Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-11-28
POLITICS and POLITICIANS.
Ambitions and Prsspsshs f 8n
Strutting and Frettiag Thsir :
Hour on the Stage.
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Especial to THE ARaUs.)
Washington, D. c., Nov. rs.
State Superintendent OF Education
Martin, of South Carolina. has an
nounced his candidacy for the United
States Senate to succeed Senator A. c.
Latimer.
George B. Cox, an acknowledged
leader of the Republican party in Gin
%cinnati, has issued a statement indoors
ing the candidacy of Secretary of War
Taft for the Presidency.
Joseph Fl. Choate has been chosen
president of the National Civil Service
Reform League, which at its recent
Buffalo meeting commended President
Roosevelt for his enforcement of civil
service laws and rules.
The Endorsement of William II. Taft
for the Presidency and a ringing de-
mand for home rule were the salient
features of the platform adopted by the
Alaska Republicans in convention at
Juneau last week.
It is reported that one of the results
of the recent success of the anti Nor
mon party in Utah will be the retire.
ment of Senator Reed Smoot from poll
tics. The party with which Senator
Smoot is affiliated suffered disastrous
defeat at the recent election.
State Senator William Finn, the Re-
publican leader OF Pittsburg, 10 said to
be after the seat of Boies Psnrsse In the
United States Senate. Mr.. Finn IL .
man of great wealth and according to
rumor he has set aside the sum Of ST.
coo, 900 to further his political aspira-
tons.
Charles r. Jones, chairman of the
National Prohibition Committee, de-
clares that the recent liquor victory in
Wilmington, Del, was brought about
by the grossest fraud and bribery, the
whisky dealers boasting the day be-
fore election that they had q fund Of
from $50, 900 to 500, 600 with which to
buy votes.
The Good Government League OF
North Dakota has called q conference
to, assemble in Grand Forks this week.
It is expected that at the conference an
insurgent ticket for Senator, members
of the lower house of CONGRESS and for
State officers will be agreed upon.
Plans will be laid for a vigorous cam
paign.
Ex-United States Senator Henry g.
Davis, Of West Virginia, Democratic
candidate for Vice President in 1904,
is still of the opinion that Judge Gray,
OF Delaware, would make the best
Democratic candidate for President
next Q Senator Davis favors Judge
Gray on the ground thai he is a con-
sentative man of great experience and
ability and a candidate whom all fac
tions could support.
It is reported an effort will be made
at the coming session of Congress to
unseat G. D. Carter, the Indian Con-
gresham from the Fourth district of
Oklahoma. The basis of the contest
is the claim that Carter has not been a
citizen of the United States the requir-
ed length of time provided by law,
seven years. He was made a citizen
by the Indian act passed by Congress
in 1901.
Governor Charles N. Haskell, of Ok
lahoma, who in his inaugural address
scored President Roosevelt for his at
toward the new State, is years
old and a native of Ohio. After leav-
the home farm he taught schoo for
three years and then studied law. At
ter being admitted to the bar he prac-
law until 1888, when he engaged
railroad building and other con
work, in which he made a
fortune. He located in
Indian Territory in 1901 and soon be-
prominent in politics.
Charles II. Burke, former Congress-
nan from South Dakota, has
ed that he will again be a candidate for
Congress OF the Republican ticket. In
his announcement he states tina he is
unqualifiedly for the reelection of
Roosevelt if he will accept
nomination., and declares that
the South Dakota delegation to the
national convention should
90 instructed for President Roosevelt,
Secretary Of War Taft ~ second
choice.