Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — The Politrical Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Politrical Pot.

Brynn was given the gavel that wt < used at Kansas City. New York Republicans will hold their State convention during the first week iu September. In West Virginia only sixty dajs’ residence in a county and one year iu the State Is required for suffrage. The Independent Democrats of the Fifth Assembly district in New York, who have maintained n separate organization since 1893, have organized for this year’s campaign. Delaware and Rhode Island nre usual ly regarded as the two small States, but they are by no means so in voting population. At the Inst presidential election the total vote of Rhode Island wns 53,009 and of Delaware 31,000. Idaho. Wyoming and Nevada cast a smaller vote. Croker snys Bryan will carry New York City nnd make a strong tight iu the State. He says Hill will do his part. Gov. McMillan of Tennessee has withdrawn from the senatorial contest. It is now between Carmack and Snodgrass. One of the most curious political situations In the country is to lie found in North Carolina. The Rcpuhlfcnns have not carried it In a national election sine* 1872, and still it has two United States Senators, one a*Republican and the other a Populist. The State administration la Republican, and a majority of the Stat* Supreme bench la of that faith.