Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A call has been issued from Indianapolis for a national convention of Knights of Labor, Grangers, National Grcenbacker. J , Farmers’ Alliance, Anti-monopolists, and all othor organizations which may harmonize outside the old parties, for the purpose of forming a new party. The convention will meet Sept 1, at Indianapolis. James T. Jolmston was renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Eighth Indiana District at Terre Haute. Capt. A. D. Yan Osdel has been nominated by the Republicans of the Fourth Indiana Congressional District to contest the district against W. S. Holman. There are two Democratic candidates for Congress in the Third Indiana District—D. M. Stockslager and Jonas G. Howard Ex-Gov. Samuel J. Kirkwood has entered the race for the Republican Congressional nomination in the Second lowa District. The Democrats of Kansas assembled in convention at Leavenworth and nominated the following ticket: Governor, Col. Thomas Moonlight; Lieutenant Governor, L. G. Isett; Secretary of State, W. F. I’atillon; Attorney General, A S. Devinney; Auditor, W. D. Kelly (colored); Treasurer, L. B Burchard; Superintendent of Public Instruction, W. J. Montgomery; Associate Justice, A. M Wiiitelaw. The Democrats of the Fourth North Carolina District in convention at Raleigh nominated John W. Graham for Congress. Ho is the eldest son of the Hon. William A Graham, who was Secretary of the Navy under President Fillmore. John Sobieski, of Neosho, Mo., has been nominated for Congress by the Prohibitionists and James B. McCreary by the Democrats of the Eighth Kentucky District. Messrs. R. H. M. Davidson and Charles Dougherty, members of the last Congress from Florida, have been named for reelection. Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch: “Returns from the S ate elections show Democratic gains. The Democratic State ticket is elected by 35,000 aud possibly 40,000. The successful candidates for the Supreme Court bench are Peter Turney, Franklin County; W. C. Caldwell, Gibson; W. H. Burton, Montgomery; B. E. Snodgrass, Hamilton; W. C. Folkes, Shelby. ”