Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-04-30

! iZation ana resolutions, all resolu>
tions to be referred to the latter with
out debate; election of delegates al
large; election of electors at large;
| nominations for judge of the su.
preme court and auditor general,
and the appointment of representa-.
tiyes, delegates, electors and mem,
bers of the state central committee.
After the appointment of com,
mittees on resolutions and organiza-
tion. and before proceeding with the
regular order of work, r. E. Mona,
CHAN was nominated and unani-
mously elected permanent presi-
dent.
Monaghan said that, four year
ago. he had been similarly honored
by the convention which assembled
at Lancaster. Tilden and Hen
bricks were prevented. by stu.
pendouo fraud, from occupying the
positions they were elected to, but
the great democratic party. true to
its history and principles, connselled
peace rather than confusion, and
are waiting until November next,
when the people of the United States
will approve their course by elect
ing the democratic cand dates, when
they shall and they must be inau,
gurated. The future is bright one
for the democracy, and gives bril-.
liant promise of happy results.
The committee on resolutions re,
ported as follows:
Resolved, l. That the democratic
party Of Pennsylvania, in conven-
tion assembled, renew our vows of
fidelity to the fundamental princi
pies proclaimed and practiced by
the illustrious men who settled our
free institutions and founded the
democratic party to protect and pres
serve them.
2. That the just powers of the fed>
eral union, the rights of the states,
and the Liberties Of the people are
vital parts of one harmonious sys-
tenn, and to save each part in its
whole constitutional vigor is to "save
the life of the natioa.' y
8. That the democratic party
maintains, as it ever has maintained,
that the military are, and ought to
be, in all things, subordidinate to
civil authorities; it denies, as it
ever has denied, the right of the
federal administration to keep on
foot, at the general expense, a stand.
ing army to invade the states for
political purposes without regard to
constitutional restrictions, to control
people at the polls, to protect and
encourage fraudulent counts of
votes or to inaugurate candida tes
rejected by the majority.
Resolved, 4, That the right to
a free ballot is the right preserva.
tive of all rights, and the only
means of peacefully redressing the
grievances and reforming abuses of
the presence at the polls of regu>
lar military force and of a host of
hireling officials claiming the power
TO arrest and imprison citizens
without warrant or hearing, de-
stroys all freedom of elections and
upturns the very foundation of self.
government. We call upon all
good citizens to aid US in preserving
>ur institutions from destruction by
these imperial methods of supervise
ing the right Of suffrage and coerc,
ing popular will in keeping the way
to the ballot box open and free, and
as it was to our fathers in removing
the army to safe distance when
the people assemble to express their
sovereign pleasure at the polls and
IN becoming obedience to their will
when legally expressed by their
voes.
Resolved, 5, That Rutherford B.
Hayes having been placed in power
against the well known and legally
expressed will of the people,
is the representative of a
conspiracy only, and his
claim of the right to surround the
ballot boxes with troops and deputy
marshals to ntimidate and obstruct
elections, and his unprecented use
of the veto to maintain this is an
insult and menace to the country.
6. That the democratic party, as
of old, favors the constitutional
currency of geld and silver and of
paper convertible into coin.
7. That we are opposed to the
system of subsidies by the general
government and to the approprla>
ton of public moneys or credit to
any object but the public service.
8. That the democratic party renews
its expression of sympathy with laN
Dor, and its promise of protection to
its rights,
8. That $50 lo2k with alarm upon
the pretenaions of great trans