Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Democratic State Convention of North Carolina convened at Raleigh, and nominated W. N. H. Smith for Chief Justice; Thomas 8. Ashe and A. 8. Merriman for Associate Justices. These are the present Supreme Court Justices. The convention adopted no political platform or resolutions. The Texas Republican State Convention met at Waco and nominated a full State ticket, headed by A. M. Cochran, of Dallas, for Governor. The platform favors the submission of a prohibition amendment to the constitution to the vote of the people, oppoies the leasing of convicts, denounces the oppression of the mercantile and laboring interests by monopolists, and favors the Blair educational bilk Con gressional n omin ation s: Eighth Virginia District, Samuel Gnfijn, Democrat; First Maryland, Charles H. Gibson, Democrat ; Fourth Texas, David B. Culberson, Democrat; Second Arkansas, C. R. Breckinridge, Democrat; Ninth Ohio, J. C. Leavering, Democrat; Ninth lowa, John H. Keatley, Democrat The Illinois Prohibitionists have nominated George C. Christian in the First District, James W. Lee in the Second, J. L. Whitlock in the Third, and Dr. Gray in the Fourth. In the California Republican State Convention John F. Swift was nominated, on the eighth ballot, for Governor. The convention completed the ticket by the nomination of R. W’. Waterman, of San Bernardino, for Lieutenant Governor; W. S. Moore, Secretary of State; and J. H. Neff, State Treasurer. Ex-Governor St. John, of Kansas, opened the Prohibition campaign in Maine at Calais, speaking for nearly two hours to a large audience. The American Free-Trade League has issued an address to the tariff reformers of the country, urging prompt action in the Congressional districts looking to the choice of representatives in Congress who can be depended upon to support the removal of tariff axation from all articles of necessity.

1884 the total to August 27 was 709, in 1883 6,483, and in 1882 it was 4,605. Commercial journals report the movement of general merchandise for August as in many points exceeding like periods in former years. Mexican troops met a band of mauranding Indians near Maytorena and killed seven of them. The American schooner A. R. Crittenden, with 430 barrels of mackerel on board, was seized by the Canadian customs collector at Port Mulgrave, and is held to await instructions from Ottawa. The schooner Legal Tender slipped away from a Canadian tide-waiter at Barrington Bay, refusing to obey an order to come to anchor.