People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Prof. LaughHn, professor of political economy in the University of Chicago, and W. H. Harvey, author of “Coin,” debated on the subject of free coinage of silver before an audience of Chicago business men. The silver convention at Salt Lake City decided on a campaign of education. Large sums of money are promised for the cause. Senator Hill of New York and Secretary of State Hinrichsen of Illinois deny that any correspondence on the i subject of free silver has passed bel tween them. The Democratic convention to nominate a railroad commissioner for the First Kentucky district, comprising 190 ' counties of the state, unanimously . adopted free coinage resolutions. A Franklin county (Ohio) mass-con- , vention indorsed George K. Nash of | Columbus as a republican candidate for governor. McKinley was indorsed for , President and Foraker for Senator.