The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-04
DEMOCRATS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
An Enthusiastic State Conven-
ton at Harrisburg.
a State Ticket Nominatcd-Thc Name of
Grover Cleveland Greeted with Great
Applause-The Speakers All Urge Tint
the Campaign be Conducted Exclu-
sively on State Issues.

Kerr, Of tho State committee, called
the Democratic convention to order.
At that hour the Harrisburg Opera
House was filled with representative
gathering OF Democrats of this State.
Mr. Kerr announced tho following as
the secretaries of the convention: Berry
NJ. Mead, j. +. Snyder, j. Z. j. Sensen-
derfer, Geo. II. Hoffman, C. Il. Koifer,
f. e. Bible and j. ID. Sells.
The representation in the convention
consists Of 46l delegates, made up OF
one representative for every one thou
sand votes or fraction of thousand
cast for Governor Pattison at the last
election. Tho calling of the roll and
making Of substitutions consumed forty
minutes and nearly all tho delegates
answered to their names. Nominations
of temporary chairman were then in
order. Herman kcitz, Of Bciks, nom
mated II. Willis Bland, of Reading, for
that position and he was unanimously
chosen.
Mr.. Bland was conducted to tho chair
amid applause. In his speech he OK
pressed his consciousness that the COM
pliment paid by his selection as tenn
porary chairman was paid not to him
self but to tho $4,000 Democratic ma ior-
ity of old Berks county. Never in the
history of the party has campaign been
begun under moro favorable, suspicious
or promising conditions.
| Never as now was tho public heart
| and public mind so deeply wrought
| upon. Never before did the public so
deeply feel the necessity for a change
in the administration of public affairs.
| Never bafOrp yyaC tho fcn1ipr ca
that the ticket put in nomination to-
| day would be so overwhelmingly elected
1.-The campaign will be fought on local
issues, not on national. Nobody doubts
that the people of Pennsylvania have
teachers of their own, but they admire
Grover Cleveland. Tremendous ap-
plase). His defeat in the last campaign
has been more glorious to him than any
victory would have been, for no man
can help feeling that the lessons taught
| in tho Democratic victories all over
the country since his defeat, are tributes
to the grandeur of Grover Cleveland and
the principle he so nobly represents.
| (Applausc.)
but we arc going into national issues
1t is our duty to the people that we
turn out the Republican vampires who
are now prostituting the public Offices
all over the State. 1t is shameful
thing that the State treasurer, auditor,
mercantile appraisers, and tho great
newspapers of Philadelphia should
join the conspiracy to plumber
the treasury. (Applausc.) The
noble principle OF Grover Cleveland tina t
public Office is public trust" has been
| ignored, and they have crminally made
public Office means of private profit. to
the scandal of tho good people of the
St1tn. Tho ntHcoc ha
| from the grasp OF the spoilsmen of the
Republican party, who have for the last
twenty five years held them through
| prostitution and abuses.
There has been but ono Democratic
Governor in this State in the last thirty
years. 1t is no disparagement to the
eminent men who have held the Office to
say that the Democrat stands peerless
among them all. Great applause) In
Robert f.. Pattison we have fitting rep
resentative of those beautiful, those
noble. those eternal ideas of true politi
cal faith enunciated by the great Thomas
Jefferson. applause and chcers.)
The convention at l2 o'clock took n
recess until 1870.
| at the afternoon session George W.
Skinner, of Fulton county, was made
permanent chairman In his speech
upon taking the chair, Mr.. Skinner said
the issues OF tho campaign must be
State issues, pure and simple, and none
| others.
The platform was then presented and
adopted unanimously, each plank being
cheered as IL was read. Nominations
were then in order. Robert E. Wright,
of Allentown, was nominated for auditor
general and A. l.. Tilden, of Erie, for
State treasurer. both on the first ballot.
Delegates at large to the constitutional
convention were then chosen.
a resolution of sympathy with VIM.
L. Scott, who is very i'll, was adopted.
and the work of the convention was
ended. Sometime, however, was de-
voted to hearing speeches from Wright
and Tilden.
Wright is leading lawyer of Eastern
Pennsylvania, and is secretary Of the
Pennsylvania Worlds Fair commission.
I1lden has been a lumber dealer andeis
now farmer, and is regarded as rep
resentatiye Of the granger element Of
this State. lie is at present deputy sec.
rotary OF the commonwealth.
To Work on the Elkhorn Extension.
Railroad avenue was left in mourning
yesterday. y contractors agent in
vaded the place yesterday and carried
away car load Of the malo popula alton
about noon to work on the Elkhorn ex-
tension Of the Norfolk and Western.
Mary and several of her gang were on
hand to bid farewell. and many tears
feli over the agony of parting. They
Will not return till frost comes.
To Receive the New Pastor.