The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-25
THE DEMOCRATS OF PENNsYL.
VANIA.

The ticket nominated at the Pittsburgh
Convention is one that is compsctly and
strongly put together, and Is conceded to
be q good one even by those who were
wsrmest in the support of the defeated
candidates. 1t is undoubtedly victory
for Senator WALLACE, and shows that
his power in the politics OF the State is
very great. Coming as it does 80 soon
after the Republican gathering at Harris.
burg, it shows in marked manner the
great difference between the manage
ment of the two parties. In one case
Don CAMERON dictated platform and
Hst of nominations to the convention,
and thew went off as blindly as the
famous herd of swine in biblical history
which ran violently down steep place
into the sea and were drowned. On the
other hand the Democrats showed lively
personality whichwss most commendsble.
They were eager and excited in their
support of the various candidates, and
nothing could be more favorable evil.
derce that they expect to carry the State.
They did not do things In a listless way,
which would have told that they were
faint-hesrted and knew their lsbors were
in vain, but they fully realized that
Pennsylvania was no longer Republl-
can State, and that the nominations
which they made were no empty honorS
to the gentlemon named. Confidence IN
tho ability Of the party to carry the
State is the keystone upon which sue
cessful campaign Is always built.
The workings Of the Convention were
fair and honest, and although it may have
created some disappointment 1t did not
leave a rail of bitter feeling behind
1t to split the party into
factions. There were important
and all absorbing questions to meet, and
and they were all faced with determin-
stion to do Justice to everyone. Without
any outside pressure or anything like
Presidential campaign to compel unity,
they unanimously adopted platform,
setting forth the famous Ohio idea on the
financial question. They said in
the most straightforward manner
that the Potter investigation WAS
not intended to unsettle HAYES tile to
the place he occupies, but was to find out
whether the Republican party had any
title to honor and respectsbility, and
whether It's leaders were maligned and
falsely accused men, or political thieves
and sharpers who would not be tolerated
in second-rate penitentiary society. The
question of labor and capital Is one that
it's impossible to settle satisfactorily IN
the keystone State owing to the multi
phcity of issues which are at work there,
Int the declaration that "lsbor and capt.
tsl have equal demands upon and equal
responsibilities to the law" is the only
lust sentiment that could be uttered.
The coming struggle between the two
parties in Pennsy lvania is not an ordi-
nary one. It's contest for the control OF
the State government which the Demo
Gratis would wrest from the ring-honey.
combed with vice and corruption-which
now swsys the sceptre at Harrisburg.
1t contest for the Legislature in or
der that the United States Senstorship
may no longer be an heirloom in the
CAMERON clan, TO be handed down from
father to son in this family whose found
er. in history, is spoken of as being upon
Mount Calvary one afternoon, eighteen
hundred and seventy.eight years ago, for
the purpose of being crucited, and who
died without asking the mediation OF
Him who hung beside him.
This Is the great, the priscipal object
of the Pennsylvania Democrscy-to
wrest the control OF State events from
the hands of the "impenitent thief,
which is the Republican party.