Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

The four leading candidates for Governor in Florida are gold men. Neither party expects more than 5,000 plurality in Maryland this year. Senator Morgan’s re-election from Alabama will be opposed by Joseph F. Johnston, present Governor of the State. Again there is a movement to make the vote cast, not the electoral vote, the basis of representation at Republican national conventions. Among Illinois newspapers there is a general belief that Carter H. Harrison will be the Democratic candidate for Governor. In Utica, N. Y., a Republican was elected as a member of the City Council by one majority, and his election makes the Council Republican. The Connecticut House of Representatives has in its membership 101 farmers and seventeen mechanics. There are 252 members in the House. Petitions are being circulated for the nomination of Mayor Jones for Congress in the Toledo district of Ohio for the November election in 1900. According to the Philadelphia Ledger ex-Senator Quay does not expect to be seated on Gbv. Stone’s appointment, and he is urging an extra session of the Legislature. The Anti-Saloon League is taking an active part in the campaign for the Speakership of the Ohio Legislature in opposition to A. F. McCormick, the leading candidate. In one New York election district the thirty-third of the Twenty-first Assembly, there are only five voters, and the cost of primaries and election is 5250, or SSO to a voter. z Reuben F. Kolb, who ran for Governor of Alabama some ten years ago on an independent ticket, is mentioned with fafor as the regular Democratic nominee for the next race.