Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Mr. Blaine had an enthusiastic reception in Philadelphia. Thousands of people called at the rooms of the Union League Club to shake hands with him. In the evening he reviewed a large political parade. The fireworks display was stopped after three bombs had been exploded, some of the blazing fragment falling and burning many persons. William Pitt Kellogg has been nominated for Congress by the Third Louisiana District Republicans. The Republicans of Texas hare nominated Judge A. B. Norton, of Dallas, for Governor, and John Haynes, of Webb County, for Lieutenant Governor. The Butlerites of Massachusetts met in State convention at Worcester. Judge M. J. McCafferty was nominated for Governor and Colonel John F. Marsh for Lieutenant Governor. The platform adopted is the one presented by Butler in the Democratic National Convention. The South Carolina Republicans, after a protracted session, nominated the following State tioket: Governor, D. T. , orbin of Charleston; Lieutenant-Governor, D. A. Strakcr of Columbia; Secretary of State, It. L. Smith of Charleston; Controller General, E. J. Sawyer; Treasurer, C. C. McCoy; Superintendent of Public Schools, the Rev. Joshha Wilson; Attorney General, Samuel W. Melton. Messrs. Straker, Smith and Wilson are colored men. Gen. Bragg was nominated for Con-

gresa by tha Democrats of the Second Wisconsin District after a week’s balloting. The New York Tribune Aid the printers have been unable to come to terms, and the latter announce that unless the party boycotts the paper they will boycott their nominees. Gcv. Knott, of Kentucky, refuses to call an extra session of the Legislature to take action looking to the stamping out of the cattle disease.