Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Kentucky Republican State Convention, in session at Louisville, made the following nominations: For Governor, W. O. Bradley, of Lancaster; for Lieutenant Governor, M. O. Doherty, of Louisville; for Attorney General, John Felan, of Hopkinsville; for Auditor, R. D. Davis, of Carter. The platform favors Federal aid to education; a protective tariff, and national aid for the internal improvement of rivers and harbors. The President is condemned for refusing to sign the river and harbor bill, as well as for his veto of the pension bill New Orleans telegram: “The prohibition movement which has prevailed so strongly in Texas and Mississippi has reached Louisiana, and is receiving much encouragement from the negroes. A call has been read in all the negro churches in the city for a prohibition convention to meet in the St Charles Avenue Methodist Church May 31 and June 1, for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization of the colored people of Louisiana to break up the liquor traffic.” • Senator John Sherman has accepted an invitation from Republican members of the Illinois Legislature to deliver a political address at Springfield on June 1. The Michigan House of Representatives has passed a bill taxing liquor-sellers SSOO each without any discrimination between beer and whisky. The brewers’ tax remains as at present The bill passed by a narrow margin of 52 to 35, 51 votes being necessary to pass a bill A bill permitting pool-selling on race-tracks has passed the New York Senate.