Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Gex. Edward C. Waltham, has been tendered and has accepted the appointment of United, States Senator from Mississippi, to succeed Secretary Lamar... .The Kansas Legislature passed a resolution of sympathy with General Grant. .An extra session of the Indiana Legislature will be necessary to pass appropriation lulls. If the Missouri men are not provided for by the new administration, it will not be because of any lade of enterprise on their pert. They hate swooped down on the consular and diplomatic service, and propose that Missouri shall be represented in all quarters of the globe. As' far as heard from, the Missouri men want Charles Gibson made Minister to Berlin, ex-Congress-man Franklin Minister to Brazil, ei-Gov.

Orittenden Minister to Mexico, C. H. Mansur Ministei to Chili, E. C. Moore Minister i4o Belgium, William Jj Orath, Consul to Belfast, Frank Mahon Consul to Cork, F. W. Mathias Consol to Frankjfort, E. W. Ewing Consul to Melbourne, D. D. Richards Consul to Cardiff, D. C. Hawkins Consol toy Liverpool. Mr. Day, of Champaign, 111., on intimate friend of Col. W. R. Morrison, is a candidate for appointment as Solicitor of the Treasury. The applicants for the Milwaukee Postoffice are A. Warren Phelps, Geo. H. Paul, and Edward Wa11.... At the Republican State Convention at Lansing, Mich., Judge Cooley was renominated by acclamation for Supreme Judge, and C. S. Draper and Aaron V. McAlvay were named for regents of the University. Washington special to the Chicago Tribune: In an interview with the President Vice President Hendricks and Senator Voorhees tried to persuade him that ho ought to move promptly in putting Republicans out and filling their places with Democrats. Mr. Cleveland replied that he did not consider that sort of thing consistent with the principles of civil-service reform, and intimated that no removals were likely to be made except for cause. Secretary Bayard is said to be particularly discouraging in his reception of applicants for office. J. S. Stafford, of Whiteside County, HI., has been nominated by the Republicans to fill the vacancy in the Legislature caused by the death of Representative E. E. Logan. Secretary Bayard, in resigning the Senatorship from Delaware, gave the Legislature to understand that his successor should be Attorney General Gray. The Saulsbury r famity, however, are pushing Representative Lore sot the vacancy, and the struggle grows in interest daily.