The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-30
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

TIE New Jersey National party held
State Convention at Trenton on the 23d
and elec ed delegates to the National Con-
venSion who were 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.
Resolutions 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-
venton at Des Moines on the 24th and
selected l.. G. Kline, H. II. Trimble, E. II.
Thayer and D. NJ. Harrison as delegates.
at.larSs TO the National Convention. A
platform was adopeSd declaring for rev.
enue and tariff reform, and denouncing
the recent prohibitory legislation.
THE Dakota Republicans met at Huron
on the 24sh and elected N. E. Nelson and
I Ill 1alanotoc to flhinoOO
and instructed them to vote for Blaine and
Lincoln while 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-
ton at indianapolis we're also chosen.
The Michigan Republican State Conven-
tion was held at Grand Rapids on the oath.
R. G. How, w. F. Swift, S. G. Watson
(colored) and j. Burrows were elected del
egates- at-large to the National Convention.
They favor Blaine.
The Prohibitionists of Illinois will hold
State Convention at Bloomington June
1S to select delegates to the National Con-
ventioB at Pittsburgh and nominate q
State ticket.
]. G. BURROWS, of Michigan, recently
nominated and confirmed as Solicitor Of
the Treasury, has written the President
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 q party
question; demanding graduation tax on
incomes, and that National law should
be enacted prohibiting aliens from owning
or holding land.
THE sixtieth anniversary Of the estab-
lishment Of the Odd-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, the 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, Mo-, for COM
plicity in the Otterville train robbery.
JUDGE PERKINS, Of Oswego, Kan, was
unanimously nominated for Congressman
on the 25th hy the Republicans Of the
Second District
THE Woman's Presbytorian Board Of
Foreign Missisns Of tAe Northwest AT =.