Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-21
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS.
FUSION TICKET IN MICHIGAN.
DIVIDED KANSAS REPUBLICANS
TEXAS DEMOCRATS AND MISSOURI
GREENBACKERS.
THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.
THE IMPENDING CHINESE WAR.
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS.
Texas Democrats BalIOting without


Re~uit.
Houston, TEN, August 2l.--The entire session
last night OF the democratic state convention Was
occupied In ballOting for superintendent or edu-
cation. AT midnight it adjourned TIL THIS morning
The Anti-PrOnibitiOn Republicans Of
Kansas.
TOPEKA, kAS., August 2l.-The reSuhmission
convention reassembled last evening and made the
temporary organization permanent The commit
tee on resolutions submitted a long PLATFORM the
substance OF which is the assertion that the
majority OF the republican party of Kansas havr
determined TO coalesce with and adopt the dogmas
OF the prohibition party. and that IL pursuing tins
course II has departed from the true faith of rc-
pueicanlsm. We have repeatedly protest d
against this suicidal and In spirit OF con-
Citation and concord have appealed 10 them in the
light OF previous experience 10 consult again The
will OF the people on the veNatious question OF
prohibition. That request was contemptuously re-
FUSED ana our warnings have been answered by
Sneers and opprobriuus epithets. Now, In the
name OF the national republican party OF this
country, We arragn this prohibition majority fac
ton OF this state untrue to republican, principles
and an enemy to republican success. We arraign
II as an organization that is plotting and consplr-
ticket. In Kansas they remain nominally with
tne republican party, solely because that
TO accept their doctrines, we prefer them as de-
clared enemies, rather than treacherous friends.
We condemn the cowardice and hypocracy OF these
republican leaders who have permitted this foreign
and false issue TO be thrust upon the party In this
state on their heads shall rest grave RESPONSE
publican party. and pledge our unqualified support
TO Its nominees. James q. Blaine and John A. Lo-
gan. We especially endorse the acton OF the ma
tonal convention through It's committee on reSou-
tons In rejecting the abomnabe doctrine of prohi-
bitlon, and We hold that the action or said conyen-
lion upon that, as upon all other queStons const-
tutes the controlling rule OF action for all true
puDlicanS throughout the country, and that while
supporting Blaine and Logan we canuot consistent
ly support the odiOus doctrine which Was expressly
rejected by the convention which placed them IN
nomination.
Platform Of the Michigan Democrats.
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH, August 2l.-The platform
adopted by the democratic state convention de-
clareS that the democratic party view with alarm
the result or twenty-five years or republican rule in
the state one OF which Is the large Increase OF pau
per1sm. and gives number OF figures 10 verify the
statement The following are the principal points
OF the platform:
Resolved. That for the payment OF the war debt,
pensrons OF Union soldiers and other Incidental eX-
penses OF government economically administered
we favor the maintenance OF internal and tariff
taxation, so levied that luxurieS Shall bear the
chief burden and the necessaries OF life be pract
caiy free.
Missouri Greenbnckers Arraign the
Democratic Party.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, August 2l.-In the ereenback
convention yesterday, after long discussion,
solution was adopted arrafgning the democratic
party for its failure to recognize the question OF
prohibition, and declaring that a prohibitory
amendment should be submitted TO the popular
vote
The Fusion Ticket i'm Michigan.
DETROIT, MICH, August 21.-The greenbackers
nominated the following candidates. which COM
pletes the fusion ticket: Attorney general, Francis
NJ. COOK; commissioner or state land Office John Ii.
Denuis; superintendent OF public instruction, David
Parsons.
Charles Stewart RenOminated.
HOUSTON, TEXAS, August 21.-The democratic
convention OF the rst congressional district to-day
renonlinated Charles stewart. OF Houston.
Democratic Electors Chosen in Texas.
HOUSTON, TEX. August 2l.-The democratic state
convention reaSSembled this morning. Presiden-
t1al electors We're chosen as follows: At-large,
Judge Silas Hare, OF Grayson county, and John Ii.
McCleary, of Bexar county.