Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Greenback State Convention in Massachusetts was attended by 375 accredited delegates. Ben Butler was nominated for Governor, and John Howes for Lieutenant Governor without the formality of a vote. Howes declined to servo, and joined with other prominent Greenbackers in calling a new convention at Worcester for Oct 16. Ben Butler was renominated by acclamation for Governor of Massachusetts in the Democratic State Convention. William A. Simmons, in seconding the nomination, said the blue blood and cavaliers must go down. Frederick O. Prince was selected for Lieutenant Governor. The Republican State Convention of Nebraska nominated M. B. K. Reese for Judge of the Supreme Court The Republicans of Maryland met in convention at Baltimore and nominated Hart B. Holton, of that city, for Governor by acclamation; Washington Smith, of Dorchester, for Comptroller, andß. S. Matthews, of Baltimore, for Attorney General The resolutions adopted cordially approve of the course of President Arthur, but declare that grave abuses continue to exist in the administration of the State Government, and that the rulers must be dethroned. The New York Democracy held their Convention at Buffalo, and disposed of the business for which they met, without a row, though there was some wrangling among the contesting delegates. Isaac H. Maynard was nominated for Secretary of State, Alfred C. Chapin for Comptroller, Robert A Maxwell for Treasurer, and Dennis O’Brien for Attorney General The platform denounces taxation to raise a surplus fuud for distributing among the States by the Federal Government, and heartily indorses Gov. Clevelands administration. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times has canvassed members of Congress-elect on leading questions. Fifty-two Democrats favor a revision of the tariff, and sixty-four oppose a repeal of the compulsory coinage of the silver dollars. Carlisle leads the list as a candidate for Speaker. All the Republicans who expressed themselves on the tariff question are opposed to a general reopening of it; £wentv-Bix favor stopping the coinage of the silver dollars; eleven desire the total repeal of the Internal Revenue laws, and the majority are for Hiscock for Speaker.