Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1870 — POLITICALG! [ARTICLE]

POLITICALG!

In the Oregon Legislature, on'the 14th, Gov. Woods presented his biennial message. Gov. Grover was inaugurated on the 15ih. Bills discouraging Chinese immigration were introduced. The recent Democratic State Convention of Kansas nominated: For Governor, Ira C. Sharp; Lieutenant Governor, A. J. Allen; Secretary of State, C. C. Duren; Auditor, H. McMahon; Treasurer, 8. C. Lephart; Superintendent of Public Instruction, L. H. Murray. Congressional nominations: Demo-cratic-First Minnesota District, C. M. Buck; Twelfth Illinois, Wm. Huntsell Republican—Sixth Missouri, Ex Lieutenant Governor Smith. Labor ReformFirst Ohio, Aaron F. Perry, Republican candidate. The Nevada Democratic State Convention on the 18th nominated Major L. R. Bradley for Governor, and Frank Denver for Lieutenant Governor. N. 3. Collyer, Democrat, announces himself a candidate for Governor of Tennessee, against Brown, the party nominee John V. Farwell has published a card in the Chicago papers declining the nomination for Congressman at Large on the Temperance ticket in Illinois. The Democrats of the Seventh Congressional District of Tennessee have nominated Robert P. Caldwell, of Trenton, as their candidate for Congress. The Kentucky Democratic State Convention is called to meet at Frankfort, on January 7,1871, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the following offices to bo filled at the next August election: Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Attor-ney-General, Auditor, Treasurer, Register of the Land Office, and Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The official returns of tho late election in Maine give the following result: Perham, 54,651; Roberts, 45,175; Perham’s majority, 8,875. Tho Liberal Republicans in the Fifth Missouri District have nominated Chas. H. Johnson for Congress.' The New York Dsmocratic State Convention at Rochester, on tho 21st, made the following nominations: For Governor, Jno. T. Hoffman; Lieutenant Governor, Allen C. Beach; Comptroller, A F. Nichols; Canal Commissioners, long term, Jno. D. Fay ; short term, Geo. W. Chapman; State’s Prison Inspector, Solomon Schen, all renominations. Edward Avery, of Braintree, has been nominated for Congress by the Labor Reform party, in the .Second Massachusetts District. Congressional nominations on tbe2l«l: Republican—Ninth Illinois District, B. F. Westlake. Democratic—First Wisconsin, Alexander Mitchell; Fifth Wisconsin, Anton Klans; Sixth Illinois, Julius Awry. V Dr. Harvey B> Dale, of Oshkosh, has been tendered the nomination as candi-

date for State Superintendent of Public Instruction by the Wisconsin Democratic State Central Committee, and has accepted the same. Besjamin Turner, colored, has been nominated for Congress by the Republican Convention of the First Alabama District. The Democratic State Central Commit tee of New York has organized by the election of Samuel J. Tilden, of New York city, Chairman, and Wm. Cassidy, of Albany, Secretary. The Republican Congressional Convention at Cortlandvillo, N. Y., on the 21st, nominated Hon. R. Holland Duel!,* of Cortland, for successor in Congress to Hon. Dennis McCarthy, in the Onondaga and Cortland District. The recent Nevada Republican State Convention nominated: F. A. Trittie for Governor; J. 8. Slauson for Judge of the Supreme Court; Gen. Wines for Treasurer; W. W. Hobart for Comptroller; James D. Minor for Secretary of State; Wm. Campbell for Attorney General; Thomas Fitch for Congress, and J. Slngerland for Lieutenant-Governor. Judge Charles Betts is the Democratic candidate for Congrcsi in the Thir<| Illinois District. The recent Republican State Convention of Tennessee nominated W. H. Ursner, of Bedford, for Governor. The Republican Congressional Convention in the First Virginia District, on the 22d nominated Mr. Norton, colored, for Congress. The white members withdrew and nominated Mr. Douglas, white; The contending parties agreed to submit their difficulties to the National Executive Committee.