Connecticut western news., 1886-09-01
Political Conventions.

The Ohio Republican State Convention nom-
 mated Gen. James s. Robinson for Governor with State ticket.
 The platform reafirms their devotion to the great principles in behalf of which their party has achieved the most illr1strious triumphs re- corded in American history, and declares that the democratic administration of Pres ident Cleveland has failed to keep the pledges upon which 1t came into power reaffirms that to the Union soldiers and sailors of the late war we owe debt that cannot be computed, and it is the duty of the government to grant pensions and establish homes for all such as are dis abled or in want; favors tariff for protection; declares the Republican party friend to labor and hostile to anarchy and communism.
 The Iowa Republican Convention nominated 8 State ticket with F. D. Jackson for Sec. of State. The platform declares the administra- tion of President Cleveland to have justly merited the censure which it received at the hands of Congress ill the passage by over a twO-thirds vote of each branch of Congress of the resolution compelling the payment upon the interest bearing debt of the increase sur- plus i'll the Treasury, and that every legitimate effort of organized labor to secure equal and exact justice is indorsed, and protection for American labor is demanded against the conl- petition of cheap labor abroad and convict labor at home. Sympathy is expressed with the Irish cause. The temperance question is left to the will of the majority.
 The Michigan Republican State Convention uOIulndueQ CyTuS Luce TOT CTOVernOr Wlln a full State ticket The platform rehearses the achievements of the Republican party and re- affirms allegiance to the principles of the Ma tional Republican party. A protective tariff is favored. It Is declared that both gold and silver, so far as is consistent with sound prin- ciples of finance, should be utilized as money. The labor plank declares that the Republican party favors the intelligent organization of labor for such worthy purposes as mutual edu- cation and for the protection of their interests in al! things relating to their welfare and to the industrial welfare of the country. The further importation of Chinese into the coun- try is opposed by the platform, The importa- tion of contract labor is also opposed, as we'll as convict labor. Laws for the protection of laborers in hazardous callings and for the reg ulation of the employment of children are de- manded. Submission of the liquor question to the people is favored, the granting of Gov ernment lands to nonresident foreigners op posed, the pensioning of soldiers advocated, denounced, anti-discriminatiou laws for the regulation of transportation companies fa- vored, the suppression of polygamy demanded and sympathises with the Irish cause.
 The Texas Republican State Convention nominated for Governor A. M. Cochran with full State ticket. The platform adopted favors the submission of prohibitory amendment to the constitution to the vote of the people op- poses the hiring out of conyicts, and demands their confinement within the walls of peni- tentiaries: denoGnces the oppression of the mercantile and labOring interests by monOpO- lies. and favors the Blair Educational bill.
 The Pennsylvania Prohibition State Conven- tion nominated Charles s. Wolfe for Governor. Lieutenant. Governor A. A. Barker, of Cam bria county; Auditor-General, Charles l.. flaw ley, of Lackawanna county; Secretary of h. ternal Affairs, John M. Emery, of Lawrence county; Congressman at Large, the Rev. John NJ. Palmer (colored), of Alleghany, a Meth- odist Presiding Elder. The platform after reciting the evils of the liquor traffic and de- manding State and national prohibition, assert that the Prohibition party is the only party which gives the citizens the opportunity for voting for public officers not in complicity with thes liquor business, and removes from the voter all moral responsibility for the evils which liquor inficts, and the only party will- ing to be defeated in the defence of prohibi- tioni or to triumph with it's triumph.
 The California Republican State Convention nominated full State and Congressional tickets and three Justices of the Supreme Court. The platform favors free, intellignt labor; says that on the wise direction of labor depends the prosperity of the nation, and approves of CO., operation among laborers; favors the free coinage of silver, and denounces the Demo- cratic National Administration for seeking to deprive the people of silver as a circulating medium; advocates the passage of laws abso- lutely restricting further immigration of Chi nese but claiming for those now in the coun- try under treaty stipulation the protection of the law.
 The Illinois Democratic State Convention nominated George c. Anderson for State Treasurer. The platform reaffirms that adop- ted by the Chicago Convention and congrat- ulates the country on the election of Cleveland and Hendricks; cordially approves the admin istration of President Cleveland "for ita faith full adherence to the principles of the Demo- cratic party and to the pledges made to the people before the election, and for it's ability, integrity, and economy in the administration of national affairs;' heartily commends the prompt and successful demand of President Cleveland's Administration for the release of an American citizen from unjust confinement in a Mexican prison; declares that taxation of the people for other purposes than raising rev. enue for the expenses of the Government, economically administered, is robbery un- der the form of law; favors 8 reduction of the present tariff to revenue basis. On the labor question the platform takes strong ground against imported contract, con- vict, and Chinese labor; favors arbitration in the settlement of disputes between employers and employees, and condemns mob violence and conspiracies to defy or resist the constitu- ted authorities On the liquor question it de- clares that prohibition 'sis violation of indi- vidual and personal rights, .and contrary to the fundamental priciples of the Government" It expresses sympathy with Ireland in her struggle for Home Rule, and favors liberal pensions to wounded and disabled soldiers and sailors of the late war, and to their widows T l-x, ,1o,,4 ,1o@,,