The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-04-26


their presidential preferences, a fe"
surprises are likely TO develop.
While no conventions are scheduled |
for Monday. there will be several |
important meetings and banquets ot
political nature In various parts
Of the country Grants birthday Will
be observed by many patriotic bodies
In the large cities of the land one
of the most important Of these VIII
| be the Grant Day dinner In Pittsburg'
when Senator r. G. Knox. Ponnsyl-
yanla's candidate for the presidency.
will deliver the principal address.
/ Secretary TAFT will begin the week
/ in Connecticut, and on Tuesday viii
40 to Sew York whore ne Will speak
before the civic Forum. lie has
chosen for his subject on this ocaas.
ion. The Influence of America on
/ Popular Government la the World
I The Independence League will hold
it's second annual banquet in New
York Monday evening, and 1t Is ex-
pected that william Randolph Hearst
will take advantage of the occasion
to announce some of the planS OF
his new political organization.
Republican state conventions, to
select delegates at large to Chicago,
will be held on Tuesday In Arkansas,
| ~ Va
republican primaries will be held in
New Jersey and the District of Column
bia. Democratic State conventions, AT
which the Denver delegations will be
selected. are to be held on the same
day In New Jersey and Connecticut
The Colorado convention will be
held in Pueblo. and iS certain to In
struct its delegates for Secretary
Il Taft While some of the negro voters
of Arkansas are opposed to TAFT i
Is almost certain that the Hot Springs
convention will also go on record a
d favoring the war secretary. Simila
Id conditions exist in South Carolina
III WutIe must ol tnt NHlA' l'pholi'""
n look upon Taft as the logical succes
= sor of President Roosevelt The pr
= maries In New Jersey and the Dis
~ triCt of Columbia are also likely
= be to RATS advantage in the pres
dental race.
. William jennings Bryan viii likel
= find lively opposition in both of th
= demort.atic conventions to be held q
Tuesday. that OF New Jersey
Trenton and of Connecticut In Ne
Haven. A majority of the democrat
voters of New Jersey are thought
favor an minstruCted delegation
Denver Both Judge Gray and Go
enor johnson have many admire
In New Jersey and they will hgl
any attempt to pledge the state del
In Connecticut. too, there is consi
cradle opposition to Bryan, which mG
result In an mplcdgcd delegation.
Five republican state convention
will be held ON Wednesday, that
Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, Vernon
at Burlington, Mississippi at Jackso
West Virginia AT Parkershurg Al
the Davidson faction of Alabama
birmingham. Pcnnsylyania's convo
tiou will be notable as marking q
formal launching OF the PRESIDENT
boom of Senator Phiander c. kno
Tart will probably receive the
dorscmcut OF the Vermont conve
tion and that of West Virginia. MI
sissippi's delegation will likely be II
instructed, but favorable to Ia
since the administration forces a
apparently in control OF the situatio
Y The Alabama convention viii be tn
;. of the Davidson, or anti Roosey,
faction, and will probably suppo
= Foraker The Roosevelt faction
Alabama will hold a convention lat,
70 and there will be contesting deleg
[ tion from Alabama TO the ChicaI
Z convention.
The Maryland Republican sta
convention will be held in Baltimo
ON Thursday and while the deleg
tion may be left uuiustructed IL "
doubtless swing into line for ia
when the roll is called at the nation
convention. The Maine couventio
which will be held in Portland ,
the same day, is also claimed boy Il
Taft adherents. although this is d
MED in other quarters. North Car
linas white republicans are Ia
boomers. almost to a man, and q
state convention in Greensboro is {
pected to take action which win !
suit in a Taft delegation TO Chical