The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
Republican County Convention.
An Enthusiastic and Harmonious Gath
ering - No Sore Heads There - Rich
and Thomas Heartily Endorsed.

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.. The Republican County Convention
was called To order promptly at IL am.
by Chairman A. L. Anderson. Every
township in the county was fully repre-
sented except Hamilton. Mr.. Anderson
called Hon. Milan Virgins of Bloom
ingdale to the chair, and Mr.. James f.
Chandler of Paw Paw was selected as
temporary secretary. Committees on
credentials, permanent organization,
and resolutions were appointed, and
the convention took recess until
p. m. These committees were:
On Credentidts-C. ID. Lawton, Law
ton; G.. j. Hampstead, South Haven j.
g. Todd, Hartford; LeGrant Fisher,
Decatur; j. G.. McFellen, Pine Grove.
Permanent Organization y G. III. My
han, South Haven; John Marshall, Por-
ter; w. S. Charles, Bangor; III. II How
ard, Bloomingdale; G. w. Young, Paw
/ Paw.
on Resolutions B. +. Heckert, Paw
Paw; Frank Fuller, Arlington; Rowland
Place, Lawrence.
On reassembllng, the committee OH
credentials made its report, showing
l4S delegates in attendance from seven
teen townships.
iZation and order of business recon-
mended Hon. Benz. F. Heckert for per-
manent chairman and Captain VIM. +.
Stewart for permanent secretary. Also
that this convention choose two dele
gates-at-large To the state, congression-
al, and senatorial conventions, and the
remaining delegates be chosen by the
convention on the call of the townships;
which plan, after considerable discus
sion, was adopted.
Judge Heckert from the committee
on resolutions presented the following,
which were unanimously adopted by
rising vote amidst the widest enthu-
siasm:
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this
convention that the administration of
the national government by the Demo
cratic party is unstatesmanlike, unpat-
riotlc, and un-American, and that its in
capacity for managing the affairs of the
nation is but repetition of Demo
cratic history; That the attempt TO
legislate into practical operation its
vagaries and obsolete dogmas on eco
nomic questions has suddenly trans
formd the business of the country from
substantial progression and prosperity,
under Republican rule, into a condi-
ton of panics and commercial prostra-
ton; That widespread confidence
has given place to a feeling OF insecur
ity and depression in the presence of
its threatening attitude on every ques-
ton etfecting the interest of the people;
That its foreign policy has brought a
tinge OF shame to the cheek of every
patriotic American citizen; That it has
erected aims houses and soup-houses on
sites where for thirty years of Republi-
can rule the busy hum of industry has
been heard; That its policy has invited
strikes, produced lawlessness, ferment-
ed insurrection, and furnished the most
favorable conditions for the propaga-
tion of anarchy on our soil.
ReSOtUed, That the Republican party
is now as much the friend of the labor
ing man as when it took him from the
auction block and clothed him in the
full habiliments of American manhood,
with freedom to compete for the high
est wages obtainable under the benign
policy of protection to American in
dustries.
ReSOIUed That while the Republicans
of Van Buren county believe in pro-
tective tariff, they also believe in so re-
strictiDg and regulating foreign emigra
tion as TO protect the American labOrer
from the baleful and degrading compe-
tition to which he is subjected under
our present system of emigration laws.
Resolved That the honest, fearless
and patriotic administration of our
state affairs by Hon. John L. Rich enti-
ties him to a denomination, and that the
delegates to the state convention from
this county are hereby instructed not
only to vote for his denomination, but
to use all honorable means at their
command to attain that end.
ResOtUed That Hon. Henry +. Thomas,
member of congress from this district,
is endorsed by the Republicans of this
county for his fidelity to Republican
principles, and his denomination is
hereby favored.
The convention then proceeded to
the selection of delegates to the several
conventions, with the following result:
STATE CONVENTION
b. f. Heckert, Paw Paw; f. j. Day
ton, Waverly; G. +. Breck, Paw Paw;
M. F. RUSSELL Bangor; G. j Monroe,
So Haven; Geo. Prentice, Lawton;
Alex. McWilliams, Decatur; John G..
Todd, Hartford; A. Lyle, Bloomingdale;
+. A. Chase, Lawrence; w. :. Crosby,
Pine Grove; A. NJ Brown, Columbia;
G.. b. Charles, Arlington; A. s. Packard,
Covert.
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
j. McAlpine, Keeler; A. II. Cook, So.
Haven; John Marshall Porter; John
Lyle, Paw Paw; John Austin, Keeler;
A. w. Earle, So. Haven; John Mutch
Ter, Bangor; l.. Crandall, Antwerp; ).
M. Rawson, Decatur; A. p. McWil
liams, Hartford; Milan Virgins, Bloom
ingdale; Rowland Place, Lawrence;
G. NJ Kingsley, Pine Grove; Frank
Fuller, Arlington.
SENATORIAL CONVENTION
Z. II. Kelley, Hartford; A. L. Ander-
son, Columbia L. b. Randall, Covert;
Geo. Welch, Geneva; A. o. Duncombe,
Keller; j. w. Burlington, Porter; II. p.
McFarlin, Waverly; G.. b. Palmer, AL
mena; G. w. Young, Paw Paw; n. w.
Drake, Bangor; j. ii. Johnson, So.
Haven; II. p. Waters, Antwerp; w. V.
Sage, Decatur.
The convention then proceeded to the