Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

In the New York Democratic State Convention at Saratoga the differences of opinion among the various sections of the New York Democracy w*re settled and harmony secured by allowing Tammany thirtyone delegates in the national convention, the County Democracy thirty-one, and Irving Hall ten. The convention did not Instruct its representatives at Chicago, but they are believed to stand 47 for Cleveland, 14 for Fowler, and 7 for Bayard. The delegates-a Marge are Daniel Manning, Edward Cooper, Lester B. Faulkner, and John C. Jacobs. Among the district delegates are August Belmont, John Kelly, and Abram S. Hewitt. Gen. Butler has written a long letter in response to the formal announcement of his nomination by the Greenbackers. The ex-Governor approves the objects of the Greenback organization and accepts.

Samuel E. Pingree was nominated for Governor by the Vermont Republican State Convention, E. J. Ormsbee for Lieutenant Governor, and W. H. Dubois for State Treasurer. Maj. E. A. Burke, Senator Jonas, A. A. Gunby, and R. C. Wickliffe were selected delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention by the Louisiana Democracy, which declared generally for the old principles of the party, but for a tariff for the encouragement of home industries and home production. The Illinois Prohibitionists, in convention at Bloomington, nominated for Governor J. B. Hobbs, ex-President of the Chicago Board of Trade. The resolutions declare that both the old parties have persistently disregarded the interests of the people in refusing to redress manifest evils; that all laws licensing the sale of intoxicants should be abrogated, and regard with disdain the proposition to educate children with the proceeds of the sale of liquor. The platform also expresses a belief in the civil and political equality of woman, favors Statesupported schools, and opposes the convictlabor system.

Congressman Wm. H. Calkins was nominated for Governor of Indiana by the Republican State Convention, which met at Indianapolis. Resolutions were adopted favoring the administration of charitable, educational, and benevolent institutions regardless of politics; condemning the system of prison contract labor; and advocating extreme care in reference to the sanitary condition of mines.

The Democrats of the Second District of North Carolina nominated F. A. Woodward for Congress. H. Taylor, a lawyer of Carrollton, Ohio, has been nominated by the Republicans of that Congressional District. Ex-Senator S. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, has been nominated for President of the the United States by the American (AntiSecret Society) party. John A. Coutant. of Willimantic, Conn., is the nominee for Vice President. The platform adopted by the convention at Chicago demands the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks; that the charters of all secret lodges granted by Federal or State Legislatures should be withdrawn; that land and other monopolies should be discouraged; and the abolition of electoral colleges and a direct vote for President and Vice President of the United States.

The committee appointed to notify Mr. Blaine of his nomination by the Republican National Convention for President waited on him in a body at his home in Augusta, where Gen. Henderson, Chairman of the committee, made the address of notification under an elm tree in the grounds surrounding Mr. Blaine’s residence. In reply Mr. Blaine expressed the profound gratitude which he felt for the great honor bestowed upon him, and promised a more formal acceptance at a future time. After the addresses the committee, with Mr. Blaine, were entertained at luncheon at the house of Col. Osgood, a neighbor of Mr. Blaine.