.
Hon. William P. Schell, of Bedford
county, was nominated for the office
of Auditor General. Mr.. Schell was
born at Schellsburg, Bedford county,
in 1922, and engaged in the practice
of law. He served in the lower
house of the Legislature in 1852 3,
having been chosen Speaker in the
second year of his service. He was
elected to the Senate in 1857 from
the district composed of Somerset,
Bedford and Fulton counties, and
came within one vote of being Audi
tor General in 1862, when Slenker
was nominated and elected. Mr..
Schell was in 1872 nominated for
Governor by the Labor party, but
declined in favor of Mr. Buckalew,
the regular Democratic candidate.
The Democratic nominee for Auditor
General is at present a member of
the Pennsylvania House, having been
elected in 1876.
Hon. Amos c. Noyes, of Clinton
county, was nominated for the office
of State Treasurer. Mr.. Noyes was
born in New Hampshire, in 1878
He moved to Emporium, Cameron
county, in 1S47, and engaged in the
lumber business. In 1Si9 he settled
at Westport. Clinton county, where
he still resides He was chosen to
the Legislature on the Democratic
ticket in 1869, and reelected in the
following year. At the Democratic
Convention at Erie, in September,
1875, he WIS leading candidate for
the Gubernatorial nomination. Col.
Noyes is at present member of the
Board of Public Charities.
Their platform is mixture of con-
fiicting principles, and has awakened
opposition from some of the best
men among the Democracy. The
platform reads:
The Democratic party of Pennsylvania,
by its delegates in convention assembled,
does declare,
First. That the induction e. rutherford
B. Hayes into the Office of President, not
withstsnding the election of Samuel j. Til
den thereto, was high crime against free
government, which has not been condOned
and will not be forgotten. The same spirit
oi patriotism which forbore contest upon
the first offence, will resist and punish any
attempt at a second.
Second. That the immediate happy effect
of the application BY the Federal Admins
tratinn OF the Democratic policy of non-in-
tervcntion IN the internal affirs of the
Southern States, amply vindicate OUT fire.
quent protests against previous violations Of
the reserved rights of the several States to
exercise ali power not delegated to the gen.
erdl government by express Constitutional
provision.
Third. That the purposes TO reform the
Civil Service which has been proclaimed by
the present administration, is like its adopt
ed Southern policy" confessiCp Of the
failure OF radicalism and a Just tribute to
the Democracy, which has long and earn,
estly demanded the overthrow and pInish-
meBt of corr pt officials.
Fourth. That capital combined in corpo-
ratons has been too highly favored BY both
State and Federal legislation, and its de-
nands for large returns are inconsistent
with the depressed condition of the labor
ing and business interests of the country.
We oppose further enactments for its special
benefit al the expense of other interests.
Labor and capital should have no cause of
antagonism and they should be left free TO
adjust then own relations. The right to
contract freely exists for both parties. That
the deprivation of employment of many
thousands Of industrious citizens and labor
ers ana the deep distress of themselves and
their families enlist our hearty sympathies,
and we declare in the language OF Jefferson,
the founder of our party, that 'swise and
frugal government which shall restrain men
from ininring one another, shall leave them
otherwise tree TO regulate their own pur-
suits Of industry and improvement, and
shall not take from the mouth of labor the
bread it has earned" is the hope of the
people in adversely and their security in
prosperity; and that under such a govern
msnt, which it is the mission of the Dem
ocracy to maintain and perpetuate, any re-
sort 10 force or to violation OF law, or in
vasion Of the rights of person or property,
to redress grievances, is needless, and at
war with free institutions, under which the
only rightiul remedy is by frequently re-
curing elections of representatives OF the
people in State Legislatures and in the Fed
eral Congress, to accomplish the will OF the
majority which should be accepted As the
voice of all
Fifth. That We accept the admonition of
Jackson, in saying considering standing
time Of peace, shall not seek TO enlarge
our present establishment, nor disregard
the salutory lesson Of political experience
which teaches that the military should be
held subordinate 10 the civil power" and