Democratic State Ticket

For GoYernor - ORLANDO II. BABNEB, "f Ingham. For Lieutenant-dovernor - ALFREDB. SWINEFORD, of Murquette, For Sccretary of State- UEORGE II. MURDOCII.of Banton. For Btate Treasurer - ALEXANDER McFARLIN, of Gcnesee. For Auditor-General - Wil. T. B. SCHERMERHORN, of Lenawee. Por Attorney-Gcneral - ALLEN B. MORSE, of Ionia. For Commissioner of the State Land Office - (iEORGE H, LORD, of Bay. For Superintendent of Public lustruction - ZELOTES TRUESDEL, of Oakland. For Meinber of the State Doard of Education- EDWIN F. UHL, of Kent. Hox. Charles Foster deolines to move "up street" into the new Seventh (Ohio) Congressional district and accept the Bepublicau notnination. He is confident that he can be beatón without a change of residence. Democrats should reniember to attend the ward caucases to-morrow eveniiig. The notice is short, but as the district convention is to bc held on Tuesday and the Congressional Conveution on Friday, the committoo could not well make it longer. - -i ■ - The National-Greenbackors of the Fourth Congreasional district have nominated Thomas 11. Sherwood, ft Kalamazoo lawyer, and re-aflirmed the Grand Rapids platform. Brother Clute, of the Three Rivera Reporter, one of the original greenbackers musterd but nina votes. The Lansing Hepiiblican flaunts the "bloody shirt" in the face and eyes of Hon. O. M. Barnes, the Democratie candidate for Governor. During the war Mr. Barnes was, as now, a Detuocrat, and not always approving the acts of President Lincoln or of Congress said so. And all that is now thrown in his face. Terrible '■ Hon. Nelsox G. Isbell, of Lanaing, died on Sunday last, aged 58 years the 20th day of February last. Mr. Isbell carne to Michigan in 1844, settling at Howell. He has been justice of the peace, State Senator from 1848 to 1852, deputy U. S. Marshal, Secretary of State, and Collector of Custorns for tho Port of Detroit, always discharging intelligently and honestly the duties encumbent upon hini. In 1S69 he removed to Lansing. lx THE Repubhcan Congressional Convention for the Eighth district, held at Bay City on July 18, R. G. Horr, of Kast Saginaw, was nominated on the 15th ballot. His principal competitors were Auditor-General Ely, of Gratiot, and Henry M. Lord, of Iosco. And cow the Bay Democrats who mado such wry faces over the noraination of ThotnpBon will have to choose between three Saginaw men. There is no niistaking this emphatic doclaration of tho Democratie platform adopted at Lansing : " We declare that " gold and silver coin is tho money of " the oonstitution, and that all paper "currency should be convertible into " such coin at the will of the holder." With such a currency tho money of the laborer and mechanio will be just as good as the money of the bondholder and banker, With such a currency there will be no favored classes. The Flint Globe, Republican, saya that Alexander McFarlin, the Democratie candidate for State Treasurer is "a thoroughly honest, upright citizen, haring the confidenoe of everybody who knows him, fully competent to do any duty the people may cali him to perforra, sound on the cutrency question, as on almost all othor queations, but wholly indifferent to office and says he would not take the office for $5,000 a year, and probably would not accept the nomination if he thought there was the slightest possibility of being eleoted." Just the kind of man for the people to vote for and elect. The Lansing Journal indorses the financial plank of the Democratie platform in its declaration that "gold and Bilver ooin is the money of the constitution," but insists that it only tells half tho truth, and that " greenbacks are also money of the constitution." Such may be the opinión of our journalistic friend, but when he goes further and as8erts that " the Supreme Court of tho United States has solemnly adjudicatcd that the legal tender notes, or Greenbacks, are 'money of tho constitution'" we invite his careful attention to the following language used by that court in its legal tender decisión : "The legal tender acta do not attempt to make paper a standard of valué. We do not rest their validity on the assertion that their emission is comage or any regulation of the val ue of money. Nor do we aaaert that Cougress may uiuko auythiug which has no valué money." Aud if that is not satisfactory, to this language : " It is olear that these notes are obligations of the United States. Their name imports obtigation, and every one ot them bears on lts face a promiae to pay a eertain sum. The dollar note is a pr omite topay a dollar, and the dollar intended is the oom dollar of the United States ; a eertain weijjht and fineness ol gold and silver These notes are obligations. They bind the uational faith. They are, therefore, trictly securities." In the face of such soleinn adjudication the convention would havo stultified itself, as well as proved recreant to the time-honored principies of the Demooracy, had it doclarod the greenbacks - wbich in the terse phase of Abraham Lincoln "know no redeemer" - in any sense " money of the constitution." They are nothing more or less than bank paper under anotber name, the promise of the Government instead of a chartered corporation, and without value unless provisión is made for their payment. If the Government is to turn banker and flood tho country with its promi8es to pay - no part of its legitímate function- it should be held to the rule imposed by all nations upon banking oorporations - exoept in great crises - and provide for the redemption of its notes in gold and silver, at the will of the holder. No other course is expedient, no other oourse is safe, no other course is honest, and no other course should be tolerated by an intelligent yeople.