Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A circular has just been issued by the National Committee of the United Labor organizations containing a declaration of tbeir principles and objects of the industrial movement to form a national uuion labor party. 1 he convention is to be held at Cincinnati Feb. 22, 1887. The plan of organization contemplates the appointing of an organizer for each State and Territory in the nation; the State Organizer to appoint a district organizor for each Congressional district in his State, and the district organizer to appoint local organizers. The basis of representation gives each Congressional district one representative for each of the following orders or organizations in such districts: Knights of Labor, tradesunions, Greenback Labor party, Farmers’ Alliance, Grangers, Patrons of Husbandry, Auti-Monopoly Leaguos, People’s party, Farmers and Laborers’ Co-oporative Union, agricultural wheels, soldiers’ organizations, and all other organizations which indorse and subscribe to the new declaration of independence.

Official notice has been filed that Congressman Worthington will contest the election of Gen. P. a Poet from the Tenth Illinois District The President has made the following appointments: Charles B. Morton, of Maine, to be Commissioner of Navigation; J. B. CaldweU, of Indiana, to be Deputy Second Auditor of tne Treasury; A. E. Lewis, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Fifth Auditor of the Treasury; Hugh A. Haralson, of Georgia, to be Deputy Auditor of the Treasury for the I’ostoffice Department; John McCafferty, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Alaska; John Cousins, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Kennebnnk, Maine; Ernest A. Urnland, of Minnesota, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Taylor’s Falls, Minn, j James McNamara, of Hlinois, to be Indian Agent at Colorado River, Arizona Postmasters—A. Gant, at Irwin. Pa.; Lillian E. Keyes, at Yonkers, N. Y.; J. E. Lohman, at Hamilton, Ohio; Henry Penniman, at Winthrop, Me., vice Elliott Wood, suspended; Eckford Moore, at Trenton, N. J., vice C. H. Skirm, suspended; Frank F, Cole, at Albion. Mich, vice Mar in Haven, suspended. Edward f-mith, at Carrollton, 111., vice James Lvnn.suspended. The President has made the following appointments: George L Thompson, to bo Collector of Internal Revenue for the Tenth District of Ohio; Francis B. Lawrenson and Th&ddeus S. Shawatts, to be Appraisers of Merchandise for the district of New York. Postmasters—Charles Weaseman, Warsaw, HL ; Patrick H. Carney, Waukesha, Wi& ; J. E. Lohman, Hamilton, Ohio; J. W. Smith, Blackburn, III.; J. P. Kerr, Dublin, HL A canvass of the members of the new Michigan Legislature gives Colonel F. B. Stockbridgo the lead for the Senatorship, with James McMillan second.