People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

Henry C. Payne, Wisconsin member of the republican national committee, states that he has decided to continue the campaign work at Chicago as originally planned. He will insist, however, upon the work being laid out ao as to relieve him from much of the responsibility at flrßt impoeed upon him. The “Democratic Honest Mpney League of America” was formed Friday at New York. This organization is the outgrowth of several meetings of democratic business men which Jiave been held there. Citizens of Wataga, 111., have formed a McKinley and Hobart club of fifty members. Republicans of Mason City, 111., have reorganized and formed a big McKinley and Hobart marching club. The Wyoming democratic state committee has selected Rock Springs and Aug. 13 as the place and time for the state nominating convention. Senator J. C. Burrows opened th® campaign for the republicans at Albion, Mich. He planted himself squarely on the St. Louis platform, and the large audience was with him. Gold sentiment is plentiful and bolters few. At a republican mass meeting at Creston, lowa, a McKinley club was organized with 200 members. Similar action was taken at Cornlne. Prohibitionists in the third Michigan district nominated A. A. Knappen of Albion for congress. The republicans of the third judicial district met at Lima, 0., and nominated John K. Rohn of Tiffin for judge on tb® forty-third ballot. The republican county oonventlon at Boscobel, Wis., elected delegates favoring R. M. LaFollette for governor and J. W. Babcock for congress.