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depression in business and industry vanishing be- 

 fore a sure return of confidence and prosperity. 



2. That our good name and welfare, as a people, 

 demand that our financial pledges, made in the hour 

 of national peril, should be maintained inviolate, 

 and our public debt be paid, principal and interest, 

 according to the spirit and letter of the law. 



3. That as repeated efforts and failures have proved 

 it to be beyond the power of governments to impart 

 value to irredeemable paper, and maintain its cur- 

 rency as money, and as our legal-tender notes were 

 issued under a solemn promise that they should be 

 redeemed, dollar for dollar, in gold and silver, at 

 the earliest practicable moment, after the restora- 

 tion of peace, and as the time for the fulfillment of 

 this pledge has now arrived, and specie payment 

 has been reached, we denounce all efforts to delay 

 the day of resumption, and to inflate the currency 

 by an additional issue of irredeemable paper, as de- 

 structive to all business interests, unwise, dishonor- 

 able, and fraudulent as public measures. 



4. That we believe in no questioning of the Presi- 

 dent's title, no trifling with an issue irrevocably and 

 justly settled, and no further use for the useless 

 Totter Committee ; that there should bo no payment 

 of outlawed Southern claims, and no pensions to 

 rebel soldiers. 



5. That we believe in equal taxation of all prop- 

 erty, and in exemption for none. 



6. That an average of ten hours of daily toil is 

 enough for man, woman, or child ; and in the ab- 

 sence of contract this ought to be deemed a legal 

 day's work. 



7. That we believe in equal rights, and the equal 

 exercise of those rights, for all citizens of the re- 

 public. 



8. That we believe in an honest and unintirni- 

 dated ballot, and a fair field for all political parties 

 at the South, as well as at the North, without which 

 suffrage is a sham, and the Constitution a rope of 

 sand. 



9. That as a party we welcome and bid God-speed 

 to the temperance reformation, and will give it sucn 

 legislative and material support as shall be at our 

 command. 



10. That we tender our profound and heartfelt 

 sympathies to our plague-smitten brethren at the 

 South, in the fearful and widespread visitation of 

 disease which is now bringing unutterable desola- 

 tions and sorrovy to their homes, and we pledge to 

 them such practical aid as Providence has placed in 

 our power. 



11. That the thanks of the Eepublicana of this 

 State are due to Governor Prescott for his faithful 

 and efficient administration of our State affairs. 



12. That the Kepublicans of New Hampshire will 

 give to General Natt Head, our candidate for Gov- 

 ernor, and to Granville P. Conn, of Concord, Da- 

 vid E. Willard, of Orford, and James E. French, of 

 Mpultonborough, our candidates for Railroad Com- 

 missioners to-day nominated, our earnest and hearty 

 support, and pledge our best efforts to secure their 

 triumphant election. 



The Republican nominations for State Coun- 

 cilors and Congressmen were as follows : For 

 Councilors District No. 1, Warren Brown ; 

 No. 2, Hiram A. Tuttle, of Pittsfield ; No. 3, 

 Nathan Parker, of Manchester ; No. 4, James 

 Burnap, of Marlow ; No. 5, Aaron P. Gould, 

 of Piermont. For Congressmen District No. 

 1, Joshua G. Hall, of Dover; No. 2, James 

 F. Briggs, of Manchester; No. 3, Evarts W. 

 Farr, of Littleton. 



The Democratic party met in State Conven- 

 tion at Concord on September 12th, about 600 

 delegates being in attendance. Their nomina- 

 tions for State officers were as follows : For 

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Governor, Frank A. McKean, of Nashua; for 

 Railroad Commissioners, Hadley B. Fowler, of 

 Bristol, David H. Young, of Manchester, and 

 Edward A. Peterson, of Greenland. 

 The following platform was adopted : 

 The Democracy of New Hampshire, in convention 

 assembled, in view of the anomalous condition of 

 public and business affairs, with abundant harvests 

 throughout the land, with limitless resources of field, 

 forest, and mine undeveloped, with the Old "World 

 reaching out its hands for the varied products of 

 American industry and genius, yet with millions of 

 capital idle, hundreds of thousands of laborers un- 

 employed, business depression and financial ruin on 

 every hand, want and misery staring multitudes in 

 the face, realizing this condition of things, the abso- 

 lute necessity for a decided change in governmental 

 Eolicy and administration (in measures and men), 

 ereby charge upon the Eepublican party, which 

 has controlled our State and Federal Government 

 for the last twenty y^ears, the full responsibility for 

 the lamentable condition of affairs, and confidently 

 appeal to the people for the restoration of the gov- 

 ernment to Democratic hands, and reaffirm our devo- 

 tion to the following cardinal Democratic principles : 



1. The supremacy of the Federal Constitution, and 

 the integrity and perpetuity of the Union under its 

 provisions. 



2. The absolute equality and independence of the 

 several States in the direction and control of their 

 domestic affairs, subject only to the Constitution of 

 the United States. 



3. Equality of rights, duties, protections, and bur- 

 dens for all American citizens. No privileged classes, 

 110 monopolies, no unjust distinctions anywhere. 



Resolved, 1. That the only remedy for the combi- 

 nation of evils by which the country is now afflicted 

 is to be found in wise and impartial'legislation, hon- 

 est administration, just adjudication, and the exer- 

 cise of the most rigid economy in every department 

 of the Government. 



2. That we are in favor of a stable currency, the 

 just payment of the public debt, and but one cur- 

 rency for the Government and the people, the labor- 

 er and the office-holder, the pensioner and the sol- 

 dier, the producer and the bondholder. 



3. That whatever currency is issued by the Gov- 

 ernment should be issued for the benefit of the whole 

 people, and not for the benefit of capitalists at the 

 expense of the people. 



4. That our present tariff laws are a restriction 

 upon trade and commerce between our own and for- 

 eign countries, and therefore an impediment rather 

 than an encouragement to American industry^ de- 

 vised in the interest of monopolies and maintained 

 in opposition to the demands of the people. We 

 therefore advocate their modification or repeal, and 

 the substitution of a simple revenue tariff, which 

 shall be productive without being oppressive. 



5. That the " fraud first triumphant in American 

 politics" and unparalleled in the history of the 

 world, whereby the will of the freemen of the re- 

 public was defied and subverted, and a defeated can- 

 didate placed in the Presidential chair, shall never 

 be ignored or condoned, and we call upon the De- 

 mocracy and the people throughout the land to stand 

 with us in demanding the vindication of the right 

 and the condemnation of the wrong, to the end that 

 fraud shall henceforth be powerless and odious, and 

 free government a reality in America. 



6. That we extend our earnest sympathies to the 

 workingmen of the State, in their present sufferings, 

 and their earnest efforts to extricate themselves from 

 the consequences of Republican extravagance and 

 misrule, and that we will cooperate in their endeav- 

 ors to obtain a fair and just arrangement of hours of 

 labor, particularly for women and children, and full 

 protection for themselves in their scanty earnings. 



7. That the Constitution of New Hampshire and 



