Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — OTHER POLITICAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER POLITICAL NEWS.

Georgia for Cleveland. An Atlanta dispatch says : “All the counties in Georgia have selected delegates to the Democratic State Convention, which will nominate delegates to the St. Louis convention. Out of 137 counties only two have objectsd to the President’s tariff message. The others specially instructed the delegates to vote not only for President Cleveland but for his tariff views as well. Senator Colquitt was unanimously recommended fori e-election. ’• Washington Territory Republicans. The TerrXorial Republican Convention met at Yakima and elected these delegates to the National Republican Convention • W. J. Thompson of Tacoma and E. G. Hyde of Spokane; alternates, O. C. White of Dayton J and Edward Whitson of Yakima. But one of the delegation is for Blaine. A resolution eulogizing Blaine was laid in the table by a vote of 12 to 30. Two Kansas Delegates Instructed for Blaine. The Republican Convention of the Fifth Kangas District elected B. H. McEchron and H. D. Baker as delegates to CMfEago. Every reference to Blaine was received with rousing apSlause, and resolutions were adopted instructig the delegates to vote for him. Pennsylvania Prohibition Nominations. The Pennsylvania Prohibition State Convention rounded up its work by nominating James Black as the candidate of the party for Supreme. Judge. Clinton B. Fisk was indorsed for President, end A. A. Barker, A. A. Stevens, James Black and Charles S. Wolfe were chosen delegatea-aMarge to the National Convention,