Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — GREENBACK STATE CONVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

GREENBACK STATE CONVENTIONS.

New Jersey. The New Jersey State Greenback Convention met at Trenton on the 30th ult. Every county except one was represented. The platform adopted indorses that made at Chicago ; denounces the national-banking system, corporations and land monopoly ; demands a revision of the tariff and the protection of the rights of labor. Among the speakers was ex-Congress-man Gillette, of lowa. . Solon C’liawe Nominated for Governor in Maine. The Straight Greenback Convention, of Maine, convened al Bangor, May 30, and adopted resolutions in opposition to the nation-al-banking system ; recommending that no more bonds be issued ; that all public lands be held as homesteads for the people; that all money should be issued by the Federal Government in sufficient quantities to meet the wants of trade, and be a full legal tender for all debts ; that imprisonment for debt should be abolished ; that all corporations and monopolies should be controlled by law ; that indiscriminate sale of intoxicating liquors should be prohibited ; declaring an unalterable determination to oppose fusion with either of the old parties; and finally indorsing the action of the National Committee at Bt. Louis. A resolution indorsing the course of Gov. Plaisted was indefinitely postponed. The following nominations were made : For Governor, Solon Chase; Congressmen, William T. Eaton, Eben O’Gary, B. K. Kellock, and D. B. Averill. MisNouri. The Greenback State Convention of Missouri met at Moberly, on the 31st of May. The following permanent officers were elected : Thos. L. Auderson, President; William C. Aldrich, Vice President; Isaac N. Hauck, Secretary. A platform with sixteen planks was adopted. It reaffirms the Chicago platform of 1880; indorses Uie action of the National Executive Committee at St. Louie; epitomizes the address adopted by that committee, and reiterates the principles of the party as usually formulated by the Greenback conventions ; condemns option contracts, and calle for the criminal prosecution of all persons dealing in them ; denounces the action of the Legislature in redistrictiug the State solely in the interest of the Democratic party as an attempt to disfranchise 190,000 voters, and as a crime against suffrage which should be rebuked at the polls at the next election. The following ticket was then nominated : Judge of the Supreme Court, Judge Bice, now representing the old Seventh district in Congress; Superintendent of Public Instruction, E. B. Booth, of St Louis; Bailroad Commissioner, H. M. Bitchey. Fusion Greeiibuckcrs in Maine. The Fusion Greenback State Convention of Maine met at Bangor on the let inst. Delegates present, 961. J. H. Thing chosen permanent Chairman. H irrU M. Plaisted was nominated for Governor. The resolutions adopted declare in favor of a circulating medium, consisting of gold and silver and paper, all full legal tender, controlled by the Government and the unrestricted coinage of gold an 1 silver, and denounces the national bank system as one of deadly hostility to. the best interests of the country; declares for reform in the civil service, reform in the tariff system, elections by the people, no imprisonment for debt, independence of the three co-ordinate branches of the Government, a non-partisan judiciary, and the right of the Executive to make suitable nominations.