Show t Political 1 Boston ISThe state greenback convention met organized and ad i journed till afternoon The green j I I back convention proceeded to ballot for nominee for governor with the following result Whole number of votes 156 necessary for a choice 74 B F Butler > 67 Judge Israel Andrews 52 John M Devine 37 The name of Devine was with drawn The second ballot resulted Whole number of votes 136 necessary neces-sary for a choicp 69 B F Butler 76 Judge Andrews 46 John M Devine 13 Horace B Sargent 1 General Butler was declared nom inated After the nomination of Butler the following were nominated Lieutenant governor Dillon ef Springfield secretary of state John Howes Worcester treasurer George Foster Lynn attorney general E A Snow Atnol audi tor ugustus F Merchant Lev erett Power is given the state central committee to fill all vacancies vacan-cies that may occur en the state ticket Resolutions were passed that the greenbackers in Maine should support Governor Plaisted Adjourned The resolutions state that while old the political parties ridiculed the greenback principles they are adopting them from time to time Among principles thus adopted is the policy of destroying greenbacks I which has been changed to isssuing it and silver which was demon tized secretly has been publicly restored to its former place Our declaration that its only weakness weak-ness was because of the burdens eplaced on its back by friends or dupes of the money power have been proved true by the action of John Sherman secretary of the treasury who upon his own au thority removed the greatest of these objections and brought green backs to a premium over gold and silver coin Our position that the government should retain for itself the option of paying its bonded debt whenever it had the money to i do so instead of funding into long time bonds is rapidly becoming the pesition of the intelligent masses OJ of our people The resolutions further demand that a check be put upon the power of wealth that the national debt be paid as rapidly as the revenues will allow it if refunded to be made payable at option that government issue all money metallic or paper and make it fully legal tender abolish abol-ish national banks as banks of issue that no one be allowed to monopolize monop-olize air light and water and that all citizns be allowed to ballot on equal terms equal taxation against the property qualification for suffrage suff-rage favor eight hours as a days labor and boards of arbitration in disputes between the employer and the employed peak against convict contract labor The resolutions conclude con-clude that as Americans we deplore the arbitrary imprisonment and illegal il-legal detention of our citizens in British bastiles and deplore our continued misrepresentation at the court of St James by a minister who sanctions the illegal conduct the British government f Watertown N Y 1She first assembly district democratic convention con-vention instructed delegates to vote for Hon Ros well P Flower for governor Richmond Va 15George D Wise was nominated for Congress by the democrats of the Third District Dis-trict The readjusterrepublican coalition convention nominated J Bower for Congress from the Ninth District He is a son of exCon gressmau Bowen of the same section sec-tion Newark Ohio 1ST4e democratic demo-cratic congressional convention of the Sixteenth District after a session ses-sion of two days and casting 171 I ballots without making a nomination nomina-tion adjourned to Coshocton August I Au-gust 22 |