Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1891 — THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS.

Chicago Odd Fellows are mating preparations to erect an $8,000,000 temple. v - Th* Agricultural Department is to have at the World’s Fair an exhibit of grain from every county in the Union. A nrw steamship company has been capitalised at $100,000,000 for the purpose of conducting trade direct with South American States. The steamship Mystic has made the voyage across the ocean in the quickest time oil record. The City of Paris heretofore had the distinction of being the fastest ship, The records made in recent years are as follows: t Year. Steamship. Time. 1886 .„t<aCh»mpagno.. "d- lb. —W--1888 .'i.lCity of Pwie.~~. 83b. 50m--1880 ... Teutonic sd. 18b,., sm. iS9l....UAjo«tic ... l*b. Bm.

Kentucky has held her State election and something over the usual majority for the Democratic party has been polled. Other elections follow in these skirmishes of '9l preliminary to the battle royal in ’92. Texas held an election on the 11th instant to vote upon five amendments to her constitution, one of whioh relates to the rate of interest, one to registration of voters, the others to common schools, local option and the creation of courts of appeal, respectively. On November 3 there will be elections of State officers and Legislators in Massachusetts, lowa and Maryland. Nebraska then elects an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and two regents of the State University; Mississippi a Legislature and three railroad commissioners; New Jersey a part of the Legislature; New York, Gov. eraor, Lieutenant-governor, Secretary of State, Attorney-general, Engineer and Surveyor, ten Judges of the Supreme Court and one member of Congress from the tenth district: Ohio, State officers and members of the Legislature Pennsylvania, Treasurer and Auditor; Virginia, a part of the Legislature. Maryland also votes upon six amendments to the constitution and Ohio upon one, while Pennsylvania votes upon a proposition for a constitutional convention and elects members of that body. -

A new school, described as distinctively American, has just been endowed at the. University of Pennsylvania, and is to be opened on the Ist of October in Philadelphia. The topics to be especially considered are the history of American legislation, State constitutional history, the history of education, the history of religion, municipal history, and the history of local and national politics and political parties. Many if not all of these topics are already the subject of study at Johns Hopkins and other American universities. but as yet no special facilities have been presented fer such a general study of practical American economics under competeut instructors and with the help of a properly appointed library. The importance of such a school is not easily overestimated. In most of our colleges inadequate attention is given to Amei* iean history in respect to the genesis and the evolution of the great, political parties which now divide between them the whole American people, And yet without some knowledge of this sort no man is really competent to give a full account and rational defense of the political faith that is in him. Of still greater importance is a more generally diffused and accurate knowledge of sociology jn respect to the effects and efficien*y of the various forms of local selfgovernment applied or applicable to cities. Every year towns, especially in New England, are being changed into cities, and the young lawyers and business men of these towns are expected to draft satisfactory municipal charters. This is a special art. far which natural enthusiasm and untrained intelligence ate untrustworthy guides, and in this respect the training of the new school must be invaluable. In its absence, indeed, the framers of city charters, like young doctors without training, learn their business only through the sufferings of the people. So important is the instruction proposed by the University of Pennsylvania that j|t is amaring that nothing similar •has as yet been afforded by Harvard, -Tale, or, tip lately* by Columbia.— flaw Tor* Sun. „