The Grange advance., 1876-04-05
MINNESOTA SOFTS.
A Greenbank Convention at Owatonna, on tlls
2Yth nit

A Greenbank Convention at Owatonna on tlls
29th ult.
a State Convention of Minnesota
Softs was held at Owatonna on Wed
nesday March, Goth, for the purpose
OF appointing delegates to National
Convention at Minneapolis and nomi-
mating. an electoral ticket. Only about
half a dozen counties We're represented
and the actual participants in the
Convention were between twenty and
thirty E. Ayres OF Washington coun-
ty, Donnelly of Dakota, and A. E..
Ball OF Hennepin were the leading
spirits The follwing platform was
adopted:
We, here assembled voters of the State of
Minnesota, agree upon the following declara-
ton OF principles
l. That we hereby constitute ourselves the
Independent party Of Minnesota and pledge
ourselves to1separate, independent, political
action.
3. That while we believe the currency OF
the nation should be Of par value with gold,
we believe this result can be reached by rails
ing the value instead of decreasing the volume
3. That it is the right and we demand that
the national legal tender notes, as greenbacks,
Shall be made a legal tender for all debts,
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.
That it is the right and duty of the ma
ton to create all the money used by it's 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
a0Vlnt4OpQ fherairOrn ChnnlA Ioln,,r 4n 4hn
nation.
! 5: That to this end we demand the gradual
| withdrawal OF the national bank notes, on
which the people are taxed to pay interest on
the bonds securing the same, and the issu-
ance in lieu thereof Of greenbacks of which
6. We demand the immediate repeal Of the
specie resumstion act of 1876, believing the
| same to he most destructive to the business
interests otthe people, and that it has already
brought large numbers of business men to
bankruptcy, and the laboring classes to pau
7. That the legal tender notes of the ma
ton should Ebe interchangeable nationl
registered bond, bearing a rate of interest
not to exceed 1865 per annum.
! 8. That real civil service reform should be
inaugurated by limiting the period OF the Pres
| ldentlal office to one term of four years.
9. That it is the right and duty of the Leg
islature to control money corporations in the
interest of the people.
10. That we demand the most stringent
retrenchment OF expenditures of govern
ment, towns, county, State and national
II. That We demand such revision of the
tariff as will equalize taxation, and relieve the
agricultural population of some of the burdens
now resting upon it.
12 We demand that the present bonded
debt of the country be refunded as speedily as
possible into registered, interchangeable
bonds, that shall bear interest at low rate,
not exceeding 1865 per annum.
| 49, That we regard the present high
prices OF school text books as serious tax
upon education, imposed on rich and Door
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; I. Donnelly of
Dakota; VIM. Elliot of Olmsted; C. D.
Sherwood of Fillmore; A. E. Ball of
Hennepin; j. A. McCluskie of Washing
ton; DR.. j. w. johnson of Steele, and
G. S. 'Kneeland of Dodge. .
The following ELECTORAL ticket was
nominated:
~~Atlarge.-C. d. Sherwood of Fill
more. Ignatius Donnelly of Dakota.
District Electors:-Wm. Elliot, of
Olmsted; j. p. Sch@nback of Nicollet;
E. Ayres Of Washington. -.
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