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help men to break away from the bondage of strong 

 drink. 



2. We believe there is no cause more just and com- 

 manding than that which aims at the extermination 

 of a traffic which is the source of nine tenths of all 

 poverty, misery, and crime. 



3. The prohibitory law of this State, now on trial 

 for twenty-five years, while partially inoperative from 

 lack of enforcement in many places, has exerted a 

 wholesome and restraining influence, and its efficiency 

 has been abundantly proved wherever and whenever 

 enforced. 



4. The time has come in the history of this reform 

 to declare our firm and unalterable conviction that the 

 duty of enforcing all laws, the prohibitory law in- 

 cluded, is incumbent on the police and solicitors, and 

 on the selectmen, and mayor, and aldermen of cities 

 and towns ; and the same diligence and impartiality 

 are due from them that the courts have employed in 

 upholding the prohibitory law among the statutes of 

 the State. 



5. The reform clubs, temperance unions, and all 

 other organizations that aim to carry out the practical 

 work of the temperance cause, both by moral and le- 

 gal suasion, should receive the approval and support 

 of allgood citizens. 



6. That the lavish and corrupt use of money in 

 procuring the nomination and election of civil officers 

 is an alarming and growing evil ; is a reproach to the 

 State, turning our politics into a school of corruption, 

 and threatening, unless checked, to undermine popu- 

 lar elections and overwhelm republican government 

 itself ; and we call upon the people to rebuke the prac- 

 tice, and wipe out the reproach in every eifective way. 



7. To secure the enforcement and strengthening of 

 the prohibitory and all other laws of the State, we 

 recommend to the people, especially in the choice of 

 all executive officers and members of the Legislature, 

 that they vigilantly see to the nomination and elec- 

 tion of capable, upright, temperate, and independent 

 men. 



The following additional resolution was then 

 offered by a delegate, and unanimously adopted 

 by the convention : 



Resolved^ That this convention recommend such 

 legislative action as will insure the use in the public 

 schools of an elementary treatise on alcohol as a 

 poison. 



In preparation for the general election in 

 November, 1882, the Republicans of New 

 Hampshire met in State Convention at Con- 

 cord, on September 12th, to nominate their 

 candidates. Little less than 650 delegates, from 

 all sections of the State, were in attendance. 

 The nominations were as follow : 



For Governor, Samuel W. Hale, of Keene ; 

 Railroad Commissioners, Edward J. Tenney, of 

 Claremont; Ben jamin W. Hoy t, of Epping ; and 

 Stillman Humphrey, of Concord. 



For members of Congress, by Congressional 

 District Conventions, were nominated: First 

 District, Martin A. Haynes, of Gilford ; Sec- 

 ond District, Ossian Ray, of Lancaster. 



The following among other resolutions were 

 unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the Eepublicans of New Hampshire 

 reaffirm their faith in those principles which have given 

 liberty, peace, and prosperity to the whole country ; 

 while in the untimely death of the late President Gar- 

 field, endeared to the nation by his public and pri- 

 vate virtues and whose brief service gave promise of a 

 brilliant future, we recognize a great national calam- 

 ity ; we also recognize the patriotism, ability, and 

 fidelity of his successor, and rejoicing in the success of 



his administration we tender to President Arthur the 

 assurance of our heartiest confidence and support. 



We reaffirm and indorse the principle of a protec- 

 tive tariff as the safeguard of American industries, by 

 which our great manufacturing interests have been 

 fostered and maintained, and American labor has been 

 protected against the ruinous competition of the scant- 

 ily-paid labor of foreign nations. 



We believe in the re-establishment of American 

 commerce, by the encouragement of our shipping and 

 ship-building, and by the enactment of laws discrimi- 

 nating in favor of those interests. We believe, also, 

 in the re-establishment of the American Navy. 



We maintain the principle of the prohibition of the 

 traffic in intoxicating drinks, a traffic so disastrous to 

 the best interests of the people, and we demand that 

 all laws for the prohibition of this traffic shall be fear- 

 lessly and impartially enforced. 



We recognize the great importance of common 

 schools as essential to our national security and pros- 

 perity, and we favor national assistance toward the 

 complete establishment of such a system throughout 

 the whole country. 



The public revenues have been and are collected 

 economically and faithfully, but we believe that the 

 term of office should be made for a fixed number of 

 years, and legislation should be adopted to make ap- 

 pointments conditioned solely upon fitness. 



The Democratic party, represented by about 

 450 delegates, held its State Convention at 

 Concord on September 13th, and Martin V. 

 B. Edgerly was declared its nominee for Gov- 

 ernor. 



The following resolutions, with others, were 

 adopted : 



The Democrats of New Hampshire in convention 

 assembled, while affirming their adherence to the 

 grand principles of Jefferson, Jackson, Madison, and 

 Douglas, enumerate the following as their plat- 

 form: . . . 



2. We demand the equal taxation of all property, 

 individual and corporate. 



3. We advocate the passage and strict enforcement 

 of the anti-bribery bill of General Marston, defeated 

 by the last Eepublican Legislature. 



4. We denounce the present system of blackmailing 

 office-holders, Government clerks, and employe's, 

 practiced by the Eepublicans, to secure corruptive 

 funds for the purchase of votes, and condemn all uses 

 of money, and all other means used for corruption of 

 the ballot at popular elections. 



5. We affirm our unalterable opposition to all mo- 

 nopolies, both in State and nation. . . . 



7. We believe the present tariff system is unequal 

 and oppressive, and therefore demand its immediate re- 

 vision, to the end that American industries and labor 

 may be properly protected, without creating and fos- 

 tering monopolies. 



8. We recognize the growing evil of intemperance, 

 and view with alarm the sale of spirituous liquors, in 

 all the cities and larger towns of the State, in open 

 defiance of the law ; in view of which facts, we charge 

 the Eepublican party with cowardly and designedly 

 evading the enforcement of the prohibitory law, and 

 steadily shamming on the temperance question, and 

 record our opposition to all sumptuary laws and our 

 condemnation of that hypocrisy which places a law 

 upon the statute-book, and then evades its enforce- 

 ment. . . . 



11. We charge the Eepublican party with inaugu- 

 rating and steadily practicing wholesale bribery at elec- 

 tions for twenty years past, until our elections have 

 become a grand auction, and the offices go to the high- 

 est bidder ; they have practiced bribery and intimi- 

 dation of voters until New Hampshire politics are a 

 stench in the nostrils of the whole country ; they have 

 used the arm of corporate power in terrifying and con- 

 trolling the votes of their employe's to an extent equal 



