Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

A dispatch from Huron, Dakota, says the, Division and Admission Convention, which has just adlonmed,- “was remarkably unani- • mous upon division, Republicans and Democrats alike being enthusiastic. It is certain tli at the demand is being pushed more vigorously than ever before.” Messrs. Mellette, McDonald, Plummer, McCord and Kanousa were chosen to confer with North Dakota. The following is a synopsis of the resolutions adopted:. We'are unalterably opposed to admission as a'Amole. We declare for division on the seventh standard parallel. The convention affirms the right of the people about to be admitted to the Union to designate their State boundaries, subject to modification by Congress with their consent. All considerations nnite in dictating a division in accordance with a plan to be submitted to the people in November, 1887. We protest agatnat.the tyranny of Congress in refusing admission, and appeal to the people of the Union for Support. We approve the efforts of Senator Dawes and others to secure the opening of the Sioux Reservation, and ask the President and Secretary of the Interior to recoinmond to' the Fiftieth Congress the passage of the measure providing for the opening for settlement of the reservation. The Prohibition State Convention at Des Mcines, lowa, Thursday, was composed of eighteen delegates. A full ticket was nominated, V. G. Farnham, of Plymouth Connty, being chosen for Governor. The platform declares for separate political action in dealing with the liquor traffic; advocates more stringent amendments in the present prohibitive law; demands & reduction of passenger rates to two cents a mile; approves woman suffrage; and favors the establishment of postal savings banks. Judge Thurman has written that he is firmly resolved not to accept the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio, and asking his friends to prevent his name being presented to the convention. At a Democratic Senatorial convention at New Comerstown resolutions were adopted indorsing President Cleveland, and Mr. Thurman for Governor.