Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Massachusetts Democratic Convention was held at’ Worcester, with John E. Fitzgerald as Permanent Chairman. ExMayor Frederick O. Prince, of Boston, who ww? opposed by the Butler faction, was nominated for Governor on the second ballot. The remainder of the ticket is as follows: Lieutenant Governor, H. H. Gilmore; Secretary of State, Jeremiah Crowley; Attorney General, Henry K. Braley; Treasurer, Henry M Cross; Auditor,'James E. Delaney. The platform congratulates the country upon the election and inauguration of a Democratic President ana Vice President; expresses confidence that Mr. Cleveland’s policy will establish the civil service on a “broad basis of justice and equality,” “not creating an official class which shall be above and ’beyond the people, ” ' but giving to all honest and capable citizens;, the right to be selected for public employment; commends the American fisheries to the “serious consideration” of the administration, and demands the enactment by the Legislature of various measures fbr the benefit of laboring classes. Secretary Manning has written a letter declaring that he shall vote for Gov. Hill and the entire Democratic State ticket of New York, and giving the assurance that President Cleveland will do likewise..,. H. B. Plummer, recently appointed naval officer at Philadelphia, is an active Democratic politician, a millionaire, and a protege of Mr. Randall. ♦ Ex-Mayor Chas. D. Jacobs, of Louisville, has been appointed Minister to the United States of Colombia. Mr. Jacobs is

a lawjler of abilitv and high standing. He was h member of the Common Council of Louisville, and was twice elected Mayor of that city. He was a prominent candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in 1884, and received a respectable vote in the Dem- ' ocratic Convention. The President has ! also made the following appointments; ' Chas. Foster, of Indiana, Consul General of ■ the United States at Calcutta; D. J. ParI tell, of the, District of Columbia, Consul of the United States to Dusseldorf; William T. Henderson, of Arkansas, ■ to be Associate Justice of the ! Court of the Territory of New Mexico; Daniel W. Mariatta, of Dakota, to be Marshal of the United States for the Territory of Dakota; Thomas Smith, of Virginia, to be Attorney of the United States, for the Territory of New’ Mexico; Charles Parlange, of Louisiana, to be Attorney of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana: Henri W. Young, of Kansas, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Independence, Kan.; William R. Brownlee, of Kansas, to be Register of the Land Office at Larned, Kan.; John Lafavre, of Dakota, to be Receiver of Public Moneys, at Deadwood, D. T. The first joint debate between Gov. Hoadly and Judge Foraker, rival candidates for Governor of ..Ohio, occurred at Toledo o» the evening of the Bth inst,, and drew an injmense crowd. A Toledo dispatch says: “In the course of Hoadly’s remarks he said that Abraham Lincoln died a Democrat. What he intended to say was that if he had lived three months longer ‘he would have been a Democrat. When Foraker replied he censured Hoadly for misrepresenting, and said that Lincoln, instead of dying a Democrat, died by the hand of a Democrat. Much excitement prevailed during this part of the debate, but it soon quieted.” Commodore Stephen B. Luce, of the United States Navy, has been promoted to the rank of rear-admiral, and Captain David B. Harmony has been elevated to the grade of commodore. David R. Waters has been appointed United States marshal for the Western district of Michigan, and Edward Hawkins United States marshal for Indiana. .■ .