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rhienQo has five political parties In the
i field for city offices. There never were 30
many candidates there before.
According to tile Milwaukee, Sentinel Sena-
for Angus Cameron, OF Wisconsin, is In
nrint no nj, Observation-Disclosures person.
SENATOR Ben. Hill has written column
letter to say that In his opinion the growing
Interests of Georgia demand the selection OF
atlanta as the State capital
THE New York World states that the only
state official for whose denomination Mr. TIL
den EXPRESSED any solictude was Mr.. Olcott.
THAT gentleman was renomnated.
Twenty.one Democratic papers In Mis-
sm,ri have thought II worth while to express
disapproval OF the appointment OF Col. d.
Armstrong as United States Senator from
That State.
Wisconsin. too, has O proposed constitu-
iional amendment to devoted upon In Novem-
her. II increases the number of Supreme
Court Justices Of the State to five there now
being three.
THE New Haven journal has returns from
all but three towns In Connecticut which
elected local officers lately and finds that six
ty-nine are Republican, seventy-four Demo.
cratic. and twenty-one divided.
The Omaha (Neb.) Republican asserts that
resolution offered in the Republican coIven-
ton in that (Douglas) county, indorsing Pres
ident Hayes and Senator Saunders, was
laughed at and unanimously voted down.
Full returns from the towns Of Connecti-
cut show that the first constitutional amend
ment prohibiting extra pay to public officers,
was carried by 1885, majority, and the one
forbidding town aid TO railroads by 10, 232 ma
iority.
The Richmond Wing calls upon Gen.
Walker to withdraw from the Democratic
State ticket as candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Virginia, because he is not strongly
enough In favor of the debt adjustment
project.
Following the Republican example, the
Democratic State Committee Of Kansas has
made nominations for the vacant State offices
to be filled this fall They are William r.
Waggstaff for Chief Justice and Thomas w.
WaterHon for Lieutenant Governor.
--Cov. Irwin, Of California, formally issued
his proclamation for the judicial election, and
Carelessly ordered 1t to be held on the 3D. Of
October, when the constitution of the State
requires that 1t shall be hold on the third
Wednesday Of October.
Col. +. w. NJ Holiday, the Democratic
candidate for Governor oil Virginia. declines
TO take the stump because there Is no ticket
in opposition to him. and 1t would, In his
opinion. In effect be "a canvass in his own
name, and destroy the harmony Of the party
organization"
The people Of Kansas arc to elect in Mo-
vember their Lieutenant Governor, In place Of
III. j. salter, resigned, and the Judge Of their
Supreme Court in place OF j. L. Kingman,
resigned. The Republican State Committee
has placed L. U. Humphreys and Albert Fl.
Horton in nomination, and few advocates of
more greenbacks have named D. B. Hadley
and Samuel Riggs for the positions.
"A Washington correspondent Of the Au-
gusta (Ga.l Constits,tios,alist lis in very
anxious state Of mind over discovery that
he has made, and that is the immediate or
ganization Of a !" Union Party" through the
Vaccinations OF Secretaries Evarts and Sher-
man and their "emissaries," which Is to di-
vide the Southern white vote and elect Blaine,
Evarts, Conkling, ''or some like Republican, I"
as Hayes successor TO the Presidency.
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