Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention has been called to meet at Harrisburg Aug. 17. The Republican State Central Committee of lowa, at a meeting in Des Moines on T uesday decided to hold the Republican State Convention, in that city, Aug. 25. The ticket to be nominated will consist of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Superintendent of Instruction, and one Justice of the Supreme Court. Prohibition leaders from New York and adjoining States were in conference in New York City on Tuesday. Dr .J. P. Fitzgerald presided at the opening session, and addresses were made by the Hon. J. B. Finch and others on the Sunday law. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the murder of Editor GambriU, of Mississippi Among those present were exGov. John P. St John, of Kansas; the Hon. C. S. Wolfe, of Pennsylvania; Coh Davis, of Kentucky; J. H. Hector, of Washington: and J. Lou Beauchamp, of Ohio. The constitutional prohibitory amendment was defeated Wednesday, in the lower house of the Massachusetts Legislature, by a vote of 13d to 74, not the necessary two-thirds for the measure. A joint legislative convention was held at Concord, N. H., for the choice of State officers, the following being elected: Secretary of State, A. B. Thompson, of Concord; State Treasurer, Solon A. Carter, of Concord; State Printer, John B. Clark, of Manchester; Commissary General, A. 8. Twitchel', of Gorham. Tennesse will vote on a prohibition amendment to the State constitution in September. The campaign has already opened, and promises to be closely contested.