Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Nineteenth Illinois District Democrats have renominated Hon. It W. Townshend for Congress. “Massachusetts is on the ragged edge of another Butler scare,” says a Boston dispatch The announcement in a morning paper that he is in training for the Governorship caused a decided sensation in Boston. “The comments on the streets and at the hotels showed there was more in the movement than Butler’s friends aro willing to admit. The general impression, however, is that Butler is playing a little game of bluff as a feeler, and if he finds his grip is as strong as formerly he will exert it for another candidate. It is believed that he looks favorably upon the proposed candidacy of Judge Abbott A rumor, which is being much repeated, is that Butler is ready to back Abbott fpr Governor by his personal effort on the stump, and has more than ha f a mind to run for Congress himself at the same time, by way of stirring up the case more thoroughly. Butler has a residence in two districts, and may run either in the Seventh or Eighth. ” A. Easton has been nominated for Congress by the Froliibitionists of the Fifteenth Illinois District. Congressman Hepburn, of the Eighth lowa District, has been nominated for his fourth term. The Vermont Republican State Convention nominated Lieutenant Governor Ormsby for Governor, and renominated C. W. Porter, the present Secretary of State; W. H. Dubois, the present Treasurer, and E. H. Powell, the present Auditor, by acclamation. The platform indorsis the prohibitory law; the bill regulating the sale of oleomargarine; favors State and national railroad commissions, and expresses sympathy with Gladstone and Parnell. In referring to the disposal of public offices it says: Whatever may be the case elsewhere, the course of the national administration in reference to the disposal of Federal offices in this State, in committing appointments to party bosses, supplanting faithful officers, not justly chargeable with offensive partisanship, by active and offensive partisans and removing honest, experienced, and respected officers to make place for saloon-keepers, pot-house politicians, and Democratic strikers, has been a most absolute burlesque of civil-service reform, and deserves the condemnation of all who desire clean, efficient, and trustworthy public service. The State Convention of the Maine Prohibitionists was held at Portland. Aaron Clark of Buxton was nominated for Governor. T. B. Hussey and Col. W. S. Eustis aro the Prohibition nominees for Congress in the First and Second Congressional Districts, respectively. A Norwich (Conn.) dispatch says that judge Hewitt asked Hon. James G. Blaine if he was going to be a Presidential candidate in 18S8. Mr. Blaine smiled and said: “Perhaps they had bettor try some other man next time. ” A secret circular of General Master Workman Powdcrly has been published. It is dated Philadelphia, June 12, and the Knights of Labor are Warned against what he considers a plot to pack the Knights’ convention, to be held in the month of October, with politicians. Mr. Powderly claims to have discovered a movement on foot to disrupt the order by underhand means. The Greenback-Labor party of Ohio, in State convention at Mansfield, nominated a ticket with Christopher Evans, of Perry, for Secretary of State. A ratification meeting held in the evening was addrossed by Hop. Jesse Harper, of Illinois, and others. Gov. Hill of New York has signed a bill which provides that a person charged with crime in another State or Territory shall not be talcon out of New York State either with or without his consent unless he be regularly extradited, and any person or officer who aids or assists in removing any fugitive from justice out of that State without a requisition being first obtained shall be guilty of felony and imprisonment in State Prison. Washington telegram: Speaker Carlisle does not appear at all cast down by the fate of the tariff bill He is credited with saying: “Since a majority of the House were inimical to the bill it is better the motion to consider it should have been defeated rather than to have got it before the House and chopped its head off by striking out Iho enactment clause. Under present circumstances it will remain on the calondar, where it can be taken up at any time tho Hoqse chooses. I don’t look for any action upon it at this session, but I am sincere in my belief that we will not only get it before tho House next session but that we will pass it”