Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1896-12-22
POLITICAL POINTS.


23i.
Gen. p. Watt Hardin is out soliciting
subscriptions to start the democratic dsi.
ly at Louisville.
The House passed bill appropriate
ing $780, 200 for q government building
and exhibit at the Nashville exposition.
According to the election returns
published by the secretary OF State in
| Arkansas, Sc votes were cast for the late
Jefferson Davis for presidential elec,or
The Lodge bill, which shuts ont i'm.
migrants over the age of le, who can
not read and write, amended 30 as to ex-
empt Cubans during the war, passed the
House 80 to 10.
The populist State committee will
meet at Louisville Dec. 81, to confer
about fusion with silver democrats in
the various counties on county officers at
the next election.
Col. John s. May, who married Mics
Sallie Thurmond, OF Lincoln, is a candi.
date for county clerk OF Pulaski, and as
he has way of getting there We hope he
will not lose it this time.
Our friend Henry Wstterson is al
ready engaged in desperate hsrd-to-
hand conflict with the Cleveland boom
OF 1900. Henry, We regret to say. has a
bad case OF slaughter house on the brain
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
There are now 10000 postmasters in
the United States, and it took 800, 0O0,-
600 last year to pay for the postal service.
The first year of Wsshington's admins
tration we had 70 post-offices, and the
mail service cost t32, 600 hard cash.
The American Federation of Labor
by vote OF ,935 to 302 declared for the
free coinsge OF silver at Is to l. pledged
it's support to any party so declaring,
unanimously reelected President Com
pers and unanimously fred Secretary
| McCraith.
| John B Thompson told a Cincinna-
| ii EnQuirer man: I'VE are by no means
dishesrtened, and will carry the State
next year with vim. | had the unlim-
tied corruption fund and 1000 fraudulent
votes to fight and it was more than
could stand up under"
Judge W. S. Pryor, on retiring from
the appellate bench in January, will be-
come the senior member OF a Louisville
Law firm to be styled Pryor, O'Neal q
Pryor, bis son, Joseph, to be the junior
member. The office will be in Louis
Vile Judge Pryor will remain in Frank
fort.
Booker T. Washington, the Negro
principal OF the State Normal and In
dustrial College for Negroes at Tuskegee,
Ala, who became famous by a speech at
the opening of the Atlanta exposition, is
being vigorously pushed by his Negro
friends in Georgia and Alabama for a
place in McKinley's cabinet.
William Schuler, of Cincinnati, who
was stakeholder for $1,000 bet on the
Kentucky election, decided that those
who bet that Mckinley would carry the
State lost; also those who bet that Bryan
would carry the State lost, and that the
bets we're a draw. He paid the money
back to those who put it up, and nobody
lost or won anything.
That celestial specimen OF a patriot,
Scrub Bynum, whose soul 30 revolted
at the stain to be put upon the coun-
try by Bryan's election, is to 20 to New
York and continue the fight against the
democratic party. He gets several thous.
and dollars per annum for his self sacri-
icing work. The question is who paws
the money ?-Bowlipg Green Courier
Hanna, that's easy to answer Give us
I hard one.
Can the bit,erest gold bug find any
thing in this excerpt from recent speech
OF Mr.. Bryan to hang the charge OF an
srchism upon: 81 love my country go
much, love my people 30 we'll that /
shall rejoice il the result of the late cam
paign proves l was wrong and my oppo-
nent was right. Because if he can make
the government better than l could have
made it, then my children and your
children will enjoy the benefits"
Read this and paste it away. il is
the sum total Of the popular vote for
president:
For Mckinley ................. ,lO9, 4S0
Bryan ......... ............-6, 50S,6Sl
Prohibition .............. l40,494
Palmer ..................... lS2,056
Socialist ................... 33,942 -6.Sl5, l73
Mckinley over all.........-.... 294 1907
McKinley's vote was 81 per cent of all.
Brysn's vote Was 46i per cent OF all.
Palmer's vote was less than per cent