The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-21


The Democratic State Convention Of New
York has been called to meet at Albany on tn,
Sd of October.
The Prohibitionists Of Massachusetts ant
Pennsylvania have nominated full tickets FOL
| State officers.
State Convention Of the Workingmenl
party Of Ohio was held at Columbus las
week. The Greenback Executive Committed
were present, and consented to withdraw theil
State ticket and unite with the new movement
if their ideas Of currency reform were hearth,
acquiesced in, which was agreed to il
open convention. The following ticket wal
then nominated: For Governor, Stepher
johnson; Lieutenant Governor, christopher
Lewis; Supreme Judge, Milton L. Clark
Treasurer, James Jenkins Clerk Of the SUI
preme Court, e. p. Pitkin; Attorney General
George A. Duncan; School Commissioner
John G. Logan; Board Of Public Works, G. c.
Strong.
At the Massachusetts, Democratic State Con.
vention, held at Worcester, last week. the fol
lowing nominations were made: Governor
William CASTOR Lieutenant Governor, Will.
lam r. Plunket Secretary of State, Weston
Rowland; Treasurer and Receiver General
David N. Skillings; Auditor, John Z. Fitzger.
aid Attorney General, Charles p. Thompson
The following platform was unanimously
adopted:
We reaffirm and announce the National Demo-
cratic platform of 1876 authoritative exposition
of the principles Of our past and we congratulate
our political brethren of the whole country that
these principles were Endorsed in the national can.
vass by the suffrages of decided majority of the
American people. We believe the people fairly
elected majority Of the Electoral College in favor
of the Democratic candidates, and while in the high
interest of public tranquility we submit to the au-
thority of the constituted Federal administration
we denounce upon the guilty Republican party stern
retribution for great public crime by which the
people defrauded of their rights to be governed
by the rulers Of their choice, and by which the
elective principle was wounded in its most vital
part. We challenge for it the opprobrium of his
tory aud the indignant judgment of all honest men.
We congratulate the country and the support
ers of free government everywhere upon the
happy results Of restored public order and revving
industrial prosperity, and the Inauguration of a
new reign Of domestic peace and liberty regulated
by law in the southern section of the Union, that
have ensued upon the adoption Of Democratic prin-
cples and measures of administration by the Execu-
tive Department Of the Federal Government in ref
erence to Southern States. We recognize in these
suspicious results the signal vindication and prac-
tcal triumph Of the constitutional doctrines so
faithfully contended for by the Democrats in the
late political contest, and the craftsmanship Of the
wise fathers which seeks the welfare Of the republic
by the support of the equal rights and dgnties of
all the States in the Federal Union We trust that
hereafter there will be no Southern policy, no
Northern policy, but one common policy for the
whole Union and equality of the rights and du-
ties of all men before the law
Resolred, That We are opposed TO the re-enact-
ment of the Prohibtory law.
RESOLVED, That the practice of borrowing money
for other objects than those OF strict public neces-
sity has generated schemes of extravagant expend-
ifure, until taxation has become a we-nigh ntoer-
able burden. Honesty, economy and "pay as you
go" should be rules in all appropriations of the
peoples money. The power Of the State, county,
cities and towns to borrow money ought to be rigid
ly limited end may be put TO the system which
anticipates the labor of the coming ages, and ap
proprates the fruits Of 1t in advance which coins
the industry OF future generations into cash. and
snatches the inheritance from children yet unborn"
Resolved, That we are in favor of the honest pay
ment of the public debt, and of currency
gold basis.
Resolved That the present depression Of the indus
trial, commercial, and financial interests of the
country is largely due to inability, under the
present laws, to dispose Of the surplus products
which other countries want and which, but for the
restrictions and injurious legislation, the United
States would, TO great extent produce and sell
better and cheaper than any other nc..:>