Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1894 — KANSAS POPULISTS. [ARTICLE]

KANSAS POPULISTS.

Lewelllng Bunomlnated and Female Sos- —— f r.ige 1 ndor»ed. Tile Populist convention at Topeka, Kan., Wednesday, nominated the following ticket: For Governor, L. D. Lewelling; Lieutenant-Governor, D. G. Furnbeck; Secretary of State, J. W. Amis; Treasurer, W. 11. Biddle; Attorney-Gen-eral, John T. Little; Auditor, Van B. Prather; Congressman at Large, W. A. Harris; Associate Justice Supreme Court, George W, Clark, The women gained a signal victory by the insertion of a suffrage plank in the platform. When the announcement was made tho delegates and visitors gave cheer after cheer, rose to their feet and threw their hats up to the ceiling. Flags and banners were seized and waved about and there was a great display of handkerchiefs. Laura Johns, the Republican suffragist, seized a Populist badge and pinned it on her shoulder. Susan B. Anthony almost cried in her joy, and, using beth her hands, wrung the outstretched palms of the delegates right and left.