The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-08-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

The leaders of the Democratic gold
standard movement say there will be
| from 5000 to 5000 people present at
the Indianapolis convention.
1t is said Bourke Cochran is the
choice of the New York gold Demo-
| Gratis to succeed Hill in the Senate.
| The Missouri Democratic State COM
! mittee has organized fifty-six counties
on the school district plan for the
campaign.
! The Democrats. Populists and silver
| Republicans of California have fused
! On presidential electors.
The gold Democrats of st. Louis,
Kansas City and many other interior
Missouri counties held mass conven-
| tons Saturday and selected delegates
to the state convention.
w. S. Cowherd, ex-mayor of Kansas
City. carried the Fifth Missouri Dem
| ocratic congressional primaries in a
walk Always
Democratic. Populist and Silveritc
headquarters are under one roof at
Chicago.
Oklahoma Democrats and POpulists
have agreed to fuse on Rev. Callahan,
Populist. for congress.
The gold Democrats Of Kentucky
have elected delegates to the Indian
apolis convention. Col. Breckenridge
was the principal orator and was
made delegate at large.
Populist and Democratic managers
will cooperate in the present cam
paign.
The New York opposition press says
that Mr.. Bryan's denial of Thurston's
charge settles the matter
Senator Thurston accepts the denial
of w. ]. Bryan of receiving a salary
from silver mine owners.
The Republicans of New York are
talking of renominating Governor
Morton to unite the factions of their
party.
Thomas E. Watson is out in a new
card denouncing Sewall.
The Republicans of the First Kan.
sas judicial district have nominated W.
A. Porter of Leavenworth for Judge.
Major T. J. Ross of Great Bend was
nominated for state senator by the
Republicans of the Thirty-fifth Kan
sas district. He Is for Ingalls,.
The Democratic central committee
of South Dakota has agreed to indOrse
the Popuiist sta te ticket. the Populists
accepting the Democratic Presidential
electors
The Democrats of the Eastern APP
pellate court division of Missouri have
nominated Judge C. Bland of ROlla,
brother of the noted eXCongressman
Bland, for appellate judge.
The Texas Democratic convention
renominated all the present state of
ficers by reclamation. Popullst over
lures for fusion were rejected.
Bourke Cochran is to stump Ne.
braska for the gold Democrats.
Kansas Democratic and Populist
leaders got together at Topeka and
made arrangements to carry on the
campaign.
Eugene V. Debs says the Democrats
ought to pull off Sew all and SUI bstitute
Watson for vice president on the DEM
Ocratic ticket.
Illinois Democrats and Popuiists
disagreed on fusion ticket
George c. Crowthcr was renomin-
ated for Congress by the Republican
convention at st. Joseph.
Chester I. Long and Jerry Simpson
will meet in joint debate in the Sew
enth Kansas district. Ten meetings
have been arranged.
Bourke Cochran has engaged to
speak in the Democratic gold stand
ard party's interest in Maine, Michi-
gan, Ohio, Virginia aud Illinois.
The gold Democrats opened the
anti-Bryan campaign in New York
svvSH + 4 4
Square Garden. Bourke Cochran was
the orator and and replied to Mr..
Bryan's speech. He denounced the
spiracv OF professional farmers and
nnreconcilcd shareholders against
labor.
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania. while
fishing at St Lucie. Fla caught fish
weighing 263 pounds.
The total silver coinage for 1886 in
twenty-one countries was 81 Is, b'2. 200.
Congressman McMillin of Tennessee
is preparing the Democratic campaign
book.
Major T. O. Towles of Missouri. has
been made secretary of the Demo-
cratic campai gn committee.
1t is again announced that Major
MCKINNEY will not take the stump
during the campaign.
The boiling gold Democrats have
issued lengthy call for national
Democratic party convention to meet
at Indianapolis September to nomin-
ate candidates for president and vice
president. The call denounces the
Chicago convention and platform in
unmeasured language.
The Republican state central COM
mittee OF Georgia has decided not to
place ticket in the field this year.
The Democrats. Populists and silver
Republicans of Washington state have
fused on electors, state officers and
Congressman.
Maryland god standard Democrats
will not hold state convention nor
will they send delegates to the In.
dianapolls convention.
NEWS IN BRIEF.