People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Senator Pettigrew Resigns. [ARTICLE]

Senator Pettigrew Resigns.

Washington special: Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, who followed Senator Teller In his bolt from the Republican national convention at St. Louie, has resigned as a member of the Republican congressional committee. The vacancy has not yet been filled. It if said that when the Democratic national committee opens headquarters, a few days hence, one of the first subjects to be taken up will be the attitude of certain men toward the national platform and ticket, who, having been nominated aa presidential electors on the Democratic ticket prior to the Chicago convention, have since that time repudiated both the platform and the ticket, and are publicly credited with the intention to vote for McKinley.