Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Republican campaign in Ohio will be opened at Urbana September 20. The Farmers’ and Laborers’convention at Sedalia, Mo., declared for free trade. Congressman Parrett was renominated on the 21st by the Democratic convention at Canneiton. California Democrats met at San Jose on the 20th and nominated a ticket. The ■platform approves of the St. Louis platform and denounces the majority in Congress for the passage of the election bill, and on the tariff question, Speaker Reed is severely condemned. Wisconsin Republicans renominated Gov. Hood on the 20th, The platform f orcibly reaffirms the position of the party in that State on the educational question, and declares that the party is unalterably opposed to a union of church and State. The plat form further indorses the policy of the Republican party in the federal election bill protection to labor and in all else. Ex-Governor J. B. Foraker has written a letter giving a brief statement of the nature of the proposed federal election law, and the purpose of the Republican party enacting it. Mr. Foraker says it is not thte outgrowth of sectionalism, hatred of the South, nor even of partisanism. Its sole purpose is to give effect to the consti. tutional provisions with respect to the exercise of the right of suffrage and to secure honest congressional elections; but the whole outcry against it is because its provision are such as ai-e likely to accomplish its purpope. He predicts its enactment would bring material prosperity to the South, and that ten years hence its opponents will be ashamed of their opposition. The Democrats of North Carolina mot at Raleigh on the 20th and nominated a State ticket. The convention unanimously Indorsed Senator Z. B. Vance and urged his re election to the Senate by the General Assembly in 1591. The convention adopted a platform reaffirming the princi. pies of the Democratic party. It favored the free coinage of Silver, an increase of the currency and the repeal of the internal revenue laws. It denounces in strong language the McKinley tariff bill as qujust to the consumers of the country, and promotive of trusts and monopolies which have oppressed the people, and emphatically denounces the increase of tax on cotton ties and tin. It denounces the fed- • eral election bill, “whose purposes are to establish a second period of reconstruction in the Southern States.” It denounces the .“tyrannical action of Speaker Reed and his abettors who have changed the federal Houso of Representatives from a deliberative body into a machine to register the will of a few partisan leaders.” It advocates and recommends an increase of tax for public education and incorporates the Farmers’ Alliance demands.