Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-01
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the republican national convention;
At l-arge-Senator Gallon, Gov. Hamilton
Bartcu G Cook and Clarke Carr.
Distrirts--First ]. l. Woodward and Abnei
Taylor; Second, Charles X Biper and W ,
Ringer; Third, George 4 Davis and J.. 4
Wheeler; Fourth, Samuel b. Raymond and a
G. Collins: Fifth, Charles A. Fuller and Il D..
| MeKane: Sixth, O.G Towne and Norman Lew
IL; Seventh. Henry r. Noble andS q. Baldwin
Eighth, r. W. Willett and D. A. Bell; Ninth, =
4 Rogers and Thomas yenum; Tenth, II n
Whitney and W. w. Wright; Eleventh, G
Chandler and @. A Ballard; Twelfth, &C
Mathews and W. ". Perry Thirteenth. DR.. w
Jayne and DR. c. Smith; Fourteenth, J. W,
FeifeF and W. X Ingham; Fifteenth, l. =
Wilcox and 4. G. Eckert; Sixteenth, III Blacb
and Charles Churchill; Seventeenth, j. j.
Rinaker and !. d. Truitt; Eighteenth. Robert
- Halbert and Henry +. Reuter-; Nineteenth,
Thomas = Ridgeway and Charles strattoni
Twentieth, William Meadams and +. N. siIhp
zen.
Gen. G. s. Osborne OF Luzernc, Pa, has been
nominated by the republicans as congressman
al large.
The following are the Pennsylvsnis delegates
TO the Chicago Republican convention, District
Second, William II, Leeds, David II. Lane
Third, Samuel b. Gilpin, Harry Hunter
Fourth, Alex Grove, Jr., Elwood Eewan; Fifth,
John L. Thompson, John Hupl; sixth, u. 4.
Fisher, Richard Young; Seventh, J. p. Hale,
Robert NJ Yardley; Eighth, Samuel r. Debben.
Franklin X Livingood; Ninth, Lewis y Hart
man, Edwin l. Reinhold: Tenth, W, s Kilpat-
rick, Samuel Thomas: Eleventh, J. O. Brown,
j. cruikshank; Twelfth, H. NJ Boies, IL b
Payne; Thirteenth, l. v. Sallenborg, J. A. NJ.
Paszmore; fourtheenth, Horace Brock, Jacob
Wagner: Fifteenth, g. A. Grow, 7. 4. Eyon;
sixteenth, f. O. schierelen, G W.
Hi; Seventeenth, d. O. Morril,
T. d, Scnll; Eighteenth, John Stewart &
Il. Dufield; Nineteenth, William II. Lannius,
Jacob A. @. Kitzmiller; Twentieth, Il A. Irwin,
J. c. Thornton; Twenty-irst Contested, John
X. Ewing, James T. Sayres, John T.. Wartling,
john K Ewing; Twenty-second (contested), @
l. Magee, William Finn, Jacob s L. Stage,
Joseph d Weeks; Twenty third, Thomas n
Bayne, f. NJ Byers; Twenty fourth, ErnestT.
Aeheson, John ". Wallace Twenty fifth, J. b.
Henderson, H. G Howard; Twenty-sixth, W.
II. IL Riddle, 7. c. Cochrane; Twenty seventh,
Joseph johnson, Z. W. Echois
At Large-James MeManes of Philadelphia,
LEWIS Emery OF Mexican, Hamilton Ciston OF
Philadelphia, D. T. Jones OF Allegheny, I. Ia
Kimberly Of Mercer, William H Jessup OF
Sasquehanna and ]. W. Lee Of venange.
At tho West Virginia Democratic convention
aac.ted the following resolution:
2esoi ed, That Samuel J. Tilden Is our first
choice for he Democratic nomination for presi-
dent The following delegates at large were
chosen TO tive Chicago convention: Lewis ba-
kef, Joe Val Metre, %. r.. Harlow, ID. II. Leon
ard. Distriets-First, W. Il. Siyeiy, EdMcDon
aid: Second, ex-United States Senator IL @,
Davis, c. T. Wells; Third, Frank Hereford,
Wesley Mollopan; Fourth, G. I. Beal, George
Thompson.
South Carolina republicans elected delegates
to Chicago, at large, uuinstructed Il NJ
Brayton. internal revenue collector, w. N. Taft,
postmaster Of Charleston; Congressman Robert
Smalls and Samuel Lee.
The following delegates were selected by dis
trict conventions, uninstructed:
First district, X M. Freeman and r. A. Web
ster; Second, Harris Simpkins and s f. Smith;
Third, r. +. Blodgctt and r. w. Boone; Fourth,
Mccoy and Z II. Dibble; Sixth, ID I. Corbin
and f. H. Deas; Seventh, I. J. Johnston and
George H. Thompson.
The Dakota prohibition convention held a,
Mitchell adopted the following resolution bear.
ing on the political situation.
Resolved, That the political party which in
corporates prohibition in it's platform, and Is
most perseyering and uncompromising in So
curing legislation thet shall result In. the ulti-
mate abolition OF the liquor traffic in all it's in
terests shall receive our support; andi " neither
of the present parties viii labor for prohibition,
and give us a clean temperance candidate, hat
we try to elect q separate territorial ticket.
Gen. Dick ogelsly has heen nominated -
the republicans for governor Of Illinois The
following nominations were also made:
Secretary Of state, IL ID Dement,; auditor,
Charles r. swigert; treasurer, Jacob Gross;
attorney general, George Hunt
The Greenbackers of the Thirteenth congress.
sional 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 Pittsburg Commercial Gazette on April
II announces his preference to be Senator
Edmunds for president and Senator Mcmillan
for vice president
The Oregon delegates to the Democratic con-
yeation are; l. l. Macarthur, W. c. Cook, p.
y. Hogsn, v. X. STROBE, Al. ~. Waite, 4. L.
Porter. Presidential Electors-L u. Ison. w.
d. Fenton, A. G. Jones
II is the opinion in Washington that the
Illinois convention eads the Logan boom. All
the dispatches 10 Che Eastern papers say there
was more enthusiastic for Blaine Than there was
for Logan IN the convention
Tho Trenton Times published the result of .
postal card canvass In New Jersey. 0ut Of
10 answers, Al expressed preferences for
Blaine, 2I3for Tflden, 2i0 for Randall, iai for
Edmunds, and lOi for Butler.
The Bremen county, Iowa democratic conven-
ten 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 Tilden.
All the republican delegates fromDeleware ara
Tor Blaine, except one Arthur man. Tho names
Of the delegates to Chicago are Washington
Hastings, John Pilling, George v. Massey. John
u Hofecker, William J. Steward and Daniol
J.. Layton.
The -four New Jersey delegates ut large, and
the fourteen district delegates were not in
strncted, but they are understood 10 be for
Blaine first and Edmunds second When Robe
son found he was left, he tried to be made q
district alternate, but WAS defeated by colored
man.
The democrats OF Oregon adopted a resolu.
bon f%ayoring Tildcn and Hendricks, but the
Delegates were not instructed Tilden Is tho
personal choice of five and Field of one. Ex-
Beg wv. Thayer, Of Portland, was nominat-
ed for supreme judge and John Myers Of
UiAckamas county for congress.
Most Of the Iowa delegates have thns far in
structed Its delegates to the state convention "a
look after the presidential interests OF Mr..
Blaine. The country press has generally follow
ed the lead Of the Des Moines Register in urging
that delegates should be selected which would
reflect the choice Of q majority Of the Repub-
hcan party, taking care at the sam time 70 inn
press upon the reader the ides that the Mains
statesman 10 decidedly the first cEoico Of tho
people.
The following estimate ismade by the Al.
bany correspondent Of the New York Herald:
Estimated anti-Arthnr district delegates TO
Chicago, IS; estimated Arthur district delegates
10 Chicago, q; 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 s'the pivotal" state 10 Chicago will
stand thus, counting the doubtful district for
Arthur; Anu-Arthur, AZ; Arthur, ~; tOtal ~;
majority against Arthur, II
The Indiana Republican state convention
selected the following delegates At largetc Chi
cag0: Senator Benjamin Harrison and Richard
W. Thompson by aeclAmationj Hon. J. H Bak-
er OF Goshen and Morris Mcdonald OF New Al
bany. The delegation il uninstructed and
without expressed preferences. Tho alternates
are Edwin Y. Horn OF Marion fcolo.edl, g. *.
Rocker of vsnderburg, Moses Fowler OF Tipro-
csnoA, and J. u. Wood OF White county.
Arthur gets 10 Of Alabama's3 - delegates
A. Herr smith OF IA. was defeated Cor con
gress because he voted for Eitz John Porter.
Anthony comstock's brother Herbert OBJ
tanned from Leonard ~. Clair of New York z
gold watch valued at $50 by representing
that he bad an income OF 81 a week from an
uncle and promising instalhnents Of 81 rs n
week. He failed 10 pay the instziiments, and
q few~iays after pawned il He pleaded guilty
70 the charge OF larceny Friday and was re-
manded for sentence, His hrufher bad al, in
tergieg with Judge Ccwing, and an effort vii.
be made 70 secure as hight a sentence as posi-