Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-03-28
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

Legislature in Clinton are preachers.
The president will get back TO Wash
ington from his Southern outing TO.
day.
OF the ls,463 bills and resolutions in
troduced in the last Congress, 49, be-
came laws.
An elaborate Jefferson day banquet
will be given March 30 at Topeka, Kas.,
with covers for 1900.
The republican railroad commission
er's convention for this district, will
be held in Louisville, April 10.
The Tennessee Legislature has pass.
ed a law prohibiting the making OF any
contract hereafter to be paid in any
thing but legal tender
Augusta will erect a monument to
the Hon. Patrick Walsh. The idea is
to put up bronze statue of heroic size
10 one Of the public squares.
Secretary Alger and his party arriv-
ed at Havana after having lost their
way at sea for several hours. Owing
to the delay there was no reception.
n. b. Morehead, son OF the late Ex-
U. 5. Senator and Gov. Morehead, Of
Kentucky, died at Cincinnati. where
I he amassed fortune aud made fine
reputation.
Maj. J. Embry Allen defeated Capt.
w. II. May for the Senatorial nomina-
tion in Fayette, and Solomon VanMeter
was nominated over Jas. Humphreys
for representative
II is stated on pretty good authority
that Senator McChord is Senator Goe-
bells choice for railroad commissioner
and that his nomination will be a vic
tory for the Covington man.
John ). Smith, of Paris, candidate
| for attorney general, says he is related
I to all the Smiths In Kentucky and as
he expects the support of them all he is
sure of nomination and election.
Asked what he thought of Bryan's
controversy with Belmont. Senator
Lindsay said: II was not of those who
supported Bryan and do not care to
criticise, though can say nothing in
his favor"
The most enthusiastic az well as the
largest crowd that has gathered TO
hear Senator Goebel speak heard him
at Elizabethtown Saturday evening. A
dispatch says the ovation he received
was almost equal to that given Mr..
Bryan ia 1896.
The sudden springing of Postmaster
Edwards, of Lawrenceburg, into the
railroad commissionership canvass,
when Irwin was about to be declared
the nominee. is said TO be an effort OF
the Eunter-Todd crowd TO down the
captain, who is a Bradley man.
Bryan says: "What the Lords Sup.
per is To the christian, so Jefferson
banquet is TO the democrat. just as a
good christian would revolt at having
the sacrament administered by an inf.
del, so good democrat objects to hav'
ing jefferson banquet presided over
by Perry Belmont"
Speaking OF Gov. Bradley resigning
to let Gov. Worthington be the real
thing for a while, the Louisville Times
says: An occasional whack at the God
like prerogative of granting pardons is
enough glory and qualification for the
mush-hearted old gentleman from the
vernal hills of Greenup.
Judge Charles Patterson has issued a
-. lat In, o hA AapnAapatia
of the second railroad commissioners
district, charging State Senator G. g.
McChord with having voted for Major
Lisle, Patterson's republican political
opponent, two years ago. The Senator
will doubtless deny the damaging
charge.
Little Phil Thompson, who is a
member of the democratic club, whose
president, Perry Belmont, was so Sc
verely snubbed by Bryan, says il was
the most indiscreet act of his career
and that it was as uncalled for as II
was iudiscreet. II will lose him friends
where he might have made many,
+. II. Pierpont, who established a
government at Wheeling at the out
break Of the war and called himself
governor, is dead, aged Sc. He was the
principal agitator OF the division OF the
State before the war and the prime
mover in the reorganization OF West
Virginia, and has since been known as
the father of that State.
On his return from Nicholasyille,
Senator Goebel said; 1T looks better
for me than IL has at any time within
the last two months. Hardin Is los
ing ground every day. | spoke last
at Nicholasville, In Hardin's congress
slonal district, and am absolutely conf
dent of carrying that county, although
IL Is contiguous TO Mercer, my oppon-
ent's home"
Jack Chinn will be asking: "McCar-
ty have you got gum" the first thing
the Jessamine Journal knows. IL says:
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