People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr. Hoar (rep., Mass.), from the committee on judiciary, reported back to the senate Mr. Call’s resolution proposing intervention in the case of Mrs. Maybrick. Ex-Speaker Charles F. Crisp has called off the last of the joint debates • .between himself and Secretary Hoke Smith, at Lexington, and also to cancel all the engagements he has made to deliver speeches at other points in* thiß state. His health is in a very precarious condition. The Massachusetts house committee On ways and means, to which was referred the appropriation of $50,000 for a statue of General Butler, will report against the appropriation. Senator Cullum has written a letter withdrawing from the presidential contest, but has not yet decided when to make it public. Students at Hedding college, at Abingdon, 111., celebrated the victory of J. *4 W. Ferris, their representative at the prohibition state oratorical contest, with a banquet and jollification. Secretary Hoke Smith and ex-Speak-er Crisp held their fourth Joint discussion on the coinage question at Albany, Ga., the audience being swelled by members of the Chautauqua convention in progress there. . William Wood of Lawrence and Kirk IL White of Lowell have been selected delegates to the St Louis convention by republicans of the Fifth Massachusetts congressional district. They are for Reed for President. Leaders of the populist party in Indiana contemplate waiting until after action by the great parties before holding t the state convention. If neither party makes a bid for the free silver vote ' great accessions to the populist ranks f, are anticipated. The leading republicans of Chippewa and adjacent Michigan counties have urgently requested that Charles S. Osborn of the Sault enter the race for the republican congressional nomination in the Twelfth district. Mr. Osborn’s candidacy was publicly announced last week.