Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Prohibitionists of New Jersey have nominated Dr. Isaao N. Quimby, of Jersey Ci v, for Governor. Walter Evans, of Louisville, Ky. f has been appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue to succeed Green B. Raum, resigned. Mr. Evans was the Republican candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 1879, and in the Republican National Convention in Chicago of 1880 was one of the 306 who stood by Grant till toe last. Ex-Congressman Dezendorfs letter alleging that the Norfolk navy-yard is being used for political purposes by Senator Mahonehas elicited a caustic response from Secretary Chandler, who suggests that, as a continual candidate for Congress, Mr. Dezendorf acquired knowledge concerning abuses at the navy-yard that would b° of great value to an investigating committee Illinois colored voters have called a State Convention of their race, to meet Springfield on the lEth of October, for the object, as is stated in too ca l, “of securing our political rights. ” In the Kentucky Republican Conven* tion, at Lexington, which was presided over by Walter Evans, the new Internal Revenue Commissioner, Thomas Z. Morrow was nominated for Governor on the sixth ballot. A tariff for revenue only forms one of the planks of the platform. The policy of the present national administration was indorsed by resolution. John A. Martin, Secretary of the National Republican Committee, announces that the next meeting of the committee will be held »t Washington on the 12th of December, at which time the date and place of holding the next National Convention will bedetermined.