Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

1883.

New York ,telegram: A 'party of leading Democrats and friends of Tilden, who have Just visited Greystohe, say that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for'the Presidency, and under no circumstances wilt, be s accept If nominated. They regard this, his last refusal, as Anal, and say that the field is now lett, so - far as Democratic candidates from this State aro. concerned, to Flower and Cleveland..... The Republicans of. Mississippi met at Jackson and selected fourteen* delegates to Chicago, of whom twelve are for Arthur. The Democratic State Convention of

I lowu adopted a resolution declaring for revenue reform, and appointed a unanimous TRdcu delegation to the national body at Chicago. v The Republican Convention ot Ohio adopted resolutions demanding the restoration of the wool tariff of 1876, appointed one Blaine !knd three Sherman deie-gates-ttt-large to the Chicago convention, and nominated J. S. Robinson for Secretary of State and W. W. Johnson for’Supreme Judge.... The Michigan Republican State Contention chose de.egates, wlio favor Blaine first and Edmunds second, with Lincoln os the unanimous choice for Vioe President... .The Maine Greenback Convention nominated Dr. H. B. Eaton for Governor. and indorsed (Jen. Benj. F. Butler for the Presidency... .The Republican Siate Convention of Connecticut left its delegates to Chicago uninstructed, but passed,, a resolution commending Joseph R. Hawley as a candidate for President. Tho New York Republican State Convention was organized in the interest of Arthur and Edmunds, despite the hostility of Thomas C. Platt and Senator Miller, and the delcgates-at large to Chicago are Andrew D. White, Edwto Packard, Thecdore Roosevelt, and John J. Gil bert. The Virginia Republican Convention adopted the unit 1 rule,' and instructed the delegates to Chicago to vote for Arthur.... The Dakota Republicans elected N. E. Nelson and Col. J. L. Jolly as delegates to Chicago, and instructed them to vote for Blaine and Lincoln while a probability of nomination remains. The Arizona Republican Convention met at Phoenix and appointed delegates to Chicago. The convention instructed for Blaine.,..Tho Massachusetts Greenbnckers held their convention at Lynn, indorsed Gen. Butler for President, and appointed delegates to the Indianapolis convention. <ir At the Greenback State Convention of Massachusetts, held at Lynn, the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in reference to. the power of Congress to issue legal-tender money was indorsed; governmental regulation of railroads and corporations of alike character was recommended, and tho employment of young childdren in factories was condemned. Gen. B. F. Butler was indorsed lor President. The National Chairman of the Greenback Labor party thinks Gov. Begole, of Michigan, and ex-Congressman Jones, of Texas, will be the national ticket, and that Butler cannot get the nomination because of his Democratic affiliations. It is thought in Washington among Republican politicians that Congressman Calkins, of the Valparaiso District, will be the Republican nominee lor Governor of Indiana..... The Arizona Republican Convention instructed its delegates to Chicago to support Blaine. A New Orleans dispatch says that returns of tho recent State election in Louisiana, mainly official, from all the .parishes but five, with estimates for these, give the total vpte of tho State as 139,038, being the largest cast since the exciting campaign of 187 G. It stands divided, between the two parties as follows: L’emocrais, 86,107; Republicans, 42,931 —a Democratic majority of 13,270. The Legislature will stand: Senate—Democrats, 30; Independent, 1; Republicans, 5; a Democratic loss of 2. House—Democrats, 82; Independent Democrats, 6; Ropubii. ana, 16; the Republicans losing 1 scat. The first amendment to the i tate Constitution is carried. This amendment provides that the interest on the State bonds, which had been fixed by the constitution at 3 per cent, for fifteen years, from Jan. 1,1885, and thereafter, shall be raised to 4 per cent, from Jan. 1, 1885, for the whole term of thirty years. This is believed to be the first instance in which a State, by tbe vote of the people, raised the interest on its public debt.