Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Samuel J. Tilden, Jr., has been appointed .Internal Revenue Collector for the Fifteenth District of New York. The President has appointed General Joseph It. Bartlett, of New York City, to bo Second Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, in place of Lewis C. Bartlett, resigned, on account of ill-health; William R. Morgan, of Naslivillo, Tenn., to be member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, -in place of Orange Judd, resigned; and John G. Lee, of Philadelphia, to be Secretary of Legation at Constantinople. Dr. Leo is a friend of Minister Cox, and is understood to have been appointed on his personal solicitation. He is familiar with the modern languages and is said to bo peculiarly fitted for the place. A National Convention of FreeTraders and Revenue Reformers was in session at Chicago last week. Among the more prominent delegates were the Hon. J. Q. Smith, Ohio; Gen. M. M. Trumbull, Illinois; the Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Nebraska; J. B. Peabody, New York; Henry J. Philpot, Iowa; the Hon. Benjamin Reece, Ohio; Charles S. Cameron, Chicago; the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Green, Chicago; F, W. Blakie, Chicago; Hon. Frank Hurd, Ohio. Gen. Stiles made the welcoming address, saying that the delegates did not come as President-makers, with brass bands, but simply as earnest men to seo what could be done toward tariff reform. Henry J. Philpot, of lowa, Western Secretary of the league, in an address reviewed tho progress of the movement in the West. Tho convention .displayed great enthusiasm over the declaration by Secretary Bowker that the American pubjjp. • anxiously awaits the birth of a great, third ,party to assume control of tlie<Governmen£ Iho conference chose David A Wells President,’ and R. R. Bowker Secretary. The resolutions adopted declaro that under no pretense shall any countenance be given to attempts to increaso protective duties; and that articles at the foundation of great industries should be' freed from duty. Free ships are demanded,.and the: abolition of restrictive navigation laws.; Tlje conference also declared- that ’hd further reduction in the and tobacco " taxes should, be countenanced until the existing tariff has been brought to a strictly revehtie basis. Two mass meetings held iri Central Musjc Hall were well

attended, and were addressed by Henry Ward Beecher, Frank Hurd, and other prominent revenue-reformers. The President has made the following appointments: George W. Glick, Pension Agent at Topeka, Kan.; Erasmus Redman, Collector of Customs for the district of Frenchman Bay, Me.; Frederick F. Mansfield, of Texajs, to be Secretary of Legation at Japan; James Bums to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of Kansas City; Oscar Yaleton to be Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise in the district of New Orleans. The President has also made the following appointments in the fnavy: John I. Hunker, Lieutenant Commander; Milton E. Schwenk, Lieutenant; William H. Schuetz, Lieutenant; Waldemar D. Rose, Lieutenant junior grade.