Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1888 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Connecticut is for Hawley. W. R. Morrison, of Illinois, says that if Indiana, which ou’ht to have the place, does not present a candidate for Vi> e Pre Bident, he wants the place. Judge Patterson, Friday, granted Rev. Dr. McGlynn a permanent injunction restraining Henry George and his followers from incorporating the AntiPoverty Society. Charles A. Dana, of the New .York Sun, has written a letter to John G. Priest, St. Louis, saying that if the unit rule is enforced in the Democratic Convention, David B. Hill will have the New York delegation. On February 15, Colonel A. W. Wills, of Nashville, sent a letter to Hon. John Sherman, strongly indorsing him for the presidency, and stating that the people of Tennessee understood him better since his Nashville speech. He also said that he believed that Hherman had no wish or intention to institute a reactionary policy in Southern affairs. In reply, made public on the 3a, Senator Sherman says that his Nashville speech was entirely sincere; hedoes not wish to revive the animosities of the war,but deairreafnll and frank diacussion of live issues, especially the tariff, and full protection to every citizen in his right to vote and have his vote counted as east.