Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Michigan Legislature adjourned sine die on the 17th of June. The lowa Greenback Convention will be hold at Des Moines July 7. The President has appointed William L. Bancroft to be Collector of Customs for the district of Port Huron, Mich.; Israel Lawton to be Superintendent of the Mint of the United States at San Francisco, Cal.; A. L. King, of Arkansas, to bo Receiver of Public Moneys at Harrison, Ark.; William F. Howland to be Collector of Customs for the district of Beaufort, N. C.; and John A. Richardson for the district of Pamlico, N. C. The following postmasters fcave been appointed by the President: J. 8. Burns, at Dayton. Wash. T.; Henry Hollberg, at Jackson, Ohio; J. G. Johnson, at Peabody, Kan.; John Hartley, at Henry, 11L; John W. Duncan, at Bonhan\, Tex.: Samuel W. Shields, at Morristown, Tenn.; Mrs. Julia Goer, at New Castle, lnd.; Nathan Wait, at Kingman, Kan.; J. P. Cook, at Kenton. Ohio; W. E. Lawrence, at Sing Sing, N. Y.; William H. Swan, at Mount Morris, N. Y.; Henry Eldredge, at Union Springs, N. Y.; Effingham T. Brown, at Aurora, N. Y.; W. H. 11. Mcllyar, at Cambridge, Ohio, vice D. D. Taylor, suspended; Wm. J. Whipple, at Winona, Minn., vice Daniel Sinclair, suspended; J. W. Sherman, at Osceola, lowa, vice W. J. Agnew, suspended; Charles O. MoCrcedy, at Ballston, N. Y.. vice E. I l ’. Grose, suspended; Daniel W. Krfsher, at North Manchester, Ind., vice Shelby Sexton, suspended; Ker Boyce, at Augusta, Ga.. vice W. F. Holden, suspended: Robert P. Mem fee, at Bozeman, Montana, vice E. C. Anderson, suspended; Buren S. Wasson, at Laportc, lowa, vice J.B.Stebbins, suspended. I Concerning the causes of the suspensions, the Associated Press furnishes the following:I The Postmaster at Bozeman was suspended upon the report of the Inspector showing gross carelessness in the management of the office. The Postmasters at Winona, Minn.; Osceola, Iowa; and Laportc City, Iowa; North Manchester, Ind.; Cambridge, O.; Augusta, Ga.; and Ballston, N. Y., were suspended upon pioofs of acts of partisanship wtille in oltica. These acts were of various kinds. Some were editors as well as Postmasters, and their newspapers In some cases since as well as before the election have contained scnrrilous and indecent attacks upon officers of the Government, as well as malignancy of political feeling toward their adversaries in general. In some cases it has also been established that the Postmasters kept hanging in the poatoffice the political placards of one party and refu-ed permit those of the other party to be there displayed, these placards being sometimes indecent pictures or cartoons unfit for the eyes of respectable personal In other cases the Postmasters were shown to have been efficient political agents of their party; members of its working committees in its organization, well known in it as such, and taking a particular part in the conduct of election business, often to the impairme»t of their performance of the duties of the office. In several of the cases political notices, oirculars, and newspapers of tne opposite political party were shown to have been detained In the postoffice.

Dennis Kearney announces his intention to run for Governor of California on the workingmen’s ticket next year,