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Show TELEGRAPHIC , THE PEWSUAAXU DE-1 DE-1 IIOCKAUY. j A. Solid Platform and One' Illicit Ouebl to Carrj the I'uriy I liroutn. Pittsburg, 23. The democratic state convention assembled this morning. morn-ing. Hon. C. K. Buckalew was elected president. Mr. Wallace, the chairman of the committee on resolutions, reso-lutions, reported the following platform: plat-form: The democracy of Pennsylvania unanimously declare that the republican repub-lican party, iU measure and its men, re responsible loi the financial dis-'rese, dis-'rese, the mitery and want that now xist. It haii hud control ol the Ifgia-lation Ifgia-lation ol the country, and has enacted and perpetrated a policy that has fluricbed the few and impoverished the many. Its system of finance has been one of favors to moneyed monopoly, mon-opoly, ol unequal taxation, of exemption exemp-tion of classes, ol high rales of interest in-terest and remorseless contraction, wbich has destroyed every enterprise that gave employment to labor. Its present hold upoa federal powei was secured by fraud, preying and forgery. Its laws are unjuol and its practices are immoral. They distress the people ancj destroy their Hubatance. The only remedy for these evils is in an entire change of policy and the dethronement of those in power, and we resolve that further ODntraction of the volume of United States legal tender notes is unwise and unnecessary. They should be received for customs and duties and reissued as fust as received. Gold, silver and United States legal tender notes air par therewith are ajust basis tor circulation. A close connection of the federal government with the business interests of the people, through national banks, tends to monopoly and centralization, but in changing the system uniformly of notes, tho security of note holdeiB and the protection of the capital invested should be provided (or. Treasury notea issued in exchange for bond bearing a low rate of intereut, is the boat form in which the credit of the government cm be givn iu paper currency. Labor and capital have equal demands upon and equal ro suonsibilitiea to law, commerce and manufactures, and should he encouraged encour-aged so that steady employment and tair wnges miy ba yielded to labor, whilst safety of investment and a moderate return for its use bebug to . capital. Violence or breaches of order in suppon of the real or supposed sup-posed rights of either should be promptly suppressed by the strong arm of the law. The public lauds should not be sold to speculators nor granted to railroad or other corpora Hons, but should be reserved as home steads for actual Bettlers. Our publio debt should be held at home, and the bonds reprejentiug it ought to be of small denominations, in which the savings of the masses may be safely invested. A thorough investigation into the electoral frauds of 1876 should ue made. i?'raud should be exposed, the truth vindicated, and criminals punished; but we oppose any attack upoa the presidential title as dangerous danger-ous to our institutions and fruitless in its results. The republican party creates new oE cs and adds enormous perquisites to others, and fills them with favorites favor-ites whose chief duty is to manage its political machinery. Its administration administra-tion of the state government grow more expensive with each year of its ' rule. Legislation has been directed 1 by republican lobbyists, who in turn manipulate and control the nomiua- j tioufl of the republican party, and its candidates are the creations of a j junta, whose decrees are accepted as I the irreversible mandates ol absolute hereditary power. We denounce I these methods, these measures and these men as unworthy the support of an honest and a free people, and we invite ail of every shade of politic"! opinion to uoite witn us in doliveriug the commonwealth from their hatelul rule. The platform was unanimously adopted. Tne convention proceeded to ballot for governor. Oo ihe second ballot Andrew H. Dill was declared nominated, and on motion of Malcolm Mal-colm Hay of Allegheny, the nomination nomina-tion was made unanimous. H. P. Ross was nominated for BUprcme judge on the first ballot. |