The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION,

ADOPTED, ETC.
Harrisburg, July 23.-General Lilly
of Carbon, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Permanent Organization, re-
ported the name of Hon. Galusha A.
Grow of Susquehanna for permanent
chairman, and the following vice
presidents and secretaries:
Vice Presidents l. w. M. Slack,
David Mouat, John Lamon, Charles
II. Jones, Isaac Williams, w. H. Pat
tersOn, Samuel Hart, Adam Albright,
ID. f. Huston, Samuel L. Garrett,
Albert Baldwin, J. p. Iiegler, John
Goblin, John Adams, John McNees,
Jr., U. S. Litzenberg, w. r. Davies,
H. II. Ames, A. NJ. Bennett, c. c.
Jaddin, G. G. Bruey, l.. r.. Kcifer,
George w. Cole George Balsbath,
James Bell, Jerre Cook, j. w. Harris,
Lane Eldred, d. r.. Smith, j. G. John
son, A. p. Mcconnell, n. f. Rippert,
A. L. Craig, Smith Walker, John b.
Kennedy, William Lapsley, L. c.
Mccormick, James Darrah, i w.
jackson, William Schnur, S. c. Thorn
ton, John n. Apple, Thomas Reilly.
That John Lucius Rogers be secre-
tary of the convention, and that the
following-named gentlemen shall be
assistant secretaries, viz: William
Witherow. Allegheny; John McCul-
lough, Philadelphia; Samuel E.
Ewing, Fayette; John Upperman,
p. Dietrich, Lycoming; G. X. Loose,
Berks; John f. Barrett, Lackawanna;
William p. Snyder Lehigh; and John
T, Wilson Mort rtbnm pton
Sergeant-at-arms = Major j. w.
Simpson Assistant sergeants-at-arms
George Galbraith and Joseph Hig-
gins.
Doorkeepers-Charles Magrew, AS
sistant doorkeepers - John Melick,
Harry Reinhold, r.. A. Robinson,
Edward Killough and Jas. Callahan.
Mr.. Grow was warmly greeted upon
taking the chair. His address, as fol-
lows, was methodically but earnestly
delivered aud ELECTED frequent APP
plause, being greeted with three cheers
at the close:
THE FAVORABLE AUSPICES OF THE
TIMES.
Gentlemen of the Convention Accept
the vote Just announced l congratu-
late you, and the Republican party
may well congratulate the country, on
the favorable auspices of the times.
Resumption of specie payment brings
with it revived industries, and in place
of the calamities foreboded by the
prophets of evil, there comes employ
ment for idle labor, with still greater
encouragement and brighter hopes for
the future. What the teachers of a
new political economy declared IA year
ago to be physical impossibility is
to-day an accomplished fact. The
Democratic party, faithful to its record
for consistency, repudiates, as usual,
the platform of its last convention.
So "the Democratic party as a whole
now believe, for this year at least, that
labor is entitled to receive for its toll
something better than a promise OF
uncertain fultillment in an indefinite
future. There are certain great laws
of trade and commerce which the
rantings of political demagogues and
time-servers cannot change; of which
the most essential, in order to secure
successful and staple industries in al
times of peace, Is that the money USED
in the transaction of business should
itself be of real value, or for conVen
ience, a representative convertible, a
the will of the holder, into real value
and that the standard of that rea
value should be recognized as of tn,
same value by all who deal in it, Orir
the commodities for which it is eX
changed. Otherwise somebody mus
of necessity be the loser by its use. 4
deprecated or worthless currency i
a representative of the destruction O
value, of loss, not gain. The lahore
who receives real dollar for his day
Il. ,t.,ts
the value of days work. But if h
loss to the amount of the value of
days work, so of deprecated none,
of all kinds to the extent of the dc
probation. The loss by defectiv
standard of value, like WORTHLESS
money, falls in the end most heavil
upon those who earn their daily brea
by their daily toll
MULTIPLICATION AND SECESSION.
While the question of currency an
kindred measures, which affect mos
directly the industrial interests of tn
country, are still unsettled in its legi'
latiOn, a new political issue is force
upon the country in the attempt t
revive some of the old theories of nu
LITIGATION and secession, and thus tn
people are called upon to settle at tn
ballot-boX and in the forum question
which everybody had right to SUI
pose were finally settled in the tielC
Is there to be no end of controversy
Is nothing ever to be regarded /
finally settled? Did the ballOt-bOX j
1866, after fifty years of heated discu
sion, settle nothing? Did the swoI
in one of the most gigantic wars
history settle nothing, unless it be
elothe the vanquished with power an
authority to make their own terms
surrender and to fix the condition
upon which the victors may enjoy IL
government saved by their valor? III
logic of all wars, especially of civ
wars, if they have any logic at all,
that the victors at the close of the CO.
test have the right to fix the terms
surrender for the vanquished and
settle the policy of administratiC
which they believe will best promo
the welfare of the country. And Il
quished have certainly no cause
complaint if the policy so fixed a
plies, as in our case, to the Victo
themselves the same as to the va
quished. Unless the sword in fol
years of bloody conflict settled forev
that this is nation, and that nulli
cation or secession in any form is II
to be resorted to by any portion of Il
American people as remedy for p
litical ills, then indeed was it usele
massacre of brave men. There a