Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-26
JOHNSON AND ALL1N
THEY HEAD THE NORTH DAKOTA
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

The Former for ConEressmRn and
the Latter for Governor e.
Nichols of Cass 10 Nominated for
s.Tre".urer'
Grand Forks. N. D., July 19.-The
state Republican convention assembled at
the opera house at 10 o'clock. this morn
ing. The state central committee had
decided on b. +. Spalding of Fargo,
chairman of the committee, for temporary
chairman of the convention, but when the
name was announced there was plenty of
opposition and Col. Creel of Devils Lake
nominated ex-Gov. Miller for temporary
chairman. A roll call was demanded by
Spaldings friends. Every county voted
for Miller. Spalding finally withdrew be-
fore the call was completed and Miller
was elected. Maj. Hamilton, Grand
Forks; Fred Falley, Wahpeton, Il. A.
Wardwell. Pembina and Anton Svensrud.
Both men We're made temporary Sec
retaries.
The state central committee had passed
on credentials and reported no contests.
The list of delegates was adopted as re-
to make temporary organization per-
manent was carried by big majority.
The convention decided that the platform
should be disposed of before any nomina-
tons We're made. A recess was then
taken, when the convention reassembled.
A motion to adjourn to 10 a. M, to-mor-
row brought on combat between two
factions. Alex Hughes of Bismarck
moved to amend by making the hour
7:3O this evening. But Judge Cochrane
of Grand Forks, had discovered some
thing wrong with the gas mains which
would make the use of the opera house
an impossibility and notified the conven-
ton to that effect. Hughes again ad-
dressed the chair and sarcastially re-
ferred to 4 previous instance where the
gas gave out concluding by saying that
there We're other halls in the city, that
could be used if occasion required.
The motion to adjourn was put by the
chair with the accepted amendment that
the convention meet at the opera house
or such other place as the chairman dr.
rect. The dissenting voices We're few,
demonstrating that the combination was
solid. When the convention met again
the committee on resolutions was not
ready to report and recess was taken
until ten ocloc in the morning. This
was just what the combine effected early
this morning did not want, as the lead
ers We're finding it difficult to hold their
forces together, while the ''outs' hoped
to Dust the combine if the nominations
could be postponed until tomorrow.
Grand Forks, N. D.. July 20.-The Re
publican state convention nominated the
following ticket:
For Congress-M. N. johnson of Mel
son For Go>ernor-Roger Allin Of
Walsh. For Lieutenant Governor-J. H.
Worst of Emmons. For Treasurer-G.
Il. Nichols of Cass. For Secretary of
State-C. NJ. Dahl of Burleigh. For Au-
ditor-F. A. Briggs of Martin. For In
sur. nee Commissioner-F. B. Fancher of
Stuttsman. For Attorney General-J. F.
Cowan of Ramsey. For Commissioner Of
Agricu and Labor-A. H. Laughlin
of Ransom. For Superintendent Public
Observation-Disclosures f. Bates of Barnes.
For Supreme JUDGE. w. Bartholomew
CT La Moure. For Railroad Commission
crs-George II. Keys Of Dickey, J. j.
Weinberg of Steele, j. w. Currie of
Stark.
The platform says:
1--WE earnestly, emptatically, oppose the
free-trade policy and single gold standard
of Great Britain. On the contrary, we
demand adequate protection for all home
industries, North, South, East and West,
SO as to maintain the American standard
of wages. 10 this end we favor a tariff
on foreign goods competing with domestic
goods equal to the differences between for
eign and American wages. With the ex-
ception of articles of luxury, goods which,
by reason Of climatic or other conditions,
cannot be profitably produced in this coun-
try, should be admitted free. By adher-
ence to the Republican principle of reci-
procity, new and larger markets for our
farm products can and ought to be Sc
cured.
1--WE are opposed to the fat paper money
doctrine of the Populist party, and be-
lice in a metallic basis for our currency,
consisting of both gold and silver; the
Republican party of North Dakota de-
STANDARD money. We else demand that
the minis be opened to the coinage of
silver mined in the United States, with
such restrictions and under such pro-
visions, to be det-l mined by legislation,
as will maintain the parity of values of
the two metals. The purchasing and
debt-paying power of every dollar must
always be kept equal to that of every
other dollar Congress should levy o. tax
OH importation of silver sufficient to pro-
tect fully the products of our own mines.
Believing in the dignity of labor and
in the right Of workingmen to peacefully
contend for their share of the product Of
their toll, we favor d. code Of arbitration
or Cancellation, state and national, by
which both cmployc and employer shall
he bound, and we recommend that con-
gress so amend the interstate commerce
law as to provide for the orderly settle
nent of disputes between capital and
labor BY the enactment of the inter-
state commerce law Republican con-
gross established the right Of the federal
government to regulate and control rail
| ways engaged in interstate commerce.
Such control should be fully exercised
to the end that people shall not be COM
PEELED to pay interest on watered stock
and fictitious values, but that rates may
be fair and equal for equal service.
| "Realizing now, as heretofore, the evils