Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Kentucky Democratic Convention indorsed Speaker Carlisle as a Democratic Presidential candidate. The Massachusetts Prohibition State Convention was held at Boston, the resolu. tlons declaring for the suppression of the liquor traffic by constitutional and statutory measures. Gen. Grant favors a constitutional amendment making the Presidential term seven years and the occupant ineligible to re-election. Congressman Blackburn said, in an Interview at Washington, that all tariff legislation Is dead beyond a hope of resurrection so far as this Congress is concerned, and that the hope of the reformers is In the National Democratic Convention. “There,” said Mr. Blackburn, “the issue will be made and fought We shall appeal from the combination of renegade Democrats and Republicans In the House to the National Democratic Convention, and from It to the people. This session will bo brought to a close before the meeting of the Democratic convention. All that the country expects us to do is to hurry up the appropriation bills and go home.” The Greenbackers of the Twelfth District of Missouri, renominated W. 8. Haseltine for Congress and elected A. W. St. John and E. L. Bentley delegates to the national convention.