Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — The Political [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political

Indianapolis, Ind., Populists will place a full municipal ticket in the field at the next city election. The Missouri Senate passed the St. Louis Safety committee election bill as a substitute for the Filley bill. Tuesday, June 11, at Des Moines, has been agreed upon as the date for the lowa Populist State convention. The Kentucky Republican State Committee lias fixed June 5 us the day for the State Republican convention. The Mississippi Democratic convention i■•will be held at Jackson Aug. 7. The executive committee is for silver, 18 to 5. Ex-Congressman Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, has returned to the practice of law, though renominated by the Populists. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, introduced his resolution for a committee of five to investigate charges that the Councils of Philadelphia sell franchises. Referred to committee. Gov. Matthews, of Indiana, says he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered to him; but he is not a candidate for anything in the sense of seeking the nomination. Thirty-five of the fifty-eight Democrats in the Missouri House at a caucus adopted a resolution favoring the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The whole trend of the caucus was to precipitate a discussion which will probably result in a State convention. The Michigan Supreme Court has handed down a decision that the act passed by the present Legislature authorizing the appointment by the Governor of a new Detroit Board of Health is constitutional. The court declares the ndw board is entirely warranted in drawing upon the treasury of Detroit for money. f The Missouri Supreme Co»irt rendered an important decision nffecting the Australian ballot law. The Kansas City grand jury asked for the ballot boxes to investigate alleged ballot frauds. The request was refused. Giving the grand jury the right to inspect the ballot boxes, the court holds, would violate the secrecy of the bnllot as well as being an infringement of the constitution.