Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-03
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
r. E. PRESTON, director of the mint.
has resigned and George E. Robinson,
of Fort Dodge, Ia, has been nomi-
mated to succeed him.
Four hundred delegates were pres
emit at the opening of the monetary
convention at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the 25th. Gov Shaw, of Iowa, was
elected president and spoke for more
than an hour on the gold standard and
the retirement of the greenbacks, argu-
ing for an elastic currency based on
commercial assets.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN LOUIS E. McCoMAs,
the republican caucus nominee, was
elected United States senator by the
Maryland legislature on the 25th to
succeed A. p. German, who will retire
March 8, 1899.
LEADERS say that Iowa is to be the
battle ground of the national woman
suffrage movement. A resolution is
already before the legislature submit
ting to the people an amendment to
the constitution striking out the word
male" from the voters qualifications.
If the cause can win in Iowa, the suf
fragists believe that half the battle
for the greater and national woman
rights will have been won.
JOSEPH MCKENNA took his seat on
the bench of the supreme court of the
United States on the Goth as an asso-
ciate justice. The official ceremony
Inducing him into Office consumed
less than four minutes and was very
simple.
A STATEMENT is being prepared for
congress at the state department in
which the necessity for an appropria-
ton of 81, 900, 600 for proper repre-
sentation of the United States at the
Paris exposition in 1900 will be urged.
CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD. eX-secretary
of the treasury, addressed the national
monetary convention at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the Goth. Afterwards the res
olutions were discussed in five-minute
speeches and after two hours of favor
able debate were unanimously adopted
and the convention adjourned subject
to the call of the executive committee
1t was decided that the committee
should carry on an active educational
campaign.
SECRETARY OF WAR ALGER was re-
ported as being dangerously sick at
Washington on the Goth. He had
typhoid fever and the conditions were
alarming.
In recent letter to the state depart
ment at Washington Consul General
Lee expressed his conviction in an I'M
reserved manner of the hopelessness of
the Spanish cause in Cuba and showed
that peace and good government can
only be restored in the island by some
outside power.
STATEHOOD legislation at this session
has been killed by the house commit
tee on territories rejecting the Ari-
iona, New Mexico and Oklahoma bills
by vote of eight to three.
The senate committee on pensions
recently adopted a set of rules to gov
ern it's consideration of pension mat
tiers which are of great interest to peO-
pie concerned in pensions.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY made an adj
dress at the annual banquet of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers at
New York on the 27th. The principal
feature of his speech was about the
money question. He said the financial
plank of the ST. Louis platform was of
as binding force upon the repu blicans
to-day as it was when it was adopted
and that all our silver and paper cur
rency must be maintained at parity
with gold.
THE senate recently passed resolu-
ton calling on the commissioner of
pensions for information as to his au-
thority for ordering that no rejected
application for increase will be recon
sidered within year. The statement
of the commissioner has satisfied the
senate committee that his order is
sound and lawful