Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Thf. democrats failed to appear in the Ohio Senate on Wednesday last, leaving no •quorum for a settlement of the contest cases. Sonfe of the. Democrats have left the State, and the opinion is expressed that none of them -will return this session nnless a compromise is effected. VTjffi lowa Greenback State Convention met at Cedar Rapids qnd nominated 3. O. Sanks. of Dallas, for Secretary erf State; L. F. Ellsworth, of Mahaska, for Treasurer; J. V. Myers, of Linn, for Auditor; and J. W. Brown, of Cass, for Attorney General. The platform denounces fusion with Democracy as treachery to principle, demands unlimited coinage of silver, and arraigns both old parties for faithlessness to trusts, etc. " ‘ ' Foebteex Democratic members of the Onio Senate occupy a special coach in the Cincinnati Southern yard at Chattanooga, haring fled to escape the Sergeant-at-arms. They declare they will not return until a compromise is effected. The Republican of. - the Ohio Senate met on Saturday, and without transacting any business. went into caucus to discuss a pr oposition to eonsuiei'jhe special order—the Hamilton (Jonnty contest cases—and scat the four Republican claimants by a viva voce vote before it was officially as-

certained that there was no quornm present. The caucus decided to pursue this course, and accordingly Mr. Pavey, of Fayette, moved to take from the table the report of the Republican members of the Senatorial Investigating Committee, which wqfeggrecd to by a viva voce vote, and then the resolution submitted by the same' comtho seating oJMtliefoiur Republican claimants. The resolution was adopted by a unanimous vote and the new Senators came forward and took the oath of offle;.