Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-09-23
THE POLITICAL FIELD.
What the Different Parties are Doing
this Fall.

The New York Anti Monopoly State
Convention made no nominations for
State offices. Proposed resolutions
complimentary to Gov. Cornell pro.
voked opposition and were declared lost.
The platform adopted Existing
political parties, subjected to corpora
ton and monopoly control, refuse to
correct the great evils now existing.
We propose to give them but one more
opportunity. We do not desire to
assume the labor and responsibility of
forming a new party if the progressive
reforms which the people demand can
be secured within existing organizations.
The contra t system in our prisons
should be abolished and the labor OF
the convicts be SO employed as not to
iniure the interests of merchants and
lab0ring men. The internal and other
systems of revenue should be reformed.
and taxes on necessaries should be
abolished; the civil service must be
divorced from politics and reformed.
The New Hampshire Democratic State
Convention nominated Martin V. b.
Eigely for Governor. The platform
adopted demands thorough and radi-
cal reform in the State expendi-
lures second, equal taxation;
aifirms an unalterable opposition to all
monopolies both in the State and ma
ton, and concludes as follows:-We de-
mand complete reform of the civil SER
vice. We believe that the present tariff
system is unequal and oppressive, and
demand its immediate revision. We
recoE nize the growing evil of intemper-
ance, aud view with alarm the sale Of
spirituous liquors in all the cities and
larger towns of the State.
We recommend the applying of the
surplus revenue OF the government to
the payment of the public debt instead
of squandering it in wasteful extrava-
CANT expenditures of such doubtful con-
stitutionality as the River and Harbor
bill lately passed over the Presidents
veto.
The Portland advertisers estimate,
with the latest returns from Maine at
hand, makes the House of Representa-.
tives stand: r publican, 1902; fusion,
48. Last year 1t stood: -Republican,
"a; fusien, 81.
The official returns OF the Arkansas
State election show the following vote
for Governor: Berry (dem.), S7,675
Slack (rep.). 40, $50; Garland (green.
back, 1912. Total, lat, 1859, the
largest vote ever polled in the State.
In the Second New Hampshire Dis
trict the Democrats have animated Col.
Jewett d. Horseley, for Congress.
The South Carolina Republican State
Convention endorsed the administration
of President Arthur. The Greenback
Labor State Ticket was endorsed.
The New Hampshire National Green
backLabor party held its State Conven
ton on the 18th. The Committee on
Resolutions presented an appropriate
set of resolutions, declaring against
fusion with either of the present parties,
and favoring general railroad law.
Tie Convention nominated John L.
Woodbury., of Manchester, for Gov
ernor.
The long fight in Bragg's District in
Wisconsin ended by the nomination If
d. Fl. Sumner Of Waukesha, on tn
/, 601st ballot. Deissner, a Bragg man,
cast his own and proxy vote for Summer
and fourteen Delaney men followed,
making sixteen votes. Bragg's friends
say he will run as an independent.
Tho Colorado Republican State
Convention nominated Ernest T.
Campbell for Governor. The resoiu-
tons indorse the course OF President
Arthur and denounce the characterization
of silver.
The Greenback State Convention OF
Delaware nominated Milo l.. Blanchard
for Governor and Alfred II. Weld for
Congress.