Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-07-04
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
Ambitions and Prospects of Men
Strutting and Fretting Their
Hour on the Stage.
Washington, D. c., July 2.
Especial to the ARGUs.)

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Washington, D. c., July 2.
Joel Cook has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the
Second district of Pennsylvania to sue
coed John E. Reyburn, who resigned
to become mayor of Philadelphia.
Henry Watterson is of the opinion
that Governor Hughes, OF New York,
will be the national standard bearer of
the Republicans next year.
st. Paul probably has the oldest
mayor OF any large city of the country.
Mayor Robert A Smith, of that city,
ecently celebrated his sOth birthday.
He has held the Office of mayor, with
the exception Of two terms, since
1887.
This years session of the New York
Legislature has been the longest since
that in 1881, when the notable contest
to return Roscoe Conkling and Thomas
c.. Plat to the United States Senate,
from which they had resigned, occur
red.
Augustus E. Wilson, the Republican
nominee for governor of Kentucky, tor
many years has been prominent in the
politics OF the Blue Grass State. He
has held several political offices, and in
1903 he was an unsuccessful candidate
for the Republican nomination for gov
ernor.
Young Arthur P. German, son of the
late United States Senator from Mary
land, appears to nave inherited much
of his father's political shrewdness. He
has been recently renominated for
| State Senator, and his friends say that
if the Democrats control the next Leg
islature, he will be the recognized
leader.
Charles c. Carlin has been nominated
by the Democrats as representative in
Congress from b Eighth district Of
Virginia to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of John F. Rixey. Mr.. Car
lin started life as a newsboy, later vas
a telegrapher, and then took up the
study and practice of law.
ohm Hollis Bankhead, who is ex-
pected to be chosen to succeed the late
Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, was born
in Moscow, Ala, in 1912. He is self.
educated and is a farmer. He served
four years in the Confederate army,
being wounded three times. He served
~ tho Erif+iafh Conrrocc ond in ovorv
successive one until March 4 last, when
defeated for reelection by Captain
Richmond Pearson Hobson.
7. P. Gore, the blind nominee fol-
Senator from Oklahoma, owes much OF
his success to his wife. She reads tie
him b daily papers SO that he may
keep informed as to current events; his
law books, SO hat he may remain
sion, and such volumes as b "Con.
gressional Record" SO that he may OBJ
tain ammunition for use in his politi
cal campaigns. He is of pleasing ap.
p~earance, and his afiiction is not OBJ.
vious to any one who sees him from {
short distance.
Democrats from Oklahoma hav,
broken the usual custom of the oldel
Commemorative and nominated {
woman for a State Office. She is Miss
Kate Bernard, charity worker and
teacher of humanity, chosen without
opposition in the recent State primary
for the office of Commissioner of Chair
ties and Correction. Miss Bernard has
been a resident of Oklahoma since thu
opening of the territory in 1891. II
1902 she vas official reporter for thu
Territorial House of Representatives
and in 1904 held the same position il
the Territorial Council, or Senate. I
was due largely to her efforts that thu
anti-child labor provision, compulsor,
education and the establishment of
department of charities and correction
were incorporated in the constitution
recently framed for the new State o
lOklahoma.