Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — DEMOCRATIC STATE CONTENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC STATE CONTENTIONS.

New Jersey. The New Jersey Democratic State Convention met at Trenton, Gov. Bedle oelng chosen permanent Chairman. District delegates were chosen as follows: < First, A. J. Steelman and Daniel F. Creem; Second, H. B. Smith and P. M. J. Smith; Third. Willard Roes and 8. W. Brown; Fourth, M. 0. Swartzweller and Senator Carpenter; Firth, Thomas J. Flynn and Carmen F. Randolph; Sixth, Assemblyman Harrlgan and Gottfried Krueger; Seventh, Orestes Cleveland and Martin Helyes. The platform adopted declares that under Re-

publican administration of national affairs labor is unable to meet with tali' wag's; great public criminals are unpunished through delays or actual connlvanoe on the part of the Federal officers; that no goverment has the right to burden its people beyond the amount necessary to pay Its economical expenses and gradually extinguish the national debt; that legislation is needed to protect home industries, without p»o----dnoiug or fostering monopolies: that it is tbe duty of every free man to help drive from power the party who made triumpha t the election fraud of 1876. The platform also declares for dvit-servioe reform, and concludes, while adhering to the State custom not to instruct delegates, with a resolution favoring Tilden and Hendricks. Virginia. John T. Harris presided over the Virginia Democr "tic State Convention, which assembled at Riohmond. TUden and Hendricks were the almost unanimous choice of the convention, and all the delegates chosen to the natonal convention will vote for them. The resolutions adopted congratulate the people upon the result, of the November election, which rescued the State from tbe corrupt ring, and restored control to the people; arraigns the Republican party as the abettor of ring rule in Virginia, and as the perpetrator of the highest public crime of the age -the theft of the Chief Maglstr cy; denounces the attempt made by le ding Republican Senators to show that the Danville riot was Instigated by Democrats for the purpose of drawing the ooior line; demands the nncondlt onal and immediate abolition of the internal-revenue system, and favors tariff for revenue only. Tilden and Hendricks were almost the unanimous choice of the convention. Dakota Territory. The Democrats of Dakota Territory gathered in convention at Pierre to elect delegates to the national convention tor the first time. J. 8. Foster, of Mitobell, was made permanent Chairman. F. M. Zeiback and J. McCormick were elected delegates to Chicago. The delegates go nninstrncted, but are understood to be for Tilden and Hendricks. The platfo m declares for revenue reform and holds th.t the luxuries of life should pay the expenses of the Government.and favors the bill pending before Congress granting ISO notes of land to each Union soldier of the late war. It also declares for oivtl service reform and hard money, and opposes all sumptuary laws.