Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-03
CONVENTION ECHOES.
rnE orln1ons OF THE rUbLlo PRESS.


Tho PeansylvanIs aewspspsrs On tho CSn-
veailop, the PlaaforD and she Caadi.
dates-0sneral Appreciation.
Anexcellent platform.-Lewistown DEM
ocrat, Dem.
Two good and strong men.-Clinton
Democrat, Dem.
A weak ticket, doomed to defeat
Wilkesbarre Record, Rep.
The platform is juggle and snare.-
Philadelphia Press, Rep.
The ticket is much better than the plat.
form.-Philadelphi Record, Ind.
A harmonious convention and ticket
that is STANDARDIZATION Times, Ind.
Under the present Democratic standard
no Democrat should falter.-Altoona
Times, Dem.
The tariff plank is not full and explicit
and admits Of double construction
Baltimore Day, Dem.
Platform dodges the tariff, but the rest
of it is pretty strongly put together.
-Pittsburg Dispatch, Ind.
An excellent ticket for auditor general
and state treasurer. Philadelphia Times,
Ind.
The platform is as tame as the conven.
ton which mado it.-Norristown Herald,
Rep.
The ticket is fairly good, and the plat
form is fairly good-Wilmington Gazette,
Dem.
The platform is formulation of Quix-
ote's tilt with tho windmill.-Philadelphia
North American, Rep.
Geographically and politically the DEM
ooratic state ticket is weak one Pitts
burg Times, Rep.
The platform appeals to the prejudices
rather than the reason of the body polite.
-Pittsburg Telegraph, Rep.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania are in
favor of electing good men to Office
Pittsburg Leader, Rep.
The proceedings of the convention were
marked by the utmost harmony and good
feeling-Cambria Freeman, Dem.
The most comprehensive and outspoken
platform ever presented by party state
Observation-Disclosures Register, Dem.
The candidates are stronger than the
average Democratic candidates in Penn
sylvania. Evening News,
Rep.
The candidates are good, the platform is
good, and the spirit in which the conven-
tion did its work was good.-Philadelphia
Chronicle Herald, Dem.
The Democratic party always puts up
its best candidates at times when there is
no possibility of its winning.-Philadel-
phia Evening Bulletin, Rep.
Wharton Barker's idlocy on the subject
of the national treasury surplus received
its proper rebuke in the platform.-Wil-
mington Every Evening, Dem.
The nominees are men of first-rate pri
vate character, of proven ability, and of
large business experience.
Evening Telegraph, Rep.
Nothing occurred to mar good feeling,
excite unfriendly comment, or give rise
to personal or political antagonism.-
Reading News, Dem.
Tho tariff plank in the Democratic plat
form is "neither fish nor fiesh," free trade
nor protection. but cowardly and evasive
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Republican, Rep.
The candidates are very respectable gen.
tlemen. They represent but one interest
outside of their party and only one section
of the state.-Philadelphia Inquirer, Rep.
The platform is quite an elaborate dec.
laration of political principles, and on the
leading issues of the day gives no uncer.
tain sound.-Pottsville Chronicle, Dem.
The work of the convention is thus be-
fore the people and that it will receive their
hearty approval at the polls there is no
doubt.-Capt. Geo. R. Guss', Chester Co.
Democrat.
The proceedings of the state convention
were characterized by harmony and good
feeling. 1t was the first convention under
the new rules and increased representa-
ton, and yet there was no friction in its
proceedings. -Pittsburg Post, Dem.
Major Taggart is man of unblemished
reputation, painstaking and thoroughgoing
in everything he undertakes, ripe in oxpe-
rience as man of affairs and, therefore,
admirably suited to the place for which
the convention named him. Mr.. Powell
is business man of excellent capacity, a
farmer and merchant, as we'll as banker.
Harrisburg Patriot, Dem.
The Democratic state convention
showed its sagacity in putting a repre- :
sentative of the oil business on the state
ticket Such compliment will call
out vote that would otherwise be
apathetic.. ...... Said a prominent Dem
ocrat last evening Captain Taggart is an
able man; he is a straightforward man {:
he is strong candidate. He lives in
TidiOute. He has been an operator for
many years and will run ahead of his
ticket. The other candidate, Jos. F.
Powell, of Bradford county, seems not to
Oe stranger to our citizens.-Titusville
Herald, Ind. Rep.
The nominees are men of character and
ability, to whom the nominations came
unbidden. In this year, when but little is
known of what issues may next fall be
made, it is of advantage to the Democracy
that the claims of mere politicians were
not acknowledged, and that good men
were nominated at the convention. The
battle now is not on tariff-nor free
whisky as charged. It is one though,
which shall decide whether or not, pure
men, free from the yoke of any boss, shall
be perferred above those who we're weeks
before slated and pushed by the old-time
bosses Of tho Republican party.-Hazleton
Plain Speaker, Dem.
Tho record of successful arbitration is
now SO full, SO complete and SO long con-
tinued that a failure to resort to it is alike
blunder and crime on tho part of capi-
tai and labor alike. 1t is a matter for
deep satisfaction that the Journal of
United Labor says of this system, "We
stand ready to defend it against all COM
ers." In Great Britain it has too frequent.
ly happened that the opposition to
acquiescence in arbitration has come from
labor rather than capital. We trust that
this will not be the case in this country;
but, whichever side refuses to abide by