The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-05

edly 60 in and very likely win the nomi- nation. But by his own physical self-dis'
 trust he has permitted the administration
 to construct a very powerful machine
 and unless an extraordinary upheaval oi
 anti-Roosevelt sentiment occurs in Re.
 publican ranks. the nomination by accla,
 nation of Roosevelt is foregone conclu.
 sion.
 The News from Ohio.
 Yet the news from Ohio, where sena-
 of his political career, is not without . tentative signincance that something tan gible for future use in the Hanna cause h
 doing. Already, although it is said to be without his direction. the Hanna Buck eye people are canvassing the selection | of delegates for the national convention from the State. It is said that every one of them win be an avowed and trusted
 Hannaite. One place only will Do eccord-
 ed Senator Foraker. and he will have to trot under the Hanna yoke.
 | The National Committee as given above is subject to revision by the Chairman | in cases of death and resignation. Two members of the Committee have died since the last meeting. one of them !. O. Long, member for Florida, who was con
 sul to Cairo. Egypt. and Fred 8. Gibbs | Of New York-
 Senator Hanna win name their succes-
 sors. The selection of New York man.
 it is said has already been agreed upon,
 and the choice made has aggravated the
 dissension among the Republicans of the
 Empire State. The late Mir. Gibbs was
 Platt man, and the New York senator has easily persuaded his friend Hanna to name for the vacancy Frank Sheldon. against the vehement protest of Governor Odell.
 l Five Members of Senate.
 There are five United States senators who are members of the National Com
 mittee. They are Marcus A. Hanna, oi Ohio; Louis E. McComas, of Maryland;
 J. H. Gallinger of New Hampshire: Mat thew 8. Quay of Pennsylvania. and Ma than B. Scott of West Virginia. Chiefest
 of the other offlceholders of the commit | tee is Postmaster General Henry c. Payne, member of the committee from Wisconsin. The treasurer of the com
 mittee. Cornelius N. Bliss, was President
 McKiniey's first secretary of the inte-
 rior. United States Minister to Mex
 leo Powell Clayton represents Arkansas,
 while George V. L. Meyer, representing
 Massachusetts. is ambassador to Italy. The highest officehoiding negro in the
 country and the only negro on the com
 emitte is Judson W. Lyon, Register of the Treasury, who is member for Geor- gin. Other office holders on the com mittee are: John w. Yerlxes of Ken lucky, Commissioner of Internal Revenue; Governor Frank Murphy, of New Jersey; William Grimes. Secretary of tho Terri tory of Oklahoma; Solomon Luna. cus-
 todian of an abandoned military reserva-
 ton, of New Mexico; John c. Capers. United States district attorney, of
 South Carolina; United States court l clerks, J. w. Dimmick of Alabama and
 George E. Bowden of Virginia.
 Only One Congressman.
 Walter F. Brownlow. member for Ten
 nessee, is the only representative from
 the lower house of Congress on the
 committee. Former Representative R. B.
 Hawiey Is member for Texas. The bench
 Is represented by J. c. Pritchard, of
 North Carolina, who after his retirement from the United States Senate was ap- pointed to g District of Columbia judge
 ship by President Roosevelt. Myron n. HerriclI for Ohio, is the governor-elent of Chat statA !. H. Manlevsof Maine, is speaker of the staka House of Represen-
 tatives and candidate for GovArnur. One of the most notorious of the mem bers of the committee Is DeIaware's une-
 qualled bribe-giver, John E. Addicixs. | It is hard to single out any outspoken ftooseveit man on the committee, strange l as 1t may seem. except, Postmaster Gen.
 eral Payne. and perhaps Solomon Luna of New Mexico, who was a Roosevelt Rough Rider, and John c. Capers of South Carolina, who recently turned Re-
 publican as he went into office.
 Will Go to Manila.
 Finst Lieutenant Henry M. Bankhead, | son of Representative John H. Bank
 head of Alabama. and who was married
 to Miss Alice Stickney. formerly of this | city, at Chicago, yesterday at the resi- | dence of Mrs. George l.. Pullman, will
 go to Manila 70 join his regiment Lieu
 tenant Bankhead's regiment, the 2Oth In-
 fantry, sailed from San Francisco last
 week, for the Philippines. He will have
 leave until February. Lieutenant Bank
 head. who is one of the most promising young officers of the army, has already
 seen service in the Philippines. He has
 been fortunate enough to be assigned
 to duty in the city of Manila, where Mrs. Bankhead will be with him. Mrs.
 Bankhead has recently been much abroad. having accompanied her uncle, the late James G. Long, who was consul at Cairo.
 Egypt. and was with him when he died in Scotland few months ago from in- Juries received in an accident in that country while on his way to America.