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And Delegates Left Free to Follow
Their Own IncliaatiOnS-
Wallace's CT lin.
POLITICAL DoINGs ELSEWHERE.
A Significant Straw from Michigan
Voice of the Indiana Greenback
S-MiscellaneOus.
PENNSYLVANIA.
REPORT Of CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE.

REPORT oS CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE.
HARRIsBURG, Pa, April 29.-The Democratic
State convention was called to order at $50
o'clock. The special committee credentials
reported through MIR. Dill that .heir decisions
had been unanimous in each case, and that in
the case of the contest in Philadelphia, while
the Vaux delegation admitted that the Nc
Gowan delegates were regularly elected under
the established rules of the party, yet for the
sake of having united party in Philadelphia
both sides were anxious to secure harmony and
concerted action. The committee will there
fore meet in Philadelphia at some future day
and make such rules for the organization of
the Democratic party in Philadelphia as in
their Judgment may be deemed necessary, and
to determine what the regular organization
shall be. The committee has decided that
both delegations be admitted to seats in
this convention, each delegate to
cast half of one vote through its chairman.
The report WAS adopted and the roll of dele
gates called.
ORGANIZATION.
On the nomination of r. E. Monaghan, A.
81. Dill was made temporary chairman, ard
when the preliminary work of the convention
was disposed of, MIR. Monaghan was chosen
permanent president.
LITTLE UNPLEASANTNESS.
When the chair announced the delegates to
Cincinnati from the twenty sixth district, a
wrangle took .elaee asto who WIRE. tie nemi--
nees made bv tho delegation from the district.
This dispute lasted nearly an hour, and before
it was decided the committee on resolutions ap-
peared and made their report. The resolutions
are as follows:
THE ILATFoRA.
ReSolUed, First-That We the Democratic
party of Pennsylvania in convention assem-
bled, renew our vows of fidelity to the funda-
mental principles proclaimed and practiced by
the illustrious men who settled our free in
stitutions and founded the Democratic party
to protect and preserve them.
Second-That the just powers of the federal
union, the rights of States and liberties of the
people, are vital parts of one harmonious sys-
TEN, and to save each part in its whole con-
stitutional Vigor is to save the life of the ma
tion.
Third-That the Democratic party maintains,
as it ever has maintained, that the military
are, and ought to be in all things subordinate
to the civil authorities. 1t denies as 1t ever
has denied, the right of the federal admins
trstion to keep on foot, at the general ex-
pense, a standing army to invade States for po-
litical purposes, without regard to constitu-
tional restrictions, to control the people at the
polls, to protect and encourage fraudulent
counts of votes or to inaugurate candidates
rejected by the majority.
Fourth-That the right to q free ballot is the
preservation of all rights, and the only means
of peacefully redressing grievances and re-
forming abuses. The presence at the polls of
a regular military force and of a host of hired
officials claiming power to arrest and imprisOn
citizens without warrants or hearing, destroys
all freedom of elections and upturns the very
foundation of self government. We call upon
all good citizens to aid us in preserving our in
stitutions from destruction by these imperial
methods of suppressing the right of suffrage
and coercing the popular will, in keeping the
way to the ballot box open and free as it was to
our fathers, in removing the army to safe
distance from the people assembled to express
their sovereign pleasure at the polls, and in
obedience to their will when legally expressed
by their votes.
Fifth-That Rutherford B. Hayes having
been placed in power against the well known
aud legally expressed will of the people, is the
representative of conspiracy only, and his
claim to surround the ballot boxes with troops
and deputy marshals to intimidate and oh.
struct electors, and his unprecedented use of
the veto to maintain this insult is q menace to
the country.
Sixth-That the Democratic party, as of old,
favors the constitutional currency of gold and
silver, and of paper convertible into coin.
Seventh-That we are opposed to the system
of subsidies by the general government, under
which during the period of Republican ascend
ancy, political rings and corporations proited
at the peoples expense, and to any appropria-
tions of public moneys, or public credit, to any
object but the public service. The reforms
and economies enforced by the Democratic
party since its advent to power in Congress,
have saved to the people many millions of
money, and we believe that like result would
follow its restoration to power in the State of
Pennsylvania.
Eighth-That the Democratic party being
the national friend of the working man, and
having throughout its history stood between
him and oppression, reviews its expression of
sympathy with laborers and its promise of
protection to its rights.
Ninth-That we look with alarm and appre-
hension on the pretensions of the great trans
portatlon companies to be above the
fundamental law of this commonwealth, which
governs all else within our borders, and un-
til they accept the constitution of 1873 in good
faith, they should remain objects of the ut
most vigilance and jealousy by both the
legislature and the people.
Tenth-Thst the recent attempt at personal
direction of ruling Repu bGcan leaders to de-
bauch the legislature by wholesale bribery and
corruption, and to take from the common
wealth 81, 100000 for which its liability had
never been ascertained, is fresh and alarming
evidence of the Gggressiveness of political
ring, and should receive the signal condemna-
tion of the people at the polls.
Eleventh-That the great fraud of 1S76-77,
by which, upon a false count of the electoral
votes of three States, the candidate defeated
at the polls was seated in the Presidential
chair and, for the first time in American his
tory, the will of the people was set aside under
Fthreat of military force, was the most
deadly blow ever aimed at our system of repre-
sentative government, to preserve the country
from the horrors of a second civil war. The