Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-08-22


tions be referred to committee, and
nominations for governor were then
declared in order. All nominating
speeches were limited to five minutes
each.
On motion of Mr.. Ogden of Douglas
all delegations were instructed to cast
the full vote of their counties. Boyd
of Douglas and Shervin of Dodge were
placed in nomination. The result OF
the vote was announced by the chair
man as follows:
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On motion of Mr.. Shervin the nom
ination Of Boyd was made unanimous.
Loud calls for Boyd followed, and
the chair appointed Mr.. John L. Sher-
vim and Mr.. Frank Martin to escort
the nominee of the convention to the
rostrum. Mr.. Boyd thanked the con-
vention for the high honor paid him.
whereupon nominations were proceeded
with, resulting as follows:
For lieutenant governor, DR.. Alex
under Bear.
Secretary of state, Frank W. Sprague.
Auditor r. b. Wahlquist.
Treasurer. w. H. Cushing.
Attorney general, John G. Higgins.
Commissioner public lands, Jacob
Bigler.
Superintendent of instruction, C. d.
Rakestraw.
A resolution was introduced by
North of Platte county providing for
change in the manner of selecting the
state central committee. 1t provided
that hereafter a member should be al
lowed for each state senator, and that
the members should be sent in from
senatorial instead of judicial districts.
The resolution was championed by Mr..
North, who stated that under the new
plan the committee would be nearer
the people than when selected under
the old plan. Under that system the
committee numbered over one hundred,
and it had always been exceedingly
difficult to get quorum together. He
thought that thirty-three members
would be ample, and would give more
satisfaction in every respect.
The resolution prevailed by very
large majority on rising vote. Those
present from the various senatorial
districts were instructed to hand in
the names of members of the central
committee.
THE PLATFORM.
The democratic party of Nebraska.
in state convention embled, declares
its fealty to the century-old principles
of it's founders and emphatically reaf-
firms the platform OF the national DEM
ocratic party at st. Louis in 1888,
upon which were nominated Grover
Cleveland of New York for president
and Allen G. Thurman of Ohio for vice
president.
The party takes occasion to expires,
its admiration for the honesty, courage
and good faith of Grover Cleveland ~
his manly and straightforward fight
against those principles enunciated ty
the republican party which democrat,
believe to be subversive of liberty and
cruel and injurious to the agricultural
interests.
The democracy OF Nebraska does M +
believe in tariffs upon the necessities
of life and scouts as delusive and hyp-
ocritical the plan of aiding the farmer
to pay off the ever-increasing burden
of his mortgages by increasing the tax
on his clothing, wool, tin plates and
crockery, and denounces the hypocrisy
of the republican platform of this state
in saying that ''we favor a revision of
the tariff in the interest of the produce
er and laborer,n while the majority of
the national house of representatives
is gagging free speech in the interest
of the manufacturers, out of whom
1.-The fat was fried" in 1888, and for
the purpose of passing the measure
which fosters trusts, combines and
monopolies, which strangles commerce
and destroys ship building, which in
creases taxes while it reduces the rev.
enue; imposes additional burdens upon
the laborer and farmer, while it con-
fessedly fails to open market for a
single bushel of wheat or single bar
rel of pork.
The democratic party has ever been
the friend OF the farmer and laborer
and pledges itself on all questions of
mortgages, usury, railroad discrimina-
tiops, extortionate freight rates and
dindred subjects, and particularly in
favor OF stringent usury law to lift,
so far as it has constitutional power.
the burdens from the wearied shoulders
of those who toll.
The republican party patronizingly
in this state by its platform reconizes
the right OF labor TO organize for its
protection; the democratic party.
standing upon its whole history, does
more. 1t encourages the masses to
organize and under the law TO fight !
capitalistic encroachments by wide
spread organization and patient sacri-
fee.
The democratic party denounces the |
republican party for its gifts of more
than 1876, 600, 900 acres of the public |
domain to railroad corporations, and |
sends greeting to Allen G. Thurman
and his patriotic associates who re-
deemed 20, 900, 600 acres of it for the |
people. The public domain should be
sacredly held for the actual settler and
intending citizen, and this party pro-
tests against alien land holding in the
United States.
The war was ended twenty-five years