Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-09-03
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POLITICAL.


Postmaster Pearson of New York char
acterizes as ga palpable invention" the
report in one of the city papers that he
was about to resign in order to accept the
Austrian mission.
The Republican State Convention of
Iowa reassembled in Des Moines Thurs
day. An informal ballot for governor
was taken, resulting: Larrabee, 7OS /;
Hull, 374 necessary to choice, $40.
Larrabee was declared the nominee by
reclamation. The ballot for lieutenant
governor resulted in u unanimous vote for
Hull. For supreme court judge, the
present incumbent, Judge Beck, was re-
nominated.
At the Delaware county, Pa, Republi-
can convention Thursday, Thomas H.
Spealiman of Media offered resolution
declaring "that in the present juncture
of political affairs the nomination of NJ.
s. Quay for state treasurer and the selec-
ton of Thomas V. Cooper for chairman
of the state committee was n serious mis-
take, and we respectfully, but emphati-
cally, call upon Mr.. Quay to decline in
order that the state convention may re-
assemble and make another nomination
and reorganize the state committee"
Joseph Chadwick of the Media Record
seconded the motion to adopt the resolu-
ton, and accused Quay of bribe-taking,
but the motion received only two votes
Anthony NJ. Kelley who was successfully
appointed minister to Italy and Austria,
arrived in New York yesterday week
and went to Washington Thursday. To a
reporter he said: SIT is almost impossi-
BILE for any American to understand how
in this year of our Lord man can be re-
jected as minister to civilized govern
ment because his wife is Jewess, as my
wife is. That is the reason, SO the news
papers say, which the Austrian govern
ment assigned for my rejection. The in
formation must have come through the
state department ard is in general accu-
rate. That was the only objection made
that 1 know of. For the Austrian govern
ment to give such reason to govern
ment founded on the principle of this
government is scandalous. II oifends the
United States and insults the nineteenth
century. In my mind that reason is only
pretext. 1t is all the more an affront
to the United States on that account"
AS was generally expected, the Penn
sylvania Democrats, last week, in state
convention, nominated Conard b. Day of
Philadelphia for state treasurer by accla-
nation. The platform adopted declares
for an earnest and efficient civil service (;
fair and just revision of the tariff, and
a thorough reform of the methods of adj
ministration which obtained under Re-
publican rule; approves the administra-
ton of President Cleveland and his cabi-
net, and of Governor Pattison and his
official advisers; declares that the importa-
tion under contract of foreign pauper
labor is an evil which should be remedied
by judicious legislation; demands the
regulation by law of the carrying corpo-
rations of the state, and the equalization
of the tax laws; denounces the attempt
to consolidate the South Pennsylvania
and Beach Greek railroads with the Penn
sylvania railroad opposes sumptuary
legislation and unequal taxation in any
form, and favors the regulation of the
liquor traffic, and providing against the
evils arising therefrom by iudicious and
properly graded license system. In the
last plank an appropriate allusion was
made to the death of General Grant.