The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-11-20
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE committee on foreign affairs o,
/ the Bolivian chamber of deputies hal
reported in favor of the recognition O,
Cuban insurgents as belligerents.
The Association of American Agri
cultural Colleges and Experiment Sta
tions, at its session in Washington or
the 18th, elected as its president George
7. Fairchild, president of the Kansas
state agricultural college at Manhat
tan.
RETURNS from all of the 119 countie,
in Kentucky have been reported at the
Office of the secretary of state. On tbs
national ticket they show a total vots
of 445,O0o McKinley's vote was 21s,
O55; Bryan's 2l7,79s; McKinley's plu
rality, 257.
A MESSAGE was received by Mr.. Nc
Kinley on the 18th from Joseph w. Bah
cock, chairman of the national con
gressional committee at Washington
saying: 1--WE have elected 2O1 sound
money repu blicans, sound money
democrats, 145 democrats and popu
lists and free silver republicans, With
three districts in doubt, one from Wy
oming and two from South Dakota"
IT was reported at Washington re
Gently that Secretary Carlisle may re-
tire from the cabinet before the ex
piration of his term. The report was
based on the belief that Justice Field
will soon retire from the supreme
bench and that Mr.. Carlisle will be ap
pointed to succeed him.
SENATOR BUTLER's paper at Raleigh,
N. c., said editorially on the 13th that
If Mr.. Bryan desired to head the reform
forces he must do SO under some other
name than that of democrat as the
populists were done with democrats.
The paper said it spoke for the peoples
party of North Carolina, if not for tbs
whole nation.
from Key West, Fla, on the 18th stat
ed that Capt.-Gen. Weyler took the.
field as commander-in-chief of the
Spanish forces and made an attack on
the camp of the insurgents under
Maceo at Pinar del Rio; that the Span
ish generals Echague and Malguseo
were killed and Weyler slightly wound
ed and that Maceo succeeded in rout
ing Weyler and his troops. The result
of the battle caused great excitement
in Havana.
THE official returns of the election
in Pennsylvania give Mckinley 7o6, 99s
votes and Bryan 422, 1854; republican
plurality, 3O4,944.
THE reports circulated that the pope
intended to remove Archbishop Ire
land, of st. Paul, Mimi, have been de
clared ''pure inventions" but the arch
bishop has been advised from an au,
thorized quarter to moderate his atti.
tude and avoid irritating discussions
UNOFFICIAL bu, practically complete
returns show that the vote on the
electoral ticket of South Dakota is
about tie. Fraud is apparent in
nearly every county, and a great many
contests will be started.
GEN. THOMAS NJ. VINCENT, assistant
idjutant-general, ended his active ca.
reer in the army on the 14th. He had
reached his Gath year and was trans
ferred to the retired list. .
IT was said at Washington that Jus
tice Cox, of the supreme court of the
District of Colum bia, was bout to re.
tire, having reached the age of 80
years, and that Secretary Herbert was
to be given his place.
WILLIAM j. BRYAN delivered three
speeches in Lincoln: Neb, on the 14tt
which had been previously announced
as the opening guns of the politica'
of 1900.
On the first ballot in the democratic
caucus at Montgomery, Ala, on the
10th E. w. Pettus was nominated te
succeed United States Senator Pugh.
ALEXANDER STEPHENS CLAY was
for United States senator
to succeed John B. Gordon, by che
democratic legislature caucus at At
lanta. Ga. The nomination was made
on the 31st ballot. The vote was: Clay
90; Howell, 40: Lewis, IS; Norwood, 5
Walsh, 8; Garard, ..
A WASHINGTON dispatch on the 10th
stated that President Cleveland an6
his cabinet were waiting for the devel
opments in Cuba of the next fortnight
with the greatest concern as to the re
suit.
NTSCEITANEOIIS.