The sun., 1895-05-16
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
The Rspublican state Convention in Oregon will b,
| be,d I'm Portland on May p9. State ofncers will b.
| chosen battle for control OF the party machinery
IA probable the free silver and sound money
men with the chances in favor OF the former. AT tho
recent Senatorial contest the free silver Republicans
NJ oregon were able defeat Joseph N Doph for re-
election He voted Oct 80. 1893, to repeal the pur
| chase clause OF the Sherman law. His Republican
| colleague from Oregon in the Senate was paired
| against It. Tho Populists polied $4,000 vote. IN
oregon at the last election; the Republicans 4l 600,
| and the Democrats 1900.
| Hereafter Feb. l9 will be public holiday in New
| work state on Feb. l9, 1900. Abraham Lincoln vss
horn In In Ruo county Ky. His birthday is legal
holiday in Illinois Kosciusko, the Polsh patriot was
horn the same day OF tho ssme moseh a. Lincoln
Ethan Allen. tho American patriot. died on Feb. 10
and on that day In l753 oddly enough the rst fus.
| tiy, slave law was passed by Congress. Gov Morton
sencd the bill making Lincoin's birthday holiday on
May II, the anniversary of the battle Of Fontenoy,
| william L. Strong has been resident OF New York
for fory.two successive years. He had been resident
of New York twenty.eight years when he was nrst
candidate for ONCE in 1889. and though he has ap
| ponted many nonrcsdents, such steps have been
taken his own instance but with the counsel OF
| non resident advisers
| The complication which has arisen nllns the
vacancy left by tho expiration of Senator Hrstnss
term in Delaware will have probably the effect Of
making the United stntes Senate vote short when it
| renssem,,lcs in November. In view OF tho close a.
| vision between the members OF the two parties q
single vote in the Senate may bo of considerable i'm
portance and to bo odd circumstance that
| delaware which has been almost uniformly loyal for
many years the Of Democracy. should fater
when its aid would be OF great benent TO Democratic
| fortunes. From 1859 to 1892. with only one break
Delaware carried by tho Democratic party in all
Federal elections In 1879 Horace Greeley, Demo
cratic candidate fell +92 votes short OF carrying the
State loss attributable not to recruits TO the
Republican party but to the fact that Charles oCon
or the straightout Democratic candidate for Prest
dent drew OF votes enough from the Greeley column
TO givo the State to the Republicans At the
| election, 1879, there was Democratic Legislature
The last Senate had three contested cases. the next
Senate will have one.
| Louis r. Payn, who has figured conspcuousy in
some of investigations made at the instigaton
Republican State Senators as q promoter of legis
iation, halls from the town OF Chatham in Columbia
county. ana has been familiar figure in Republican
politics for many years. In April, 1857. he ap-
pointed harbor master by Gov Fenton. and he held
the place for three Later be became. by the
appointment OF President Grant, United States Mar.
shall for tho Southern District of New York.
By action Of the Legislature Johnstown. New York.
is city with q charter. and ranks with Albany
Rochester and Syracuse city Of tho second class
BY the census of 1890 the population Of Johnstown
population is about 10000 At last years election
Mr. Morton received in Johnstown 1890 votes: sena.
tor HILL l.0ls: tho temperance candidate, 1877 and
the Popust candidate l2 votes. Usually Johnstown
has bccn close. with small Republican majority.
The silver coinage cranks. who arc making consider
able headway in the West and Northwest will strike
| q serious barrier when they try to convince the
Scandinavian farmers. who are numerous in many OF
the States in which tho silver men havo made tho
greatest headway OF late. There 100000
Scandinavans in the United States and about 10000
OF them voters. Their influence in politics
portant rs they most numerous in q few States
and distributed throughout the country.
There arc than 200 900 swedes and Norwesians
in the State Of Minnesota. There 100000 swedes
in Illinois, $4,000 NorweRans in Wisconsin, $4,000
Danes in Nebraska, $4,000 in Iowa, and 10000 In
Michigan. These Scandinavian voters are almost ex.
clusively sound money men, and their influence in
American politics the Northwest has been consider
| able. They acted with the Republican party during
| and after the civil war. They supported Democratic
candidates favoring low tariff. and they opposed
| to the views and theories Of the silver coinage
| tremists.
| A NTH Judge of the Court OF General Sessions
would avert the recurrence OF any such deadlock
there has been in that court since January. Gen.
eral Sessions Judge will be elected in November to
NIL the vacancy left by Judge Marines death. For
this vacancy Judge Allison. the Governors appontse
candidate the Republican ticket For the NTH
Judgeshp, II the Legislature create 1t. Ernest Hail.
also a candidate for Supreme Court Judge the Ro-
| publican ticket. Is named
Daniel z Finn Assemblyman from the First dstricA
Is candidate In tho Tenth district; Timo-
thy Campbell in the Twelfth, William H. Walker
the Thirteenth. and R G. Monroe in tho Fifteenth.
| The members OF the German. American Reform
Union in the Ninth district hold commers May 10.
and listened to speech in German by Prof Balthasar
| Ecoli LutJens on Die Kaempfe der Gegenwart auf
|
whole speech in thrtyone parts and the Professor
is delivering It tho installment plan. part In
| each Assembly district, and the remaining one
| Governors Island.
The city Of Buffalo present its claims
desirable convention city for either political party
in 1888 police census Of Buffalo gives tho present
population as 83o,7Os an increase OF 10000 since
1900 II this enumeration was correct It puts Buffalo
ahead OF San Francisco. Cincinnati. Cleveland. New
Orleans, Pittsburgh Washington. Detroit Milwaukee.
and Louisville, and eighth on the list Of American
cities The Republicans. who held their last National
Convention in Minneapolis, much more likely to
look upon Buffalo with favor convention city than
| the Democratic The Democratic National Convon-
ton o: s88 will probably keep far away from the
city OF Buffalo It will from the Buffalo candidate
| whose present administration makes the holding of Q
national convention by the majority party in tho
United States somewhat perfunctory affair in 1890.
| John W. Marshall Colonel and statesman IL talked
by Tenth district Republicans for the Congressional
vacancy left by tho death OF Andrew J. Campbell Tho
place is to be filled by election this year. John b
| McGoldr!ck is a candidate on tho Democratic side
A new superintendent Of tho Philadelphia Mint has
been appointed He receives the same salary as tho
director OF the United States Mint The mint Is Of
the ocn! institutions of Philadelphia though under
Federal control 1t established In 1929 and when
there is change Of superintendent PhiladelpiA
is excited though tho political Importance OF the mint
is Inc siderable. The holder OF the ONCE Of superin.
tendent however. has a social standing which could
be secured in other way. He Ia invited to all
the public receptions the launching Of ships and
boats, scuIling contests, baseball matches. and fre
drills and his is printed in large letters in the
| Philadelphia Directory.
Under the new apportionment Of Senatorial dis
tricts the First. Second. and Fourth Assembly dis
tricts make substantially the Fifth Senatorial tho