Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1907 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

United States Senator Tillman said at Birmingham, Ala., that President Roosevelt had no business discharging the negro troops at Brownsville, as he doubted very much if the President was vested with authority to take that action. * Postmaster General Cortelyou has announced definitely his decision to resign as chairman of the Republican national committee March 4, when he expects to take the treasury portfolio. It is nnderstood that be will be succeeded by Harry New of Indianapolis. The Nebraska government ownership league was organized at Omaha, with the intention of extending its operations over the entire country for the purpose of advocating the acquisition of all railroads by the United States government. A Populist leader, M. F. Barrington, was made president. The frank admission made by Secretary of War Taft that, though he was not seeking the presidential nomination, he should not decline the opportunity to run for that great office, has precipitated the long-expected fight to a finish between the administration and Foraker factions in the Republican party in Ohio, Notwithstanding that the New York Dsmocratic Attorney General, Jackson, through a court order, had obtained possession of the boxes containing the ballots cast in the mayoralty election of 1905, Mayor McClellan of New, York again obstructed action by securing a stay of action from another judge. At the same time a bill providing for a recount of the votes was introduced in the Legislature. A majority of the State committee of the New York Independence League has deposed Max Ihmsen, the Hearst representative, as chairman and has declared for autonomy and against control by Incorporators. The movement was beaded by Timothy F. Driscoll, who said the purpose was to run the league as a regular political party. The executive committee, however, would not recognize the authority of the Driscoll acts. Twenty-eight members of the Texas House of Representatives have joined in introducing a resolution calling for a rigid investigation of the conduct of United States Senator Bailey, charging that he had accepted money and favors from an official of the oil trust in consideration for his political and official influence in securing the readmission of the Waters-Pierce Oil Compuany to do business in Texas, after the forfeiture of its charter had been approved by the Supreme Court of the United States. The widely published statement that \V. J. Bryan had said to a reporter that the presidential nomination wns something that no Apierrcan citizen should decline, is declared to be false by Mr. Bryan in his paper, the Commoner. He says that he never made the remark credited to him, and all that be did say was that he was not ready to make an announcement on the nomination, whether a nomiration should be declined or accepted would depend on the conditions, the pla't; form, etc. He thinks that the platform ought to fit the issues, and that the candidate ought to fit the platform.