Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1888 — POLITICAL NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NEWS NOTES.

The reception to Mr. Blaine when he .reaches New York promises to be a great affair. Calvin Brice, of Ohio, President of the Lake Erie and Western railway, has been elected Chairman of the National Democratic Committee. ===*= Gen. Harrison continues almost daily to receive delegations, 400 from Illinois and 1,500 from Shelby county, Ind., called on him Thursday and Friday nights. 'The Prohibition State Convention assembled at Hutchinson, Kas., Wednesday afternoon. About, two hundred delegates w r ere present, thirty-eight of whom were ministers. An unusually large number of women were present. Col. D. W. Houston, the temporary chairman, predicted that the Republican party would be a thing of the past before another year. At the Michigan Deihocratic State Convention at Detroit Thursday, a union with the Greenbackers was effected. Wellington R. Burt, of Saginaw, was nominated for Governor by acclamation. The ticket was completed as follows. Lieutenant Governor, William B. Morgan; Secretary of State. Thomas D. Hawley; State Treasurer, John D. Norton; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Stuart McKibben; State Board of Education, Charles E. King. The Greenbackers, at Grand Rapids, completed the ticket by nominating A. A. Ellistor, Attorney General; Bartley Green, for Auditor General, S. W. Fowler. for Commissioner of State Land Office, and three Inspectors.