Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-21

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.


Judge John l. Worthington. Repub
lican candidate for governor of Ark
ansas, is stumping the State in a Wig
orous fashion.
Republicans of New Hampshire will
meet in convention in Concord on Sen
TENDER II to name candidate for the
State offices to be filled at the No
vember election.
Charles II. Heating of Mansfield
Ohio, has been appointed assistant di
rector of the Republican speakers
bureau, and has been placed in charge
of the work at the Chicago headouar.
tiers.
Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Agriculture and Secretary Strauss
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor will speak in Vermont next
week in the interest of the Republi-
can ticket in that State.
The independence party has placed
State ticket in the field in Texas
The candidate for governor is f. W.
Kirkpatrick, who is well known as
the president of the Texas Farmers
Congress.
The boom of John b. Stanchfeld
for the Democratic nomination for
governor of New York has been re
vived. 1t is said that the choice of
Mr.. Stanchfield would be satisfactory
alike to Mr.. Bryan. to Chairman Mack
and to Leader Murphy of Tammany
Hall
Eight American born Chinese citl.
zens of Los Angeles have formed
Bryan and Kern" club. The club il
is said, will work to have the Chinese
voters throughout California support
the national Democratic ticket at the
November election.
Martin w. Littleton, former borough
president of Brooklyn, and who was
the leading counsel for Harry X.
Thaw in his second trial, is being dis.
Cussed as a possible candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor
Of New York.
An enthusiastic woman suffrage |
has been inaugurated in
and it will be actively |
until the election in No.
The prime director of the
movement is Mrs. Katherine Biggers
Of Chickasha, president of the Okla
homa Suffragette Association.
George w. Cromer, former congress.
nan from the Eigth Indiana district,
has been appointed at the head of a
abor bureau established by the Re
'Iblican State central committee of
Indiana. 1t is said that a fund Of
'25, 900 has been set aside to carry
IL the work of this bureau
The official notification of the can
!idates on the Independence party
!cket is planned to be held within
he next week or ten days The mott
lcation of Thomas l.. Hisgen, candi-
late for president, will take place at
lis home in West Springfield, Mass,
nd that of John Temple Graves, can
idate for vice president, will take
lace, it is said in Georgia.
Adlai E. Stevenson. former vice
resident of the United States and
andidate on the Democratic ticket /,
)r governor Of Illinois. is 70 years
ld. Despite his years he is still Wig !
rous and active and his friends ex. {
ect him to make a winning race :
E ainst Governor Deneen. Mr.. Stev-
lson declares that whether elected or
Of it will be the last time he will be
candidate for public office.
The Ninth Virginia district has long
zen thorn in the side of the Old r
ominion Democracy, for the reason
lat it is the only district to be rep.
scented in congress by a Republican.
he Democrats now believe they have
und the man to remove the thorn. c,
the person Of j. Cloyd Byars, a
istling young attorney of Bristol
no has been named to make the race
,ainst c. b. Slemp, the Republican
C