Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICS.

George William Curtis, in an address upon the political situation before the Commonwealth Club, of New Y’ork, said that “the President, amid incalculable difficulties, had been endeavoring to carry out his conviction upon the subject of civilservice reform,” but that he "hnd met with enormous obstructions, and the most enormous was the Democratic party itself.” He predicted that the result of the election next year “would depend more upon the candidates than upon the party that nominated them.’’ The President has appointed Henry F; Downing, of New York, to be United States Consul at St. Paul de Loanda, Portugal, and Edward J., Hill, of- Noith Carolina, to be United States Consul at Montevideo. Mr. Asbury (colored) has just been elected Commonwealth's Attorney at Norfolk, Va.—-the tir-t time in the history of the State that a negro has been elected to the position.