Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1904 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

The Populists of Idaho have nominated a State ticket headed by T. W. Bartley of Moscow. Francis B. Harrison, Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of New York, gives $50,000 to the campaign fund, Owing to pressing business in Washington Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has canceled his Wisconsin and Illinois speaking engagements. Charles A. Towne is slated by Tammany for the place in Congress now held by W. 11. Hearst, who is reported as not a candidate for renomination. Wihiam E. Curtis writes of the political situation in Colorado, which really is a campaign to win a popular verdict on Gov. Peabody’s strike policy. The Montana labor and Populist conventions indorsed the Democratic State ticket, Gov. Toole promising not to accept an election for United States Senator.

David B. Hill, former Senator William P. Whyte and Senator Daniel of Virginia will accompany Henry Gassaway Davis op his speaking tour of West Virginia. Iloosevelt must decide the controversy over the proposed change in the imported cigar stamps, which has become a political dilemma, with the labor union element playing a prominent part. Former Mayor A. A. Ames of Minneapolis, indicted for alleged ‘corruption, was a candidate for the Republican nomination soy Congress in the Fifth District primaries, and drew heavy Democratic support, but was defeated by Loren Fletcher.

The alleged "letter” from President Roosevelt to Michael Donnelly on the meat strike proves to be a farce instead of a. forgery. It originally appeared in the New York Evening Post with a preface which explained that such a letter might have been sent by the President. Alton B. Parker, in his letter accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency, criticises the Republican party on its stand in connection with the tariff, the ' acquisition of the Panama strip, government expenditures, the postal frauds and reciprocity. He says the determination of the procedure against trusts lies with the judiciary nnd not the executive branch of the government. President Roosevelt brands ns false statements made by the Democratic candidate for Governor of North Carolina on the President’s attitude toward Confederate veterans, Southern people in general and negroes. President Roosevelt has received a letter from Gen. Luke E. Wright in which the Governor General of the Philippines snys that the talk of independence and the agitation resulting from the presidential campaign are demoralising the Filipinos. Old papers for sale at this otic*.