Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Prohibition met with an overwhelming defeat at Richmond, Va., the election resultiug in a majority of 5,681 in favor of licensing the sale of liquors. The vote in Manchester, a suburb of Richmond, was anti-pro-liibition; majority, 626. The colored vote was almost unanimously anti-prohibition. The Anti-Prohibitionists carried Lynchburg by 1,138 majority.

The Republicans of Oregon, in convention at Portland, nominated Biuger Hermann, the present incumbent, for Reprcsenttivo in Congre-'S bv a unanimous vote. John B. Waldo, of Portland, was nominated for Supreme Judge, Thomas R. Cornelius, of Washington County, for Governor, and George W. Mcßride, of Columbia County, for Secretary of State. The resolutions adopted condemn the economy of Postmaster General Vilas, through which Oregon lias beeu deprived of the ordinary mail facilities; denounce the alleged civil-service reform of the party iu power as a sllam, and the secrecy in withholding tho causes of removal of officers as infamous; condemn the appointment of unrepentant Confederates over the heads of ex-Union soldiers; and insist that the bill to pension soldiers of the Mexican war bo passed.