Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — Announcements of Candidates. FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE. [ARTICLE]

Announcements of Candidates. FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE.

The Hon. U, Z, WILEY having been nominated for Appellate Judge, some lawyer of the Circuit will probably be promoted to the bench. We are authorized to announce that Simon P. Thompson of our city, a member of the bar for over thirty years and a man well known to the people of the circuit is willing to become the republican candidate for that honor. The Republican National Convention has done its work and done it well. In fact, no national convention ever better acquitted itself of the work in hand, than this one did. To say that the nomination of McKinley is satisfactory to the great masses of the party, would be to ridiculously understate the truth. In fact, so universal and overwhelming was the popular demand for his nomination, that the selection of any one but him, however worthy he might have been, would have been a disappointment too great for words to express. In Mr. Hobart, a man not well known to the common people in the west, but well known and immensely popular in the east, McKinley, the people’s candidate, has a worthy running mate. The platform is just what it should be, and is one of the most clear-cut and comprehensive declarations of principles ever put forth by a convention. The tariff plank is most important, and pledges the party to the restoration of adequate protection. Next in importance is the financial plank, which states the position of the party with perfect clearness and exactness. But while clear and exact, it is in no sense radical. It •imply declares in favor of the present currency system, of gold, silver and paper, with every dollar good as every other dollar, and good the world over; and pledges the party to work for binmetallism by the only practical method, that of Inter-national agreement, and opposes free coinage until such agreement can be obtained.;