Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Mr. Rich, Postmaster at Camden, Me., sent in his resignation from a conviction that the place should be filled by one in accord with the administration. The Wisconsin Senate killed the bill empowering women to vote at municipal elections; and the lower branch passed an act that vagrants may be sentenced to a diet of bread and water only. Washington special: “There is a falling off in the crowd of office-seekers here. It is said that the President Intends to make no changes in any of the four-year-term offices except for cause. When the terms of the present incumbents expire the offices will be filled’by picked Democrats.” The Cincinnati Republican City Con-

vention nominated Amor Smith, Jr., for Mayor, on the first ballot. The Ohio Senate, by a vote of 12 to 5. rejected the House bill giving women suffrage in school districts. The Ohio Legislature adopted a resolution for submitting to the people an amendment changing the date of State elections from October to November. Hon. Austin Blair, Michigan’s war Governor, has teen nominated by a nonpartisan convention as Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson County, Michigan. Hon. James H. Berry was elected United States Senator from Arkansas, to succeed A. H. Garland, appointed Attorney General in President Cleveland's Cabinet. Dwight S. Spafford, Republican, was elected to succeed the Hon. Robert E. Logan, deceased, in the Illinois House of Ropre sentatives. The wholesale indictment of election judges and clerks in Chicago, has been followed by the entering of a nolle prosequi, there being no evidence of criminal intent.