Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The State Democratic Convention of Nebraska, which met at Omaha, was presided over by Judge Kinney, of Otoe county. Ex-Judge James W. Savage was nominated for Justice of the State Supreme Court, and James W. Wood worth, of Douglas, Dr. E. R Daniels, of Madison County,- and Dr. G. W. Johnson, of Fillmore, were nominated for Regents of the State University. The Committee on Platform, the Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Chairman, reaffirmed the platform of last year as to National politics and incorporated several new planks, the whole being adopted without dissent The most important planks are these: 1. The Government of the United States has no constitutional or other light to impose taxes on the peop e except with the intent and result of g -tting money into the public treasury with which to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States, and all tariff taxes called protective, laid with far different intent and result, ought to be utterly abolished. 2. That “protection,” so-called, derives no part of its impulse or maintenance from reasoning or common sense, but is wholly a scheme of a few selfish men lor their own aggrandizement at the expense of the masses of the people, and, like the late River and Harbor bill vetoed by President Arthur, the worse a protective tariff bill the more likely it is to be enacted, because the log-rolling for it is the fiercer and more shameless. Congressman Carlisle, of Kentucky, thinks Randall has no chance for the Speakership. and regards his own election as a foregone conclusion. Judge Hoadly, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, is suffering from nervous prostration. He left the other day for Philadelphia to consult his old physician.