Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — POLITICAL POINTS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL POINTS.

The Greenbackers of Nebraska have placed the following State ticket in the field : For Governor, O. T. B. Williams ; Lieutenant Governor, B. Lansing; Secretary of State, B. F. Allen ; Treasurer, A. V. Herman; Attorney General, Noah A. Bheckler; Land Commissioner, David Neal; Superintendent of Education, Dr. Mansfield. After a stormy session the Georgia Republican Convention passed a resolution declaring it inexpedient to nominate candidates for Governor and other State officers. The New Hampshire Republicans have placed in nomination the following candidates : Governor, Charles 0. Bell; Railroad Commissioners, James E. French, Charles A. Smith and E. J. Tenny ; Presidential Electors, Nathaniel White and E. H. Winchester. Arkansas and Vermont held State elections, the former on the 6th and the latter on the 7th of September. The Democrats carried Arkansas by a majority estimated at this writing at from 40,000 to 50,000, while tho Republicans swept Vermont by about 25,000 majority. The Massachusetts Prohibitionists’ Convention at Worcester indorsed the nominations of Neal Dow for President and the Rev. 11. A. Thompson for Vice President, adopted a resolution declaring in favor of female suffrage, and nominated the following condidatcs for State officers : For Governor, Charles Olnoy, of Now Bedford ; Lieutenant Governor, Timothy K. Earle, of Worcester ; Sooretary of State, Sol. T. Root, of Dalton ; Treasurer, Thomas J. Luthrop, of Taunton ; Auditor, Jonathan Buck, of Harvvick ; Attorney General, Samuel M. Fairfield, of Malden.