Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-09-03
; POLITICS AND ?oLITIcIANE
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It is rumored that former Governor
Richard Yates of Illinois may become |
a candidate for the seat of Unitei
States Senator A. J. Hopkins, whose |
term will expire in 1909.
Atlanta wants to entertain the ma
tional prohibition convention next
year, when candidates of the party
will be nominated for president and
vice president.
Under the new primary law in Mis-
souri, NO one may sign the petition Oh
more than one candidate for governor.
Governor warfield of Maryland has
announced that he will be a candidate
in the democratic primaries for
United States senator. His opponents
probably will be Congressman Fred
Talbot, ex-GovernoFs Smith, Brown
and Jackson and Joshua Miles.
To Offset the influence of the recent
Taft visit, the state democratic COM
mittee of Oklahoma has arranged for
William J. Bryan to take part in the
state campaign According to an
nouncement the Nebraska leader Will
speak this week at Lawton and Okla
homa City.
Major H. D. Mcknight, register of
the government land office at Lawton,
who has been nominated by the re-
publicans for congress in the Fifth
district of Oklahoma, is a native ot
Ohio and a Civil war veteran. He
went to Oklahoma in 1892 and has
ever since been prominent in TERRITORY
politics.
Several candidates are already In
the field to succeed Governor Glenn
of North Carolina, whose term will ex-
pire within another year. UP to date
the leading aspirant appears to bt
William w. Kitchin, representative II
congress from the Fifth district. Rep
resentative Kitchin has served six con
secutive terms in congress and Il
known as an opponent Of the railroad
and big corporations.
In the entire history of the countr!
it is a surprising fact that only two o
three ex-senators have been elected
president, although some OF the mos
| distinguished members of the uppe
house have been disappointed aspir
ants for the office.
N. G.. Turk, nominated by the re
publicans of Oklahoma for lieutenan
governor, Is a native of Missouri AM
20 years ago was punching cattle |
the Cherokee Strip. He was one o
the organizers of the republican part
in Indian Territory and is prominen
i in political and fraternal circles.
An interesting political developmer
in Missouri the past year has bee
the rehabilitation of former Governo
David r. Francis of st. Louis, VIII
after a decade of estrangement fror
the rank and file OF his own party !
the state is now said to be more close
" in touch than he has been at an
time since the close Of his admins
tration as chief executive in Januar
1898.
Madison, Monroe and J. @. Adam
found the cabinet stepping stone 4
the presidency, but this political hi
! tory has never repeated itself. 1t
interesting to note in the same comes
ton that Secretary Taft, Secretal
Cortelyou and ex-Secretary Shaw WI
} find no precedent for the elevation
t a cabinet oflcer, other than a seer
tary of state to the highest honor !
the gift of the people.
Lieutenant General Henry c. CO
bin, who has been mentioned for Il
= republican nomination for congress
= the sixth Ohio district, retired fro
active service in the army tive yea
ago. He was born in Ohio and spe
: his boyhood on a farm. He serv
through the Civil and Spanish wa
10 in several Indian campaigns and W
g also in command of the troops in t
70 Philippines for a time.
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