Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-28
THIRD EDITION.
EVENING, SEPT. 2s, La
THE DEMOCRACY.


IN CONVENTION AT WILLIAMSPOR1
A Quiet Tine Probable :; No Eo,ee::1 OF II
iiSsratioss-fhs Pi.tform.
Everything In Doubr-Ths Convention Chai
manship.
Special Dispatch to tho INTELLIGENcER.
| WLL1ANsPoRT, Sept. 2S.-11 a. M
Everything still remains in the sam
doubt as by last nights reports. No com
binations are apparent as yet. and nobod
has control of the convention. The friend
of Noble, Kerr, Plumer, Ross, Guthrie
Hackett and Dissinger agree on Hense
for chairman of the convention. Phila
delphia wants Kamerly for chairman.
W. q. H.
The Convention Organized.
Special Dispatch to INrELLIGENcER.
WILLIAMsPORT, Pa, Sept. 2S.-Th'
convention organized quietly, and opened
with prayer. Roll call followed, and w
U. Hensel was elected temporary chair
man unanimously, and will be continued
for permanent. A little squirt occurred
over the order of business. Tho peace
commission and committee on rules report
will be considered after the nominations.
The convention took recess until three
o'clock to allow the committees to report.
The platform committee is considering a
draft substantially as follows:
Tho Platform,
Resoluca. 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-
tions; 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
and of paper convertible into coin. Reputation
in all fOrms and coalition with repudiators merit
the condemnation of honest people. The refusal
OF a Republican administration to accede to the
Democratic demand for a further reduction in the
rate OF interest on the national debt sub the
government to needless expense of millions of
dollars annually.
zhird, 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 10 real reform in the management of the
departments of the national government without
sweeping change therein. Sincere civil service re-
form will begin with return to the Jeffersonian
tests for ofice-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, practiced and shielded spoliation
of the state treasury and misuse of the public
funds, bribery of legislators, undue favor to cor
porations and monopoles an unnecessarily high
rate of interest on the state loans, a shameless
prostitution of the pardoning power a system of
wholesale 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.
FV2h, 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-
vania, regardul of the states honor and its inter-
ests, pledges itself to the just application of the
public moneys to the public service to econo- |
my in governmental expenditures, that the peo- |
PIE may be lightly burdened and the purity of the
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-
age of syndicates or spectators to sleepless |
vigilance against the growth and exactons of |
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 |
If the state to vigorous collection of all taxes
awfully laid upon corporations chartered. .or doing
business in Pennsylvania, or seeking to evade |
heir obligations; and to investigation into, |
of and punishment for the frauds and |
wastes which have for years permeated various |
departments of the state government
Resoiued, That all good citizens, regardless of |
oarty affiliations sincerely mourn the death of |
President Garfield and that we, as representatives
If more than four hundred thousand Democratic |
'oters, express their individual and collective
ic, their sorrow and sympathy with the domestic |
llicton of the presidents stricken household, and
heir execration of his assassin and of the muir
lerer's foul crime. |
Proceedings In Detail.
Ey Associated Press. |
WILIIAMsPORT, Sept. 2S.-Tne Demo-
,ratic state convention was calle ! to order |
It IL m., by Chairman Dill and the state |
central committee, and the following off,
,ers were appointed Sergeant.at Arms,
H. s Lucas, Michael Sullivan, Joseph J.
King Door-keepers, J. G. Pratt, Geo. J.
Akers, John Mailey, A. Cassidy, 8. Scott
md S. Mexican.
The proceedings opened with prayer by
Caleb U. Wright, delegate from Berks
county. The following secretaries were
VIM. McClelland, George D.
Herbert, w. 7. McCulIy, William Hasson,
William B. Stoner, George b. Kneass,
Alexander Russell, E. NJ. Halderman and
J. Milton Hall. The roll of delegates was
hen called and credentials were pre-
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