Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1888 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Geo. W. Curtis has been re-elected President of the National Civil Service Reform League. The Chicago Central Labor Union has decided to vote for Palmer, Democratkcandidate for Governor df Illinois. Senator Gorman thinks tliat Thurman will he the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, if he will consent. Ben Butler says that if the Republicans, will nominate Sherman he will march to the White House as he marched ,to the sea. _ “ ■; Gath suggests Blaine and Gresham as a good compromise ticket, and says: “If Mr. Gresham is the possessor of those strong, radiant and brilliant abilities which are claimed, he will have an elegant seat at the head of. the United .States Senate to appear in for four years, provided the ticket can be elected.” The rumor is in circulation that Congressmen William Walter Phelps has received a letter from Mr. Blaine in Paris, in which the latter declares emphatically that he will not be a candidate: for the Presidency under any circumstances. The letter, which is brief, may he read at the Chicago Convention if it is thought advisable by BlainUs political friends. At the meeting of the Trades AsscmTJIy Western PennsyTvania’ representing 60,000 organized workmen, Saturday night, resolutions were unanimously adopted Mills.hi.lLauul... all its advocates, mid- condemning Congressman Scott, of Erie, as an enemy ot labor, as a dangerous person to the welfare of society and the industrial progress of America, and as a bitter enemy of organized labor.