Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Congressional nominations: Ornam Pierson, Itepublican, Twelfth Illinois District; Frank Hiscock, Itepublican, Twenty-second Now York; Charles It. Buckalow, Democrat, Eleventh Pennsylvania; James Phelan, Democrat, Tenth Tennessee; W. E. Itobinson, Democrat, Sixth Louisiana;, C. Newton, Democrat Fifth Louisiana; Amos Townsend, Republican, Twenty-first Ohio; R. W. Dunham, Republican, First Illinois; Andrew Haben, Republican, Sixth Wisconsin; Lewis C. McComas, Republican, Sixth Maryland; William Elliott, Democrat, Seveuth South Carolina; James Brocklin, Democrat, Eighth Wisconsin; Joseph E Washington, Democrat, Sixth Tennessee; John P. Sanborn, Republican, Seventh Michigan.

Dr. A. C. Wedge, of Albert Lea, presided over the Minnesota ltepublican State Convention, at St Paul. A. R. McGill was nominated for Governor, A. E. Rice for Lieutenant Governor, Hans Mattson for Secretary of State, W. W. Broden for Auditor, Joseph Bobletter for Treasurer, and M. E. Clapp for Attorney General. The platform adopted favors laws prohibiting railroad companies from furnishing passes to legislators; the establishment of a bureau of labor statistics; the payment to women of the same wages paid to men for the same labor; the prohibition of the employment of children under 12 from working in mines, etc.. 11 opposes prison labor. It favors the free coinage of silver, and declares that laws should be enacted quaking employers liable in damages to employes injured in their services, whether the employes are negligent or not It favors the reduction of the tariff on the necessaries of life, and declares in favor of civil-service reform.

The committee appointed at the National Labor Convention to select a State ticket for Massachusetts met at Boston last week and agreed on the following: Governor, George E. McNeill, of Boston; Lieutenant Governor, Robert Howard, of Fall River; Secretary of State, A A. Carleton, of Somerville; Treasurer and Receiver General, Frank K. Foster, of Haverhill; Auditor, T. C. Thompson, of Boston; Attorney General, Asa F. Hall, of Hudson.