Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

The regular Roosevelt ticket syas elected by a large majority at the primaries at St. Joseph;. Mo. J. L. Caldwell of West Virginia issued n statement withdrawing from tho race for United States Senator from that State. In a convention lasting twelve hours the new union labor party of Kansas City nominated a full city ticket for the spring election. The Bloomington, 111., Bulletin has launched n boom for Adlni E. Stevenson as the Democratic candidate for the presidency as a compromise between Parker nnd Hearst. The Chapman bill abolishing spring elections in the State has been adopted by the Ohio Senate. The Senate also passed a joint resolution providing for a constitutional amendment fixing the elections of State nnd county officers on tho even years and for al) other officers on the odd years. # The Republican State central committee nt Sioux Falls, S. D., selected Sioux Falls as the place and May 4 as the date for the State convention. The Arixona Republican convention nt Tucson instructed its delegates to the Chicago convention for Roosevelt and adopted strong resolutions against joint statehood In any form. The Maryland Senate by a strict party vote —seventeen Democrats to eight Republicans—passed the proposed amendment to the State constitution to regulate the suffrage and admitted to be intended to eliminate the negro vote.