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NEBRASKA. 



The general election in November was lim- 

 ited to the choice of an Associate Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, Judges of District Courts, 

 and two Regents of the State University. 



The Democrats held their State Convention 

 at Lincoln on September 10th. The nomina- 

 tions made were as follows : For Associate Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court, Eleazar Wakely ; 

 for Regents of the State University, Andrew 

 J. Sawyer and Alexander J. Bear ; for Judges 

 of the District Courts : First District, "Warren 

 P. Conner; Third District, James W. Savage; 

 Fourth District, William H. Hunger; Sixth 

 District, James W. Crawford. For the Second 

 and Fifth Judicial Districts no nominations 

 were made. The following platform was 

 adopted : 



The Democratic party of Nebraska, in convention 

 assembled, reposing its trust in the intelligence, patri- 

 otism, and discriminating justice of the people, and 

 standing upon the Constitution with all the amend- 

 ments thereto, on the foundation and limitation of all 

 the powers of government and the guarantee of the 

 liberties of the citizens, do resolve : 



1. That we reaffirm all the old time-honored princi- 

 ples of the party, and take no steps backward. 



2. That we deprecate the action of Republicans in 

 making treaties with the various tribes of Indians, and 

 then violating the same, and driving them from the 

 lands conveyed to them^ and thereby turning loose 

 upon our frontier organized bands of outraged sav- 

 ages, seeking revenge on our inhabitants for the wrongs 

 perpetrated upon them by Republican administrations. 



3. The Democratic party maintains, as it has ever 

 maintained, that the military ia and ought to be in 

 strict subordination to the civil power in all things. 

 It denies, as it ever has denied, the right of the Fed- 

 eral Administration to keep on foot at the general ex- 

 pense a standing army to invade the States lor political 

 purposes, to control the people at the polls, to protect 

 and encourage a fraudulent count of votes, or to fraud- 

 ulently under the form of law inaugurate a candidate 

 who has been defeated at the polls by a lawful major- 

 ity both of the people and the Electoral College as 

 provided by the Constitution. 



4. That the right of free ballot is the great right of 

 the American people, the right preservative of all other 

 rights the only means of redressing grievances and 

 reforming abuses. The presence of the military at the 

 polls, and of a host of hireling officials claiming the 

 power to arrest and imprison voters without warrant 

 or hearing, destroys all freedom of election and over- 

 turns the very foundation of self-government. We 

 call upon all good citizens to aid us in preserving our 

 institutions from destruction by these imperious meth- 

 ods of supervising the right of suffrage and coercing 

 the popular will, and in keeping the way to the ballot- 

 box open and free as it was to our fathers. 



5. We demand the strictest economy in the man- 

 agement of the affairs of government ; national, State, 

 and county. We arraign the Eepublican party of the 

 State for its extravagance in the management of the 

 affairs of the State ; for wasteful and corrupt appropria- 

 tions of the public funds of the State, whereby certain 

 partisans have been enriched at the expense of the 

 tax-paying public of the State. We demand that the 

 system of' abuse and misappropriation of the public 

 funds should cease, and we call upon all good citizens, 

 without regard to former party affiliations, to aid us in 

 hurling from power the party that have so long abused 

 the trust reposed in them. 



The Republicans held their State Convention 

 at Omaha on October 1st, and nominated the 

 following ticket : For Associate Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, Amasa Cobb ; for Regents of 



the State University, Joseph "W. Gannett and 

 John L. Carson ; for Judges of the six District 

 Courts: First District, Andrew J. Weaver; 

 Second District, S. B. Pound ; Third District, 

 Charles A. Baldwin ; Fourth District, George 

 W. Post ; Fifth District, William Gaslin, Jr. ; 

 Sixth District, John B. Barnes. The platform 

 adotped was as follows : 



We, the Kepublicans of the State of Nebraska, again 

 renew our pledges of fidelity to the principles of free- 

 dom and right tor which we have ever contended ; and 

 now in convention assembled it is resolved : 



1. These United States are a nation, and not simply 

 a league of States. 



2. We watch with apprehension the arrogance and 

 treasonable utterances of the rebel brigadiers now in 

 Congress, as a threatening danger to this nation. And, 

 further, the Eepublican party of Nebraska proclaim 

 that we have no concessions to make to unrepentant 

 rebels ; that we still adhere to the principles for which 

 our brave soldiers have fought. 



3. That we again offer the principle of freedom of 

 the ballot-box, and demand at the hands of the Exec- 

 utive of this nation protection for the voters of the 

 South, such as is accorded to all political parties in the 

 North. 



4. As the same issues are again being presented for 

 decision at the ballot-box for which our armies con- 

 tended so long and faithfully, with confidence we call 

 upon the soldiers to vote as they fought, for the pres- 

 ervation of the life and purity of the Government. 



5. That we welcome with much pleasure the signs 

 of returning prosperity, as evinced by the increased 

 activity of every department of industry, the general 

 revival of manufacturing interests, and the additional 

 confidence exhibited by all departments of business. 



6. That we congratulate the country upon the suc- 

 cessful resumption of specie payments, ever pledging 

 the support of the Republicans of Nebraska to all ef- 

 forts of the Eepublican party in the nation's counsels 

 to protect the credit of the nation, and make the prom- 

 ises as good as gold. 



7. That we demand at the hands of all Eepublican 

 officials the utmost economy in the administration of 

 all affairs of the Government ; and that we pledge our- 

 selves as a party to a careful supervision of the expen- 

 ditures in all the departments of our State. 



8. That we as Kepublicans of the State of Nebraska 

 welcome back to the shores of America the champion 

 of our Union, the protector of our nation's honor, 

 and the hero of the great rebellion General Ulysses 

 Grant. 



The election resulted in the choice by the 

 Republicans of the Associate Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, the two Regents of the State 

 University, and five out of the six Judges of 

 the District Courts. The aggregate number of 

 votes polled by all parties in Nebraska at this 

 election was 84,514; and the highest number 

 cast by the adherents to either party was for 

 one of the two Regents of the State Universi- 

 ty, as follows : Republicans, 46,376 ; Democrats, 

 23,127; Greenbackers, 5,011. 



The whole amount of the taxable property 

 in the State is estimated at about $80,000,000. 

 The collection of State taxes for two years 

 will produce, under existing laws, $360,000 for 

 1879, at four mills on the dollar, 'and $120,000 

 for 1880, at two mills. To meet the current 

 and incidental expenses of all the departments 

 of the State government for the said two years, 

 including $122,200 for the erection of pub- 

 lic buildings and $112,625.33 for the payment 



