Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Appointment Cleiik Higgins says Jie is not a candidate for Doorkeeper or Ser-geant-at-Arms. He says he is “too good a Democrat to hold one office and apply for another. However, if they elect me it would be a different thing”... .Senator Cockrell has- for years enjoyed great popularity in Missouri, says a "Washington dispatch, and he is one of the very best- political, managers in the country, but some opposition to him is being developed. His successor will be elected bv the next Legislature to be chosen in Missouri, and wire-pulling is already going on to secure the election to the Legislature of the friends of Cockrell and his rivals. Senator Cockrell is a man of much ability and of unquestioned integrity. With Senator Cockrell on one side and Senator Edmunds on the other, it is pretty bard work to get a job through the Senate undetected. But his opponents, or the friends of rival candidates comptain that he has been, taking too good care of his own and his wife’s relatives. It is also complained that Senator Cockrell is too high-toned, and doesn’t look after the hoys who do the work- The principal candidate in opposition is Col. James Burnes, a man of ability, of very great wealth, and the owner of ’trie- -St. Joseph Gazette. Judge Sherwood, of Southwestern Missouri has announced himself as a candidate. 1 At a special election in Atlanta, f Ga., after a, most extraordinary campaign, prohibition carried_tlie_day by a majority of 224 votes.... A Grand Army post of Philadelphia has presented President Cleveland with a series of inquiries in regard to the removal of Gen. H. S, Hijidekoper from the postoffice in that city, conveying the idea that a Union soldier has been discriminated against in favor of a civilian. The following Federal appointments are announced from Washington: Richard D. Lancaster to bo Surveyor bf Customs for the port of St. Louis. Mo. " Oliver 1\ Rsmick to be First Assistant Engineer in the marine service of the United States. M. L. Connack, of Grand Forks, Dak., to bo Secretary of Dnkota Territory. To be Registers of Land Offices: Robert V. Yeakle, of Little Rock, Ark.; at Little Rock, Ark. ; Henry C. Tipton, of Melbourne, Ark., at Harrison, Ark. ; Chester H. Warner, of Colfax. Washington Territory, at Walla Walja, Washington Territory. Bartholomew Coffey; of Salem, Oregon, to be agent for the Indian's of the Umatilla agency in Oregon. Jacob Schoenhof, of New York, to be Consul of the United States at Tunstall, England. Frank' J. Parke, of West Virginia, to be Principal Clerk of the Public Lunds. William K. Ramsay, of Arkansas, to be Register of the Land Office at Camden, Ark. Jolin R. Thompson, of Arkansas, to be Receiver of-Public Moneys at Camden. Ark. Postmasters: Edwuvrd D. Porter, at Joplin. Mo.‘; James S. McGee, Paris, Mo.; D. W. Scott; Galena, Ill.: John Marcus, Hamilton, Mo. Lloyd N. Lease, Tiffin. O. ; W. H. Camion, Merrill, Wis.; Robert. J. McNally, Keesevtlle, N. Y.; Frank Whi' ?, Murfreesboro, Tend.