Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A Democratic mass convention at Keiidaliville, Indiana, placed Honry G. Stanley in the field against tho regular nominee, Judge Lowry. The Democrats of tho Seventeenth Ohio District nominated David C. Keenan, and in tho Sixth Ohio District selocted William D. Hill. George W. Dargan was renominated by tho Democrats of the Sixth Sou ;li Carolina District. Byron M. Cutcheon has boon nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Ninth Michigan District. ' Hon. W. C. Oatss was renominated for Congress by the Democrats in the Third Alabama District The Democrats of the Third Georgia District have renominate! Hon. C. F. Crisp. Louis C. Latham, Democrat, was nominated in the First North Carolina District. The Democratic Congressional convention for the Sixth Missouri District, at Scdalia, took 1)111 ballots, every one of which resulted as follows: Head, 43; Teamans, 28; Cosgrove, 22. The convention adjourned without effecting a nomination. In 1875 there was inserted in the Nebraska State Constitution a provision that at the general election immediacy preceding the expiration of the term of a United States Senator from that. State, the electors shall by ballot express their preference for some person for the office of United States Senator. No action has been taken on this process up to tho present time. Senator Van Wyck, who is a candidate for re-election, has determined to appeal to tho people for their expression of preference under this proviso, and he lias accordingly issued a manifesto. This will bo the first instance'of a direct vote of the people for United States Senator, and it is supposed that the choice thus made will be binding as a matter of honor on the Legislature.