Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
POLITICAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

POLITICAL NEWS IN BRIEF
Republican campaign managers
claim majority Of 80 in the next
house.
Gold standard men of both parties
have united on Breckenridge for con.
gress from the Seventh district of
Kentucky.
Rev. J. F. Brant of Fort Scott. re.
fuses to run as q third Prohibition
candidate for governor.
Henry Clay Smith, consul to Santos.
Brazil. has resigned to work for Bry.
an and Sewall
Connecticnt's god Democrats named
a complete state and national ticket.
Chicago Day was observed by mon
ster parades by Repu blicans and De-
mocrats of the Windy City. Republi-
cans paraded in the afternoon and
Damocrats in the evening. Republic
amp Hobart through the long distance
teleph one.
Colonel Ingersoll is stumpinp Him
DIS for Mckinley and Hobart
Mr.. Bryan spoke to people from
Iowa and Minnesota at Sioux Falls,
N. d.
Senator Hill will support BRYAN
and Sewall but not the Chicago plat
form.
Indiana Populists have decided to
not withdraw their state ticket
Postmaster Jarvis. of Benton Har-
Dor, Mich, has been removed for be-
ing too active a silver man.
Tom Watson is i'll of severe throat
trouble. and has stopped campaigning.
Governor Matthews of Indiana con-
siders his state and Kentucky safely
Democratic and Ohio doubtful
The Democratic managers claim for
BRYAN twenty-nino States, with 232
electoral votes
New Jersey Repu blican State Gem
trial committee figures out majority
OF $4,000 for Mckinley in that State.
Tom Crittenden, consul general to
Mexico has been called down by the
State department at Washington for
his free silver activity.
Congressman George c. Crowther
and c. F. Cochran pledged themselves
to the St Joseph printers union to
vote for government ownership Of all
telegraph lines.
Connecticut town elections showed
increased Republican gains
Major Walton, Populist nominee for
Attorney General of Texas, withdrew
and urged Populists to support Bryan
and Sewall
The State Democratic committee of
Iowa, conclude from a poll of the
state that they will carry it by rs, QUO
votes.
The Mckinley Republican ticket of
COInra6n " ho hrrf <,fr f~1 . I
eial ballot. because it was not fled
in the legal time.
The Illinois Democratic and Popu.
list state committees have completed
fusion in all the state except one con-
gressional district down in Egypt
Bourke Cochran spoke to large au-
diences in St. Louis and Kansas CITY
for the gold standard.
The Republicans captured the free
silver Repu blican Nebraska State con.
vention and Endorsed the regular
ticket.
Indiana state committee of the Ma
tional Democratic party decided not
to put state ticket in the field.
Tom Watson says he would rather
die than retire in Sewall's favor.
Republicans, Gold Democrats and
requests are said to have agreed on a
secret fusion whereby Populist elect
ors pledged against Bryan are to have
the support of Republicans and gold
Democrats
Senator German will make speeches
for Bryan.
Ex-President Harrison spoke to
5000 people at Richmond, Va.
Bryan delivered three speeches in St
Louis and then gave out his letter &C.
cepting the Populist nomination. He
did not mention the Populist plat
form.
Bryan's proposed Kansas tour will
probably be cancelled.
Philadelphia American suggests
that both Sewall and Watson resign
in favor of an acceptable third man.
Captain Reuben F. Kolb, editor of
the Peoples Tribune. Birmingham,
Ala, has deserted Watson and de.
clared for Bryan and SewalL
Generals Alger, Howard. Sickels and
Corporal Tanner toured Kansas for
three days in two Pullman cars,
speaking in all the principal towns to
large crowds for Mckinley and the
gold standard.