People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

Populists cf Bureau county, Illinois, will bold their convention April 28 in Princeton. Of the fourteen republican national delegates so far elected in Kansas all but one stand on the currency plank of the Minneapolis platform. Poplists in four Kansas counties have indorsed Senator Tillman for president, while in two Judge Caldwell has been indorsed. The New York World says that it has made a poll of nearly every state in the union, and as a result predicts the nomination of William McKinley by the St. Louis convention. Ex-Gov. John P. St. John denies he is or will be a candidate for president on the populist ticket or a candidate for congress in the Second Kansas district. Furthermore, he says he is not an aspirant for any public office within the gift of any party. Livingston county, Illinois, prohibitionists will hold their county convention at Pontiac on March 26. South Dakota democrats will select national delegates-at-large May 20 at Aberdeen. Republicans at Hebron, Ind., organized a McKinley club, with George C. Gregg as president and nearly 200 members. County Superintendent John F. Snow was elected chairman of the new democratic central committee of Adams county, Indiana. Senator Morgan of Alabama has been indorsed for president and Senator Allen, of Nebraska for vice-president by the California executive committee of the American bimetallic party. Primaries in Union county. Illinois, to select delegates to the republican state, congressional and senatorial conventions will be held April 18. The county committee unanimously indorsed Major McKinley for president. The prohibitionists of Peoria county, Illinois, will hold their county conven tion at Peoria on March 19. The young republicans of Knox county, 111., 300 strong, have formed a club for social and political purposes at Galesburg. It is named in honor of the late Philip Sidney Post.