IOWA. 



ernor or Lieutenant-Governor to be elected, 

 and the State ticket agreed upon was as fol- 

 lows : For Secretary of State, Josiah T. Young, 

 of Monroe ; Auditor of State, Buren R. Sher- 

 man, of Benton; Treasurer of State, George 

 W. Bemis, of Buchanan; Eegister of State 

 Land-Office, David Secor, of Winnebago; At- 

 torney-General, John F. McJunkin, of Wash- 

 ington ; Judges of Supreme Court, William H. 

 Seevers, of Mahaska, and James H. Eothrock, 

 of Cedar; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, Carl W. von Coelln. The candidates for 

 Judges of the Supreme Court were already on 

 the bench, having been appointed by Governor 

 Kirk wood in February to the vacancies caused 

 respectively by the resignation of Chief-Justice 

 Cole, and the increase of the number of 

 Judges. The following platform was adopted: 



The Republicans of Iowa, in convention assem- 

 bled, hereby declare the following platform of prin- 

 ciples : 



1. We are for maintaining the unity of the nation 

 sacred and inviolate, for the just and equal rights 

 of all men, for peace, harmony, and brotherhood 

 throughout the nation ; for men of unsullied hon- 

 esty and purity of character for public trusts, and 

 for the swift pursuit and unsparing punishment of 

 all dishonest officials, high or low. 

 ^ 2. That we are in favor of, and that we demand, 

 rigid economy in the administration of government 

 affairs, both State and national. 



3. That we favor the early attainment of a cur- 

 rency convertible with coin, and therefore advocate 

 the gradual resumption of specie payment by con- 

 tinuous and steady steps in that direction. 



4. That we demand that all railway and other cor 

 porations shall be held in fair and just subjection to 

 the law-making power. 



5. That we stand by free education, our public- 

 school system, the taxation of all for its support, 

 and no diversion of the school-fund from the public 

 schools. 



6. That we cordially invite immigration from all 

 civilized countries, guaranteeing to the immigrant the 

 same political privileges and social and religious 

 freedom we ourselves enjoy, and favoring a free and 

 unsectarian system of common schools for their 

 children with ours. 



7. That the Democratic party now, as during the 

 perilous years that tried men's souls, while the Union 

 was struggling with the serpent of secession, yet ac- 

 knowledges the old-time hateful and fatelul tra- 

 ditions _that have constrained it to signalize the 

 restoration of the Democratic party to power in the 

 Lower House of Congress hy the election of an 

 officiary of ex-Confederates, whose motto is ''Union 

 soldiers to the rear, Confederates to the front:" 

 that during the six months past that party in the 

 House has demonstrated its hostility to the best 

 sentiments of the people of the Union, no less than 

 its traditional affection for the adherents of the 

 cause that was overcome at Appomattox ; that it has 

 been both false and imbecile in its management of 

 the affairs committed to its charge, and has forfeited 

 whatever of popular confidence may have been re- 

 posed on it by the accident of party mutations. 



8. That in James G-. Elaine we recognize a pure 

 Republican and patriot, and one well worthy to be 

 chosen as the standard-bearer of the national Re- 

 publican party in the coming campaign. 



The Democrats made their nominations at a 

 convention held at Des Moines on the 30th of 

 August. The following were the candidates 



TEUSS BRIDGE OVER THE MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN DAVENPOBT (IOWA) AND BOCK ISLAND (ILLINOIS). 



for State officers : Secretary of State, John H. 

 Stubenrauch, of Marion County ; Auditor, 

 William Groneweg, of Pottawattomie ; Treas- 

 urer, Wesley Jones, of Burlington ; Register 

 of Land-Office, N". C. Ridenour, of Page ; At- 

 torney-General, J. 0. Cook, of Jasper ; Judges 

 of the Supreme Court, Walter I. Hayes, of 

 Scott, and William Graham, of Dubuque. No 

 candidate was named for Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, but it was left to the 

 State Central Committee to fill the vacancy 



on the ticket. The following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



Resolved, by the Liberal Democratic party of the 

 State of Iowa in convention assembled, That we 

 adopt as our platform of principles the resolutions 

 and declarations of the National Convention at St. 

 Louis, and earnestly approve the sentiments of the 

 eminent statesmen of the party, Hon. Samuel J. 

 Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, so ably pre- 

 sented in their letters of acceptance of their nomi- 

 nation at said convention. 



Itesolved, That the Democracy of Iowa, appreci- 



