The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-25
POLITICAL FORECAST.
Several Important Events Scheduled
Fer the Week.

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Washington, April 25.-Next
week will be the busiest since the
1908 campaign was opened, if the
number of state conventions to be
held throughout the country affords
any criterion. While most of these
gatherings may be safely forecasted,
as to their presidential preferences,
a few surprises are likely to develop.
While no conventions are sched-
uled for Monday, there will be sever
al important meetings and banquets
of political nature in various parts
of the country. Grants birthday will
/ be observed by many patriotic bod
les in the large cities of the land.
One of the most important of these
will be the Grant Day dinner in
Pittsburg, when Senator p c. Knox,
Pennsylvania candidate for the
presidency, will deliver the principal
address. Secretary Taft will begin
the week in Connecticut, and on
Tuesday will go to New York, where
| he will speak before the Civic For
UNI He has chosen for his subject on
| this occasion THE Influence of Am
erica on Popular Government in the
| World" The independence League
will hold its second annual banquet
| in New York on Monday evening,
and it is expected that William Ran
| dolph Hearst will take advantage of
| the occasion to announce some of the
plans of his new political organiza
| ton.
| Republican state conventions, to
select delegates at large to Chicago,
will be held on Tuesday in Arkansas,
| Colorado and South Carolina, while
republican primaries will be held in
New Jersey and the District of Col
umbia. Democratic state conventions
at which the Denver delegations will
be selected, are to be held on the
same day in New Jersey and Con-
necticut.
The Colorado convention will be
held in Pueblo, and is certain to in
struct it's delegates for Secretary
Taft. While some of the negro voters
of Arkansas are opposed to Taft. it
is almost certain that the Hot
Springs convention will also go on
record as favoring the war secretary.
Similar conditions exist in South
Carolina, where most of the white
republicans look upon Taft as the
logical successor of President Roose-
welt The primaries in New Jersey
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likely to be for Taft's advantage in
the presidential race.
William Jennings Bryan will like
ly find lively opposition in both of
the democratic state conventions to
be held on Tuesday, that of New Jer-
sey in Trenton and of Connecticut in
New Haven. A majority of the dem
ocratic voters of New Jersey are
thought to favor an uninstructed
delegation to Denver. Both Judge
Gray and Governor Johnson have
many admirers in Jersey and they
Will tight any attempt to pledge the
state delegation to the Nebraska
stateman. In Connecticut too, there
is considerable opposition to Bryan,
which may result in an unpledged
delegation.
Five republican state conventions
will be held on Wednesday, that of
Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, YER
mont at Burlington, Mississippi at
Jackson, West Virginia at Parkers-
burg and the Davidson faction of
Alabama at Birmingham Pennsyl-
vanias convention will be notable
as marking the formal launching of
the presidential boom of Senator
Philander c. Knox. Taft will prob
ably receive the Endorsement of the
Vermont convention and that of
West Virginia. Mississippis delega-
ton will likely be, uninstructed, but
favorable to Taft, since the admins
trat1on forces are apparently in con-
troll of the situation. The Alabama
convention will be that of the David
son, or anti-Roosevelt faction, and
will probably support Foraker The
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hold convention later, and there
will be contesting delegations from
Alabama to the Chicago convention.
/ The Maryland republican state
convention will be held in Baltimore
,on Thursday, and while the delega-
ton may be left uninstructed, it will
doubtless swing into line for Taft
when the roll is called at the ma
tional convention. The Maine con-
ventton, which will be held in Port
land on the same day, is also claim
ed by the Taft adherents, although
this is denied in other quarters.
North Cardinals white republicans
are Taft boomers, almost to man,
and the state convention in Green's
boro is expected to take action which
will result in a Taft delegation to
Chicago.
Two Taft delegates. will be elected
to represent Alaska in the republican
national convention, in a territorial
convention to be held in Ketchikan
next Saturday Another important
political event scheduled for next
Saturday is the special democratic
primary in Texas, when the principal
question to be decided is whether
United States Senator J. w. Bailey
will be sent to Denver as one of the
representatives of the Lone Star
state In the national convention.