Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — TICKET NO. 8. [ARTICLE]

TICKET NO. 8.

The National American party met at Washington Wednesday, with about one hundred delegates present. The delegates engaged in a wrangle over details, which finally resulted in the withdrawal of the Illinois, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wisconsin and several other delegations. The New York and California delegations were nearly the only ones left in the hall. James S. Curtis, of New York, was nominated for President, and Judge James N. Greer for Vice President. The platform favors the abolition of the naturalization laws, demands that no criminals, paupers, or insane persons shall be allowed to emmigrath, and that in order to become an immigrant to the United .States a man .must satisfy the consul at the port from which he wishes to sail that he does not pome under the prohibited classes, and must pay a per capita tax to the consul before sailing. It declares in favor of prohibiting immigration of all persons not in sympathy wit® the government of the United States; against alien ownership of lands; in favor of free technical schools of American children, and in favor of the expenditure of the surplus; for the building of fortifications andi naval vessels. The bolters met afterward and denounced the convention as> not worthy the confidence of the American party.