People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Senator Lee Mantle is responsible for the statement that there are as many different kinds of Republicans as there are Democrats. He also says that the Salver Republicans will at once begin to organize and will be prepared to put candidates in the field by the next election. The question of whether to hold a constitutional convention or to amend the present constitution is agitating Kansas. The former will, it is estimated, cost the state §700,000. Sixty-three bills were read in the legislature there in one day. Gov. Pingree of Michigan, persists in being both mayor and governor. He has, however, found time to offer a handsome prize to any student, male or female, who shall prepare the longest list on obsolete laws that have been enacted in the state. The latest combine is a clothing trust. The annual output of the companies combining is §350,000,000. They have announced that they intend only to protect themselves from “long credits and rank competition.” Of course everybody believes them. (?) Ex-Governor Altgeld affirms that the increased vote in Ohio since 1892 would indicate an increase in that state of nearly 1,000,000 inhabitants, while the vote in Illinois indicates an increase of 1,200,000 in the same time. The republican legislators of Illinois are planning to pass an anti-fusicen bill. The suffering of the poor in the cities beggars description. The mayor of Chicago has issued a proclamation calling for kIOO. • 000 as the lowest amount that can avert the starvatioh of hundreds of people who have been in enfoi’ced idleness. Doctors are issuing burial certificates giving-starvation as the cause of death. •> j ; ~ When . “Coin” Harvey attempted to speak to the workmen in the G. N. R. R. Co.’s shops during the campaign, a whistle was blown to silence him and then the men were put to work twenty minutes before regular time. The men were supposed to vote for McKinley. It is of interest to note that 200 of these men were recently dismissed owing to the hard times. Before leaving for his month ly hunt the other day, Grover Cleveland hinted, that he, as a lawyer, would look even more closely after the interests of the Sugar Trust than he had done as the chief executive. Another rumor is that the perfert harmony existing between the Gold Democrats and Republicans can only be expressed by Grover accepting a cabinet folio under McKinley.