Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Tbe New York Assembly has passed a bill providing for a holiday on tho first Monday in September, to be known as “Libor Day,” and making Saturdays half-holidays. A large number of disgruntled Democratic polit.cians, says the New York Times, have wisely concluded that the next Presidential nomination by the party will be worth very little if not given to Mr. Cleveland. The Legislature of West Virginia has commenced an extra session. Balloting for Senator will begin on May 3. Appointments by the President: Samuel F. Bigelow of New Jersey, to be United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey; Henry F. Merritt of Illinois, to be United States Consul at Cherani z. , The New York Assembly has passed a bill to permit betting on race-tracks, 5 per cent, of the groBS receipts for admission to be paid to the State Comptroller, to be disbursed for prizes ou live stock. The Illinois House has passed a bill to prohibit idiots, insam persons, and inmates of prisons from marrying. The Democratic primaries in Kentucky point to the choice of General Buckner as a candidate for Governor. President Cleveland’s Private Secretary has sent out a denial of the story that the President would not under any circumstances be a candidate for re-election, and some of the President’s friends even went so far as to say that he not only wanted an indorsement of his administration, but was working to that end. Ex-Lieut Gov. William Dorsheimer states that the President recently wrote a letter declaring that he would not be a candidate for re-election, but its destruction was secured by a personal appeal by Mr. Dorsheimer.