Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Mississippi Republican Convention met at Jackson and selected fourteen delegates to the national convention at Chicago. Twelve of them are for Arthur. The Ithaca (N. Y.) Journal thinks that Prof. Andrew D. White, of Cornell University, may turn out to be the Republican dark horse. Some of the Edmunds New York delegates talk of Secretary Lincoln In this connection. The New York Telegram (James Gordon Bennett, proprietor) has come out for Arthur and Lincoln as the Presidential ticket. The Democratic State Convention of lowa adopted a resolution declaring for revenue reform, and appointed a unanimous Tilden delegation to the national body at Chicago. The Republican Convention of Ohio adopted resolutions demanding the restoration of the wool tariff of 1876, appointed one Blaine and three Sherman delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention, and nominated J. S. Robinson for Secretary of State and W. W. Johnson for Supreme Judge. The Michigan Republican State Convention chose delegates who favor Blaine first and Edmunds second, with Lincoln as the unanimous choice for Vice President. The Maine Greenback Convention nominated Dr. H. B. Eaton for Governor, and indorsed Gen. BenJ. F. Butler for the Presidency. The Republican State Convention of Connecticut left its delegates to Chicago unlnstructed, but passed a resolution commending Joseph R. Hawley as a candidate for President. The New York Republican State Convention was organized in the interest of Arthur and Edmunds despite the hostility of Thomas C. Platt and Senator Miller, and the delegates-at-large to Chicago are Andrew D. White, Edwin Pack-. ard, Theodore Roosevelt, and John J. Gilbert. The Virginia Republican Convention adopted the unit rule, and Instructed the delegates to Chicago to vote for Arthur. The Dakota Republicans elected N. E. Nelson and Col. J. L. Jolly as delegates to Chicago, and instructed them to vote for Blaine and Lincoln while a probability of nomination remains.

The Arizona Republican Convention met at Phoenix and appointed delegates to Chicago. The convention instructed for Blaine.... The -Massachusetts Greenbackers held their Convention at Lynn, indorsed Gen. Butler for President, and appointed delegates to the Indianapolis convention. A New Orleans dispatch says that returns of the recent State election In Louisiana, mainly official, from all the parishes but five, with estimates for these, give the total vote of the State as 129,038, being the largest cast since the exciting campaign of 1876. It stands divided between the two parties as follows: Democrats, 85,107; Republicans, 42,931—a Democratic majority of 43,276. The Legislature will stand: Senate—Democrats, 30; Independent,!; Republicans, 5; a Democratic loss of 2. House—Democrats, 82; Independent Democrats, 6; Republicans, 18; the Republicans losing 1 seat. The first amendment to the State Constitution is carried. This amendment provides that the interest on the State bonds, which had been fixed by the constitution at 3 per cent, for fifteen years, from Jan. 1, 1885, and thereafter, shall be raised to 4 per cent, from Jan. 1. 1885 for the whole term of thirty years. This is believed to be the first instance in which a State, by the vote of the people, raised the interest on its public debt.