Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — Gen. Butler's Acceptance. [ARTICLE]

Gen. Butler's Acceptance.

Gen. Butler acoepts the nomination of the National Anti-Monopoly organization for President of the United States. The following is his letter of acceptance: > Lowell, Mass,, May 21, 1884. Gentlemen: I have the honor to receive your courteous note giving me the action of the convention at Chicago on the 14th inst. pf the representatives of anti-monopoly. The honor of the designation by such a body as tbeir candidate for the Presidency of the republic can not be too highly appreciated. Concurring with each measure of public policy set forth in the resolutions, I need only to add that if the votes of the electors shall intrust me with the executive powers of that high office, each of them will be fully, justly, and energetically used to make every measure of relief to the people and reform in the Government pointed out by your platform the principles characterizing the administration. Accept for yourselves, personally, my most grateful consideration, Benjamin F. Butler. West Virginia Greenbackers. The West Virginia Greenback State Convention met at Buckhannon and nominated Judge Edwin C. Maxwell, of Harrison County, for Governor; J. T. Burtt, Auditor; Speucer W. Surm, of Marion County, Treasurer; and J. N. Kendall, of Ritchie County, Superintendent of the Free Schools. Judge Maxwell is a Republican. The rest of the State ticket is left for the Republicans to name, and the two parties wili fuse in the October election as well as November. The nominatinn of electors was left to the Executive Committee. Tennessee Prohibition Convention. The Tennessee State Prohibition Convention, with four hundred delegates, convened at NashviDe. Enthusiastic speeches were made, and the temperance cause in Tennessee reported in a satisfactory condition. The convention declined to put forth a separate ticket or to mix politics and temperance in any way. The delegates, however, pledged themselves to vote for candidates who favored submitting the question of a constitutional prohibition amendment to the people.