Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Mr. Blaine attended the opening meeting of the Maine Republican campaign at Lake Maranacook, and made a short speech: Among, the orators of the occasion were Emery A. Storrs of Chicago, Col. Snow den of Philadelphia, Gov. Robie, and Congressman Dingley... .The Democrats of the Seventh Illinois District nominated James S. Eekles" of Princeton, for Congress The Republic ms of the Third. District of Michigan placed James O’Donijell in the field. .. . The State Executive Com, mittee of the Indiana Prohibitionists decided to put an electoral ticket in the field. The Hon. W. E. Fuller has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fourth lowa District..... .Maj. Conger, of Dallas County, was nominated for Congress in the Seventh lowa District by the Republicans.,. .A. J. has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Tenth lowa District. He beat John Cligget, Democrat, in 1882 by 5,000 votes. .... Preston Stevenson was nominated for Congress by the Democrats-of the Fifth New Jersey District. Indianapolis dispatch: ‘‘A decided sensation has been created in political circles here by the filing of a suit for damages for libel, in which the Hon. James G. Blaine is plaintiff, and John C, Shoemaker, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, is the defendant. On Aug. 8 the Sentinel copied from the Chicago Times a two-column article, in which Mr. Blaine was charged with gross immorality while holding:arehairin a Kentacky military institution. Together with the reprinted story, the Sentinel published an original comment, in w hich, the honor of Mrs. Blaine was assailed. Damages were placed by the plaintiff atassoAWfl. ’.... The Prohibitionists of • the Springfield .District of Illinois nominated George P. Herrington for Congress, The Republicans of the Eleventh Ohio District put forward Alpllonso Hart. Theron P. Reator was nominated by the Republicans of the Twelfth Indiana District. Roger O.,Mills and Joseph D. Sayers were placed in the field by the Democrats of the Ninth and Tenth Districts of Texas, respectively. The Republicans of the Fourth Michigan District nominated Julius C. Burrows for Congress. The Democratic convention in the Second Maryland District took 1,408 ballots and left a selection to the State Central Committee. C. R. Breckinridge was renominated by the Democrats of the Second Arkansas District... .The Democrats of the First North Carolina' District renominated Thomas ,G. Skinner... .Mr. Cooper. Chairman of the Pennsylvania State Republican Committee, says that Senator Don Cameron is not a candidate for re-election. Boston dispatch: “Gen, Butler's letter of acceptance, or address to the people of the United States, has been practically completed, and, contrary to general expectation, it may see the light before the production of the anticipated epistle frqm Cleveland. The Butler manifesto is said to be a document of great length. The General takes in the whole vocabulary of national questions, from Mormonism down to the preservation of the Mississippi levees.” Roscoe Conkling declines an election as honorary member of the Plumed Knights of Albany, N. Y., stating that he will notin any way be drawn into the pending.caiivass. The Executive Committee of the AntiMonopoly party assembled in Chicago last week and nominated Gen. A. M. West, of Mississippi, for Vice President. It"wa,s'resolved to issue an address urging vigorous

efforts in close Congressional districts, and t a union of nil, the Butler forces, lindei the title of the People’s party, was advocated. . , ’ •