Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-02

of the State government will be accompanied
 Oy real reforms upon the extravagance and
 irregularities which have prevailed under Re-
 publican administration. Public moneys are
 TOT public uses and all appropriations should
 be the subjects of rigid scrutiny to the end
 that these uses may be served without per-
 sonal or local favoritism, waste or peculation,
 for the long continued abuses and spoliation
 of the State treasury and defiance of law by
 its management make essential radical re-
 form so that large funds shall not
 accumulate by taxation of the people to be
 distributed among the favored Repositories
 Of State officials, but that all surplus in ex-
 cess of the immediate necessities of the State
 government shall be invested in interest
 bearing State or federal securities until it may be applied to the extinguishing of the State debt. The demandiof the Democratic Senators and Representatives for. an honest,
 just and true apportionment is in accord with the letter and spirit of the constitution and with the rights and interests of every section and of all the peo- pie of the State. The shameless declarations of the Republicans in the Legislature to maintain the present dishonest, unjust and
 untrue apportionment of the State by their refusal to aecede to any fair proposition is denial to the people of their right of fair and equal representation which is the foundation of free government. It is another evidence of their lust of power and of their purpose 
 there can be no true reform until they are excluded from place. The long contin- ued immunity from punishment for political and other crimes which offenders enjoyed under the Republican control of the pardon board has been terminated by the selection for that body of Democrats who have re- gard for their oaths and duties and who exercise their responsible offices without fear, favor or affection. The sixteenth and seventeenth articles of the State constitution regulating private corporations, railroads and canals are the supreme law of the com- monwealth governing them and these provi- sions of the law should be enforced in their full vigor and meaning by appropriate legis- lation. Extortions and fraudulent discrim nations are crimes and should be punished as such, The action of the Legislature in passing laws to protect honest workingmen from being brought into competition with convict Iaborers is to be commended and the Democratic House of Representatives is deserving of especial sp- proval for originating the measures looking to that end Every legitimate effort of labor to better it's condition, enhance it's re- wards and protect it's rights commands the sympathy and support of the Democratic party, which is the natural foe of monopoly and the natural friend of the workngmen. The present unprecedented and unsatisfacto ry condition of the relations of labor and capital demands the careful thought of the Legislature. Due regard should be had to the vested rights of capital and the claims of private enterprise. Legal arbitration is proper and commendable means of settling disputes between employers and employees. The tax laws of the State should be carefully revised and so changed as to make them more equal and more just and bear equally upon ali classes of property.
 The candidates for auditor general having been placed in nomination the first ballot re- suited as follows Hayes Greer, Lancaster, 46; George R. Guss, Chester, 27; Robert M. Cochran, Cumberland, 49; Jacob Ziegler, Butler 49; Colonel Polk Duff, Alleghany, 2s; J. K. Brown, Elk. 13; Robert Tsggart, War rem, AS; William F. Harrsty. Philadelphia, 43. There being no choice second ballot was taken, with a similar result. Harrity and Taggart became the leading competitors. At the beginning of the third ballot the president of the convention withdrew Rar- rity and other candidates were withdra VII and Taggart was nominated on this ballot. The candidates were presented to the con vention and made stout speeches. The con- vention then adjourned.
 Joseph Powell, the nominee for State Treasurer, is president of the National bank in Towanda, Bradford county, and Robert Taggart is an oil producer of Warren county.
 Ex Congressman Joseph Powell, of Brad ford county, was nominated for State treas urer.