The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
POLITICAL.

Meeting OF Various State Conventions
The Nominations and SynOpses Of the
Platforms.
Wednesday, August &c, was a good day for
political State Conventions, there being six of
them. The Democrats and Liberals of Hi
nois met at Springfield; the Democrats of
Ohio at Columbus the Democrats of Penn
sylvania at Pittsburgh; the Democrats of Mis-
souri, at Jefferson City; the Republicans of
Michigan at Lansing the Republicans of
Kansas at Topeka.
ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS AND LIBERALS.
The Illinois Convention put in the field the
following ticket For State Treasurer, Charles
Carroll, of Gallatin county; Superintendent
of Schools, S. M. Etter of Mclean, nominee
| of the Independents. The following brief
| platform was adopted:
FirSt-The restoration of gold and silver as the
basis OF the currency the resumption of specie pay
ments as soon as possible without disaster to the
! business interests of the country by steadily op-
posing imitation, and by the payment of the national
Indebtedness in the money Of the civilized world.
Sec0nd-Free commerce no tariff for any purpose
| but for revenue.
| Th1d-Individual liberty and opposition to sump-
| tuary laws.
Fourth-The right and duty of the State to protect
its citizens from extortion and unjust discrimina-
! ton by chartered monopolies
| Fifth-Rigid restriction of the Governments,
both State and National to the legitimate domain
of political power by excluding therefrom all execu-
tive and legislative intermeddling with the affairs of
society whereby monopolies fosered, privileged
classes aggrandized, and individual freedom I'M
| necessarily and progressively restrained.
| Gen. Leib offered the following additional
resolutions which were adopted:
| WHEREAS, The Republican party has ignored the
just claims of our disabled soldiers and violated it's
pledge repeatedly made whereby thousands Of these
noble wards of the nation compelled to live upon
| the cold charity of the world,
ResotUed, That we now demand that all the pen
sions of crippled soldiers shall be so increased as
to shield every of them from daily want, with
out CONF cling them to take refuge in so-caled
| Soldiers Home.
Re8Olved, That the present system of pension
agencies is vicious and detrimental to the interest
of those it is pretending to protect and should be
| thoroughly investigated by Congress
| THE REPUBLICANS OF MICHIGAN.
| The Michigan Republicans nominated the
folio wing ticket Governor, John J. Bagley ;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Henry Fl. Holt; Secre-
tary of State. E. G. D. Holden; Treasurer,
| William B. McCreery; Auditor General, Ralph
| Ely; Attorney General, Andrew J. Smith /:
| Superintendent of Public Instruction Daniel
B. Briggs. The platform adopted affirms the
continued confidence of the people in the Re
| publican party, and expresses determination
to see the doctrine of equal rights adopted
| before it thinks of disbandment. 1t demands
that, "in all financial legislation. Congress
shall keep steadily in view the resu nption of
specie payment, to the end that, at the earli-
est day practicable, the promises to pay of the
Government may be equivalent in coin in like
amount through the commercial world" 1t
expresses the belief that " banking, under a
well guarded national system, should be free,
the volume and locality Of issues being regu-
| lated by the business law Of demand and de-
nOunces reputation in every form or degree,
holding the pledged faith of the republic
sacred and inviolable in both letter and
| spirit.
| THE KANSAS REPUBLICANS
The Kansas Republican Convention nomi-
mated for Governor the present incumbent,
Thomas A. Osborne. The platform recites
the record of the Republican party from it's
organization to the present time, especially
noting it's action and achievements during the
war, and subsequent reconstruction, and
other measures for the welfare of the coun-
try, and commencing in strong terms it's rare
courage in Investigating official delinquencies,
and Furnishing official dishonor in it's own
ranks; expresses the opinion that the public
debt should not be reduced spasmodically,
4 but gradually and surely; reaffirms the policy
announced by the party in the National Con-
ventons OF 1858 and 1872 favors such legis-
lation as will make national banking free to
all; demands the lessening of the number Of
State officials; denounces the salary grab {;
declares that all railroad corporations are the
creatures of the State, and that it is the duty
OF the Legislature to protect the people
against extortion and secure TRANSPORTATION at
reasonable rates; favors the transfer Of the
Indian Bureau to the control of the
War Department; denounces drunkenness as
"one OF the greatest curses of modern soc-
ETY., and favors such legislation as will be
most effectual in destroying the evil declares
against third Presidential term and afirms
that the public lands are for the use of actual
settlers, and condemens any further grants of
the public domain to railroad or other corpor-
| atoms.
THE DEMOCRACY OF OHIO.
Appended is the ticket nominated by the
Democratic Convention of Ohio for Secretary
OF State-Wm. Bell of Licking; for School
Commissioners. s. Smart, of Picka-
way for Judge of the Supreme Court-W. j.
Gilmore, of Preble; for Clerk of the Supreme
Court-Arnold Green, of Cuyahoga; for Mem
Der of the Board of Public Works-Martin
Schiller, of Ross. The platform affirms the
adherence OF the party s'to it's ancient prin-
ciples of securing equal rights and exact
Justice to all men, and to all States" of the
Unlon and it's opposition to every attempt
to usurp any of the powers reserved by the
| Constitution to the States respectively and to
the people thereof - declares Sin favor of
such an increase of the circulating medium as
the business interests of the country may
from time to time require, and that sound
policy and justice require that no less than
one-half of the customs duties should be pay
able in greenbacks !" favors the abolition of
the franchise Of the national banks to issue
a paper currency as soon as the same can
safely and prudently be done, and that the
notes so overdrawn by the banks be sub
stituted by the Government with legal
tender currency;" declares that the $40
bonds ought to be payable in legal-tender
notes; opposes all combinations that tend
to increase the cost of transportation beyond
a fair remuneration to the carrier"
opposes any further grants of the