Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

*’ Colorado Democrats have nominated' T. M. Patterson for Governor. J. G. Parkhurst, of Michigan, will probably succeed Lambert Tree as minister to Brussels. - - Chairman Brice and representative Democrats from several western States held a conference at Chicago, Friday. The official returns fromthe Arkansas election are all in, and the majority of Colonel Eagle “Democratic' candidate for Governor, is 14,981. During a speech in Brooklyn, Monday night, Hon. Warner Miller, Republican gubernatorial candidate, said that the saloons of the State were bringing forward a corruption fund of hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence the result of the popular vote. Major W. H. Calkins has signified a willingness to meet Senator Voorbees in joint. debate on the tariff question. Chairman Jewett, says the Indianapolis News, is not inclined to view the map- , ter favorably, regarding it as a scheme to draw Voorhees into an arrangement for oppointments that would not be filled. Information comes from Arkansas that Dr. C. M. Norwood, the late fusion candidate for Governor of Arkansas, will contest the election of Governor Eagle. Dr. Norwood claims to have been elected by 700 majority. The Republicans and Union Labor party of Arkansas have decided to fuse on a presidential ticket. In response to a call for a National convention of the Greenback party to meet at Cincinnati Wednesday, but seven delegates appeared. They met Wednesday morning and issued an address to the American people, the substance of which is that the evils of the country arise fromthe scarcity of money, which evils the Greenback party proposes to meet by issuing more money. In reply to a question from W: C. Sheppard, editor of the Maunch Chunk (Pa.) Gazette, General Harrison has written a letter, saying. “I cannot but express surprise that you should ask me such a question as that contained in your letter of September 6th, namely, whether I have ever said in effect that a dollar a day was enough wages for a workingman. There may be campaign lies so plausible as to require a denial, but this is not certainly one of that sort.