Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1887 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

An Austin (Tex.) dispatch says tho Returning Board has canvassed the vote of the counties on the several constitutional amendments voted upon Aug. 5 last The total vote of the State in favor of the prohibition amendment was 129,273; against prohibition, 221,627; majority against prohibition, 92,354. These figures are subject to revision. The returns of several counties exhibit apparent errors. The other amendments were all defeated by majorities ranging from 60,000 to nearly 15),000, the amendment extending the Legislative session being defeated by the largest majoriiy. The New York Republican Convention met at Saratoga on Wednesday. Ex-Mayor Seth Low, of Brooklyn, was the temporary Chairman, and ex-United States Senator Warner Miller permanent Chairman. A full ticket was nominated, with CoL Fred Grant at the head for Secretary of State. The platform “arraigns” the administrations of President Cleveland and Governor Hill, indorses the protective tariff, demands “liberal” pensions for the old soldiers, advocates restrictions upon immigration, and favors local option. 'I he new political combination known as the American party convened at Philadelphia and adopted an elaborate platform. It denounces the present system of immigration and naturalization, and charges that hordes of foreign immigrants are the refuse of European countries and are unfit to become American citizens, “banding together in societies for the destruction of private property and personal liberty, becoming the political and social agitators of every cause looking to the destruction of private rights, heading and encouraging all disturbance of labor, seeking to array labor against capital, setting themselves up as the judges of the rights of the American people, committing murder, arson, and other crimes by means of secret organizations, thrusting aside the American citizen and wage-worker to make place for themselves, preventing by threats the children of American citizens from apprenticeship to trades—the enemies of free government by the people.” It charges both the old parties with dodging this question and with pandering to the worst foreign element in order to pec**”®

votes, and demands that a Department of Immigration, whose head shall be a Cabinet officer, be established by Congress to restrict and regulate foreign immigration. It calls for a revision of the naturalization laws, making fourteen years' residence requisite for citizenship, and excluding all communists, socialists, nihilists, anarchists, paupers, and criminals from naturalization. It faI vors the limiting of real-estate holdings in area and value; opposes the holding of land by nonI resident aliens, and condemns the granting of public lands to private and public corporations. I In conclusion, the party declares that it “recogj nizea no North, no South, no East, and no West , in thoas United States, but one people pledged to our liberty and independence.” The National Republican Committee will meet at Washington early in December to fix the date and location for the national convention of 1888. Cincinnati, St Louis, and other cities will endeavor to secure the convention.