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NEW JERSEY. 



fish laws, and as the result of its activity the 

 supply of food-fishes has largely increased. 



The census returns make the population 

 of New Jersey, in 1880, 1,130,892, as against 

 906,096 in 1870, an increase of 24*8 per cent. 

 Of the different counties Camden shows the 

 highest ratio of increase, 46*7 per cent., and 

 Sussex the smallest, 1'65 per cent.; the largest 

 numerical increase was in the counties of Hud- 

 son, 58,883, and Essex, 45,980. 



The Republican Convention which chose 

 delegates to the National Convention met at 

 Trenton, May 12th. The following resolutions 

 were adopted: 



1. Resolved, That, as American citizens, we hold 

 the welfare of the entire Union to be above any and 

 all sectional interests ; that, as New Jersey men, proud 

 of our State and loyal to her in all things, we believe 

 that her prosperity and advancement are best to be 

 served by steadfast advocacy of and devotion to the 



Erinciples of the Eepublican party, and unswerving 

 >yalty to and love for the national Union. 



2. Resolved, That we insist upon perfect protection 

 to every American citizen of whatsoever color, native 

 or naturalized, in all his political and civil rights ; that 

 we are in favor of the extension of the public-school 

 system throughout the Union, free from sectarian in- 

 fluence, believing, as we do, that the common schools 

 are to do the work of preparing the millions of this 

 country for the responsibilities that come with uni- 

 versal suffrage. 



3. Resolved, That we congratulate the country upon 

 the fact that such has been the financial policy of the 

 Eepublican party that no man, foreign or native, has 

 ever lost one dollar by the promises of the United 

 States. We congratulate the country that we have re- 

 turned to specie payments, and that resumption is now 

 certain and permanent. 



4. Resolved, That we favor a sound currency the 

 foundation of which shall be coin, or notes redeemable 

 in coin, and that we regard any man or party as a 

 most dangerous enemy who in any way seeks to im- 

 pair the national credit. 



5. Resolved, That it is the duty of the national 

 Government to secure free and fair elections every- 

 where throughout the Union within the scope of tne 



Kwers conferred upon it by the Constitution of the 

 lited States. 



6. Resolved, That we will cordially support the 

 nominee for President to be selected at Chicago, for 

 the honor and welfare of our country and our State. 



The Democratic State Convention for the 

 selection of delegates to the Presidential Con- 

 vention met at Trenton, May 20th. The plat- 

 form adopted was as follows : 



Resolved, That the Democracy of New Jersey re- 

 assert the principles of constitutional government, 

 civil and religious liberty, and the equal rights of the 

 people, to preserve which the Democratic party was 

 founded by the men who founded the republic, and 

 to perpetuate which is the aim, the mission, and the 

 sacred duty of Democracy. 



Resolved, That the preservation of the States and 

 the maintenance of their governments are as much 

 within the design and care of the Constitution as the 

 preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the 

 national Government ; that the Constitution in all its 

 provisions looks to an indissoluble Union composed ol 

 indestructible States ; that the Government created by 

 the Constitution was not designed for the regulation 

 of matters of purely local concern ; that the States are 

 fully competent to provide for the due administration 

 of justice between their own citizens in their own 

 courts, as well as the regulation of highways, schools, 

 hospitals, and charitable institutions ; that the inter- 



ference by Congress with the States in the adminis- 

 tration of their governments and the enforcement oi 

 their laws with respect to matters over which jurisdic- 

 tion was not surrendered to the United States, is not 

 authorized by the Constitution or any of the amend- 

 ments, and the attempt to enforce such legislation by 

 a partisan judiciary is a dangerous usurpation, destruc- 

 tive of the liberties of the people, and, if persisted in. 

 will result in reducing the States to mere municipal 

 corporations, thus effectually destroying the govern- 

 ment of our fathers. 



Resolved, That a free and fair ballot is the right 

 preservative of all rights. We denounce all pleas and 

 subterfuges for surrounding the polls with troops, in 

 imitation of imperial usurpers, and with petty officials 

 clothed with the arbitrary power of arresting citizens 

 without warrant, as pretexts of the enemies of free 

 elections, whose aim it is to prevent an untrammeled 

 expression of the popular will by a terrorizing and 

 tyrannical system. We demand a free ballot as the 

 inalienable right of free men. 



Resolved, That the widespread disasters that fol- 

 lowed the temporizing financial policy of the Republi- 

 can party, and its legalized repudiation, have served 

 to vindicate the Democratic doctrine that a sound cur- 

 rency, with a specie basis, is the best means of secur- 

 ing business stability and permanent prosperity ; and 

 to this doctrine we adhere. We favor economy in ad- 

 ministration as the best means of strengthening the 

 Government credit and lightening the burdens of the 

 people ; and we are opposed to all monopolies, class 

 legislation and subsidies, which disturb the equal op- 

 eration of the laws of trade, create unequal privil 

 or interfere with the legitimate opportunities of h 

 labor and private enterprise. 



Resolved, That we look to the Democratic National 

 Convention for a Presidential candidate who will repre- 

 sent the foregoing principles, and whose election will 

 secure their renewed ascendancy in the administra- 

 tion, believing that, through their observance alo: 

 the Government, long perverted from its original a 

 true purpose, can be restored to the purity, simplicity, 

 and justice which should distinguish our republ' 

 institutions. 



Resolved, That we favor the continuance of the tw 

 thirds rule by the National Convention in the nomin 

 tion of candidates. 



Resolved, That we can not too often reiterate 01 

 abhorrence of the monstrous fraud by which the sov- 

 ereign will of the American people in the choice of 

 their Chief Magistrate was defeated in the last Presi- 

 dential contest, and through which the United States 

 has since presented the shameful spectacle of a repub- 

 lic with an Executive not elected by its people. To 

 the execration in which the men ana the party guilty 

 of this crowning iniquity of the nineteenth centu 

 must be held, should be added their condemnati 

 and defeat at the coming election as a warning tl 

 this people are resolved to maintain their pncelc 

 heritage of self-government. 



The Republican Convention for the nomin 

 tion of Governor and Presidential electors me 

 at Trenton, August 18th. Frederick A. Po 

 was nominated for Governor. 



In the Democratic State Convention, held 

 Trenton, September 1st, George C. Ludlow wa 

 nominated for Governor. The following reso- 

 lutions were adopted : 



Resolved, That the platform adopted by the Na- 

 tional Democratic Convention at Cincinnati meets our 

 hearty approval. 



Resolved, That we cordially endorse and ratify the 

 nominations for President and Vice-President made 

 by said Convention. 



Resolved, That the Democratic party in this State is 

 in favor of such a tariff as will best protect our home 

 industries. 



Resolved, That the Democratic party will in the fu- 





