People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

Minnesota’s democratic convention to select national delegatee will be held June 11 in St Paul. Cass county prohibitionists will solect state, congressional and senatorial delegates March 16 at Vtrgiana, IIL Fifty-one ballots without result were taken in the eighth Ohio district republican congressional convention at Delaware, five out of the six counties in the district having each a candidate. Congressman Foss was named for reflection by a vote of 68 to 22 over W. D. Boyce at Chicago by the Illinois Seventh district republicans. The delegates to the national republican convention wgre instructed to vote for William McKinley for president. Senator Vest favors the proposition to have the state convention elect the Ohicgo delegates irrespective of the choice of districts, to the end that Missouri may send to the democratic national convention a solid delegation for free silver.