Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Ohio State Prohibition convention to nominate a State ticket and delegatee to tho national convention has been called to meet at Columbus March 6. Beatrice, Neb,, dispatch: “About 1,000 citizens met at the opera house in this city for the organization of a John A. Logan . Republican club. Over 500 signed the roll of membership, and unbounded enthusiasm pre vailed. Logan clubs are being formed all over this State.” A petition to President Arthur, asking the reappointment of Ell H. Murray as Governor of Utah, has been largely signed at Louisville, Ky., by citizens of all shades of political belief. President Arthur has sent to the Senate the names of Richard 8. Tutblll, to be United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, vice Gen. Leake, term expired, and James A. Connolly, of Charleston, 111., to be United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, a renomination. The Republicans of the Second district of Kansas have nominated Edward P. Funston to succeed the late D. C. Haskell. Ex-Senator Dorße v, being interviewed

at Washington as to President Arthur's chances for the Republican nomination at Chicago, said that nine-tenths of the people were against him (Arthur), and that his chances of nomination were no better than his (Dorsey’s) own.