Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Notional Anti-Monopoly Convention, with 325 delegates in attendance, assembled in Chicago on July 4. Hon. Allen W. Boot, of Nebraska, was called to the Chair. After a hot debate of an hour, Dennis Kearney was ruled out by a vote of 118 to 74, and took his departure. John F. Henry, of Brooklyn, was elected Permanent Chairman, and C. C. Post, of Indiana, Secretary. At the evening session, principles were discussed by Capt. Stickle, of San Francisco; a/armer named Dean, from the Pennsylvania oil region, and J. K. Magie, of Illinois. James F. Jones, Democrat, has been elected to Congress from the First district of Alabama He takes the seat made vacant by the death of Herndon Ex-Gov. Ramsey, Chairman of the Utah Commission, states that its members were treated very civilly by both Gentiles and Mormons, although the subject of much criticism. He thinks the election in August will be the test of the experiment toward reform In Utah. At the second and last day’s session of the Anti-Monopoly Convention, in Chicago, Mar.in Todd, of San Francisco, spoke on the oppression of labor. Mr. Crocker., of lowa, thought railroads the most damnable of all monopolies. W*. 8. Wolf, of New York, regarded the tariff as a question which should be left outside the convention. Bev. Gilbert De La Matyr, of Ind., de r nounced class legislation for the robbery of labour. AJ. Streeter, of 111, presented the report of the majority on platform, which was adopted. It pronounces all corporations subject to the control of the States or the Federal Government, and demands an investigation by Congress of the cost of railways and transportation. It urges the establishment of a postal telegraph, postal savings banks, a graduated income tax, and the amendment of the Patent laws. It opposes the issue of currency by banks, and favors paying of the national bonds in lawful money. The tariff is denounced as being wholly in the interest of monopolies.