Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Georgia will send a Sherman delegation to Chicago. Congressman Steele will not be a candidate for re-elelectidn. A movement is on foot to nominate Depew and Harrison at Chicago. The Republicans of Florida are organising for an active campaign this year. Some of Blaine’s friends are arranging to put Senator Frank Hiecock in his shoes. It is said that the Tribune, Times and Harper’s Weekly,and Roscoe Conkling, will all unite in supooiting Chauncey Depew fcr the presidency, in case he is nominated. A Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer makes the statement that President Cleveland desires Governor Gray, of Indiana, as the candidate for Vice President. The followers of Rev. Dr. McGlynn in Brooklyn have announced that a new paper, to be called the Eagle, will be started in that city in May, with Joseph Williamson Gavan and Dr. Sylvester Malone as editors. It will be started in opposition to George’s Standard. Followers of Governor Hill say he will go to the National Democratic Convention and will lead the New York delegation there in the interest of Grover Cleveland,-and that he will also make the nominating speech, after which Mr. Cleveland is expected to be renominated unanimously. He will reserve himself for 1892.

A Washington special says: “The New York vacancy on the National Democratic Committee will be filled by a gentleman who is both personally and politically friendly to the President. He will not De any of the nußiber heretofore mentioned in this connection. This declaration may be relied upon as absolutely correct. It may also be stated with equal Dositiveness that the administration is taking no part in the present contest over tbe location of the National Convention. The President is utterly indifferent «s to the city Vhich wins the fight. One thing is certain: The New York men now on the ground do not expect to carry the convention to that city, nor will they make any serious effort to do so.” Generals Hawlfey, Harrison and others addressed the Michigan Club at Detroit, Wednesday night. Geh. Hawley spoke to the toast: “Washington the Protectionist—He believed that the first duty of every nation is to care for its own people.” Ex-Senator Harrison spoke of ‘Washington as a Republican.” Hon. Wm. McKinley, jr., of Ohio, spoke to “Washington, the American — in making his own country free he paved the way for the freedom of the continent, that freedom that country should encourage and maintain.” Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, - spoke to: “Washington, the farmer—the best manhood of every nation is largely recruited from its farms; in all legislation the interests of the farmer should ba carefully guarded.” “Washington and the Northwest” was the topic assigned to Hon. L. E. McComas, of Maryland; “Washington, tbe revolutionist,” Hon. John F. Finnerty, of Illinois; “Washington, the President,” Hon. James P. Foster, of New York, president of the Republican League of the United States, and “Washington, the founder of a great republic of the people, by the people, and for the people,” Gen. Green B. Raum, of Illinois. “—7—