Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Executive committee of the Michigan State Temperance alliance, in session at Lansing, Issued a call for a massconvention at Jackson the second Wednesday in January to form a party. The Illinois State Union Temperance convention, in session at Bloomington, voted

to consolidate with the National Prohibition and Home Protection party. The National Temperance Association adopted a resolution at New Ydrk asking Congress to amend the Constitution so as to proMbit the liquor traffic. The Illinois Republican Association of Washington elected Green®. Rflurn Prert '-Mr. ■W * It is understood that Mr. Kasson, of lowa, will decline a renomination for Congress.