Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Pennsylvania Republicans, in State convention assembled at Harrisburg, nominated Col. Matthew S. Quay for State Treasurer on the first ballot. The lowa Greenbackers, in convention at Des Moines, nominaced E. H. Gillette, of Polk County, for Lieutenant Governor, and F. W. Moore, of Davis County, for Superintendent of Public Instruction, leaving the other places on the ticket to be filled by the Democrats. The resolutions adopted reaffirm tho Indianapolis platform of 1884; protest against the continuous encroachments of monopolies, and declare the inability of the old parties to meet this question; tho middlemen who borrow money cheap and lend it at heavy interest to Western farmers are denounced and the system permitting such spoliation should be reformed: the reserve in the National Treasury shou d bo released, as ruin has followed this hoarding; the expulsion of settlors from Oklahoma is denounced; the next Legislature is called on to pass tho Cassatt coal-screen bill, and to abolish the railway commission; corporations should be required to accept lowa citizenship, and keep their litigation in the State courts; the Governor is denounced for the “bayonet” removal of Auditor Brown; the temperancs law should be fully enforced. The President baa appointed William K. Meade, of Arizona, to be United States Marshal for that Territory; Joseph L. Mor-

gan, of South Carolina, to be Secretary of Legation at the City of Mexico; Willis G. Clark to be Collector of Customs for the port of Mobile, Ala.; Frederick Gerker to be Collector of Internal Reven.ue for the First District of Pennsylvania, vice Wil iam Pollock, suspended; and the following Presidential Postmasters: A. B. Waller, at Tus carora, Nevada; Edwin S. Smith, at South Haven, Mich.; John O’Donnell, at Mitchell; John Pepper, at Eoscobel, Wis.; Adolph Piening, at Manitowoc, Wis.; Joseph Vannahme, at East St. Louis, Ill.; D. A. Sullivan, at .Spring Valley, Minn.; Benjamin Harrison, at Paiatka, Fla.; Mary M. Force, at Selma, Ohio; John C. Wise, at Mankato, Minn., vice L. Punt, suspended; William F. Avera, at Camden, Ark., vice H. A. Mellin, suspended; C. S. Stoy, at. Butler, Ind., vice Miss Ida Carpenter, suspended; Eli W. Brown, at Columbia City, Ind., vice J. W. Baker, suspended; Jonah T. Howe, at Trumansburgh, N. Y., vice D. S. Briggs, suspended; Robert W. Speer, at Denver, Col., vice Robert Morris, suspended; Michael W. Ryan, at Medford, Wis., vice S. H. Keeler, suspended.