Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Democratic Congressional conventions have nominated William H. Neece in the Eleventh District of Illinois, B. J. Hall in the First lowa, Judge Stanley Woodward In the Twelfth Pennsylvania, and George R. Yaple in the Fourth Michigan. The Democrats and Greenbackers in the Des Moines district of lowa placed in the field Judge W. H. McHenry for the long term and William Kivler for the short term. Hillsboro (Hl.) dispatch: “The Hon. George C. Christian, of Chicago, Chairman of the Prohibition State Central Committee, and the gentleman who nominated St. John in the Pittsburgh convention, was here yesterday working up the Prohibition cause in this section of the State. He said the prospects of the Prohibition party were very flatteringin this State. The committee had already had the names of 25,000 members who would vote the Prohibition ticket, State and national, and the canvass had barely commenced. He felt .confident that they would get 60,000 votes in Illinois. He said the Prohibition sentiment was strongest in the central and southern parts of the State.”

Edwin D. Bailey, Secretary of the National Committee of the American party, announces that Senator S. C. Pomeroy, nominated for President, will withdraw in favor of St. John. i The Illinois Greenback Convention, at Bloomington, nominated Jesse Harper, of Danville, for Governor, and adopted a resolution authorizing the State Central Committee of the party to fuse with any of the old parties which would give them seven Presidential electors. The Greenbackers and Anti-Monop-oiists of Wisconsin met in convention at Milwaukee, nominated W. L. Utley for Governor, and placed a full electoral ticket in the field. The Michigan Prohibitionists, in session at Detroit, nominated David Preston, a wealthy Detroit banker, for Governor. Thomas P. Fenlon has been nominated by the Democrats for Congress in the First Kansas District. Col. N. B. Eldredge was renominated by the Democrats and Greenbackers of the Second Michigan District. Congressman Isaac H. Stephenson was renominated by the Republicans of the Ninth Wisconsin District. Ethel Barksdale was nominated by the Dem- | ocrats of the Seventh Mississippi District. J. B. Yellowby was nominated by the Republicans and Independents. H. G. Thayer was nominated by the Republicans of the Thirteenth Indiana District. For the short term, to succeed Maj. Calkins, the Republican nominee for Governor of the State, John W. Reynolds was named. The Republicans of the First North Carolina District have nominated J. B. Respess for Congress. Richard Bishop was nominated by the Democrats of the Fifth Illinois District; E. H. Broaddus was named by the Prohibitionists or the Eleventh Illinois District; and James Keigwin was placed in the field by the Republicans of the Third Indiana District. George Ford has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Thirteenth Indiana District, R. T. Hubbard I y the Republicans of the Third Virginie, and Col. J. Edwards by the Republicans of the Fifth North Carolina.

The lowa Greenback State Convention met at Des Moines, counties being represented by 310 delegates, and performed one-half of the proposed fusion act mapped out in advance by the Democratic and Greenback State Central Committees. The following Presidential electors were nominated : At large, Daniel Campbell; First District, A. 8. Hunter; Fifth District, George Carter;

Seventh District, H. 8. Wilcox; Ninth Din trict, J. p. Halton, leaving the Eighth to be filled. The remainder, seven in number, they left for the Democrats to nominate when they meet in State convention. Judge E. L. Burton, a Democrat, was nominated for Supreme Judge; George Derr, of Union County, for State Treasurer; and James Dooley, of Keokuk, for Secretary of State. The last two are Green! ackers. A lengthy platform was adopted. The Kansas Greenbackers met in convention at Topeka, and nominated the following ticket: Governor, H. L. Phillips; Lieutenant Governor,'John W. Chief Justice, H. P. Vrooman; Associate, J. D. Mcßryan; Treasurer, H. F. Hefelbourn; Auditor, W. T. Wakefield; Attorney General, H. L. Brush; Secretary of State, J. C. Hibbard; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Miss Fannie Randolph. Electors and a State Central Committee were also chosen. Gen. Butler called on Simon Cameron at Harrisburg, Pa., and addressed a grangers' picnic at Williams Grove, He is said to have decided on an aggressive campaign, and will speak four times in Pennsylvania. His badge is to be a red rose on a green leaf.