Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

John M. Hamilton, Governor of Illinois, has written a letter declining to compete further for a renomination. A bill prohibiting the buying or selling of grain or other produce on fictitious contracts or margins has passed the lowa Legislature. The House River and Harbor Committee intends to recommend an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Mississippi and its tributaries, and will limit tho remaining items to $0,000,000. The Minnesota State Republican Convention will be held May 1. The lowa editors, on their excursion to New Orleans, took a ballot for President, with the following result: Blaine, 20; Arthur, 8; Sherman, 5; Logan, 8; Edmunds, 5; Tilden, 5; Butler, 6; Flower, 2. One each for Harrison, McDonald, Hendricks, Morrison, and Conkling. For Vice President, Lincoln, 41; Hendricks, 5; Matt Parralt, 3. One each for Carlisle, Thurman, and Weaver. At the Trade and Labor Convention of Illinois, held in Chicago last week, the practice of employers in importing laborers and mechanics under contract was emphatically condemned, and a resolution in favor of tho George nationalization scheme was vigorously sat down on. The next convention will meet et Springfield. Ex-Senator Dorsey, in a letter to Congressman Springer, give 3 the names of prominent persons, heretofore not mentioned, as being connected with tho Star Itoute frauds. Springer refuses to give the names now, preferring to let them be made public through Dorsey's testimony when he appears before his committee. The fact that the ex-Secretary of State and the Senator from Illinois were assigned the placos of honor at a recent dinner given by William Waller Phelps, Blaine’s personal friend, is mentioned as showing that a warm friendship exists between them, and that Blaine will not stand in the way of Logan.