Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-07-13
MICHIGAN POPULISTS.
THE STATE CONVENTION HELD
IN LANSING.
Named Or. A. w. Nichols. OF Montcalm
County, for Governor-Mayor Pin
gree's Name Was Used but lie Was
Turned Down-rhe Proceedings.

of the gathering of the delegates
selected TO represent the Peoples
Party of the various counties of Michi-
gan in state. convention. Chairman
Nichols, of the state central committee,
called the 500 delegates to order and,
after prayer by Rev. Zimmerman,
made a characteristic Populist speech,
Judge Arthur Il. Cole, of Fowler
vile, was called upon TO preside as
temporary chairman. The Judge made
a speech, and said that if the Peoples
Party did not succeed in its efforts to
reform the country by peaceful meth
DDS, "there would be raised up a gen
Grafton with steel enough in their
veins, peace enough in their hearts,
love enough for God, and hell enough
in their hate TO march in solid phalanx
against plutocracy, and TO insist that
these things which have been takeL
away from the people shall be re-
stored" NJ. o. Graves, of PetoslSey,
was made temporary secretary of the
convention, and committees were up
pointed:
James Winnie and NJ. i. Phares of
Grand Ledge, endeavored to appoint
themselves committeeman from the
Twelfth upper PENINSULA district, but
their scheme was detected. The com
mittee on permanent organization and
order of business recommended that
the temporary chairman be made per-
manent and NJ. q. Graves, as secretary,
gave way to +. NJ. Vandercock, of Ora
tiot. ID. A. Reynolds, grand comman-
der of the Ancient Order of Loyal
Americans, explained that the order
of which he had the honor TO be the
chief officer was not partisan in its
nature.
Speeches were delivered by L. V.
Moulton, of Grand Rapids; Mrs. 5. L.
V. Emery, of Lansing, and Mrs. NJ. A.
Root, of Bay City.
After recess the committee on reso-
lutions submitted two separate sets of
resolutions, from which the conven-
ton selected a platform. After affirm
ing allegiance TO the principles e the
Populist party as set forth in the
Omaha platform, the convention
adopted resolutions favoring the grad
upted income tax; free silver coinage;
the establishment of postal savings
BANKS government ownership of rail
roads; a graduated tax on unoc ,upied
lands; the principle of the initiative
and referendum with the imperative
mandate; female suffrage in the state
constitution; demanding the limitation
and regulation of foreign immigration:
condemning the issue of government
bonds; demanding the election of
United States senators and judges by
the people; favoring incorporation of
cities and villages under n general
statute; compulsory education; an
s-hour day; sanitary inspection of fac
tories; municipal ownership of street
railroads, gas and electric light plants;
liberal pensions for soldiers; against
the watering of stocks; to require
foreign corporations TO maintain
Michigan Offices; favoring the taxation
of railroad property tor municipal
purposes, and against the contract
system and convict contract labor sys-
TEN. a special resolution, providing
that no one should be nominated by
the convention who has not completely
severed his sconnection with the Re-
publican or Democratic parties, was
adopted after lively wrangle.
The convention then proceeded to
the work of nominating a candidate
for governor. Robert McDougall. of
Hillsdale, was placed in nomination,
but declined. Judge A. +. Cole also
LiTtW lnt ONtT Ills hIlODlfst. L.
State Chairman A. w. Nichols thr ; u
bomb in the convention by h.I-4 z
broadly at the desira bility of Pingree's
nomination. Ed. Greece, of Wayne,
made a rafting speech nominating
Pingree for governor. He was fire.
quently interrupted with applause and
was as frequently Kissed and hooted.
A. s. Partridge, of Flushing, arose to
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and Ben Colvin said that it would be
more dangerous to nominate Pingree
than it was to nominate Ben Butler for
president in 1854. A Bay county dele
gate protested against Pingree's nomi-
nation and l.. V. Moulton said that
he loved Pingree for the enemies he
had made. Mrs. NJ. NJ. Oderkirl, of
Detroit, got upon the platform to char
acterize Greece as a traitor for betray-
ing the confidence of the people who
sent him to the convention. This was
denied by Greece. After considerable
more such proceeding the roll was
called and resulted: McDougal, 1876;
Cole, 2; Taylor, s. A formal vote
was taken with the following result:
McDougall, 145; Nichols, 12G; Pingree,
Ofs AhOhlAOis ~ bONaA Seobs O-Os bSNCo-
sary to a choice, 1914. Greece withdrew
Pingree's name for Nichols, who was
nominated by vote of 1914 to 1877 for
McDougall. Nichols was then unani-
mously nominated.
The remainder of the ticket was
named without much trouble as fol-
lows: For observation-disclosures Perry
Mayo of Calhoun county; Secretary of
State, Elisha Pangborn of Grand
Traverse county; State Treasurer,
Edward Brown of Clinton county;
Auditor-General, Robert McDougall of
Hillsdale county; Acknowledgement,
James Il. Mcbride of Kent county;
Commissioner of State Land Office,
Addison c. Kelly of Wayne county;
Superintendent of Public instruction,
Ms o. Graves of Emmett county;
Member of State Board of Education,
Frederick III. Olmstead of Isabella
county.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana rail-
road is being extended TO Falmouth.
At Port Huron there are plenty OF