Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-03
ID EDITION.
ATHARRISBURGT
The Pennsylvania Democratic Con-
vention Meets.
& CAMPAIGN ON STATE ISSUES.
Cieveland's Name Received With
Great Applause.
BARDSLEY IN THE PLATFORM.
THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS.

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| ventfon Today.
| HARRIsBURG Pa. Sept promptly at 1880
O'Clock Chairman Kerr of the state committee
called the democratic convention to order. At
that hour the Harrisburg Opera House was
| filed with a representative gathering Of the
! democrats of this state. Mr.. Kerr announced
the convention: BENZ. N. Mead, J.
F. Snyder. j. P. ]. Sensenderfer.
Geo. II. Hoffman, C. B. Refer, F. E. Bible and
j. ID. Sells. The representation in the con-
vention consists of 46l delegates made up of one
representative for every one thousand votes or
fraction of a thousand cast for Governor PATTI
son at the Inst election.
The calling of the roll and the making Of
substitutions consumed forty minutes
Nearly all of the delegates answered to their
names
Nominations of temporary chairman were
then in order. Herman Kretz of Berks nomi-
mated Willis Bland OF Reading for that position
| and be was unanimously chosen.
CHAIRMAN BLASD's SPEECH.
Mr.. Bland was conducted to the chair amid
applause. In his speech Mr. Bland expressed
his consciousness that the compliment paid by
his selection temporary chairman was paid
not to himself but to the Il. 900 democratic
majority of old Berks county. Never in the
history Of the party has a campaign been begun
| under more suspicious or promising conditions.
Never the public heart and the
public mind SO deeply wrought upon
Never before did the public so deeply
feel the necessity for a change in the admins
tration Of public affairs. Never before was
| the feeling SO strong that the ticket put in
nomination today would be SO Overwhelmingly
| elected The campaign will be fought on
| local issues not on national. Nobody doubts
that the people of Pennsylvania love the
teachings OF their own prophet, Grover Cleve-
land. Tremendous applause.l His defeat in
the last campaign has been more glorious to
| him than any victory would have been. for
| TO thinking man can help feeling that the les
sons tonight taught in the democratic victories
all over the country since his defeat are trib-
utes to the grandeur of Grover Cleveland and
the principle he SO nobly represents Zap.
plause.l Blu. we are not 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
| general mercantile appraisers and great news
spiracy to plumber the treasury. lApplause.]
| The noble principle of Grover Cleveland that
| public Office is a public trust has been
| ignored, and they have criminally made public
cffice means Of private profit, to the scandal
of the good people of the state. The offices
must be wrenched 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 one democratic governor
in this state in the last thirty years. 1t is no
| Disagreement to the eminent men who have
filed the Offices to say that the democrat
stands peerless among them all Great ap-
plause In Robert Z. Pattison we have ft-
ting representative Of those beautiful, those
noble those eternal ideas Of true political faith
enunciated by the great Thomas JEFFERSON.
! Applause and cheers
COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED.
The business Of the convention was then be-
gun. Committees were announced as follows:
Resolutions-C Chairman, Congressman William
Mutchler, Northampton: P. ]. Corcoran, Harry
Koenman. p b. Fenlan, Morris F. Wilher. VIM.
F. Barry, John Slevin. Geo. L. Poole, Thos r.
Downey, Philadelphia; Henry Manley, Dr.. Q.
N. Fretz, George b. shaefer, Z; D. Mack,
W. Rewalt, Edward Harvey, Robert L. Miller,
! r. Jones Monaghan, James ONeil, Charles
LAWN, J. H. SCHULZ. s. W. Buck, I. D. Hanley,
| Thos Osborne. Howard Beach. W. p. Hillbush,
Perry N. Heindel, Geo. F. Helms J. Manonsh,
Hull, Clark J. Wood, A. c. Clay,
j. r. Snyder, M. W. Frank, R. A. Mccullough.
II. p. Hunkle. Jas. McCabe, E. J. Frankenheim.
Chas. Smith. John D. Bronen, Thos Farrell,
Manly.
| To select delegates at large to constitutional
convention: John johnson, Jas. Morris, I. J.
Murray. John ]. Dougherty, Sam1 yosephs, A.
". Gilday. Augustus T. wtllitt H. J. Dunn,
TiIley. Nelson Enders, Jacob s. Dillinger,
b. w. Light. Edward H. Laubaugh,
| Jno Haviland, NJ. F. Sands. Jno. p. Flaherty.
Il. W. Brodhead. Hiram Finch, A. johnson
Walsh. E. r. Carter, NJ. S. Deshorn, J. W.
Balor, Clayton stackhouse, W. J. Beck.
| F. p. Specs, ". P. Moore, Amos c.
Writ. E. +. Good. E. A. Bgler, Z. T.
McKeen. Fl. d. Tate, Franklin SAMSON, W. W.
Greenland. c. B. Hollingfurth. c. o. Master
zatt. r.. A. hattigan, Michael Nestor, W. J.
Brennan. Tim O'Leary. Tim Foley, jerome
Towser. Jas r. McMartin, w. McNair, r. u.
Arbuckle s. s. Bryant, jr-
Committees on credentials and permanent
4, organization were also appointed and the con-
] yention at IL O'Clock took a recess until 1:3O.
] The afternoon session of the convention
/ began at O'Clock. The committee on perma-
/ nent organization reported i'll favor of Hon.
| George ". Skinner of Fulton county for per-
each senatorial district The temporary minor
officials were retained permanently.
| CHAIRMAN sKINSER's ADDRESS.
| Nr,skinuer was conducted to the platform
| He spoke as follows:
III mistake not this is the largest assemblage
I of representative democrats ever convened
| within the limits Of our commonwealth. and if
| II be true tNal uOucu HumDcEe prili5 iICTedSeu
! wisdom, then may we look that the results of
, this days work shall be happy deliverance
for the democratic party. We have assembled
here today / take il, not for the purpose of
giving expression to our individual
| views upon national candidates and questions
OF national policy, but we are here, representa-
tives OF more than AGA, 900 voters. who less than
one year ago decreed that Robert Z. Pattison,
who had once before signally adorned the high
Office. should again be the governor of the
commonwealth for four years more. We are
here Of that class OF the citizens OF
tre state whose hands are unshackeled by boss
ism and whose manhood must ever rise high
above the arts and practices Of the mere selfish
politician and who now say to us that II we
shall deliberate with wisdom today and boldly
confront the deep and grievous wrongs exist
ing in the high places of the government
of the state that the candidates OF
our choice today shall receive their
cordial Endorsement and support. Much as
our political opponents might wish il otherwise
the issues Of the campaign must be state issues,
pure and simple. and none others. The
enemy invite us TO leave our securely
entrenched position and meet them ON the haz-
ardous field of NATIONAL politics. Shall dc
so and win tine contempt Of the skillful general.
who are r,srshaiing the opposing forces!
THE SOLDIER RACKET"
This brings me to the consideration of an
other feature Of the campaign upon which We
are entering. II seems that the soldier racket
must be again farmed for all that il IL worth
in order to obscure the real living issue of the