Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — The Political Pot [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot

For the pres,'nt year at least it seems safe to assume that the leading parties will cling to their Bills. A candidate (or County Treasurer nt Jeffersonville. Ind., introduced in his campaign the- novelty of stump speakilg by phonograph. There is an active movement in Mississippi among the politicians toward some measure for increasing the small number of «itto:i mills in the State. The voters at Beattie, Kan., who a year ago elected women to fill all the municipal offices, have turned them out because they did what they promised to do before they got in. The Virginia Legislature adopted a resolution calling upon the United States Senators from that State to try to secure a constitutional amendment for the election of Senators by the people. The Republicans of Idaho will hold their State convention at Boise on July 17. A Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General are to be voted for in November. Some big attorneys' fees were paid in the case of Senator Clark. Ex-Si-nator Faulkner of West Virginia looked after Mr. Clark's interests and ex-Senator Edmunds represented Marcus Daly. A union cwnm’ftee composed of the members of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Association and the Pennsylvania Ballot Reform Association has been selected to aid in the effort to reform the ballot laws of the State through the election of members to the Legislature pledged to work toward that end. There are seventeen farmers and fifteen insurance men in the Massachusetts Legislature, nnd it ia pointed out as indicative of clos? relations existing between the various New England States that seventeen member* of the Legislature were born in Maine, eleven in New Hampshire, ■even in Vermont, two in Rhode Island and two in Canada. The indorsement by a Republican State convention In Ntw Orleans of Cornelius N. Bliss of New York for Vice-President on the ground that he Is a native of that State is an error. Mr. Bliss was bom nt Fall River, Mass. He was educated in New Orleans, and from that circumstance arose the error into which some of his Pelican partisan supporters have fallen. By the Federal census of 1890 four Static only—New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois-had more than 1,000,000 male residents of voting age. There will be no addition to the group of “mill-ion-voter" States in 1900, Missouri, Michigan and Texas, the next highest on the list, being several hundred thousand voters each short of a million. It is pretty generally agreed among politicians that the total vote of the country will be 10,000,000 this year, of which 0,000,000 collectively will be cart in the four States of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and < >hio