Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

San Francisco telegram: “The election of delegates in the forty-seven city clubs to the State .Democratic Convention was continued till past midnight. The double resolution pledging tho delegates to Tilden and against Field was unanimously adopted.” St. Louis dispatch: “The Democratic county conventions so far held in this State, either for the nomination of county tickets or the selection of delegates to the State convention to choose delegates to the national convention, have expressed decided preference for Samuel J. Tilden for President. There seems to be a strong desire throughout the State for the renomtnation of the ‘old ticket’ ” Judge Foraker, of Ohio, is, at his own request, to nominate Senator Sherman for the Presidency at the Chicago convention. The Democratic State Convention of Wisconsin adopted resolutions denouncing the present tariff as a masterpiece ot injustice arid falso pretense, and demanding that all custom house taxation shall be only for revenue. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, was nominated for President by the National Greenback Convention at Indianapolis. J udge West, of Mississippi, was nominated for Vice President. The Minnesota Democratic Convention met at St. Paul and eleoted delegates to Chicago. While riot instructed, those chosen are in favor of Tilden. At the semi-monthly meeting of the

Trades Assembly of Chicago, three delegates from the New York Typographical Union detailed their grievances against White law Reid, and announced their purpose to urge the Republican National Convention into boycotting him.