Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The annual State election in Rhode Island resulted in the success of the Republican ticket, which is mainly made np of the present officers. An amendment to the ~ V ~

Constitution providing (for prohibition waa j also successful. This latter feature of tlievotI ipg made the election extraordinarily exciting I. ...At the mnnic.i|ial election in Dallas, 1 Texas, on the heaviest vote evep polled, the Kliights of I.nlxu made a clean sweep, i every candidate siipjvorted by them being .’/elected by majorities ranging from 600 to {'l,ooo. The result was a great surprise. ; Dallas is the point at which the big publiCi meetings about a month ago started'iu j Texas to denounce the strike and- up- | hold and indorse the attitude of the rail* : road companies, which was done by tire Merchants' Exchange, and many other meetings in the State -followed the exi ample., At Fort Worth the candidates of ] the Knights of Labor were also elected to j a man. Henry f’. jvynnqip- Republican, | was elected Mayor of Kansas Uitv, while, i the Democrats obtained control of all the j-rcmainingofticesr- — —- - The majority report of the Committee on AVays and Means asserts that the average rate of duty lust year was $47 cm SIOO worth of imported goods, which is higher than during the war , . Congressman Pulitzer, of New York, has resigned his (tea* in,order to give his time to his private business. .