Huntsville gazette., 1884-05-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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State Convention at Trenton ON the 23d
and elected delegates to the National Con-
vention who We're instructed to vote for
Benjamin F. Butler for President.
The time for holding the National Pro-
hibi ion Convention in Chicago has been
changed to July %.
AT the Ohio Republican State Conven-
ton on the oath j. S. Robinson was nomi-
mated for Secretary Of State and Judge w.
W. Johnson for Supreme Court Judge.
The following were elected delegates-at-
large to the National Convention:
Marcus Hanna, Judge West, Will
lam Mckinley and Judge Foraker.
Resoluti ons were adopted in favor
of protecting the labor of the agricultural,
manufacturing and other industries of the
country against competition with foreign
capital; denouncing the reduction of the
duties on wool as an injustice; requesting
Congress to legislate against the Mormons,
and indorsing President Arthur's Admin
istration.
The Iowa Democrats met in State Con-
vention at Des Moines on the 24th and
selected L. G. Kinne, H. H. Trimble, E. H.
Thayer and d. III. Harrison as delegates
at-large to the National Convention. A
platform was adopted declaring for rev.
enue and tariff reform, and denouncing
the recent prohibitory legislation.
THE Dakota Republicans met at Huron
on the oath and elected N. E. Nelson and
Colonel J. L. Jolly as delegates to Chicago,
and instructed them to vote for Blaine and
Lincoln while a probability of nomination
remained.
THE Tennessee Greenbackers met in
State Convention at Nashville on the oath
and nominated N. J. Buchanan for Gov
ernor. Delegates to the National Conven-
tion at Indianap polls were also chosen.
The Michigan Republican State Conven-
ton was held at Grand Rapids on the oath.
R. G. How, w. F. Swift, S. c. Watson
(colored) and J. Burrows were elected del
egates- at-large to the National Convention.
They favor Blaine.
The Prohi5itionists of Illinois will hold
State Convention at Bloomington June
Is to select delegates to the National Con-
vention at Pittsburgh and nominate a
State ticket.
J. C. BURROWS, of Michigan, recently
nominated and confirmed as Solicitor Of
tue lTGdSuTy, udS WTllten tuc IcSlocut
formally declining the office.
THE Massachusetts Greenbackers held
their State Convention at Lynn ON the
25th, indorsed General Butler for Presi-
dent and appointed delegates to the In
dianapolis Convention. A platform was
adopted declaring that banks should be
deprived Of the power of issuing
money; that all monopolies should
be regulated for the benefit of the
people; condemning the practice OF
employing young children in factories;
denouncing the exemption of any property
from taxation; declaring that the regula-
tion and sale of liquors should be matter
for personal consideration and not party
question; demanding gradation tax on
incomes, and that a National law should
be enacted prohibiting aliens from owning
or holding land.
THE sixtieth anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the dd-Fellows' Society in the
United States was celebrated ON the 25th
at various points.
MARCUS L. WARD, Ex-Governor of New
Jersey, died at Newark on the 25th, aged
seventy two years
FRANK JAMES, tho bandit, was acquitted
on the 25th by the United States Jury at
Huntsville, Ala, of the Mussel Shoals rob
berry, but was Immediately arrested by the
Sheriff of Cooper County, No., for COM
plicity in the Otterville train robbery.
JUDGE PERKINS, of Oswego, Kan, was
unanimously nominated for Congressman
on the 25th by the Republicans of the
Second District.
The Woman's Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions of the Northwest, at its