The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-09-15
POLITICAL.
Gen. Logan and Party.


DETROIT, Mich, Sept 13.-Ths morning
Genera Logan and party left Bay City on
special train for Port Huron. Along the route
the party was given an enthusiastic greeting,
short stops being made at Vassar, Maryvllle,
Mariette and other points. Arriving at Port
Huron, the party were escorted to the hotel
by crowds of people, headed by the Plumed
Knights and a brass band. After dinner
speeches were made by Gems. Logan and
Alger, Hon. Edgar Weeks and others. Ex-
Gov. Jerome presided At Q O'Clock NJ. S.
SIN this yacht "Sigma," of Detroit, with SEN
ator Palmer and party from Detroit, arrived at
Port Huron. General Logan and party en-
barsed for Detroit, stopping at the Lake st.
Clair Shooting Club House for supper, and
reaching here at O'Clock. A large crowd
met the party az the wharf, where Carriages
were in waiting to lake them TO their destina-
ton. meeting WAS held Immediately, at
which Thomas w Palmer presided aud spoke
briefly. Gen. Alger followed and then Gen
Logan spoke. Having made ten speeches
while in the State during the last ten days, the
speakers voice was not strong and he had
some trouble in making the crowd hear him.
Gen. Logan stops in this CITY over Sunday as
the guest of Gen. r. A Alger, Republican
candidate for Governor of Michigan.
Irish Republicans.
NEW York, Sept. 13 -Preparations are
oelng made for an Irish rally at the Academy
OF Music Thursday evening next. Alexander
Sullivan, late president of the Irish National
League, aud others. are to speak for Blaine.
Gen. Butler in New York.
Gen. Butler arrived here from the West at
O'Clock tonight He was serenaded at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel by committee from the
county organization of the Peoples party He
made short speech from the balcony of the
hotel, in which he said: IT have Just returned
from the farmers at their toll, and they send
greeting to their fellow Iaborers in the East.
They will be glad to hear the reverberatioh of
your cheers tonight. God helping us, we will
bring East and West together once more, and
the people shall govern as in the days of the
old Democratic party" The General was
worn out by travel, aud excused himself from
making long speech. Frank d. Moulton aud
Judge Potter OF New Jersey also spoke briefly.
Colorado Republican Convention.
DENVER, Col, Sept. 3-Tne Republican
STATE Convention this afternoon onpleted the
list of nominations as follows: Auditor, III.
A. Spraunce; Presidential Electors, f. f.
Ausbiston, g. f. Crowell and f. q. Cloudy.
W G. LAthrope of Denver is chairman of
the State Central Committee. The committee
on resolutions reported as follows: NJ;
THAT the Republicans OF Colorado, in conyen.
ton assembled, affirm and approve the platform of
principles adopted by the National Republican
Convention which nominated the great orator
and eminent statesman of Maine and the most
lustrous ci izen soldier of the Republic for Presi
dent and Vice President; that the wool interest of
the country, now greatly depressed mainl, by che
gress, ought to be foslered by proper legislation,
and to that end we ask that the import duty i'm
posed by the act of 1867 wool be tored al The
earliest possible day; hat the Southwestern part Of
the state is being devast tied by bands of rowing
Indians and the lives of citizens jeopardzed; we
theref demand th t our representatives in Con
gress their utmost endeavors to secure the re-
moval of the southern Ute Indians from the State
The report was adopted and the convention
adjourned.
The Anti b ourbOnists of Missouri.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 14.-Separate and joint
NEE ings Of the Republican aud GreenDsck
State commit ees were held here yesterday to
perfect the State and electoral ticzets, as pro-
vided for by the late Republican and Green
back State conventions. The Greenback COM
mittee filed the vacancies lett on the
Republican State ticket as follows:
Secretary of State, Paul j. Dixon; registrar
of lands, George Bond; railroad commissioner,
John Bates. The committee also named a
full electoral ticket but one-half of these
electors are to be dropped in the fusion with
the Republicans. At the joint session it was
DECIDED TO open the fusion campaign Septen-
Der Goth and that tue State ticket should be
called the Ant-Bourbon ticket. The ma tor
of naming a joint electoral ticket of eight
nominees, to DO selected from each party, was
deferred to future meeting.