Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1882 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

Party State Conventions, and What They Did. lost of the Nominees, Platforms, Etc. CALIFORNIA GBEENBACKEIiS. The Greenback State Convention of California, in session at San Francisco, placed in the field the following ticket: Governor, Thomas J. McQuiddy; Secretary of State, Robert Summers; Treasurer,. R. 8. Buell; Controller, M. E. More; Attorney General, Mrs. Marian Todd; Surveyor General, W. J. Cuthbertson; Superintendent of Public Instruction, E. J. Schellous; Justices of the Supreme Court, W. C. Stratton and John Clark; Clerk of the Supreme Court, J. T. O’Toole; Con-gressmen-at-Large, Stephen Maybell and Warren Chase; Railroad Commissioners— First district, G. T. Elliott; Second, H. Redstone; Third, J. P. Hollowav; Congressmen— First district, G. C. Irwin; Second, F. Woodward; Third, W. O. Rowe; Fourth, Isaac Kinley; Board of Epualization—Dirst district, Leonard W. Kind; Second, Thomas McConnell; Fourth, J. 8. Loveland. After choosing a State Central Committee the convention adjourned sine die. COLORADO GREENBACKERS. A Denver dispatch says that at the State Greenback Convention George W. Way was nominated for Governor, F O. Saunders for Lieutenant Governor, and L J. Herzinger for Secretary of State. The convention was somewhat stormy, the question of incorporating a prohibition clause in the platform dividing the delegates into bitter factions for a time. In the night session, and when the business of the convention was nearly at an end, an anti-prohibition delegate created a sensation by introducing a resolution condemning the deliberations of the body. The discussion of the resolution was very lively for a while and nearly caused an open revolt in the convention, but the Chairman, by dispassionate rulings and interference, succeeded in patching up the difficultyPENNSVLVANIA REPUBLICANS. A Philadelphia dispatch reports an important meeting of leading Republicans at the office of John Welch, for the purpose of taking steps to secure the withdrawal of both lleaver and Stewart and the selection of a candidate for Governor who would be acceptable to both factions. There were present John Welch, Thomas Cochran, Amos R. Little, Joseph Wharton and Edwin M. Benson. The meeting was conducted with the utmost secrecy. Discussion was purely informal. The meeting broke up without any conclusion being reached.

NEBRASKA ANTI-PROHIBITIONISTS. The anti-Prohibitionists of Nebraska held a convention at Boyd’s Opera House, in Omaha, on the 11th inst There was a large attendance from all parts of the State. Resolutions were adopted pledging the members of the convention to do their utmost to prevent the election this fall of Prohibition candidates, and requiring those who should receive their support to pledge themselves to work against prohibition. NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAXS. The Republicans of New Hampshire met in State Convention at Concord, and on the fourth ballot nominated Samuel W. Hall, of Keene, for Governor. The Committee on Resolutions reported reaffirming the faith of New Hampshire Republicans in those principles which have given liberty, peace and prosperity to the whole country; lamenting tne death of President Garfield, and expressing confidence in his successor. The tariff plank is as follows: “We reaffirm and indorse the principles of a protective tariff as the safeguard of American industries, by which our great manufacturing interests have been fostered and maintained, and American labor protected against ruinous competition and scantily paid labor of foreign nations.” south cabolina bepublicans. At a convention of the Republicans of South Carolina, held at Columbia, and presided over by S. J. Lee (colored), it was decided to make no nominations for State officers. The following resolution, offered by Congressman Mackay, was adopted: llesolved. That the Convention of the Union Republican party of South Carolina, while repudiating the financial principles advocated by the Greenback party, and i eaffirming the principles of the Union Republican party, do recommend that at the next general election the voters of the State, in the interest of a free ballot and a fair count, cast their ballots, as Republicans, for tne State ticket nominated'by the GreenbackLnbor Convention on the fith inst. A resolution was adopted recommending that the Republicans support B. S. Cash, the Independent candidate for Congress in the Fifth district new hampshibe democbats. The Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire, held at Concord, was presided over bv Stilson Hutchins, late of Dubuque, St. Louis and Washington, but now a resident of Laconia, N. H. Martin Van Buren Edgerly was placed in nomination for Governor on the first ballot Thomas C. Gray, Alden B. Smith and Henry A. Emerson were nominated for Railroad Commissioners. The resolutions demand radical reform iu State expenditures; equal taxation of property, individual and corporate; the passage of the Anti-Bribiug bill; the abolition of monopolies; purification of the civil service, State and national, and a strict enforcement of the Prohibition law. new hampshibe gbeenbackebs. The National Greenback-Labor party of New Hampshire, in State Convention at Manchester, declared against fusion with either of the present parties, and favored a general railroad law. John F. Woodbury was nominated for Governor, and Lafavette Moore, Wendall P. Ela and John E. Norwood as Railroad Commissioners. Lafayette Chesley was nominated for Congress ’for the First district, and George Carpenter for the Second district. NEW YORK ANTI-MONOPOLISTS. A State Convention of the Anti-Monopo-lists of New York convened at Saratoga, 150 delegates being in attendance. Patrick 11. Cowen presided. A platform of principles was adopted setting forth that “steam and electricity have become the controlling factors in the commercial and Industrial world, and these great forces have been monopolized by those who use them to tax the masses for private advantage. The corporate life which now wields these great forces has assumed an importance never hitherto contemplated. It is concentrating the wealth of the nation in the hands of a few persons with alarming rapidity ■ to the injury of the masses of the people. It has appropriated the power of political parties, corrupted elections and legislation to an extent which degrades public morality and endangers free institutions. The whole political system seems pervaded with the spirit of monopoly, which must be* overcome or popular government will become a failure. Women are declared to have the same inalienable rights as men. ” A conference with the Labor party was ordered in case the Republican and Democratic State Conventions do not make satisfactory nominations. NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS. The Democratic State Convention of Nebraska, which convened at Omaha, was presided over by Gen. M. Montgomery, of Lincoln, and D. W. Smalls, of Fremont, performed the functions of Secretary. Hon. John Sterling Morton, of Otoe county, was nominated. for Governor; J. F. Warren; of . Dakota county, Lieutenant Governor; C- L. Bowlby, of Saline county, Secretary of State; P. D. Sturtevant, Fillmore county, Treasurer; diaries Leech, Johnson county, Auditor; J. C Crawford, Cuming county. Attorney General; Charles A. Speice, Platte county, Superintendent of Public Instruction; Henry Grebe, Omaha. Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings. The follow-" 1 ing platform was adopted: The Democrats of Nebraska, in State Convention mbled, at Omaha, this 14th day of Senteinbcr, ISS'.', hereby declare: 1. Ths Government of the United States lias no constitutional or other right to im - pose tax<is on the people, except with thu

intent and result of getting money into the public treasury with which to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. The tariff tax called protective, laid with far different intent and result, should lie abolished. The Democrats of Nebraska challenge their political opponents in this State to a general discussion of the above propositions, and to an unequivocal statement of the position of the Republican party of Nebraska upon the question of reckless protective tariff. 2. The squandering in the recent River and Harbor bill, in star-route fraudulent contracts, in the payment of alleged secretsendee detectives, in the Hubbell 2-per-cent. assessments, in the multiplication or salaries and perquisites for the unnumbered and almost-innumerable swarm of officeholders, and in other visible corruptions of the people’s mimey which _does reach the national treasury, deserve lhe immediate and emphatic condemnation of the people. 3. The State of Nebraska, in common -with other States qf the Union, has and ex'efeises the right of regulating the sale of intoxicating drinks in the interest of good order within the State, but the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of such drinks within the State is contrary to the fundamental rights of the individual, and to the fundamental principles of social and moral conduct, and if enacted will be neutralized by the constitution of the United States, which permits the introduction to every State of foreign liquors imported from abroad, and controls also every form inter-State commerce. 4. Corporations, whether in the form of banks, manufacturing establishments or railroads, must keep their hands off from the reserved rights of the people. The Democrats of Nebraska denounce all railroads within the State which elect or attempt to elect, which influence or attempt to influence, delegates to political conventions, members of the Legislature, Senators or members of Congress. Corporate capital as such must not be permitted thus to encroach upon popular rights. We assert the right of the Legislature to control the railroads. We deny the right of the railroads to control the Legislature. 5. We demand the enactment of a law which shall, under severe penalties, forbid the issuance of passes or free transportation of any kind whatsoever by any railroad in Nebraska to any person holding either an elective or appointive office, or any other official position under the constitution or laws of this Sqate. 6. Finally, the Government, whether of the State or of the United States, is nothing but a committee of the citizens appointed to attend to certain concerns of the whole body of the people that cannot otherwise be managed, and all straining or undue tension of the functions of these committees in any direction whatsoever should be constantly watched and always resisted by the people. COLORADO REPUBLICANS. In the State Convention of the Republicans of Colorado, held at Denver, Hon. Ernest L. Campbell, of Leadville, was nominated for Governor on the second ballot. William H. Meyer was nominated for Lieutenant Governor on the first ballot. James B. Belford was nominated for Congress on the second ballot. Melvin Edwards, of Summit, was nominated for Secretary of State; Fred Wolsen, of Huerfano, for State Treasurer; John Abbott, of L'lrimie, for Auditor; D. F. Urmy, of Pueblo, for Attorney General; J. B. Chaffee, Chairman of the State Central Committee. Resolutions were adopted of regret at the death of Garfield and indorsing the course of President Arthur; thanks for the calling oi Henry M. Teller to the Secretaryship of the Interior; denouncing the demonetization of silver and recommending the apportionment of funds arising from the sale of public lands to the sinking of artesian wells iu Colorado.