Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1892 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Mr Blaine assures his friends that he has permanently retired from public life It is probable Gen. Horace Porter will be made chairman of the Republican National Committee. Isaiah R. Shugart, Republican nominee for Representative of Grant county, is dead of typhoid fever. The People’3 party has nominated David Ely, of Adams douuty, as Joint Represent ative for Jay, Adams and Blackford counties. It is said Senator Stewart, of Nevada, and Thoms E, Watson, of Georgia, may be the nominees for President and VicePresident on the People’s ticket. The single tax club of Chicago Thursday night unanimously adopted a series of resolutions congratulating the convention upon its nomination of Cleveland, and declaring its action to be a just and high tribute to public intelligence. The Seventh Ohio district Republican Congressional convention, after a most bitterly contested fight, effected a nomination Thursday afternoon on the 621st ballot, the nominee, a dark horse, being Col. Geo. W. Wilson, of Madison. Ex-Speaker Keifer was the "loading candidate, but failed of the nomination. Tho committee appointed by the Republican National Convention to officially notify Mr. Harrison and Mr. Reed of their | nomination for President and Vice President ~ respectively, ~ performed that duty,] Monday and Tuesday. Both candidates 1 made brief speeches in reply to the notification of the committee^. The Chicago Inter-Ocean published a statement Friday that a committee representing the People’s party and Knights of Labor leaders called on Judge Walter Q. Gresham at his home, with a view of obtaining permission from the Judge to use ’ his name at the head of the People’s ticket to be nominated at Omaha July 2. Ho was assured of the united support of the farmer-labor organizations throughout the country. Ben Terrill, of Texas, assured Flm that his nomination would be acceptable to the South, and that the nomi-1 nation of Cleveland made it sure that six ] Southern States would give the People’s Party their electoral vote. Henry Vin j cent of the Indianapolis Non-Conformist, j Lester C. Hubbard of the Chicago Van I guard, H. M. Gilbert, President of the 11- \ linois Farmers’ Allfanee, D. Jl. Fu’Uwater and a number of Knights of Labor assured Judge Gresham that If he would accept, his nomination would be made by acclamation. It was claimed that .Ignatius Donnelly, James Weaver, T. V- Powderly ! and other leaders were in favor of the movement, ' ■ ,