Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1887 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The National Greenback party of New York State assembled in convention at Albany and nominated a full State ticket, headed by the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher for Secretary of State. This makes seven tickets in the field — those of tho Republican, Democratic, Prohibition, George or United Labor, Socialist, and Union Labor parties. The National Reformers propose also to run a ticket. The platform calls for the issue of paper currency to the amount ‘of $59 per capita on the whole population of the country, and warns owners of Government bonds that unless this is done “the American people’s banks will be broken, as there are more chips on the table than there is money in the box to redeem them with. ” It denounces the Republican, Democratic, and George parties, although it sympathizes with ex-Father McGlynn in his struggle against the Pope. Boards of trade are denounced as gamblinghells that subvert the morals of society and business. The Nebraska Republicans had a lively two days’ session at Lincoln. The issue was between the railroads of the State and the people. The railroads attempted to defeat the renomination of Judge Maxwell for the Supreme bench, and to squelch all attempts to adopt resolutions favoring an extra session of the Legislature for the enactment of additional railway legislation. Five hundred and fifty delegates were present George D. Micklejohn, of Nance County, preside! Judge Maxwell was renominated for Supreme Judge with a hurrah, only one ballot being required to settle the matter. The platform condemns a system of revenue that compels the farmers of tho West to pay tr.bute to the manufacturers of the East, favors pensioning Union soldiers, sympathizes with Ireland, commends tho efforts of Parnell and Gladstone, pledges the party to submit a prohibitory amendment, condemns the President for his attempt to return tho fl igs, favors the admission of Dakota, views with alarm the abuse of the veto power of tho President, and sustains tho Board of Transportation in its efforts to secure reasonable freight and passenger rates.