The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-04
POLITICAL.
Meeting OF Various State Conventions
The Nominations and SYNOPSIS Of the
Platforms.

Meeting OF Various State Conventions
Platforms.
Wednesday, August 26, 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, 5. Nj. Etter, Of Mclean. nominee
OF the Independents. The following brief
| platform was adopted
FiFSt-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 OPP
posing imitation, and 10y the payment of the national
Indebtedness in the money of the civilized world
Second Free commerce no tariff for any purpose
! but for revenue
ThiTd-Indiyidual liberty and opposition to sump-
! tuary laws.
FGtrih-The right and duty of the State to protect
its citizens from eXtortion and un Just discrimina-
! ton by chartered monopolies.
! Finh-Rigid restriction of the Governments
both State and National, to the legitimate domain
OF political power by excluding therefrOm all
tive and legislative intermeddling with the affairs of
society whereby monopolies fostered privileged
classes aggrandized, and individual freedom I'M
| necessarily and oppressivey 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 its
pledge repeatedly made whereby thousands Of these
noble wards of the nation compelled TO live upon
| the cold charity Of the world,
ReSolred, That we now demand that ali the pen
| al g. "A Il
to shield every one of them from daily want, with
out conf cling them to take refuge in so-called
Soldiers Home.
ReSOlsed, 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 ::
Lieutenant-Govern Henry H. Holt Secre-
tary of State, +. G.. ID. 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 a determination
to see the doctrine Of equal rights adopted
before it thinks of disbandment 1t demands
that, lin all financial legislation, Congress
shall keep steadily in view the resumption of
specie payment. to the end that, at the ear-
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
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 iuviolable in both letter and
spirit
THE KANSks RFprRt1cASS
The Kansas Republican Convention nomi-
mated for Governor the present incumbent
Thomas A. Osborne. The platform recites
the record Of the Republican party from its
organization to the present time, especially
noting its action and achievements during the
war. and subsequent reconstruction and
other measures for the welfare of the coun-
try, and commencing in strong terms its 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
but gradually and surely reaffirms the policy
ANNOUNCED by the party in the National Con-
ventions of 1865 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
lone Of the greatest curses of modern soci-
ety." and favors such legislation AZ will be
most efectual in destroying the evil declares
against third Presidential term and afiirms
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
Commissioner-C. 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 Men,
Der OF the Board of Public Works-Martn
Schiller, Of Ross. The platform affirms the
adherence Of the party ''to its ancient prin-
ciples OF securing equal rights and exact
justice to all men, and TO all States of the
Union, and its opposition to every attempt
to usurp any OF the powers reserved by the
Constitution to the States respectively and to |
the people thereof :" declares "in 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 500 |
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
puplic domain to railway corporations, and