The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-24
POLITICAL NOTES.

A meeting was recently held In Chicago TO staft
| q Presidential boom for Mayor Carter Harrison
As the only available Western man for the nerso.
cratic Presidential nomination In 1904 and TO enato
Mr.. Harrsons friends 10 pick the delegates -
| the National Convention.
| Nebraska. though In recent years carried By ~
Republicans continues 10 be q close State. -
the election Of 1902 the Republican plurality ~
3S5, but the Prohibition candidate for Governoe
poled so7 and the Socialist candidate si57 votes.
Actually. therefore. the successful Republican
candidate In minority OF the total vote caSo
; In the State. Nebraska gets no Increased repro.
sentatlon in the electoral college under the NO
| apportonmcnt.
| Delaware Is no longer unrcprcscnted In tho
United State Senate, but the compromise effected
| on the Scholarships between the two RepublIcaA
factions Of the state has not brought about political
| harmony there. Each OF the factions Is u hold
separate primary, and next year. when delegates
10 be chosen 10 the National Convention OF the
Republican party. there will be. from present 10.
cetions. two rival sets of delegates from Dela-
ware, the recognition OF either carrying With II
membership In the Republican National COMMITTEES
for the State, q position now held By J. Edward
Addlcks:
Two former Governors OF Ohio have become
Presidents OF the United States. One former
Governor Is q United States Senator from Ohio.
Three former Governors of Ohio tChase. Foster
and Corwin) have been Secretaries OF the Treasury.
n FORMER tOVcTuOT OF VINO was FoSth1stcI 'u-
eral during the Administration n Lincoln and
another was Secretary OF the Interior under Grant.
nLw candidate for the Democratic nomination
for tho Presidency Is presented In the list Of en-.
tries edited at Lincoln Neb. He Is James II. WI.
liams Of Carmi. H. He represented one OF the
Illinois districts In the last Congress and was 70.
| elected 70 the present Congress despite an un-
| favorable apportionm.nt. he formerly
| G ounty Judge. has served several terms In Con.
gress and Is said that there Is none OF the asto.
\ crat In his makeup"
Tho Astoria Taxpayers Association has APP
! pealed to Mayor Low to remit the assessment
| levied for Improvements made by the Improve
| ment Commission ten years ago. II is nearly
81 900 0OO and ofthst amount something over l0o.-
900 represents the interes that has accrued Tho
commission was created by the laws OF 1893, and
the Improvements were TO be paid by city
bonds and the city was 10 collect from the property
owners by means OF an assessment TO be pale
within twenty years
Tennessee Is 10 be- added to the number OF States
amending their Constitutions. The present Con-
stitufon OF Tennessee adopted In 1s73 succeed.
ing the readmIssion OF the State 10 the Union. In
February, 1870. Between the close OF the war and
the adoption Of the Constitution OF 1873 the govern
ment Of the State practically In the hands OF
the residents OF the mountain districts OF cast
Tennessee. q very considerable number OF the
voters OF other parts OF the State being disfran-
chIsed With the restoration OF suffrage to all
parts Of the State. the adoption OF new Consti-
tuition was made possible and II this Constitution
which II Is now proposed TO amend. In number
Of particulars It Is thought TO be antiqusted and
In some other particulars easily susceptible Of
improvement.
The West Virginia members of the Grand Army
OF the Republic at their recent encampment a.
Clarksburg came out vigorously against the plao-
Ing In the s,a,uary hall OF the national Capitol OF
statue of Robert E. Lee as proposed by the Repre-.
senlatives OF Virginia.
Louiaana Arkansas and Mississippi gain one
elector each under the new appoH'onment-s
larger Increase than the four States of the Paciho
California, Oregon Washington and Nevada.
former representative In the Michigan Legsiss.
ure from Oakland county has been sentenced 70
nay fine of 81. 600 or he Imprisoned In the county
jaIl for two years for soliciting bride whea .