Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

“The National Anti-Monopoly party of the State of New York,” in convention in New York City, resolved to call itself by the above name, and appointed a committee to confer with other political bodies regarding the nomination of a State ticket. H. Clay Bascom, of Troy, was nominated for Governor by the New York Prohibitionists at Syracuse, and a lengthy platform was adopted demanding the suppression of the liquor traffic by the National Government and denouncing both the o d parties for subserviency to the whi'sky interests. lowa Greenbackers who are opposed to fusion will meet at Marshalltown Oct. 1, to nominate a State ti.ket. A Little Rock dispatch says that official and unofficial returns from the Third .Arkansas District give McHea, Democrat, for Congress, about f>,OJD majority— about double the majority given the Democratic cand date last November. Soon after the assembling of Congress, llepresentative Mills, of Toxas, will offer a bill, now in course of preparation, providing for large reductions in tariff taxes. Thomas J. Lathrop, of Taunton, has

been nominated for Governor of Massachusetts by the Prohibitionists of that State on a platform declaring “uncompromising opposition to the importation, manufacture, and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage." Rev. Moses A. Hopkins, a colored man of North Carolina, and an ex-slave, has been appointed United states Minister to Liberia. Henry Ward Beecher strongly favors inserting a high-license plank in the New York Republican platform and “fighting it out on that line.”