Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1888 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The House Committee on Public Lands at Washington have deckled by a party vote to formulate a general bill providing for a forfeiture of all unearned land grants. Mat 23, at Springfield, is the decision of the Illinois Democratic State Central Committee as to the date and location of the Democratic State Convention. One delegate for each 400 votes or fraction thereof cast for Cleveland in 1884 is the convention apportionment The Republicans of Bradford and Wyoming counties, Pennsylvania, have nominated Myron B. Wright for Congress from the Fifteenth District The other counties will concur. California Republicans will hold their State convention at Sacramento, in May. Thh Thirteenth Ohio District Republican Convention elected Sherman delegates to the National Convention. The Indiana Prohibition State Convention at Indianapolis nominated the Rev. J. S. Hughes for Governor and adopted a platform demanding strict prohibition and woman suffrage. Electors-at-large and delegates-at-large were chosen, and four members of the W. G T. U. were added to the State Central Committee.