Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Prohibition Convention of Ohio’, n session at Columbus, nominated a ticket as follows: Governor, Ferdinand Schumacher, Summit county; Lieutenant Governor, H. T. Ogden, Hamilton county ; Supreme Judge (short term), Z. C. Payne, Franklin county; Supreme Judge (long term), D. C. Montgomery, Knox county Clerk of, the Supreme Court, J. H. Beach Ford, Preble county; Attorney General, J. W. Kosenborough, Fulton county; Auditor of State, Gersham Lease, Hardin county; Treasurer of State, V. M. Whiting, Huron county; State Commissioner of Schools, H. A. Thompson, Franklin county; Member of Board of Public Works, G. Z. Cruzen, Hardin county. The Postoffice Department has sent an agent to examine the Niobrara and Rapid City mail route, which was created by Congress on the representations made by Hon. E. K. Valentine, of Nebraska. That gentleman claims that the hostility of Senator Van Wyck to the project springs from personal motives Mr. Valentine admits the absence of population along the route, but insists that over 500 miles are saved -between the Elkhorn valley and Deadwood. A caucus of the Republican members of the New Hampshire Legislature nominated Hon. E. H. Rollins to be his own successor in the United Btates Senate Upon the second ballot Mr. Rollins received considerably less than enough to elect The Ohio Democracy met in convention at Columbus and nominated George Hoadley for Governor, John G. Warwick for Lieutenant Governor, Martin D. Follett and Selwin Owen for Supreme Court Judges, James Lawrence for Attorney General, and Peter Brady for Trea urer of State. GenDurbin Ward received 279 votes for Governor, and, on being called to address the convention, rebuked his political brethren for ignoring his claims and announced himself a candidate for the Unltsd States Senate In the third ballot "for Senator from New Hampshire, where 163 votes are neces sary to a choice, Harry Bingham, Democrat, re:eived 119 votes, and Edwin H. Rollins, Republican, 113. The Illinois Legislature appropriated for the next two years no less than #10,270,. 000, and the levy Is claimed by experts to be #400,000 short