Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1888 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

A New Orleans dispatch says that “further returns from the interior of the State show unexpectedly heavy Democratic gains. Nicholls’ majority will probably reach 75,000 or 80,000. Parishes that never failed to go Republican heretofore are Democratic for the first time. In New Orleans the regular Democratic ticket bai been beaten clean out of sight by that of the Young Men’s Democratic Association, the majorities ranging from 8,000 to 12,000. The Ohio Republican State Convention, at Dayton, was presided over temporarily by ex-Speaker Keifer, who yielded to the Hon.

E. L Lampson aa permanent Chairman. The following State ticket was nominated: For Secretary of State, Daniel J. Ryan; for Supreme Court Judge, J. P. Bradbury; for member of Board of Public Worke, W. & Jones. Gov. Foraker, ex-Gov. Foster, and Congressmen McKinley and Butterworth were nominated delegatee- at-large to the National Republican Convention. The resolutions were road by ex-Gov. Foster, Chairman of the Committee on Reeoluhons. The platform denounces the Democrats for “suppressing votes in the South and nullifying the war amendments of the Constitution”; declares it the duty of Congress to pass a comprehensive pension bill; condemns the Democrats in Congress for not passing the direct-tax bill; and declares in f avor of such economic legis4 lation as will protect all American industries that can be profitably pursued by American citizens. John Sherman was indorsed for President in the following resolution: Th. Republicans of Ohio recognize the merits, services, and abilities of the statesmen who have been mentioned lor the Republican nomluation for the Presidency, and. loyal to any one whq may be selected, present John Sherman to th 4 country as eminently qualified and fitted for the duties of that exalted office. and the deles gates to the Republican National Convention this day selected are directed to use all honors able moans to secure his nomination as President of tho United States. An Indianapolis dispatch says that “conventions were bold in each Congressional distret in lad ana on Thursday for the selection of delegates to the National Republican Convention. The result was a sweeping victory for Gen. Harrison. The Tenth district delegates were given no instructions, but they are Harrison men. The conventions were almost unanimously in favor of the nomination of the Hon. A. G. Portor for Governor.”