Conventions.—The Republican National Convention meets in Chicago, June 16. It will have 980 delegates, taking 491 to nominate. At present there are six or seven prominent men named as candidates: Messrs. Taft, Cannon, Hughes, La Follette, Fairbanks, and Knox. The Democratic National Convention meets in Denver, July 7. But two men are thus far prominently named as candidates, Messrs. W. J. Bryan and J. Johnson.