Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1892 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Missouri's redistricting bill has become ' Ex-Senator Blair still thinks he is a presidential candidate. Prohibitionsits aud Peoples’ party will fuse in Delaware County. - The Laporte Democracy have indorsed Mortimer Nye for governor. Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, was sworn in as U. S. Senator. Wednesday. Kentucky egislators who [figured in a recent scandai'will be expelled. f The Crawfordsville Republicans have nominated T. C. Bandel for mayor; Ex-Governor Gray, it is claimed by his close friends, will not be forecd out of the Presidential vote. Both branches of the Rhode Island'Leg islature have passed a bill providing for biennial elections. Kentucky Republicans in State convention Wednesday selected Harrison delegates to Minneapolis. The first county in Georgia to hold a Rock county—composed of four hundred farmers, spoke unqualifiedly in favor of'Senator Hill for the Presidency.

Don M. Dickinson, of Michigon, Cleveland’s Postmaster General, believes the ex-Presideut will be re-nominated. He says he does not regard Hill as a Presidential possibility. Chauncey M. Depew. Thomas C. Platt Senator Frank Hiscock and ex-Senator Warner Miller | will likely be New York's delegates at large to the Republican national convention. The Minnesota Democratic convention which met Thursday,, warmly Mr. Cleveland for the Presidency, and instructed their delegates to vote for him, first, last and all the time.] The Ohio Legislature has enacted into a law the bill redistricting the State for Congressional purposee. It gives the Democrats six districts and the Republicans fifteen, which is just reversing- the -present apportionment. At a meeting of the Democratic" congressional campaign committee at Washington, Wednesday night, Hon. John T Mitchell, of Wisconsin, was elected chairman.' Charles A. O. McClellan and Wm. S. Foreman are the Indiana and Illinois members, respectively. Representatives of the Farmers’ Alliance, F. M. B. A., Citizens’ Alliance,' Knights of Labor, Prohibitionists and Femalo_ iSuffragists, held a joint con ven -, fibn at FFora, anSF adopted resolutions favoring the right of Women to vote, free coinage of silver and making liquor selling a penal offense. It was also resolved to nominate a county ticket. Congressman Bynum was interviewed Monday on the Presidential situation. He believes Mr, Cleveland will be renominated, and that Indiana “will cast a complimentary vote for Gray if he does not attempt to swing the State against Cleveland.” He does not regard Hill’s talent 8 ana methods as being proper for a Presidential candidate, He does not believe that the free silver bill will pass.