The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-28

Josephus Daniels, Democratic na- tionaI committeeman from North Car olina, Is strong in his preference for Bryan as the standard bearer for the Democracy of 1908
 Senator CuIIom of Illinois, has joined his voice to the Cannon boom. He says there is no man so well fitted for the White House as Voc Cannon, Tor the reason that he Is the best posted man in the country on the matters that touch the welfare. of the people.
 The opinion is gaining ground in Washington that Senator Culberson Of Texas will be elected to the Democratic leadership in the upper branch of Con gress, to succeed former Senator Black burn of Kentucky. The election of Culberson would break all Democratic Drecedents, in that he has just com menced his second term. and 1t has been the custom to select a man with much longer service;
 Lieutenant Governor Chanler of New York, whose name Is mentioned in con nection with the Democratic presiden- tial nomination, is not yet forty years of age. He is the son of John Win throp Chanler and Margaret Astor Ward Chanler, the latter daughter Of Samuel Ward and a granddaughter Of William B. Astor. The lieutenant gov ernor's father held the oftice of sachem in Tammany Hall, and represented a New York district In Congress Tor several years.
 Frank B. Katzenbach, Jr., whom the Democrats of New Jersey have nomt- mated for Governor, was twice elected mayor of Trenton, though the city Is normally Republican. AS mayor he made a record for two thinEs-votes and speechmaking. He is a good story teller and is every ready with an apt anecdote with which to clinch an argu- ment. He is a graduate of Princeton University and has won distinction as a lawyer. His friends predict that he will make fine campaign for the gov ernorship.
 Theodore Stark wilkinson, one of the three candidates in the fight for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Louisiana, traces his ancestry back to old Revolutionary stock, his progeni- tors on both his fathers and his moth CTS side having played prominent parts in the great fight for freedom. On his fathers side his great grandfather was General James Wilkinson. who. at the age of only twenty years, wrote the terms of the surrender of General Bur goyne to General Gates at Saratoga, General Wilkinson at the time being on the latter's staff.
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 Edward F. Noel, who will be the new governor of Mississippi. favors the amendment of the primary election law. of which he Is the author, limit ing the amount a candidate for State office shall spend in making canvass. The new governor goos into office pledged not to become candidate for the United States Senate, and he will he the first executive of Mississippi who has made an ante-electton pledge of this character.
 Astute politicians know that it is alr ways well to watch the State elections in the years immediately preceding the presidential canvasses. History has taught them that in all the previous party revolutions in the presidency in dlcations of the coming change were furnished in the State elections of the year immediately previous. This was SO in 1859, just before Lincoln's first election in 1888 a year before Cleve- land carried the country the first time and in 1887, just prior to Clevelands defeat and Harrison's victory. The state elections of 1889 showed the drift which was to sweep Harrison and Ty- Ter into office in 1S4o, and the State elections of 1S43 showed the swing back to the Democrats, which took concrete shape when Polk de1eateo l Clay in 1844-