Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

James O’Donnell, editor of the Jackson Citizen, was nominated for Congress from the Third Michigan District by the Republicans by acclamation. James S. Eckles, of Princeton, has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eleventh Illinois District. Republican Congressional conventions have nominated W. E. Fullei in the Fourth lowa District, Col. Ralph Plumb in the Sixth Illinois, E. H. Conger and H. Y. Smith in the Seventh lowa, and A. J. Holmes in the Tenth lowa. The Democrats placed In the field Preston Stevenson in the Fifth District of New Jersey, and the Greenbackers of the Second Maine District nomnated W. W. Berry. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Prohibition State Central Committee of Indiana was held at Indianapolis last week. It was decided to put an electoral ticket in the field. Albany (N. Y.) dispatch: A letter received from Upper Saranac Lake to-day announces the safe arrival of Gov. Cleveland and Dr. Ward at the Prospect Hotel. Stops were made on the way at Loon Lake and Paul Smith's, and, although the Governor desired no demonstration, his friends at each place tendered him a reception in which all the guests at the hotel joined. The Democratic State Convention of Georgia met at Atlanta and made the following nominations: Governor, H. D. McDaniel: Secretary of State, N. C. Barnett; Controller, W. A. Wright; Treasurer, R. A. Hardman; Attorney General, Clifford Anderson. The nominees, with the exception of Hardman, are the present incumbents. The Republicans of Michigan,, in convention at Detroit, nominated Gen. R. A. Alger for Governor, and C. A. Luce for Lieutenant Governor. The rest of the ticket stands as follows, the Incumbents being renominated in each case; Harry A. Conant, Secretary of State; Edward H. Butler, State Treasurer; William C. Stevens, Auditor; Gen. Minor S. Newell, Commissioner of State land office; Moses Taggart, Attorney General; Herschel Gass, Superintendent of Public Instruction; James M. Ballou, Eember of State Board of Education. The Democratic State Convention cf Missouri, in session at Jefferson City, made the following nominations: For Governor, J. S. Marmaduke, of St. Louis; for Auditor, John Walker, the present incumbent; for Register of Lands, Robert McCullough, present incumbent; for Judge of Supreme Court, Judge F. Black. The Republican State Central Committee of Arkansas has nominated a full State ticket, as follows: Governor, Thomas Boles; Secretary of State, Paul Graham; Auditor, J. U. Berry; Treasurer, S. A. Duke; Land Commissioner, J. A. Barnes; Attorney General, Jacob Triebar; Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. B. Ward. James G. Blaine has ordered a suit for libel to be brought against the Indianapolis Sentinel for stating that he betrayed a girl ■and married her at the muzzle of a shot-gun. John L. Routt has announced himself as a candidate for the United States Senatorship from Colorado, now held by Senator Hill. Fx-Senator Chaffee is also a candidate. The Prohibitionists of the Thirteenth Illinois District nominated George Herrington for Congress. Louis B. Gunckel was nominated by the Fourth Ohio District Republicans. The Ninth Texas District Democrats renominated R. Q. Mills, and In the Fifth Tennessee District the Democrats named James D. Riehardsoa. The Tenth Texas District Democrats nominated Joseph D. Sayers. Boston dispatch: “Gtem Butler’s letter of acceptance, or address to the people of the United States, has been praetleallv completed, and, contrary to general expectation, it may see the light before the production of the anticipated epistle from Cleveland. The Butler manifesto is said to be a document of great length. The General takes in the whole vocabulary of national questions, from Mormonism down to the preservation of the Mississippi levees.” Thomas G. Skinner has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the First North Carolina District. Ex-Congressman J. C. Burrows, of

Kalamazoo, was nominated for Congress by the Republican convention of the Fourth Michigan District. C. R. Breckenridge received a renomination for Congress by the Democrats or the Second Arkansas District. Chairman Cooper, of the Pennsylvania State Republican Committee, 'announces that J. I*on Cameron is not a candidate for r3-election to the United States Senate. The Executive Committee of the AntiMonopoly party assembled In Chicago last week and nominated Gen. A. M. West, of j Mississippi, for Vice President. It was resolved to Issue an address urging vigorous efforts in close Con rressional districts, and a | union of all the Butler forces, under the title of the Peop'e's party, was advocated. Roscoe Conkling, in a letter refusing an election as honorary member of the Albany Plumed Knights, says: “W. R. Nichols, Secretary: Noting yours, and thanking yon for the offer of an honorary mem- j bership of the political organization referred to, I must ask yon to excuse me. lam quite out of politics, and don’t wish in any way to be drawn into the pending canvas-*. Your obedient servant, Roscoe Cokkuno."