Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — POLITICS and POLITICIANS [ARTICLE]

POLITICS and POLITICIANS

Judge A. W. Benson, the new Kansas Senator, has taught a Bible class for twenty-six years. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has twice been within an nee of becoming Speaker of the House of Commons. The appointment of William Pinkney Whyte by Gov. Warfield of Maryland to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Gorman has pleased the independent, or anti-Gorman, faction of the Ilemocratic party in that State. Whyte is' a former Governor of Maryland and former United States Senator, who Is frequently referred to as Maryland's "Grand Old Man,” being now 82 years old. He was also unanimously elected Mayor of Baltimore in 18S2, after having finished a term in the Senate. Hon. William Pinckney Whyte of Maryland, who recently became United States Senator for the third time, is the only man living who was a memlier of that body and voted against negro suffrage when the fifteenth amendment to the constitution was passed by it. The Republican State convention of Minnesota resulted in the nomination of A. L. Cole for Governor. He had been regarded as one of th<w>vaker candidates. The iilatform anurovtn Pure food legislation, direct vote for Senators, 2-cent railroad fares, abolition of passes and readjustment of freight rates.