Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A Washington correspondent telegraphs to the West the following President al talk: The gossip in political quarters turns upon the possibilities of the “t-herman boom." His trip to the South is conceded to be for the purpose of giving the boom a chance to develop quickly under tho influence of tho warm Southern sun. Messrs. Malione and John D. Wise express the opinion that John Shennan can carry the State of Virginia, both at the nominating convention and afterward ut its electoral vote. The Ohio chieftain himself publicly expresses the opinion that the Solid South may bo divided ill the next Presidential contest. His friends say that during this trip he will throw himself among the Southern peoplo nnd ills el the erroneous impression that ho has no warmth in his composition. They expect him to thaw out in the South and gain much in popularity. They confidently expect that he will got the’ support of the delegates of several of tho Southern Stiitus in the convention. The Blaine men say that they nre not afraid of Mr. Sherman. Representative Brady, who was Malioiie’s first lieutenant for so long, and who has been a Republican leader in Virginia longer than has Malione, does not agree with him tuat tho State can be earned by the “Ohio man." Blnine, he says, can carry Virginia against anyone the Democrats can put up. There is an enthusiasm aroused at tne mention of his name. Not so, lie says, with Sherman. He could not carry the State. Anyone who says he can does not know the Southern people. Mr. Blaine’s friends sav that he is not pushing himsolf to the front, but that ho is there and is going to stay. Whatever work others may do meanwhile,’ they say, it will be found at the convention that tho Plumed Knight will be head and shoulders above everybody else. The Indiana Supreme Court Las denied Senator Green Smith’s petition for a rehearing in the Lieutenant Governorship case, holding that the Legislature only can settle that question. The Nebraska House defeated the bill for submitting a prohibitory amendment to tho poople—yeas, 49; nays, 42—lacking the necessary two-thirds majority. The Wisconsin House passed an act providing that persons involved in boycotting schemes shall bo imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not exceoding $503. Speaker Carlisle was the chief guest and the orator of the occasion at a dinner given in Boston by tho Bay Stato Club, tho most important Democratic organization in New England.