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Nebraska, was chosen permanent chairman, 

 and ways and means of securing the objects of 

 the meeting were discussed at length. A dif- 

 ference of opinion prevailed as to whether 

 Galvftoii or some other port on the 

 should be designated for improvement. Two 

 reports were submitted by the committee on 

 resolutions, of which the majority report, rec- 

 ommending no particular harbor, was adopted. 



On October 17 a committee appointed by 

 the convention met at Dallas, Tex., adopted 

 a draft of a bill to be presented to Congress, 

 and took measures to secure its early considera- 

 tion by that body. 



Political. Both the Union Labor party and 

 the Prohibition party met in State conven- 

 tion at Denver on September 1. A confer- 

 ence committee was selected by each conven- 

 tion to agree upon a fusion ticket, but the re- 

 fusal of the Union Labor men to ratify the 

 ticket so agreed upon, brought the. plan to 

 naught. The Union Labor men nominated a 

 State ticket headed by De La Martyr. 



The Prohibition nominees were: For Gov- 

 ernor, W. C. Stover ; Lieutenant - Governor, 

 Warren R. Fowler; Secretary of State, W. 

 W. Waters ; Treasurer, Harry G. Schoock ; 

 Auditor, W. A. Rice : Attorney-General, J. H. 

 Boughton ; Superintendent of Schools, J. A. 

 Smith ; Supreme Court Judge (l n g term), A. 

 W. Brazee : Supreme Court Judge (short term), 

 D. E. McCaskell ; Regents of the State Univer- 

 sity, Isaac T. Keator, D. W. Robbius. 



On September 4 the Republican State Con- 

 vention met ia Denver. There were five can- 

 didates for the gubernatorial nomination, each 

 having upon the first formal ballot the follow- 

 ing support : David H. Moore, 131 votes ; Job 

 A Cooper, 122 ; Ex-Senator H. A. W. Tabor, 

 186; Wolfe Londoner, 34: Lieutenant-Govern- 

 or Meldrum, 74. On the fifth ballot Job A. 

 Cooper was nominated. The remainder of the 

 ticket was completed as follows : For Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, William G. Smith ; Secretary of 

 State, James Rice ; Treasurer, W. H. Brisbane ; 

 Auditor, Louis B. Sehwanbeck ; Attorney-Gen- 

 eral. Samuel W. Jones ; Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction, Fred Dick ; Regents of the 

 State University, Charles R. Dudley, S. A. Gif- 

 iiu: Supreme Court Judges (long term), Charles 

 D. Hayt; (short term), Victor A. Elliott. 



Resolutions were adopted ratifying the work 

 of the National Convention and favoring lib- 

 eral pensions, anti-Chinese legislation, a fair 

 ballot, and free coinage of silver. On State 

 questions the platform declares as follows : 



We favor fair but stringent legislation respecting the 

 railways in the State. We declare that pools, rebates, 

 and all discriminations should be prohibited, and the 

 ifion rijridly enforced by heavy penalties. We 

 also demand legislation that will prevent the charging 

 of exorbitant rates. We also demand legislation pro- 

 hibiting all officers, judicial, legislative, and executive, 

 from accepting, directly or indirectly, railway- 

 or free del 



We also declare in favor of stringent State and na- 

 tional legislation prohihitiin: tru-ts and combinations 

 of every kind and nature. 



While we uphold the National Government in all its 

 endeavors to preserve the public domain for the bene- 

 fit "f honest settlers, we must earnestly condemn the 

 course pursued by the present Administration in its 

 wholesale attempt to cancel and annul pre-emption 

 and homestead entries at the instance of land-: 

 thereby tyrannically and dishonestly taking from poor 

 but honest settlers their money and" homes. 



That the Legislature enact 'laws providing for the 

 protection of the health and safety of those engaged 

 in mining and other hazardous occupations. 



That the lien-law of the State be so amended as to 

 secure to the laborer wages earned by him, and pre- 

 vent his being defrauded of them by 'dishonest prac- 

 the hands of unscrupulous persons. 



We favor a liberal appropriation by the State Leg- 

 islature for the purposes of inducing immigration and 

 advertising the resources of the State. 



We urge our congressional delegation to continue 

 their efforts to secure all legislation necessary to per- 

 fect a system of reservoirs in the Rocky Mountains for 

 irrigation purposes. 



A resolution was also passed urging such leg- 

 islation as would permit the surplus of $1,000,- 

 000 of current funds in the State treasury to 

 be applied in payment of the State debt. 



The Democratic State Convention assembled 

 at Denver on September 19, and nominated the 

 following ticket without a contest: For Gov- 

 ernor, Thomas M. Patterson ; Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, John A. Porter ; Treasurer, Amos G. 

 Henderson ; Secretary of State, W. R. Earhart ; 

 Auditor, Leopold Meyer ; Attorney - General, 

 J. M. Abbott ; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, J. A. Hough ; Regents of the Uni- 

 versity, F. A. Chavez, Charles Ambrook; Judges 

 of the Supreme Bench (long term), M. B. Ger- 

 ry ; (short term), A. J. Rising. 



The platform ratifies the acts of the Nation- 

 al Convention, favors free coinage of silver, 

 denounces trusts, and discusses State questions 

 at length as follows : 



We demand that all reservation of public lands in 

 Colorado not absolutely necessary for the uses of the 

 Government shall be thrown open for occupation and 

 settlement ; and we pledge ourselves to the people to 

 use all available means to secure that end and to se- 

 cure to all bona-Jide settlers now on stud reservations 

 their rights. 



The existing laws of the United States with regard to 

 the public tim iber domain are emphatically condemned, 

 and we charge the Republican party with responsi- 

 bility for the same. By these laws, as construed and 

 enforced by the courts, railway companies are given 

 unlimited and unrestricted rignt to denude the public 

 domain of its best timber, while the privileges given to 

 private citizens with regard to taking timber for ne- 

 re so restricted as to practically deny 

 them its use. 



We deplore the evils of alien landlordism everv- 

 where, and especially sympathize with those on the 

 borders of our State who are suffering: from its perni- 

 cious effects, and we demand the enactment ot such 

 Federal and State legislation as will <nve relief to our 

 suffering fellow-citizens and prevent its further exten- 

 sion. We favor the passage of a law establishing a 

 board of mediation and arbitration, with power to in- 

 quire into and adjust all disputes arising between em- 

 ployer and employ^, to be created as is provided by 

 the' laws of the State of New York on that subject, 

 and embodying the recommendations of President 

 Cleveland to Congress on April -.'i. 1886. 



We demand that the funds of the State Treasury, 

 instead of beimr used to create perquisites for the 

 Treasurer's office, shall be placed at interest, under 



