Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Times reports that Ex-Senator McDonald, of Indiana, has made his appearance there on a political mission; that he (McDonald) has ascertained that Mr. Tilden is determined to secure the nomination for the Presidency next year, and that important conferences are daily being held at Greystone. The Virginia Republican Straight-out Convention met at Richmond the other day. The platform adopted favors a strict adherence to the Republican principles and protective tariff, indorses James G. Blaine for the Presidency, condemns the action ot the administration in aiding Gen. Mahone in the repudiation of one-third the State debt, declares the power thus given Mahone has been used for the persecution of lifelong Republicans, that the power given by the administration to Mahone makes him virtually President of the United States for the State of Virginia, expresses unalterable opposition to one-man power in Virginia, represented by Malyme, and calls the attention of the administration to the results of such a system in other States. The Michigan Prohibition State Convention met at Eaton Rapids. They voted to raise SIOO,OOO as a campaign fund, indorsed the platform of the National Convention at Chicago, deciaredin favor of constituticnal and statuatory prohibition of the manufacture of liquor as a beverage, arraigned the Republican party for bad faith in not submitting the question to the people, and declared that the party is incompetent to deal with the liquor question. A call for the next Congress of the National Liberal, League, to be held at Milwaukee, Sept. 21-23, has been issued. The New York State Republican Convention will be held at Richfield Springs on Sept 19. The delegates will number 476. A Louisville dispatch says that official returns from 109 of the 117 counties in Kentucky gives Proctor Knott for Governor a majority of 43,571 over Gen. Morrow. The other eight counties will increase this to about 49,000. A. Biermann has been nominated by the Democratic State Central Committee of Minnesota as candidate for Governor in place of W. W. McNair, declined. Biermann accepts. John Kelly writes to the Hon. Michael K. McGrath, of Jefferson City, that if the “old ticket” shall be renominated “it will be supported with as much vigor and effort as that made in 1876 by us. ”