The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-28
POLITICAL FORECAST.
Several Important Events are Seized
duled For Next Week.

Several Important Events are Seized
duled For Next Week.
Washington, Mar 2S.-One of the
most important political events of
the coming week win be the nation
al convention of the Peoples party
TO be held in st. Louis on Thursday
While the popullsts are less numer-
Gus than decade ago, and will play
small part In the campaign, con
siderable interest is manifested in
the selection of presidential Candi-
date to lead the scattered remnants
of the party to defeat Thomas Wat
son of Georgia, will probably be ac-
corded this honor, although there is
some talk OF nominating Senator
Robert La Toilette of Wisconsin.
Rumors of q colitiOn between the
Popuists and Hearst's Independence
League have been rife of late, but
are apparently without foundation
The most important republicans
convention of the coming week will
be that of Indiana. to be held il
indianapolis on Wednesday and
Thursday. The convention will as
semble on Wednesday afternoon and
select four delegates at large to the
national convention. These delegates
will be instructed to support the
presidential aspirations of Vice
President Fairbanks. All of the
twenty-siX delegates from the thir-
teen districts have already been in
structed for Fairbanks On Thurs
day the convention will nominate
candidates for governor and other
state Offices
The political warfare will have
| its inception in New York state on
Tuesday, when all parties will hold
primaries. Delegates will be elected
to the assembly district conventions
The later will choose delegates to
the state convention which in turn
will choose delegations to the nation
al conventions. Principal interest at
taches to New York, where the re-
publican faction headed by Robert
Parsons and Ex-Governor Odell are
engaged in a struggle for the control
of the primaries. Tammany will con
troll the democratic primaries in the
metropolis. Hearst's independence
League will also hold primaries on
the same date.
Republican conventions will be
held in the first and fourth districts
of Illinois on Monday and in the
fourteenth district of Illinois on
Tuesday All OF these delegations
will probably be pledged to Speaker
Cannon. The republican voters OF
vention next week, to the probable
advantage of Secretary Taft Repub-
lican primaries will be held in Della
ware on Saturday next, when dele
gates will be elected to the state
convention to be held in Dover on
Tuesday, April 7.
One of the most important politi-
cal banQuets of the coming week Will
be that of Missouri Young Men
Democratic Club, to be held III Con
vention Han, Kansas City, on Mon
day night. William j. Bryan will be
the chief guest of honor and will de
liver an address. Several other prom
inent democrats have been invited
it is proposed to make the affair the
largest of its kind ever held in this
country. All of the speeches will be
along the national lines. From Kan
sas City Mr.. Bryan will go to Lin
coin, where on Tuesday he will be
the host at a banquet to which all
the democratic and populists editors
of Nebraska have been invited
Secretary Taft's most important
engagement of the week is at Col
umbus, O., where on Friday he will
speak at the annual banquet OF the
Columbus Board of Trade 1t is be-
lieved that he win take advantage
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