Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Democrats of the First district of Virginia renominated George T. Garrison for Congress....A rumor is in circulation in Washington that Secretary Lincoln is soon

to be replaced by an Eastern man....A labor convention consisting of two delegates from each lodge in the state of Pennsylvania, was held at Philadelphia on the 28th. TSx democrats of the First district of Virginia renominated George T. Garrison for Congress....A rumor is in circulation in Washington that Secretary Lincoln is soon to be replaced by some eastern man....A labor convention, consisting of two delegates from each lodge in the state of Pennsylvania, was held at Philadelphia on the 28th. The Democratic Congressional Conven tion resulted in the nomination of William R. Morrison for the Eighteenth Illinois district, J. Randolph Tucker in the Sixth Virginia, J. Floyd King in the Fifth Louisiana, Nelson V. Ayers in the Second Kansas, H. A. Herbert in the Second Alabama, Tnomas Williams in the Fifth, and Luke Pryor in the Eighth; R. P. Bland in the Eleventh Missouri, and W. A Reece in the Fourth Virginia. The Republicans selected Nathan Goff, Jr., in the First West Virginia, John R. Lynch, colored, in the Sixth Mississippi, Colonel C. M. Butt in the Seventh Wisconsin, Moses A McCold in the First lowa, and A J. Holmes in the Tenth; Godlove S. Orth, for the Ninth Indiana, and W. H. Calkins in the Thirteenth. The Greenbackers placed in the field Colonel H. C. Hodge for the Third district of Michigan.... The Republican State Convention in Michigan renominated David H. Jerome for Governor and Moreau S. Crosby for Lieutenant Governor. Harry A Conant, of Monroe, was placed on the state ticket for Secretary of State, and Edward H. Butler, of Detroit, for State Treasurer. The platform . called for the submission of the question of prohibition to a popular vote.