Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A number of prominent white Republicans of Georgia, met at Atlanta, Ga., and laid the foundation for what they propose to call the Whig party of 1884. A resolution in the California Senate, ithanking Minister Sargent for his services in Berlin, was tabled by a vote of 22 to 13. J. G. Cannon has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fifteenth Illinois District. The Republicans of the District of Columbia selected Postmaster Conger and Perry Carson' as delegates to Chicago, and voted down a resolution instructing them for Logan. The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania appointed sixty Randall delegates to Chicago, but left them uninstructed. W. W. H. Davis, a county editor, was nom inated for Congressman-at-large. At the Republican Congressional Convention for the Albany district, after the election of a presiding officer, a mob made a rush for the platform and threw off the Chairman and Secretary. A scene of wild disorder was followed by the appointment in the same room of rival delegations to Chicago. District conventions to select delegates to the National Republican Convention were held in the various Congressional Districts of Indianaon the 10th inst. Following is a summary of preferences, so far as known; First District—Gen. Sherman, 2; Second Dis-trict-Unknown, 2; Third District Unknown, 2; Fourth District—Harrison, 2;

Fifth District—Harrison, 2; Sixth District— Edmunds, 1; Blaine. 1; Seventh District— Harrison, 2; Eighth District—Blaine, 2; Ninth District—Unknown, 2; Tenth District— Blaine, 2; Eleventh District—Harrison, 2; Twelfth District—Unknown, 2; Thirteenth District—Unknown, 2. It is not quite certain that a majority of the Southern delegates will go to Chicago Instructed for Arthur. There are many indications that many of them will go instructed and prepared to vote for the man whorls most likely to carry Ohio in October and New York in November. So says the Chicago Tribune. According to the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat, 11 of the delegates from Missouri to the National Republican Convention will favor Blaine, 9 will vote for Arthur, 7 for Logan, and 5 for Edmunds. Gov. Sherman, of lowa, in an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, said that the lowa delegation to the National Republican Convention would be uninstructed. The prevailing sentiment among the Republicans of the State was in favor of Blaine, and the entire delegation might vote for the man from Maine from the start. The most reliable political advices from Kansas indicate that Blaine is the favorite Presidential candidate of the Republicans of the State. Edmunds stands next, and then comes Arthur. Logan has a large following, but there is no organization in his interest, apparently. It is reported from Washington that Senator Riddleberger and Representatives John D. Wise and Benjamin Hooper visited Mr. Blaine at his residence in that city with a view to political negotiations. The straightout Republicans, headed by Dezendorf and Wickham, are understood to be for Blaine, and the Readjusters, feeling that he is going to win, are anxious to make terms with him if possible. There seems to be no doubt that the visit was paid. Its purpose is another question.