Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Congressman Lore has withdrawn from the contest for United States Senator from Delaware. The Taylor brothers, rival candidates for Governor of Tennessee, occupied the same room in an hotel at Chattanooga, where they entertained their friends with familiar melodies on violins. The Wisconsin Labor party assembled in State Convention at Neenah, and nominated an out-and-out labor ticket, constituted as follows: Governor, Colonel John D. Cochrane; Lieutenant Governor, George A Lloyd; Secretary of State, J. P. Jasperson; State Treasurer, Frederick Hoenig; Attorney General, John E. Thomas ; Railroad Commissioner, Henry Z nn; Superintendent of Public Institutions, J. K. McGregor; Insurance Commissioner, Rittner Stephens. The platform declares that the use of violence in any fojrm to settle disputes is utterly unjustifiable in a civilized community, whether advised by fanatical anarchists or practiced by corrupt politicians; favors the government control of money, land, means of communication, and public improvement; ad vocates labor bureaus, conducted in the interests of the whole people; the simplification of laws to but one on each subject; arbitration in place of strikes; the prohibition of child and convict labor; a graduated income tax; the amendment of the patent laws so as to give labor a part of the benefit of labor-saving inventions, and to prevent monopolies; the forfeiture of all land gra-its, and the abolition of alien ownership in lands; a Government loan of money, and a rigid enforcement of the law.jg'ainst the importation of foreign labor.

The National Anti-Saloon Republican Convention, held in Chicago last week, had nearly two hundred delegates, representing eighteen States. Senator Blair was made temporary Chairman, and announced that they met to organize for the destruction of the rum traffic throughout the country. ExSenator Windom was elected permanent President. Resolutions were adopted demanding that the Republican party* take a decided stand as the enemy of the saloon, and favoring legislation by Congress to prohibit the manufacture or aa-le of liquor in the Territories. At a State convention of the Missouri Prohibitionists, held at Sedalia, the following ticket was placed in the field: Supreme Judge, L B. Orr; Superintendent of Public Schools, A J. Emerson; Railroad Commissioner, J. F. Brumer. The platforms arraigns the Democratic and Republican parties and urges voters not to abandon demands of Congress to sup - press the liquor traffic wherever it is prohibited by law, that a prohibitory amendment be submitted to the next Legislature of Missouri, and that the Sunday laws be enforced. It declares for woman suffage. Congressional nominations: William H. Neece, Democrat, Eleventh Illinois District; Ralph Plumb, Republican, Eighth Illinois; J. H. Gallinger, Republican, Second New Hampshire; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth Wisconsin; Byron Dunn, Republic in, Fourth Missouri; Editor Joseph P. Cheadle, Republican, Ninth Indiana; Robert M. La Follette, Republican, Third Wisconsin; W. T. Wallace, Greenbacker, Tenth Illinois; George H. Lacy, Greeubacker, Eighth Illinois; John J. Donovan, Democrat, Eighth Massachusetts; M. A. Haynes, Republican, First New Hampshire; Dr. Strive, Democrat-Grcenbacker, F.fth Pennsylvania; Martin L. < lardy. Democrat, Tenth Mssouri: Marshall Parks, Democrat, Second Virginia: W. H. Forney, Democrat, Seventh Alabama; Frank T. Shaw, Democrat, Second Maryland; Barnes Compton, Democrat, Fifth Maryland; John H. Rogers, Democrat, Fourth Arkansas; E. C. McFotridge, Republican, Second Wisconsin; Justin R. Whiting, Democrat-Greenbacker, Seventh Michigan;

Ives Dungan, Democrat, Eleventh Ohio; J. J. Pugsley, Republican, . Twelfth Ohio; R. M. Murray, Democrat, Third Ohio; Gen. Jasper Packard, Republican, Thirteenth Indiana; Wilbur T. Sanders, Republican, Montana Territory; O. B. Thomas, Republican, Seventh Wisconsin; Sherwood Dixon, Democrat, Seventh Illinois; W. W. Adler, Prohibitionist, Fourteenth Illinois. An Augusta dispatch says that official election returns from’472 town in Maine are as follows: Bodwell (rep.), 68,115; Edward (Dem.) 54,764; Clark (Pro.), 3,839; scattering, 192. Bodwell’s plurality, 13,351; majority, 9,943. Mr. McF etridge declines the Republican nomination for Congress from the Second Wisconsin D.strict The total vote of Arkansas in the September election foots up 143,000. The Democratic majority is 37,000. The Legislature stands: House, 90 Democrats, 67 Republicans, 3 Wheelers. Senate, 37 Democrats, 5 Republicans and Wheelers.