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complete the St. Vincent extension north of 

 Glyndon to Pembina will soon be built ; that 

 the St. Cloud branch of the St. Paul & Pacif- 

 ic will be extended to Alexandria ; that the 

 Worthington & Sioux Falls Railroad will be 

 completed to the latter point ; and that the 

 Hastings & Dakota will be finished about 25 

 or 30 miles beyond Glencoe. These enterprises 

 will add about 178 miles to the total length of 

 the railroads in the State. 



The Republican Convention assembled in St. 

 Paul, September 27th, and made the following 

 nominations : for Governor, Governor John 

 S. Pillsbury; for Lieutenant-Governor, J. B. 

 Wakefield ; for Secretary of State, John S. 

 Irgeus; for Treasurer, William Pfaender; for 

 Attorney-General, George P. Wilson ; and for 

 Railroad Commissioner, W. R. Marshall. The 

 following platform was adopted : 



1. Resolved, That we declare our unswerving devo- 

 tion to those fundamental principles which gave 

 birth and inspiration to the great Kepublican party, 

 and in behalf of which the national unity has been 

 preserved at an incalculable cost ; that the truth and 

 value of these principles have been attested alike by 

 the achievements of peace and the sacrifices of war, 

 and that in their maintenance and practical enforce- 

 ment abide the common hope of all men, regardless 

 of creed, color, or nativity. We believe that with the 

 suppression of armed resistance to the national au- 

 thority the object of our late war was substantially 

 achieved, and that pursuant to the true theory of rep- 

 resentative government, which tolerates no subject 

 race among its people, the several States should now 

 be left free to manage their local affairs in their own 

 way, subject only, upon national issues, to the con- 

 stitutional and paramount authority of the United 

 States, and we hail with gratification the efforts of a 

 wise and patriotic President to promote sentiments 

 of peace and fraternal concord among the people of 

 all the States of this Union, in recognition of the 

 broad principle of national unity, local self-govern- 

 ment, and the equal rights of all citizens of one com- 

 mon country. 



2. Resolved, That the sincere and persistent efforts 

 of President Hayes to redeem the promises made in 

 his letter of acceptance and inaugural message, as 

 well as the repeated pledges of the Kepublican party 

 in behalf of civil service reform, deserve the cordial 

 support of the Eepublican party, and commend 

 themselves to tlie best sentiment of the country at 

 large ; and believing as we do, that purity, efficiency, 

 and economy in the administration of public affairs 

 will be in exact proportion as honesty and capability 

 become the qualifications for public, as they are for 

 private service, we recognize the right to make nomi- 

 nations to office as the exclusive prerogative of that 

 power which is responsible for their mismanage- 

 ment, and we reprobate all unwarrantable interfer- 

 ence therewith, as a reproach upon the character of 

 the public service, and detrimental to the public 

 welfare. 



3. Resolved^ That we commend the conservative 

 financial policy by which the national currency is 

 steadily and surely approaching a gold standard, and 

 believe that simple persistence in the practice 01 that 

 prudence and economy which have long been recog- 

 nized as the essential conditions of private pros- 

 perity, coupled with the healthful business revival 

 already resulting therefrom, now everywhere ob- 

 servable, will lead to that early resumption of specie 

 payments to which both the invariable policy of the 

 Kepublican party and the faith of the Government 

 are solemnly pledged, f We also hold that all bonds or 

 promises to pay monev made by the United States 

 prior to the passage of the Act of Congresa of Feb- 



ruary 12, 1874, and rightfully payable in either gold 

 or silver coin, as the United States may elect, and 

 that the provisions of that statute by which it is en- 

 acted, that the silver dollar shall be a tender only 

 in sums of five dollars or less, ought to be re- 

 pealed.] 



4. Resolved, That we demand that all measures 

 hereafter proposed by the Legislature of this State 

 for the adjustment of the so-called State railroad 

 bonds shall be submitted to a popular vote at a gen- 

 eral election only : and receive a majority of all the 

 votes cast as provided in said amendment, before it 

 shall have any force or validity. 



5. Resolved, That if the scourge which has hap- 

 pily passed away from us, has left in its trail any 

 cases of want and suffering, or of inability to com- 

 mence and carry on farming operations for want of 

 necessary material, that such necessities should be 

 relieved at the public expense, and that legislative 

 aid in all such cases should be invoked and given 

 where proper efforts have been made by the suf- 

 ferers. 



6. Resolved. That the efficiency, economy, and 

 ability manifested during the last two years by all 

 the executive officers of the State of Minnesota, are a 

 source of just pride to our party and State, and alike 

 commend their officers and the party to the confi- 

 dence and support of all good men. 



7. Resolved, That we are in 



tization of silver. 



favor of the remone- 



FIRST STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, WINONA. 



The Prohibitionists met in Convention in 

 Minneapolis, September llth, and nominated 

 the Rev. A. Willey for Governor, P. A. Jewell 

 for Lieutenant-Governor, M. T. Anderson for 

 Secretary of State, and J. E. Child for Attorney- 

 General. They adopted a platform which de- 

 mands of the Government complete legal sup- 

 pression of the traffic in alcoholic liquors of all 

 kinds, to be used for drinking purposes ; such 

 legislation to be secured through both nationftl 

 and State Governments, within their respective 

 constitutional powers ; declares that as matter 

 of conscience they cannot vote and cooperate 

 with political parties who favor the license 

 system of alcoholic liquors as a beverage, be- 

 lieving this system to be the gigantic " crime 

 of crimes ; " favors the resumption of specie 

 payments, the remonetization of silver, post- 

 office savings-banks, and heartily indorses the 

 proposed constitutional amendment of this 



