Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-10-21
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

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 reduc- tion of state expenses during his administra- ton.
 William Mitchell Lewis, a prominent motor car manufacturer of Racine, has announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for governor of Wisconsin.
 Conressman William B. Mckinley, of the nineteenth district of Illinois, is being talked of as possible candidate for the United States senate.
 According to political gossip in Atlanta Hoke Smith, recently governor of Georgia, may de eide 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 a candidate for congress from the first Colorado district.
 Candidates for the republican nomination for governor of California are already looming up, though the primary will not be held for a year. Secretary of State Curry Mayor Mott of Oak land and Congressman Needham and Knowland are mentioned
 Otto T. Barnard, fusion nominee for mayor of New York city, does not favor granting the right of franchise to women at present., although he believes that eventually they will be permit ted to vote as much as they desire
 Judge w. w. McCredie, whom the republi- cans of the second Washington district have nominated to succeed the late Congressman Cushman, is the owner of the two professional lpa haca abol1
 The recent town elections in Connecticut gave the license men a greater advantage than for a number of years, ten towns oing from the no- license column to that of license and six swing ing the other way, through exercise of the local option vote.
 The action of seven Georgia congressman in bolting the democratic caucus and supporting Speaker Cannon in the rules fight has become an issue in state politics. Every one of the sev- en who bolted is being fought for reelection, and from present indications the coming con gressonal campaign will be one of the Iiveliest in the history of the state
 Up to date twenty-six states have spoken through their legislatures in favor of an amend ment to the federal constitution providing for the election of senators by direct vote The states that have taken this action are New Jer- sey, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Utah. Arkansas, Min nesota, 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 additional asset to the republican, fusion ticket New York's munich pal campaign has shaped itself definitely as a fight to oust Tammany from control of the city finances. Both Hearst and Otis T. Barnard, the repubican-fusion nominee, say that their election is a matter of secondary importance, as long as the remainder of the fusion ticket wins out for this will mean Tammany defeat in the board of estimate, which controls the purse strings of the greater city and is medium through which economy or extravaganza may be exercised, regardless of the mayor.