Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Congressman W. S. Foreman has been renominated by the Eighteenth Illinois district Democrats. The Arkansaw Republican State convention instructed its Minneapolis delegates for Harrison. Ex-Senator Wallace says that Governor Pattison is the most •likely Democratic presidential candidate. The Ft Wayne Sentinel Friday announced that Claude Mathews, Secretary of State, would be a candidate for Governor. The Marion county Domocray nominated a county ticket Saturday and endorsed Cleveland and Gray as the presidential Mcket. - The Republicans of the Seventeenth congressithal district Pennsylvania have instructed their delegates to Miunepolis to vote for Harrison. The Alliance party will attempt to control the North. Carolina Democratic primaries, and adopt the St, Louis platform. This will be prevented if possible by the Democratic State Corr-mittec. Senator Palmer was surprised, as read] 4irs not familiar of the fact may bo when he learned in the course of debate in the Senate Wednesday that there are Indians of several tribes in the United States who are citizens and voters. Col. William Brown, of the Battery district, New York, and young Charles Walker, of Corning, have taken umbrage at a published interview with Senator Hill, and Wednesday they voted with the Republicans in the New York Senate in a determined effort to block the congressional reapportion ment biJi. The Democrats of Massachusetts held their State Convention at Boston on the Bth. The resolutions oppose free coinage of silver, aud favor tariff refotm. The Convention was largely in favor of Cleveland’s nomination. There were several delegates favorable to Hill, however, and at one time it looked as if a wrangle was to occur, but did not. Neither was endorsed formally. a