Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONTENTION. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONTENTION.

Washington, D. 0., Feb. 24. The Executive Committee of the National Democratic Committee met to-day, with a full attendance, the Hon. W. H. Barnum in the chair, and issued the following call: The National Democratic Committee, haviue met in the City of Washington on the 23d of February, 1880, has appointed Tuesday, June 22 next, at noon, as the time, and chosen the city of Cincinnati as the place, of holding the National Democratic Convention. E*oh State is entitled to representation therein equal to double the number of its Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United States. All Democratic, conservative and other citizens of the United States, irrespective of past political associations or differences, who can unite with us in an effort for pure, economical and constitutional government, are cordially invited to join in sending delegates to the convention. At the last National Democratic Convention, held in the eity of St Louis, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the States be requested to instruct their delegates to the National Democratic Convention to be held in 1883 whether it be desired to continue the two-thirds rule longer in force in the National Convention, and that the National Committee insert such request in the call for the next convention. William H Babnum, Connecticut, Chairman. Frederick O. Pbince, Massachusetts, Secretary. William H. Forney, Alabama. John J. Sumter, Arkansas. F. Me "oppin, California. B. M. Hughes, Colorado. Harberson Hickman, Delaware. Wilkinson Call, Florida. George F. Barnes, Georgia. W. C. Goudy, Illinois. Austin H. Brown, Indiana. M. M. Ham, lowa. Isaac E. Eaton, Kansas. H. D. McHenry, Kentucky. B F. Jones, Louisiana. Edmund Wilson, Maine. Outerbridge Horsey, Maryland. Edward Kanter, Michigan. William Lochren, Minnesota. Ethel Barksdale, Mississippi. John G. Priest, Missouri. George L. Miller, Nebraska. R. P. Keating,. Nevada. A. W. Sulloway, New Hampshire. Miles Ross, New Jersey. Abraham S. Hewitt, New York. M. W. Ransom, North Carolina, John G. Thompson, Ohio. John Whiteaker, Oregon. William L. Scott, Pennsylvania. Nicholas Van Slyck, Rhode Island. James H. Rion, South Carolina. William B. Bate, Tennessee. F. S. Stockdale, Texas. B. B Smalley, Vermont. R A. Coghill, Virginia. Alexander Campbell, West Virginia. William F. Vilas, Wisconsin. The committeo then voted to adjourn to meet at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, on Thursday, the 17th of June. A meeting of the Committee of Nine, appointed by the National Committee yesterday, held a meeting to day, and organized by the selection of John G. Thompson, of Ohio, as Chairman, and Frederick O. Prince, of Boston, Secretary. All the members were present. Tbc following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That Col. L A. Harris, Gen. H. B. Banning, Benjamin Robinson, Col. C. W. Woolley, John F. Follett, Alexander Long and P. E. Roach be, and are hereby, constituted the resident committee of the city of Cincinnati, under the National Executive Committee, and are authorized to make all needful local provisions, and such necessary arrangements as shall be required for the convenience of the convention to bo held in that city on the 22d of June, 1880. The committee then adjourned to meet at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, on Thursday, June 17 next