The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-07
POLITICAL.

The Colorado Republicans met In
convention at Denver, and nominated the fol-
lowing candidates for State Offices: Governor,
William II. Meyer; Lieutenant Governor, n.
H. Meldrum; Secretary of State, James Rice;
Treasurer, p W. Breen; Congressman, Judge
G. G. Syms; Auditor, D. p Kinsley; Attor-
ney General, Alvin Marsh; Superintend-
ent of Public instruction, s. b. Cor
nell The platform reaffirms the principles
of the National Republican platform; favors
liberal pensions, free coinage Of silver, ma
tional arbitration of labor troubles, a high
tariff, the regulation of interstate commerce,
and opposes convict labor and Chinese imm-
grafton
The Massachusetts Republican State
Convention at Boston was composed of ,217
delegates, and was presided over by Henry
Cabot Lodge. There was a long list of Vice
Presidents, including Senator's Dawes and
Hoar, Congressman Long, Rice, Ranney Hay
den, Whiting, and Davis. The follow ng
ticket was nominated: Governor Oliver Ames;
Lieutenant Governor, j. Q. A. Brackett; Sec
rotary of State, Henry b. Pierce; Treasurer,
A w. Beard; Auditor, Charles Ladd;
Attorney General, Edgar J. Sherman.
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 fishery
question, opposes all horizontal reductions OF
the tariff, denounces the removal Of officials
by the administration, the conduct of
the Cutting affair by the State Department,
the failure of Congress to enact bankruptcy
law, to repeal the silver coinage law, and to
provide for coast defenses. The liquor plank
favors the strict enforcement of laws enacted
to suppress intemperance, and the submission
to the people of prohibitory amendment to
the constitution.
The Nebraska Republican Conven-
ton, which was presided over by Congress-
man A. S. Weaver, placed in the field the fol-
| lowing ticket: Governor. Gen. John NJ
Thayer; Lieutenant Governor, II. II. Shedd;
Secretary OF State, g. l. Laws; Treasurer, G.
III. Willard; Auditor, III. A Babcock; Attor-
ney General, William A. Luse; Commissioner
of Public Lands and Buildings, Jo-
seph Scott; Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, George b. Lane.
The platform fsvors 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 a revision of laws
by which aliens are allowed to own arga
bodies of land
Congressional nominations: Third
Pennsylvania, Samuel J. Randall, Democrat;
Fourteenth Illinois, William Voorhees,, Demo
crat; Eighteenth Illinois, W. IL Moore, Pro-
hibitonist; Eleventh Michigan, John
Power, Democrat; Tenth Tennessee, Zach
Taylor, Republican,; Second Louisiana,
Major Andrew Hero, Republican; Third New
Jersey, William Mcmahon, Democrat; Seventh
Massachusetts,, Gen William COggsweil, Re-
publican; Tenth Massachusetts,, William w.
Rice, Republican,; First Louisiana. T. q. Will
kinson, Democrat; Third Louisiana, J. s
Davidson (eolored, Republican,; Thirty fourth
New York, W. G. LAidlaw, Republican; First
Pennsylvania, John Chambers, Democrat;
Second Pennsylvania, W. T. Thomas,
Democrat; Fifth Pennsylvania. w. G.. Smith,
Democrat; Twenty-first Ohio. Martin A
Foran, Democrat; Twentieth OHIO, William
Dorsey, Democrat: Eighteenth Ohio, W. IL
Phelps, Democrat; Sixth Virginia, J. H. Page,
Knights of Labor; Eighth Missouri, J. 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; Yf-
teenth Ohio, A. J. Warner DemoA
crat; First Ohio. BENJAMIN Butter