Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Nebraska Republican Convention, which was presided over by Congressman A. S. Weaver, placed in tho field the following ticket: Governor. Gon. John M. Thayer; Lieutenant Governor, H. H. Shedd; Secretary of State, G. L Laws; Treasurer, C. H. Williard; Auditor, H. A. Babcock; Attorney General, William A. Luse; Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, Josoph Scott; Superintendent of Public Instruction, George B. Lano. The platform favors tho intelligent organization of tho wage-workers for all lawful purposes, but refuses to sanction anarchism or mob violence in the settlement of the differences between employes and employers; favors the regulation of interstate commerce by Congress; and demands a rovision of laws by which alions are allowed to own argo bodies of land.

Congressional nominations: Third Pennsylvania, Samuol J. ltandall, Democrat; Fourteenth Illinois, William Voorhees, Democrat; Eighteenth Illinois, W. H. Moore, Prohibitionist; Eleventh Michigan, John Power, Democrat; Tenth Tennessee, Zach Taylor, Bepublican; Second Louisiana, Major Andrew Hero, Bepublican; Third Now Jersey, William McMahon, Democrat; Seventh Massachusetts, Gen. William Coggswoll, Bepublican; Tenth Massachusetts, William W. Bice, Bepublican; First Louisiana, T. G. Wilkinson, Democrat; Third Louisiana, J. S. Davidson (colored), Bepublican; Thirty-fourth New York, W. G. Laidlaw, Bepublican; First Pennsylvania, John Chambers. Democrat; Second Pennsylvania, W. E. Thomas, Democrat; Fifth Pennsylvania, W. G. Smith, Democrat; Twenty-first Ohio, Martin A. Foran, Democrat; Twentieth Ohio, William Dorsey, Democrat; Eighteenth Ohio, W. H. Phelps, Democrat; Sixth Virginia, J. B. Page, Knights of Labor; Eighth Missouri, J. J. O’Neill, Democrat; Third Minnesota, J. L. McDonald, Democrat; Fourteenth New York, W. G. Stahlnecker, Democrat; First New Jersey, J. W. Woscott, Democrat; Fifteenth Ohio, A. J. Warner, Democrat; First Ohio, Benjamin Butterworth, Bepublican; Second Ohio, Charles E. Brown, Bepublican; Fourth Minnesota, Edmund Bice, Democrat; Twelfth Missouri, 0. H. Pitcher, Bepublican; First Wisconsin, James B. Doolittle, Democrat; First Illinois, Edgar Terhune, Democrat; Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania, 0. L. Jackson, Bepublican; Seventh South Carolina, Bobert Smalls, Bepublican; Twenty-seventh New York, N. W. Nutting, Bepublican; Eighth Tennessee, S. W. Hawkins, Bepublican; Third Minnesota, B. B. Herbert, Bepublican; Twenty-third New York, J. 8. Sherman, Bepublican; Fourth Kentucky, J. W. Lewis, Bepublican; Third Kentucky, John Shea, Democrat, and John E. Halsel, Democrat; Tenth Ohio, Frank H. Hurd, Democrat; Ninth Illinois, M. H. Peters, Democrat; Tenth Illinois, Julge McCulloch, Prohibitionist; Dakota Territory, M. H. Day, Democrat.

The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention at Worcester, which was presided over by Hon. Patrick A Collins, placed in the field the following ticket: Governor, John F. Andrew; Lieutenant Governor, Frank K. Foster; Secretary of State, J. R. Thayer; Treasurer, Lewis Warner; Auditor, William F. Cook; Attorney General, J. W. Corcoran. Tho platform strongly indorses President Cleveland; demands reform of the tariff; reaffirms the financial

policy of the Democratic platform of 1884; insists upon the defense of the right of American fishing; welcomes the new era of organized labor; commends the Democratic members of the Legislature for securing the passage of various acts in the interest of labor during the last Legislature; opposes contract labor in prisons and the importation of foreign contract labor to compete with domestic labor; sends a kindly greeting to Parnell, and deplores the death of such men as McClellan, Hendricks, Hancock, and Tilden. Treasury Department officials, says a Washington telegram, attach no importance to the rumor tha{ Senator McPherson has been offered the Secretaryship of the Treasury. Secretary Manning is certainly going back to the Treasury, having decided to remain as long as his health will permit The membeis of Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet accepted their appointments with the understanding that they would remain till the end of tho term.