Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Thomas A. Doyle was re-elected Mayor of Providenco, It. I, by a majority of 2,946 over the Prohibition candidate. The majority for license was 826. A successor to Senator Cockrell will this winter be elected by the Missouri Legislature. Col. James Burnes, owner of the Gazette at St. Joseph, is the principal candidate, but Judge Sherwood has recently entered the field. There are usually from twelve to twenty contested elootipn cases in the House of Representatives, but this year there will bo only four, tlirbo of the contestants being Republicans, and tho fourth is Mi’. Weaver, the lowa Greenbacker. The most interesting case is that of Mr. Frank Hurd, of Toledo,'the brilliant young free trade advocate, who disputes the legality of the election of Mr. Romeis, a Republican who holds tho certificate. Hurd claims that Romeis was elected by ille-

gal voting, and that he was not entitled to the certificate on the count Mr. G. W. Steele, of Indiana, a Republican, will have to defend his seat against Mr. Kidd, who makes similar charges, and C. H. Page, a Democrat, claims the seat of Mr. W. A. Pearce, a Rhode Island Republican. The contest which has been waging in the Sixth lowa District Over since the last Presidential campaign will then be transferred to Washington, and Mr. Weaver will have to light for his seat. The Prohibitionists carried Atlanta, and the county of Fulton, in which it is situated, after a prolonged and desperate contest, by the very narrow majority of 219 in a poll exceeding 9,000 votes. The fight was so lieree as to excite the whole State of Georgia as spectators of the battle. The city proper gave an anti-Prohibition majority of 820, but the county precincts went “dry” by 589, thus beating the “wets” in the city by 219. The following Federal appointments are announced from Washington: Richard D. Lancaster to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of St. Louis, Mo. Oliver P. Kemick to be First Assistant Engineer in the marine service of the United States. M. L. C >rmack, of Grand Forks, Dak., to be Secretary < t Diikota Territory. To be Registers of Land Offi ;es: Robert V. Yeakle, of Little Rock, Ara., at Little Rock, Ark.; Henry C. Tipton, of Melbourne, Ark., at Harrison, Ark,; Chester H. Warner, of Colfax, Washington Territor.’, at Walla Walla, Washington Territory. Batholomew Coffey, of Salem, Oregon, to be a sent for the Indians of the Umatilla agency in Oregon. Jacob Schoenhof, of Now York, to be Consul of the United States at Tunstall, England. Frank J. Parke, of West Virginia, to be Principal Clerk of the Public Lands. William K. Ramsay, of Arkansas, to be Register of the Land Office at Camden, Ark. John R. Thompson, of Arkansas, to be Reoeiver of Public Moneys at Camden, Ark. Postmasters • Edward D. Porter, at Jopin, Mo.; James S. McGee, Paris, Mo.; D. W. Scctt, Galena, Ill.; John Marcus, Hamilton, Mo.; Lloyu N. Lease, Tiffin, O.; W. H. Camion, Morrill, Wis.; Robert J. McNally, Keeseville, N. Y.; Frank White, Murfreesboro, Tenn.