The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-23
POLITICAL.

Congressman Lore has withdrawn
from the contest for United States Senator
from Delaware.
The Taylor brothers, rival candidates
for Governor of Tennessee occupied the same
room in an hotel at Chattanooga, where they
dies on violins
The Pennsylvania Decentralization
Convention at Harrisburg was presided over
by Congressman Brumm A resolution de-
claring that the convention should not affiliate
with any other party or indorse any other can
didates was adopted with shout, alter which
the following ticket was nominated Governor,
Robert J. Houston; Lieutenant Governor, John
Parker; Auditor, General Daniel S. Early
Secretary of Internal Affairs, Seth IL
Hoagland; Congressman-at-Large, DIR. C..
d. 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 a 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; the 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 d. Coch-
rane; Lieutenant Governor, George A. Lloyd;
Secretary of State, J. p Jasperson;
State Treasurer, Frederick Hoenig; Attorney
General, John L. Thomas Railroad Commits
sioner, Henry Z.nn; Superintendent of Public
Institutions, ]. X. McGregor; Insurance Com
missioner, Rittner Stephens The platform
declares that the use of violence in any form
to settle disputes is utterly unjustifable in a
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-
pie; the smplifcation Of laws to but one on
each subject; arbitration in place of strikes
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labor; graduated income tax; the amend
ment of the patent laws so as to give labor a
part of the benefit of labor-saving inventions,
and to prevent monopo.ies; the forfeiture of
all land grants, and the abolition of alien own
ership in lands; Government loan of money,
and rigid enforcement of the law against the
importation of foreign labor.
The National Anti Saloon Republi-
can Convention, held in Chicago last week,
had nearly two hundred delegates, represent
ing eighteen States Senator Blair was made
temporary Chairman, and announced that
they met TO organize for the destruction of
the rum traffic throughout the country. Ex-
Senator Window was elected permanent
President Resolutions we're adopted de-
handing that the Republican party take a
decided stand as the enemy of the saloon, and
favoring legislation by Congress to prohibit
the manufacture or sale of liquor in the Ter
ritories
At State convention of the Missouri
Prohibitionists, held at Sedalia, the following
L T. Orr; Superintendent Of Public Schools,
A ]. Emerson; Railroad Commissioner, J. f.
Brumer. The platforms arraigns the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties and urges voters
not to abandon demands of Congress to sup
press the liquor traffic wherever it is pro-
hibited by law; that prohibtory amendment
be submitted to the next Legislature of Mis-
souri,, and that the Sunday laws be enforced.
IL declares for woman suffagc
Congressional nominations: William
IL Neece, Democrat, Eleventh Illinois District;
Ralph Plumb, Republican, Eighth Illinois; J.
II. Gallinger Republican. Second New Hamp-
shire; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth
Wisconsin; Byron Dunn, Republican, Fourth
Missouri; Editor Joseph p Cheadle, Republic
can, Ninth Indiana; Robert NJ La Toilette, Re
publicaa, Third Wisconsin; W. T. Wallace.
Greenbaeker, Tenth Illinois; George II. Lacy,
Greenbacker, Eighth Illinois; john J. Donovan,
Democrat Eighth Massachusetts,; N A.
Haynes, Republican, First New Hampshire;
DR. Stelye, Democrat-G reenbacker, Fifth
Pennsylvania; Martin l. Clardy. Democrat,
Tenth Missouri; Marshall Parks, Democrat.
Second Virginia: w. H. Forney, Democrat,
Seventh Alabama; Prank IT. Shaw, Democrat,
Second Maryland; Barnes Compton, Democrat,
Fifth Maryland; John VI Rogers Democrat,
Fourth Arksnsas; T. C. NcFetridge, Republi-
can SECOND Wisconsin, yustin X Whiting