Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

Revision of Chicago’s registration gives 402.833 votes. Mr. Bryan made sixteen speeches in Illinois, ending at Joliet. Bryan made seven speeches in Maryland. ending at Baltimore. Ten men were arrested in New York City for illegal registration. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin has been campaigning in Kentucky. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin made his first speech of the campaign at Watertown, Wis. Legislators in Kentucky failed to agree on commissioner to fill vacancy in State Election Board. The National Civil Service Reform League declined to accept Carl Schurz’s resignation as president. William L. Taylor. Attorney General of fiidiana. addressed 1.2(H) railroad and factory men at Wabash, Ind. Republican campaign managers claim McKinley's plurality in Illinois will be 75,000 outside of Cook County. ' C. A. Towne of Minnesota addressed two large meetings at Centralia, HI., in behalf of the Democratic ticket. Congressmen Hopkins and Warner and Judge Bartlett Tripp addressed a large Republican meeting at Clinton, 111. The New York Tribune estimates that $75,000 will be spent <>n pinks to be worn in the New York sound money parade. Senator Hanna lias denied a statement that he had offered $160,000 to Charles A. Towne to join the Republican party. Postmaster Genera! Charles Emory Smith was the chief orator at a mass meeting of Yale students in New Haven. John Wan.tmakcr. former Postmaster •General, made his first political address in two years at a meeting in Philadelphia. Col. Alfred Moore Waddell, candidate to succeed Marion Butler of North Carolina in the .United States Senate, has withdrawn from the raft-.' Senator Alls rt J. Beveridge of Indiana spoke in the Library Hall at latuisvillc while Rourke Cockran was delivering a Bryan speech nt the Auditorium. S< ilatAr Willjam T. Frje of Maine in a Republican meeting nt ( J amden. N. J., warned Republicans that overconfidence might result in the election of Bryan. Speaker Henderson of the House headed a big Yates parade at Springfield, 111., and afterwards niidressed n big meeting in Representative Had nt the Capitol. Mrs. Helen M. Gmigar of Indiana, who has been converted to Democracy, teturned to Chicago from Nebraska and tohl Chairman .Jones that Bryan would certainly carry the State. Adtal E. Stevenson. Democratic iiotni nee for Vico-PrtmTdciit. addressed crowd* nt Wheeling, Benwood, Motfndsrille. New Martinsville, Sistersville, Waverly and Parkersburg, W. Vn. George I'retl W’tllfnms of Massachusetts delivered a philippic against i m peri rt IN m before n targe audience at Coviftlrm. Ky. He nlse vigorously attacked Sen.Ttor Hanna a* ths- reprAsetrtntivb elaaa. ■’*.-•■ ' ' < The laws us West Virginia require tin* GoveriMH - to iseue n proclamatUMj dnya bchjre an elgeM?"i. ThU year sJo£ Atkinaon overl'Hifki'd that pod not is m- tin- usual notice until. Oct. 4, although ,lit back a piqpth, irregularity is known to everybody’ ajid liat» Ijeep Itefirrafly aisHyed f la'tbe p>wsit, but t?® nMdem e to be fir the-rtiwtlWifi WHe* hi .pane .rWßtfepr tditiW J 'JTa a narrow' jaAiy/ Tbby cj^m t ltfrt th* Governor’s YaUure Jq ltJi ~tAa law iW*H -JuvaUdahU 1 tip