The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-28
POLITICAL.

The Name Democratic Convention
was held at Portland on the 18th of June.
Alonzo Garcelon was nominated for Governor.
The platform condemns any further issue of
Government bonds whereby equal taxation
favors the gradual substitution Of greenbacks
for national-bank bills, and approves of the in
vestigation by Congress into the alleged Presi-
dential-election frauds.
The Republican State Convention of
Iowa was held at Des Moines on June 10. Ex-
Senator Wright presided, and ex-Congressman
James F. Wilson was Chairman Of the Com
.nttee OH Resolutions. j. A. Il. Hull was
nominated for Secretary of State, B.
r. Sherman for Auditor, George w.
Bemis for Treasurer, j. X. Pow
ers for Register of the Land Office,
]. ]. McJunkin for Attorney General, J. H.
Rothrock for Supreme Judge, John s. Runnels
for Supreme Court Reporter, Z. ]. Holmes for
Clerk of the Supreme Court. The platform
declares that:
By the combined working of the National and State
Governments under their respective constitutions,
the rights of every citizen should be secured at
nome ana prOtecteu dDrOhu anu tue COmuOn well
fare promoted Any failure on the part of
either the National or State Governments to
every possible constitutional power to af-
ford ample protection to their citizens, both at
home and abroad, is a criminal neglect of their
highest obligation.
That it is not only the right but the duty of ev-
cry good citizen, at the party caucuses, in the
party conventions and at the polls, to his best
rfot 20 tha and Of
good men to places of official trust and we disap-
prove of all interference with the perfect freedom
of action of any citizen in the exercise of said right
and in the discharge Of said duty.
The Vermont Democrats met in State
Convention at Montpelier last week aud nom-
mated W. Il. H. Bingham for Governor, Jerome
w. Pierce for Lieutenant Governor, and George
E. Royce for Treasurer.
The Workingmen's party developed
astonishing strength at the recent election
in California for members Of the Con-
stitutional Convention. A San Francisco
dispatch says the complexion of the conven-
ton as regards county delegates will be as
follows: Non-Partisan, 81; Workingmen,
AZ Republicans, To- Democrats, s. Full re-
turns may vary the above to the extent of half
dozen. The city of San Francisco was car
ried by the Workingmen by large majority.
The Missouri Greenbackers held their
State Convention at Sedalia last week. A.
L. Gilstrop was nominated for Judge OF the
Supreme Court, Gireso Hayden for Railroad
Commissioner, and J. M. Greenwood for Su-
pcrintendent of Public Instruction. The
platform demands the repeal of the
Specie Resumption act and the issue
gold and silver, denounces the present system
Of convict labor, opposes the introduction Of
Chinese labor, and pronounces against strikes
and all violent measures for the relief OF labor
Mrs. Capt. jerks, of New Orleans,
was before the Potter committee on Saturday
June %, to testify IN regard to the Sherman
letter. Her story in regard to the letter was
this Anderson was pressing Weber to obtain
certain guarantees from Sherman, and Weber
united with Anderson in writing joint note to
Sherman, a copy of which Anderson produced.
This note, she declares, WAS handed to her
sealed to deliver, and that, upon carrying it to
parlor in the st. Charles Hotel, where the Wis
iting statesmen had their sessions, she opened it
and became aware Of its contents. She never
delivered it according to directions, but upon
reaching the parlor she dictated reply to it at
side desk, inclosed it in an envelope after it
was completed, directed it to Weber and Ander-
son, and carried it back and delivered it to
Weber. She refused to state who wrote the
letter at her dictation, but said that, after it
was written, she picked it from the table, in
closed it, and delivered it to Weber. She de-
clared that Sherman knew nothing Of the ex-
istence of the letter.