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9. That no direct or State tax for State purposes 

 be hereafter levied ; but that the ordinary receipts 

 from corporations, interest, and dividends on stocks 

 and bonds held by the State, and other usual re- 

 sources, amounting last year to over $600,000, be 

 made to cover all disbursements from the State 

 Treasury. 



10. That all estimates to be made hereafter by the 

 State Controller, or other State officer, be based 

 upon tlie ordinary resources of the State, instead of 

 upon calculations in advance as to how much money 

 cau be gotten out of the pockets of the tax-payers. 



It was deemed inexpedient to nominate can- 

 didates for office. 



The Temperance Association met in State 

 Convention at Trenton on the 19th of Septem- 

 ber, and put in nomination for Governor, Ro- 

 dolphus Bingham, of Caraden County. The 

 platform unanimously adopted by this conven- 

 tion is, in substance, as follows : The preamble 

 sets forth the evils of intemperance "in both 

 social, national, moral, political, and domestic 

 affairs ; " and the resolutions are to the effect 

 " that the members of the Temperance Asso- 

 ciation will no longer give their votes to can- 

 didates for office who are not pledged to the 

 entire and absolute prohibition of the liquor 

 traffic ; that nominations for State, county, and 

 local officers are to be made in the interest of 

 the temperance cause ; that, while proceeding 

 to take separate political action, they recom- 

 mend the continuance of all the educational 

 and moral means and movements; that the 

 laboring classes of the community are to be 

 called on for their cooperation in this move- 

 ment ; and that they adopt, in its entirety, the 

 declaration of principles adopted by the State 

 Tax-payers' Convention, held at Trenton on the 

 3d of September, instant, and will use their ut- 

 most exertions to give them practical effect." 



The Democrats held their State Convention 

 at Trenton on the 19th of September. The 

 number of delegates present was considered the 

 largest ever assembled for any convention in 

 the State. The names of candidates for Gov- 

 ernor were proposed by counties, and ten were 

 put in nomination, as follows : W. M. Righter, 

 John McGregor, George B. McClellan, B. F. 

 Carter, Leon Abbott, John T. Bird, John P. 

 Stockton, Wright Robbins, John Hopper, and 

 M. Hardenburg. At the first ballot the high- 

 est numbers were : for Mr. Abbott, 804 ; for 

 Mr. McClellan, 171 ; for Mr. Stockton, 153 ; for 

 Mr. Righter, 103. Morris County having then 

 changed all of its votes in favor of Mr. McClel- 

 lan, its example was followed by most of the 

 other counties, with the result that at the sec- 

 ond ballot above four-fifths of the whole num- 

 ber of votes were cast for him he having re- 

 ceived 804; Mr. Abbott, 156; Mr. Stockton, 2 ; 

 Mr. Carter, 21. The announcement of this re- 

 sult was received with most enthusiastic and 

 prolonged cheering, at the subsidence of which 

 the president formally declared "that George 

 B. McClellan was the nominee of the Dem- 

 ocratic party." The following platform was 

 adopted by the convention : 



1. The Democracy of the State of New Jersey, in 

 convention assembled, reaffirm the principles con- 

 tained in the National Democratic platform, adopted 

 at St. Louis in 1876. We denounce the frauds and 

 crimes by which our candidates for President and 

 Vice- President are prevented from occupying tho 

 positions to which they were chosen by a decided 

 majority of the popular and electoral vote. 



2. We congratulate the supporters of free govern- 

 ment throughout the United States on the fact that 

 even the man who was placed in the presidential 

 chair by means of these frauds and crimes has found 

 it necessary, in order to receive the respect and sup- 

 port of any portion of the American people, to adopt 

 the Democratic policy of local self- government in the 

 Southern States, and to abandon all further device* 

 to perpetuate sectional jealousii-e. 



8. The Democratic party, embracing within its 

 ranks all classes of our citizens, the most of whom 

 are workingmen, believe that all legislation should 

 have for its object the greatest good to the greatest 

 number. We therefore oppose all special legislation 

 lor corporate or individual interests at the expense 

 of the people. We recognize the needs and sym- 

 pathize with the \vorkinj_iiK-ii of the State in the 

 prevalent distress. We advise the enactment of such 

 legislation as will enable us to collect statistical in- 

 formation relating to the interests of labor and cap- 

 ital, with a view to harmonize these interests and 

 place our industries upon a more permanent and sci- 

 entific bnsis. 



4. Honest toil and legitimate business are the true 

 basis of a nation's prosperity ; official salaries ought 

 never to be so high as to be sought after for mere 

 pecuniary gain ; salaries, fees, and costs of lit- 

 igation have, during the past years of Republican 

 legislation, been so largely increased as to become 

 absolutely burdensome to the people ; the times de- 

 mand, and the necessities of the people require, a 

 radical reduction of all such salaries, fees, ana costs. 



5. The usury laws should be re vised and reformed, 

 and six per cent, should be restored as the uniform 

 legal rate of interest in this State, without impairing 

 the obligation of contracts. 



The Republicans assembled in State Conven- 

 tion at Trenton on the 25th of September, a 

 large number of delegates being in attendance. 

 The following persons were severally put in 

 nomination by different counties as candidates 

 for Governor: William Newell, Frederick A. 

 Potts, William Walter Phelps, and G. R. Colby. 

 At the first ballot Mr. Newell received 860 

 votes, Mr. Potts 142, Mr. Phelps 29, and Mr. 

 Colby 81. Mr. Newell was declared the Re- 

 publican nominee for Governor. The following 

 resolutions were unanimously adopted by tho 

 convention : 



The Republicans of Now Jersey, cherishing a just 

 pride in their past record as a political party, and at 

 the same time recognizing their obligation to deiil 

 with new issues as they arise, unite in the following 

 declaration of principles : 



1. Jk*>h>ed, That we reaffirm the Nations! Repub- 

 lican platform of 1876, especially its cardinal doc- 

 trines : 



That the United States constitute a nation and 

 not a league : 



That the Republican party is pledged to the com- 

 plete protection of all citizens in the e<|ual enjoyment 

 of all their civil, political, and public rights : 



That the national faith is sacredly pledged to the 

 maintenance of the national credit, and the speedy 

 resumption of specie payments : 



That the invariable rule in appointments to tl 

 civil service should require honcoty, fidelity, snd 

 capacity in the appointees ; having due regard to 



