The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-09-01
TICKETS NAMED.
Nebraska and Pennsylvania Re-
publicans Select Candidates.
Proceedings Of Both state Conven-
tions-A New American Party Or
ganized I'm st. Louis-Sum-
mary of the Platform.

Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 27.-Nebraska re-
pHblicans made a record for industry
and harmony Thursday in their state
convention. Beginning shortly before
three o'clock in the afternoon work was
completed before six. The renomina-
ton of Hon. A. NJ. Post, of Platte coup-
ty, as associate justice of the supreme
court was foregone conclusion and
was made by reclamation. There was
but minor interest in state university
regents, and the canvass for those po-
sitions was at no time exciting. c. w.
Haley, of Kearney county, was renomi-
mated for regent of the state university
by reclamation, and j. n. Dryden, of
Buffalo county, for second regent. The
absence of any reference to money
question in platform caused some sur
prise, and was explained by one mem
Der of the committee on resolutions in
is a dead issue and needed no burial at
the hands of Nebraska republicans"
Aside from the hearty applause which
greeted the different speakers, there
were no exciting incidents, the only
thing approaching sensation being
the announcement of Senator John NJ.
Thurston in his address 10 the conven-
ton that he would not again be can
didate for the senate.
Pennsylvania Republicans.
Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. q. - The state
republican convention met in the opera
house Thursday to nominate candidates
for state treasurer and auditor general.
The platform adopted reaffirms the
doctrines enunciated in the national
platform adopted at st. Louis in 1896,
congratulates the country on the en-
actment of the Dingley tariff bill, re-
joices over dollar wheat" and heartily
indorses the administration of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
James S. Beacon, of Westmoreland
county, was nominated for state treas
urer and Levi G. McCauley, of Chester
county. for auditor-general.
The New American Party.
st. Louis, Aug. 27.-The new Ameri-
can party was launched Thursday by a
convention of between 40 and so dele
gates, who have been in session in this
city for the last few days. They rep
resent nine states and territories, and
are said to have backing in large num-
Der of other states. A national COM
mittee was elected of ten members, with
Col. L. H. Sellers, of Detroit, as chair
man. A platform was adopted, and De-
troit was selected for the committee
headquarters for the ensuing year.
The platform starts out with the declar a-
tion that the most potent safeguard OF
Prosperity is an abundant revenue, and
therefore favors such an adjustment OF the
tariff and internal revenues as will produce
sufficient money for the governments ex-
penditures.
On the financial question the platform
has this to say:
"Since nearly or quite 80 per cent. OF all
business transactions Of the country are
accomplished without the use OF specie, we
favor the decentralization of both gold and
silver the prohibition Of contracts for pay
ment in coin of either metal and the SUBJ
stitution of metallic tokens for our pres
ent minor coins
I'VE believe that all currency should be
In the form Of treasury notes Of unlimited
legal tender quality, and in such quanti-
ties as shall facilitate the freest CONNER
cial exchange. and that every form OF
currency notes should be withdrawn from
circulation"