Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Republican State Central Committee of Wisconsin met in Milwaukee, and called a. State Convention at Madison, April 80, to select delegates to Chicago and nominate an electoral ticket. The convention to nominate State officers will be held in September. William A. Cook, one of the Government counsel in the star-route prosecutions, testified before Mr. Springer’s committee that he regarded the compensation paid Bliss as extravagant, unjustifiable and unearned in every respect; that the cases were improperly handled, and that the Attorney General received threatening anonymous letters before Garfield was shot. The California Democratic State Convention has been called to meet at Stockton on the 10th of June, and the Vermont Republican Convention will convene at Montpelier, April 80, and the Wisconsin Democracy will hold their State Convention at Madison. May 28. The rival State Republican committees of Missouri, failing to come to an understanding at a protracted meeting, the Filley faction decided to call a meeting at the same time and place chosen by' the re formers—Sedalia, April 9—when lively scenes are expected to occur. The Massachusetts House, by a vote of 144 to 50, defeated the bill to extend municipal suffrage to women. A bill providing for the punishment of wife-beaters by flogging has passed the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Gov. Glick, of Kansas, on the 13th inSt. issued a proclamation calling an extra ordinary session of the Legislature, for the purpose of adopting such measures as may be deemed most effectual in checking the foot-and-mouth disease. By a vote of 26 to 24 the lowa Senate passed the bill tor the submission of a constitutional amendment in favor woman suffrage to a vote of the people. The Democratic State Committee of lowa met at Des Moines and fixed the date of the State Convention to select delegates to the National Democratic Convention for Thursday, April 24, at Burlington.