Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-09-23

entertained their friends with familiar mslo.
dies on violins
The Pennsylvania Grecnback- Labo,
Convention at Harrisburg was presided ovel
by Congressman Brumm resolution de.
claring that the convention should not affiliate
with any other party or indorss any other can.
didates was adopted with shout. after which
the following ticket was nominated: Governor,
Robert J. Houston; Lieutenant Governor, John
Parker; Auditor, General Daniel s Early;
Secretary Of Internal Affairs, Seth II.
Hoagland; Congressman t-IArge, DIR. O.
ID. Thompson The party platform
demands that the Government shall issue all
money; that no more bonds be issued by the
Government; that all unearned lands be for
feited; that after 1900 the Government buy all
lands held by aliens; that any deed made by a
citizen OF the United States TO an alien after
January, 1887, shall be void, and that land
held by individuals or corporations in excess
OF 100 acres, whether improved or unimprov-
ed, shall be taxed as cultivated land; de-
nounces convict imported, pauper, and
heather labor; demands q graduated income
tax; the recognition of trades unions, orders,
and such other organizations, and that the
Government buy all telegraphs and railroads;
favors practical eight-hour law; the prohi-
bition Of child labor; tho abolition of the
contract system in public work; the adoption
Of laws providing for the health and safety of
workingmen and their Naturalization for in
juries.
The Wisconsin Labor party assem-
bled in State Convention at Neenah, and nom
mated an out-and-out labor ticket constituted
as follows: Governor, Colonel John ID. Coch-
rane; Lieutenant Governor, George A. Lloyd;
Secretary Of State, ]. p. Jasperson;
State Treasurer, Frederick Hoenig; Attorney
General, John e Thomas Railroad Commits
sioner, Henry mn; Superintendent Of Public
Institutions, J. X. McGregor; Insurance Com
missioner, Rttner Stephens The platform
declares that the use Of violence in any form
to settle disputes is utterly unjustifiable in
civilized community, whether advised by
fanatical anarchists or practiced by corrupt
politicians; favors the government control Of
money, land, means of communication, and
public improvement; advocates labor bureaus,
conducted in the interests Of the whole peo-
Pile; the simplfcation Of laws to but one on
each subject; arbitration in place of strikes;
The prohibition Of child and convict
abor; a graduated income tax; the amend
nent Of the patent laws 30 as to give labor
part of the benefit of labor-saving inventions,
md to prevent monopo!ies; the forfeiture Of
III land grants, and the abolition of alien own
,rship in lands; Government loan Of money,
md rigid enforcement Of the law against the
Of foreign labor.s
The National Anti-Saloon Republi-
an Convention, held in Chicago last week,
lad nearly two hundred delegates, represent
ng eighteen States Senator Blair was made |
emporary Chairman, and announced that |
hey met to organize for the destruction OF |
he rum traffic throughout the country. Ex- |
Senator Window was elected permanent |
PRESIDENT Resolutions were adopted de- |
handing that the Republican party take q
ecided stand as the enemy Of the saloon, and
avoring legislation by Congress to prohibit
he manufacture or sale Of liquor in the Ter
itories
At State convention of the Missouri |
held at Sedalia, the following
cket was placed in the field: Supreme Judge, |
b. Orr; Superintendent Of Public Schools,
: ]. Emerson; Railroad Commissioner, J. F.
'rumer. The platforms arraigns the Demo-
ratio and Republican parties and urges voters
ot to abandon demands OF Congress to sup
ress the liquor traffic wherever it is pro-
ibited by law; that prohibitory amendment
Q submitted to the next Legislature Of Mis-
ouri, and that the Sunday laws be enforced.
declares for woman surfage
Congressional nominations: William
l. Neece, Democrat Eleventh Illinois District;
alph Plumb, Republican, Eighth Illinois; J.
L Gallinger, Republican, Second New Hamp-
hire; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth
Byron Dunn, Republican, Fourth
Iissouri; Editor Joseph p. Cheadle, Republic
IN, Ninth Indiana; Robert NJ La Toilette. Re-
ublican, Third Wisconsin,; W. T. Wallace.
Tenth Illinois; George H. Lacy.
Eighth Illinois; John J. Donovan.
emocrat, Eighth Massachusetts,; M. A.
agnes, Republican, First New Hampshire;
Il. Stelye, Democrat Greenbacker, Fifth
Martin l. Clardy, Democrat.
enth Missouri; Marshall Parks, Democrat.
econd Virginia: W. H. Forney, Democrat,
eventh Alabama; Frank T. Shaw, Democrat,
econd Maryland; Barnes Compton, Democrat,
fifth Maryland; John H Rogers Democrat,
ourth Arkansas; E c. McFetridge, Republi-
IN, Second Wisconsin,; Justin r. Whiting,
emocrat-Greenbacker Seventh Michigan;
res DUNCAN, Democrat Eleventh Ohio;
J. Pugsley, Republican, Twelfth
hio; r M Murray Democrat, Third
hio; Gen Jasper Packard, Republican,
Indiana; Wilbur T. Sanders, Re-
nblican, Montana Territory; o. B. Thomas,
epublican, Seventh Wisconsin; Sherwood
ixon, Democrat, Seventh Illinois; W. w. Ad-
r, Prohibitionist, Fourteenth Illinois.
An Augusta dispatch says that official
ection returns from Az town in Maine are as
slows: Bodwell (rep) 6s lis; Edward Dem)
I.764; Clark Pro.), $3.50; scattering, l92
odwells plurality, 1881; majority, 9943.
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