Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The lower bouse of the Indinna Legislature adopted a memorial to the United States Senate against the seating of David Turpie as a Senator from Indiana. The memorial reviews the proceedings by which Turpie was elected, charging particularly that three persons voted for him who had no right to do so. The Democrats vigorously protested against the adoption of the "memorial, and one member in a bitter speech alluded to the Republicans as “the fifty-sir cowards on the other side,” to

which a Republican Representative responded “Yon are a liar.” The Prohibition and Reform party of Kentucky held a State con vention in Loniaville and nominated a fall ticket for State officers. Over four hundred delegates, representing fifty-seven counties in the State, were present. A strong platform was adopted, denouncing the liquor trade, vote buying nnd selling, aud convict labor. The following nominations were made: For Governor, Jndge F. T. Fox; Lieuten-ant-Governor, W. L. Gordon; Auditor. Dr. A. T. Henderson; Treasurer, It. K. Dyns; Register of the Land Office, James T. Barber; Attorney-Genera 1, Josiah T. Harris; Superintendent of Public Instruction, D. W. Stevenson. i The Minnesota Legislature has Adjourned sine die ... The Senate of Michigan has passed a bill to require a civil license for marriages, intending to shut out elopers from the borders of Indiana aud Ohio. The Nebraska Legislature has passed a bill appropriating $7.5,000 for a hospital for incurable insane persons at Hastings, where. Hid acres of land are to be donated.