The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-06

tAls number about ffty we're permitted 70
participate as members Of the convention,
the remainder being refused because they
objected to pledge themselves to support
st. John for President A. NJ. Rich
ardsOn presided over the convention.
1t was moved TO nominate State
ticket, with John A. Martin at the head.
The motion was lost 1t was then moved
10 turn the matter of State ticket over to
the State Committee to report in October.
The motion was lest. A motion was then
made that the convention indorse John A.
Martin, the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, but this was also defeated. A reso-
luton WAS then adopted waving the power
TO nominate State ticket, and the mat
ter was left to Individual action. Sup
port was pledged to the National Prohibi-
ton ticket.
CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS
HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 3.-The Dem
ocratic, State ticket was completed as fol-
lows: Lieutenant Governor, George c..
Sumner; Secretary OF State, D. Ward Nor
throp; Treasurer. Alfred X. Goodrich; Comp
troller, Joseph Plunkett. A resolution de-
handing that the wages OF laborers be
exempt from foreign attachment and that
wages to the amount of $50 be exempt
from attachment was voted down, the
leaders of the opposition holding that the
platform was sufficiently favorable to work
mgmen in demanding that they be paid
weekly. The convention adjourned.
NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS TAKE AC-
TON.
CONCORD, y. H., Sept. 3.-The Repub-
lican State Convention yesterday nominated
the following ticket: Governor, Moody Cur
rier; Electors at Large George W. Libby
and James +. Larkin. President Arthur's
Administration was Endorsed and the Re-
publican National platform reiterated.
TEXAs REPUBLICANS.
HoUSToN, Tex, Sept. 1.-THE Texas Re-
publican State Convention, composed Of
about three hundred delegates, adopted a
resolution that it is injudicious to place a
State ticket in the field, and recommending
the Republicans to aid in the election of all
independent candidates.
BUTLER RECEIVES ANOTHER INDORSE.
MENT.
New YORK, Sept 1.-The National Com
mittee of the National Labor Party met
yesterday afternoon, John ROmeyn presid-
ing. 1t was decided not to hold National
Convention at Chicago, as intended. The
following declaration was issued:
in view of the general union of the various
labor and reform movements under the ban
ner of the Peoples Party, which cmbOaies in
the main tue reforms urged by this organiza-
ton, the Nat Ona Committee of the National
Labor Party hereby declares its approval
of and cooperation with the said People 5
Party, and local organizations are hereby di-
rected 10 cooperate with the said organiza-
ton in this campaign in support of the poo
pies ampion-Benja min F. Butler.
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.
Congressional nominations were made as
follows Tuesday: john j, O'Neill, Demo
crat, Eighth Missouri District; Timothy +.
Tarsney, Greenbocker, Eighth Michigan;
Daniel Ermentrout, Democrat Eighth Penn
sylvania; w. r. Price, Republican, Eighth
Wisconsin; Wallace w. Jones, Republican,
Eleventh Kentucky
Congressional nominations were made as
follows Wednesday: j. 5. Woolson, Repub-
lican, First Iowa; j. ii. Hopkins, Demo
crat, Twenty second Pennsylvania; 5. o.
Slocum, Democrat, First Rhode Island;
General w. Ii. Forney, Democrat, Seventh
Alabama; J. II. Reagan, Democrat, Second
Texas: II. L. Pennington, Greenback' Dem
Ocrat, Third Michigan.