Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — VOLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

VOLITICAL.

•The Nebraska Democratic State Convention convened at Lincoln Oct 15. Frank Martin was nominated for Supreme Judge, and R. R. Livingstone and John F. Zolin for Regents of the State University. The platform demands the construction of a navy equal to any in the world, and a complete system of coast'defenses; opposes the further coinage of silver, and demands the exc usion of the Chinese.... In relation to the Ohio election, a Cincinnati dispatch of Oct. 15 says: While there is no material change on the State ticket, there is more excitement over the Legislature than there was last fall over the doubtful returns on Cleveland and Blaine. Unofficial returns from about all the State and estimates on the few remaining precincts put Foraker’s plurality at over I‘J.uOO. It will be a little over 20,w0 on the rest of the Republican State ticket. The Democrats are claiming their entire Legislative t.cket, and it will require the official count to settle it. The vote in the two precincts of the Nineteenth Ward whose counting was not finished last night has been counted, and the result on Governor in Hamilton County, with one country precinct missing, which in 18M gave 17 Republican majorttv, stands thus: Governor Hoadiy, Democrat. 83.667; Foraker, Republican, 33, <62; Leonard, Prohibition, 1,020; Hoadly’s plurality, Sus. Tue President has made the following appointments: Calvin Page, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of New Hampshire; D. J. Loughlin, to be Special Examiner of Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals for the District of Philadelphia; C. Meyer Zulick, of Arizona, to be Governor of Arizona, vice, Frederick A. Tritle, resigned. To he United States consuls: Thomas R. Jernigan, of North Carolina at Os k», Japan; Edward D. Linn, of Texas, at Piedras Negras, Mexico: hratrk W. Roberts, of Maine, at Coatlcooke, Canada; Charles H. Mills, of Maryland, at Managua, Nicaragua; Joseph D. Hoff, of New Jersey, at Vera Cruz. Mexico. To be Indian Agent: James McLaughlin, of Dakota, for the Standing Rok agency, in Dakota: David 8. Pre-son, to •'Tie collector of customs at Gloucester, Massachusetts; John H. 8. Frink, to be United States Attorney

for the District of New Hampshire. Ezra W. Miller, to be receiver es public moneys at Huron, Dakota. John McFarland, to be register of land office at Huron, Dakota. Charles H. Call,, to > e collector of customs for the district of Superior. Mich. • ' J z The official figures of the Indianpolis municipal election are as follows: Mayor— Denny, Republican, 9,093; Cottrell, Democrat, 9,033. For Clerk—Brenning, Republican, 9,089; Shields, Democrat, 9,202. The Prohibition vote was 147, and the Greenback 37. The Republicans have one majority in the Council, and the Board of Aidermen is a tie. At the charter electio n in Newark, N. J.. Mayor Haynes, Democrat, was re-elected by 350 majority. The Republicans carry all the other city offices, i and elect nine out of fifteen Aidermen, : the same number of School Commissioners, I and eight out of fifteen chosen freeholders. The municipal election in Chattanooga, Tenn., was closely contested. The entire Republican ticket was elected by a reduced majority... .The Nebraska Republican State Convention met at Lincoln on the 14th inst. Amasa Cobb was renominated for the Supreme Bench. For Regents of the University, Leavitt Burnham and Chas. H. Gere were nominated. Both now hold the same positions. The platform denounces the administration and the Democratic party. insists on a protective tariff, and refuses to submit the prohibition question. tThe Indianapolis Democratic City Committee have decided to contest the election of Caleb A. Denny for Mayor and James A. Pritchard for Aiderman.... A State convention of the colored people of Kentucky will be held Nov. 26 at Lexington to protest against the treatment received at the hands of the dominant whites.... The President is said to be much annoyed because Postmaster Pearson of New York, an officer whom he nominated as the reward for the mugwump vote of that State, has announced himself in favor of the candidacy of Davenport Complete returns from every county in Ohio give Foraker a plurality of 17,688 over Hoadly.