Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The following appointments by the President are announced from Washington: William W. Rockhill, of Maryland, to be Secretary of the Legation of the United States to China: Charles Denby, Jr., of Ind'ana, son of the new Minister to China, to be second Secretary of the Legation of the United States to Ch:na: William Dorsheimer to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Martin T. McMahon to be United States Marshal for the same District; benjamin F. Jonas, of Louisiana, to be Collector of Customs for the District of New Orleans; E. S. Wilson, of Jackson, Miss., the editor and proprietor of the New Mississippian, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Evanston, Wyoming; James B. Hayes, of Wisconsin, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Idaho. To be Marshals of the United States—Wiliiaru L. Cabel, of Texas, for the Northern District of James M. Liddell, for the Northern Districtof Misssisippi. Tobe Attorneys of the United States—Robert S. Shields, of Ohio, for the Northern District of Ohio; Char’.es’D. Pearce, of Texas, for the Northern District of Texas. To be Postmasters—Mattie K. Chlsman, at Hampton, Va.; Bartholomew, Tristman, at Marion, Ohio; Thomas H. Beale, at Hamilton, N. Y.; Samuel M. Childs, at Atlantic, Iowa; Horace F. Alexander, at Ludington, Mich.; M. B. Barnett, at Madison. Ind. Tammany insists that the administration persists in ignoring the alleged claims of that organization for a share in the spoils. -j The State Convention of the Prohi-

■ ' bitionists of Ohio, at Springfield, was the ’ largest gathering the party has yet ha l in the State. The following ticket was placed in the fled: Governor, the Rev. A. B. Leonard, of Springfield; Lieutenant Governor, Prof. W. 8. Frost, of Lorain County; Supreme Judge, Gideon Stewart, of Huron County; Treasurer, John H Danner, of Stark County; Attorney General, A, T. Clevinger, of Clinton County; Board of Public Works, J. S. Neville, of Hardin County. Dr. Leonard, the nominee for Governor, is a Methodist clergyman, and is said to be a man of more than ordinary ability in the councils of the church. There were at least thirteen different platforms sent in from different parts of the State, and the committee had a difficult task to select and frame a set of resolutions which would suit all. The convention was delayed several hours by the work of the committee, and it was finally cut down to reasonable proportions. The following is the temperance plank:

We demand an amendment to the constitution of our State forever prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor as a beverage.- We are unalterably opposed to the enactment of laws that propose, by license, tax, or otherwise, to regulate the drink traffic, because they provide for its continuance and afford no protection against its ravages. We hold that the proper attitud; of all good citizens toward this traffic is one of uncompromising hostilty; that the friends of prohibition should not suffer themselves to be controlled by either of the old parties, because these parties have shown themselves subservient to the interests of the liquor traffic. A Springfield special says it is agreed upon all hands that the party will poll tho largest vote In its history this year, and the speculations are as to which party will furnish the votes in the greater number. Malcolm Hay has resigned as First Assistant Postmaster General, and ex-Con-gressman Stevenson, of Illinois, has been chosen as his successor. Judge Lambert Tree, of Chicago, has been appointed United States Minister to Belgium; ex-Congressman John E. Lamb, of Indiana, United States District Attorney for Indiana; and Samuel T. Hauser, of Helena, Montana, Governor of Montana Territory.