Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1906 — POLITICS and POLITICIANS [ARTICLE]

POLITICS and POLITICIANS

Consul Milner reports that 80 per cent of the lace manufactured in Calais, France, is exported to the United States. Its value is $G,000,000. Speaker Cannon, Elihu Root, Secretary cf State, and Grover Cleveland are among (hose invited to the trans-Mississippi commercial congress to open in Kansas City Nov. 1. In an interview W. R. Hearst announced definitely his decision to stand for Governor of New York as the candidate of 1 the Independence League, but intimated that if the Democratic convention at Buffalo chose to indorse him he would not object. i The three richest men in the House of Representatives are John E. Andrus of New York, William B. McKinley of Illinois and Wiliam R. Hearst of New York, with George F. Huff and Edward DeV. Morrell of Pennsylvania a close fourth and fifth. Gov. Guild was the recipient recently from the Massachusetts Society of tha Sons of the Revolution of a replica of tha flag of Bunker Hill, hoisted by the colonists June 17, 1775. Senator Benson, the successor of Senator Burton of Kansas, was one of tha three in the Btate Senate la 1881 who framed the first prohibition law toe State ever had. Senator La Follette is a vegetarian. Hla daily menu consists of fresh English walnuts and milk, and it is said a prise fighter anxious to got into the pink at condition would envy fct™,