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NEW HAMPSHIEE. 



of law, a healthy growth and development of our 

 varied industrial interest, economy in expenditures, 

 honesty among officials unmarred by a single ex- 

 ample of corruption or defalcation by the custodians 

 of public funds, moderate taxation, prompt provision 

 for all public obligations, and a steady decrease of 

 the State and municipal debts ; and that we confi- 

 dently appeal to the voters to continue in power a 

 party which has given such substantial proofs of 

 honesty of purpose and watchful care for the rights 

 and interests of the people. 



Resolved. That we commend Luther McCutchins, 

 our candidate for Governor, and Granville P. Conn, 

 our candidate for Eailroad Commissioner, as citizens 

 of capacity and integrity, and we pledge them our 

 united, hearty, and triumphant support. 



The Democrats held their State Convention 

 at Concord, on the 8th of January. The or- 

 ganization had scarcely been completed when, 

 without waiting for the report of the Com- 

 mittee on Credentials, a delegate moved " to 

 proceed to ballot for a candidate for Gov- 

 ernor ; " which motion, notwithstanding op- 

 position, was carried and acted upon. The 

 ballot was to be considered informal. The 

 whole number of votes was 650, almost all of 

 which were distributed among three of the 

 five candidates proposed, Albert E. Hatch, of 

 Portsmouth, having received 143 votes; Hiram 

 R. Eoberts, of Eollingsford, 230; and James 

 A. Weston, of Manchester, , 240. This result 

 caused great excitement, and it was agreed to 

 take a formal ballot, the delegates voting by 

 counties. The result of the first ballot proved 

 decisive, as, the whole number of votes being 

 then 632, Mr. Hatch received 51 votes, Mr. 

 Eoberts 252, and Mr. Weston 323, who was 

 declared nominated, and his nomination made 

 unanimous. 



Alvah Sulloway received the nomination for 

 Eailroad Commissioner. 



The following resolutions were then adopted 

 by the convention : 



We, the Democratic Republican party of the State 

 of New Hampshire, in convention assembled, hereby 

 affirm, in the language of the seventh article of our 

 Bill of Eights, that the people of the State have the 

 sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as 

 a free, sovereign, independent State : and do and for- 

 ever hereafter shall exercise and enjoy every power, 

 jurisdiction, and right pertaining thereto which is not 

 or may not hereafter be by them expressly delegated 

 to the United States of America in Congress assem- 

 bled : therefore 



Resolved, 1. That we are iu favor of the union of 

 the States and the rights of the States as declared 

 and defined by the Constitution of the United States. 



2. That we are in faver of retrenchment, reform, 

 and economy in the expenditures of all the govern- 

 ments of the people, whether national, State, or mu- 

 nicipal. 



3. That, while we are in favor of all just and equal, 

 taxation necessary to sustain our Government and 

 public institutions, we are opposed to all unjust arjd 

 unequal systems of taxation which tend to favor ode 

 class at the expense of other classes of the people/ 



4. That the public domain of the United States! is 

 the property of the people, and should be preserved 

 for the peop_le as a refuge to which they can flee from 

 the oppression of capital, and that we condeian the 

 policy of giving the same to railroad corporations or 

 other corporate bodies for the benefit of the few and 

 not for the people. 



5. That the veto of the President, given him in 

 the Constitution, was intended to be used for the 

 protection of the rights of the people, and that we 

 regret that that great conservative power has never 

 been used by the present incumbent of that high 

 office for the purposes for which it was intended, 

 when so many opportunities have been presented for 

 its use by the action of Congress during the existence 

 of the present Administration. 



6. That this convention offers its adherence to the 

 Cincinnati-Baltimore platform of 1872, and cordially 

 invites the cooperation, without regard to former 

 political associations, of those voters of the State 

 who desire reform in the administration of public 

 affairs. 



7. That the present national Administration by its 

 devotion to personal and partisan interests, its utter 

 disregard of constitutional obligations, by its reckless 

 mismanagement of the national finances, by its in- 

 terference with the local self-government of the peo- 

 ple, by its support of all manner of corrupt jobs and 

 speculations, by its nominations of notoriously in-" 

 competent and corrupt men to the highest offices in 

 its gift, and its blundering and unstatesmanlike di- 

 rection of our foreign affairs, has justly brought upon 

 itself the condemnation and contempt of the Amer- 

 ican people. 



8. That the law increasing the salaries of the Presi- 

 dent and other officers of the Government was wholly 

 without justification, and we demand its unqualified 

 repeal, and we will support no man for political of- 

 fice who voted for the bill or is not in favor of such 

 repeal. 



9. That the Democracy of New Hampshire are 

 opposed to all monopolies which operate for the 

 special benefit of privileged persons or classes, and 

 to all combinations or corporations made to effect 

 purposes hostile to the best interests of the people ; 

 that thev are opposed to the use of money by corpo- 

 rate bodies to influence elections and the legislation 

 of the State; but they are not opposed to the cor- 

 porations established for the promotion of legitimate 

 interests and the public good, while their operations 

 are confined within the limits of their chartered 

 privileges and to the objects and purposes of their 

 creation. 



10. That we recognize the grievances of which the 

 farmers and other producing classes complain. The 

 national Government has unnecessarily depreciated 

 their property by crowding its own land upon the 

 market in advance of any natural demand. It has 

 imposed onerous taxes in the interest of monopolies 

 upon nearly all of the goods they consume, while it 

 protects them in nothing ; it exempts billions of money 

 from taxation, leaving the burden it ought to bear to 

 fall with aggravated weight upon them ; and the po- 

 litical effect of local laws is equally unjust, inasmuch 

 as the farmer has no disguise for his little wealth, 

 while property in other forms escapes taxation alto- 

 gether, or bears no just proportion of the burdens ac- 

 cording to prospective value. 



11. That we are in favor of more stringent laws in 

 relation to the investment of deposits by savings- 

 banks, so that the savings of those in moderate cir- 

 cumstances which may be intrusted to their care 

 shall be more secure!^ invested, and used so far as 

 practicable in developing and enlarging the resources 

 and business interests of all sections of the State. 



12. That the practical effects of rigid sumptuary 

 laws at all times, in all places, have been to generate 

 disregard of law amon^ both officials and peoples, and 

 to change the form without lessening the extent of 

 the evils they seek to remedy, and that the deduc- 

 tions of reason as well as the lessons of experience 

 suggest that a judicious license law, which may be 

 made prohibitory by local option, will yield better 

 results than the present law, which is partially and 

 unfairly enforced or wholly ignored as the caprice of 

 men or parties may dictate. 



13. That we extend our hearty congratulations to 



