The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-02-10

by this time next year. VIZ
should be receiving accounts of bach.
elor ladies' and bachelor gentlemen
too for that matter, who refuse tC
! give the census taker their ages.
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS
Hutchinson, Kansas, VIII vote in
March on the question OF adopting
the commission form Of government
G.. Gunby Jordan, prominent
capitalist and manufacturer OF iSa-
yannah, is mentioned as a possible
candidate for governor of Georgia
two years hence.
The prohibition wave that has
swept with telling effect over many
parts of the South is now threatening
TO engulf the State of Virginia. Al
ready many large towns and cities
in the Old Dominion have voted
"dry."
Representative James T.. Watson,
recent Republican candidate for gov
ernor of Indiana, may be Secretary of
Commerce and Labor in the new Taft
cabinet, according to political gos-
sip in Washington.
-Four states give equal suffrage to
women-Wyoming Colorado Idaho
and Utah, Rhode Island, by legisla-
tive vote, and Oregon by popular
vote. have refused to adopt equal
suffrage for women. Eighteen states
now have school suffrage for women.
According to one Washington au-
thorlty five places in the Taft cabi-
net have been decided upon as fol-
lows: Secretary of state, Philander
Knox, of Pennsylvania; Secretary of
the Treasury, George NJ. Reynolds,
of Illinois; Secretary of the Interior,
Richard A. Ballinger, of Washing
ton; Secretary of Agriculture, James
Wilson, of Iowa; Postmaster Cen
eral, Frank II. Hitchcock, of Massa-
chusetts.
A bill introduced in the Texas leg
islature provides for a graduated tax
on bachelors of from S25 to $40, ac-
cordSng 10 age; double tax unless
each eligible bachelor makes JaffT-
dayit that he has proposed to at least
one woman during the year. A some
what similar measure introduced in
the Wisconsin legislature calls for
the organization OF state bureau to
find wives for bachelors who wish to
avoid the tax.
Representative Frank o. Lowden,
of Illinois, who is sad by some TO be
slated for the agricultural portfolio
in the Taft cabinet, Is 4S years old
and the son of blacksmith. He
worked his way through college,
studied for the bar and became a
successful lawyer. He married the
daughter of George NJ. Pullman, the
millionaire ear manufacturer, and
was elected TO Congress. He Is well
known as a practical farmer.
II Postmaster General Meyer be .
comes Secretary Of the Navy, as now
appears likely, he will be the seventh
Massachusetts man who has held the
navy portfolio. Jacob Crowninsh!eld
was the first Massachusetts man at
the head Of the department. He was
appointed by President Jefferson in
1905. The others were b. w. Crown
inshield, David Henshaw, George
Bancroft, the historian; John d. Long
and William II Moody, now a lust
Ice OF the United States Supreme
Court.
The Massachusetts ballot, about
which much has been heard of late
was devised by Richard Henry Dana.
It's principal features are described
as follows: All candidates for the
same office are grouped together al
pIabetically, with the party name or
names after each candidate. The
voter expresses his choice by placing
cross opposite the candidate in
eacs group for whom he wishes TO
vote The ballot has been adopted
by Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode
Island, Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon,
Nevada, Minnesota Arkansas Ten
nessee, Florida, Mississippi and Vir-
ginla' In some of these states II
It has been modified in some respects.