Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-12
STATE CONVENTION,
The State Ticket Nominated aud Plat-
form Adopted.

The State Ticket Nominated aud Plat
form Adopted.
The Republican Safe Convention met
at Music Hall, St. Paul, on the 4th lust
Thomas Simpson nf Winona, acting as
chairman, and Geo. w. Bushnell of Fari-
baut, as Secretary.
A committee on platform with Gen. J
B. Sauboru OF St Puu!, as chairman, was
appointed and sutrs,t:ett the following
report which was unanimously adopted
The Platform.
General Sanborn then presented the report of the
committee on platform, follows:
It is customary for polticsl tartits IN convention
assembled to restae the principles upon which the,
and ;y which they claim themselves entitled to fu
ture contidence.
The Republicans of tho S.@se of Minnesota rcaf
flr,n their devotion to the great principles OF eqcs
right, personal freedom and national nritv TO defend
and preserve which the Republican party throughout
the Union called into being by act Of the po,
uqr conssienee ACTING upon the will Of fhc people.
tion which, under the administration Of the Demo
cratic rarty, had become involved in civil war.
It has Reconstructed the nation by ridding its con
st!thton Of the elements OF dissolution. thereby
forming more perfect union. establishing justice,
surng domestic tranquility, providing for the COM
mon defense, promoting the general welfare and Sc
nr1ng the blessings Of liberty.
1t has kept end caused to be kept the pledged faith
Of the nation to lis creditors whose faith in its intee
rity made its existence possible: and to its soiers
and sailors who preserved it.
It has by a ihdicia. syeeem of government aid tc
great works Of ;Hernal improvement made ready fol
settlement areas which eighteen years ago were he.
yond the frontier but which are now great and pros
porous states thereby furnishing lands to the land
less and homes to the homeless, not in wilderness
but in the midst of civilization and refinement which
under that system have accompanied settlements in
stead of lagging behind them,
has In an the States protected the rights of every
citizen. both the black man and the white, and has
after years Of effort against the obstacles of inyeter
ate prejudice, sectional hate and bitter opposition
the Democratic party, consumated restored Unfo1
resting upon the acquiescence and free viii of
reconcIed people and no longer enforced by the
sword
1t has been demonstrated by Legislatures and in
courts that no constitutional right inheres in the gov
ernment to protect the people against monopole!
from the powerful arbitrary and rapacious.
AS declaration of principles the Republicans OF
the State of Minnesota in convention assembled
First2That in its efforts to restore harmony a,
the South In administering the various executive de
partnents 20 that taint of corruption rests upol
them, in emancipating the primary councils of tht
people from the domination of oflce-holders, in its
redemption of its pledges of civil service REFORM ant
in its financial measures and policy the ad1ninistra
ton Of President Hayes merits ths confidence and
hearty cooperation of the people, and feel dis
position to that administration for embar
easements caused by incidental and collateral diff
clltes which are necessarily inherent in the situation
Sec0nd-We believe that the faith of tho nation il
obliged to pay its debt in coin. We urge persistence
in the policy of speedy resumption, because we be
lieve it to be the policy of common honesty, wise
economy and prudent statemanship.
We warn the people against the doctrine of an I'M
limited and irredeemable paper currency issued by
the United States as a perncious deluson, because
preme court of the United States, because it will un
settle values and betray the of the country
into demoralizing speculation; because it will bea1
with disastrous force upon the laboring man by put
ting into operation the well-known law that under
such currency the prices of the necessaries of life
rise rs while the wages of labor rise last and the1
never to an equality Of purchasing power; because
under such policy the price of agricultural products
s fix ed at and by the gold prices of the foreign mar
kets by which the farmer sells at gold standard bu
8 compelled to pay currency prices for all he buys
because snch policy is practical confiscation and il
the ally of communism, is dishonest and has brough
disaster to all nations that have persisted in it.
IhardIWe demand greater economy in State ex
penses and particularly those incident to the charita
bic institutions and if necessary, such legislation
will cause to cease all combinations by which inordi
nate sums are sought to be secured for these pur
poses.
Fourh-We condemn as revolutionary the effor
being made by the Democratic party to usurp tn,
Presidency against the decision of the tribunal b,
which all electoral questions in that behalf have beef
definitely settled.
Fif1h-We declare it to be the sense of this part
that the Democratic party, under false pretense
efficiency of the army.
Si1th-That we commend the present State i'd
ministratOn.
And, submitting these reasons to the Judgment O
the people of this State, confidently ask the con
tnuance of their confidence.
THE NOMINATION.
John w. Borry was then nominated ft
Advocate Justice of the Supreme Cour
and s. II. Nichols for Clerk of the Su
preme Court by acclamation.
For State Auditor I. r. Whitcomb O.
Olmsted, NJ. D. Flower Of Washington
and E. w. Trask Of Houston. The in
formal ballot stood Whitcomb SO, Flowel
54; Trask, 48; Hayden, 4. The forma
ballot stood Whitcomb, 107; Flower, 4s
Trask As; and Whitcomb was declared
the nominee. -l..
The following stete Central Committee
was appointed. ...Ilr.0
First district; D. NJ. sabin, Washington
county,: s.i- '.+ .i:;i:. -. j..
Second district, H. A. Castle, St. Paul,
Third district, /. N. Coe.' Olmsted
Fourth district. G: 7; Woodbury., Anoka.
/ Fifth district, F. r. Clement, Rice.
Sixth district, j. A. Keiser, Faribault.
. Seventh district, L w. Collins, Stearns.
Eighth district, E. Z. Howe. Scott.
Ninth district, David Benson Renvillc.
Tenth district, Ed. Thompson, Houston.