Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — POLITICAL POINTS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL POINTS.

Chairman Barnum, of the National Deriiocratic Committee, refuses the nomination for Congress in the Bridgeport (Ct.) district, recently tendered him. Dispatches of the 16th inst. from Portland, Me., say th*e vote on Governor is so close that tho official returns will be required to decide who is elected. The Congressional delegation stands as follows: Reed, Republican, re-elected in the First district by 109 plurality ; Frye, Republican, re-elected in the Second district by 1,800 majority ; Lindsay, Republican, elected in the Third district by 451 majority ; Ladd, Fusionist, re-elected in the Fourth district by a reduced majority; Murch, Fusionist, re-elected in the Fifth district by from 1,000 to 1,500 majority. The Republicans have a good working majority in the Legislature. The Missouri Republican Convention, in session at St. Louis, nominated the following candidates for State offices : For Governor, Col. D. P. Dvcr; Lieutenant Governor, Milo Blair ; Secretary of State, J. C. Broadwell; Auditor, L. A.'Thomas ; Treasurer, W. Q. Dallmever; Attorney General, H. H. Harding ; Railroad Commissioner, Howard Barnes (colored); Supreme Judge, J. E. C. Carnes ; Register of Lands, Adam Theis. The Democrats of New Hampshire mot in convention at Concord last week. Hon. Frank Jones was unanimously nominated for Governor. Col. W. H. D. Cochrane, Joseph 'Goodin and Dodge were nominated for Kiilrosd Q<mnnißjßfa>uGJ&!, arid-iG. B. Chandler and John CCMuilfon were ohosen Electors. Tho Massachusetts Republican Con'Vcntfriii renominated Gov. Long and all the other State officers, with the exception of Treasurer, yhom, the State constitution prohibits from holding a second term. The Democrats of Dakota have nominated M. S. McCormick for Delegate to Congress. The Prohibitionists of New Hampshire have placed a full State ticket in the field, headed bv George D. Hodge, of Hampton Falls, for Governor. The Greenback-Labor party of Maryland, in convention at Baltimore, nominated Milford Shindell and the Rev. Uriel Graves Electors-at-large. They also made the following Congressional nominations: Second district. IC. A. Treadway ; Third district, J. H. W. Onion ; Fourth District, Samuel W. Tierce Fifth district, Oliver Bryan; Sixth district, Nathaniel Seller. The returns from the election in Vermont are now complete, and show the Republican candidate for Governor, Mr. Farnhani, to have received a majority of 25,038. Dr. R. V. Pierce, the well-known patent-medicine man of Buffalo, has resigned his seat in Congress.