Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Wisconsin Legislature has enacted a high license liquor law. It provides a minimum fee of S2OO and, a maximum of SSOO in towns of over 500 inhabitants, and a minimum fee of SIOO and'a maximum of S4OO in communities of less than 500 population .... The Emery Candle Factory at Cincinnati was damaged by fire to the amount of SBO,OOO. Rhode Island held her State election on Wednesday, the Ist of April. George Peabody Wetmore, of Newport, was elected Governor by the customary Republicarrmhjority. One of the features of the election was the success of the Rev. Mahlon Van Horne, of Newport, the first colored man ever elected to the General Assembly of that State. Lawrence (Kan.) dispatch: "Gov. St. John made a speech here to a large audi-. ! ence. He-'said he had left the Republican party, but is not a Democrat He has fought that party for twenty-eight years, and beaten it He is a Prohibitionist. He paid President Cleveland a high compliment. The Republican party brought its., own defeat upon it at its Chicago convention through its stand on prohibition. He is not sorry for h s stand in the campaign, and would do it over again. Democracy will be next detroned by the party with prohibition for its platform.” •