Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-30

Tsush-The question a. to the amount
OF duties 10 be levied upon the various
articles OF import has been aeitafed
and quarrelied over and has divided
communities for nearly one hundred
years IL 10 not nov, and never will be
settled. unless BY the abolition OF the
indirect tax IL is q convenient issue
always raised when people are excited
over abuses In their midst. While We
favor wise revision of the tariff laws.
With view TO raising q revenue from
fuxdries, rather than from the necessa-
mes. We insist that as an economic ques-
ton its importance Is insignificant as
compared with financial issues for
whereas. ve have suffered from our
worst panics under low and also under
high tariffs, We have never suffered from
panic or seen our factories and work
shops clesed while the volume of money
IN circulation WAS adequate to the needs
Of commerce. Give cur farmers and
manufacturers money as cheap as you
now give il to our bankers, and they can
pay high wages to labor and compete
with the world.
Elsventh-Frr the purpose Of testing
tbs sense of the people npsn the sub
iect, We are in favor Of submitting to q
vote of the people an amendment TO the
Constitution in favor of suffrage regard
less of sex. and also of the subject Of
liquor traffic.
Twslfth-AIl disabled soldiers of the
war should be equitabiy pensioned, and
We denounce the policy of keeping a
small army of office holders whose only
business Il to prevent, on technical
grounds, deserving soldiers from obtain
ing justice from the Government they
helped to save.
Thirteenth-As our name indicates,
We are national party, knowing no
east, no west, no north, no south. Hav-
ing no sectional prejudices, We can
properly place in nomination for the
highest office candidates from any SEQ
ton of the Union. We appeal TO all
people who believe in our principles to
aid by voice and pen and votes.
The majority report was adopted, and
the Convention proceeded to select can
didates for President and Vice-Presi-
dent.
The roll of States was called, and G.
z. Cunningham, of Arkansas. nomi-
mated General B. F. Butler, which was
seconded by Chase, of Colorado. and
the representatives of other States
until Georgia was reached, when Craver,
of that State. nominated Jesse Harper,
of Illinois. Jones, Of New York, nomi-
mated E. P. Allis, Of Wisconsin, and
Atwood, Of Pennsylvania, nominated
I. ID. Armstrong. of that State.
The ballot resulted: Butler 1913, Har-
Per 50. Allis 2, Davis l. Scion Chase.
though not placed in nomination, re-
ceivsd votes. Butler was declared the
nominee
The Convention then proceeded to pc
lect a candidate for Vice- President, and
General A. NJ. West, of Mississippi, was
nominated by reclamation.
Colonel Winston, Of North Carolina,
DIR. Hopkins, of New Jersey, and Gen
sral w. II. Innss, of Michigan, George
b. Hutchinson, of Massachusetts,, and
Ex-Governor Sprague, Of Rhode Island,
we're appointed a committee to wait on
Governor Butler and General West
and notify them of the action of the
Convention.
The Convention then adjourned.
DISCUSSING BUTLER.
A great deal Of dissatisfaction is ex-
pressed tonight by the anti Butler peo-
pie, who participated In the Convention
of the Greenback- Labor party, as a con-
sequence of his nomination as its can
1idate for the Presidency. There is
general feeling that there is u large ele-
ment who will not support the action
of the Convention. 1t is openly assert
ed that the body Of the Convention was
made up of men in the interest of But
Ter, who we're delegates to the resent
alleged anti Monopoly Convention at
Chicago. As an evidence of the desire
to nominate Butler, regardless of JUS
tice or the interests of the party, atten-
ton is called to the fact that the Colo
RADIO delegation withdrew while an al
ternase delegation remained who did
not live in Colorado, and who,
In the absence of five dele
gates from that State who were
for Jesse Harper, cast the vote for
Butler. Jones of New York and many
of his friends we're revolving, and men,
bers of the Knights Of Labor have
openly asserted that the conduct of the
convention has been simply disgrace
full.