The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-26
NEWS FORECAST
FOR THE WEEK
SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT
WILL INTEREST NEWSPAPER
READERS.
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS
Will BE More Numerous Than in Any
Week Since Campaign Started
Battieship Fleet to Be at
Santa Barbara.

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! Washington. ID. c., April 25.-The
/ coming week holds In promise an
abundance of events that will inter
/ est newspaper readers. Politics. fsr
! ieign happenings, church celebrations
conventions, sporting events and the
entertainment of the battleship fleet
public attention.
More state aud istrict political con
ventions will be held next week than
during any similar period since the
present campaign began OF these
the majority will be of the Republican
party Secretary Taft will carry of
the honors in the mcst of the staes
but in then umber Of delegates he
will be beaten out by Senator Knox,
for whom the Pennsylvania state con
ventiou, to be held at Harrisburg next
Wednesday, will instruct the sixty.
eight delegates from that state.
Republican conventions, state an L
district. will be held in two New Eng
land states during the week. Vermont
and Maine. From present indications
both are likely t. follow the example
of Massachusetts in sending an unin-
structcd delegation to Chicago, with
the majority Of the individual mem.
bers presumably for Taft The Taft
managers expect to get the Colorado
delegation and also have hopes of cap
turing West Virginia, whose state
convention Is ta meet at Palkersburg
Tuesday. OF the Southern states in
which Republican state conventions
will be held duriug the week Mary
|lend aud South Carolina are regarded
las somewhat druhtiuf In lhcir cEYricn
for the presidency. Arkansas, Missls
sippi and North Carolina are placed
ir. the Taft column The antfadminis,
tration Republicans of Alabama will.
meet in stae convention in Birming
ham Wednesday aud viii choose a
delegation TO Chicago that Will oppose
Taft
The week will likewise he one Of
great activity for the Democrats. Chief
interest will center in the state pri'
mary in Texas, which has already de
|veloped into one Of the most bitter
|politicai ~on,ests the Lcne Star state
has ever witnessed. The point al
issue Is whether or not Senator J. w
Bailey shall be one Of the delegates
atIarge to the Denver convention.
Other Democratic happenings that will
attract attention will be the state
conventions in Connecticut and Now
Jersey. In both states the signs seem
to point to uninstructed delegates to
the national convention.
The presidential .aspirants of both
parties will be heard in public speech
es in several parts of the country
William J. Bryan will circle through
the Middle West Taft win be heard
Tuesday night in New York City and
Governor Johnson has accepted an in
vitation to speak in Detroit "Wednesday
night.
The American battleship fleet win
spend the entire week in the harbor
cf Santa Barbara where an elaborate
round of festivities in honor of the
officers and men will be carried out
The centennial celebration OF the
New York diocese will be the cynosure
Of all eyes in the Catholic world, at
tended. as it viii be. by all of the
liignitaries Of the church in this coun
TRY and several from abroad
Portugal is awaiting with some anX.
| iety the reassembling of Parliament
next "Wednesday. when King Imam
uel will personally take the oath he
fore that body to observe the cousti
teton of oort'gal
Four Of the Southern States viii
observe Monday as Confederate Mem
orial day. and throughout the North
1.-THE same day viii be celebrated in
honor of the birthday of General
Grant The state prohibition elec
| tion in North Carolina will be anothe
event of interest.