Connecticut western news., 1886-09-22
Political Notes.

The M1nQ6SOGA DemOCraulC OUaUc COuVeU. tion nominated Dr. A. A. Ames of Minneapolis, for Governor by exclamation. A full State ticket was nominated. The platform endorses and eulogizes the Administration of President Cleveland, declaring that for the first time in 8 long period 1t has elevated to position of money, gold and silver coin of equal value and paper comparable to either." Sympathy is rendered the patriots of Ireland, and liberal pensioning of soldiers and sailors is favored.
 The New Hampshire Republican State Con- vention met at Concord. Charles H. Sawyer, of Dover, was nominated on the first ballot for Governor, receiving 425 of the 591 votes cast The platform demands 'shonest money as op- posed to irredeemable paper currency and an unlimited silver coinage" and protection for American industry and capital advocates the ten-hour law, the exemption of wages from the trustee process, the abolition of child labor in factories, and the submission to the people of constitutional prohibitory amendments. Pres ident Cleveland is taken to task for vetoing pension bills, and the Democrats in Congress for Opposing the extension of American com- merce" and for their inactivity on the fish cries question:" One resolution says :-s'To William E. Gladstone and Charles s. Parnell, representative statesmen of their countries we extend our profound sympathy in their noble and heroic struggle for self-government and for the undoing of centuries of wrong to Ire land and the Irish race.'
 The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention nominated Gilbert A. Woodward, of La Crosse, for Governor, with full State ticket Mr
 Woodward served through the war ill the 2d Wis. consin regiment The resolutions reattirm the Chicago platform of 1884; heartily commend the administration of President Cleveland and Postmaster-General Villas; insist on the res- toration of all unearned railroad lands to the public domain; demand the abolition of the system of leasing convict labor to contractors, as being highly detrimental to honest labor and oppose sumptuary or prohibitory laws, whether general or local, as contrary to the fundamental principles of all free government and justified by no practical results yet att tained in the experience of mankind; that the reduction of the tariff to revenue basis is cardinal principle of the Democratic party, and that those members of the present House of Representatives elected as Democrats who voted against considering bill for reduction of tariff deserves no recognition in Democratic counils.
 The National Convention of Anti-Saloon Republicans was held at Chicago There was a unanimous expression of opinion that the third party movement was a dangerous one to the cause of prohibition and must be squelched at once. The resolution denounce the liquor traffic, declare war against the saloons, de- clares that the general Government should prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor in the Territories, and that 'sthe republican party, wherever and whenever in power, will faith | fully enforce whatsoever ordinances, statutes or constitutional amendments that may be en- | acted for the restriction or suppression of the 1 liquor traffic.
 The Pennsylvania Greenback Labor Con-
 vention nominated Frank Siddels, the Phila- delphia soap manufacturer, for Governor; Ex-
 Senator John Parker, Schuylkill, for Lieu
 tenant-Governor; Dr. Clark Thompson l for Congressman-at-Law Daniel 8 Early, l And nd
 land, for Secretary of Internal Affairs The platform adopted demands that the gov.
 ernment shall issue all money, and that nc | more bonds be issued by the government; that | government shall secure by purchase after the year 1900 all lands held by aliens; that any | deed made by citizen of the United States tc
 an alien after January, 1887, shall be null and | void and that land held by individuals or cor | porations in excess of 16O acres, whether i'm | vated lands; denounces free trade agitation | denounces convict, imported pauper an(
 heather labor; demands the repeal of ta1 ] qualification for suffrage; favors 8 graduated | income tax; demands the repeal of the Siatt | Conspiracy laws; the recognition of trad. l unions, orders and such other organizations I that the government shall obtain possession b,
 purchase of all telegraphs and railroads favor | practical eight houo law; the prohibition b,
 law of the employment of children under fiji | teen years; demands the abolition of the con | tract system on national, State and municipa
 works; the adoption of laws providing for th
 health and safety of those engaged in mining
 manufacturing and building industries and fo l injuries received through lack of necessar | safeguards; the payment of employees week., l in lawful money and giving laborers and me
 chanics first lien upon the product of thei
 labor; favors law granting liberal servic
 pension to all surviving Union soldiers ant
 sailors who served in the war of 1864-'65; de
 mands of Congress appropriations for the i'm
 provement of all navigable streams, and tha 1 all waterways controlled by private corpora
 tions be purchased and thrown open to ire 1 navigation, and declares that agriculture, a
 one of the most important industries of tn l country, should receive tho fostering care C the government.