The record-union., 1894-08-23
NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS.
The Nominee for Governor nss-
tasteful to an Editor.
SENSATION CAUSED BY A LETTER
TO THE CONVENTION.
President Cleveland Returns to WASH
ington Much Improved In Health
The Kiowa and Comanche Indians
Assuming WarI1ke Attitudes
Special to the REcoRD-UN1ox.

assuming q NarI1k9 ACC1Cud6s
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
OMAHA, Aug. 22.-The largest Repub-
lican State Convention ever held in Ne
braska met to-day. Captain E. Adams of
| Superior was elected Chairman.
There were only two men in the race for
Governor-Lieutenant- Governor Thomas
B. Majors of Peru and John II. Maccoll
| of Lexington. On an informal ballot
Majors lacked but half a vote of receiving
a nomination. and on the first formal bal
lot he was nominated.
| At the close of the morning session
Edward RosewaJer prepared scathing
letter, resigning as a member of the Re-
publican National Committee, and sent it
TO the Chairman of the convention TO be
acted upon this afternoon. This means
that Rosewater's paper, the Bee, and the
anti-monopoly element OF the party will
! fight Majors.
/ Mr.. Rosewater's letter was read TO the
convention. He explained he was too
| loyal Republican TO support Majors.
| Continuing he said: ''Ihe action of your
convention impels me to tender my res
| GOIlIQllIS6udus dus
| \ on have nominated a man for Governor
who has been branded as an accessory to
| forgery and perjury4 by Republican
/ Congressional Committee, of which Hon.
Thomas B. Reed was Chairmau a man
who stands self-convicted of talsifying
official records and procuring the issue
of fraudulent voucher while acting III
the capacity of President of the State
Senate; man who has consorted with
the boodlers and jobbers and converted
| the rooms of the Lieutenant Governor of
the Capital of the State into den; man
| who is plant tool for railroads, and
whose nomination was procured by the
combined influence of corporate cappers,
professional bribe-giyers, jury-fxers
and impeached State officials. l cannot
and never will ask any self-respected
Republican who loves his State and
country, and who desires to perpetuate
| the free institutions under which we live,
under republican form of government,
| TO help rlvet the Chains of subserviency
to corporate monopoly and tyranny upon
! the people OF the commonwealth
| believing 1t my sacred duty TO uphold
| the standard of true republicanism at
any sacrifice, l desire to be freed from all
restraint which might be imposed upon
me by remaining on the National Com
lnIttee. S. RoSEwATER."
The letter created a profound sensation.
After some delay the resignation was
accepted, and Hon. John NJ. Thurston of
Omaha was elected to fill the vacancy.
| The work was smooth sailing after this
interruption, and the following ticket
was completed without much friction:
| Governor, Thomas NJ. Majors; Lieuten-
ant Governor r. Il. Moore; Secretary of
State j. A. Piper; Eugene Moore; State
| Treasurer, Joseph S. Barley; Superin-
| tendent of Public instruction, II. r. Cor
bett; Attorney General, a. S. Churchill:
| Commissioner of Public Lands and
/ Buildings, FL. c. Russell.
| Only one set Of resolutions was SUBJ
| mitted, and were adopted without pro-
| test.
The platform announces its continued
hostility to the Democratic party, and
says:
I'm view of the practical results of a
/ year and a half of Democratic rule, we re-
affirm with renewed faith and fervor the
platform of the Republican Convention
! at Minneapolis. We demand the restora-
ton of the American policy of protection
and commercial reciprocity with our SIS
ter republics of Mexico, South and Cen
| tral America and the Governments Of
the West Indies"
AS to the financial situation, the con-
vention declares that the party in Ne
| braska has always been the consistent
friend and aggressive champion of honest
money, and it takes no step backward.
| W0ll6 1dNOrlDS DlDl0LdlllSil, anu Qc-
manding the use of both gold and silver
as standard money, the convention in
sists that the parity of the value of the
| two metals be maintained, so that every
dollar, paper or coin, issued by the Gov
ernment shall be as good as any other.
The platform declares for more State
control of railroads, the adoption OF q
maximum freight bill, and insists that
no railroad shall issue stocks or bonds
except for property actually received and
| applied to the purpose for which the cor
| poration was created, and all stock di-
visions and other fictitious increase of the
capital stock or Indebtedness of any such
/ corporation shall be void.
| Continuing, the platform says: eve
recognize the right of labor to organize,
using all honorable means for the pur-
/ pose of dignifying their condition and
/ placing them on an equal footing with
capital to the end that they may both
| fully understand that they are necessary
to the prosperity of the country. Arbi-
tration shall take the place of strikes and
lockouts for settling labor disputes. The
extirpation Of anarchy is essential to the
preservation of the Nation, and we there-
| fore favor the pending bill in Congress
| for the exclusion of anarchists.
'We believe that the industries of our
State should be diversified, to relieve the
masses of the people from dependence
upon one class of agricultural products
subject TO crop failures; aud it being DEM
/ onsIrated that the soil of this State is
adapted to the production of sugar beets,
| even in dry seasons, source of incaIeu-
| liable wealth. we favor legislation that
shall bring TO our people its full realizs-
ton"
After pledging the party TO support all
measures calculated to benefit the citizens
of the State, the platform concludes with
an appeal TO the old soldiers.
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at $50 p. NJ.