Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-07-25
POLITlCAL.

POLITICAL.
| keoond District Republican Nominating
| Convention.
The second congressional district Re-
publican nominating convention met at
shakopee, Tuesday, July 10th. Gen
Levi Nutting of Rice county, was selected
as chairman, and J. h. Hawley, Of Wa
bashaw, was appointed secretary. The
committee on credentials reported the
delegations full from all Of the 18 coun-
tues composing the district.
MIR. Doughty, chairman of the com
mittee on resolutions leported the follow
ing which were unanimously adopted:
ReSol,ed, BY the Republican convention for
| the Second Congressional district:
| That the clear duty of tho National govern
ment is to protect and preserve to all it's citi-
Gems of whatever race or condition, in all their
them by the federal constitution and its
| amendments.
To encourage and promote by all proper
means the most friendly relations and good
| feeling between all sections of the country and
! all cla,ses of citizens.
|
To restore stability to tho national
finances by, an early return to specie
payments and the preservation of q uniform
standard and measure Of values, so that the
rights Of both labor and capital shall be re-
spected and secured.
| To observe a wise economy in al matters
expenditure and appropriations of the public
money, to the end that the public burdens may
be lightencd.
To elevate and purify the civil service of the
| <L>+$
| independent exercise of political duties and
| privileges belonging to every citizen.
! RESOLVED, That we believe in such q judicious
system of public improvements and inland
navigation as will aid in tho de-
velopment of our resources, give employment
to the laborer, and lessen the cost of transport
alton of our agricultural products to the great
markets of che world.
Resol,ed, That we denounce the efforts of the
Democratic party to cripple and render inefi-
cient the army and navy of the United States.
! RESOLVED, That we have full confidence in the
present national administration, and hereby
pledge it our hearty support in the mainten-
ance and preservation Of Republican principles
and in the maintenance of honest government
for the people.
A ballot was had for a nominee with the
following result:
H. B. Strait ......59 s. P. Jennisou. ID. {. 3
D. l.. How....3 Sumner Ladd. s.
NJ. G. Russell. .......9 Henry Poehler. i
Gordon E. Cole. NJ. 8. Chandler. 2
T.. /. Brown. .........2
On motion of Gen. Jennison the nomination
of Major Strait was made unanimous.
A committee having been appointed to in
form the nominee of his nomination. Major
| Strait appeared and addressed the con-
vention as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conven-
tion:
| tender to you and through you to the Re-
| publicans of the Second district, my profound
| est thanks for the high honor conferred in
naming me, for the fourth time, as the Repub-
! lican nominee for Congress of this district.
Sensitive as l am of the responsibility which
| is inseparable from the high honor, / could
almost have wished that the nomination had
| fallen upon some one of the more worthy gen
I tlemen, whose names have been mentioned for
| the place.
l can assure yor, however, that if elected,
sns aatoh and Sh' care for the ndedus
as we'll as the public interests of the people,
that l have the honor to represent.
l stand before the district free and untram-
eled, to bow to the will of the people, obey
their dictates, and accept the kind efforts of
! all.
! For the past five years I have endeavored to
! faithfully serve you, and have been to the best
of my ability, watchful of your interests.
How well the trusts that have been confded
to me have been kept, is for the people of the
! district to say.
| l can but point to the past as an earnest of
what l shall hope to accomplish in the future
/ have labored to secure such legislation as
would insure to the West cheap transportation,
| to be accomplished by the improvement Of
| natural water courses and believe that Con-
as the magnitude Of the work and the necessi-
| ties of the country demand.
! Liberal appropriations in this direction
would give employment to the unemployed,
sna %tts5ay Of the 9Ss
and other products to the great markets of the
| world; and would give to US the manufactured
! articles Of the East at greatly reduced prices
| Then, to State like ours. young, vigorous
and teeming with resources: growing In power,
! are, constant care and watchfulness will be
needed that they receive proper advancement
| word in reference to the condition of our
army.
| Having been placed by the speaker of the
House, as member of a joint committee for it's
! now but skeleton, and barely sufices to gar
rison our out-posts, and cannot give protection
| to our frontier settlements; the repeated at
tempts upon the part of the Democracy of the
present House of Representatives,, to reduce
and destroy the the Of tho army and the
SOLID front: who have united a.
one man in saying, that our army is now quite
too small, and should not be reduced below it's
present strength, in which position, am frank
| to say, that fully concur.
| Scattered as our army is, over so largo an ex-
tent of country, with our Mexican and Indian
frontier to guard, I think there is no fair mind
ed man who will say that it is = wise policy to
! reduce it's effective force.
pioneers of our western frontier,
| is now demanding = protection
from the restless and hostile savages, who are
scattered and roaming at large over portion
| of our borders.
1t has been recently demonstrated that our
federal troops may be required, not only to
protect our frontier, but also to prevent mobs
| and violence, and to preserve peace and order
in our more populous interior.
Let me ask what party has saved the nation,
| government, abolished slavery, passed the
homestead act, improved our rivers and harborr,
given us . uniform currency, made the green
back worth par in gold, and carried out. every
pledge made to the people? 80,
! The answer comes, the Republican party.
When we are told that the mission of
the Republican party is ended. We
answer no, not until every freeman,
be he white or black, enjoys the blessings Of
freedom. the blessings Of the elective franchise
all the rights and privileges accorded to every
citizen of the republic, South as we'll as North.
When the Republican party came into power.
| tho credit Of the government was far from what
it now H.. Then our six per cent. gold bonds
were at = large discount, and to-day, notwith-
| standing We owe over two billion dollars, our
four per cent. bonds are worth par in gold. and
QUE greenbacks are 80 nearly equal with coin
that /. no, one, 4cares 4 to inquire
the difference. i.;,, rr;-.,4 -, 5,,.,:,.,;,,h
Men of both political parties who love their
country, its honor and its plighted faith. should
stand together and defend the money OF the