Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — PARTY CONVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

PARTY CONVENTIONS.

The Michigan Republican* Nominate Candidate* and Adopt a Platform. Democratic State Conventions Held in Missouri and Georgia. Michigan Republicans. The Republican State Convention cA Michigan convened at Detroit, and chose E. S. Lacey, of Eaton County, Permanent Chairman. The following State ticket wai placed in nomination: Governor, Gen. R. A Alger; Lieutenant Governor, Archibald Butler, after C. A Lace had declined; Secretary of State, H. A Conaat; Treasurer, E. H. Butler; Auditor General, W. C. Stearns: Commissioner of Land, M. S. Newell ; Attorney General, Moses Taggart: Superintendent of Public Instruction, Herechel Glass; Member of the State Board of Education, James M. Ballou. The following platform was adopted: The Republicans'of Michigan, in State convention assembled, declare anew their devotion to the principles and organization of the National Republican Convention upon questions of national policy, and pledge their utmost efforts for the success of its principles and candidates. [Here followed the platform adopted by the National Republican Convention at Chicago.] The Republican party recognizes the need of more efficient laws to protect the rights of the laboring men of the State in obtaining Just reward for their labors, and it therefore promises that it will favoi the enactment of such lien laws and other measures as will carefully guard and promote the interest* of the laboring men. The Republican party pledges itself to resist the practice of importing into the State convict and contract laborers of other States, Territories, or countries to be employed in competition with the laboring men of this State. The Republican party always recognizes that the unrestrained manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors are productive of evils of the greatest magnitnde, and that it is the duty of the law-making power to adopt from time to time snch measures as are found most practicable and efficient for the restraint and removal of such evils; and it now reaffirms that its policy will be in the future to accomplish the same great result by enactments of such laws as experience will show to be best adapted for the purpose. We invite in this work the aid and co-operation of all who recognize the existence of such evils, whatever be their respective views upon the wisdom of particular measures, to the end that the best meth ods be found and the greatest good accomplished. The people are the sovereigns and sources of State power and authority, and when any considerable portion of them demand an amendment to the organic law of the State in regard to any general policy thereof, it becomes the duty of the legislative body to grant the people an opportunity for an expression upon such subject m a constitutional j manner. For thirty years the Republican party has administered the affairs of the State with f such wisdom, integrity, economy, and efficiency as to insure prosperity at home and honor and credit abroad. It has fostered and promoted educational and charitable institutions. It has stood for the integrity of the nation and the liberty of the individual. It has developed all the great resources and industries of the Stats. The history of its administration of the State in the past is its best pledge and promise for conduct in the future. Missouri Democrats. Ex-Gov. Charles H. Hardin presided over the Missouri Democratic Convention, at Jefferson City. The following platform was adopted by the convention without discussion : • 1. That the Democratic party of Missouri indorses the declaration of principles made by the Democratic convention recently held in Chicago, and pledges its earnest support to Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks, the nominees of that convention for President and Vice President of the United States. 2. We indorse the action of our United States Senators and members of the House of Representatives in the Forty-eighth Congress. 3. We indorse the economical administration of affairs by our present State Government in all its branches, and point with pride to the record of the Democratic party of Missouri in the administration of our State Government; that in every portion of Missouri the laws have been faithfully administered and all persons are alike protected in person and property; that the people enjoy peace, order, prosperity, and plenty, while honesty and economy have obtained in every department of the State Government since it passed into the hands of the Democratic party. 4. That the Democracy congratulates the people of the State on the reduction of our State debt about $10,000,000, or nearly one-half; in the enlargement of the public school fund, andl in the material reduction of the rate of taxation, and pledges itself to the same strict economy in future. 5. The Democratic party, which originated the public school system in Missouri, stands bledged to maintain popular education in the State. 6. That the Democracy is the especial champion of the people; reiterates its intense hostility to the monopolistic tendency of the times, and declares its purpose of battling for the masses in their struggle for supremacy. Candidates for State offices were nominated as follows: Governor, John S. Marmaduke; Lieutenant Governor, A. P. Morehouse; Secretary of State, Michael K. McGrath: Treasurer, James M. Siebert; Auditor, John Walker; Register of Lands, Robert McCullough. Georgia Democrats The Georgia Democratic Convention met at Atlanta to nominate a State ticket. The administration of Gov. H. D. McDaniel was indorsed by a renomination. The ticket was completed as follows: Secretary of State, N. C. Barnett: Comptroller, W. A Wright; Treasurer, R. A Hardman; Attorney General, Clifford Anderson.