Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-07-17
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

Walter Alexander OF Wausau is be-
ing mertionel as a possible candidate
for the United States senate in the
primary election fight to be held in
Wisconsin this fall.
harles w. Swisher, secretary OF
state of West Virginia, has been nom.
mated by the Republicans of that
state for governor
The Independence league In Cali
fornia has decided to hold its state
convention in Oakland early next
month. The convention will consist
OF 294 delegates.
lowa's supreme court has held con
stitutional the law giving women the
right to vote on specific propositions
for leyyine tax and issuing municipal
5oads.
Five women were numbered among
the delegates and alternates al the
recent Democratic convention at Dem
yer At the Republican convention
bus one woman had a seat.
Major Beecher b. RAY. who has
been placed in charge of the organized
labor end of the Taft campaign. is a
veteran member of the railway mems
union and was a political lieutenant
of the late Mark Hanna.
To avoid the expense of state con
vention the Socialists of Illinois have
issued no call for such gathering.
They have decided to name their
presidential electors by petition.
President E. r. Wright. of the Hi.
nois State Federation of Labor has
issued a letter urging organized Ia.
Dor in that state to support Governor
Deneen for denomination at the mi.
maries next month.
Lieutenant Governor Draper of
Massachusetts will have no opposition
for the Republican nomination for
governor this fall. Three candidates
are engaged i'm a spirited contest for
the nomination for lieutenant gov
ernor.
The spread of the Socialist move
ment throughout the United States Is
beginning TO attract the keen atten.
ton of the politicians. The indica
tons are that the Socialists party
will nominate tickets in a large ma.
iority OF the states this year.
Freeport Illinois, is arranging TO
ce.ebrate on an elaborate scale the
httieth anniversary of the second
great Lincoln-Douglass debate which
was held i'm that city August p. 1855.
Senator DolIiyer of Iowa viii be one
of the speakers.
\ delegated convention of the Re
pubIicans of Texas has been called TO
meet in Houston on August H. The
convention viii elect a state eXecu-
tive committee and nominted presi-
dental electors and a full state
ticket
Five candidates are contestng for
the Republican nomination for gov
ernOr of the state of Washington
They are Governor A. Il. Mead.
former Governor Mcbride, Attorney
General Atkinson Colonel Ridpath of
Spokane and Samuel Cosgroye, a
member of the legislature The con
test will be settled at the general pri-
mary IN September
George r. Sheldon, the new treas
grer of the Republican national com
mittee, has been prominent in the
financial and political life of New
York for many years He is a banker
and is identified with many financial
and industrial companies He was
a member of the Republican national
committee in 1908 and 1904 treas
uIer of the New York county Repub-
liCan committee for several years,
and treasurer of the New York state
committee during the last guberna-
torial mgldjlE6. A. the present time
ne is the president of tht'~ I mon
league of New York. He is 81 years.
old.