Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-07
Massac1tusosts DeszSaaraHs
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day, William Writ Warren, chairman.
After recess Charles Francis Adams was
nominated for governor by acclama alton.
Tne ticket was completed as follows:
For lieutenant governor, william r.
Piunkett; for secretary OF state, Z twin
H. LathrOp; for treasurer, Weston How
land; for auditor, John E Fitzgerald: |:
for encouragement, Richard Oiney.
Ex-Governor CASTOR heads the electoral
ticket. Resolutions were adopted, hail.
ing with satisfaction the action of the
late national council at st. Louis, de.
mandiDg payment in coin of the debt
represented by the legal-tepders, as well
as the bonded debt; denouncipg the Re-
publican party for pegIecting to carry
out the policy for resumption payment,
and asking the people to entrust to the
Democratic party the accomplishment
Of this vital need of our commerce.: ex-
press gratitude to the national house OF
representatives for its efforts to reduce
expenses and Its resolute inquiries into
official mal-admlnistratiop. They rejoice
In the social order, rapidly .reviving
prosperity and established cordial rela-
tions between the races in the south
wherever Democratic rule prevails.
They denOunce the Republican party
Tor the mismanagementO of the affairs Of
the Freedmen's bank, and declare IL to
be the duty of congress to secure to the
sufferers indemnity for their losses. The
depression in trade and commerce Is at
tributed to the mismauagement of the
Republican party, and the resolutions
finally demand q return from extrava.
gance to simplicity and economy.
Connections Democracy.
HARTFORD, September 6.-The DEM
ocratic State convention organized to.
day, with Charles ;Durand president,
and after recess nominated the following
ticket: Governor, Richard D. Hubbard; ;
acknowledgement, Francis B. Loomis,
both by sccIamation; secretary of state,
Dwight L. Moore; treasurer, Edwin A.
Buck; comptroller, Charles Hubbard;
electors at large, Governor Charles r
IngeIsoil and General VIM. B Frank
lin. Resolutions were'sdopted cordially
approving the platform and nominees of
the National convention at st. Louis;
arrsign the Republican party for its cor.
ruption, and demand q change of sd.
ministration to secure o radical reform
in the civil ssryice; charge the Republi
can party with opposing the economic
-
deprr rraesiou in business by off ,ial corrup-
ton and exHavsncsi demand rigid
economy in plSiic expenditures and
thank the Democratic Souse OF repre-
sentatives for retrenchment in the lace
Of the opposition OF the Republicans;
call for the punishment OF dishonest
officials, and demand thst the array of
Federal bayonets around the polls
where peaceable citizens are voting shall
cease; denounce the recent order of At
torney- General Taft as an outrage; ask
for q wise policy in the system OF taxa
ton and demand q return to specie pay
ments by the most speedy and practi-
cable method, and discountensnce the
of revengeful acts upon any
section In our common country.
The Missouri Greenbackers.
Sr. LOUIS September -Tne s ste
convention met IN Jefferson
City ut noon to-day and, after tempo
rariIy organizing, took q recess. On ra-
r. G. Hubbard was chosen
permanent chairman, and J. w. Buel
secretary. The committee on res lutions
reported a platform, of which the follow
ing is the ubstauce: First, indorslng the
latform adopted at Indianapolis; sec
ond, denouncing the act of 1873, de-
silver; third, demanding
that all stocks ana bonds be sui jected TO
an equitable rate Of taxation; fourth,
recommending that congressional and
legislative representatives be selected
from those interested directly in indus
trial pursuits; fifth, demanding that men
and measures be considered apart from
party fealty and idoiasry; sixth, spprov-
ing and indorsing the nominstIon OF
Cooper and Carey; seventh, demanding
3 reduction and readjus;ment OF the sal
aries and fees OF C, u1ty and State Of
fiseTs, and that our State penitentiary be
made self sustaining, aud that cur rev
eDus law be made more simple, just and
Efficient.
The following ticket was nomina rated
For governor, J. P. Alex.
Ruder; for ieuteDans-govsrnor, James
E Owens; for secretary of state, A. w.
st. John; for suiitor, A. w. Hubbard;
for treasurer, 8. l.. Price; for attorney
general A. L. Gilstrsp; for register Of
lands, w. r Taylor; for railroad com.
q. NJ. Williams, VIM. Hop
kiBs, N. r. Banks. The full electoral
ticket was also nominated. About
twenty counties were represented by
some thirty.odd delegates.