Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1904 — The Political Pot [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot

Congressman It. B. Scarborough of tbs Sixth South Carolina District has declined a re-election. Rev. James H. Parker of Jersey City was nominated for Governor by the New Jersey Prohibitionists. Walter Wellman says there is talk in Tammany of recalling Croker because of dissatisfaction with Murphy. A' resolution indorsing Gen. Nelson A. Miles as presidential candidate was adopted amid enthusiasm by the Prohi-. bltionists of Pennsylvania in their Stats convention at Uuiontown. National headquarters for the People’s party have been opened at Springfield, 111., where the convention will meet July 4. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia and Samuel W. Williams of Indiana are mentioned for the presidential nomination. United States Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, in an interview in New York, declared that Judge Parker will get the full vote of Virginia on the first ballot unless something not now foreseen prevents. He says all the delegates with whom he has talked are for Parker and that no second choice is under discussion. The Illinois Democratic State convention nominated Lawrence B. Stringer for Governor and instructed the delegates to the national convention to vote for William R. Hearst The entire State ticket was nominated In the record-breaking time of forty minutes.