Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-07-23
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
Ambitions and Prospects of Men
Strutting and Fretting Their F.,
Hour on the Stage.
Especial to the ARGUS.)
Washington, D. c., July 81.

washington, u. w. u1y IL.
William Berri, proprietor OF the
Brooklyn Standardization, has been
proposed for the Republican nomina-
ton tor governor OF New York.
Coal miners of the Bloomington dis
trict have Endorsed the candidacy o.
AdIai +. Stevenson, former Vice-Pres
ident of the United States, Tor the Dem
ocratic nomination for governor OF
illinois.
In the present National campaign il
is expected that both parties will put
for.h extraordinary efforts to capture
the co1ored vote. Heretofore the col
ored vote has received only moderate
attention.
The first political wage to be re-
corded in Chicago on the presidential
election was a bet OF 81, 00O that Taft
would be elected. The wager Wa
made at odds ct 2 to L, the man VIII
took the bryan end putting up $500.
The Socialists of Oklahoma will pul
"a va PN ~ NP1 h' Ao1 ~
cording to Secretary Grandfather, who
maintains the party will poll
Is. 900 and 20 900 votes in Oklahoma
this fall.
Governor A. E. Mead OF Washing
ton, who is a candidate for renomina-
ton, declares that i, elected this fall he
will urge upon the Legislature the pas
sage OF a law to prohibit gambling or
race tracks in any form.
DR.. G. a. Reed, OF CINCINNATI, has
announced his candidacy for the sea
of Joseph B. Foraker in the Unitec
Stat Senate. DIR. Reed has beer
prominent i'll the movement tor pui e
food laws and legislation to benefit the
science OF medicine and surgery.
The liquor and a~nti-saloon forces OF
Illinois are preparing tor a fierce fight
Tor control Of lhe general assembly
L the coming primary there will b
Loo candidates for the Legislature, tn,
J. Der iii the political histor.
of the State.
The Independence party leaders say
they will nut a full ticket in the field,
and also will try to have a State tickle
in every State in the Union. In thirty
eight States National committeeme,.
of the Independence party have beer
appointed, the last State thus reple-
ssnted being North Dakota.
Tl,n -nann+ ~ ANT NJ DnNr0
sentative Theodore L. Burton, of Ohio
that he will be a candidate for The Sen
ate to succeed Senate Joseph B. For
aker indicates that, from now until til,
Ohio LIE islature next winter elects the
successor to Mr.. Foraker, there will be
the Buckeye State.
the managers of the independence
party expect a large and representa-
tive attendance at the party's Nationa.
~ention in Chicago next week tt
name candidates for President anC
Vice-President. Outside OF Mr.. Hearst
the leading candidate for the head o
the ticket is said to be Thomas L. His
gen, OF Massachusetts.
Senator H~emenway, of Indiana
Speaker Cannon and Congressman w
B. Mckinley, of Illinois, have beer
spending a short vacation at Mackina
Island, resting up after the activitie
of the recent Chicago convention al
incidentally discussing plans for tn
coming Republican campaign in tn
West.
Republicans of Tennessee are at
loss to find a suitable candidate TO
governor, though they believe tn
chances for Republican success thi
year are better than ever before
George N. TiIlman, of Nashville, wa
prominently mentioned tor the head {
the ticket, but he has declined to be
come a candidate on account of i
health.
Frank H. Hitchcock, the new chair
man of the Republican National CON
mittee, was born in Ohio, but has live
nearly all his lite in Massachusetts
Almost Immediately after his gradu,
ton from Harvard in 1891 he entere
the government service as a clerk
the Department OF Agriculture
Washington.
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