Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-11-07
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
Ambitions and Prospects of Men
Strutting and Fretting Their
Hour on the Stage.
(By special wire to THE ARGUs.)

(By special wire to The ARGUS
Washington, D. c., Nov. 5.
There is some talk of making Con-
gresham J. A. M. Adair, of Indiana,
the Democratic candidate for governor
of his State.
Free M. Warner has announced that
he will be a candidate for a third term
as governor of Michigan.
1t now looks as though Chicago and
Kansas City will fight it out for both
the Republican and Democratic nation
al conventions next year.
Political estimates of Champ Clark
assert that he will not be a candidate
for the governorship of Missouri, and
add that he desires nothing else in a
political way at the present time but
another term in Congress.
HI. Dudley Coleman. of New Orleans,
has been named as candidate for gov
"Black and Tam faction of the Repub-
lican party in that State. A full State
ticket has been named.
Representative James E. Watson,
the Republican s'whip'' in the House,
has announced his determination to
retire from Congress and compete for
the Republican nomination for govern
or of Indiana.
Four Democratic national conven-
tions have been held in Chicago, that
of 1864, when Mcclellan was nomi-
mated; of 1884, when Cleveland was
nominated the first time; Of 1892, when
he was nominated the last time, and of
1896, when Bryan was first nomi-
mated.
Congressman John j. Esch, of Wis
consin, whose long and faithful service
in the House gives weight to his opin-
ions, does not believe Congress will
take any important action relative to
the Improvement of the Mississippi
next year.
That within a yea the South will be
leading the North in prohibition senti-
ment is the prediction made by Charles
R. Jones, national chairman Of the
prohibition party, who recently ON
pleted an extensive tour of the South
ern States.
F. @. Stuart, of Shreveport, La, is
responsible for the launching of a new
party and a new Presidential candi-
dater Mr.. Stuart himself is the candi-
date and the party is called the Ameri-
can Equity League, or League of
Equal Freedom.
A special congressional election will
be held Decent er II in the Ninth dis
trict of Virginia, for the purpose of
naming a successor to the late Colonel
Campbell Slemp. Colonel Slemp was
the only Republican member of the
Virginia delegation in Congress. The
Democrats are now preparing to make
a strong fight to wrest the district from
the Republicans and send a full dele
CATION to Washington.
Though it may seem strange at the
pIOS0At LlLlO, 10 city Oh Tic COuuGTy udS
entertained SO many national political
conventions as Baltimore. In 1882 the
first national convention was held by
American political parties, and it is a
striking proof of the central location of
Baltimore at that time that the three
conventions of that year were held in
that city. The last convention held in
Baltimore was in 1872, when the DEM
ocrats met there and nominated Horace
Greedy.
Philadelphia has had but four OF the
larger national political conventions.
Tue Wings met there in 1S48, and the
Republicans in 1856, the first year they
had a Presidential ticket in the field.
Then came long interval the Repub-
licans meeting there in 1872 to renomi-
nate Grant. The last Philadelphia
convention was the Republican con.
vention of 1900, which renominated
Mckinley and placed Roosevelt on the
ticket as his running mate.
WILLIAMS ON ROOSEVELT.