Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-16
Third District Republican Conven.
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The Republicans of the Third Congressional
District Of Minnesota met at Minneapolis on
the 7th inst, and organized by electing c. H.
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Grant county, assistant secretary.
Hon. w. D. Washburn was unanimously
nominated as the Republican candidate for
Congress, there being no opposition. The
committee on resolutions reported the follow
ing, which were adopted as the
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. Firat-The Republicans of the Third con-
greasional district, in convention assembled,
would congratulate the electors of the district
and the people Of the country, that the party
of national conscience, which in the past de-
nounced alavery az q rhine against God and
man. and by moral and physical force banished
it from our fair domain, and through seas of
blood chrushed out treason and rebellion;
which has protected the national honor and
preserved the national credit, and brought the
country forth to . point of unexampled fnan-
cisl prosperity, is, still . united party, and
with such noble leaders rs Gen. James A. Gar
field and Chester A. Arthur we are ready to
once more buckle on our afmor for the trump
ant vindication Of the national peace and hon
OF, and the preservation of the inaleinable
rights of all classes" "a.
second-That the. Democratic party, by it's
long record of political heresies and crimes, its
open embrace OF treason and rebellion. its re-
ported attempts tofdestroy the national credit,
its oft repeated efforts to thwart the will of the
people by fraudulent votes aud tissue ballots,
it's shot gun policy in the past and present, and
its mob violence already inaugurated in this
campaign, shows It to be the same diseased
body-as when in open defiance to the govern
ceived by its last effort to play the part of the
pursued ostrich, by attempting to hide its
guilty head behind Union soldier, while its
whole body 10 justly labeled with crimes
against the rights of man and the honor of the
nation.
THRD.-That the reckless expenditures of
the present Democratic Congress, its oft repeat
teot the freemen of the South in the enjoyment
of their legal rights, its determination to re-
move all barriers to the preparation of fraud
at the ballot box, and the unsesting of mem
bers fairly and honestly elected, is proof sufi-
Gent that the spirit of evil still dEels in, and
presides at the counsels of, the Democratic
party, and should arouse every lover of his
country to labor for the election of such con-
gressmeu as will persistently refuse to give
over the control of the government into the
hands of those who SO moliciousiy seek to des.
troy it.
Fourth-That in our present member Of Con.
gress-Gen. W. D. Washburn, we have ono in
whom we can safely repose the utmost conf.
dence. His diligent attention to all the ma
terial interests of the people of his districts
his unusual success in obtaining needed legis.
lation; his firm and unyielding adherence tt
the fundamental principles of sound cur.
renoy and good government, shows that w
have the right man in the right place, and that
he justly deserves the unanimous renominat
ton rendered him here this day. We pie dgt
him our cordial and most hearty support ant
his triumphal election.