The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-10
as met at Topeka on the 18th and rcnominatcd

tions adopted declare that all railroad corpo-
rations of the State arc the creatures of its
Legislature, and it is the duty of that body to
subject them to such wise and impartial
enactmcnts as will protect the people of the
State from extortion and will secure the
transportation of merchandise and passcn-
gers at reasonable rates; favor the trans
ferring Of the Indian Bureau to the control
OF the War Departments; favor an amendment
to the national Constitution which shall for
ever prohibit any Congress from settling its
own compensation; favor such legislation,
both general and local, rs experience shall
show to he most eftcctual in destroying the
evil Of intcmpcrance; declare that the prccc-
dent set by Washington in declining a re-
election to Il third term Of the Presidency
ought never to be dcviatcd from; that the
public lands of the United States be sacredly
held for the use and benefit of actual settlers,
and condemn and disapprovc of any further
other corporations.
The Illinois Opposition State Convention
was in session at Springfield on the Goth
and nominated: For State Treasurer, Charles
Carroll; School Superintendent, s. NJ. Etter.
The platform adopted declares in favor of the
resumption Of specie payments as soon as
possible without disaster to the business in
terests Of the country, by steadily opposing
imitation and by the payment of the national
Indebtedness in the money of the civilized
world; in favor of free commerce, and no
tariff except for revenue; atfirms the right
and duty Of the State to protect its citizens
from cXtortion and unjust discrimination by
chartered monopolics; demands that all the
pensions of crippled soldiers shall be SO in
creased as to shield every one of them from
daily want without compelling them to take
refuge in so-calcd Soldiers Home.
The State Republican Convention of Michi-
gan assembled at Lansing on the Goth. John
J. Bagley was rcnominated for Governor
and Henry II. Holt for Lieutenant Governor.
Z. G. d. Holden was nominated for Secretary
of State; VIM. B. McCrecry for Treasurer;
Ralph Ely for Auditor; d. B. Briggs (prcsent
incumbcnt) for Attorney General. The rcso-
buttons adopted challenge comparison be-
| tween the financial record of the Republican
party and that of any other party which ever
| held power; demand that in all financial leg
iSlation Congress shall keep steadily in view
the resumption OF specie payment to the end
that at the earliest practicable day the paper
currency of the country may be at par with
coin; declare in favor of free banking under
a we'll guarded national system; that it is the
high duty of the General Government to pro-
tcct the colored people of the South in the
rights and privileges of their citizenship
The Ohio Democracy have nominated For
Secretary of State, VIM. Bell: School Commits
sioncr. c. s. Smart; Judge of Supreme Court
W. J. Gilmore; Clerk of Supreme Court, Ar.
mold Green: Member Of Board of Public
Works, Martin Schiller. The platform adopt
ed declares that the Democratic party of Ohio
adhcres to its ancient principles of securing
| equal rights and exact justice TO all men, and
to all the States and communities of the
American people, and Of maintainin" the in
dependence of the coordinate departments OF
the Federal Government, the Legislative, the
Executive and the Judicial, and resisting
every attempt to u>urp any of the powers re
served by the Constitution to the States re-
spcctivelv, and to the people thereof: favor>
such an increase of the circulating medium
as the business interests Of the country may
from time to time require, and declares that
sound policy and justice require that not less
| than onc-half of the customs duties should
be payable in the le"al-tcndcr notes of the
United States commonly called "rcenbacks
favor> the abolishin@ Of the franchise Of the
National Banks to issue paper currency as
soon as the same can safely and prudently be
done, and advocates that the notes so with.
drawn by the banks be substituted by the
| Government with legal-tendcr currency;
declares that the $50 bonds, by the letter and
spirit of the law and the general understand.
ing of the community, we've payable in legal
tender notes, and that the act of March
1860, which pledged the nation tc
their payment in coin was an un
necessary and wicked sacrifice of the interest:
of the taN-paying laborcrs for the benefit OF
the non tax-payiny bondholders; favors rev
cnuc tariff; opposes grants of public lands t(
railroad corporations, etc, etc.
Congress >ional nominations on the Goth
Rcpubican-Fifth Illinois District, Hon. II
c. Burchard, rcIominatcd; Sixteenth Obi,
District, Hon. l.. Danforth, rcnominated
Fifteenth Ohio District, n. II. Van Voorhees,
Observation-Disclosures (Na.) District, cx
Gov. S. G. Walker.
\ Nashville dispatch of the Goth says til,
negroes at Pickcttsvile had threatened rio
on account of some supposed wrong done
them, and had manifested strong intention
to kill two or three citizens and fire and sacl
the town. On the 18th sixteen of the ring
leaders were arrested and placed in Trenton
Jail for safe keeping. On the morning of tn
10Th from scventy-fve to one hundrc,
masked men entered Trenton, rode up to tn
Jail and compelled the Sheriff to deliver tn
keys to them. They then took the siXtccl
negroes and killed six Of them at the edge q
r the town. The masked men then rode OF
with the other ten, and ii was thought a
last accounts that they had killed them
Whites and blacks were said to be arming
At their recent State Convention the Mis-
souri, Democracy nominated: For Governor
Charles II. Hardin; Licutcnant-Govcrnol
Norman J. Coleman; Secretary Of State, NJ
McGrath; Auditor, Thomas Halliday; Treas
: urer, Joseph w. Mercer; Attorney General
John A. Hockaday; Register Of Lands, Georg
Dciglc; Superintendent of Public 1nstruc
ton, X. ID. Shannon; Supreme Judges: W
Hough, for the long term, and William Nap
ton, to fill vacancy The platform adopted dc
clares that the $50 bonds are distinctly, b
. their terms, made payable in legal-tcnder note
Or grcenbacks; and that the act of March Il
1863, whereby Congress solemnly pledged til
faith of the United States to coin re
, demption, was an utterly unjustifiabl
usurpation of power; favors repeal of tn
National Banking law and the substitution O
greenbacks to the extent of the NatiOna
Bank currency, if the policy of issuing ma
tional paper currency is to be persisted in
that the legal-tcnder notes should be mad
receivable for duties on imports; that rail
road and all other corporations, created 10
gain or profit, should be rendered subscriber
to the public good by such legislation upo1
the subject, both State and National, as viii
effectuaily secure the industrial and produc
: ing interests of the country against all form
of corporate monopoly and taxation.
The st. Louis Democrat of the 26th publish
cs several columns Of reports regarding tn