Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The Nebraska Prohibitionist State Convention at Lincoln nominated the following ticket: Judge C F. Abbott of Saline County for Supreme Judge; Horatio 8. Hilton of Merrick and J. D. Newell of Richardsen for Regents of the State University. The platform declares constitutional and statutory prohibition the most vital issue before the American people; denounces the policy of the Federal Government in issuing permits to liquor-sellers; denounces the law permitting foreigners to vote before being naturalized; favors granting pensions to all disabled Union soldiers and sailors; demands equal rights for all citizens; indicts the Republicans for defeating the submission of a prohibiting amendment to the Legislature; arraigns the Democratic party for disloyalty in denying the right of tho people to say whether or not the liquor traffic shall be outlawed, and invites the workingmen of Nebraska to join the prohibition army in its crusade against the enemies of honest labor. The official erturns of the recent Kentucky election give Buckner (Dem.) 17,015 plurality over Bradley (Rep.). The forthcoming annual report of the appointment division of the First Assistant Postmaster General’s office, says a Washington dispatch, will contain the following statement of changes in postoffices of all grades during the last fiscal year, ended June 30: Number of offices established, 3,043; number of offices discontinued, 1,500; appointments on resignations and commissions expired, t’,863; appointments on removals and suspensions, 2,584 ; appointments on changes of names and sites, 4sz; appointments on deaths of postmasters, 58 '. The total number of appointments of postmasters of all grades during the year was 13,079, The total number of appointments for the years 1886 and 188 > was 22,7<7 and 9,547 respectively, making a total for the three years of 45,373. The total number of postoffices of all grades in operation bn July 1, 1887, was 58,157. The editor of tho New York World declines an invitation to attend a conference of antiCleveland Democratic editors. A Syracuse dispatch says that after a long and stormy session the Committee on Platform of the United Labor Party Convention managed to fix up a platform, which was reported to the convention by Henry George and immediately adopted. The old platform adopted at the Clarendon Hall meeting last year was taken as the groundwork for the new platform, and enlarged to suit the necessities of a State campaign. A few of the planks of the platform of the old Greenback Labor party are also used. Ono of the principal of these favored tho establishment of postal banks and a postal telegraph. A full State ticket was put in nomination as follows: Secretary of State, Henry George of New York; Comptroller, Victor A. Wilder of Kings; State Treasurer, B. H. Cummings of Montgomery; Attorney General, Dennis C. Feeley of Monroe; State Engineer and Surveyor, Sylvanus A. Sweet of Broome. George M. Stearns has resigned the office of United States District Attorney for Massachusetts.