Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-28
NEWS FORECAST OF
 THE COMING WEEK
Political Gatherings in Several States of National Inter
 est to Both Parties,

WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 27- The comlng week holds in promise an abundance of events that will interest newspaper readers. Politics, foreign happenings, church celebrations, con Ventions, sporting events and the en- tertalnment of the battleship fleet or the Pacific coast will share in the public attention.
 More state and district political conventions will be held this week than during any similar period since the present campaign began. Of these the majority will be of the republi- can party. Secretary Taft will carry off the honors in the most of the states, but in the number of delegates --e will be beaten out by Senator Knox, for whom the Pennsylyan:a state convention, to be held at liar risburg next Wednesday, will instruct the sixty-eight delegates from that state.
 Republican conventions, state and district, will be held in two New Eng land states during the week, Vermont and Maine. From present indications both are likely to follow the example of Massachusetts in sending an un- | instructed delegation to Chicago, with the majority of the individual mem | beTs presumably for Taft The Taft managers expect to get the Colorado l delegation and also have hopes of | capturing West Virginia, whose state | convention is to meet at Parkersburg l Tuesday. Of the southern states in which republican state conventions | will be held during the week, Mary. | land and South Carolina are regarded as somewhat doubtful in their chorce | for the presidency. Arkansas, Missis- sippi and North Carolina are placed | in the Taft column. The anti-admin. | istration republicans of Alabama wifi meet in state convention in Birming ham Wednesday and will choose 8 delegation to Chicago that will op pose Taft.
 The week will Iikewlse be one ot great activity for the democrats. The chief interest will center in the state primary in Texas, which has already developed into one of the most bitter political contests the Lone Star state has ever witnessed. The point at is sue is whether or not Senator J. " Bailey shall be one of the delegates at-Iarge to the Denver convention 4Other democratic happenings that will attract attention will be the state conventions in Connecticut and New Jersey. In both states the signs seen to point to- uninstructed delegates tC the national convention.
 The presidential aspirants of botf parties will be heard in public speeches in several parts of the coun try. William J. Bryan will circle | throueh the middle west. Taft will bC heard Tuesday night in New Yorl City and Governor Johnson has ac cepted an invitation to speak in De troit Wednesday night.
 1 The American battleship fleet vii spend the entire week in the harbo of Santa Barbara, where an elboratt round of festivities in honor of thu officers and men will be carried out
 The centennial celebration Of thu New York diocese will be the cyno sure of all eyes in ''-a Catholic world attended, as it will be, by all of thu dignataries of the church in thi
 country and several from abroad.
 Portugal is awaiting with som
 anxiety the reassembling of parlia ment next Wednesday, when Kim Emanuel will personally take tn oath before that body to observe thu
 constitution of Portugal.
 Four of the southern states will ot serve Monday as Confederate MemoI ial day, and throughout the north tn
 same day will be celebrated In homo of the birthday of General Grant. Tn
 state prohibition election in Nortl
 Carolina will be another event of h
 terest.