The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-28
OF POLITICAL INTEREST.

4 Governor John A. johnson for third
term was gratifying news to Mr.. Bry-
an who at once forwarded telegram
Of congratulations
1t has been announced at republican
headquarters in Chicago that Speaker
4 Joseph G. Cannon will make a speech
making tour of the country beginning
in September. He will talk, if possible,
in every doubtful congressional dis
trict.
Governor Hughes is an aristocrat in
i his correspondence. When he writes
a personal note from the executive
/ chamber at Albany he uses the heay-
lest type of stationery of a cream
white color, double page, and ten by
seven inches, twice the size the aver
age man has for his personal use.
The seal of the state, embossed in
gold, is stamped at the head Of the
!. paper with the words, Estate of New
York, Executive Chamber, Albany,
! N. Y" in blue below.
] Thomas Watson, populist candidate
for president, has announced that he
will wage an active campaign to car
ry Mississippi and with that object
in that state.
Tio fact that Senator Foraker of
Ohio was not asked to participate in
, the opening of the republican cam
paign in that state has caused much
comment from the republican press.
The reason given for mus sighting
the senator is that in an address re-
Gently before the chamber of COM
merce of Cincinnati he made a severe
attack upon the policies OF President
Roosevelt.
Thousands of democratic campaign
buttons Of the vintage of 1895 and
; 1900 have been sold to Brooklyn shop
keepers, and fully $4,000 was realized
by those who engineered the transac-
ton. Some of the buttons bore the
pictures of Bryan and SeWall and 9TH
ers o fBryan and Stevenson.
A trick mule mascot sent to Mr..
! Bryan by the Minnesota State Agri-
cultural society became unruly while
an eastern newspaper correspondent
was riding him and the reporter was
thrown and seriously injured.
A large black snake, which has
made its home under the porch of Mr..
Bryan's home at Fairview and which
has frightened many visitors, has
been captured and given to the zoo
at Lincoln, Nebraska.
Eugene Chain, candidate of the pro-
hfbition party for president, has ac-
cepted an invitation to speak at At
lanta, Ga. The occasion OF Mr.. Chat-
ms visit will be celebrated by the
holding of great prohibition rally
in that city.
John w. Kern was asked by a
friend if he liked Roosevelt. Mr.. Kern
replied that he did and asked his
friend how he liked Roosevelt. well, !"
replied the friend, I'D like him lot
better if you didn't like him so well"
Chairman Mack of the democratic
national committee has authorized
J denial of report that the national
committee had received a fund or
100000 left over from the last demo-
, cratic national campaign. Mr.. Mack
said that the report is without foun-
dalton.
If George T. Angel, president of
the Massachusetts S. P. c, A., has his
way, William H. Taft has taken his
last horseback ride. ut is outrageous
cruelty to animals" said Mr.. Angel,
''for a big 3O0-pound man like Taft
to ride a horse about the country. Ii
he must ride, let him use an automo-
Ibile or elephant"
National Chairman Charles r. Jones
of the prohibition party has announc-
ed that it bad been decided to make
a vigorous fight for the South Dakota
vote for Chain and Watkins, presiden-
tial. and vice presidential candidates
of that party.g
Announcement has been made by
General Dupont, director Of the speak
ers' bureau at the republican national
headquarters, that Governor Hughes
has offered his services as speaker
during the campaign, and that the
offer has been accepted.
Mr.. Bryan will permit no one to
ride his trick mule since the animal
threw and seriously hurt man who
was riding him. The mule has been
put to work, pulling grass cutter
over the lawn Of Mr. Bryan's home.
Contributions to the campaign fund
from corporations or from officers OF
corporations, acting as such, are not
being accepted at republican national
headquarters, according to a state
ment made by Treasurer George r.
Sheldon, of the republican national
committee. Mr.. Sheldon said that he
had returned several such contribu-
lions to those who made them.
Editors of every democratic and in
dependent newspaper throughout the
United States have been appealed to
by the democratic national committee
to start subscriptions for the demo
cratic campaign fund in their news