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volves the responsible agency of a political party 

 united and distinctly committed to the prohibitory 

 policy ; and 



Whereas, Neither of the other political organiza- 

 tions either can or will accept this question as an is- 

 sue: therefore 



Resolved^ That it is the duty of all good citizens to 

 give their moral and political support to the Reform 

 party, forsaking all others and working zealously for 

 it only until its victory is complete in all parts of our 

 State and nation. 



The convention then nominated R. F. Humis- 

 ton for Governor, J. B. Tuttle for Lieutenant- 

 Governor, John H. Stevens for Secretary 

 of State, H. D. Brown for Treasurer, Asa B. 

 Hutchinson for Auditor, 0. M. McCarthy for 

 Attorney- General, and Sherman Page for Chief- 

 Justice. 



The Democratic Convention assembled in 

 St. Paul, July 7th, and nominated D. L. Buell 

 for Governor, E. W. Durant for Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Adolphus Bierman for Secretary 

 of State, Michael Doran for Auditor, Albert 

 Scheffer for Treasurer, L. Emmett for Chief- 

 Justice, and R. A. Jones for Attorney-General. 

 The following resolutions were adopted: 



The Democratic-Republican party of Minnesota, 

 in convention assembledj invite our follow-citizens 

 to consider whether the widely-prevailing corruption 

 in the conduct of public affairs, in both State and 

 nation, has not made it evident that the dominant 

 party should be deprived of the powers which its 

 leaders have of late years so prostituted and abused. 



Believing that reform can only be inaugurated by 

 selecting candidates and representatives not hereto- 

 fore connected with any of these abuses, and who are 

 known to be both honest and capable, we present to 

 the people of Minnesota, as candidates for their suf- 

 frages, the gentlemen nominated to-day ; and declare 

 the following to be the principles they represent : 



Resolved^ 1. That the adoption of the fourteenth, 

 fifteenth, and sixteenth amendments to the Federal 

 Constitution closed a. great era in our politics, and 

 marked the end forever of human slavery, and of 

 the struggles that grew out of that system. These 

 amendments have been accepted in good faith by all 

 political organizations and the people of all sections. 

 Hereafter all parties must stand upon them, and our 

 politics must turn upon the questions of the present 

 and the future, and not upon those of the settled and 

 final past. 



2. That the national Government is a government 

 of limited and delegated powers, supreme within its 

 sphere ; while the great bulk of the rights of the 

 people must find their safeguard in the States and 

 the people themselves. 



3. That we are opposed to all attempts to limit the 

 freedom of the press of the country. 



4. A return to gold and silver as the basis of the 

 currency of the country, with immediate preparation 

 and effective measures to secure the resumption of 

 specie payments. 



5. A tariff for revenue only consistent with an 

 honest administration. None for protection. No 

 government partnership with protected monopolies. 



6. Equal and exact justice to all men ; no partial 

 legislation ; no partial taxation. 



7. Free men; uniform excise laws: no sumptuary 

 laws. 



8. Official accountability, enforced by better civil 

 and criminal remedies; no private use of public 

 funds by public officers, and the strictest economy 

 in allpublic affairs. 



9. The party in power responsible for the admin- 

 istration of the government while in power. 



10. That all corporations chartered or recognized 



by the State should be at all times supervisable by 

 the State in the interests and for the < protection of 

 the people against unjust discriminations and extor- 

 tionate demands. 



The Republican State Convention was held 

 in St. Paul on the 28th of July. John S. Pills- 

 bury was nominated for Governor, John B. 

 Wakefield for Lieutenant-Governor, John S. 

 Irgens for Secretary of State, 0. P. Whitcomb 

 for Auditor, William Pfaender for Treasurer, 

 and George P. "Wilson for Attorney-General. 



The convention made no nomination for 

 Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court, but in- 

 stead adopted the following resolution : 



Resolved, That, believing it a duty to elevate the 

 choice of judges above whatever is debasing in party 

 contests, this convention will make no formal nom- 

 ination for Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court, but. 

 in recognition of the unanimous voice of the legal 

 profession of the State, as well as the general judg- 

 ment of men of all classes, which has Found expres- 

 sion in executive appointments, we commend for 

 election to that office the present incumbent. Judge 

 James Gilfillan, a man preeminently qualified for the 

 high position. 



The following platform was adopted : 



1. The Kepublicans of Minnesota reaffirm the car- 

 dinal principles of their party, which have become 

 the established policy of both State and national 

 Governments the unity and insolubility of the na- 

 tion, the equal rights and just protection of all men 

 before the law. 



2. That on the prominent questions of the day we 

 favor that policy of finance which shall steadily keep 

 in view a return to specie payments. 



3. A tariff strictly for revenue, yet so adjusted as 

 to be the least burdensome and the most favorable 

 to the interests of home industry and labor. 



4. We demand that all railway and other corpora- 

 tions shall be held in fair and just subjection to the 

 law-making power constitutionally exercised. 



5. That we cordially indorse the progressive and 

 liberal policy of the Republican party in its well-de- 

 fined and clearly-announced purpose to foster the 

 agricultural, industrial, and commercial interests of 

 the country by a judicious system of internal im- 

 provements, having for their object the enlargement 

 of the facilities and a reduction in the cost of trans- 

 portation for inter-State commerce. 



6.. That to the Republican party are justly due the 

 honor and credit of securing, for the first time, the 

 recognition by foreign governments of the full and 

 complete rights of citizenship, in reversal of the 

 monarchical doctrine that a subject cannot absolve 

 himself from allegiance to his sovereign by natural- 

 ization under our laws. 



7. We heartily commend the honesty and efficiency 

 of the present State administration, and point with 

 satisfaction to the fact that it has reduced the aggre- 

 gate of State taxes twenty per cent, within the last 

 two years. 



8. That the example of Washington in refusing to 

 be a candidate for a third presidential term, and the 

 affirmance by President Grant of it as a principle, 

 we sacredly cherish, and we should regard a de- 

 parture from it a dangerous innovation. 



9. That we approve of the present Republican na- 

 tional Administration, and especially the earnest ef- 

 forts to collect the revenue, to prevent and punish 

 fraud, to expose past violations and to guard against 

 their recurrence in the future. 



10. That we indorse the policy of adjusting difficul- 

 ties between this and foreign nations by arbitration 

 instead of war, and, as friends of justice, peace, and 

 humanity, we shall hail the day when this policy 

 shall be adopted throughout the world. 



