Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

In the Missouri Republican Convention, at Sedalia, J. G. Cravens was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court. M. F. Butler for State Superintendent, and S.,W. Crawford for Railway Commissioner. The platform affirms that whenever ary l«rge number of voters petition the legislature for the submission of an amendment providing a change in the organic law of the State it is the duty of that body to grant the petition; denounces ’ the national administration fcr “its utter failure to originate any measures of relief whereby the expense? of the Government can be reduced, or the relations of labor "teto capital more equitably adjusted, or by any other beneficent measure in the interest of the people;” favors liberal

pensions to Union soldiers, and denounces the President’s pension vetoes and “ the removal r of ex-soldiers from office for partisan reasons.” The California State Democratic Convention completed its ticket by nominating Washington Bartlett, Mayor of San Francisco, for Governor, and M. F. Tarpey, of Alameda, for Lieutenant Governor. Congressional nominations: Fifth Georgia, J. I). Stewart, Democrat; Eighth Missouri, J. J. O'Neill, Democrat;, First Mississippi, John M. Alien, Democrat; Sixth Alabama, John H. Bankhead, Democrat; Sixth Texas, Joseph Abbott. Democrat; Fifth Mississippi, C. Fl Anderson, Democrat. Democratic Congressional conventions nominated James E. Cobb for the Fifth District of Alabama, and W. P. Taulbee for the Tenth District of Kentucky. The Republicans of the Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania nominated J. F. Maffett. The Democratic Congressional Convention at Mexico, Mo., took 753 ballots and adjourned to Sept. 21.