The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-07-20
Political Points.

The Fourth District Republican C)nvel.
ton OF Minnesota yesterday nominated W. d.
Washburn for Congress.
i. ii. Weller, a Greenbacker, is the indie.
pendent candidate In the Fourth Congressional
District OF Iowa for Congress.
r. III. M. Davidson was yesterday ro-
nominated for Congress from the First Florida
District by the Democratic Convention.
The Hon. ]. w. Throckmorton has been
nominated for Representative In Congress by
the Democrats OF the Fifth District OF Texas.
AT Springfield, Mo-, on Tuesday the
Greenback Convention OF the Thirteenth Con-
Gressional District renominated Hon. Ira 8.
Haseltine, the present Representative.
In the Greenback Congressional Conven-
ton, held Mt Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday OK
Congressman L. II. Gillette was unanimously
chosen candidate for Congress from that Qhe
seventy District.
The Ohio Democratic Convention meets
at Columbus today. There will be large
attendance and lively eight over the chair
manship Of the State Central and Executive
Committees, John @. Thompson being vigor-
ously opposed, and incidentally Thurman and
Pendleton, by the young Democracy, this
movement, It is said, being in the interest OF
Bookwalter and Payne.
The Democratic Congressional conven.
tiop for the Sixteenth District of Illinois met
yesterday and $50 ballots were taken, with
the following vote; Judge Shaw, OF Rchland,
o. Judge Haley, Of Jasper, 10; ex-senator
Harlan, of Clark, 10; ex-senator Hanna, OF
wabash, IS, and Ryan, g. The delegates thon
became wearied and stopped.
| The Georgia State Democratic Conven.
tlon mot al. Atlanta yesterday, and after a
| stormy debate the majority rule In nominal.
| Ing candidates was adopted by n vote OF los to
| 164. II was proposed TO nominate Hon. A. II.
seyes ISr by IAN M ont ene
| and Hon. A. o. Bacon were put in nomination.
The convention then adjourned till to-day.
The Democratic State Convention Of
| Texas yesterday adopted n resolution indors-
| Ing the administration OF Governor Roberts.
| The convention then took recess. Upon re-
| assembling at 3i15 p. M, telegram was read
| from Governor Roberts, protesting against the
| use of his name rs candidate for governor.
| John Ireland was then nominated by acclama
| tlon. John Ireland, the Democratic nominee
for governor is Kentuckian by birth, fifty
| i've years old, and Inns resided In GuadelOupe
| County, Texas, since 1859. He has served as
State Senator and district and supreme Judge
and has acquired his greatest reputation as a
practlclng lawyer at tho bar. His nomination,
| which was by reclamation on the first ballot,
| appears 10 be quite satisfactory to Democrats.
The correspondence between General
Kennedy, OF Bellefontalnc, and Speaker Keifer
| touching tho nomination for Representative
| from the Eighth Ohio District, has been given
| to the press. April I'D General Kennedy ad-
dressed n brief note to Speaker Keller, asking
| him II he intended to DO q candidate for re-.
| nomination. Speaker Keifer replied that there
i were reasons for believing that his friends In
the district and other frlends In the State did
|
| present; he would, therefore, BIO n candidate,
although he regretted 10 stand In the way Of
| personal and deserving friends. To this Gen.
cral Kennedy responded "My candidacy de.
| pended this timo entirely upon your own de-
cislon In the natter and having decided your
self to BIO n candidate, Will stand out of your
| way and give you clear Held, so far as am
concerned, for an Endorsement"
The New York State Labor Greenback
| Convention reassembled at Albany yesterday,
| and nominated Epenetus Howe for Governor,
James Allen for I.leutenant.Govornor, ]. l..
McParlin for Chief Judge OF tho Court OF APP.
peals, and J.. q. Mcdonald for Congressman
at.Large. The platform adopted declared that
all the railroad and telegraph companies In
the State which have failed to provide suitable
| facilities for the transaction OF business have
forfeited their charters, and should be taken
possession OF by the State and operated for the
benefit OF tho people, and that tho stocks and
bonds OF all railroad and telegraph companies
should be limited to the actual cost OF con-
struction and equipment, and that any burden
imposed on commerce and travel TO pay Inter
est or dividends on a larger sum is In violation
OF the fundamental law OF public use. The
platform also declares In favor OF tho election
by The people OF all public officers, from the
| supreme Judges to postmasters.