Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS.

The State Convention at Omaha Elects Delegates to St. Louis. The Nebraska Democratic State Convention assembled at Omaha, and R. A. Battery was elected permanent Chairman. He made a brief speech in which he supported free trade, and said that Nobraska would send a solid Cleveland delegation to St. Louis. After a stormy struggle between the opposing friends of James E. Boyd and the Hou. J. Sterling Morton the iollowing delegates-at-large were chosen to attend the St. Louis convention : Janies E. Boyd, J. Sterling Morton, James E. North ana Tobias Castor. The following district delegates were elected: J. C. Crawford, J. E. Sherwin, J. J. McAllister, J, J. Meals. The delegates were instructed to vote as a unit for President Cleveland’s renomination. The platform urges legislation against trusts, and the forfeiture of unearned land grants; sympathizes with the oppressed of Ireland and other countries ; recommends liberal pensions for Union veterans, and reprehends the keeping alive the hatreds of the civil war.