Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Ex-Mayor Powderly, of Scranton, 'd)o well-known labor agitator, will be urged to accept the Democratic nomination for Stato Treasurer of Pennsylvania. The lowa Democratic State Convention, which met at Cedar Rapids on the 19 th of August, declared in favor of the repeal of the prohibitory liquor law and against the adulteration of intoxicants. A license fee, to range from $250 to SI,OOO, was recommended. President Cleveland’s administration and the Democratic policy m general were indorsed. Charles E. Whiting, of Monona County, was nominated for Governor; E. H. Gillette, of Les Moine3 (Greenbacker), for Lieutenant Governor; W. F. Brannon, of Muscatine County, for Justice of the Supreme Court; and F. W. Moore, of Davis County (Greenbacker), for Superintendent of Public Instruction. —Robert Lowry, the present Governor of Mississippi, was renominated by the Democratic Stato Convention, which met at Jackson. A banqpet was tendered Yice President Hendricks at Waukesha, Wis., which was nttendod by a number of conspicuous Democrats. Elias Doty, an lowa Greenbacker who repudiates the fusion of hi 3 pai ty with the Democrats, is out in a card announcing himself as a candidate for Governor. Ho “respectfully asks the support of all Greenbackers whose manhood and self-respect will not allow them to bo sold like a slave by their master devil.” The Ohio Democratic Convention at Columbus renominated Judge Hoadly for Governor, John G. Warwick, present incumbent, for Lieutenant Governor, Gibson Atherton for the Supreme Bench, Peterßrady for Treasurer, James Lawrence for Attorney General, and Henry Weible for member of the Board of Public Works. Gov. Hoadly made a speech defining his course in office. President Cleveland’s administration was strongly indorsed. Hoadly and Warwick were nominated by acclamation. Erastus J. Shepherd has been ar-

rested at Laredo. Tex., charged with complicity with Aufdemorte In the thefts irom the Sub-Treasury at New Orleans. Thirtyseven hundred dollars of the stolen money was found on his person. The official returns give Tate, Democratic candidate for State Treasurer of Kentucky, 67,597 majority. This is the tenth time be has been elected.