Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A special election will be held in Georgia April 24, to fill the unexpired term as Governor of the late Alexander H. Stephens. The Tennessee House of Representatives has passed the Democratic caucus State Debt bill, and its passage by the Senate is deemed certain. It provides for the payment of the State debt on the basis of 50 cents on the dollar. An Ohio man, ex-C®ngressman Neal, has promptly come to the front as an applicant for the United States Treasurership, to succeed Mr. Gilfillan. A resolution passed the Pennsylvania House calling for a joint committee to investigate the charges of bribery by Standard Oil Company, mentioned in the Governor’s message of March L The Michigan Democrats met in con vention at the State capita Jo n the 7th inst The<x>nventiou put in no nination half a ticket, and authorized the Chairman of the State Central Committee to treat with the Greenbackers, who were to hold their convention the following day, for the other half, and, in case of failure to agree upon a union ticket, John W. Champlin, of Grand Rapids, was named for Judge of the Supreme Court, long term, and Arthur L. Clark, of Sanilac county, for Regent of the University. The resolutions censure the Republican members of the Legislature for the prolonged and expensive Senatorial contest, and declare that any Judge who accepts a railroad pass should be Impeached and removed from office. The Greenback Convention convened, according to programme, on the Bth, and unhesitatingly accepted the proposition of the Democrats for a union ticket The convention then proceeded to nominate Thomas R. Sherwood, of Kalamazoo, for Justice of the Supreme Court, and Charles J. Willett of Gratiot for Second Regent of the State University. Resolutions were adopted reaffirming the Chicago Greenback platform of 1880; arraigning the Republicans for the long delay and consequent* in electing a United. States Senator;, denouncing Congress for its fafltne t 6. the public demand for revenue reform; favoring the, election of all Federal officers, including

Senators and Postmasters, by the people denouncing monopolies, and advisiuga full representation from Michigan at the proposed Anti-Monopoly gathering at Chicago, on the of July next. The Ohio House has passed a joint resolution for submitting to the people an amendment for a tax on liquor, or to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages