The Dickinson press., 1884-04-26
Political Note. Of tho Wee.

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At large-Senator Cullom; Gov. Hamilton,
Burton q. Cook and Clarke Carr.
Districts-First ]. L. Woodward and Abner
Taylor; Second, Charles F. Biper and W. s.
R7Jnger; Third, George R. Davis and j.. r.
g: Collins; Fifth, Charles A. Fuller and L NJ.
M!ckane; Sixth, c. c. Townc and Norman Lew
is;Seventh, Henry I. Noble andS. G. Baldwin;
Eighth, r. w. Willett and D. A. Bell; Ninth, s
y: Rogers and Thomas Venum; Tenth, II. H.
MHhhi It and md v y Y. RWr;ishs; Eleventh, G. y y
Mathews and W. W. Perry; Thirteenth, DR.. w.
Jayne and DR.. G. Smith; Fourteenth, j. w.
Feifer and W. X. 1ngham; Fifteenth, l. z.
Wilcox and I. c. Eckert; Sixteenth, II. Black
and Charles Churchill; Seventeenth, ]. L.
=; Halbert and Henry +. Renter: Nineteenth,
Thomas s. Ridgeway and Charles Stratton;
Twentieth, William McAdams and F. NJ. Simp-
son.
Gen. c. s. Osborne of Luzerne, Pa, has been
nominated by the republicans as congressman
at large.
The following are the Pennsylvania delegates
First, h: II Bingham, William J. Pollock;
Third, Samuel B. Nllpin, Harry Hunter;
Fourth, Alex Grove, JE, Eiwooa Rowan; Fifth,
John L. Thompson, John Rupl; Sixth, B. +.
Robert NJ. Yardley: Eighth, Samuel r. Debbeu,
Franklin S. L%ivingood: Ninth, Lewis S. Hart
man, Edwin L. Reiulold; Tenth, W. $. kilpat-
rick, Samuel Thomas; Eleventh, J. c. Brown,
J; cruikshank; Twalfth, n; N. Boies, H. 3.
Passmorc: Fourteenth, Horace Brock, Jacob
Wagner: Fifteenth. G. A. Grow, +. L. Eyon;
Sixteenth, L. G. Schicffelen, G. w.
Hin; Seventeenth, D: &. Morr;l,
p I 2. seull; Eighteenth, John Stewart, S.
Jacob A. c. Kitzmiller: twentieth, .. A. Irwin,
l c. Thornton; Twenty-tirst (contested), John
X. Ewing, James L. Sayres, John i. Wartling,
John X. Ewing; Twanty-second (contested), c.
!. Masee. William Finn, Jacob $. L. Stage,
Joseph D. Weeks; Iwenty-tlird, Thomas NJ.
Baync, +. NJ; Byess: Twenty-fourth, ElnestT.
Acheson, john ". Wallace: Twenty-tifth, j. B.
Henderson, IL. C. Howard; Twenty-sixth, w.
II. H. Riddle, I. c.. Cochrane; Twenty-scventh,
Joseph johnson, L. w. Ecllols.
At Large-Jamcs McManes Of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia; Z. I. Jones Of Allegheny, P. L.
Kimberly of Mercer, William H. Jessup of
Susquehanna and j. W. Lee of Venango.
AT the West Virginia Democratic convention
adopted tho following resolutions:
Resolved, That Samuel j. Tilden is our first
choice for the Democratic nomination for presi-
dent. The following delegates at large were
chosen to the Chicago convention: Lewis Ba-
ker, Joe Van Metre, b. I. Harlow, D. II. Leon
ard. Districts-First, w. L. Sively, Ed McDon-
aid; Second, ex-Unitcd States Senator Ii. G.
Davis, G. E. Wells; Third, Frank Hereford,
Wesley Mollopan: Fourth, c. I. Beall, George
Thompson.
South Carolina republicans elected delegates
to Chicago, at large, uninstructed: L. NJ.
Brayton, internal revenue collector; w. N. Taft,
postmaster of Charleston Congressman Robert
Smalls and Samuel Lee.
The following delegates were selectcdby dis
frjnt conventions Jni,cfy,,fn1.
First district, Il. NJ. freeman and E. A. Web
ster; Second, Harris Simpkins and S. Z. Smith:
Third, L. +. Blodgctt aLdR. w. Boone; Fourth,
Wilson Cook and C.. NJ. Wilder; Fifth, G. C.
Mccoy and E. II. Dibble: Sixth, d. Il. Corbin
and %. II: Deas; Seventh, L. J. Johnston and
George H. Thompson.
The Dakota prohibition convention held at
Mitchell adoptedth following resolution bear
ing or the political situations:
Resolved, That the political party which in
corporatcs prohibition in its platform, and is
most perscvering and uncompromising i'll Sc
curing legislation that shall result in the ulti-
mate abolition of the liquor traffic in all its in
terests shall receive our support; d if neither
Of the present parties will labor for prohibition,
and give us II clean temperance candidate, that
we try to elect a separate territorial ticket.
Gen. Dick Osclsly has heen nominated by
the republicans for governor of Illinois. Tho
following nominations We're also made:
Secretary of state, H. D. Dement,; auditor,
Charles 7. Swigert; treasurer, Jacob Gross;
attorney general, George Hunt.
The Greenbackers of the Thirteenth congress
s1onal district OF New York elected delegates to
the national convention at Indianapolis, in
structed for Gen. Butler for president.
Simon Cameron, in an interview published
IN the Pittsburs Commercial Gazette on April
IA, announces his preference to be Senator
Edmunds for president and Senator Mcmillan
for vice president.
The Oregon delegates to the Democratic con-
vention are: l. L. Macarthur, w. G. Cook, F.
T. Hogan, V.R. Strobe, A. E. Waite, 7. L
Porter. Presidential Electors-L B. Ison, w.
D.. Fenton, A. G. Jones.
It is the opinion in Washington that the
Illinois convention ends the Logan boom. All
the dispatches to the Eastern papers say there
was more enthusiasm for Blaine than there was
for Logan i'll the convention.
TIL Trenton Times published the result of o
postal card canvass in New Jersey. Out of
l,265 answers, 424 expressed preferences for
Blaine, 273for Tilden, 2l0 for Randall, 191 for
Edmunds, and 101 for Butler.
The Bremen county, Iowa democratic onven-
ton was held recently, and the delegates,
though uninstructed, are known to be for Til
den. The delegates chosen in Buena Vista
county are also solid for Iilden.
All the republican delegates fromDeleware are
for Blaine, except one Arthur The names
of the delegates to Chicago are Washington
Hastings, John Pilling, George v. Massey, John
Il. Hoffecker, William J. Steward and Daniel
]. Layton.
Th four New Jersey delegates at large, and
the fourteen district delegates were not in
structed, but they are understood to be for
Blaine first and Edmunds second. When Robe
son found he a left, he tried to be made a
district alternate, but was defeated by q colored
man.
The democrats of Oregon adopted o resolu-
ton favoring Tildon and Hendricks, but the
delegates were not instructed. Tilden is the
personal choice of five and Field of one. Ex-
Gov: w. w. Thayer, of Portland, was nominal
ed for supreme judge and job Myers Of
Clackamas county for congress.
Most of the lowe delegates have thus fari in
structed Its delegates to the state convention to
look after the presidential interests of Mr..
Blaine. The country press has generally follow
ed the lead of the Des Moines Register in urging
reflect the choice of a majority of the Repub-
lican party, taking care at the same time to i'm
press upon the reader the idea that the Maine
statesman is decidedly the first choice of the
people.
The following estimate ismade by tho AL
bany correspondent of the New York Herald:
Estimated anti-Arthur district delegates to
lineage, 30, escllnateu Aftluf district delegates
to Chicago, .2s; doubtful, 2. In the above
estimate all the New York city delegates with
one exception, are credited to president Arthur.
Should the Utica state convention elect four an
ti-Arthur delegates at large, then the represen-
tation from "the pivotal" state to Chicago will
stand thus, counting the doubtful district for
Arthur: Anti-Arthur, ~; Arthur, 80; total u;
majority against Arthur, IL.
The Indiana Republican state convention
selected the following delegates at large to Chi
cago: Senator Benjamin Harrison and Richard
w ThOmnSOn Inv reclamation. Hon r II Rail