Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1898 — The Political pot [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political pot

Among tlie items in the campaign expense bill of Hon. P. S. White, New York State Senator, is “s(>o for renewing old acquaintances and $-0 in making new ones.” U. S. Grant, son of the dead general, is a Republican candidate for United States Senator from California. 11 is candidacy is opposed by some of the Republicans of that State. Georgia is wrestling with a deficit of $1,500,000 in the State treasury and the tax rate is the second highest in the South. The trouble is the State is long on government and short on revenue. According to their sworn statements Col. Roosevelt's election expenses were $2,000, while Judge Van Wyek’s were a little more than $-HH), but the latter gave up a SIO,OOO position to run for the office. Rev. Stanley L. Krebs of Rending, Tn., was a prohibition candidate for the Legislature at the recent election. He had written pledges from -4.500 men that they would vote for him and yet the official count shows that ho received but 1,332 votes.

l>r. Swallow, the Pennsylvania prohibitionist who ran for Governor, is not apparently discouraged by bis defeat. A friend asked him if he was now out of politics and the doctor replied: “No American citizen has any right to go out of politics." James Gray, the newly elected Mayor of Minneapolis, started life as a newsboy, earned money sufficient to keep him while going to the common schools, graduated from the State University and became reporter on and then managing editor of the Minneapolis Times. Mayor Edward I loos of Jersey City expoets to be a candidate for re-election next spring on a platform favoring Sunday theaters, . • Minister Strauss is making it lively so« the Sultan. Giving him, so to speak, • regular Strauss waits.