The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-13
ELECTION ECHOES.


plurality for governor is 1892.
Maryland's electoral vote will be
divided, Bryan getting seven and Taft
one.
With nothing to hinder the formula
ton OF plans for the approaching SEES
sion Of congress and the extra session
which the new administration is
pledged to convene, party leaders are
now giving serious consideration to a
plan to rush tariff revision through at
the earliest possible moment, tits
admitted on all sides that uncertain.
ty will prevail in certain lines of in
dustryF until the tariff has been re-
vised.
Representative Charles W.. Fowler
OF New Jersey chairman of the COM
mittee on banking and currency, has
announced that he would be cand1-
date for speaker of the house in oppo-
sitlon to Joseph G. Cannon. Mr.. Fowl
er was elected to represent the Fifth
New Jersey district for the eighth
successive time Tuesday.
A monster petition to be circulated
among the women of America, and
then submitted to President-elect Taft
is the immediate plan Of the National
American Woman's Suffragist associa-
ton. Announcement of this fact was
made by the Rev. Anna Howard, pres
1dent of the association. "Mr. Taft
has often said he was willing the
women of America should have the
right OF franchise if they desired 1t, =
the president said. Now is the time
to give him an opportunity to show
what he meant by that statement"
The republican party in New York
is about to be plunged into a second
battle over the question of the sue
cessor of Thomas Collier Plat, his
term expiring March 8. 1t has develop
ed that nine candidates were ready to
accept the senatorship..
Chicago business men have resu1u-
ed the march to prosperity. Careful
estimates by members of the Chicago
Association of Commerce Indicate
that more than $4,000 workers have
found places for full work in the two
days since the election. These same
men predicted that before January 1,
10000 additional wage-earners would
be given employment
All doubt as to the election of John
Johnson has been swept away by the
returns received. His majority over
his republican opponent IL the state
now promises to be twenty thousand.
Returns show that Taft has at least
$4,000 majority over Bryan, and later
returns may show 100000 Roosevelt
had 10000 four years ago.
Interest in the result of the cleo
ton in Manila was great. The Phil
ippines are wild over the election of
Taft and prospective change in the
administration has already aroused
the agitators to immediate indepen-
dence. Practically complete election
returns were published in all Manila
papers.
When William Howard Taft goes in
to the white house on March next he
will probably have the following cab
,inet: Secretary of state, Elihu Root
of New York; secretary of the treas
ury, George Won L. Meyer Of Masss-
chusetts; secretary of war, Luke E.
Wright Of Tennessee; secretary or
the navy, William Loeb, |Jr., OF New
York: secretary of the interior, James
r. Garfield of Ohio; attorney general,
Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota; post
master general, F. H. Hitchcock of
Massachusetts: secretary of agricql-
ture, James Wilson of Iowa; secre-
tary of commerce and labor; Oscar S.
Straus Of New York: Fred w. Carpen-
ter of California, will be the private
secretary to the president.
Charles G. Duble, a locksmith Of
New Orleans sent to President-elect
Taft a telegram congratulating him
upon his victory and reminding him
that when they attended school to-
gether as boys in Cincinnati young
Taft had whipped him in "a square
stand-up fight" Last night Dnble. was
overjoyed when he received a .telo-
gram signed "W. H. Taft" which
thanked him for his congratulations
and his reminder of an incident, of
their boyhood days.
'The Taft landslide pulled Hughes
through" was the explanation of
Charles f. Murphy, Tammany# hall
leader, of the failure of the democrat
lie candidate to win the contest for
governor. "The election is over" con-
tinued Mr.. Murphy, "and we are start
ing to carry the. city next fall in the
election" Asked regarding a report
ed movement to repose,him from lead
ership, the Tammanys chieftafn re-
piled: Eyes, there's always been such
a movement among few.'' ~
With Bryan apparently. removed as
a presidential factor, Governor Johh4
son of Minnesota is the logical candi-
date for president in 1912, according
to party leaders in that state The
victory Of Governor Johnson will
make him potent factor in the next
campaign.