Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-03-30
PoLITICAL FoREoAsT
National Peoples Party Convention
Important Event.

Important Event.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 30.-one Of
the most important political events
Of the present week will be the ma
tional convention of the Peoples
party, to be held in st. Louis on
Thursday. While the popullsts are
less numerous than a decade ago, and
will play small part In the cam
paign, considerable interest is mani
tested In the selection OF presiden-
tial candidate to lead the scattered
remnants OF the party to defeat.
Thomas Watson OF Georgia, will
probably be accorded this honor, al
though there is some talk OF nominat-
ing Senator Robert La Toilette of
Wisconsin. Rumors of coalition
between the populists and Hearts
independence league, have been rife
OF late, but are apparently without
foundation.
The most important republican
convention Of the coming week will
be that of Indiana, to be held in Ind
annapolis on Wednesday and Thurs
day. The convention will assemble
on Wednesday afternoon and select
four delegates at large to the nation
al convention. These delegates will
be instructed to support the presi-
Dental aspirations of Vice-President
Fairbanks. All OF the rs delegates
from the 10 districts OF Indiana have
been instructed for Fairbanks. On
Thursday the convention will nomin-
ate candidates for governor and other
state offices.
The political warfare will have its
inception In New York state on Tues
day, when all parties will hold pri-
maries. Delegates will be elected to
the assembly district conventions.
The latter will choose delegates to
the state conventions, which In turn
Will choose delegates to the national
conventions. Principal interest at
taches to New York City, where the
republican factions headed by Her
bert Parsons and Ex-Governor Odell
are engaged in a struggle for con-
troll of the primaries Tammany will
control the democratic primaries In
the metropolis. Hearst's independ-
ence league will also hold primaries
on the same date.
Republican conventions will be
held in the first and fourth districts
of Illinois today, and in the four
teenth district of Illinois tomor-
row. All of these delegations are
pledged to Speaker Cannon. The
republican voters of Porto Rico will
also hold their convention next week,
to the probable advantage of Secre-
tary Taft. Republican primaries will
be held in Delaware on Saturday
next, when delegates will be elected
to the state convention to be held at
Dover on Tuesday, April T.
One of the most important politi-
cal banquets of the coming week win
be that of the Missouri Young Mems
Democratic Club, to be held in Con-
ventlon hall. Kansas City, on Monday
night, William j. Bryan viii be the
chief guest of honor and will deliver
an address. Several other prominent
democrats have been invited and 1t
Is proposed to make the AFFAIR the
largest OF its kind ever held in the
country. All Of the speeches will be
along national lines. From Kansas
City Mr.. Bryan will go to Lincoln,
where on Tuesday he will be the
host at banquet to which all the
democratic and populist editors of
Nebraska have been invited.
Secretary Tafts most important
engagement of the week is at Column
bus. Ohio. where on Friday he will
speak at the annual banquet of the
Columbus Board of Trade. 1t is be-
lieyed that he will take advantage
of the occasion to make some Inn
portant announcements on national
issues.