The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-04
POLITICAL.

Prof. Dickey, of Michigan, and the
committee appointed by the Prohibition
National Convention at Pittsburgh, waited
on ex-Gov. st. John, of Kansas, and Mr.
Daniel, of Maryland, at a temperance camp
meeting near Cuba, n. Y, and formally
notified them of their mi2Stions for the
offices of President and Vice President
Both gentlemen made speeches Of ac-
ceptance, which were listened 10 by 5000
persons.
David Preston, of Detroit, in a let
ter to the people of Michigan, avows his WIKI
ingness to accept nomination for Governor
by the Prohibition party.
Democratic Congressional conven-
tons have nominated William II. Neece in
the Eleventh District of Illinois, b. J. Hall in
the First Iowa, Judge Stanley Woodward in
the Twelfth Pennsylvania, and George r.
Yaple in the Fourth Michigan. The Demo
Gratis and Greenbackers in the Des Moines
district of Iowa placed in the field Judge w.
II. McHenry for the long term and william
Kivler for the short term.
Hillsboro Ill.) dispatch: "The Hon.
George c. Christian, of Chicago, Chairman
of the Prohibition State Central Committee
and the gentleman who nominated st. John
in the Pittsburgh convention, was here yester-
day working up the Prohibition cause in this
section Of the State. He said the pros
poets OF the Prohibition party were
very flattering in this State. The committee
had already had the names of % 600 mem
bers who would vote the Prohibition ticket
State and national, end the canvass had
barely commenced. He felt confident that
they would get 60, 600 votes in Illinois. He
said the Prohibition sentiment was strong
est in the central and southern parts of the
State"
Edwin d. Bailey, Secretary of the
National Committee of the American party,
announces that Senator s. c. Pomeroy, NOM
mated for President, will withdraw in favor
of st. John.
The Illinois Greenback Convention,
at Bloomington, nominated Jesse Harper, of
Danvile, for Governor, and adopted reso-
luton authorizing the State Central Com
mittee of the party to fuse with any of the
Old parties which would give them seven
Presidential electors.
The Greenbackers and Anti-Monop-
oiists of Wisconsin met in convention at
Milwaukee, nominated w. L. Utley for Gov
ernor, and placed full electoral ticket in
the field.
The Michigan Prohibitionists, in ses-
sion at Detroit, nominated David Preston. a
wealthy Detroit banker, for Governor.
Thomas =. Fenlon has been nomi-
mated 10y the Democrats for Congress in the
First Kansas District. Col. n. II. Edredge
was renominated by the Democrats and
Greenbackers OF the Second Michigan Dis
trict. Congressman Isaac II. Stephenson
was rcnominated by the Republicans
of the Ninth Wisconsin District.
Ethel Barksdale was nominated 10y the Dem
ocrats of the Seventh Mississippi District.
]. B. Yellowby was nominated by the Re
publicans and Independents. II. G.. Thayer
was nominated by the Republicans of the
Thirteenth Indiana Distric For the short
term, to succeed Maj. {? Sins the Repub.
lican nominee for Cow nor of the State,
John w. Reynolds was named.
The Republicans of the First North
Carolina District have nominated ]. ID. Res
pess for Congress. Richard Bishop was
nominated by the Democrats OF the Fifth
Illinois District; T.. II. Broaddus was named
by the Prohlbitionists on the Eleventh nli-
nois District; and James Keigwin was placed
in the field by the Republicans of the Third
Indiana District.