Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

At the Albany (N. Y.) municipal election the Democrats elected Edward A Maher Mayor and the entire Democratic city ticket by majorities ranging from 2,500 to 3,200. Orestes Cleveland (Dem.) has been re-elected Mayor of Jersey City for the fourth time by a majority of 5,000. The labor candidate polled less than 1,000. In the charter election at Brunswick, N. J., the Democrats and Republicans each elected three members of the Council.

The Republican State Convention of Oregon, at Portland, was presided over by exAttorney General George H. Williams. The platform denounced the administration of tho Land Office in not pushing surveys and in employing “spies to harass settlers,” protests against Chinese emigration, favors liberal pensions, and denounces the Mills tariff bill. Binger Herman was nominated for Congress and Judge W. P. Lord for Supreme Judge. The delegates to Chicago were not instructed. Nineteenth Ohio Congressional District Republicans, in convention at Warren, renominated the Hon. Ezra B. Taylor for Congress. By a strict party vote of 68 to 51, from which only one man departed, Republican members of tho New Yprk Assembly passed a resolution to submit a prohibition amendment to the people. Tho Democrats to a man voted against the resolution, and had with them Mr. Reitz, of Brooklyn, who defied tho party caucus at which the amendment was made a party question. Before the amendment can go to tho people it must be submitted to and passed again by a Legislature in which the Senate has just been elected. As no such Legislature will convene until Jan. 1, 1890, the people will not be called upon to consider the matter of prohibition in the light of a possibility till the fall of that year. The Prohibition State Convention of Kentucky met at Louisville, with 453 delegates present. Tho following delegates-at-large to tho national convention to be held at Indianapolis were chosen: George W. Bain, Josiah Harris, Fontaine T. Fox, and James T. Barbee. District delegates and electors were also chosen. The resolutions declare: That the greatest question before the American people is a fust settlement of the evils of the liquor traffic; that State and national prohibition, supported by a political party, is the only eftectual remedy for those evils; that all tux and license laws making crime a source of revenue should be repealed; that support be pledged to the national convention at Indianapolis May 30. Gen. Green Clay Smith was unanimously indorsed and the delegates were instructed to vote for him for tho Presidential nomination Ciinton B. Fiske was named as the second choice. Four hundred and fifty delegates attended the Kentucky Prohibition Convention at Louisville. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the greatest question before the American people is a just settlement of the evils of the liquor traffic; prohibition supported by a political party is the only 1 effectual remedy for those evils; aid that all tax and license laws making crime a source of revenue should be repealed. Delegates were appointed to tho National Convention, and Green Clay Smith was indorsed for President, Clinton B. Fisk being named for second choice. On tho 879th ballot, at Gallipolis, Ohio, tho Republican Convention renominated Mr. Thompson for Congress-'