Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — McDONOALD. [ARTICLE]

McDONOALD.

Tho Indiana Ex-Senator Announced as a |T Candidate. Ex* Senator McDonald has been announced as a candidate for the Presidency by the Indiana Demooratio Association at Washington. At a recent meeting of the association Representative Cobb offered the following resolution: Whereas, The name of the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, of Indiana, has been prominently mentioned as a fit and available candidate for the Preßidenoy'; therefore Resolved, by the Indiana Democratic Association at Washington, that we recognize in the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald the patriot, statesman, and Democrat who has ever been faithful to his party and his country. That, in the judgment of this association, the nomination of McDonald for the Presidency by the Democratto National Convention would establish harmony in the party throughout the country, and result In the success ot Democratic principles at the' approaching Presidential election. Senator Voorhees made a speech In support of the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. Joseph Fisher, of Craig County, Va., 94 years old, weighs but fifty pounds, la four feet aad a half high, and wears boys' boots.