Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-25
ANTI CAMERONIC.
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN, CON.
YENTION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Held In Philadelphia observation-disclosures
Stewart for Governor-A Big Blast
Aginst the Bosses-MitcheiPs Remarks
Speech by stewsrt-The Platform of the
Ind ependents.

PHILADELPHIA, Ia, May 2f.--George Lear
who presided at the regular Republican cor
vention. occupied a seat on the platform whe
the Independent Republican convention wa
called to order. Prayer was offered by Rev
D. C. Babcock, noted prohibitionist and sec
rotary of the Pennsylvania state temperate
ASSOCIATION. United States Senator Mitchell
was chosen temporary chairman by acclama
ton, amidst cheers and applause. Mitchell
returned thanks for the honor conferred anC
said the work of the convention was not t
nominate ticket that would help the Demo
cratic party or defeat the Republican party
but to nominate one that would receive thu
respect and support of the Republican party
Applause.
This country had been founded upon prin
ciples which secured equal rights to all mer
and on the spot where these principles were
declared the Republican party was founded,
and he trusted the atmosphere OF this state
would be found too pure TO be breathed by
any Republican willing to be the slave, politi
cal or Others wise, of any man. Applause.
There must be leader, but not bosses. II
would be well for the convention to declare
against this system and against bossism and
against machineism, and not only to declare
against them but to provide remedy that
would tear them up root and branch. APP
plause.] The speaker would be glad TO be able
to stand before the convention and declare
his desire to support the administration
and that the president was disposed to enforce
this system, but he was sorry to say there was
no indication of such determination on the
presidents part. With the power of appoint
ment to places of minor Importance taken out
OF the hands of politicians and made on the
test of fitness alone, there would be fewer
leaders ready to take bread from the children
of some poor but capable man and give his
place to some mere politician.
Senator Mitchell said he spoke with sorrow
when he asserted what had been achieved at
Chicago had not been borne out by the pres
ent administration. In all that movement
that placed Garfield in the presidents chair
the speaker had sympathized. He trusted the
Republicans present, who were assembled to
show what they could do to protest against
the method by which the Republican party
had been managed-to say to the people of
this country by the voice of body actuated
by desire for the good of the republic
that the party shall rid itself of its barnacles
and all its murky corrupt atmosphere by
which it has been surrounded. [Applause.l To
show that the Republican party was a
progressive party, composed OF free-thinking
men and one that cannot be run as a railroad
train and conductors, in the political employ
ment of any man.
The roll of delegates was called. When the
name of Charles s. Wolfe was called it elected
such cordial and protracted applause that
Senator Mitchell requested Wolfe to come
forward. Wolfe IN response arose in his
place and after bowling to the chair and to the
convention, said: "Mr. president and gentle
men of the convention, 1 am here" Re-
newed la lighter.
DR.. Doane who was also called upon,
when his name was announced, said:
Gentlemen, Il am here to resolve with you
that we will put our grand old party where
the immortal Lincoln found it and the i'm
mortal Garfield left it.
Chas. s. Wolfe was chosen chairman of the
permanent organization and Senator Stew
art chairman on resolutions.
Il. G.. Foster was made permanent chair
man, with one vice president from each SEN
atorial district. During the course of Fosters
remarks, he asserted that the death OF Presi-
dent Garfield was chargable directly to the
spoils system, and spoke OF the political
power of the state as something that had
been too long regarded as sort OF patrimoDy
to be handed down from father to son.
The committee on rules reported platform,
the reading of which was frequently inter-
rupted by applause which certain planks, es-
pecially those condemning "bossism" and
the spoils system, elected.
THE PLATFORM.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May A.-The follow
ing is the platform of the Republicans:
The Republicans of Pennsylvania, who will
not surrender their political rights, and who
maintain the exercise of their own cOnsciences
and judgments concerning public affairs, hay
ing assembled in state convention, make the
following declaration of principles and pur-
poses:
First-We declare our attachment to the
principles of the Republican party, freedom,
union, nationality, equal rights before the
law, maintenance of the public faith and
home industry, and we demand that the record
which has been SO nobly made shall be wisely
and fearlessly perpetuated.
Second-We declare the nomination and
election of James A. Garfield to the presi-
dency signifed to us triumph for the true
reform in civil service and enlarged liberty of
action for the masses of the Republican party
in the nomination of candidates and thu con-
duct Of their party affairs, and we deplore the
overwhelming evidence presented to us in
Pennsylvania that the calamity OF his assas-
sination has been followed by the overthrow
of these reforms in the hands of his sue.
cessor.
Third-We denouncc the system which
makes patronage" and spoils out of public
offices. We denounce the practice of giving
them to political managers for use in advanc-
ing personal political ends. We denounce the
removal of honest and competent officers in
the absence of public reason. We
denounce the practice of levying
assessments and demanding contributions
for party use from public officials. We de.
nounce severally and collectively the evils and
corruptions which accompany the conduct OF
the government as the "spoils SYSTEM" and
which are inseparable from such methods by
the administration, and we denOunce the sys
tenn of bossism and machine control which
when tamely endured makes leaders into
automatons and reduces citizenship into po-
litIcal bondage.
Pourth-We declare our purpose to take UP
the work which fell when Garfield fell. We
demand In place of the spoils system the
reformation of civil service by law SO that
the appointive places therein may be fully
open to all fit and industrious citizens and re-
moyals therefrom shall be only for good anc
sufficient public cause. We demand instead
of the prostitution of the public service tt
plumber, its consideration as a high and hon
orable trust to be administered for the PEG
pies benefit, with efficiency, economy and in
tegrity. We demand instead OF the insolenc
the prescription and tyranny of bossism AM
machine rule, the free and conscientious sue
cess of private judgment in political affair
and the faithful discharge, by those who as
sumo to be representatives, the trusts by tn
expressed will of the people.
Fifth-We declare in favor of the followin!
party reforms:
[. That delegates to the state convention b
presented to the people in the same manner i
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