The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-15
NEWS FORECAST
FOR THE WEEK
NOT MANY BIG NEWS EVENT 5
IN PROSPECT-PoLiCTicS
HOLD SWAY.
SAINT pATR|ck's DAY
Political Aspirants Are Scheduled
to Talk at Various Places
on That Day.

Washington, d. c., March IA. =
Apart from politics the coming week
d cs not hold great deal in pres
pect in the way of big news events
The American battleship feet will be.
gin its target practice in Magdalena
| bay, the leaders in the New York to
! Paris automobile race will enter the
| Rocky Mountain section, and there
may be some interesting developments
| in the far east.
| King Edward Is cruising about the
| Mediterranean and Emperor William
| is due to start for the same region
| The travels of these two monarchs
will naturally afford grist ftr the news
mill and food for reflection in the var,
ious chancellories of Europe
Grover Cleveland, the only livin5
ex-prcsdent Of the United States, will
observe his seventy-first birthday next
Wednesday at his home in Princeton
| The next seven days will form a
critical period in Republican national
political affairs, witnessing further
pre- grcss of the Taft boom on the one
hand and more thorough organization
IF the opposition on the other. Th3
conventions. state and district, to he
held next week, will for the most part
be in Secretary Tafts favor. Tho
state convention will be held in Des
Nc ines, Iowa, which. state is practical
w conceded to Taft. An expression IN
lhis favor Is likewise expected from
1.-THE New Mexican territorial conyen
ticn to be held next SATURDAY
The Taft managers likewise expect
Ifavorabh results from district cengeu
Itions tG be held during the week IN
Ohio and Virginia. Secretary Can
non Is expected to capture the dele
gates from the Eighteenth, Twentieth
| lTwenty.first and Twenty,third dis
tricts of Illinc is, all of which viii be
held during the week.
| Governor Johnson of Minnesota
Secretary Taft and Governor Hughes
are listed as speakers at the annual
banquet Of the Friendly Sons of ST
| Patrick In New York city Tuesday
night. Senator Knox will be heard at
"A similar function in Philadelphia the
same night. If Governor johnson de
cides to keep his engagement and
make the trip east the event VIII prob
ably have important developments In
regard to his boom for the presiden.
tiai nomination.
Rhode Island Democrats will meet
lin Providence next Saturday aud viii
select delegates to the Denver con
vention and pass strong Bryan resolu
tions. Mr.. Bryan will confine his ac
ltivities during the week to the Middle
lMhst, and on Thursday night he Is
lexpected to speak in Chicago at .
Injecting to mark the formal opening
of the Democratic campaign in that
city.
A number of events of interest tC
llovers of sport and athletics are sched
Iuled for the week. Chief among these
will be the power boat carnival al
palm Beach and the automobile race
lat Savannah, The annual intercolle
lgiate cable chess match between Ok
lford and Cambridge on the one side
land Yale. Harvard. Princeton and Co
Ilumbia on the other is fixed for next
lSaturdayv. The event of the week fol
ring followers will be the information
al bout In Dublin Tuesday night be
tween Jim Roche and Tommy Burns
the American champion.