The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-16

convict labor at home and the importation OF
pauper labor from abroad, favors arbitration
for the settlement of labor disputes, opposes
prohibition, AMI fayors local option
The Massachusetts, Prohibition Con
vention at Worcester, presided over by Eugene
H. Clapp, of Boston, was the largest held in
the State for many years The following tick
ct was placed in nomination: Governor, Il. ].
Lothrop; Lieutenant Governor, DIR. John
Blackmer; Secretary of State, George Kemp
ton; Treasurer, John l. Kilburn; Attorney
General, Samuel M. Fairfield; Auditor, Will
lam NJ Sherman. The resolutions declare that
any political party that will not grapple with
the monstrous evil Of intemperance with the
honest and earnest intent of overthrowing it
is unworthy of public confidence and
support Both of the great political parties
are condemned for their past course regard
ing the liquor question The resolutions also
recommend that the act of selling or dealing
in liquors should be punished by disfranchise-
ment
Returns from Vermont show the
election of sixteen Democrats 10 the Legisla-
ture. Ninety of the Republican members
chosen favor the reelection of Senator Ed
munds.
The Texas Prohibition State Con-
vention assembled at Dallas and put in nom
nation full State ticket headed by 7. l.
Dohony for Governor One of the planks Of
the platform denounces the Democratic party
for nominating saloon stump-speaker for
~ Dbriaf,a, ,,aoDla
Hon. Jehu Baker has been nomin-
ated for Congress by the Republicans
in the Eighteenth Illinois (Morrison's)
District Other Congressional nominations
have been made as follows: W. C.
Cooper, Democrat Ninth Ohio District;
James oDonnell Republican, Third Michi-
gan; j. C. Burrows, Republican, Fourth
Michigan; John Ringle, Democrat, Ninth Wis
consin; w. ID. Lindsay, Democrat Fifteenth
Illinois, +. +. Shively, Democrat Thirteenth
Indiana; Judge Cook, Democrat, Third Iowa;
Dr. w. c. Earl, Democrat, McGregor Qowa)
District; James n Pidcock, Democrat, Fourth
New Jersey; Rev. j. s. Boyden, Prohibition
| list, Fourth Michigan.
United States Senator Plat presided
over the Connecticut Republican State Conven-
ton, at Hartford. Phineas C. Lowther was
nominated for Governor, and Thomas Clark
for Comptroller The platform adopted favors a
protective tariff, opposes the importation of
cheap labor, convict labor, the granting Of any
more lands to railroads, and the selling of
lands to syndicltes or aliens; favors the es-
Enlistment of national department of indus
| try; denounces the administration for vetoes
of pension bills, and protests against the re-
moval of worthy and disabled Union soldiers
from office; favors the maintenance of gold
and silver and the application of the treasury
surplus to the reduction of the national debt
The Arizona Democratic Convention,
at Tucson, nominated Marcus A. Smith, of
| Tombstone, for Delegate to Congress, and ex-
Mayor Charles M. Strauss, Of Tucson, for
! Superintendent of Public Instruction. II
adopted platform demanding the unlimited
| coinage of silver and the issuance of silver
certificates, and was very eulogistic of Presi-
dent Cleveland and Secretary Lamar as we'll
as Gov. Zulc and Gen. Nelson A. Miles.
Congressional nominations: John
| NJ Potter Greenbacker, Fifth Michigan Dis
trict; l. II Ripley, Democrat, Sixth Michigan;
Roswell G. Horr, Republican, Eighth Michi-
gan; David A Ross, ProhibitionIst, Tenth
Michigan; Jas. Y Allison, Republican, Fourth
Indiana; Thomas G.. Br.ster, Democrat,
] Fourteenth Ohio; c. NJ Bradshaw, Re
publican, Washington Territory; j. Logan
Chapman, Democrat, First Michigan; William
Shepherd, Republican. Thirteenth Ohio; John
r. Neal, Democrat Third Tennessee; james
G. Rose, Democrat First Tennessee; p. L.
Glass, Democrat, Ninth Tennessee.
Complete returns from the Vermont
election give Ormsbee Republican, 37,6Sl,
Shurtleff (DemocraD 1901, Seely (Prohibi-
tom ], S32 Greenback and scattering 295 The
Representatives elected are divided politically
as follows: Edmunds Republicans, 155; anti
Edmunds Republicans, q; straight Republi-
cans, As; Prohibition Republicans 2; straight
Democrats, %; Edmunds Democrats, 4.
J. NJ. Adams has been renominated
by the Democrats of Nevada for Governor
T. J. Bell received the nomination for Lieu
tenant Governor. The platform indorses
Cleveland's administration.
The Knights of Labor and the mem.
labor organizations of St Louis, have com.
bined under the name of the United Labor
party and will hold convention of delegates
from the various assemblies and unions or
Oct for the purpose of nominating full
city, Congressional, and Legislative ticket