Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The special election in the Fifth Wisconsin Congressional District to choose a, successor to the late Representative Rankin, resulted in favor of Thomas R. Hudd, the Democratic nominee. A Washington special says: “The Senators who attended the Michigan' Club banquet in Detroit called upon Senator Jones, of Florida, who has been absent during the present session, and .invited; him to return to Washington with them.,’ He replied that he was not yet ready to return, and did not see why he should, hurry back; He had devoted himself assiduously to his senatorial duties for ten years, and could not understand why ha should not now spend some time in reKion and recreation without tor Edmunds once went away with his family, Don Cameron went to Europe, and! Sharon was rarely ever in the Senate, yet nobody criticised them. Senator Jones admitted that he had received Florida papers condemning him for his absence, but he thought the criticisms were unjust. Mr. Jones is a poor man. The woman with whom he is said to be infatuated is enormously wealthy. Mr. Jones’ colleagues say that he is not losing his mind, as has been reported, but that there is method in his madness.” The Supreme Court of Ohio upholds the Governor in removing the Police Commissioners of Cincinnati. The Major alone has power to fill the vacancies.... The Senate Judiciary Committee at Washington has decided to report adversely on the nomination of Zacbariah Montgomery, of Califor-. nia, as Assistant District Attorney General for the Interior Department. The sentiments entertained by the nominee With re--spect to the public-school system, which were publicly expressed in a pamphlet issued by him several years ago, form the grounds for objection.