Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Keifer, Hasson and Hiacock, are mentioned as likely to receive the Republican nomination for the Speakership of the next House of Representatives. Col. John A. Martin, Secretary of the National Republican committee, has issued a card calling 1 a meeting of the committee at Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 18, for the purpose of deciding upon the date and place for holding the next National Republican convention. Hon. Frank Hurd, of Ohio, says the Democratic nomination for President awaits Mr. Tilden’s acceptance. Should he decline, Mr. Hurd says Qov.-eloct Hoadly will beyond all question be placed in the field. Hurd’s choice for Speaker is Carlisle. A son of Senator Mahone was fined sls for drawing a pistol at the polls at Petersburg, Va. Washington telegram to Chicago Tribune: Riddleberger'B friends here say that the reports that ho is likely to abandon Mahone and return to the Democrats, cannot be well founded. They say that he will, for the present at least, occupy an independent position, and, that as he has six years before him in the Senate, he can afford to wait. Mahone expects that the new Legislature will remove all the Readjuster officials. A prominent member of the administration gives it out that President Arthur is positively a candidate for re-election. This statement, say a Washington dispatch, coming from a person as to whose knowledge on the subject there can be scarcely a doubt, is, perhaps, the first positive declaration by any one near the President that Gen. Arthur is a .Presidential candidate. It is very certain that he had not determined to be a candidate four months ago. It is quite certain that he is a candidate now. It is very possible’ that within the next few weeks events will happen which will make it apparent

that G«n. Arthur is to become what the politicians perhaps would call an aggressive candidate. William Long, a tobacconist, of Petersburg, Va., confesses that he is the man who struck Senator Mahone in the face on election day, but claims it was an accident and explains how it occurred. President Arthur says it is that the Democratic nominee for the Pres# dency will not come from east of the Alio ghanies, and that the coming campaign will be fought out in Indiana, Ohio and New York.