Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

Gov. Morrill, of Kansas, is removing Populists from the penitentiary board. Labor leaders in AVashington grieve over the defeat of Congressman McCann. The Missouri Democratic monetary convention will be held at Pertle Springs Aug. 9. Tammany Hall has been reorganized in accordance with the new arrangement of assembly districts. J. K. Vardanian, free silver candidate for Governor of Mississippi, has withdrawn from the race. John H. Thomas,' Republican, was elected Mayor of Annapolis. Five of eight Aldermen elected are Democrats. Ex-Attorney General Garland says there will be seven national tickets in tiie field in the next Presidential campaign. Southern Democratic editors are at work to secure the nomination of Stevenson and Crisp as the Presidential candidates. Dr. J. P. Cowan, cx-rnember of Congress from the Fourteenth Ohio District and member of the Ohio Legislature in 1855, died at Ashladd aged 72. Significance is attached to the visit of W. O. Bradley, Republican Gubernatorial hominee of Kentucky, to ex-Gov. Foraker, of Ohio. It confirms former rumors of an interstate combine. Mary Ellen Lease lost in her appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court to be reinstated on the State Board of Charities, but her prosecution! of Houshofdcr and Waite, Populist menbers of 'he board, has resulted in their ;onviction on charges of gross irregularitii s. Frank Reeves, agj-d Id, ; climbed a tffee at Birmingham, AlSj'tb get a bettdr view of a funeral Her fell and wits' killed. His grandfather,-■ jpon -hearingpf the accident, expired.