Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Massachusetts Prohibition Con vention at Worcester, presided over by Eugene H. Clapp, of Boston, was the largest held in the State for many years. The following ticket was placed in nomination: Governor, T. J. Lothrop; Lieutenant Governor, Dr. John Blackmer; .Secretary of State, George Kempton; Treasurer, John L. Kilburn; Attorney General, Samuel M. Fairfield; Auditor, William M. Sherman. The resolutions declare that any political party that will nqt grapple with the monstrous evil of intemperance with the honest and earnest intent of overthrowing it is unworthy of public confidence and support. Both of the great political parties are condemned for their past course regarding the liquor question. The resolutions also recommend that the act of selling or dealing in liquors should be punished by disfranchisement Returns from Vermont show the election of sixteen Democrats to the Legislature. Ninety of the Republican members chosen favor the re-election of .Senator Edmunds. The Texas Prohibition State Convention assembled at Dallas and put in nomination a full State ticket, headed by T. L. Dohony for Governor. One of the planks of the platform denounces the Democratic party for nominating a saloon stump-speaker for Governor of a Christian people. Hon. Jehu Baker has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans in the Eighteenth Illinois (Morrison’s) District Other Congressional nominations have been made as follows: W. C. Cooper, Democrat, Ninth Ohio District; James O’Donnell, Republican, Third Michigan; J. C. Burrows, Republican, Fourth Michigan; John Ringle, Democrat, Ninth Wisconsin; W. D. Lindsay, Democrat, Fifteenth Illinois; F. F. Shively, Democrat, Thirteenth Indiana; Judge Cook, Democrat, Third Iowa; Dr. W. C. Earl, Democrat, McGregor (Iowa) District; James N. Pidcock, Democrat, Fourth New Jersey; Rev. J. 8. Boyden, Prohibitionist, Fourth Michigan. United States Senator Platt presided oyer the Connecticut Republican State Convention, at Hartford. Phineas C. Lowther was nominated for Governor, and Thomas Clark for Comptroller. The platform adopted favors a protective tariff, opposes the importation of cheap labor, convict labor, the granting of any more lands to railroads, and the selling of lands to syndicates or aliens; favors the establishment of a national department of industry ; denounces the administration for vetoes of pension bills, and protests against the removal of worthy and disabled Union soldiers from office; favors the maintenance of gold and silver and the application of the treasury surplus to the reduction of the national debt. The Arizona Democratic Convention, at Tucson, nominated Marcus A Smith, of Tombstone, for Delegate to Congress, and exMayor Charles M. Strauss, of Tucson, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. It adopted a platform demanding the unlimited coinage of silver and the issuance of silver certificates, and was very eulogistic of President Cleveland and Secretary Lamar, as well as Gov. Zulic and Gen. Nelson A. Miles. Congressional nominations: John M. Potter, Greenbacker, Fifth Michigan District; L 11. Ripley, Democrat, Sixth Michigan; Roswell G. Horr, Republican, Eighth Michigan; David A. Ross, Prohibitionist, Tenth Michigan; Jas. Y. Allison, Republican, Fourth Indiana; Thomas G. Brister, Democrat, Fourteenth Ohio; C. M. Bradshaw, Republican, Washington Territory; J. Logan Chipman, Democrat, First Michigan; William Shepherd, Republican, Thirteenth Ohio; John R. Neal, Democrat, Third Tennessee; James G. Rose, Democrat, First Tennessee; P. T. Glass, Democrat, Ninth Tennessee. Complete returns from the Vermont election give Ormsbee (Republican) 37,681, Shurtleff (Democrat) 17,091, Seely (Prohibition) 1,832, Greenback and scattering 295. The Representatives elected are divided politically as follows: Edmunds Republicans, 155; antiEdmunds Republicans, 6; straight Republicans, 45; Prohibition Republicans, 2; straight Democrats, 29; Edmunds Democrats, 4. J. M. Adams lias been renominated by the Democrats of Nevada for Governor. T. J. Bell received the nomination for Lieutenant Governor. The platform indorses Cleveland’s administration. The Knights of Labor and the members of the Central Labor Union and other labor organizations of St. Louis, have combined under the name of the United Labor party and will hold a convention of delegates from the various assemblies and unions on Oct 7 for the purpose of nominating a full city, Congressional, and Legislative ticket Hon. Joseph R. McDonald was interviewed in New York, and predicted that Mr. Cleveland would be the Democratic nominee in 1888, and that the Republicans would nominate either John Shennan or Senator Allison.