Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The National Greenback Committee have voted to hold the convention for the nomination for President and Vice President at Indianapolis, May 20. There was no meeting of the committee, the decision being reached by correspondence. The Indiana Greenback State Convention, in session at Indianapolis, named the following ticket to be voted for in the fall: For Governor, H. Z. Leonard; Lieutenant Governor, John B. Milroy; Secretary of State, F. F. Waring; Treasurer, Thompson Smith; Auditor, J. H. Robinson; Attorney General, John O. Green; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 8. S. Boyd. Congressman Payne, of Pennsylvania, declares openly that Blaine is the choice of the mass of the Republican voters in the Keystone State and in New York. The National Democratic Convention will meet in the city of Chicago on the Bth day of July, the National Committee, at its meeting In Washington on Washington’s birthday having decided the matter. A circular has been issued which invites the high lariffitesof the country to in mass convention at Chicago the 21st of May next. At a conference in New York of Independent Republicans from several States it was resolved that the character, record, and political associations of the future nominees for President and Vice President should be such as to justify confllence in their civil-service convictions, and that interference with the free choice of delegates to the National Convention by districts should not be tolerated. Before the Copiah Investigating Committee at New Orleans, J. H. Thompson testified that the Matthews family had been a bad lot for forty-five years; that they had harbored thieves; that Print Matthews, who was killed on election day, was a menace to the peace of the community, and that he was always Irritating the negroes and inciting them to bad acts against the whites. The Copiah people were peaceable. They had been patient under a bad government. Electioneering with guns was confined to no single party. W. W. Cook, ex-Bheriff of Copiah County, corroborated Thompson. Matthews had arrayod the negroes against the whites. There could be no quiet while party lines were drawn on a basis of race and color. The negroes were used by unscrupulous leaders. Several other witnesses testified to the same purport. Th© lowa Senate has passed a bill to

1 impose license on dogs, on the representation of farmers that sheep-raising had ma- ; terlolly declined throughout the State.