Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Mr. Hendricks was given a breakfast by thirty prominent citizens of Atlanta. From the hotel balcony he addressed a large crowd upon the acquiescence of 54,000,000 of people in a result obtained by a majority of only 1,142 votes..... General Logan was nominated by acclamation for the Senatorship by the Republican Legislative caucus at Springfield, DI. At a caucus of the Democratic members of the Dlinois Legislature, for the nomination of a candidate for United States ; Senator, the names of William R. Morrison

and Garter H. Harrison were presented. The first ballot resulted in the nomination of MoYrison. who received sixty-seven votes out of a total of 102. Harrison received nineteen... .Leading Democrats of Virginia have organized a movement in behalf of Representative Barbour for .Postmaster General. 1 President Cleveland returned to Albany: from New Yoik on the 7th inst., to prepare his inaugural address. The Democratic Congressmen and legislators of Illinois have recommended William M. Springer for Secretary of the Interior. Senator Gorman expressed his desire that a portfolio be given to B. F. Jonas, of Louisiana. Senator Colquitt and others argued the fitness of A. R. Lawton. of Savannah, for Postmaster General. Isaac H. Hunter, a colored Virginian, asks the Haytian mission as a reward for campaign services. Ex-Gov. Cornell was challenged at a Republican enrollment precinct at New York. He refused to say whether he voted for the Republican electoral ticket, claiming that the question was absurd.. (.The Arkansas Senate passed a resolution urging its representatives at Washington to favor negotiations with the Indians for the opening of Oklahoma to settlement... .The entire lowa delegation in Congress are united in recommendingrihe President to appoint Gen. Tuttle, of lowa, to be Governor of Wyoming, to succeed William Hale, of lowa, deceased. President-elect Cleveland was in consultation in New York last week with Democratic politicians, and many waited on him in the interest of cadidatss for Cabinet positions. The President-elect, accompanied by Daniel Manning, visited Mr. Tilden at Greystone on Sunday. Two hours were spent at Mr. Tilden’s dinner-table, and a longer period to his study. The following is said to be the slate for the Cabinet, so far as now made up: Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State; Abram S. Hewitt, Secretary of the Treasury; W. F. Vilas, Secretary of War; L. Q. C. Lamar, Secretary of Interior; arid Senator Jonas, of Louisiana, Postmaster General.