Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — THE Pplitical Por. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE Pplitical Por.

Harmony prevailed throughout the Tennessee Republican State convention when a number of nominations were made by acclamation. The executive committee of the Republican congressional campaign committee has decided to open cnmpaign headquarters in New York an'd Chicago. The Kansas Populist State convention, in session nt Topeka, decided to accept the terms of the Democrats and nominate officers in accordance with the fusion plan. When the Republican State convention of Vermont named J. G. McCullough for Governor, the high license faction bolted and named P. W. Clement as an independent. The Democratic delegates of Maine, in State convention ut Baugor, named 8. W. Gould for Governor and make a platform with vigorous denunciation of the entire Philippine policy and abolition of tariffs on trust-made articles. In a statement referring to Grover Cleveland’s "harmony” speech at the Tilden Club in New York, Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, says: "Cleveland simply wants the Democrats to make another fight for tariff reform. 1 am a free trader and always have been. The question is not whether duties shull be put up or down, but whether they shall be wiped out entirely." The proposed revision of the constitution of Connecticut has been rejected by popular vote by n majority of 9,220. The new measure called for a change in the number of representatives from towns and cities, but did not Huit. The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the State primary law, which forbids the nomination of any candidate from Governor and United States Seuntof down, except by means of a primary'election. Conventions may be called for tha declaration of party principles, but they oannot be uaed to make party nominations for office.