Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Vermont Prohibitionists’ State Convention at Middlebary put in nomination a full ticket with Prof. H. M. Set-ley. of Middlebiiry College, at the head for Governor. t The Arkansas Republican State'Convention assembled at Little Rock and nominated the following ticket; For Governor, Lafayette Gregg, of Washington County; Secretary of State, H. A. Miller, of Ouachita; Attorney General, D. D. Leach, of Woodruff'; Treasurer, L. Altheimer, of Jefferson; Auditor, David B. Russell, of Conway; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, O. D. Scott, of MilleT;' Land Commissioner, A. W. Stone of Garland; Superintendent of Public Instruction; A, H. Boles of Frauklin. Ex-Governor Clayton was conspicuous on the floor. Threats to depose him from the leadership for carrying the Arkansas delegates to Blaine in 1884 proved vain. A platform was adapted which demands the maintenance of the protective tariff; opposes the President’s policy of vetoing pension biHfel insists that the public domain shall be reserved- to actual, settlers; denounces the Democratic party in; Arkansas for permitting convict labor 1, to compete with honest labor; for failing to punish embezzlement in high places, Minding especially to the State Treasury defalcation; for failing to enact proper laws to protect laborers; asks for the repeal of the law enabling convict labor to compete with honest labor, and that convicts be worked within penitentiary walls; favors a railroad commission; declares that the free schools be maintained; and denounces the House of Representatives for refusing to pass the Blair bi 11.... The Vermont Democratic convention met at Montpelier, the attendance being unprecedentedly large. P. B. Shurtleff, of Montpelier, and P. M. Meldon, of Rutland, were nominated for Governor and Lieutenant Governor respectively. by a unanimous vote. Thomas H. Chubb, of Thetford, was nominated for Treasurer; W. H. Rider, of Bristol, for Secretary of -State, and J. A. Wilder, of Windsor, for Auditor —all unanimously. The platform expresses satisfaction with the President’s administration; favors such revision of the tariff that taxation shall not exceed the needs of Government; demands protection for the dairy interests of the State; declares in favor of a railway commission; new legislation regulatingthe liquor tmffic;fornrt>itration between capital and labor; system of weekly payments; denounces the Republicans ‘for insincerity ou liquor, and closes with a eulpgistic reference to Gladstone nnd Parnell .... The Executive Committee of the Indiana Republican State Central Committee have issued a call for a State convention to nominate a State ticket. Thursday, Sept. 2. There will be about 1,200 delegates.... The Democrats of the Second Congressional District of lowa have nominated Judge Walter I. Hayes to succeed J. M. Murphy, the Hennepin Canal champion.... The Democrats of the- Fifth Ohio District have renominated George E. Senev for Congress. South Carolina Democrats will hold their State Convention August 4..... At a meeting of the New York Socialistic party, Henry George was indorsed for Mayor. ....T. L. O’Meara, of Davenport, lowa, has been nominated for cougress by the Jvnights of Labor.... The Republicans of the Fourth Congressional District of Illinois have renominated George E. Adams by acclamation. *