Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-13
Politics and
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Marion Butler, former United
States senator from North Carolina,
has come out for President Roose-3
welt for third term.
Major John G. HumphiIl is out for
the seat of omitted States Senator
Latimer of sout- Carolina. Major
Hemphill belongs to the old South
Carolina family and is known as a
scholar and an orator Of rare attain
ments. Il
The Brooklyn Democratic club
has called conference Of democratic.
governors to meet at Brighton Beach
the latter part Of this month to
consider Entertainments Of the fed
eral government on the powers Of
the state. 5f#s5s
| does not take kindly to the sugges-
ton Of some of his friends that he
should become a candidate for the
democratic nomination for vice-pres-.
lident. He says --e doesn't want.
the job. WI #
United States District Judge Ian
dis, who imposed the famous $29,-
100000 fine upon the Standard Oil.
Co., is now mentioned as a possible
candidate for Tie republican nomi-
nation for governor Of Illinois.
Carl F. Kuennle, former law part
ner of Leslie M. Shaw, is one of
the latest gubernatoria. candidates
| to appear in the Iowa campaign.
While he has not formally announc-
led his candidacy his political friends
declare he will be in the race.
OF the seven whose names are
/ now most prominently mentioned in
connection with the republican nom
| ination for the presidency, six are
Identified with federal official life at
the present time. And the seventh,
Leslie NJ. Shaw, only recently retir-
/ ed from the presidents ofic al fans
4 ily.
1 winston Churchill, the novelist,
i who has entered politics and who
was candidate for governor Of New
Hampshire last year, has developed
strong political convictions, and his
friends expect lin to figure promis
! nently in national affairs before
many more years go by.
/ 1t is interesting to note that only
one member of the house of repre-
sentatives mas reached the presi-
dency at the time of his incumbency
in the house. That was James A.
j Garfield of Ohio who was one of
/ the best examples of the da'
/ horse" candidate which the history
! of the country affords.
New JERSEY republicans are quite
as much at sea as to the platform
for the coming gubernatorial cam
paign as to the selection of their
candidate. The Bishops law, with
4 it's no-screen clause as a guard
! against Sunday opening, may, they
say, cost them the support Of so ae
of the strongest republican counties.
In view of the Fairbanks candi-
sdacy it is interesting to note that
only three vice-presidents have been
elected to the presidency when they
held the lower office, and none of
them since 1886. when Martin Van
Buren, was the successful standard
bearer of the democratic party
To find the other examples of sue
cessful vice-presidentiaI candidates
for the presidency 1t is necessary to
/ go back almost to the foundation of
the republic, when John Adams was
elected as the successor of George
| Washington, and when Adams was
in turn succeeded by Vice President
Jefferson. So that if Vice-P President
Fairbanks succeeds in winning the
| presidential nomiatinn and election
1t would be almost without preced-
emit.