Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A secret organization has been formed at Pittsburgh, Pa., for the sole purpose of purifying the polities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny City. The organization includes over seven hundred of the stanchest and most influential business and professional men of the two cities. It will not take active part in any political fight until the membership has reached 10,000. I The Wisconsin Labor party assembled in State Convention at Neenah, and nominated an out-and-out labor ticket, constituted as follows: Governor, Colonel John D. Cochrane; Lieutenant Governor, George A. Lloyd; Secretary of State, J. P. Jasperson: State Treasurer, Frederick Hoenig; Attorney General, John E. Thomas; Railroad Commissioner, Henry Zinn; Superintendent of Public Institutions, J. K. McGregor; Insurance Commissioner, Rittner Stephens. The platform declares that the use of violence in any form to settle disputes is utterly unjustifiable in a civilized community, whether advised by fanatical anarchists or* practiced by corrupt politicians; favors the Government control of money, land, means of communication, and public improvement; advocates labor bureaus, conducted in the interests of the whole people; the simplification of laws to but one on each subject; arbitration in place of strikes; the prohibition of child and convict labor; a graduated income tax; the amendment of the patent laws so as to give labor a part of the benefit of labor-saving inventions, and to prevent monopolies; the forfeiture of all land grants, find the abolition of alien ownership in lands; a Government loan of money, and a rigid enforcement of the law against the importation of foreign 1ab0r.... The Pennsylvania Greenback-Labor Convention at Harrisburg was presided over by Congressman Brumm. A resolution declaring that the convention should not affiliate with any other party or indorse any other candidates was adopted with a shout, after which the following ticket was nominated: Governor, Robert J. Houston; Lieutenant Governor, John Parker; Auditor, General Daniel S. Early; Secretary of Internal Affairs, Seth H. Hoagland; Con-gressman-at-Large, Dr. 0. D. Thompson. The platform of the party demands that the Government shall issue all money; that no more bonds be issued by the Government; that all unearned lands be forfeited; that after 1900 the Government buy all lands held by aliens; that any deed made by a citizen of the United States to an alien after January, 1887, shall be void, and that land held by individuals or corporations in excess of 160 acres, whether improved or unimproved, shall be taxed as cultivated land; denounces convict, imported, pauper, and heathen labor; demands a graduated income tax; the recognition of trades unions, orders, and such other organizations, and that the Government buy all telegraphs and railroads; favors a practical eight-hour law; the prohibition of child labor: the abolition of the contract system in public work; the adoption of laws providing for the health and safety of workingmen and their indemnification from injuries.... At a State convention of the Missouri Prohibitionists, held at Sedalia, the following ticket was placed in the field: Supreme Judge, I. B. Orr; Superintendent of Public Schools, A. J. Emerson; Railroad Commissioner, J. F. Brumer. The platform arraigns the Democratic and Republican parties and urges voters not to abandon their demands of Congress to suppress the liquor traffic wherever it is prohibited by law; that a prohibitory amendment be submitted to the next Legislature of Missouri, and that the Sunday laws be enforced. It declares for woman suffrage.... Congressional nominations: William H. Neeoe, Democrat. Eleventh Illinois District; Ralph Plumb, Republican, Eighth Illinois; J. H. Gallinger, Republican, Second New Hampshire; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth Wisconsin; Byron Dunn, Republican, Fourth Missouri; Editor Joseph B. Cheadle, Republican, Ninth Indiana; Robert M. La Follette, Republicen, Third Wisconsin; W. T. Wallace, Greenbacker, Tenth Illinois; George H. Lacy, Greenbacker, Eighth Hlinois; John J. Donovan, Democrat, Eighth Massachusetts; M. A. Haynes, Republican, First New Hampshire; Dr. Stelye, Democrat-Greenbacker, Fifth Pennsylvania; Martin L. Clardy, Democrat, Tenih Missouri; Marshall Parks, Democrat, Second Virginia; W. H. Forney, Democrat, Seven h Alabama; Frank T. Shaw, Democrat, Second Maryland; Baroes Compton. Democrat, Fifth Maryland; John H. Rogers, Democrat, Fourth Arkansas; E. C. McFetridge, Republican, Second Wisconsin: Justin R. Whiting, Democrat - Greenbacker, Seventh Michigan;

IvtS Dungan, Democrat, Eleventh Ohio; J. J. Png. ley, Republican, Twelfth Ohio; R. M. Murray, Democrat, Third Ohio: Gen. Jasper Packard, Republican, Thirteenth Indiana; Wilbur T. Sanders, Republican, Montana Territory; 0. B. Thomas, Republican, Seventh Wisconsin; Sherwood Dixon, Democrat, Seventh Illinois; W. W. Adler, Prohibitionist, Fourteenth Illinois.... An Augusta (Me.) dispatch says that official election returns from 472 towns are as follows: Bodwell; Republican, 68,115; Edwards, Democrat, 54,764; Clark, Prohibitionist, 3,839; scattering, 192. Bodwell’s plurality, 13,351; Bodwell’s majority 9,493.... The National Anti-Saloon Republican Convention, held in Chicago last week, had nearly two hundred delegatee, representing eighteen States. Senator Blair was made temporary Chairman, and announced that they met to organize for the destruction of the" rum traffic throughout the country. Ex-Senator Windom was elected permanent President. Resolutions were adopted demanding that the Republican party take a decided stand as the enemy of the saloon, and favoring legislation by Congress to prohibit the manufacture or sale of liquor in the Territories. Mb. McFetbidge declines the Republican nomination for Congress from the Second Wisconsin District. ...The total vote of Arkansas in the September election foots up 143,000. The Democratic majority is 37,000. The Legislature stands: Rouse, 90 Democrats, 67 Republicans, 3 Wheelers. Senate, 37 Democrats, 5 Republicans and Wheelers.