Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1903 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

For many years the Conservatives have held the mayoralty of Copenhagen. The Socialists have been gaining steadily

in strength in the municipal council, and the Liberals have Eeen their hope of ever capturing the m u n i cipality grow less and less. So it came , about that when, a few months ago, the Socialists norni n a te d Maler J. ’ Jensen, the man who has been for several years the chief official of the

Central Council of the Trade Unions and one of the foremost Socialists of Denmark, the Liberals decided to support him, and the result was that Copenhagen now has a Socialist Mayor, with the prospect of a strong Socialist majority ! n the Council within a few months.

With some of his assistants under charges of protecting “get rich quick” men. General Tyner, Attorney General

of the Fostottiee ! Department, is reported as about to resign his office. Several of his assistants are accused of collusion with the attorneys for investment concerns to give immunity to men violating the postal laws, nnd with pra ct i ci ug blackmail. General Tyner has been in

the postal service forty years. He was born ifi Indiana seventy-six years ago, and went to Washington as n member of Congress in 1809. He was Postmaster General from 1875 to 1882. 11l health is given ns the cause of his resignation.

P. C. Hanna Bey is generally regard-; ed as the Machiavelli of Turkey for thej reason that when any important mission

requiring the shrewdest diplomacy is tfr.be attended ta Hanna Bey is nearly always selected. He is a thoroughly gonial man in the ordinary affairs of life, but when it comes to talking politics, especiallyl u r k i s h politics, a clam is communicative compared with him. Ilia

most pleasant assignments are trips to various foreign countries for the purpose, of studying the conditions. --

The Carnation League of America seems destined to become so widespread that the whole nation ,wlll take part in

the movement. The object of the league »s to perpetuate the memory of the late President McKinley by wearing his favorite flower, the carnation. The originator of the league was Lewis G. Reynold- of Dayton, O. Millions already are wearing the emblem, nnd many of these will become

members of the league, which now numbers 500,000. Indeed the officers of the league believe that before the anniversary of McKinley’s death, Sept. 14, 10,000,000 will be enrolled. *

Few men in the labor world are bet-' ter known than John J. Lynch, of the Cigarmakers’ International Union. Mr.

Lynch, who is familiarly known as “Judge” Lynch, first joined the union in Decatur, 111., in 1879, and has held continuous m embe rshlp since. He has traveled* all around the country as an organizer for the International Union, and did Rome effective work lobby-'

mg in Washington. He hns been in business for-himself for several year/, but still keeps up his membership in the] union. His shop is considered the model! cigar factory in Chicago.

Janies It. Garfield, who hns been appointed conmiis; inner of corimr.itions in, the new Department of Commerce and

Labor, is a son of the former President of the United .States who was assassinated by Guiteau. Since last May Mr. Garfield has been one of the three Ignited States civil service commlrsioner*. He is about 35 years old. Mr. Garfield was married in 1895 to Miss Newell, daughter of

the fonner president of the Lake Khoro and Michigan Southern Railroad. The salary of the new position is $5,000. Elsie Barrett, who shot Bessie Palmer, the actress, In their Chicago apartments last January, whs found guilty of the second count in the indictment charging criminal negligence. This means that a short jail or honse of correction sentence will be imposed. No sentence was passed ss a motion for a new trial was made bjr the defendant’s attorney. A new salary schedule, drawn «p by a committee of the Order of Hallway Telegraphers employed by the Illinois Central and the Yacoo and MlnabisippL will be pre;ented to the roads Jane 1.

MALER J. JENSEN.

JAMES N. TYNER.

P. C. HANNA BEY.

L.G. REYNOLDS.

JAS. R. GARFIELD.