The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-25
Politics and Politicians

The capital removal bill for the rec moval of the State Capital from Sacre. mento to Berkeley was decisiVely de. ffeated in the recent election in Cali fornia. a5 eI
 zapata is the banner Republican county of Texas. The official returns of the recent election show that Taft re- oeived 424 votes and Bryan none.
 W. D. Jamieson, who defeated VII. liam P. Hepburn for Congress in the Eighth Iowa district, is a comparativeiy young man who has been engaged in the business of making both ends meet on weekly newspaper
 According to a report circulated in Washington. friends of John Hays Ham mond. the millionaire mining man and publicist ot Massachusetts, will ask Mir Taft to make him a member of his cab met.
 Thomas R. Marshall, whom the Demo- crats have elected Governor of Indiana, is noted story teller and public speak CT. He is lawyer by profession and for several years was on the bench.
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 In all probability before the close of President-elect Taft's administration United States Supreme Court bench. and close friends of MT Taft are of tha opinion that he is likely to appoint to these vacancies three Republicans and one Democrat.
 President-elect Taft will go to New York early in December to attend a banquet of the North Carolina Society He will remain in New York about a week as a guesu of his brother and will then go South to remain until near the date of his inauguration as President. 
 Five Democrats in Indiana have an- nounced themselves for the seat of United States Senator Hemenway with a strong probability of others to fol- low. The entries to date are: John W. Kern. defeated candidate for Vice Pres ident; John F. Lamb of Terre Haute; Benjamin F Shively. of South Bend; Q. " Menzies. of Mount Vernon, and L. p Slack. of Franklin.
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 Five Democratic Governors -elect are to be feted by the Iroquois Club of Chi cago. at it's Jackson Day banquet in January. The Governors who have accepted the invitations to the banquet are John Burke. of North Dakota; John A, Johnson. of Minnesota: Judson Har- mon. of Ohio; Thomas Marshall of In- diana. and Ashton c. Schallenberger, of Nebraska.
 Some of the leading Democratic poli- ticians are of the opinion that Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic Governor of Indiana. will have some advantages al A Democratic Presidential possibility in 1912 over Governor Johnson. of Min nesota three times elected as n Demo crat and Judson Harmon. the Demo- cratic Governor elect of Ohio Their judgment is based chiefly on tho fact that the terms of both Johnson and Harmon will expire two years hence and they will be compelled to be re- elected to retain their prestige
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 The temporary roll call of the House of Representatives for the Sixty first Congress has been tcompleted and pub Iished. It shows that the next House will consist of 219 Republicans and 172 Democrats. a total of 391 as against a total of 3S9 in the House during the last session. of whom 223 were Republi- cans and l66 Democrats. The result Is a net loss of four from the republican side and a net gain of six on the Demo- cratic side the discrepancy being due to present vacancies. All told, the Dem ocrats gained seventeen districts and the Republicans twelve.