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pledged his individual efforts toward
achieving that result.
PHILLIPS ACCEPTANCE.
A LETTER REPLYING TO THE FORMAL
NOTIFICATION.

The Principles of the Resolution Commended
The Former Nomination Declared Void
Because eFrauduIent-Thc Duty of Law
makers Set Forth-Dea dlock In the Dem.
ocratic Conference.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPAToH.l
New CASTLE. September 23.-The COM
mittee appointed to notify Thomas W.
Phillips of his nomination by the Har-
mony Convention called at that gentleman's s
residence this evening at o'clock. James
Galbraith, Chairman of the committee, read
the letter of notification, after which Mr..
Phillips retired and in an hour presented
himself to the convention and read the fol-
lowing:
NEW CASTLE, PA, September %.
Gentlemen of the Committee:
1 thank you for your letter. more compli-
mentary than deserve, and for your personal
consideration in coming to my home to notify
me of the action of the convention at Harmony
to-day. Endorse the principles of the resolu-
tions adopted by the convention, which you
have read in my hearing, and with full appre-
citation of the high honor which, as you have
stated, came unsouGht, 1 gratefully accept the
nomination for Congress bv this convention,
which represented large majority of the Re-
publican vote of our district. / regret that
business and other matters will require most of
my time during the canvass. but certainly the
effort of no one person is necessary to insure
the triumph OF the principles that caused the
popular demand for this convention.
The party that has been crying AN honest
ballot" tor years cannot connive at corruption
in its own primaries, and when the people rise
to express their indignation at bribery both ap-
parent and confessed, they rise above party to
declare their pricelessi privileges and sovereign
m ha Of fho az
by ballot, not by bribery. and the principles
that are actuating this movement will live as
long as free government exists upon the earth.
law.maker should not be chosen by the viola
ton Of law. The previous nomination, as the
convention declared, is void because fraudu-
lent. 1t is principle of law that fraud vitiates
any contract This is true whether the party
benefited is guilty or innocent. A man has no
more right to retain a fraudulent nomination
than stolen goods. The law governing our
primaries is now the foundation of our electoral
can thev be rectifed by the ballots of the final
election?
Again, expressing my thanks, will state that
if elected will endeavor to serve the whole dis
farmer, the manufacturer, the Iaborer. all
classes of my fellow citizens, not forgetting the
soldiers who can never receive full honor and
compensation for their services. With great
respect, am very truly yours,
T. w. PHILLIPS.
The Democratic Congressional Conferee
met here this afternoon and adjourned at
o'clock this evening to meet in Butler Tues
day next. Twenty-three ballots were taken
and there is deadlock. On the eighteenth
ballot L. S. Hoyt, of Lawrence county, was
nominated, but by consent the vote was
withdrawn, Mercer and Lawrence each
giving three votes to Hoyt and Livingston,
of Butler, giving one, which was the one
withdrawn. Each county wants the nominee.