The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-23
Politics and PoLificans
united statss senator A. ,. McLaur,

United States Senator A. J. McLaurin of Mississippi. in a recent interview. affirmed confidence in the belief that with Bryan as the standard bearer nsss ysns #. and hs Sosn Dafs ss subject of tarin revision, that the Dem- ocratic party will send it's leader to the. White House by handsome ma jority. Adlai E. Stevenson. one of the two living vice-Presidents of the United States, puts in the most of his time travelling about the country visiting ticulariy in the South. He stays but little at his comfortable but unpro- tentious home in Bloomington, III.
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 appainted e A. postmaster pter of G Chicago. @ n re. placing MT. Busse, recently elected inent lawyer of Illinois. He is known s n sae sad of ats s ha been absolute.
 The friends of Senator Foraker are responsible for the statement that the wiping out of the present Republican organization in that State, and the election of the Presidents son-in-law, Representative Nicholas Longworth to
 
 ate, and Representative T. F. Burton to succeed Senator Dick in 1911.
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 Theodore S. Wilkinson, resident of New Orleans, and prominently identf- fled with the sugar interests of Louisi- ana, has practically announced his con- didacy for the next Governorship of Louisiana on the Democratic ticket It struction days that planter and Democrat has presented himself before the people of the State for first position in political honors in Louisiana.
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 United States Senator Curtis is au- thority for the statement that President Roosevelt will receive the vote of Kan sas for the Republican nomination next year if he desires the honor.
 In Minnesota William J. Bryan was a poor second to John A. Johnson in a ballot taken the other day to deter mine the choice of Democrats in the out of thirty four preferred Governor Johnson to the Nebraska leader.
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 The mayoraity record in the town of Decorah, Iowa, Is probably without a parallel anywhere in the country; pr Mayor for the sixth consecutive time and each time that he has run for the office his opponent has been c. N. God dard. an old school mate. Each time
 
 been exceedingly close
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 W. H. Haskell of Muskogee and Thomas Doyle of Perry, two of the candidates for the Democratic nomina- ton for Governor of Oklahoma are now engaged in a series of joint debates. Lee Cruce of Ardmore. another promi- nent aspirant for the nomination. de- clined to enter the joint debates on the ground that he desired to go 1t alone.
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 William George Jordan, editor and publicist, is the father of new idea In American politics--the establish ment of a House of Governors. Mir Jordan would have the beads of the various States meet at stated intervals to discuss divorce. capital punishment, corporations and trusts, insurance, child labor, direct primaries, convict labor, prison reform. inheritance tax and income tax, and he believes their recommendations to their Legislatures would result in uniform laws. He be- lieves, moreover, that such a body would conserve State rights, lessen cen tralization, secure a fuller, freer voice of the people, and make a stronger na- ton.