Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

son County; Tenth Indiana, Maj. Caklins,
of Laporte. Anti Monopoly-First Iowa,
Hon. Edward Campbell, of jefferson County.
Democratic-Fourth Missouri, R. a. Hatcher,
renominated.
The recent Reform State Convention of
Kansas nominated: For Governor, J. c. Cusey;
Observation-Disclosures, E. II. Ewington; Secre-
tary of State, Nelson Abbott; Treasurer,
Charles F. Rooster; Auditor, G. ?. Smith;
Superintendent of Public Instruction, FL. B.
Norton; Attorney General, J, B. Hallowell;
Assistant-Justfce of the Supreme Court, W.
P Donthitt The following are the main feat
ures of the platform adopted: Maintaining
the inyiolability of the right OF the State TO
control its own domestic Institutions; con-
demninp the present Administration for its
bold defiance Of public sentiment and disre-
card of the public good; insisting that the
public debt shall be paid in strict compliance
with the law under which it was contracted;
demanding the repeal of the National Banking
law. and the issue of legal tenders interchange
able for Government bonds bearing low rate
of interest: favoring the repeal OF the tariff
on Iurber and on the necessities OF common
life: demanding such legislation i'll regard to
railroads as will secure the industrial interests
of the country against monopoly and extor-
tion: denouncing the Poland law of the last
Congress as an outrage against the liberty OF
the press and the individuals; protesting
against the Indian policy of the Administra-
ton. and favoring the election Of President,
Vice President and Senators by direct vote
Of the people.
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intendent of Public Instruction, Congress
men, Judges and Solicitors, members of the
General Assembly and county officers took
place on the 9th. A Raleigh dispatch of that
date says the election passed off quietly as far
as heard from. Democratic gains were re-
ported in every section, and it was considered
certain the State had gone Democratic by a
vote variously estimated at from 5000 tC
10000 with seven Democr attic Congressman
out of eight.
The county elections in Tennessee on the
9th resulted generally in Conservative and
Democratic victories.
A State Reform Convention was held al
Lansing, Mich, on the 6th at which series
of resolutions was notwithstanding the or
ganization of National Reform party; in favor
of a currency g that shall not be susceptible tC
such contraction or initiation as shall result il
injury to the business interests of the country
advocating the maintenance inviOlate of the
rights of the States in favor of the one-term
principle for President; declaring that the
State Legislature has the right to regulate the
fares and freight upon railroads so far as tc
| protect the public against unreasonable
| charges, and that it is the duty of the Legis
| lature at once to so change the rate anC
mode of taxing railroads that they shall beal
equal burdens with other property in the sup
port of Government; that the acceptance and
use of free passes by members of the Legis
Iature, State officers and Judges of courts O
record, as a practice, is inimical to the
! interests of the laboring and producing
classes, etc A State Central Com
mittee was chosen, consisting of Messrs
| Cook of Hillsdale, Eugene Pringle of Jack
son, James B. Upton of Calhoun, j. w
Turner of Shiawassee and George H. Muir
| dock of Berrien County. The committee de
cided to call a State Convention to meet al
jackson on the 9th of September.
The Iowa State Woman's Suffrage Conven
| ton is to be held at Des Moines on the 9th OF
September.
| The following Congressional nominations
were made on the 18th: Republican-First
| Louisiana District, J.. II. Sypher, renominated
Second Louisiana, Henry Dibble; Third
Louisiana, c. B. Darrall, renominated Con
servative-FirSt Virginia, Beverly R. Doug
lass. Anti Monopoly-Ninth Iowa, C. E
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