Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

George L. Ruffin (colored) has been confirmed as Justice of the Charlestown (Mass) District court. Hon. W. M. Springer, of Hlinois, announces himself a candidate for Speaker ot the House of Representatives, and claims three votes from his State. At the suggestion of Republican members of the next Congress, Representa-tive-elect Phelps, of New Jersey, has written to ex-Speaker Keifer. asking that he refuse a

of new name* for all positions, and, secondly, a healing of all difference* In the party and complete erasure of the faction line, as on this the future success depends. A tariff-reform mam meeting in New York was presided over by Rdv. Henry Ward Beecher, who pronounced the protective system terribly oppressive to the poor men of the country. The main addresses were by David A. Wells and Henry Watterson.