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independent vote of any person or persons whatsoever 

 or whomsoever. 



10. We regard the old Minnesota railroad bonds as 

 dishonest and illegal in their whole origin and his- 

 tory ; a measure conceived in sin and brought forth in 

 iniquity, and one that is not morally binding on the 

 people of this State. 



11. We are in favor of the equalization of the sol- 

 diers' bounties. 



12. We desire to enter our protest as American citi- 

 zens against the custom which has been followed al- 

 most exclusively by the leaders of both the old parties 

 and especially the Eepublicans since the close of 

 the late war of the rebellion, of fostering local preju- 

 dices and sectional strife and hatred, whether between 

 the North and South or the East and West, regarding 

 it as unpatriotic, narrow-minded, illiberal, and fratri- 

 cidal, and one that can not be too earnestly condemned 

 by all good citizens of the Union ; indicating the dem- 

 agogue and partisan, rather than the statesman or pa- 

 triot, and obviously intended to divert the attention 

 of the people from grave and more important subjects 

 of a practical character. 



13. We denounce the boisterous and vindictive dis- 

 cussion for weeks together by the present Congress of 

 an insignificant and inoperative election law, fliat has 

 not existed at all until within the last few years, at tho 

 same time that they adjourned over Monday week after 

 week, to prevent the introduction of any measures of 

 relief in tho interest of the people, as wicked and puer- 

 ile, and beneath the dignity of any honest and repu- 

 table body of American citizens. 



14. We are opposed to all land-grabs by wealthy 

 corporations in this State, either of swamp-lands, in- 

 ternal improvement lands, or the public domain, in 

 any form whatever. We believe that the swamp-lands 

 ought to be appraised and sold, the same as the school 

 lands and internal improvement lands now are, and 

 the proceeds funded, and the interest, together with 

 that accruing from the internal improvement land, de- 

 voted to school purposes and other general current 

 expenses of the State in such a way that all may par- 

 ticipate in the benefits, and the burdens and taxes of 

 the people be correspondingly lightened. We are op- 

 posed to all useless and unnecessary offices and sine 

 cures, and all favoritism and fraud, or the retention hi 

 office of persons guilty of dishonesty or extravagance 

 in the use of public moneys ; and in favor of the most 

 rigid economy and fidelity in the administration of all 

 State and Federal matters. 



15. We commend the public speakers and press of 

 our National greenback-Labor party throughout the 

 State for avoiding all low, vulgar personalities and 

 slang, and confining themselves closely to the mea- 

 sures and principles before the country, rather than 

 striving to traduce and vilify and misrepresent those 

 who differ from them in opinion ; believing that a 

 calm, earnest, dispassionatCj courteous, and gentle- 

 manly course will be appreciated by our best citizens 

 of all parties. We also desire to express our admira- 

 tion and appreciation of our Greenback members in 

 Congress for their noble, earnest, and able advocacy 

 of the rights and interests of the people. 



16. We are satisfied that there is an imperative ne- 

 cessity for a weekly central or State organ, in the in- 

 terests of our party, under the editorial management 

 and control of an able and uncompromising man , and 

 will do all in our power to encourage and sustain such 

 a journal, if started. 



17. That we are in favor of the soldiers' and sailors' 

 homestead law being so amended as to remove all un- 

 fair and obnoxious restrictions, so as to enable the late 

 brave defenders of the Union, their widows and or- 

 phans, to become the actual owners of a homestead 

 without price and without cost other than the district 

 land-office fees, thus placing the poor and indigent ex- 

 soldier and sailor upon an equality with his rich and 

 affluent neighbor. And also we are in favor of all 

 lands belonging to the General Government being 

 placed in the market subject to entry or settlement by 

 actual settlers, including' pine-lands. 



18. That the labor of convicts shall not be let out 

 by contract to any person, copartnership company, or 

 corporation, and the Legislature shall by law provide 

 for the working of convicts for the benefit of the State, 

 thus preventing convict labor from coining hi compe- 

 tition with honest labor. 



19. The prohibition of the employment of children 

 under fourteen years of age in manufactories and in- 

 dustrial establishments, inasmuch as their employment 

 in such places tends to public demoralization by en- 

 feebling them physically, mentally, and morally, and 

 deprives them of that education in youth on which 

 so necessarily rests the enlightenment of the masses, 

 which we hold to be the sheet-anchor of republican 

 institutions. We demand the enactment of laws mak- 

 ing such employment a criminal offense, and punish- 

 able as felony. 



The State Convention of the Prohibitionists 

 was held at Minneapolis on June 10th. The 

 following ticket for State officers was nomi- 

 nated : For Governor, Rev. W. W. Satterlee ; 

 for Lieutenant-Governor, A. B. "Williams; for 

 Secretary of State, I. C. Stearns ; for Treasurer, 

 H. H. Brown ; for Attorney-General, A. W. 

 Bangs. The following platform was adopted: 



Whereas, The old political parties are opposed by 

 resolutions in party conventions passed, and by every 

 public act of their representatives in the halls of legis- 

 lation, to the prohibition of the traffic in intoxicating 

 liquors, and in favor of the policy of license ; and, 



Whereas^, We, as prohibitionists, ore opposed to this 

 policy, believing it to be wrong in principle and a fail- 

 ure in practice ; we can not, therefore, cast our votes 

 with these parties without violating our conscience 

 and stultifying our manhood ; therefore, 



Resolved, That we will follow the policy already 

 marked out by the Prohibition Eeform party, and, 

 declaring ourselves free from the old party yoke, nom- 

 inate true men for office, and, standing by them to 

 the last, turn not either to the right nor the left until 

 we win the victory. 



Resolved , farther, That we do invite and urge upon 

 our fellow citizens to join in this movement, without 

 regard to past party affiliations. 



The Republican State Convention assem- 

 bled at St. Paul on September 3d. J. V. Dan- 

 iels was chosen permanent President, and the 

 following ticket for State officers was nomi- 

 nated : For Governor, John S. Pillsbury ; for 

 Lieutenant-Governor, C. A. Gilman ; for Sec- 

 retary of State, Fred, von Baumbach ; for State 

 Treasurer, George Kittleson ; for Attorney- 

 General, Charles M. Start; for Railroad Com- 

 missioner, W. R. Marshall. The folio wing plat- 

 form was then adopted : 



The Eepublicans of Minnesota, in convention assem- 

 bled, make the following declarations : 



1. We ac" 

 by the last 



United States at Cincinnati, 

 which has attended the resumption of specie payments 

 and the refunding of the public debt at a more favora- 

 ble rate of interest than has ever before been attained 

 by the Government, indicates the safe and enlightened 

 financial policy which has steadily been adhered to by 

 the Eepublican party. We cheerfully acknowledge the 

 fidelity and ability with which the finances have been 

 conducted by the present Administration, and we es- 

 pecially commend the course of the President in firmly 

 exercising the veto power to uphold the safeguards of 

 the ballot-box. 



2. We desire to cultivate feelings of good neighbor- 

 hood with our fellow citizens of the Southern States, 

 and rely much upon conciliatory treatment and mu- 

 tually friendly intercourse to produce those good rela- 



