Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-23
THE STATE.
MILLS FOR GOVERNOR.
The State Ticket of the Union Labor
Party.-The Electors.
Convention Proceedings.


prices Of products are so low as TO offer no
relief except through bankruptcy. Labor
ers are sinking into great dependence.
Strikes are resorted to without bringing re-
lief, because of the inability of employers
in many cases to pay living wages, while
more and more are driven into the street.
Business men find collections almost impos-
sible, and meantime hundreds OF millions OF
idle public money which is needed for relief
is locked up in the United States treasury
or placed without interest in favored banks
in grim mockery OF distress Land monopo-
ly flourishes as never before, and more
owners Of soil are daily becoming tenants.
Great transportation corporations still sue
coed in extorting their profits on watered
stocks through unjust charges. The United
States senate has become an open scandal,
its membership being purchased by the
rich in open defiance of the popular will.
Various efforts are being made TO squander
the public money, which are designed to
empty the treasury without paying the pub
lie debt. Under these and other alarming
conditions, we appeal to the people OF our
country to come out of old party organiza-
lions, whose Indifference to the public well
fare is responsible for this distress, and aid
the United Labor party TO repeal existing
class legislation and relieve the distress of
our industries by demanding of the general
government:
That all currency shall be issued to the
people direct without the Intervention of
the banks, and OF the same amount per
capita as gave us the prosperity OF 1866;
That the coinage of gold and silver shall
be free and unlimited;
That all idle money in the United States
treasury shall be applied TO the immediate
payment of the bonded debt at par.
That all unearned land grants shall be
forfeited, and that Of spectators seized or
taken and paid for by the government at a
fair price and held for actual settlers only
That government shall loan money to the
people direct on land security at as low
rate OF interest as it now furnishes to the
banks.
That every citizen may have home of
moderate cost exempt from taxation or
execution.
That the means of transportation, COM
munication and all mines shall be owned or
controlled by the government
The letting of convict labor to contrac-
tors should be prohibited; the contract sys-
TEN be abolished on public works; the
hours of labor in industrial establishments
be reduced commensurate with the increas-
ed production by labor-saving machinery;
employees protected from bodily injury;
equal pay for equal work for both sexes,
and labor agricultural and cooperative
associations be fostered and encouraged by
law.
The foundation of a republic is in the in
telligence Of its citizens, and children who
tories arc deprived of the education which
should be secured to all by proper legisla-
ton.
The passage of a service pension bill to
every honorably discharged soldier and
sailor of the United States, and that the
pay of the soldier of 1861 TO 1865 for his SER
vices shall be made equal 20 that Of bond
holders.
A graduated income tax is the most equit-
able system of taxation, placing the bur
den of government on those who can best
afford TO pay, instead of laying it on farm.
ers and producers, and exempting million
aires bondholders and corporations.
We demand constitutional amendment
making United States senators elective by
direct vote of the people.
The strict enforcement of laws prohibit
ing the importation of subjects Of foreign
countries under contract.
We demand of the state:
That railroad property shall be taxed the
same as that of the Individual
That railroad fare be reduced to two
cents per mile and freight rates in like pro
portion.
That the Australian system of voting
shall be adopted in Michigan.
That in order TO prevent trusts, combina-
tons and pools whose sole object is to fleece
the people, legislation should be had making
such conspiracies felonies, and punishable
by Imprisonment, as other criminals.
That the bounties given by Michigan dur
ing the war of the rebellion TO her volun-
teers be equalized, and that the soldier of
'61 receive the same as those who enlisted
later
That to prevent monopoly of land we
propose to place taxes equally on unim-
proved and improved land in the same To-
calities. We would make it unlawful for
any alien to own or acquire lands in the
United States.
VVa denounco tho eytravaoanca NJ tho
present state government, and demand the
abolition of all useless state boards and
officials and a rigid economy in the conduct
of the state government
The following is the makeup Of the state
ticket:
For governor, Wildman Mills of Sanilac;
Acknowledgements Paul Marin of Mid
land secretary of state, George MeAllister
of Allegan; treasurer, James Il. Winnie of
Eaton; auditor-general, Abel N Rowe of
Jackson; attorney general, John o. label
Of Monroe; superintendent of public in
member of state board of education, John
Rairdon of Wayne; commissioner Of state
land office, Melvin w. Scott of Newaygo.
The candidates for electors are as fol-
lows: At lnrge-Valentine A. Saph, Ma
rine City; Benjamin Colvin, Saginaw.
First District-John Hebron, Detroit; sec
ond, Charles Southland, Adrian; third,
Alonzo Il. Allen, Coldwater; fourth, Will
liam Hull, Three Rivers fifth, VIM T. An
iva, Ionia; sixth, John M. De Witt, st.
Johns; seventh, George Drury, Port Hope;
eighth, David Geddes, Thomastown, Sagi-
nav county, ninth, DR.. Joseph Lamoreaux,
Muslzegon; tenth, Arthur II. Wells, Stand
ish; eleventh, James Z. Scallen, Houghton.
The boiling faction of the convention
held meeting in the Michigan Exchange
and j. V. Shank of Lansing was chosen
chairman, and IT. M. Nesbitt of Ionia score
tary.
The first business was in determining the
representation of delegates II was dis
cussed considerably and 1t was finally de-
cided that each county represented in the
convention should be entitled to the full
number Of delegates. The counties repre-
scented were as follows: Oakland, Ingham,
Gratiot, Manistee, Kent, Washtenaw, Ben
zie, Menominee, Delta, Jackson, Saginaw,
Wayne. The total representation from
these counties, as formerly agreed upon,
was 21l, and of these seventy-two were
actually present.
George II. Archer of Iosco county,
moved that the convention ratify the nomi-
nations made at the democratic and green
back convention.
4. Il. Kean of Kent, offered an amend
ment TO the first resolution, providing that
the convention proceed TO the nomination of
union labor state ticket, one candidate
at a time. This was carried by viva voce