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Show Minnesota Democrats. St. Paul, Minn., 7. The democratic demo-cratic state convention, to-day, adopted the following resolutions: That the adoption of tho 14-th, loth and lGih amendments to the federal constitution closed a great era in our politics and marked tho end forever of human slavery, and of the struggles that grew out of that system. These amend men Is have been accepted i n good fai th by all political organizations and the people of all sections; hereafter all parties must stand upon them, and our politics must turn upon questions ques-tions of the present and future, and not upon those of the settled and past; that the national government is a governmentof limited and delegated dele-gated powers, supremo within its sphere, while the great bulk of the rights of the peoplo must find their safeguard in the states and in the people themselves; that we are opposed op-posed to all attempts to limit the freedom of tho press of the country; return to gold and silver as a basis of currency of the country, with preparations prepa-rations and cflective measures to secure se-cure the resumption of specie payments; pay-ments; that all corporations chartered or recognized by the state should be at all times supervisable by the state in the interests and lor the protection of the people against unjust discrimination discrimi-nation and extortionate demands. Nominations For governor, D. L. Buell; lieutenant-governor, C. W. Duraut; secretary of state, Adolphus Bierman; auditor, M. Doran; treasurer, treas-urer, Albert Schefier. |