Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Mr. Thurman was the guest of the President at Oakview over Sunday. The county convention of the New York County Democracy .'nominated Abram S. Hewitt for Mayor. The statement is made that Judge Thurman’s contribution to the campaign fund was $2,000, made through a Congressional friend. The followers of Governor Hill, in New York, are trying to force from Cleveland an indorsement of Hill similar to that given Colonel Fellows. Tammany has nominated Hugh J. Grant for Mayor of New York, after making various overtures to the county Democracy, which declined to accept any of their recommendations. Mayor was renominated on a citizen’s ticket. It is announced that Chairman Quay,, of the Republican national committee, has deposited in the Garfield National Bank $25,000 as a fund to reward persons furnishing information leading to

the conviction of violators of the registration law in New York. There will be paid $2,030 forthe first conviction SI,OOO for the second, S3OO for the third, and $250 foieach subsequent conviction until the fund iB exhausted. Reports received by the National Prohibition Committee in Chicago are to the effect that# largely increased vete for the nominees of that party over the returns of 1884 may be expected next November. The- reports from New York State as well as Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Jersey and Indiana are of an especially encouraging nature. Leading members of the party say that, according to present indications, fully .6,000,000 of ballets will be deposited for Fisk and Brooks.

The little town elections which took place throughout Connecticut Monday are of no general interest except as indicating the political drift. The Republicans have for years controlled a majority of the towns, and the returns from one-third of the State show that they have not lost by this election. The city of South Norwalk, heretofore Democratic selects a Republican Mayor. The Democratic majority in Meriden dropped from five hundred last year to eighty. The result in Hartford is substantially the same as last year, the Republicans electing two selectmen and the Democrats three. The hall of the Harrison and Morton Dry Goods Club in New York is one of the noisiest political rendezvous in that city. Nearly 2,000 Republicans gather there daily and sing themselves hoarse. One of the attractions of this politicomusical entertainment is the presence o i a beautiful young woman with a Psyche knot and blue eyes, who sings the solos. Bhe sells Republican campaign songs st the door between the meetings. These daily services of Republican song are mildly ridiculded by Democrats, who nevertheless confess that they are more attractive than the ordinary campaign meeting.

The greatest novelty that the Democrats of Buffalo have so far invented, started its travels Monday night. It is a canal boat, carrying several tons of campaign literature, and having in its cabin a number of well-known orators. There are drawing rooms,sleeping cabins and the wine room has not been forgotten. The route lies over the Erie, Champeam anrl Oswego Canals,and thetrip will last until election day. Monday night passengers will include Bourke Cochrane, ten well-known Tammany orators, Congressman Breckenridge and several local speakers. Thomas Jefferson is the name of the boat, and simon-pure Jeffersonian Democracy will be expounded at all the stopping places. Forty car loads of the most enthusiastic Republicans that have yet appeared in Indianapolis came down from Chicago, Saturday night, the last section of the

delegation arriving here at 8:30 o’clock. Stops at Danville, 111., and Crawfordsville, where large crowds had gathered at the railway station to be addressed by speakeis accompanying the crowd caused the late arrival in this city. There were a dozen or, more campaign organizations from Chicago and its suburbs, Englewood, Pullman, Lake View and Hyde Park, represented in the delegation. When General Harrison, accompanied by Stephen A. Douglass, Jr., appeared upon the platform, he was given a greetingdar more enthusiastic thap any that has ever before been of the septs, but the - aisles and every inch of space in the hall was occupied, and when General Harrison was recognized everybody arose. The cheering continued for fifteen minutes without a break, and the air was filled with waving flags, handkerchiefs and hats. Introductory speeches were delivered by exGovefnor John M. Hamilton and Judge E. W. Keightly, and both were unusually long. The demonstration had visibly affected General Harrison, and when he arose to speak it was evident that he had not tally recovered Control of his feelings.. He spoke at a greater length than usual.