Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1900 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

Senator Quay that was is a candidate for re-election to the Senate. Nearly every up-State district in New York has instructed for Bryan. Oldham, the Nebraska Democratic erator, is to put Bryan in nomination. Louisiana Democrats have selected McEnery and Foster for the United States Senate. Only one native of Vermont has been President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, the successor of Garfield. Stephen A. Douglas, Democratic candidate for President in 1860, was born in Vermont. It has been determined by the Philadelphia managers of the Republican national convention that no doorkeepers shall be appointed from that city for the reason that “they may be imposed upon by Philadelphians of their acquaintance,” whose demand for admission to the convention without tickets, credentials or badges they would find it difficult to refuse. The long-disputed boundary question between Tennessee and Virginia, which has been going on for ninety years and is ascribed by some persons to the reluctance of some Virginians to continue in Tennessee and by others to the insistence of these Virginians now in Tennessee to be incorporated in Virginia, has reached the United States Supreme Court, and on behalf of Tennessee Attorney General Pickle has filed a brief. The controversy turns on the iuterpretatiou of the survey in 1801.

The statement has been frequently made among politicians that nine-tenths of the numlMT of those who apply for appointment in the classified civil service fail to secure places nnd that the actual number of appointments is about 10 per cent of the number. The report of the commissioners of civil service, the municipal board, corroborates this view, for last year in New York there were 16,137 applications for appointment under which examinations were held and 1,709 appointments, including promotions. A majority of the Southern States adopted constitutions under the terms of which civil administration was re-estab-lished between the years 1867 and 1870, but unlike what has come to be the custom iu most Northern States, thes' constitutions have not from time to, time been amended by popular vote, but remain intact without revision, as they were thirty years ago. In three State::,. South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, new constitutions have been adopted—in the Inst Stnte by the legislator* without any formal ratification by the voters. As the present constitutional provisions are, ninny of them, frnpructica* ble of enforcement or no longer suitable, a general overhauling of State constitutions is now going on in the South, iu which, recently, Virginia and North Carolina have joined. ~ The Republican national convention in Philadelphia will have an unusually large numlH'r of United States Senators as del-cgafes-at-large. Nearly every Republican Senator will be* a delegate-at-large from his home State, and among the Democrats, too, a like preference for Senators is' being shown. Senator Morgan of Alabama will be chairman of his State’s delegation, .Tout's that of Arkansas, Tillman that of South Carolina, and so on.

The State of New York has expended In ths last twenty years $953,520 for In▼aatlgating committees of various kinds.