ILLINOIS. 



in Springfield, May 19th. A division of the 

 party in Chicago caused two rival delegations to 

 appear at the Convention from Cook County 

 called, from their places of meeting, the Palmer 

 House and the Farwell Hall delegates. The 

 former party was headed by Senator Logan, 

 and the latter, which opposed the nomination 

 of Grant, was led by Messrs. Medill and Far- 

 well. The Farwell Hall delegates were not al- 

 lowed a voice or a sitting in the Convention. 

 The delegates elected to the National Conven- 

 tion were instructed to vote as a unit for Grant. 

 The nominees for State officers were as follows: 

 For Governor, Shelby M. Cullom ; for Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, John M. Hamilton ; for Secretary 

 of State, Henry D. Dement ; for Auditor of 

 Public Accounts, Charles P. Swigart; for State 

 Treasurer, Edward Rutz ; for Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, James McCartney. 



The following platform was adopted by the 

 Democrats in convention : 



Patriotic duty ind interest demand peace and recon- 

 ciliation through all the land. We pledge ourselves to 

 the following principles : 



1. No tariff for protection. 



2. No third term. 



3. A substantial reform of the civil service, so that 

 Federal officers shall be the servants of the people and 

 not of a party. 



4. Equal nghts to all the States, and no Federal inter- 

 ference with the constitutional functions of the States. 



5. A constitutional currency of gold and silver, and 

 of paper convertible into coin. 



6. No more land grants to monopolies. 



7. The will of the people must be supreme, and 

 majorities must be the rule under the constitutional 

 methods ; no more such frauds as that of 1876. 



8. That laws shall be enacted to protect laborers in 

 the more prompt and certain collection of their wages. 



A resolution was adopted instructing dele- 

 gates to Cincinnati to favor the two-thirds rule. 



At a Convention of the Prohibition party no 

 candidates for State officers were set up," but 

 a movement was organized to secure a major- 

 ity favoring prohibition in the Legislature, and 

 procure the adoption of an amendment in the 

 State Constitution forbidding the manufacture 

 or sale of intoxicants. To this end a plan of 

 action was embodied in the resolutions adopted 

 by the Convention. The resolutions were as 

 follows : 



Resolved, That we deem it inexpedient at this time 

 to nominate any State or national ticket, and recom- 

 mend to prohibitionists of Illinois, by voting with the 

 old political parties to which they respectively be- 

 longed in the past, to thus secure the nomination and 

 election of members of the Legislature of this State, 

 this fall, pledged to submit to the legal voters of this 

 State a constitutional amendment, to be voted upon at 

 the general election in the fall of 1882, prohibiting the 

 manufacture, sale, or importation of all intoxicants for 

 beverage purposes, if the same shall be petitioned for 

 by the voters of this State ; and in pledging candidates 

 for the Legislature to submit such amendment to the 

 voters of this State, we accord to the candidates agree- 

 ing to submit said question to the voters of this State, 

 in common with everybody else, the right to oppose 

 the same by voice and vote when the question is up 

 before the people to be voted upon, asking of them 

 only the privilege of voting upon the question, pledg- 

 ing ourselves to abide by the will of the majority as 

 legally expressed at the polls. 



Resolved, That if the Senator and Representative 

 to be elected this fall in each senatorial district of this 

 State, or either one of them, which are nominated by 

 the old political parties to which preference is to be 

 given under the foregoing resolution, will not pledge 

 themselves to the measure expressed in the foregoing 

 resolution, that then we recommend that candidates 

 to fill up the representation required to be elected, be 

 nominated solely upon that issue, and leaving them free 

 to vote with their old political parties for all the other 

 offices to be filled at this coming election. 



The State Convention of the Greenback-La- 

 bor party was held on the 28th of April. A 

 full State ticket was nominated, as follows: 

 Governor, A. J. Streeter; Lieutenant-Govern- 

 or, Andrew B. Adair ; Secretary of State, J. M. 

 Thomson ; Auditor, W. T. Ingram ; Treasurer, 

 G. W. Evans ; Attorney-General, H. G. Whit- 

 lock. The platform they adopted ran as fol- 



^ The Greenback-Labor party of Illinois, in conven- 

 tion assembled, adopt the following platform of prin- 

 ciples : 



1. That all money, whether metallic or paper, should 

 be issued and its volume controlled by the Govern- 

 ment, and not by or through banking corporations, 

 and when so issued should be a full legal tender for 

 all debts, public and private. 



2. That the bonds of the United States should not be 

 refunded beyond the power of the Government to call 

 and pay them at any time, and they should be paid as 

 rapidly as practicable. To enable the Government to 

 meet these obligations, legal-tender currency should 

 be substituted for the circulating notes of national 

 banks, and that the free, unlimited coinage of gold 

 and silver be established by law. 



3. That railroad and all other public corporations 

 should be held amenable to law, so that they snail sub- 

 serve the interests of the public. 



4. That the lands now owned or that may hereafter 

 be acquired by the Government bv treaty or otherwise, 

 should not be granted to corporations or sold to specu- 

 lators, but should be reserved for actual occupants, and 

 to them in limited quantities ; and in all cases where 

 corporations to whom grants have heretofore been 

 made have failed to comply with the terms and condi- 

 tions of such grants, the lands should revert to the 

 Government. 



5. That the Government should improve all such 

 practicable watercourses as may be necessary and feasi- 

 ble to utilize the great natural advantages afforded by 

 our navigable rivers and lakes ; and that the connec- 

 tion (by way of the Illinois River and Illinois and 

 Michigan Canal) between the lakes and the Mississippi 

 River w a natural necessity. 



6. That there shall be a fair, free, and absolutely 

 secret ballot, subject to no intimidation by bulldozers 

 or employers. 



7. That as labor is the source of all wealth and the 

 foundation of all prosperity, it should be so protected 

 as to equalize its burdens and insure a just distribu- 

 tion of its results ; therefore, the hours of labor and 

 sanitary condition of industrial establishments should 

 be placed under rigid legal control ; the competition 

 of contract convict-labor abolished ; a bureau of labor 

 statistics established ; factories, mines, and workshops 

 inspected ; the labor of children under fourteen years of 

 age in factories, mines, and workshops restricted, and 

 waofes paid in cash. 



We are to embody in civil government the divine 

 right of every laborer to the results of his toil, thus 

 enabling the toiling producers of wealth to provide 

 themselves with the means for physical comfort and 

 the facilities for mental, social, and spiritual culture, 

 condemning as unworthy our civilization the barba- 

 rism which would impose upon the wealth-producers 

 a state of perpetual drudgery as the price of bare ani- 

 mal existence. 





