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Central Committee was strongly "anti-llit.-li- 



The Democratic Convention for the nomi- 

 nation of candidates was held at Omaha, on 

 b of September. Tin- State ticket adopted 

 - follows: For Governor, Puren England; 

 Lioiitouant-Governor, Miles Zentmeyer; Sec- 

 rotary of State, Joseph E. Ritchie ; Treasurer, 

 Samuel Waugh; Auditor, G. P. Thomas; At- 

 t iniey-General, D. L. Ashby ; Superintendent 

 of Public, Instruction, I. N. Jones; Commis- 

 sioner of Public Lands and Buildings, Henry 

 Grebe. The candidate for Congress was Gen- 

 eral Joseph Holman, of Dakota County. The 

 following was the platform adopted : 



Rssolved, by the Democracy of the State of Ne- 

 braska, in convention assembled : 



1. That we heartily indorse the statement of prin- 

 ciples of the Democratic party as enunciated by the 

 St. Louis Convention ; and that we look upon tha 

 election of Tildon and Hendricks as the only means 

 of saving to this country the government our fathers 

 gave us. 



->,. That, in view of the history of the Republican 

 party, we have no faith in their pledges of reform ; 

 that tuey have so often deceived the people and ob- 

 tained their support on the strength of such pledges, 

 that it is the height of folly to trust them- longer ; 

 and that the people place no confidence in a party 

 whose entire history is replete with broken pledges, 

 violated personal rights, criminal extravagance, and 

 unpunished corruption. 



3. That wo arraign the Republican party, and par- 

 ticularly a Republican Senate, as being false to the 

 interests of the people, and to their repeated pledge* 

 of economy in refusing to consent to a reduction of 

 the expenditures of the Government, made by a 

 Democratic House of Representatives. 



4. That wo denounce trie policy of the Republican 

 party in furnishing the Indians with arms and am- 

 munition with which to take the lives of tax-pay- 

 ing white men, and in protecting the Indians while 

 they leave our frontier unprotected. 



5. That we denounce interference on the part of 



neral Government with a free exercise of the 

 elective franchise by keeping a standing army over 

 the ballot-box in several States of the union as an 

 unwarranted exercise of the Executive power, in a 

 time of profound peace, for the sole object of sub- 

 serving party purposes. 



6. That the pretended claim of the Republican 

 party that they are the friends of the soldier is a 

 gross and deceptive fraud in that after a Democratic 

 House had passed a bill for the purpose of equaliz- 

 ing the bounties of the soldiers, a Republican Sen- 

 uto defeated the same. 



7. That we demand the utmost economy in the 

 expenditures of our State government, and that the 

 p unite money shall not be used by its custodians in 

 speculation, or to advance party ends, and that such 

 use be punished with severe penalties. 



The Republican nominating convention was 

 held at Lincoln, on the 28th and 29th of Sep- 

 tember. The ticket was made up as follows : 

 For Governor, Silas Garber ; Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, N". O. Abbott ; Secretary of State, Bruno 

 Tzsehuck ; Treasurer, J. C. McBride ; Auditor, 

 J. B. Weston ; Attorney-General, George 11. 

 Roberts ; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, S. R. Thompson; Commissioner of Pub- 

 lic Lands and Buildings, F. M.Davis; member 

 of Congress, Frank Welch. Presidential elec- 

 tors were also nominated. A long series of 

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resolutions was adopted. The preamble re- 

 affirmed the faith of the party in the perpe- 

 tuity of the Union and the sanctity of the Con- 

 stitution, and steadfast loyalty to its principles 

 under all circumstances. The platform and 

 nominations of the Cincinnati Convention were 

 approved in the tirst two resolutions. Then 

 followed these declarations : 



8. Wo affirm that the Republican party stands 

 pledged to the principle of the equality of all citizens 

 before the law, without regard to color, creed, or na- 

 tionality. The fact of citizenship clothes all alike ; 

 its panoply is over all, and each and every one is en- 

 titled to the fullest protection in accordance with 

 the Constitution in every State of the Union. 



4. We commend the legislation of Congress, the 

 orders of President Grant, and the action of the At- 

 torney-General in his letter of instructions to the 

 United States marshals to enforce the laws, and pro- 

 tect the citizens in the performance of their political 

 rights, and sacredly shield the elective franchise in 

 States where obstructed. 



5. We unhesitatingly indorse the financial policy 

 of the Government in its successful efforts to " re- 

 store the public credit and maintain the national 

 honor," and the late fiscal arrangements, by means 

 of which $300,000,000 of bonds have been placed at 

 four and a half per cent, interest, and an equivalent 

 amount of six per cent, bonds retired, thus efl'ecting 

 a saving of $4,500,000 interest money annually, meets 

 the unqualified approbation of the Republican party. 



6. We approve the policy of redeeming the out- 

 standing currency in coin or its equivalent, so as to 

 make it convertible at any time at the option of the 

 holder, either into gold, silver, or government bonds, 

 at an equal interchangeable value, and we look with 

 confidence to a returned prosperity and to such a re- 

 vival of commerce, trade, and manufactures, as wiil 

 make such redemption speedily practicable. 



7. Owing to the requirements of the public debt, 

 revenues must be provided in ad.dition to the ordi- 

 nary expenditures of the Government, sufficient to 

 discharge the accruing interest ; which revenues 

 must in the nature of things be derived principally 

 from duties on imports ; and, in the adjustment of 

 the tariff laws, equitable protection should be given 

 to domestic manufactures, and thus foster labor, 

 promote enterprise, and advance the public wel- 

 fare. 



8. We approve and commend the generous and 

 beneficent 'policy of the Government in granting 

 pensions to loyal men who periled their lives that 

 the nation might live, and to their widows and or- 

 phans. A grateful people will cheerfully pay taxes 

 for this holy purpose. 



9. We desire to express our abhorrence of and 

 place our seal of condemnation on that element in 

 the Democratic party which justified the slaughter at 

 Hamburg, S. C. ; which looks with complacency 

 on the butcheries at Coushatta, La. ; which approves 

 of the shot-gun policy in Mississippi ; which indorses 

 the displacement of 'Union soldiers, and establishes 

 the Confederate guerrillas in their vacant positions ; 

 which has cut down the appropriation for the army 

 and navy, while a savage warfare is in proeres* on 

 our borders; which has sent to the congressional 

 hulls the most violent and bitter foes of the restored 

 republic; which has in solemn convention declared 

 the amendments to the Constitution null and void, 

 and which presents itself to-day in an attitude of 

 defiance and hostility to the peace, integrity, and 

 autonomy of the nation. 



\Vr, the Republican party of Nebraska, charge 

 fie above on a portion of the adherents of the 

 Democratic party, and we reject with disdain the 

 presentation of statements mnde in the plutform of 

 that party at St. Louis. To the maintenance of all 

 herein set forth, we pledge ourselves as becomes all 



