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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 188, 28 August 1888, Page 3

200,000 persons poured into Chicago for the Republican Convention, and the meet ings seem to have been of the very noisest. Small National flags were waved by the people at the meetings in opposition to 'he red bandana which is the Democratic color. The Chairman was elected for the power of his throat and lungs The Convention resulted, as has been already cabled, in the nomination of Mr Benjamin Harrison of Indiana, grandson of President W. H. Harrison. He was born in Ohio, on 20th August, 1833, and educted for the career of a lawyer. He entered the army in the war and was mustered out as Brigadier General in 1865. He was elected a U.S. Senator for Indiana in 1880, and held the seat six years, when he was beaten by a Democrat. Mr David Turpie, who now holds the seat. The following is a concise summary of the Republican platform Support to Irish Home rulers ; equal right rights for Negroes at the ballot, directed against the exclusion of the Negroes from the electoral rights in the Southern States; the whole Protection ticket in its fullest bearings ; bimetallic currency ; free education; rehabilitation of the mercantile marine; appropriations for navy, coast fortifications, improvement of harbors, sea board and inland ; encouragement of shipping interests; condemnation of the proposal to free wool from duty; repeal of taxes on tobacco and spirits for mechanical or scientific use ; repeal of all internal taxes rather than give up one shred of Protective duty; hostility to Chinese labor ; oppositions to combinations of capital, trusts &c., appropriation of lands to American citiens and settlers, not aliens ; the admission of the districts of South Dakota, Washington, North Dakota, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, and Arizona, to full State rights ; the stamping out of Mormonism ; the main, tenance of the Monroe doctrine in foreign affair; and grant of military pensions to soldiers of the Civil War.