Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — POLITICAL POINTS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL POINTS.

The lowa State Greenback Convention met at Des Moines on the 11th inst. and nominated the following ticket by acclamation: For Governor, Daniel P. Stubbs, of Jefferson county; for Lieutenant Governor, A. H. McCreary, of Woodbury; for Supreme Judge, John Porter, of Hardin ; for Superintendent of Public Instruction, S. T. Ballard, of Davis county. Resolutions were adopted demanding tho repeal of the specie resumption act and the abandonment of the policy of contraction ; the abolition of national banks and the issue of legal-tender paper money by the Government, receivable for all dues; the remonetization of the silver dollar, making it a legal tender for the payment of all coin bonds of the Government, and for all other debts, public and private ; the equitable taxation of all property without favor or privilege; tho repeal of all class legislation; that all legal means be exhausted to eradicate the traffic in alcoholic beverages, and abatement of the evil of intemperance; the reduction of officers and salaries, to the end that there may be less taxes; opposing all subsidies by the State or general Government; indorsing the principle of railroad legislative control; and commending" every honest effort for the furtherance of civil-service reform. A letter has been received in Washington from a prominent Louisiana Democrat, slating

that Gov. Nicholls has endeavored privately to stop the prosecution of the members of the Returning Board, but that he has been met with a threat that if he attempts to defeat the efforts to secure the conviction of Wells, Anderson and others, or if they are convicted, and he interposes an Executive pardon, that he will be impeached by the Legislature. Georgia’s Constitutional Convention met at Atlanta last week. Ex-Gov. Jenkins was elected President. * The President has decided that, inasmuch as the National Republican Committee will have no political duty to perform for some three years, the members of it do not come within the scope of the recent order forbidding officials to take an active part in politics, and consequently there is no objection to Federal officials retaining their membership on the coinmittee.