Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1904 — The Political pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political pot.

The Kansas Democratic State convention to select delegates to the St. Louis convention will meet in Wichita April 7. Senator Gorman met with defeat in the Maryland legislative caucus at Baltimore, former Gov. Smith refusing to be side-tracked in the senatorial race apd preventing a nomination by forcing an adjournment. Former Gov. W. O. Bradley of Kentucky has announced that he would be a candidate for delegate at large to the liepublican national convention and would use his best efforts to have the Kentucky delegation pledged to Roosevelt. The fusion nnd mld-rond Populists, together with reorganisation committee appointed at Denver last July, will meet in joint session at St Louis 'on Feb. 22, 1904, to arrange for time, place and representation of the Populist national convention for this year. Sir William Whiteway, former premier of Newfoundland, in a letter to the press announces his return' to public life and that he will be a candidate nt the next general election in opposition to the present government. This makes the third political party now in the field. Senators Gorman and Hanna have been invited by joint resolution to address the Kentucky Legislature on the principles of their respective parties. x A resolution inviting President Roosevelt to address the Assembly also was introduced nnd is awaiting action. The Nebraska Republican committee decided to hold a single State convention at Lincoln May 18, indorsed President Roosevelt for renominntion and John L. Webster for Vice President, and recommended the nomination of a United States Senator by the State convention.