The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-08-05
POLITICAL POINTERS
News of Candidates and Followers of the Sew
eraI Parties

NEW YORK, Aug. At was an
nounced at the Democratic headquar-
ters in the Bartholdi hotel. that Mr..
Sewall would be present at the meeting
at the Madison Square Garden on the
18th when William ]. Bryan will be
formally notified of his nomination.
There had been some doubts. as to
whether Mr.. Sewall would be present,
but Mr.. W. P. st. John said today that
Mr.. Sewall would be notified at the
same time as Mr.. Bryan. Admission to
Madison Square Garden on that occa-
sion will be free. There will be no tick
ties required for admission. but there
will be reserved seats up to 7:45 o'clock.
Sixty-five hundred regular seats. $500
seats on the floor. 200 for the press and
the platform for the committee. OF the
5000 seats reserved Tammany hall will
control 5000, also forty of the sixty nine
area boxes. The rest of the tickets
will be distributed among the young
Democracy and the silver Republicans
and a few to visitors from neighboring
states
OMAHA, Neb, Aug. Al. Sterling
Morton, secretary of agriculture, ar
rived in the city at noon today from Ne
braska City and was met at the depot
by Euclid Martin, postmaster. He spent
the afternoon al the Willard hotel re-
ceiving friends in the city and in the
evening attended a dinner given in his
honor at the Omaha club by Mr. Martin,
James r. Sheehan, w. D. McHugh and
/ others. There was considerable politics
in the conversation at dinner. It is
said nv in lipb a hOIitIr ~ ba
gathering at the Omaha club was really
a conference upon the question of a new
Democratic ticket and the advisablity
of booming the secretary of agriculture
for the presidential nomination on such
ticket. though the matter a present is
a secret.
LYONS, Kan, Aug. Ak Senator
John ]. ingalls, formally opened the Re
publican campaign in Rice county today
and incidentally opened his own cam
paign for election to the United States
senate. The town was thronged with
citizens from the surrounding country.
After street parade, participated in
by thousands of people, Mr.. ingalls, ad-
dressed an assemblage of 5000 Kansans
in the public park. For over two hours
they stood in the broiling sun, held there
! by the eloquence of the ex-senator Mr..
| ingalls, strongly endorsed the Republi-
can platform and was earnest in his
advocacy Of the election of Mckinley
and Hobart. but he urged his hearers
to pay particular attention to the cleo
ton of a Republican legislature and
gave them significant reminder that
/ he was not yet too old to serve one or
two or three more terms as United
States SENATOR.
MILWAUKEE. Wis, Aug. "A sne-
cial from West Superior, Wis, says:
John j. Jenkins was renominated for
congress by the Republicans of the
Tenth congressional district this even
ing
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Aug. L.
Richard H. Bland was nominated for
congress by the . ,mocrats of the Eighth
congressional district today by accla-
nation. Resolutions endorsing the Chi
cago platform and nominees and re-
newing allegiance to Mr. Bland were
adopted.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 4.-The Twenty
second congressional district Democrats
nominated John r. Miller for congress
in opposition 20 Hon. James Dalzell
and passed resolutions endorsing the
Chicago platform and Bryan and Sew
all.
MONTPELIER, VT. Aug. 4-The state
conference of gold standard Democrats
was held here today. w. H. Dreamer
was selected as the Vermont representa-
tiv at the indianapolis conference, and
committee was appointed to carry out