Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — Political. [ARTICLE]

Political.

lowa Prohibitionists have nominated a State ticket. Florida’s delegates to Chicago are first for Blaine, then for Sherman, but go uninstructed. The Republicans of the Third (Chicigo) Coneressional District, Tues J ay, selected Mayor Roche and Hon. Leonard Swett as delegates to the National Convention. The delegates were instructed to eupport the candidacy of Judge Gresham. It is understood that Mr. Swett will present Judge Gresham’s name to the convention. ' Letters have been received from Mr. Blaine, which told of hia continued good health, of the pleasant time he was having; of his intention soon to start northward in Europe, and of the anticipations of pleasure with which helooked forward to the time when he can press his foot on American soil once more. The selection of Cy Leland, Jr.j and ; J, >M. Graybill aa delegates to the Republican National Convention from the First Kamas District, in which Senator Ingalls Jives, isregaidedin Democratic circles as a black eye for that statesman, and ij retarded as a death blow to Ingall’s aspirations. Leland, a bitter antiIngal’s man, started in to show the Senator that he could not control his own district, and succeeded to his heart’s content, - / .