Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour, of New York, In an interview with a reporter, expressed the belief that the tariff question will not be made an issue in the Presidential campaign of 1884. Ex-Representative Dezendorf, of Virginia, has written a letter to President Arthur, complaining that Senator Mahone is corruptly disposing of Federal patronage in that State in a scandalous manner, greatly to the detriment of the Republican party. An appeal is made to the President to check the abuses which have grown up under Mahone’s administration of politics in the Old Dominion. C. P. Snyder, Democrat, has been elected to Congress from the Third district of West Virginia, to fill the place of Hon. John McKenna, who resigned to accept a seat in the United States Senate. The Michigan House of Representatives passed the bill giving women the right to vote at school, town and city elections; Kentucky Democrats, in convention at Louisville, nominated J. Proctor Knott for Governor. Mr. Knott was successful by a very narrow majority after; a protracted fight CoL Thomas L. Jones, who was one of Mr. Knott’s principal competitors, declares that he never gave any one permission to withdraw-his name, although a delegate performed that act just at the critical moment .