Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1888 — Democratic Central Committee Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Central Committee Meeting.

Pursuant to notice the members of the Democratic Central Committee of Ja6per county and a goodly number of Democrats*from *h several townships m«t in K«nsselaer on last Saturday and reorganized the committee as follows: flanging Grove.. Jno. Leflcr. David CalD W Ken on. r ' Oi.lam—Jot. G. Hunt, Adam Hess, John Tillett. Walker-J G. Andrews.T. L. Hershman. Joel F Springs. Barkley—Wm. A. Snececker. Geo. Adair. Ja» Loresireih. St ith Newell. George H. Brown. Jr. Marion. David B. Nowelt, J.Stanley, F. M. i*r,rk;.-r. Heavy Fisher. Chao D, Newels, R. Fendig, '.u. M. Ho \ er, Sjives er Healey. Jordrftn— J. l Im. 'A ro. WesUbnrn, Jav Dampen. Fi ji Vt u. Ciffiby. Newton - Lucieji Strong. A |I. Freeland. Chas F\iXtoij, Jaj*. Lane IN heatfieid -.Juo. Il .il, Ne!s. Adams, Lewis Rich, l’res Davis. Keener—Albert Brooks. Geo. Bennett E Whitson. Kai.k.i :»e.. John 51. Welsh, Jue Maguire. J. VanUecar. Carpenter..E«l I„ Culp. Jn. Stoneti, Wm. L. Ri‘'h. It. R. Pettit, M. J. Gastello, 0. G. Austin J:*-. <’ \ Jas. Pefl ■> , Wm. Wells. ;>v Win. R. Suto'n, W.C.M Cord, William 11. Beaver. Union—J. K. Garrioti, Au tin Lukin, Geo W Casey. Lee L. Glazebrook was elected Chairman, Yc- E. Loughridge, Secretary and C. D. Nowels, Treasurer.

The National Democratic Convention will be held June sth, 1888, at St. Loui-, when Grover Cleveland will be renominated to succeed himself.

oren. She. idan emphatically refuses to be the .Republican nominee f'.;r the Presidency. Blaine will accent, his letter to the contrary, notwithst nding. The Difference.— The seat in Congress of Capt. White, of the Port Wayne district, this State, was contested, but a sufficient number of Democratic members voted in his favor to secure him his seat. Speaker Carlisle’s seat was contested by a Republican, and altho’ the Committee on election, Republicans as well as Democrats, agreed that (.here was nothing proven to invalidate Mr. Carlisle’s election the Republican members of the House fillibnstered with a view of preventing a decision in the case

JoeMedill, anting from Florida to the Chicago Tribune, says. “There remains ro reason or purpose that can be truthfully alleged for retaining $120,000,000 surplus war duties on consumers except that they are required to protect trust monopolies against fore’gn competition while the trusts are engaged in limiting and cornering production, pushing up prices on the public, and cutting down the wages of their imp rted foreign workmen to the pauper standard. On + hat three legged stool rests the great monopolistic conspiracy against the farmers of the West and all other non protected people”

According to our “Republican’’ n ughbor John Sherman, the demoted friend of ’Lize Pinkston, now mourneth oyer the “sweeping removals” under Mr. Cleveland’s administration. What right has John Sherman +o complain? Did he at any time, when Secretary of the Treasury, appoint a single Democrat to office ? Did he ever recommend a Democrat for place uader a Republican administration? □Rather, did he not assist in the rape of the ballot box which put Hayes in the White House? And then, as Hayes’ Secretary of the Treasury did he not reward the southern Republicans and carpet baggers, black and white, with high positions and big salaries, for the part they played in the great crime 0 Xutv.iih-UudLg Jno, Sh'\ man’s

cheek, next to Blaine he is our choice for the Kepubliean Presidential nomination!