Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-29
The following IS the vote in detail :

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On ninth ballot votes were cast for a. H.
There had been great thinning out of
those in the hall. Nearly all tho specta-
tors had loft the galleries, and what was
left of the convention began some time
after midnight to get a state committee
together.
When the names of the new committee
men had been gathered in, Miller, Of WASH
iugton, in short speech nominated Hen
sci for chairman of the state committee
and put the motion before Hensel could
get q chance to object. 1t was carried
with hurrah, but Hensel said he must
emphatically decline the position. He
could not be induced to take it. He left
the chair and went upon the floor to say
this, James, of Northampton, presiding
meantime.
The report of the committee on rules
was then reached. These are the rules
which were acted upon by the state com
mittee on Tuesday night, and Hensel, who
presented the report, moved its adoption.
There was q great deal of discussion on
this, and Miller, of Washington, moved
tho postponement of the whole business.
McGOwan agreed with this, and there was
an intermina5le discussion, not upon the
rules, but upon whether they should be
considered or not.
The motion to indefinitely postpone was
finally voted down and the rules were
taken up for consideration. Upon the con-
sideratiOn of the first rule Mr.. McGowan
asked for a call of the yeas and nays.
This exposed the tactics of the opponents
of the rules Beamisb wanted to adjourn,
but he and MCGOWAN were appealed to
to allow the business to go on, at
least until chairman of the state
committee could be chosen. McGowan
insisted upon the yeas and nays, and
the forty Or fifty delegates who were pre-
sent settled down to what could not be
prevented. Noble 8 immediate friends had
made the mistake of going out to cole
brate their victory and left interests which
much concerned the candidate to be looked
after in any way that might happen. The
call of the yeas and nays disclosed the fact
that no quorum was present. MCGOWAN
called attention to this and insisted upon
o call of the house. Everybody wanted
to do some talking at this time.
At one o'clock the wrangle was still in
progress. Hensel insisting upon cOnsilera-
tion for the report and McGowan still de-
manding a call of the house.
The rules were finally withdrawn by Mr..
Hensel, their mover. After tumultuous
scene, during which Mr.. Hensel resumed
the chair, the election of chairman of the
state committee was proceeded with, re-
sulting in the selection Mr.. J. K. BOgert,
of Luzerns. At 2:10 a. m. the convention
adjourned.
Tho Platform,
Resolved That we, the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania, in convention assembled, declare
First. For the preservation of the constitution
of the United States home rule, freedom of elec-
Gons; for resistance to revolutionary changes,
tending to consolidation or empire; against the
election of any person to the Presidency third
time against the presence of troops at the polls
against the appropriation of public money for any
purpose but the support of government; and class
legislation, which despoils labor to build up mo-
nopoly.
second, That the Democratic party, as of old,
favOrs constitutional currency of gold and silver
Reputation in all forms and coalition with repu-
diators merit the condemnation of honest people.
The refusal of Republican administration to
accede to the Democratic demand for a further re-
duction in the rate of interest on the national
debt subjects the government to needless e1-
pense of millions of dollars annually.
Third, That in view of the exposure of extensive
frauds in the postal and treasury departments un-
der the last federal administration, the people de-
mand prompt and unfaltering prosecution of the
thieves their successful operations prove that there
will be no real reform in the management of the
departments of the federal government without a
sweeping change therein. Sincere civil service re-
form will begin with return to the Jeffersonian
tests for ofce-holders of honesty, capability and
faithfulness to the constitution.
Fourth, That in the administration of the gov
eminent of Pennsylvania the Republican party
has encouraged, ecticed and shielded spoliation
of the state treasury and misuse of the public
funds, bribery of legislators, undue favor to cor
porations and monopolies, an unnecessarily high
rate of interest on the state loans, shameless
prostitution of the pardoning power, system of
waste and peculation in the ordinary
expenditures of the government. and an harrass-
ing and plundering exercise of municipal fran
chises and abuse of local trusts.
Fyfk, That the arrogant, corrupt and personal
domination controlling the Republican party in
this state, and suppressing honesty and indepen-
dence in that organization, dictated the policy, the
platform and the candidate of its last state con-
vention In view of these facts we hereby re-af-
firm the following resolution of the Democratic
state convention of 1879: That the recent at
tempt under the personal direction of ruling Re-
publican leaders to debauch the legislature by
bribery and corruption, and take from |
the commonwealth four millions of dollars, for !
which its liability had never been ascertained,
is fresh and alarming evidence of the aggres-
siveness of corporate power in colusiOn with po-
litical rings, and should receive the signal con-
demnation of the people at the polls"
Sixth. That the Democratic party of Pennsyl |
vana, regardful of the states honor and its inter-
ests pledges itself to the just application of the
public moneys to the public Sc rvice Ito econo-
my in governmental expenditures, that the peo- |
ple may be lightly burdened and the purity of the
administration preserved; to the abolition of all
useless Offices and the looping off of all supernu
mary officials to the lowest practicable rate of inter-
est on State loans, without regard for the advan-
tage of syndicates or spectators; to sleepless |
vigilance against the growth and exactions Of |
monopolies; to watchful guard of the public |
interests against the pretensions of the great !
companies to be above the funda- |
mental law governing all else within the borders
Of the state to vigorous collection OF all taxes
lawfully laid upon corporations chartered or doing