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encouraged and stimulated, and the public funds 

 strictly devoted to public and unsectarian uses. 



6. In collecting revenues for the current expenses of 

 the Government and the payment of the public debt, 

 imposts should be so arranged as to relieve from tax- 

 ation as far as practicable the necessities of the poor, 

 and at the same time to afford incidental protection to 

 American labor from competition with the ill-paid 

 labor of other lands. 



7. The Republican party has ever been the friend 

 of the laboring class. 



It has abolished the competition of slave-labor. 



It enacted the homestead law, placed on the statute- 

 book "the eight-hour law," and framed beneficent 

 measures for the protection of immigrants. 



It recognizes the fact that the great mass of our 

 people must ever belong to the laboring class ; and, 

 while it denounces all agrarianism and communism, 

 and will hold sacred all rights of property and con- 

 tract, it will make the rights and interests of the great 

 laboring class the objects of its jealous care. 



8. Resolved, That the ticket for State officers this 

 day nominated is confidently commended to tho elec- 

 tors of Michigan as one eminently worthy of their 

 support. 



9. The Republicans of Michigan recognize in James 

 Abram Garfield, our nominee for President, the patri- 

 otic volunteer soldier, the wise and experienced states- 

 man, the profound political economist, and the pure 

 and noble man ; and in Chester A. Arthur a patriot, 

 jurist, and statesman worthy of the great Empire 

 'State, and to be associated in honor with our great 

 leader. And, without reference to our original choice, 

 we now pledge ourselves to work earnestly and un- 

 ceasingly, from now until November, to secure their 

 election. 



The Democracy convened at Detroit, Au- 

 gust 12th, nominated a ticket, and adopted the 

 following resolutions : 



Resolved, That the Democracy of Michigan enthusi- 

 astically approve and reaffirm the platform of princi- 

 ples adopted by the Democratic National Convention 

 at Cincinnati, and especially on the subjects of cen- 

 tralization, sumptuary laws, home rule, honest money, 

 a free ballot, and a fair count. 



Resolved, That the malignant effort of the Repub- 

 lican Convention, held last week at Jackson, to trans- 

 mit to another generation a tradition of hate, was not 

 an acceptance in a proper spirit of the significant re- 

 buke to the hindcrers of reconciliation which had 

 just been given by the colored voters of Alabama 

 when they organized hi Hancock clubs, and, wearing 

 Hancock badges, aided to prevent any breaches of the 

 public peace and to outvote the allied Republicans and 

 Greenbackers in every county of that State, and to give 

 the first response of seventy-five thousand majority to 

 the nominations made at Cincinnati. 



Resolved, That the flagrant and continued inter- 

 ference with the administration of justice in the State 

 courts by Federal officials demands the attention ot 

 Congress ; and the House of Representatives should 

 apply the remedy constitutionally provided to check 

 the growing evil. 



Resolved, That reforms should be made in our State 

 legislation by reducing to proper sums and percent- 

 ages the expenses of advertising tax-sales and legal 

 notices, the interest charged upon delinquent taxes, 

 the sums paid for official salaries to those filling newly- 

 created offices and the numbers employed therein ; 

 and that such reform is not likely to oe accomplished 

 as against the interests of a subsidized party press and 

 of an official class, except by a change of administra- 

 tion. 



Resolved, That in the hero of Gettysburg, who led 

 the Union army to its most glorious victory, we rec- 

 ognize a most worthy standard-bearer to lead the 

 Democracy of the nation to a certain victory in No- 

 vember next, and we pledge to Hancock and English 

 our enthusiastic and earnest support, and will make 



any and every sacrifice to an honest effort to secure 

 for them the electoral vote of the Peninsular State. 



Resolved, That we hereby reiterate^ as we shall at 

 every recurring convention, our grateful remembrance 

 of the dead, and our thanks to the living soldiers and 

 sailors, through whose sacrifices and blood the Union 

 was preserved, and by whose votes its perpetuity may 

 be maintained by the election of our most illustrious 

 leader, General Hancock. 



Tickets were also placed in nomination by 

 the National-Greenback party and by the Pro- 

 hibitionists. The result of the election was an 

 unexpectedly large majority for the Republi- 

 can ticket. The vote for Presidential electors, 

 Governor, and Lieutenant-Governor was: 



FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. 



Garfield electors. . - 



Hancock electors 131,597 



Weaver electors 34,b95 



Dow (Prohibitionist) electors 942 



Antimasonic electors 812 



FOR GOVERNOR. 

 David H. Jerome, Republican. 



Frederick M. Uolloway, Democrat 



David Woodman, Second, National-Greenback 



Isaac W. McKeevcr, Prohibitionist 



Cornelius Quick, Antimason 



FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 



Moreau 8. Crosby, Eepublican 



Edwin H. Thomson, Democrat 



Sullivan Armstrong, National-Greenback... 



Darius H. Stone, Prohibitionist 



G. II. M. Eosebacker, Antimason 



178,944 

 137,671 

 35,122 

 1,114 

 220 



180,635 



135.505 



35,051 



1,102 



303 



The following State officers, all Republican, 

 were elected by about the same majorities as 

 given the Presidential electors (the vote for 

 the Democratic candidates for Governor and 

 Lieutenant-Governor having run largely ahead 

 of their ticket, receiving the votes of a large 

 number of Republicans in protest against the 

 liquor tax legislation, and the proposed incor- 

 poration of a prohibitory amendment in the 

 Constitution) : Secretary of State, William Jen- 

 ney ; State Treasurer, Benjamin D. Pritchard ; 

 Auditor-General, W. Irving Latimer; Attor- 

 ney-General, Jacob J. Van Riper; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Cornelius A. 

 Gower; Commissioner of the State Land-Of- 

 fice, James M. Neasmith ; member of State 

 Board of Education, Edgar Rexford. 



In the several Congressional districts the 

 vote was : 



FIRST DISTRICT. Votes< pi urality . 



Henry W. Lord, Eepublican 15,962 574 



William C. Maybury, Democrat 15,388 



Lyman E. Stowe, National-Greenback 623 



SECOND DISTRICT. 



Edwin Willits, Eepublican 18,945 2,349 



William H. Waldby, Democrat 16,596 



Frederick T. Chester. National-Greenback. 1,674 



Zachariah Cook, Prohibitionist 187 



Scattering 4 



THIRD DISTRICT. 



Edward S. Lacey, Eepublican 21,267 12,528 



Eugene Pringle, Democrat 9,739 



Hiram C. Hodge, National-Greenback 8,959 



George Landon, Prohibitionist 228 



Scattering 6 



FOURTH DISTRICT. 



James C. Burrows. Republican 19,096 6,672 



Orlando W. Powers, Democrat 12,424 



George L. Yaple, National-Greenback 4,193 



Scattering 24 



