Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-03
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS,

TEE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS FOR cLEvExAxp.
As stated In yesterdays STAR, the democratic
state convention of Connecticut elected dele.
gates to the st. Louis convention. The re.
solutions endorse the administration OF Presi-
dent Cleveland and the democratic ma
tional platform of 1884, approve the demand
Tor the REIMBURSEMENT Of the tariff, regard
ful OF the Industrial interests labor against the
cheaper labor Of Europe. Congress is appealed to
to amend the revenue laws so as to permit farmers
TO sell their tobacco with the same liberty that
other agricultural products are sold resolu-
ton was also adopted instructing the delegates
TO use their influence to secure the denomination
OF President Cleveland.
ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS FOR GRESHAM
The Illinois republican state convention was
called to order at Springfield yesterday, and Rep
resentat1ve Payson was chosen temporary chair
man. resolution indorsing Judge Gresham for
PRESIDENT was INTRODUCED shortly after reconven-
Ing. IL excited wild applause, and alter a short
debate was passed A resolution was adopted ex-
pressing just and honorable pride In the public SER
in the United States senate The following s pom
fnaltons were made: For governor Joseph w
Fiier, Of BLOOMINGTON; for lieutenant-governor,
Lyman b. Ray; for secretary or state Col George
w. Davis. senator Faiwell was elected delegate
at-large to Chicago.
THE KENTUCKY STATE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
was called to order in Louisville yesterday by
Chairman Lewis, OF the state committee. After
delegates-at-large were made, and at l a. m the
convention was still balloting, with no prospect Of
an adjournment The deadlock is caused by a
Hon. Augustus Wilson and W. p. Hampton were
chosen delegates to the national convention at
Chicago by the delegates OF the Louisville district
They are Tor sherman.
PENNSYLVANIA PRoHrBrrIoSIsrs
About 400 delegates and 100 or more lookers-on
were In the Opera House at Harrisburg when the
pennsylvania state prohibition convention was
called TO order yesterday morning. The platform
adopted declares In favor OF total prohibition by
constitutional amendments and opposes all forms
OF license and denounces the high-license law as
deiuson and snare. After the adoption of the
platform the convention adjourned until to-day,
when the Officers will be nominated.
IOWA REPUBLICANS FOR ALLISON.
AT Des Moines yesterday the Iowa state conven-
tiOn OF republican clubs met to arrange for perma-
nent organization. 1t was turned into an enthusi-
astic convention for Allison. Secretary OF State
jackson, on taking the chair, alluded TO the posi-
Ole nominees OF the national convention, conclud-
Ing with Allison, the safe and prudent man, the
statesman whose hand has shaped the legislation
OF the country for quarter or q century, honored
by the nation and loved by the people OF Iowa. At
the mention OF Allisons name the convention went
wild With applause and enthusiasm. The chair
man was authorized to select a committee on per-
manent organization and resolutions, and while so
doing j. T. Deliver spoke OF illustrous men in the
republican party, and predicted that the next Ie-
union OF the r. publican clubs OF Iowa would be
called TO celebrate the Inauguration OF william b.
Allison as President OF the United States.
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF ANTI-sALooN REPUBLICAN,.
At the second national republican anti-saloon
conference in New York city yesterday Gen
Stewart L. Woodford declared that II he had the
power he would stop the sale OF liquor senator
sherman wrote follows: 81 certainly would
support all reasonable measures tending to re-
strain the evils that flow cOnfusedly from the sale
OF liquor IN the saloon. The rem ,dy depends much
upon the state of public opinion in the community
In which the law is TO operate that no rule of pro-
hibition or even regulation can be successfully en-
forced In all places alike. In Ohio we feel that
taxation regulation and local option are the best
methods that can be devised, but stronger even
than these are the moral influences and examples
OF those VINO mould public opinion"