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Our Congressional Candidate

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
September
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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If any doubts existed as to whether or uo Hoa. John J. Eobison would accept the nomination for Congress, they are dispelled by the following correspondence. The letter of Mr. Eobison is brief, to the point, and highly creditable: Ann Akbok, Sept. 17th, 1874. Hon. John J. Eobison, Deae Sik :- The delegation lïom this county to the Democratie Congressional (Jonveution held at Hillsdale on the lGth inst., were instructed by that convention, to communicate to you yout uomination as the Democratie candidato in this district for liepresentative in Congress, and to ask your acceptance. It affords us sincere pleasure to be able to add that you were the enthusiastic as well as unanimous choice of the convention. Eespectfully yours, Henky W. Bogers, Chalrman of Delegation. SnAEON (Manchester P. O.), Sept. 19, 1874. Dear Sir : I havo your letter of the 17th inst., ofiicially notifying me of my nomination as candidate for Representativo in Con gress for the Second Congressional District, and asking my acceptance of said nomination. Should I consult my own inclinations and judgment, I should still adhere to tho decisión made when my name was first mentionert as a possible candidate, and expressed to several of the delegates immediately preceding the convention at Hillsdale, that would not, under any circumsta rices, consent to hecome its candidate. But feeiing a lively interest in the political issues of the day, and my sentïments agreoing so perfectly with those who have placed me in nomination, and especially with those of my friends who urged it, I canuot well refuse to accept a nomination so unauimously and generously tendered. Your obedieut servant, John J. Eobison. Hon. H. W. Rogers, Chaircnan Wushteuaw ielegatiou to Cong. Convention. And now the Democracy of the district have their duty to do : that is to elect Mr. Eobison. The Monroe Commercial (RepublicanJ utters the following good wonïs coneerning the Democratie candidate for State Treasurer : " We have no personal acquaintanco with any of the ticket except JosErii M. Sterling, the candidate for State Treasurer. Candor coinpels us to say with regard to hiin, that tho convention could have gone farther and pioked up a much worse man. We have known him soine 20 years, long befoie we set foot in Monroe, and we could say a great many good things of him, if spuce permitted and the occasion required it. Gertainly we shall not say anythiug to his discredit, and if, by awy possible chance, or mischance, he should become the custodian of tho public funds, wo believe they would be safuly and honestly managed. This ïnuch for one Deniocrutic candidate, in spite of his politics." The Demócrata and " Iieformers" of the Fifth Cougressional District havo pitted M. D. Wilber, of Allegan, against Williams, Republiean nominee and present incumbent. The platform put forth by the nominating oonvention is on the whole an excellent one : botter, we suspect, than the oandidate it presented for the suffrages of the people. It reiterates the demand of the State Convention for an early return to specie payments and the repeal of the legal tender act as a necessary preliminary, aud is explicit and detailed in ita arraignment of a proteotive tariff. And this, considering the manufacturing interests of the district, is an evidence that the Democracy are coming to plant themsclves upon principies, regardless of merely local interests. The Democracy of New York, in State Conventiou assemblad last woek, adopted an admirable platform and put upon it a No. 1 ticket. The candidatos are : For Governor, Samuel J. Tilden; for Lieutenant Governor, William E. DonsiiEiMKR ; for Canal Commis8ioner, AniN Tiiayer ; for State Prison Inspector, GiSoitOE H. Wagner ; and for Judgo of the Court of Appeals, Tjieouore Miller. Mr. Tildejt is one of the ablest lawyws in the State. The Bepublioans have renominated Gen. Dix and the other State ofllcers.

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