Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Commissioner Oberly, in a brief card, says a distinguished advocate of civil-serv-ice reform in New York has begged him to end his controversy with Dorman B. Eaton, and therefore be will not expose what he calls Mr. Eaton’s “many misstatements of facts and perversiohs ortho record.”.... The official returns from Maine give Bodwell (Bep.),, for Governor, 12,850 majority over the Democratic candidate. Congrebhional nominations: Ornam Pierson, Republican, Twelfth Illinois District; Frank Hiscock, Republican, Twentysecond New York; Charles R. Buckalew, Democrat, Eleventh Pennsylvania; James Phelan, Democrat, Tenth Tennessee; W. E. Robinson, Democrat, Sixth Louisiana; C. Newton, Democrat, Fifth Louisiana; Amos Townsend, Republican, Twenty-first Ohio; R. W. Dunham, Republican; First Illinois; Andrew Hauen, Republican, Sixth Wisconsin; Lewis C. McComas, Republican, Sixth Maryland; William Elliott, Democrat, Seventh South Carolina; James Brocklin, Democrat, Eighth Wisconsin; Joseph E. Washington, Democrat, Sixth Tennessee; John P. Sanborn, Republican, Seventh Michigan. Db. A. C. Wedge, of Albert Lea, presided over the Minnesota Republican State Convention, at St. Paul. A,R- McGill was nominated for Governor, A. E. Rice for Lieutenant Governor, Hans Matteson for Secretary of State; W. W. Broden for Auditor, Joseph Bobletter for Treasurer, arid M. E. Clapp for Attorney General. The platform adopted favors laws prohibiting railroad companies from furnishing passes to legislators; the establishment of p. bureau of labor statistics; the payment to women of the same wages paid to men for the same labor; the prohibition of the employment of children under 12 from working in mines, etc. It opposes prison labor. It favors the free coinage of silver, and declares that laws should be enacted making employers liable in damages to employes in jured in their services, whether the employes are negligent or not. It favors the reduction of the tariff ori the necessaries of life, and declares in favor of civil-service reform. .The committee appointed at the National Labor Convention to select a State ticket for Massacnusetts met th Boston last week and agreed on the following: Governor, George E. McNeill, of Boston; Lieutenant Governor, Robert Howard, of Fall River; Secretary of State, A. A. Carleton, of Somerville; Treasurer and Receiver General, Frank K. Foster, of Haverhill; Auditor, T. C. Thompson, of Boston; Attorney General. Asa F. Hall, of Hudson.