Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-01
POLITICAL.

ACAAs
| The Democratic State Central Committee of
Tennessee have issued an address condemn
| ing all acts of violence, whether committed
| by whites or blacks. OF the Civil Rights bill
| they say: " 1t seems to have been intended
to bring about the unfortunate state Of affairs
| which now exists in many Of the Southern
| States, Tennessee among the number"
| w. A. Burleigh is the candidate for Con-
! gress on the Democratic and Anti Monopoly
| ticket in Dakota Territory.
| Official returns from all but seventy-nine-
mostly small-towns and plantations in
Maine give Dingley 40, 76S votes and Titcomb
S9,0ls; Dingley's majority 1880. The re-
naming towns will not materially change
this majority
Congressional nominations on the 22d:
| Liberal-Third Wisconsin District c. F.
| Thompson. Democratc-Sixth Wisconsin,
Gabc Bouck; Ninth Missouri, David Rea.
Prohbition-Fifth Michigan, J. A. Mckay.
epublcan-Twelfth Ohio, David Taylor.
Democratic and Liberal-Sixth Michigan,
George II. Durand
A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch of the Odd
says w. b. Jones, United States Commissioner
|
publican candidate for Probate Judge had
written that not man had been killed nor a
single outrage committed in that county on
account of political feeling, and that free
speech and Republican opinions could be in
dulged in anywhere The best of feeling pre-
vailed between the colored Republicans and
the Democrats.
The New York State Temperance Conyen-
ton met at Utica ON the 23d and, after pass
ing resolutions in favor of prohibition and APP
pointing a committee to arrange plan of po-
litical action for the fall campaign, adjourned
sine die.
The New York Republican State Conven-
ton was held at Utica on the sd. Gov. Dix
and Lieut. Gov Robinson were unanimously
renominated. The balance of the ticket also
consists of the present incumbents, renomi-
mated by reclamation. The platform adopted
demands obedience to the laws and the full
protection of every citizen in the enjoyment
of his rights against the assaults OF
| Ku-Klux, assassins and revolutionists;
declares that an armed attempt to
subvert the recognized Government of
"a State is revolution, and revolution must
be suppressed and the supremacy of the
law maintained at every cost; that the public
faith must be preserved inviolate and the
public debt be paid in coin; opposes any in
| tlation of paper currency, and favors speedy
return to specie payments; approves of the
administrations of President Grant and Gov.
Dix.
The Minnesota Democratic and Liberal
State Convention at st. Paul on the 23d
| tgI f>c Of Ino
and William Lochren for Associate Justice.
The resolutions adopted denounce the carpet
bag rule at the South as being largely pro-
ductve of the present disastrous condition of
| the Southern States and demand just and
impartial policy toward the people of the
South; favor a return to specie payments as
soon as the public interests will allow, and Il
tariff for revenue only; advocate home rule
and no Capitalization; declare that chartered
| corporations by the State are always super
visable by the State in the interests of the
people.
The following Congressional nominations
were made ON the Esd: Republican--Eighth
Wisconsin Dstrict, A. s. McDill, renomi.
mated. mocratio-Twenteth Ohio, Henry
B. Payne; Third Arkansas l.. c. Ganse Sec
| oHu AlkulsdS, w Il. SleInbilS. hclpIlH-
Fourth Wisconsin, Samuel Rindskopf. indie
pendent-Twelfth Indiana, R. S. Taylor.
| A compromise has been effected in Terre
Bonnie Parish, La, between the white and
colored people, and "a joint parish ticket, with
capital and labor 'qually represented, has
been nominated.
The Missouri Republicans held their State
| Convention at Jetelson City on the 23d, and
| adopted a series of resolutions reiterating
faith Ia The prime pies of the Republican
party; condemning all political organizations
founded upon race or nationality as detri-
mental to good governments indorsing the
candidates of the Reform party in the State,
and declaring it the |. art no less of prudence
than patriotism to adjourn without nominal
ing Republican candidates.
Congressional nominations m the 9th:
Democratic-Thi Kentucky District, c. w
Milken, renominated. Republican--Seven-
teenth Illinois, John J. Rinaker Indcpend-
ent ?eform-Sixth Illinois, j. II. Elliott,
| Liberal-Third Minnesota, E. Wilson. Peoples
| Ticket-Seven,h Missouri, James II. Lay
| Democratic Liberal--Seventh Michigan, Enos
| NJ. Goodrich. Reforn-Fifth Wisconsin, s d
Burchard. ndeperdent--Twelfth Missouri,
| B. s. Lipscomb.
THE Lewiston (Me) Gazette tells of
| lady in that city who, finding no needles
in the cushion where she usually kept
them, concluded tc investigate the inte
rior of the cushion which had been in
use sixteen years. She thought few,
very few, of the thousands of needles
which had penetrated the bran might
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