Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — BUTLER IS WILLING. [ARTICLE]

BUTLER IS WILLING.

Bis Letter Accepting the Anti-Monopoly Nomination for the Fresidenqr. Tilden Indorsed by Hew Hampshire and Nebraska Democrats—Other Political Conventions. Nebraska Democratic Convention. The Democrats of Nebraska met in convention at Lincoln and selected the following delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention: James E. Boyd, J. Sterling Morton, W. H. Monger, and Tobias Castor. They are all for Tilden. No other name was mentioned during the convention except Tilden’s. The following platform was adopted: We, the delegates of the Democratic party of the State of Nebraska, in convention assembled, submit the following platform of reforms and measures:

1. We demand a vigorous frugrality in •very department and from every officer of the Government, and we heartily concur in the sentiment that no reform of administration is possible so long as the Government is directed by a party which is under the dominion of false doctrine and animated by enormous pecuniary interests in the perpetuation of existing abuses; that the first effectual step in the reform of our Government must be a fundamental change in tbs policy of its administration. 2. That, in view of the unequal and discriminating operation of the existing tariff and the unjust and excessive burdens imposed upon the people, we are in favor of a revision which shall limit it to the production of the necessary revenues of the Government economically administered; that it should be so adjusted as to prevent, as for as possible, unequal burdens upon labor, and to bear most heavily on articles of luxury, and lightly on articles of necessity. We believe such a revision of the tariff laws; simplified in their operation and administration, will result in decreasing the growth of monopolies, prevent the oppression and spoliation of labor, and the uneqnal distribution of wealth, and abolish special and class legislation. Resolved, That as our fathers, under the lead of Thomas Jefferson, rescued our republic from the control of Federalism, and the alien and sedition laws of the elder Adams, so will the Democratic party of 1884, if united, hurl the Republican party from power, and re-elect Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks President and Vice President of the United States of America.

New Hampshire Democratic Convention. The Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire assembled at Concord and accomplished its work in three hours. ,It was unanimously for Tilden and Hendricks and generally in favor of the Morrison bill, Frank Jones, Henry O. Kent, Frank A. Mac Kean, and Alva Sulloway were chosen delegates-at-large. No instructions were given, but, as the unanimous sentiment of the convention preferred the “old ticket,” they will support it at the national convention. Chairman H. W. Parker denounced protection.and said that tariff for revenue only would be the issue in the campaign. Resolutioifo were adopted declaring against all laws turfing to the centralization of power, wealth, rod political influence; demanding a reduction of the war tariff; commending the Democratic majority of the House in their recent efforts for tariff reform, and insisting on no cessation of their efforts until the revenue system is re-established on an honest basis, and calling for a thorough reform of’ tariff, financial, and administrative affairs. The resolutions also arraign the Repablican party as false to the interests of the people, and assert their condemnation of “ the great crime of 1876, a wrong we propose to right and make impossible hereafter.”

Gen. Butler's Acceptance. Gen. Butler accepts the nomination of the National Anti-Monopoly organization for President of the United States. The following is his letter of acceptance: Lowell, Mass,, May 21, 1884. Gentlemen: I have the honor to receive your courteous note giving me the action of the convention at Chicago on the 14th inst. of the representatives of anti-monopoly. The honor of the designation by such a body as tbeir candidate for the Presidency of the republic can not be too highly appreciated. Concurring with each measure to public policy set forth in the resolutions, I need only to add that if the votes of the electors shall intrust me with the executive powers of that high office, each of them will be fully, justly, and energetically used to make every measure of relief to the people and reform in the Government pointed ottt by your platform the principles characterizing the administration. Accept for yourselves, personally, my most grateful consideration, Benjamin F. Butler. West Virginia (ireenbadwn. The West Virginia Greenback State Convention met at Bnckhannon and nominated Judge Edwin C. Maxwell, of Harrison County, for Governor; J. T. Burtt, Auditor; Spencer W. Surm, of Marion County, Treasurer; and J. N. Kendall, of Ritehie County, Superintendent of the Free Schools. Jndge Maxwell is a Republican. The rest of the State ticket is left for the Republicans to name, and the two parties will fuse in the October election as well as November. The nomination of electors was left to the Executive Committee. Tennessee Prohibition ConfroMia The Tennessee State Prohibition Convention, with four hundred delegates, convened at Nashville. Enthusiastic speeches were made, and the temperance cause in Tennessee reported in a satisfactory condition. The convention declined to put forth a separate ticket or to mix politics and temperance in any way. The delegates, however, pledged themselves to vote for candidates who favored submitting the question of a constitutional prohibition amendment to the people.