Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1903 — In the National Capital. [ARTICLE]

In the National Capital.

William E. Curtis says New Tori, Democrats jjre united on Alton B. Barker as presidential candidate and orc actively booming him. Agricultural Department experiments with adulterated foods may be abandoned by Dr. Wiley because people hail him on streets as “borax" and regard bis tests ns joke. Commander Thomas IL Howard, now at the naval academy, has beea selected as the first commanding officer of tbe monitor Nevada, which will be placed in commission during February.