Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — SENATOR MASON MAY RESIGN. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR MASON MAY RESIGN.

Tn Give Up Hie fleet If Republicans Come (hit for Expansion. William E. Mason, junior Senator from Illinois, will resign from the United States Senate unless tbe Republican national platform of 1900 be in accord with his position on tbe lMdUppine question. This open declaration of opposition to the policy of the administration waa made by Senator Mason in an interview at Chicago, and in his conversation Mr. Mason atntefl that there must be no evasion on tike vital issue of pare and unadulterated freedom for the Filipinos or the Senator will step down and out.