The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-21

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.


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Governor Fort of New Jersey has
issued a denial of the report that he
was a candidate for United States
Senator.
Governor Draper of Massachusetts
in his campaign for reelection, is
Featuring the reduction Of State ex-
pense during his administration.
William Mitchell Lewis, a promi-
nent motor car manufacturer of Ra-
cine, has announced his candidacy
for the Republican nomination for
governor of Wisconsin.
Congressman William B. McKin-
ley, of the nineteenth district of IL
linois, is being talked of as a possible
candidate for the United States SEN
ate.
According to political gossip in At
lanta, Hoke Smith, recently governor
OF Georg ia,may decide to enter the
race for Congress from the Fifth
Georgia district.
Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of
William J. Bryan, has given out a
denial of the report that she was to
become candidate for Congress
from the First Colorado district.
Candidates for the Republican
nomination for governor of Califor-
mia are already looming up, though
tho primary will not be held for a
year. Secretary of State Curry, Ma
yor Mott of Oakland and Congress.
man Needham and Knowland are
mentioned
Otto T. Barnard, fusion nominee
fol- mayor of New York City, does
not favor granting the right of fran.
Chise to women at present, although
1c ':elieves ID ev-.' ual.. they v II
be permitted to vote as much as they
desire
Judge w. w. McCredie, whom the
Republicans of the Second Washing
ton district have nominated to sue.
coed the late Congressman Cushman
is the owner of the two professional
league baseball teams in Portland
Oregon.
The recent town elections in Con
necticut gave the license men a
greater advantage than for a number
nO-license column to that of license
and six swinging the other way
through exercise of the local option
vote
The action of seven Georgia Con-
gressmen in boiling the Democratic
caucus and supporting Speaker Can.
non in the rules fight has become an
issue in State politics. Every one
of the seven who bolted is being
fought for reelection, and from pre-
sent indications the coming Congress
sional campaign will be one of the
liveliest in the history of the State.
Up to date twenty-six states have
spoken through their legislatures in
favor of an amendment 20 the IL l.
eral Constitution providing for the
election of senators By direct vote.
The States that have taken this ac-
tion are New Jersey. Oklahoma, Ne
braska, Utah. Arkansas. Minnesota,
Kansas, Texas, Illinois, Indiana,
South Dakota, Idaho, Washington,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Montana,
Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Colorado,
Louisiana, Oregon, Michigan, Iowa,
Missouri, Wisconsin and Nevada.
With Hearst's name as an addi-
tional asset to the Republican-Fusio
ticket New York's municipal cam
paign has shaped itself definitely as
a fight to GUST Tammany from con-
troll of the city finances. Both Hearst
and Otto T. Barnard, the Republican
Fusion nominee, say that their
election is a matter of secondary i'm
portance, so long as the remainder
of the fusion ticket wins out, for
this will mean Tammany defeat IN
TIE ncard of estimate, which con-
trolls the purse strings of the gra ,ter
city and is medium through which
ect romy or extravaganza may Y
ercised, regardless of the mayo.