Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

In the city election at Sioux City, lowa, Mayor Cleland was re-elected by a majority of 850 over Flynn, the Democratic candidate. The latter was supported by the Law and Order League and was pledged to enforce the prohibitory law. At Des Moines, lowa, W. L. Carpenter, a Prohibition Democrat, was elected Mayor on the citizens’ ticket. The people’s ticket, headed by E. I Cady for Mayor, was .elected at lowa Falls, lowa. A H. Brackett, Democrat, was elected Mayor of Nashua, lowa. Webster City, lowa, elected thr.eo Republican Aldermen. Three Republican Aldermen and two Democrats were elected at Waverly, lowa. At Waterloo, lowa. throo Republicans and one Democrat were olected Aldermen. The village of Gridley, McLean County, 111., elected three license trustees, and two antilicense trustees. H. C. Hutchison, Republican, was elected Mayor of Waukegan, 111. At Cedar Rapids, lowa, P. Mullally, Democrat, was elected Mayor by a majority of 700. The Democrats elected four Aldermen. Four Republican and two Democratic Aldermen were elected at Ottumwa, lowa. Secretary Fairchild, in his report submitted to Congress early in December, estimated that the Treasury surplus would reach $140,000,000 by the end of the present fiscal year. It is now estimated lit the department that the surplus at the end of June, 1888, will probably be $155,000,000. Gen. Neal Dow, the venerable “father of Prohibition,” was snowed under in bis race for the Mayoralty cf Portland. Mo., on Tuesday, by the Republican candidate, Charles J. Chapman, with a majority of 1,000. It was a fight of rum against prohibition, and prohibition was badly beaten. Dow was the united caudidate of the Prohibitionists and Democrats. heading-both their tickets. The clergymen and women, who had been holding meetings, rallied for Dow', but did not fhiuk it necessary to go to the polls to insure the veteran Prohibitionist’s election. At a meeting of tho Illinois Republican S:ate Central Committee held in Chicago on the 6th inst, it was decided to hold the Republican State Convention at Springfield May 2. The Maine State Democratic Convention will be held at Augusta, May 22, for the nomination of a State ticket and delegates to St. Louis. It has been decided to hold the Democratic National Convention in the north nave of the Exposition Building at St Louis, which will b: arranged to seat 11,000 people.