Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — POINTICAL. [ARTICLE]

POINTICAL.

The lowa Greenbackers, in convention at Des Moines, nominated E. H. Gillette, of Polk County, for Lieutenant Governor, and F. W. Moore, of Davis County, for Superintendent of Public Instruction, leaving the other places on the ticket to be filled by Democrats. The resolutions adopted reaffirm the Indianapolis platform of 1884; protest against the continuous encroachments of monopolies, and declare the inability of the old parties to meet this" question; the middlemen who borrow money Cheap and lend it at heavy interest to Western farmers are de-nounced,-and the ■'system permitting such spoliation should be reformed; the reserve in the National Treasury' should be released, as ruin has followed this hoarding; the expulsion of settlers from Oklahoma is denounced; the next Legislature is called on to pass the Cassatt coal-screen bill, and to abolish the railway commission; corporations sfidu’d be required to accept lowa citizenship, and keep their litigation in the State courts; the Governor is denounced for the “bavbnet”' removal of Auditor Brown: the temperance law should be fully I enforced. The Pennsylvania Republican Convention, at Harrisburg, nominated Colonel Matthew,. S. Quiy on the first ballot for Treasurer of State, and adopted resolutions favoring“a repeal of the internal rev- , enne taxes except upon spirituous and malt liquors; increased duties upon imports, with a discount upon goods imported. ip American bottoms; the “establishment of a true system of civil service;? the “preservation of a sound financial system;’’ and “a just regard for our commercial relations with, foreign nations, and a closer intereourse'with those on the American continent ” The President has appointed William K. Meade, of Arizona, to be United States Marshal for that Territory; Joseph L. Morgan, of South Carolina, to be Secretary of Legation at the. City of Mexico; Willis G. Clark to be Collector of Customs for the Port of Mobile, Ala.; FrederickGerker to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of Pennsylvania, vice William Pollock, suspended; and the following Presidential Postmasters: A. B. Waller, at Tuscarora,

Nevada; Edwin S. Smith, at South Haven, Mich.; John O’Donnell, at Mitchell; John .Pepper, at Boscobel, Wis.; Adolph Piening, at Manitowoc, Wis.; Joseph Vannahme, at East St. Louis, Ill.; D. A. Sqlli- ■ van, at Spring Valley, Minn.; Benjamin } Harrison, at Phlatka, Fla.; Mary M. Force, nt Selma. Ohio; John 0. Wise,, at Mankato, Minn., vice L. Punj;, suspended: William F. Aveni, at'Camden, Aik., viceH. A. Mellin, suspended; G.-S. Stoy, at Butler, Ind., vice Miss Ida Carpenter, suspended; Eli W. >Brown, at Columbia City, Ind., Vico J. W. Baker, suspended; Jonah T. Howe, at Trumrinsburgh, N. Y., vice D; 8. Briggs, suspended; Robert W. Speer, at Denver. Cod., vice. 'Robert Morris, suspended; Michabl W. Ryan, at Medford, Wis., idee S. H. Keeler, suspended.