New-York tribune., 1877-08-22

PAIRING THE PLATFORM
TRY rsIsoRAPH TO TIE rRrBUNRl
HARRISBURG, Penn, Aug. 21.-Nearly all Oh 'no
$50 members Of the Democratic state Coh'en'ioi'
which will be held here tomorrow, nave aiil'.u ,
This remarkable promptness ana interest," III .no
Convention is due to confident Denei 'ua' .no
stata will he easily carried owing to the machine
p~nnh1;oans vyitbholdng their aid to the managers
~ the Repubcan canvass. Not only Will the state
r. oorr;ad sav the sanoune, but the majority Will
be large-at least $4,000
The afternoon and evening have been speh. Ny
ihe delegates in most energetic canvass IN oehaii
of the several candidates, the platform not coli"s
nm for discussion until late at night. AS the Uon-
vention is made of less of the rough element 'n'n
ever before according TO the testimony Oh 'uoSo
have attended previous ones the button-ho'lne ""s
not marked by any remarkably '..
to,k There are several offices OF linpoiN
W 4. Ia nominated State Treasurer,
SrD,eme Judge to serve for twenty-one years. ana
- ,raitor-General There are several asprants Ior
col of these Offices In the distribution OF the NOM
;nations an effort will be made to divide them
eouaUy between the geographical divisions OF Tue
State.
The delegates from the Western part of the state
sroue that their candidate, Judge Turnkey OF Ne-
mango County ought to be nominated because 'no
extreme Eastern part is already represented oy TWO
of the seven Supreme Court Judges, and also tha'
Mr. Trunkev is we'll acquainted with the local Gus
toms of the region of which the Supreme JudgeShp
is vacant The delegates from Philadelphia despite
this argument seek to obtain votes for their candi-
date for the position Furman Sheppard, the present
District-Attorney of Philadelphia. James Ottorson
of PHILADELPHIA lawyer and Treasurer OF The Deu-
ocratic State Committee, is also candidate
Over the nomination for the office Of Treasurer
there has been the fercest and closest struggle Inc
poiticans say that this difference OF treatment IN
dealing with the Judgeship and the Ireasurershipls is
owing to the fact that the former office has no po
cal patronage connected with it, while the latter mas
good deal Under former Administrations the
office of Treasurer has been very lucrative to the
holder The most prominent candidates to-day
for the Office is d. O. Barr OF Pittsburg, Mt
Parr is tbirtyseven years old, has been nineteen
,oars teller of the First National Bank of Pittsburg
and has never held a political Office, although III
1871 he was the caucus nominee OF the Democrats
when the Legislature which was Republican, elected
the Treasurer. Col. A. c. Noyes of Lock Haven,
member of the State Board Of Charities and cand
date for the nomination for Governor two years ago.
Is next in Importance in the list Of candidates
Joseph Powell of Bradford County and Gen. Temple
also candidates..
For the Office of Auditor General there are only
two candidates One IS U. p Schell, Speaker of the
HOuSe
islature in 1853, and twice subsequently member
Of the State Senate lie was nominated for Gov
eruor hv the Labor Reform party in 1872, held the
nomination under consideration for some time, and
then inst before the election. declined III favor of
the Democratic nominee for Governor. The other
candidate for the Office is Robert L. Patterson, age
thirty citizen Of Philadelphia and lawyer
ATTEMPTS were made throughout the day ndnght
10 arrange slate of all the officers but without
success Mr. Schell has very little opposition how
ever 10 his n0minatlOn-so little In TACT that the
candidates for the other Offices attempted to bully
him into promising to aid them. He declined all
entanglmg alliances 1t appears probable that he
will receive the nomination for Auditor General,
Mr.. Barr for Treasurer, and Mr.. Sheppard for
Suprcme Judge. If Mr. Turnkey secures the nOmi-
nation for the Judgeship, however Mr.. Noyes will
doubtless be nominated for Treasurer.
For permanent Chairman of the Convention the
following are named: S. 4. Bridges of Lehgh
County who has been elected member of the next
Congress; VIM A. Singer of Franklin County,
member Of the present and next Congresses, and Ed
ward Worroll of Philadelphia, a member of the
Constitutional Convention of 1872. The platform
will be adopted according TO usage before
the candidates are nominated. 1t is not at
all improbable that some of the candidates
mentioned will decline to step upon il, and will
mittee on Resolutions and Platform have not yet
been selected by the several Senatorial District del
egations A small lot of influential politicians
are at work, however, upon one which 1t is
believed will meet with the approval of the Con-
vention. From the western part of the State have
come delegations who request plank in the plat
form demanding the repeal of the Resumption Act
while from the mining districts there other dele
gates who demand that plank be inserted de-
.I.,4t (s,x~o oopto ptrol of
the RAILWAYS An anonymous circular letter against
both the railways and the Communists was given to
all the delegates to-day. It's spirit best expressed
by the following sentence:
In the dcporahle difference between capital ard labor
with growing tendency toward C0mInunistc theories,
the Convention should select only those Of its candidates
all connection with doubtful legislation and altogether
from the dangerous embrace OF notOus Communism
and levelng agrariansn-n short, men who have not
been ana cannot be said TO further schemes OF
or cooperate aggTandizement, but who nave always
looked only 20 the good o. the state
The volunteer Committee on Resolutions referred
10 above. will undoubtedly read the circulars care
fully 1t is said that they have put in their draft of
platform strongly worded protest against further
subsidies to railways, and also plank demanding
the repeal of the Resumption Act. The st. Louis
platform is reafirmed In relation to corporations,
a plank has been drawn up embodying
the points Of the resolution passed by the
Democrats Of York County at their re-
cent Convention. The resolutions call upon
corporations TO submit to the commands of the State
Constitution drawn up in 1878, and afterward
adopted by the people. The commands of the Con-
stitution referred to are follows: One prohibits
q railroad from endorsing the bonds of another rail
road. from purchasing a competing line, from dis