Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The annual Stale election in Rhode Island resulted in the success of the Republican ticket, which is mainly made up of the present officers. An amendment to the Constitution providing for prohibition was also successful. This latter feature of the voting made the election extraordinarily exciting. At the municipal election in Dallas, Texas, on the heaviest vote ever polled, the Knights of L ibor made a clean sweep, every candidate supported by them being elected by majorities ranging from GOO to 1,000. The result was a great surprise. Dallas is the point at which the big public meetings about a month ago started in Texas to denounce the strike and uphold and indorse the attitude of the railroad companies, which was done by the Merchants’ Exchange, and many other meetings in the State followed the example. At Fort Worth tho candidates of the Knights of Labor were also elected to a man. Henry C. Krumpp, Republican, was elected Mayor of Kansas City, while the Democrats obtained control of all the remaining offices. Joseph Pulitzer has resigned his seat in Congress, from New York, as his newspaper, the IForW, demands his whole attention. At Effingham, 111., Mrs. H. B. Kepley ran against her husband for School Trustee and “knocked him out,” receiving a majority o*f twelve votes.

pany. They will be apt to fall out at any time or finally become members of our order. I repeat, the railroad managers would have been wise to accept the terms offered two weeks ago.” The House Committee on Commerce has instructed Representative Dunham to report favorably his bill to authorize the President to appoint inspectors of live stock, dressed meats, and hog products intended for foreign shipment, to a number not exceeding fifteen for any customs district The April report of the Department of Agriculture showed a decrease of 5 per cent from last year in the acreage of winter wheat, Illinois leading in the decrease. Everything* vzas quiet at East St. Louis on the 12th inst. Seventeen companies of Illinois State troops, under command of Gen. Reece, covered all strategic points in the city. The funeral of the victims of the recent tragedy occurred on Sunday, and was attended by 1,500 Knights of Labor, Knights of Honor, and other organizations. At Parsons, Kan., and Fort Worth, Tex., several strikers were arrested, and there was more or less excitement. The troubles on the Union Pacific at Omaha were adjusted, and the men will hereafter bo paid by the trip system. The freight brakemen on the Mobile and Ohio Road struck for $55 for twenty-six trips of one hundred miles each. The members of the paid fire department of Philadelphia have decided to join the Knights of Labor, in the hope of securing an increase of compensation. At Sedalia, Mo., a woman shot at a Deputy Sheriff who was doing guard duty at the Missouri Pacific shops. Many telegrams from Knights of Labor have been received in Washington, asking for speedy action on the Curtin resolution for a Congressional investigation into the Southwestern Strikes. T. V. Powderly has written to Congressman O’Neill that the labor arbitration bill is the bast that could have been passed, although it will * not be the means of settling all disputes between capital and labor. A New York dispatch says the Vanderbilts, Astors, and Gould are closely guarded by private detectives against cranks. The Executive Board of the Knights of Labor at St Louis sent the following telegram to Jay Gould: “To Jay Gould, New York: “The following advertisement appeared in many of the leading papers of the 7th inst., dated from the office of the agent of the Ixiuisville and Nashville Railroad Company : “Ten good men from here are wanted as Deputy Marshals at East St. Louis to protect Louisville and Nashville employes. Five dollars a day and board will be paid. Also a number of platform men can be given employment. Only men who have plenty of grit business need apply. Apply at onee to T. S. Genung, agent. “How well this advertisement has been answered is seen by their work in East St. Louis. Six men and one woman were murdered by those who ‘had plenty of grit and meant business.’ By your actions in refusing the peaceful negotiations solicited by the Board of Arbitration you and you alono must be held responsible by the world for the lives of these innocent people.”