Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-08-01
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
Ambitions and Prospects of Men
Strutting and Fretting Their
Hour on the Stage.
Special to the ARGUS.


Washington, D. c. July 90
State Auditor Paul Capdeviolle, oil
Louisiana, has announced his candidacy
for reelection to that office.
The wedding of United States Sena-
tor Beveridge, of Indiana, and Miss
Katherine Eddy Of Chicago is announc-
ed to take place at the United States
embassy in Berlin on August
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Straus not only works 10 to II hours a
day at his desk, but goes in for pedes-
trianism at spare times.
Col. Charles A. Edwards, secretary
OF the Democratic Congressional COM
mittee, believes that Louisville has the
best chance of landing the next Demo-
cratic national convention, excepting
only Chicago.
| Jesse r. Grant has been making
tour through Texas, Louisiana and
other states of the South and West
sounding the sentiment of prominent
Democrats on his chances of obtaining g
the Democratic Presidential nomina-
ton.
The death of Senator Morgan and the
retirement of Senators Berry, Black
burn and Carmack, leading or veteran
/ Democrats, leaves important ommittee
vacancies on the minority side to be
flied when Congress reassembles.
The Democratic newcomers in the
Senate next December will be John H
| Bankhead, of Alabama, succeeding the
late Senator Morgan; Jefferson Davis
| of Arkansas, succeeding James H
Berry; Thomas Fl. Paynter, of Ken
/ lucky, succeeding Joseph G. S. Black
l burn, and Robert l.. Taylor, of Tenn.
succeeding EdwarChW. Carmack.
Hoke Smith, the new governor o.
Georgia, is perhaps the only governor
of Southern state who has gone into
office on strictly anti-lynehing plat
form. In his recent Inauguration ad
dress Governor Smith declared ht
) prevent lynchings.''
Francis Kay Pendleton, whom Mayo
Mcclellan has appointed corporation
counsel of New York city, is son o
the late Senator George Pendleton, o
Ohio, who was the candidate for Vice
President on the same ticket OF
which the Mayors father, General Nc
. Clellan, was nominee for President il
i 1864.
n Senator Bankhead of Alabama is tn
: only new Democratic Senator who
g comes straight FROM the House to tn
Senate. He had served his tenth tern
: twenty years. in the House, tn
). Fifty ninth Congress being his last
i and will go to the Senate with the re
gular session of that body in the Six
= tieth Congress. -
William H. (Buck) Hinrichsen, 70
many years conspicuous in Illinoi
. politics, is reported near death at hi
home in Alexander, I'll. Mr.. Hinrich
:, sen is fifty-seven years old. He hat
). been sheriff OF his county, clerk of tn
j. Illinois House, and, during the AItgelt
|
= tary of state. During two years afte
q that date he was Representative il
It Congress from the old Sixteenth dis
y trict of Illinois. He also served a.
chairman OF the Democratic state com
q mittee, and in 1896 he was elected ,
+ delegate at-large to the Democrati
national convention.
Q It is said that if Senator Culberson
? of Texas, is chosen minority leader o
!. the Senate next Decem Der he will mos
T likely be given the vacancy on tn.
;, Appropriations Committee, il he elect
i ! to have it. Senator Culberson's NOR
II important committee assignm ents nov
: are judiciary, Philippine, Postoffi ce
u and Post Roads and Public Building
4 and Grounds. The vacancy on tn
t Appropriations Committee, LETT b.
7 Senator Berry, of Arkansas, is probabI,
: the most prizes of any of the places o.
+ the Senate committee left by Demo
orat.