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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION,
BUTLER FOR TREASURER.
Detailed Report of Proceedings.
The Republican State Convention met
in the Hall of the House of Representa
tives, in Harrisburg, on Wednesday of
last week. At 12 o'clock, meridian, Col.
Quay, Chairman of the Republican State
Committee, took possession of the Speak
er's stand and called the convention to
order, saying : "The hour of twelve o'clock
having arrived this convention will come
to ordr. The Secretary of the State Com
mittee will announce the officers for the
temporary organization."
Lucius Rogers then announced the fol
lowing officers :
Sergeant at Arms—Maj. J. W. &nip-
SOD.
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Assistants—George Gztlbraith, Joseph
Hiugin9.
Doorkeeper—Chas. Magraw.
Assistants—John Melick, harry Rein
ochi, R. A. Robinson, S. M. Killough.
Janitor—liutnphrey Mages.
Mr. C. L. Magee, or Pittsburgh, offered
a resolution appointing theffollowing sec
retaries, which was agreed to :
Secretary—Luciusßozers.
Assistants—John E. Barrett, Wm. P.
Snyder, Wm. Witherow, John McCul
lough, Samuel E. Ewing, John Upper
wan, A. W. McCoy, E. P. Dietrick, C. K.
Loose and John L. Wilson.
The Secretary then called the roll of
delegates, which showed all the districts
but two fully represented.
Hon. Willlan; T. Davics then nominated
Hon. L. W. Hall, of Dauphin, for tempo
rary chairman. He was unanimously elect
ed and on assuming the chair spoke as
follows:
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS.
I?yresentatives of the People.--I con
gratulate you upon the numbers, the abil
ity, the enthusiasm and tbe representative
character of the convention.
The grand old Republican party has
thrown off all lethargy, and banished all
dissensions and has come up once again to
"rally 'round the flag" of our common
country; and to do battle f-r the right.
Until very recently we supposed the
past labors, sacrifices and triumphs of the
people had permanently secured the per
petuity, the honor, the liberties and the
constitutional rights of every citizen of the
Republic, in fact., as well as in law. We
believed the National Union had been res
tored, that. the heretical doctrines of seces
sion and nullification had been vanquished,
that resumption was an accomplished
fact; and that an era of peace and good
will was at hand. Alas, that these fbnd
hopes should ever be blighted, or imperil
ed : But, no sooner is our old adversary,
the Democratic party, permitted to become
a power in the land than the banner of
State rights (which they construe to be
State sovereignty) is again unfurled, the
constitutional rights of the nation are as•
sailed, and the individual rights and lib
erties of the citizen are trampled under
foot, in unlawful and criminal efforts to
create and perpetuate a "Solid South."
The same men and the same party, who
from 1861 to 1865, in advocacy of the
same dangerous and revolutionary princi
ples, precipitated upon us a causeless and
bloody war, arc endeavoring, through the
preseilt Congress, to regain the cause they
lost in the field. A thousand thanks to
the gallant Republicans in Congress who
stood as a wall of adamant against all the
rampant schemes of nullification ; and a
thousand more to that inflexible patriot
President, the bulwark of constitutional
rights. Having often imperiled his life
for the Government, like a true soldier and
patriot he stands fire) ; and proposes "to
fight it out on this line" to the end. The
Republican party and the patriotic people
of the nation have suhered and sacrificed
too much in the recent conflicts for the
liberties and rights of man to abandon the
contest until the legitimate fruits are all
gathered and secured beyond peradven
ture.
"Freedom's battle, once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Though bafticd oft, is ever won."
Let us not be • misunderstood. 'We are
here assembled as the representatives of
an intelligent and patriotic people of a
great State. We have "charity for all and
malice towards none," but with grave res
ponsibilities and duties to perform. On
behalf of the Republican party we here
and now give notice to the enemies of the
country that we shall take no step back
ward, and that we have no compromises
to make with repudiation, secession or rev
olution, or with any of their aiders or
abettors.
1879.
The Republican party has successfully
preserved the honor and financial integrity
of the nation against all enemies and
prophets of evil at home and abroad, and
it will do it to the end.
Rebellion and secession having been
conquered in a fair fight, and the Union
of our fathers restored, we mean that we
and those who come after us shall enjoy
all the fruits of that victory.
Under the policy of the Republican
party resumption is an accomplished fact,
exhibited in the equalization of values as
they relate to labor and capital, and the
dollar of the Government passes current
in all markets for what its face imports.
A hundred cents means a dollar—no more
—no less. Reviving business is every
where seen, and our exports this year will
be more largely in excess of our imports
than ever before, by the reason of the for
eign demand for our increased agricultu
ral productions and house manufactures.
Slavery has been abolished and the na
tion has given to the colored man consti
tutional aqd statutory guarantees of equal
ity before the law ; and we intend that his
inalienable rights shall be secured to him
wherever the flag of the Union floats.
In this spirit I assume the duties of the
position you have assigned me; and I in
voke that harmony and conciliation which
subordinates all personal ends to the public
good. And now you are so far organized
as to proceed to farther business.
Mr. Hall's speech was frequently and
heartily applauded.
Mr. Leeds, of Philadelphia, moved that
the rules of the House of Representatives
govern this convention, which was agreed
to.
Mr. Hooten, of Chester, 'offered the fol
lowing, which was adopted :
Reßoleed, That all resolutions or propositions
cther than those relating to the organization of
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HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY AUGUST 1, 1879.
the convention, shall be referred without debate
or vote to the Committee on Resolutions, and un
less retorted by a majority of said committee
shall nut be considered or acted on by the conven
tion.
Mr. Cooper, of Delaware, offered the
following, which was adopted :
Resolved, That the Committee on Resolutions
shall consist of one from each Senatorial district.
Gen. Lilly, of Carbon, offered the fol
lowing, which was agreed to :
Resolved, That the Committee on Permanent
Organization shall consist of one member from
each Senatorial district, to be selected by the del
egates; and that said committee shall meet in the
State Library immediateiy after their appointment
Mr. Wolfe, of Union, offered a resolu
tion, which was sent to the clerk's desk.
The Chairman. The resolution is per.
fectly competent. It must be referred, by
resolution just adopted, to the proper com
mittee. It is so referred.
Mr. Wolfe. I would like to hear the
resolution read.
The Chairman. You offered the reso
lution, and know what it is.
Mr. Wolfe. I call for the reading of
the resolution.
The Chairman. It doesn't make any
difference, sir. whether you do or not.
applause) The clerk will refer that
paper to the proper committee, when itois
announced.
Mr. Wolfe. I wish to know whether I
am under a nilsapprehension. I unc:er
stand-
The Chairman. The gentleman is out
of order. The gentleman knows so from
his parliamentary experience.
. .
Mr. Wolfe. I rise for informitica.
The Chairman. What is it that the
gentleman desires to know ?
Mr. Wolfe. I desire to know what the
resolution passed provides for; I under
stand that all-
The Chairman. It will be read but the
gentleman cannot make a speech upon the
subject. A speech is not in order.
Mr. Wolfe. The reading is an I am
asking far, sir.
The resolution passed for referring of
resolutions without debate was read by the
clerk.
The Chairman. The gentleman's reso
lution is already referred.
Mr. Wolfe. I rise to a point of order.
The point of order is that the resolution
adopted by this .convention does not pre
clude the reading of a resolution, and that
a resolution is not before the body until
read.
The Chairman. The gentleman is not
in order, and the Chair will not entertain
the gentleman's point of order.
Mr. Wolfe. 1 appeal from the dezision
of the chairman of this convention.
The Chairman. There is no appeal on
a point of order not properly made.
Mr. Wolfe. I do not wish anything not
proper and right, but-
The Chairman. The Chair will treat
the gentleman from Union just as be would
treat any other member of this holy, but
the gentleman cannot override parliamen
tary law.
Mr. Wolfe. I state distinctly that Ido
not wish to do anything of the kind ; but
I understand that anything the conven
tion has adopted does not preclude the
reading of the resolution, and that the
resolution is not before this convention
until it is read ; that the rules of the House
of Representatives provide for a second
reading of the body of the resolution, and
that the resolution is not before this body
until then.
The Chairman. I have decided accord
ing to parliamentary law, and the gentle
man is out or order.
Mr. Wolfe. I appeal from the decision
of the Chair.
The Chairman. The gentleman will take
his seat.
Mr. Wolfe,. I will when accorded my
rights and the reading takes place accord
ing to parliamentary law.
A voice. "Sit down."
Mr. Wolfe. I will not sit down when
I am right.
A Delegate. I move to go into perma
nent organization.
M. Wolfe. I appottl from the decision
of the Chair.
A voice. "Sit down."
Mr. Wolfe. I shall not sit down.
A voice. "We'll sit down ou you, if
you don't ?" (Laughter )
Wr. Wolfe. lam willing to abide by
the rules, and I am going to abide by
them ; and consequently I appeal from the
decision of the Chair.
(Several voices). "Mr. Chairman."
Tha Chairman. Gentlemen will all take
their seats. The gentleman on my left
(referring to delegate on permanent or
ganization) made a motion.
Mr. Wolfe. I appeal from the decision
of the Chair. I demand my constitutional
rights.
A voice. "Go out if you don't like it."
Mr. Wolfe. lam willing to fight it out
and stay here.
The Chairman. The gentleman is not
in the House of Representatives, and will
take his seat.
Mr. Wolfe. I am in order, according
to the rules of this convention.
Mr. Cooper, of Delaware county. If
the Chair will permit, I would suggest
that be has wisapprehooded the rules of
the House.
The Chairman. I would respectfully
say that I have not.
Mr. Cooper. The resolution just adoyt•
ed provides that this convention shall be
governed by the rules of the House of Rep.
resen tat ivcs.
The Chairman. I underbtand that.
Mr. Cooper. The rules of the House of
Representatives—and the gentleman has
not been here for so long a time that I
think that will account fir his forgetful-
The Chairman. 0, no; I haven't for
gotten them already.
Mr. Cooper. The rule says that a res
olution shall be read, and action had when
it is twice read. That is the decision of
the House of Representatives. When
once read it is before the House and un
der the rule, if thero is objection to it, it
is the Speaker's duty to refer it. Then
it can only be read once.
Mr. Wolfe. I submit to that.
Mr. Cooper. The gentleman is mista
ken when he said it. has to be twice read.
The Chairman. The Chair has not for
gotten. You adopted a resolution offered
by the gentleman from West Chester,
Col. Hooten. It expressly stated that upon
resolutions there shall be no debate. The
reading of a resolution is debate—as much
debate as anything. I have rule'', and
will not bear anything offered on that
subject.
Mr, Wolfe. Under the rules of the House
of Representatives which we have just
adopted, I most respectfully appeal from
the decision of the Chair, and ask for an
opportunity to reduce my appeal to writing
in accordance with the rules.
The Chairman. The gentleman is not in
order.
Mr. Wolfe. I know lam in order. I
am willing to take the responsibility here,
and I insist upon having what is right.
The Chairman. The Chair must be re
spected.
A delegate. I understand the gentle
man is not in order.
Mr. Wolfe. I appeal from the decision
of the Chair, and I must be heard under
our parliamentary rules.
Mr. Cooper. I would like to have this
made straight—there is only a little mis
apprehension.
Mr. Wolfe. It is a matter of right.
'Mr. Cooper. It is a matter of right ; and
than began under a misapprehension on the
pert of the Chair.
:The Chairman. There is no misappre•.
hension on the part of the Chair. The
reading of the resolution is debate, so far
as it goes.
Mr. Barlett, of Lycoming. I desire to
ask the Chair if the resolution of the gen
tleman from West Chester requires that
all resolutions presented be disposed of as
under the rules governing the liousc. of
Representatives ?
The Chairman. Yes. sir.
Mr. Barrett. Then I desire that this
convention should be governed by these
rules. Let us transact our business in
order and decency. In order to accomplish
that I do not desire to see anybody gagged
in this convention. (Applause). The
proper action is to read this resolution, and
th4n refer it to the committee without de
bate, to take action on it. (Applause).
Mr. Wolfe. I appeal—
Chairman. The gentleman i 4 not in
order.
'Mr. Wolfe. I appeal from the decision.
The Chairman. The gentleman will take
his seat—l am the chairman of this con
vention.
Mr. Wolfe. I appeal from the decision,
and 1 have that right.
h e Chairman. The gentleman is not in
order.
:Mr. Wolfe. I appeal from the decision
of - the ruling of the Chair, then, that lam
not in order. I hold that I have not trans
gressed any rule.
Xr. Cooper. I move that the resolution
bei read.
'The Chairman. The motion of the gen
tltiman from Delaware [Mr. Cooper] brings
this subject legitimately before the con
vention, because this body can do anything
it pleases, except stop the gentleman from
tliion, (Laughter.)
The motion of Mr. Cuoper was carried
amid applause, the resolution was recalled
from.committee, and read as follows :
72e8colved, That in view of the developments of
cotrupt practices in connection with the "Riot
Bill" in the last House, we emphatically reaffirm
that part of the platform adopted by the Republi
can State Convention at Lancaster in 1875, and
which was re-adopted by the Republican State
Convention at Ilarrisburg in BM which demands
"honest men in office—men with brains enough to
kttow dishonesty when they see it, and courage
enough to fight it wheresoever they find it."
'll.eferred to Committee on Resolutions.
Mr Mapes, Venaugo, offered a resolu
tion, which, after debate, was referred to
the Committee on Resolutions.
On motion of Col. Qu the roll of Sen.
atonal districts was called and two members
from each district appointed, one to serve
on the Committee of Resolutions and one
on Permanent Organization.
On motion of Mr. Gilbert, of Dauphin,
it was agreed that the permanent chairman
of this convention and the candidate for
State Treasurer select the chairman of the
State Committee and that the State Cen
tral Committee shall be constituted the
same as last year.
At this stage of the proceedings the
committees on resolutions were appointed,
which, agreeably to the preceding resolu
tions, consisted of one member from each
Senatorial district. For want of space we
omit the names of the gentlemen who com
posed these committees.
After the announcement of the commit
tees they withdrew for consultation—the
Committee on Resolutions to the Senate
Chamber, and the Committee on Organi
zation to the State Library.
After a short absence Gen. Lilly, from
the committee on permanent organization,
reported, naming Hon. Galusha A. Grow
as Permanent Chairman, and one Vice
President from each Senatorial district.
Hon. Lucius Rogers was made Secretary,
with ten assistants.
Hop. Gaiusha A. Grow they assumed
the chair amidst loud applause, and spoke
as follows :
Gentlemen of the Convention—Accept
my thanks for the honor conferred by the
vote just announced. I congratulate you,
and the Republican party may well con
gratulate the country, on the favorable
auspices of the times.
Resumption of specie payment brings
with it revived industries, and in place of
the calamities foreboded by the prophets
of evil, there comes employment for idle
labor, with still greater encouragement and
brighter hopes for the future. [Applause.]
What the teachers of a new political econo
my declared a year ago to be a physical
impossibility is today an accomplished
fact. [Applause.]
The Democratic party, faithful to its
record for consistency, repudiates, as usual,
the platform of its last convention. [Laugh
ter.] So "the Democratic party as a
whole" now believes, for this year at least,
that labor is entitled to receive for its toil
something better than a promise of uncer
tain fulfillment in an indefinite future.
There are certain great laws of trade
and commerce which the rantings of po
litical demagogues and time servers cannot
change. Of which the most essential, in
order to secure successful and staple in
dustries in all times of peace, is that the
money used in the transaction of business
should itself be a real value, or for con
venience, a representative convertible, at
the will of the holder, into real value, and
that the standard or that real value should
be recognized as of the same value by all
who deal in it, or in the commodities for
which it is exchanged. Otherwise some
body must of necessity be the loser by its
use.
A depreciated or worthless currency is
a representative of the destruction of value,
of loss, not gain. The laborer who receives
a real dollar for his day's work holds in it
the representative of the value of a day's
work. But if be receives a worthless dol
lar it represents loss to the amount of the
value of a day's work; so of depreciated
money of all kinds to the extent of the
depreciation. The loss of a defective
standard of value, like worthless money,
falls in the end most heavily upon those
who earn their bread by their daily toil.
While the question of currency and
kindred measures, which affect most di
rectly the industrial interests of the coun
try, are still unsettled in its legislation, a
new political issue is forced upon the
country in the attempt to revive some of
the old theories of nullification and seces
sion, and thus the people are called upon
to settle at the ballot-box and in the forum
questions which everybody had a right to
suppose were finally settled in the field.
Is there to be no end of controversy ?
Is nothing ever to be regarded as finally
settled ? Did the ballot-box in eighteen
hundred and sixty, after fifty years of
heated discussion, settle nothing ? Did the
sword in one of the most gigantic wars of
history settle nothing, unless it be to
clothe the vanquished with power and au
thority to make their own terms of sur
render and to fix the conditions upon
which the victors may enjoy the govern
ment saved by their valor ? [Applause.]
The logic of all wars, especially of civil
wars, if they have any logic at all, is that
the victors at the close of the contest have
the right to fix the terms of surrender for
the vanquished and to settle the policy of
administration which they believe will best
promote the welfare of the country. And
the vanquished have certainly no cause of
complaint if the policy so fixed applies, as
in our case, to the victors themselves the
same as the vanquished.
Unless the sword in four years of bloody
conflict settled forever that this is a nation,
and that nullification or secession in any
form is not to be resorted to by any por
tion of the American people as a remedy
for political ills, then indeed was it a useless
massacre of brave men.
There are only two constitutional meth-
Ods by which laws once enacted can be
rendered inoperative, the one by repeal,
the other by the proper court declaring
them void. So long as they remain valid
enactments, the claim that either law
maker, citizen or State can rightfully nul
lify them by withholding support, is but a
revival of the old doctrine of South Caro
lina nullification.
While a law remains a valid enactment,
it is as much a disregard of duty and con
stitutional obligation for the law-maker to
refuse the necessary appropriations of
money to make it effective, as it is for the
private citizen to disobey it. The act in
both cases is the same and differs only in
the remedy. In the case of the private
citizen the remedy is in the courts; and in
the case of the law-maker it is in the ballot
bog, by the repudiation at the polls of a
faithless public servant and - of the party
that sustains his acts.
The advent of the Democratic party to
power in one branch of Congress, after
sixteen years' exclasioa, was signalized by
their refusing all appropriations of money
for the support of the army.
And as soon as they have a majority in
both ~•ranches of Congress it is claimed
that the law-makers may of right refuse to
apply the money collected from the people
to the support of their Government, on the
plea that certain laws are unwise if not un
constitutional. This is a mode of repeal
ing laws not provided for in the Constitu
tion. and is revolutionary and destructive
of all forms of government.
The party begins in 'power in 1879, just
where it ended in 1561. It ended then in
an opposition to the army and a refusal to
acquiesce in the constitutional forms of the
Government. It comes back to legislative
power and begins by refusing the necessary
support of the army and by making war
upon the constitutional forms of the Gov
ernment.
Thus the war of ideas goes on.
The people of the United States, in
order to form a more perfect Union, es
tablish justice and secure the blessings of
liberty for themselves and their posterity,
did in March, 1789, establish the Consti
tution of the United States, as the form of
governnient which they believed would
best secure these ends. That there might
be no mistake as to the authority and
character of the government which they
established, they declared, in the seventh
article, that "this Constitution and all laws
of the United States which shall be made
in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made
or which shall be made under the authority
of the United States, shall be the supreme
law of the land; and the judges in every
State shall be bound thereby, anything in
the Constitution of laws of any State to
the contrary notwithstanding."
The tribunal which they established in
the Constitution to determine whether the
laws are made in pursuance thereof was
the Supreme Court of the United States.
Among the powers conferred upon Con
gress is one "to provide for calling forth
the militia to execute the laws of the
Union," and each and every State is ex
pressly prohibited from "entering into any
treaty, alliance, or confederation," or "into
any agreement or compact with another
State or with a foreign power." The
Constitution of the United States is,
therefbre, in express terms and provisions
made for a nation and not for a confeder
ation.
How, then, did the idea ever obtain that
any local community could judge for itself
as to the constitutionality of the laws of
the government of the Union, and at will
nullify such as it did not approve ?
The devotees of slavery, while it lasted,
constantly seeking greater security and
more effective safeguards for its perpetuity
began by magnifying the power of the
States, so as to place them as a bulwark,
behind which human bondage could en
trench itself' against any possible action of
the government of' the Union. In the
increase and growth of the country they
foresaw that the time was not far distant
when the representatives in Congress from
the non slaveholding States would out
number those from the slaveholding, and
then their peculiar institution might be
endangered by unfriendly legislation.
With the keen foresight characteristic
of the representatives of a special or class
interest, the votaries of slavery, led by
Calhoun, for nearly half a century, devoted
all their energies to creating a sentiment
with the people of their section under the
disguise and sugar-coating of State rights,
of a local sectional allegiance, as paramount
to that patriotism which springs from the
love of a common country.
In order to alarm the citizen as to his
future security and protection, the Gov
ernment of the Union, its capital being
outside the limits of the State, was persist
ently represented as a foreign Government,
not responsible to the people, therefore
dangerous to liberty. Hence the citizen
must look to the local community in which
he chanced to live for his protection; when
in fact the whole subversion of liberty and
the rights of men in our whole history had
been by State authority and by that alone.
These ideas, born of slavery, they in
fused through the caucus machinery of
party organization, into the Democratic
party as articles of its political faith on the
proper distribution of the powers of gov
ernment.
The President and Congress elected by
precisely the same voters that elect the
constable and the justice of the peace,
each and all alike the servants of the peo
ple ; the term of office of the President
not longer than that of most Governors,
and that of members of Congress the same
as the legislators of most 'of the States ;
and every branch of the Government of
the Union, except the judiciary, amenable
to the people and created by them, the
same as are their State organizations, how
is it possible for the Government of the
Union to be any more dangerous to the
liberties of :the people than that of the
State ?
State Rights, properly understood, are
those rights of local communities to form
such rules and regulations for their own
government as their geographic or social
conditions seem to require for the promo
tion of their happiness and prosperity, not
inconsistent with, or in contravention of
the powers conferred on the Government
of the Union.
The condition 3 or right of suffrage is
left to each State to fix it as it pleases, sub
leet only to the limitations and prohibi
tions in the Constitution of the United
States. But when so fixed the voter for
the most numerous branch of the State
Legislature becomes a voter of the United
States within the limits of the State of his
residence. It is then as much the duty of
the Government of the Union to see that
lie is protected in the full and free enjoy
ment of that right as of any other guar
anteed by the Constitution of the United
States.
Allegiance by the citizen and protection
by the Government are co-relative duties.
The same authority that commands and
appropriates the life and...property of the
citizen for its defense in time of peril is
bound to protect that life, with all its
rights, and that property, with all its
incidents, against all lawless attacks where
ever its jurisdiction extends.
A government that cannot command the
loyality of its own citizens is unworthy the
respect of the world, and :a government
that will not protect its loyal citizens de.
serves the contempt of the world.
a ,
Where is the justice in the government
using the life and the property of the citi
zen for its own protection in time of danger
and then when the danger is passed off
turning them over for protection and
security to any local community, no matter
what may be its character for lawlessness
or its local and provincial prejudices
nainst all persons not to the manor born ?
That would be a restoration of the old
view of State rights, which gave to local
communities the power to make the utter
ance of the great truths of the Declara
tion of Independence a penitentiary offense,
and to incarcerate in loathsome dungeons
Christian philanthropists who gave a crust
of bread or glass of water to the panting
fugitives guilty of no offense save his love
of liberty.
I am a citizen of the republic of Ameri
ca, living within the territorial limits of
the State of Pennsylvania, and so long as I
obey the laws of both, am entitled to pro
tection for all my rights as man and 66-
Z3ll wherever I may go within the juris•
diction of the Constitution and the Courts
of that republic. [Applause.]
I forfeit no guaranteed rights of citi
zenship by crossing State lines; nor is the
Government absolved from its duty and
obligation to protect me in all rights and
privileges secured or guaranteed by its
laws, for by the Constitution itself they
are made the supreme law of the land,
anything in the Constitution or laws of a
State to the contrary notwithstanding.
I owe no allegiance to any petty local
community paramount to that which Lowe
to the Government that guarantees to
every State in the Union a republican form
of government and protection against
invasion and domestic violencd. [Ap
plause.]
The statesmanship that regards the
local community in 'which a man is born
or in which he chances to live as wiser
and better than any other, is akin to the
self-righteousness that rejected the Saviour
of mankind because he came out of Naza
reth.
In our political system the doctrine that
a local community is paramount to the
nation is the child of American slavery,
and whatever injustice there might be in
other cases cif visiting the iniquities of the
fathers upon the children there can be
none whatever in this case, for it has been
a Pandora's box of national ills.
The threat of leading representatives of
the Democratic party to undo all the legis
lation enacted to save the Union in the
night of its peril, without the consent of
those who saved it, and the still more vio
lent and inexcusable threat to withhold, so
long as they have a majority in either
branch of Congress, the necessary appro
priations of money for the support of the
Government of the Union, unless their
particular notions of States rights are re
spected, is akin to the threat made nine
tee❑ years ago to destroy the Union if its
freemen, in the mode prescribed by the
Constitution, should elect a President of
the United states not acceptable to them.
[Applause ]
The men who vowed then, amid the
clash of arms and the din of battle, that
whatever else might perish it should not
be the free institutions of their fathers, in
the same spirit vow, to day, Hannibal-like,
at the altar of their country, by the shades
of half a million hero martyrs, sleeping in
early graves; by the sighs and tears of an
equal number of widows and orphans,
sitting at disconsolate firesides; by the
heroic sacrifiz,es of a nation mourning its
unreturning brave, that those who wrought
all this misery and woe, shall not ac
complish in peace what they failed to ac
complish in war. [Applause and cheers
loud and prolonged.]
NOMINATION FOR STATE TREASURER.
The Chair announced that nominations
for State Treasurer were next in order.
Gen Houten, of Chester, in naming
Hon. Samuel Butler, of Chester, said :
Mr. Pres+dent : I have been requested
by the citizens ani Republicans of the
county of Chester to place in nomination
before you one of their citizens. The Re
publican party of Chester county, and the
party in opposition to the Democratic
party of Chester county has at all times,
from the adoption of the Constitution of
the United States until to day, stood by,
supported and maintained the doctrines of
the FedeTal Constitution and the Federal
Government. Chester county eighty years
ago was a Federal county. Chester county
in 1861-2-3, as you did, sent her men to
support the Federal Government [ap•
plause],linto the Federal army and Feder
al navy, under the banner of the Federal
Government. [Applause.]
We are to day, and we have at all times
been, followers of George Washington and
of Alexander Hamilton. We spurn to-day,
as we have in all the history of Chester
county, squatter sovereignty, rebellion and
political damnation I [Applause] for from
these have come everything that may to
day damn this country. We are for the
nation now and forever.
Upon two occasions only in the history
of Chester county have those of her citi
zens who were in opposition to the party
of secession and State rights been honored
with positions on the ticket of Pennsylva
nia. The first time Isaac Wayne, the son
of "Mad Anthony Wayne," was the can
didate for Governor by the Federal party
of Pennsylvania. The second was Joseph
J. Lewis, csq , who in one of the first fights
of the Republican party of Pennsylvania,
was one of the candidates for Judge of the
Supreme Court. Notwithstanding, we
have never hesitated to poll all the honest
votes we could for the Republican party,
and do what we could for the perpetuity
of Or Federal Union, both in men and
money.
\ITC come before you again and ask you
to place upon your ticket one of our citi
zens as your standard bearer in this con
test; an agriculturist—a man who was
born and bred and who still resides upon
a farm, a gentleman who has always been
active in the Republican party, but who
has only within the last three years ap
peared before you as such ; a gentleman
who in 1876 was for the first time named
as a candidate for the Legislature and
nominated by the Republican party ;
where the office asked for the man with
out his solicitation in any way, shape or
form; a man who is 1878 was again placed
in nomination and sent to the House of
Representatives by the Republican party,
and a man who sustained the honor and
integrity of his entire constituency on
these occasions. And on these two occa
sions he has served with credit the entire
State. I name to you, gentleman, LION.
SAMUEL BUTLER, of Chester county, as a
candidate of the great Republican party of
Pennsylvania for State Treasurer. [Vocif
erous applause and cheers.]
Mr. Huntsinger moved that Samuel
Butler be nominated by acclamation, which
was unanimously agreed to.
Hon. Thos. V. Cooper, of Delaware,
from the Committee on Resolutions, made
report as follows :
Resolved, 1. That the Republioan party, again
forced to stand forward for the defense of human
rights, after a struglge lasting through a genera
tion, finds itself confronted by the same foes of
Federal unity, political freedom, and national
honor, which it has so often overthrown in civil
contests and in armed conflict.
2. That we appeal to the Union-loving people
of Pennsylvania to arrest, by their votes. the road
career of the Democratic party, which ineists upon
placing the National Government under the dom
ination of men who but lately fought to destroy it,
and who are now plotting to give triumph to the
doctrine they failed to establish in theVeld,—the
establishment of State sovereignty by the over
throw of national supremacy.
3. We declare our implacable hostility to the
repeal of the national laws which protect the
purity of the ballot-box and secure fair elections.
The election of Congressmen and Presidential
electors being clearly subject to national control,
any attempt to throw off that control is simply an
effort to establish fraud at national elections.—
Honest suffrage, equal rights, the unity of the na
tion and the supremacy of the National Govern
ment in all matters placed by the Constitution
under its control can be maintained only by the
Republican party, which is alone committed to
their defense.
4. That the Detnocratio pasty, having committed
itself to an attempt to break up the Government
by refusing to appropriate moneys already col
lected from the people to sustain: the Government,
unless the Executive pha.il sanstion measures in
tended to foster fraud, violence and corrtiptimi in
the national elections, and to impair this awaits
tional supremacy of the nation, deserves and in
vites the signal condemnation of every law-abi
ding and honest citison.
5. That we are in favor of the discharge of the
national debt in coin,aoserding Loth* understand
ing between the Governinant and the !alder ; of a
paper currency redeemable in ooin; and of the
existing nat onal banking system. We congratu
late the eoentry upon retarding national prosper
ity, and upon the accomplishment, under a Re
publican National Administration, of the success
ful resumption ofspecie payments. Oar currency,
the best ever afforded the country, is restored to
its par value; thenational credit has been main
tained and strengthened; and the burden of the
national debt largely reduced. To complete what
has been so well dons we demand that oar present
financial system remain undisturbed.
6. That to the policy and practice of protection
to home industry and home production Inaugurated
and sustained by the Republican patty we are in
debted for the growth and development of oar do
mestic and foreign commerce, and for the prosper
ous condition andstrength of theastional finances;
and that to the continuance of that policy must
we look in the future for assured prosperity and
peace throughout the whole country. In fostering
the same we desire to insure constant employment
to labor at remunerative wages.
7. That the firm stand of the President in vin
dicating the prerogatives of the co-ordinate de
partmonts of the Government meets the hearty ap
proval of the Republican party of Pennsylvania.
8. We call on the veteran soldiers of the war
for the Union to join us in resenting the uniust
expulsion of their wounded comrades from offices
by the Democratic Congress and the transfer of
their places to rebel soldiers, whose chief recom
mendation seems to be unrepentant treason and
unending hate of the nation.
9. That we earnestly sympathize with our
Southern Republican brethren, who are now pass
ing under the harrow of political persecution. We
bid them be of good cheer.. Fraud and force min
not always triumph, even in a region where fraud
and force find a congenial home. If a solid South
now deprives them of their just rights. a solid
North will npt fail, in due time, to secure them
that perfect freedom which is the birthright and
inheritanee of every Arneriean citizen.
10. That the United. States of America is a na
tion not a league; its - constitution and all laws
made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law
of the land ; anything in the constitution or laws
of a State to the contrary notwithstanding.
11. That the tribunal established by the Con
stitution to determine whether the laws are made
in pursuance thereof, is the Supreme Court of the
United States. All laws once enacted unless re
pealed by the law-making power or declared void
by said court, neither law-maker,citizen nor State
bas a right to nullify.
12. That the success of the administration of
the State under the management of the Republi
can party, the steady reduction of the Stets debt,
and the enforced compliment of the present Dem
ocratic Treasurer that not one dollar of the public
funds had been lost or misplaced daring the
seventeen years of Republican custody of the
funds, prove that official integrity and finaneial
skill have been the benefits confevred s by our tax
payers of the State, and merits the approval of
the people of Pennsylvania.
13. That we pledge ourselves in favor of such
legislation as will prevent unlawful and uncon
stitutional discrimination in freights by Clamm
ing companies of the country. •
14. That we heartily endorsetbeadailaistration
of Governor Hoyt, and the stalwart attitude of
Senator Cameron and out Republiegn Congress
men in resisting the revolationary riders so per
sistently pressed by the Democrats in Congr
The reading of the resolutions was fre
quently interrupted by applause. At its
conclusion Mr. Cooper moved the adoption
of the resolution and called the previous
•
question.
The resolutions were then unanimously
adopted. •
Col. Gubin moved that a committee of
five be appointed to inform Mr. Butler of
his nomination, which was edopted.
The Chair appointed the following com•
mittee : Messrs. Gobin, Leeds, Davies,
Wolfe and Quay.
During the absence of the committee,
the convention took a recess.
After a short recess the convention was
called to order, when the committee ap
pointed to notify the candidate of his nom
ination appeared in the aisle and Cul.
Gobin said:
"Mr. President. The committee ap
pointed to notify the gentleman who is to
take charge of the State finances for the
next term of his nomination and escort
him to the convention,beg leave to present
hiin."
Hearty applause followed Mr. Butler's
entrance, which was kept up as the gentle
man was escorted to the chair. After
music by the band—" Hail to the Chief"'
—Mr. Butler said :
.Mr. Chairnum and Gentlemen of the
Convention : I suppose, at this time, I
ought not to have the presumption to in
flict a speech upon my friends. I shall
not do so. I shall rather show my appre-
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