Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
MINNESOTA SOFTS.

slSreenbank Convention at OWatOnna, on the
a State Convention OF Minnesota
Softs was held at Owatonna on We'd
nesday March, Goth, for the purpose
of appointing delegates to National
Convention at Minneapolis and nomi.
mating an electoral ticket. Only about
half dozen counties were represented
and the actual participants in the
Convention were between twenty and
thirty. E. Ayres of Washington coun.
ty, | Donnelly of Dakota, and 4. E..
Ball of Hennepin We're the leading
spirits, The follwing platform was
adopted: d..
we, here assembled voters of the State OF
Minnesota, agree upon the following declara-
ton of principles.
1: That we hereby constitute ourselves the
Independent party Of Minnesota and pledge
ourselves toseparate, independent, political
action.
:. That while we believe the currency of
the nation should be of par value with gold,
we believe this result can Ike reached by rails
ing the value instead of decreasing the volume
of such currency.
3. That it is the right and we demand that
the national legal tender notes, as greenbacks,
public and private, including duties on i'm
ports, except that portion of the pres
ent national debt that is by express
terms OF the law made payable in metallic
money.
4 That it is the right and duty of the Ia
tion to create all the money used by its peo-
pie, whether the same be gold, silver, nickel,
copper or paper that we are opposed to the
delegation OF such powers to corporations as
individuals, believing that all the resulting
advantages therefrom should belong to the
nation
s. That to this end we demand the gradual
withdrawal of the national bank notes, on
which the people are taxed to ray interest on
the bonds securing the same, and the issu-
ance in lieu thereof of greenbacks Of which
the people will have the use free of taxation.
s. We demand the immediate repeal of the
specie resumstion act of 1875, believing the
same to be most destructive to the business
interests cfthe people, and that it has already
brought large numbers of business men to
bankruptcy, and the laboring classes to pau
perism and suffering.
ton should he interchangable-a nationl
registered bond, bearing a rate of interest
not to exceed 3.65 per annuM.
:. =. That real civil service reform should be
inaugurated by limiting the period ofthe Pres
idential Office to one term of four years.
g., That it is the right and duty of the Leg
islature to control money corporations in tile
interest Of the people.
10. That we demand the most stringent
rtrcnchinent Of expenditures Of govern
ment, towns, county, State and national.
IL. That we demand such revision of the
taritf as will equalize taxation, and relieve the
agricultural population of some of tire burdens
now resting upon it.
r. We demand that the present bonded
debt of the country he refunded as speedily as
possible into registered, INTERCHANGEABLE
bonds, that shall bear interest at low rate.
not exceeding 3.65 per annuln.
10. That we regard the present high
prices Of school text books as serious tax
upon education, imposed on rich and poor
alike, for the benefit of book publishers and
agents, and We demand such legislation as
will furnish the children of the State with
school books at prices but little more than
the actual cost of the same.
The following delegates to the Ind
annapolis Convention were nominated:
Ebenezer Ayres of Washington;
James Goar of Rice; l. Donnelly of
Dakota; VIM. Elliot of Olmsted; G. d.
Sherwood of Fillmore; 4. L. Ball Of
Hennepin; J. A. McCluskie of Washing
ton; DR.. j. w. johnson of Steele, and
c. S. Kneeland Of Dodge.
The following ELECTORAL ticket was
nominated:
At large.-C. d. Sherwood of Fill.
more. Ignatius Donnelly of Dakota.
District Electors.-Wm. Elliot, of
Olmsted; J. P. SchGnback of Nicollet;
E. Ayres Of Washington.