Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1892 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POLITICAL.

I? , Missouri Democrats have nominated W. J. Stone lor Governor. Senator Teffcr believes Colorado will go Republican by the usual majority. Florida Republicans may Indorse the nominations of the People's party iU that State. 6The ,Johnson county Prohibitionists have placed a county ticket in the r.! i. John T. Rich was nominated fov tiovernor by the Republicans of M Thursday. 4 Missouri Democrats Wednesday, after many ballots, nominated VV. J. Stone for Governor. 4 Hon. Louis F. McComos. of Maryland, has been appoin ted,.Secretary of the Republican National Committee. The People’s party of Georgia held their first State convention Wednesday, 400 white delegatesffreing present. Ged%e Sliiras, Jr., of Pittsburg, Pa., was Wednesday nominated by the Presl-

dent as an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. . The convention of disaffected Kansas Democrats to place a straight ticket in the field was a failure. Scarcely one hundred attended the meeting. Thi? ends the threatened revolt against the fusion ticket. It is authoritatively stated that Secretary of War Elkin* has determined that it will be impossible for him to become the Republican candidate for Governor of West Virginia this year, for reasons of a business nature. The Democratic State Central Committee met at Indianapolis on the 21st, and! after five ballots selected Judge Leonard J. Hackney, of Shelbyvilie, to fill the vacancy on the Democratic ticket, caused by by the death of Judge New. There were several other candidates, . The opeuing of the national campaign by the People’s party occurred at Vincennes on the 20th. Gen. Weaver, their Presidential candidate, C. C. Rankins and Mrs. Todd were the speakers. Gen. Weaver’s address was three hours long. The attendance was over 3,000. The Democrats in the southern and western ends of Kentucky are alarmed says a dispatch over a report of a deal between the Republican and People’s party leaders, by which it is said that the Re.r publicans are trading with the People’s parly, circuit judgeships in return for votes for congressional candidates. Nearly twenty thousand pooploapacked tliemselves into Madison Square -Garde** ■ New York, on the night of the 20th lowliness the ceremonies of the formal notification of Cleveland and Stevenson of their nominations. The enthusiasm was great. Mrs. Cleveland occupied a box, and her appearance was received by rounds of applause. Mr. Stevenson Rext entered and was warmly received. tVhen Mr. Cleveland entored the vast audience arose en masse and cheered and applauded for many minutes in the most enthusiastic manner, and which could not be quelled until the exercises began. Mr. Cleveland repeatedly bowed his acknowledgmentsColonel Wilson, of West Virginia, in a short speech, notified Mr. Cleveland of his nomination, to which Mr. Cleveland replied, in which he discussed briefly the tariff, the-*‘force" hill and the duty of the hour. The address was enthusiastically received. The conclusion was followed by an address by S. M. White, of California, notifying Mr. Stevenson of his nomination* and tUis by a hriof respoiige by Mr,Stoy-_ enson on the same lines that Mr. CTeve" land had pursued.

GEO. SHIRAS, JR.