Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-07

Attorney oanerAl, Edgar J. sbarman
The platform approves civil service
reform, opposes convict labor and
the importation Of contract labor, condemns
intimidation and coercion by striking work.
men, promises TO support any just demand
made In behalf OF veteran soldiers, demands
prompt settlement Of the disputes between
this country and Great Britain over the f,shery
question, opposes all horizontal reductions Of
the tariff, denounces tho removal Of officials
by the administration, Che conduct of
the Cutting affair by the State Department
the failure Of Congress TO enact bankruptcy
law, to repeal the silver coinage law, and 10
provide for coast defenses The liquor plank
favors the strict enforcement OF laws enacted
TO suppress intemperance. and the submission
to the people of a prohibitory amendment to
the constitution
The Nebraska Republican Conven-
ton, which was presided over by Congress-
man A 4 Weaver, placed in the field the fol-
lowing ticket; Governor. Con. John M
Thayer; Lieutenant Governor, H. II. shedd;
Secretary of State O. l. Laws; Treasurer, O.
H. Willard; Auditor, II. A. Babcock; Attor-
ney General, William A. Luse; Commissioner
OF Public Lands and Buildings, Jo-
seph Scott; Superintendent Of Pub
lie Instruction, George d. Lane.
The platform favors the intelligent organiza-
ton OF the wage workers for all lawful pur-
poses, but refuses TO sanction anarchism or
mob violence in the settlement of the differ
ences between employees and employers;
favors the regulation of interstate commerce
by Congress-; and demands revision OF laws
by which aliens are allowed to own arge
bodies Of land
Congressional nominations: Third
Pennsylvania, Samuel J. Randall, Democrat;
Fourteenth Illinois, William Voorhees,, Demo-
crat; Eighteenth Illinois, W. II. Moore, Pro-
hibitionist; Eleventh Michigan, John
Power, Democrat; Tenth Tennessee, Zach
Taylor, Repub lean; Second Louisiana,
Major Andrew Hero, Republican; Third New
Jersey, William Mcmahon, Democrat; Seventh
Massachusetts,, Gen. William Coggswell, Re-
publican; Tenth Massachusetts, William w.
Rice, Republican,; First Louisiana, T. @. Will
kinson, Democrat; Third Louisiana, J. s.
Davidson (colored), Republican: Thirty fourth
New York, W. G. Laidlaw, Republican,; First
Pennsylvania, John Chambers, Democrat;
Second Pennsylvania, w. f Thomas,
Democrats Fifth Pennsylvania. w. G. Smith,
Democrat; Twenty-frst Ohio. Martin A
Foran, Democrat; Twentieth Ohio, William
Dorsey Democrat; Eighteenth Ohio, W. H.
Phelps, Democrat; Sixth Virginia, J. B. Page,
Knights of Labor; Eighth Missouri, J. ].
O'Neill, Democrat; Third Minnesota, J. l. Nc
Donald, Democrat; Fourteenth New York.
w. g. Stahlnecker, Democrat; First New
Jersey, j. W. Wescott Democrat; FIT
teenth Ohio, A J. Warner, DEM
crat; First Ohio, Benjamin Buter-
worth, Republican; Second Ohio, Chrles
Z Brown, Republican; Fourth Mipdesota,
Edmund Rec, Democrat; Twelfth Missouri,
o. IL Pitcher, Republican; First Wisconsin,
James h Doolittle, Democrat; Bfst Illinois,
Edgar Terhune, Democrat; ywenty-fourth
Pennsylvania, o. l. Jacksos, Republican;
Seventh South Carolina, Robert smalls, Re
publican; Twenty-seventh New York, N. W.
Nutting, Republican; Eighth Tennessee, s.
W. Hawkins, Republican; Third Minnesota,
B. B Herbert Republican; Twenty third New
York. ]. s. Shermsn, Republican,; Fourth
Kentucky ]. w. Lewis, Republican; Third
Kentucky, John Shea, Democrat, and John f.
Halsel, Democrst; Tenth Ohio, Frank H.
Hurd, Democrst; Ninth Illinois, NJ H. Peters,
Democrat; Tenth Illinois, Judge McCulloch,
Prohibitionist; Dakota Territory, NJ H Day,
Democrst
The Massachusetts Democratic State
Convent on at Worcester, which was presided
or by Hon. Patrick A Collins, placed IN the
field the following ticket: Governor, John F.
Andrew; Lieutenant Governor, Frank X.
Foster; Secretary of State, J. r. Thayer;
Treasurer, Lewis Warner; Auditor, William
#. Cook; Attorney General J. W.
Corcoran. The platform strongly in
dorses President Cleveland; demands
reform of the tariff; reaffirms the financial
policy of the Democratic platform of 1884;
insists upon tho defense of the right Of Amer-
can fishing; welcomes the new era Of
organized labor; commends the Demo-
cratic members of the Legislature for
securing the passage Of various acts in
the interest of labor during the last Leg
islature; opposes contract labor in prisons and
the importation OF foreign contract labor to
compete with dom este labor; sends a kindly
greeting to Parnell, and deplores the death Of
such men as Mcclellan, Hendricks, Hancock,