The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-07-15
STATE CONVENTION.
Hons. John A. Martin. A. P. Riddle
and 3. B. Allen.
RsnOminated for Another Term
without Opposition.
The Business Part Of a New Mexico
Town Wiped ont by F1re.
btats oonventaon.


nominate state officers. The only con-
test is upon auditor and treasurer, there
being no opposition TO the return Of the
other incumbents.
J.R. HOIloweIl of Cherokee county
and w. W. Smith Of Marshall county,
were placed In nomination Tor chairman.
The vote was taken by counties and re-
suited Is follows: HolOWell, 250; Smith,
Ia. Writ w. Walton was elected SEQ
rotary by reclamation.
A committee Of seven, one from each
congressional district, was appointed on
credentials, permanent organization ana
rules and order OF business. Also, q
committee Of twenty four one frOm
each judicial district, upon resolutions.
j. v. Admire and Al Admire and Geo.
W. @. Rohrer were elected assistant SEQ
retaries.
On motion OF w. W. Smith the tenn
porary organisation was made the per-
maHent organization. The chairman
drew the list OF committees from his
pocket and announced them
Upon tie suggestion OF w. w. Smith,
of Marshall, the roll Of tho convention
prepared by the state central committee
was adopted and the contested delega-
tions, Of which there were ten. were re-
ferred to the committee on credentials.
Adjourned until 8 O'Clock.
When the convention reassetnbled the
committee on credentials asked until 10
clock in the morning to further consider
matters in their hands. The convention
refused it and admitted both delegations
from contested counties with half vote
each.
The committee on rules and ordsr Of
business reported changing the order Of
nominations and placing the auditor be-
fore the treasurer. The ballot on an
amendment which would sustain the
central committee in its action, placing
| the treasurer before the auditor resulted,
ayes 256, nays 162. This was the first
/ defeat that the plans OF the anti third
term caucus had received.
The platform reported by the commit
tee was as followsi
The republican party Of Kansas, IN dell
egAte conve ntion assembled, congratu-
| late the people Of the state upon the mag
nificent development, innumerable farms
and workshops, enterprising cities and
villages, churches, universities and COL
leges, the unrivalled system OF common
schools ana the general prosperity OF the
commonwealth, and enumerAte them as
living examples OF the equitable creation
and distribution Of wealth under the
stimulus and protection Of republican To-
cal legislation.
We call attention to the harmonious
action of the convention because 1t de-
monstrates that the honest differences Of
other years have been happily adjusted
and have crystAlliEed Its aims and pur-
poses; have justified ITS hopes blotted
| out all animostties and forever united the
republicans Of the state, preparatory to
the next presidential campaign, when the
common enemy, now entrenched in every
department and illustrating its natural
instincts by q hypOcriticai violation of
the civil service rules in the discharge of
the veteran wounded soldiers, must once
more yield to the best friends Of tree gov
eminent on American soil. The demo-
cratic party having obtained control Of
the executive branch Of the government
and the house OF congress- by the delib-
crate Acknowledgement Of colored voters
of the south and by hypocriticAl pretences
Of civil service reform and economical
administration, is now giving the country
| daily reminders of Its bad faith and OF
| its inability to legis1Ate for the people
and to transact the department business
with equal and exact justice to all
Glasses. II has peTaistently violated
| the civil service rules. It has displaced
veteran union soldiers from responsible
positions and filed every department OF
| government service with ex-confederate
soldiers. 1t has repeatedly attempted to
depress the industries and embarr ass the
laborers of this country by its in terrier
ence with the legislative protection Civ
en- these great interests by the republic
| an party. 1t has sought to withhold
| from the gallant defenders Of the union
the small pittance that q grateful
people would willingly pay TO the
wounded and diseased heroes OF the war
and has interposed presidential vetoes OF
the acts of congress, granting pensions to
q class Of merftorious soldiers, whose
old age, enfeebled by wounds and dis
ease, alone compelled them to apply 70
the nation for help in the hour Of mis-
fortune. Il has rewarded Fitz John
Porter for his failure to
obey the orders OF his
superior officer and has reversed the
judgment of Lincoln, Stanton and Gar
field, condemning his acts Of insubordi-
nation and treachery. It has threatened
| and annoyed the homestead and pre-
emption settlers of the west, by malic-
ious Misrepresentation, by partial and
preiudiced Investigations, by vexatious
attempted notification Of plain acts Of
congress respecting the settlement OF the
public lands.
We demand that the system Of protec-
ton known az the American ayetem,
! which has been built aud fossered by the
republican party for twenty-five years,
be maintained In sll its integrity, SO that
our industries may be systematically
developed, our commerce extended,
labor receive its just compensation and
reward and capital find remunerative
employment.
And we demand, further, that this gys-
tenn, under which the wealth of this
country has been more than trebled in .
single generation, and which affords the
most fair and liberal protection to our
agricultural and manufacturing interests,
and all individuals connected Herewith,
be also extended to our commerce, by the
establishment OF 9 commercial marine,
TO the end that we may diversity indus
try, find new fields for the over crowded
!, ranks of labor, make use Of the
products of the forest, mine and mill in
building our own ships, and provide for
the nations defence and VindicSte its
honor by training body Of men for
service upon the seas, furnishing ships
that can be transferred 70 the ser
vice of the government In case Of
need and securing the establishment Of
ship yards and machinery e enable
us as nation to construct, equip and
float navy that can meet eli the demands
Of g modern naval warfare.
The people OF Kansas have adopted
D Prohibition As the settled policy OF this
state and have deliberately decided
that the saloon, with ifs corrupt
and demoTalizing influences and as
s0ciatiOns, wherein every form Of vice,
immortality and crime "a f0stered, must
go. and we are in favor OF carrying into
effect this verdict Of the people by such
amendments Of the present law So prac-
IDEAL experience bas shown to be Daces-
sary and by the election Of law officers
who will so firmly and faithfully enforce
It es 70 render ik impossible to sell in
tOxioAtiEg liquors in this state. except for
purposes specified In the prohibition
amendment TO the constitution
The national republican party crushed
the foe OF labor by the abolition OF
slavery and has ever contended for the
protection OF American labor agsintt the
importation Of foreign pauper compefi
tioDs II has always discrtmtDated by
legisIAficn in favor Of oil our domestic
industries, and Il has given homesteads
of leo acres OF land to every bona 6de
settler thereon.
Il The republican purity OF Kaness has