Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

Several newspapers have given Secretary Elihu Root the initial “B,” which does not belong in his name. • Henry W. Corbett, United State* stator from Oregon, went to New York in 1844 and worked in a store in Catherine street for $3.50 a week. He slept under the counter, swept the store, and sawed a dollar a week. Congressman-elect Gordon of Ohio, who succeeds Mr. Marshall of that State, has the unique distinction of coming from a district that never sent a Republican to Congress. A Special effort is to be made in next year's census to expedite its oomjAeViom. In the last two censuses (those of 189# and 1880) the publication of the results occupied from five to seven years. In the act providing for the census of 1800 Congress provided that the four principal reports—those on population, mortality, manufacture and agriculture— must he published by July 1, 1802. At the special election in Rhode Inland in June to decide the question of the acceptance or rejection of the amended State constitution the vote, as canvassed, was as follows: In favor of the new constitution, 4,097; against. 12,742 votes. The toal vote of the Slate was less than 17,000 on the amendment*, though in the presidential election off 1890 Rhode Island cast nearly 55,099 votes. Gov. Pingree’s first nomination as Mayor was given him because there nrrimri no chance of his party's success in municipal election. Charles E. Littlefield, whs succeeds Nelson Dingley in Congress, will he the tallest man in that body, being six teat five inches in height. Gov. Joseph D. Sayers of Texas owns the first Federal flag captured by the Confederates in the war of the rrhrfßaa He intends presenting it to Gw State Historical Society. ■ , Patronise these who adveruae. ,