Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1882 — PARTY CONVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

PARTY CONVENTIONS.

Synopsis of the Doings of a Few of Them. Their Declarations of Principles, Candidates, Etc. • NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS. The Republicans of New Hampshire met In State Convention at Concord, and on the fourth ballot nominated Samuel W. Hall, of Keene, for Governor. The Committee on Resolutions reported reaffirming the faith of New Hampshire Republicans in those principles which have given liberty, peace and prosperity to the whole country; lamenting the death of President Garfield, and expressing confidence in his successor. The tariff plank is as follows: “We reaffirm and indorse the principles of a protective tariff as tiie safeguard of American industries, by which our great manufacturing interests have been fostered and maintained, and American labor protected against ruinous competition and scantily paid labor of foreign nations.” SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS. At a convention of the Republicans of South Carolina, held at Columbia, and presided over by S. J. Lee (colored), it was decided to make no nominations for State officers. The following resolution, offered by Congressman Mackay, was adopted: llesolved, That the Convention of the Union Republican party of South Carolina, while repudiating the financial principles advocated by the Greenback party, and reaffirming the principles of the Union Republican party, do recommend that at the next general election the voters of the State, in the interest of a free ballot and a fair count, cast their ballots, as Republicans, for the State ticket nominated by the GreenbackLabor Convention on the 6th inst. A resolution was adopted recommending that the Republicans support B. S. Cash, the Independent candidate for Congress in the Fifth district. NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATS. The Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire, held at Concord, was presided over by Stilson Hutchins, late of Dubuque, St Louis and Washington, but now a resident of Laconia, N. H. Martin Van Buren Edgerly was placed in nomination for Governor on the first ballot Thomas C. Gray, Alden B. Smith and Henry A Emerson were nominated for Railroad Commissioners. The resolutions demand radical reform in State expenditures; equal taxation of property, individual and corporate; the passage of the Anti-Bribing bill; the abolition of monopolies; purification of the civil service, State and national, and a strict enforcement of the Prohibition law. NEW HAMPSHIRE GBEKNBACKERS. The National Greenback-Labor party of New Hampshire, in State Convention at Manchester, declared against fusion with either of the present parties, and favored a general railroad law. John F. Woodbury was nominated for Governor, and Lafayette Moore, Wendall P. Ela and John E. Norwood, as Bailroad Commissioners. Lafayette Chesley was nominated for Congress for the First district, and George Carpenter for the Second district. NEW TORE ANTI-MONOPOLISTS. A State Convention of the Anti-Monopo . lists of New York convened at Saratoga, 150 delegates being in attendance. Patrick H. Cowen presided. A platform of principles was adopted setting forth that “steam and electricity have become the controlling factors in the commercial and .industrial world, and these great forces have been monopolized by those who use them to tax the masses for private advantage. The corporate life which now wields these great forces has assumed an importance never hitherto contemplated. It is concentrating the wealth of the nation in the hands of a few persons with alarming rapidity to vie Injury of the masses of the Deople. It has appropriated the power ot political parties, corrupted elections and legislation to an extent which degrades public morality and endangers free institutions. The whole'political system seems pervaded with the spirit of monopoly, which must be overcome or popular government will become a failure. Women are declared to have the same inalienable rights as men.” A conference with the Labor party was ordered in case the Republican and Democratic State Conventions do not make satisfactory nominations. NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS. The Democratic State Convention of Nebraska, which convened at Omaha, was presided over by Gen. M. Montgomery, of Lincoln, and D. W. Smalls, of Fremont, performed the functions of Secretary. Hon. John Sterling Morton, of Otoe county, was nominated for Governor; J. F. Warren, of Dakota county, Lieutenant Governor; C. L Bowlby, of Saline county, Secretary of State; P. D. Sturtevant, Fillmore county, Treasurer; Charles Leech, Johnson county, Auditor; J. C. Crawford, Cuming county, Attorney General; Charles A. Speice, Platte county,' Superintendent of Public Instruction; lienry Grebe, Omaha. Commissioner of Public Lauds and Buildings. The following platform was adopted: The Democrats of Nebraska, in State Convention assembled, at Omaha, this 14th day, of September, 1882, hereby declare: 1. The Government of the United States has no constitutional or other right to impose taxes on the people, except with the intent and result of getting money into the public treasury with which *to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. The tariff tax called protective, laid with far different intent and result, should abolished. The Democrats of Nebraska challenge their political opponents in this State to a general discussion of the above propositions, and to an unequivocal statement of the position of the Republican party of Nebraska upon the question of reckless protective tariff. 2. The squandering in the recent River and Harbor bill, in star-route fraudulent contracts, in the payment of alleged secretservice detectives, in the Hubbell 2-per-cent. assessments, in the multiplication of salaries and perquisites for the unnumbered and almost-innumerable swarm of officeholders, and in other visible corruptions of the ppo- . pie’s money which does reach the national treasury, deserve the immediate and emphatic condemnation of the people. .« 8. The State of Nebraska, in ooffimon witin other States of the Unitun -has and exercises the right of regulating the tiQe of Intoxicating drinks in the interest .of good order wishin the State, but 4he prohibition of the manufacture and sale of such drinks

within the State is contrary to the fundamental rights of the individual, and to the fundamental principles of social and moral conduct, and & enacted will be neutralized by the constitution of the United States, which permits the introduction to every State of foreign liquors imported from abroad, and controls also every form of inter-State commerce. 4. Corporations, whether in the form of banks, manufacturing establishments or railroads, must keep their hands off from the reserved rights of the people. The Democrats of Nebraska denounce all railroads within the State which elect or attempt to elect, which influence or attempt to influence, delegates to political conventions, members of the Legislature, Senators or members of Congress. Corporate capital as such must not be permitted thus to encroach upon popular rights. We assert the right of the Legislature to control the railroads. We deny the right of the railroads to control the Legislature. 5. We demand the enactment of a law which shall, under severe penalties, forbid the issuance of passes or free transportation of any kind whatsoever by any railroad in Nebraska to any person holding either an elective or appointive office, or any other official position under the constitution or laws of this 6. Finally, the Government, whether of the State or of the United States, is nothing but a committee of the citizens appointed to attend to certain concerns of the whole body of the people that cannot otherwise be managed, and all straining or undue tension of the functions of these committees in any direction whatsoever should be constantly watched and always resisted by the people. COLORADO REPUBLICANS, In the State Convention of the Republicans of Colorado, held at Denver, Hon. Ernest L Campbell, of Leadville, was nominated for Governor on the second ballot. William H. Meyer was nominated for Lieutenant Governor on the first ballot. James B. Belford was nominated for Congress on the second ballot Melvin Edwards, of Summit, was nominated for Secretary of State; Fred Wolsen, of Huerfano, for State Treasurer; John Abbott, of Larimie, for Auditor; D. F. Urmy, of Pueblo, for Attorney General; J. B. Chaffee, Chairman of the State Central Committee. Resolutions were adopted of regret at the death of Garfield and indorsing the course of President Arthur; thanks for the calling of Henry M. Teller to the Secretaryship of the Interior; denouncing the demonetization of silver and recommending the apportionment of funds arising from the sale of public lands to the sinking of artesian wells m Colorado. DELAWARE GBEENBACKERS. A convention of the Greenbackers of Delaware convened at Newcastle and nominated Milo L Blanchard for Governor, and Alfred H. Weld for Congress. A former convention had named a ticket with John C. Jackson for Governor, but he declined. The platform adopted, in addition to the usual planks, adds one demanding the abolition of the whipping-post