NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



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plunder, but that the modes of government shall be 

 restored to their ancient simplicity and economy, so 

 that jobbery and robbery shall be alike impossible. 



Baolved, That we condemn the act ot the late 

 Legislature of this State whereby the State tax was 

 increased from $300,000 to $600,000 believing that 

 the former amount is adequate to meet all necessary 

 expenses and accruing interest, and to pay the State 

 debt as fast as this generation should be required to 



Eay it ; and we hereby demand, in behalf of a tax- 

 urdened people, that our State government shall 

 again be administered with the prudence and econ- 

 omy of the olden time. 



fietolnd. That we emphatically condemn the il- 

 legal use of money in our elections, and pledge our- 

 selves to expose and bring to condign punishment all 

 who would degrade the elective franchise by making 

 it a matter of corrupt bargain and sale, and we pledge 

 the best efforts of the Democratic party to restore our 

 elections to their ancient purity. 



The Republican State Convention was held 

 at Concord, on the 14th of January, 520 dele- 

 pates being present. Ezekiel A. Straw, of 

 Manchester, was nominated for Governor by 

 acclamation, and Edward D. Hodsdon, of Do- 

 vi-r, received 430 votes out of 503 for Railroad 

 Commissioner. The resolutions, which were 

 adopted unanimously, were as follows: 



1. We recognize in the result of the recent presi- 

 sidential election theundiminished confidence which 

 the country reposes in the integrity, capacity, and 

 patriotism of the Kepublican party. In response to 



that expression, the Republicans of New Hampshire 

 pledge anew their devotion to the following principles 

 and sentiments : 



2. We insist that the Philadelphia platform shall 

 be faithfully and practically observed by a wise, 

 honest, and economical administration of national 

 ntfuirs, by a thorough reform of the civil service, by 

 as rapid a reduction of taxation as will gradually di- 

 minish the public debt and certainly preserve the 

 public credit, by such an adjustment of duties upon 

 foreign imports as will cheapen the necessities of life 

 and bring the largest return to tht labor and capital 

 invested in the agriculture, manufactures, and com- 

 merce of the country, and by a rigid enforcement of 

 those articles of the Constitution which guarantee 

 equal rights and exact justice to all classes, irre- 

 spective of race, color, sex, or condition. 



3. In State affairs we pledge a continuance of that 

 policy which has successfully carried our State 

 through great and unexampled trials, which has pre- 

 served its credit, reduced its debt, stimulated its 

 prosperity, and made its name a synonym of integrity, 

 mdustry ; and intelligence throughout the Union. 



4. Believing that the permanence of free govern- 

 ment and republican institutions is dependent upon 

 the intelligence and virtue of the people, we hail all 

 measures wisely calculated to diffuse education, re - 

 strain intemperance, and punish all violations of the 

 law. 



5. We heartily commend the determination of the 

 Democratic party of this State to reform its practice 

 in the use ot money in elections; and we pledge our 

 earnest cooperation to enable that party to Keep good 

 its good resolution. 



6. We again heartily present the name of Ezekiel 



STATE HOUSE, CONCORD. 



A. Straw as our candidate for Governor, in the confi- 

 dent assurance that his capacity, integrity, and 

 patriotism, will secure his triumphant reflection. 



7. We commend our candidate for Railroad Com- 

 missioner, Edward D. Hodsdon, as entirely worthy 

 of confidence and support. 



A convention of Liberal Republicans was 

 held at Concord on the 18th of February, con- 

 sisting of fifty persons, mostly members of the 

 State Central Committee. Samuel K. Mason, 

 of Bristol, was nominated for Governor, and 

 William A. Heard, of Sandwich, for Railroad 

 Commissioner. District and county conven- 

 tions were held at the same time, and nomina- 



tions made for Congressmen, State Senators, 

 and county officers. Of the resolutions adopted, 

 the following were the roost significant : 



Resolved, That the Liberal Republican party was 

 called into existence to resist the growing tendency 

 toward a centralization of unwarranted powers in the 

 executive department of the Government, and to call a 

 halt of the Republican party in its march toward 

 that unfathomed sea of corruption to which it seemed 

 hastening. 



Jtetoked, That in the light of the recent humiliat- 

 ing disclosures of wholesale bribery and corruption, 

 which must cause every true man of whatever party 

 to hang his head in shame and disgust, and in the 

 usurpations which have been brought to light, 



