The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-07
she Scottish jury.
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

United States Senator Piles. of
Washington, whose term will expire
in 1911, will be q candidate for re-
election.
1t is reported that Senator Chaun.
cey M. Depew. of New York, will
reside permanently in southern CAL
ifornia otter he retires from the sem
ate tw4 years hence.
United States Senator Robert T..
Taylor, OF Tennessee, expresses the
opinion that Senator Culberson. of
Texas. wonld be the best man for
the Democratic Presidential nomina-
ton in 1912.
Eugene ". Debs, at q recent meet
Ing of the Socialists in Massachusetts,,
announced that he would be candl-
date for another nomination OF tho
hands of his party in 1919.
1t is stated that the opponents OF
Director r. II. Newell, of the United
States reclamation service, have unit
ed upon p. Fl. Thompson, city engi-
neer of Seattle, as the man whom
they will urge upon President Taft to
be named as Mr. Newelrs successor.
Chief Justice ID. Il. Morgan of the
North Dakota supreme court Is being
mentioned as q possible candidate for
the United States senate to succeed
Senator Peter J. McCumber, whose
term will expire in 1911.
Congressman William G. Lowering.
who has been one OF the Massachus-
etts representatives in Congress for
the past twelve years, has issued an
announcement that he will retire
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his present term.
vice. Chancellor Edwin Robert
Walker, at present the acting Cham
cellor, of New Jersey, IL being men,
toned as the Democratic candidate
for governor next year. to succeed
Governor Fort who was elected by
the Republicans in 1907.
Joseph w. McNeal. one OF the pi.
oneers of Oklahomn, has announced
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination. for governor in 1910. He
is the first of many prospective cam
didates to authorize the statement
that he will be in the race.
Judge s. ID. Weakley, a former
Chief Justice of the Alabama SUI
preme court and framer of most of
the prohibition measures recently
passed by the Alabama legislature,
has made formal announcement OF
his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for governor next year.
Among those mentioned as possi-
BILE candidates for mayor of New
York on the fusion ticket, to make
the fight against TaInmany at the
coming election, arc Gustav III.
Schwab, Job Hedges, Charles S. Whit
man, formerly Judge; Henry l.
Stimson, recently United States dis
trict attorney; Robert c. Morris,
president of the Republican club,
William r. Wilcox, chairman OF the
Public Service Commission, Gen.
Theodore A. Bingham, former police
commissioner, and Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Uni-
versity 'Ht
Royal Il. Cabell, the new United
States Commissioner of the Interna,
Revenue. is now considered the. most
potent influence in the Republican
party in Virginia under the present
administration Grea- things are ex-
pected of him by his Virginia friends.
and it is confidently predicted that
he will succeed O.. Bascom Slemp,
Representative in Congress from the
Ninth Congressional district, the only
Republican Representative from Vir.
glnit. I'm Congress, as the leader of his
party in the State.
The election in New York city next
November will be the most import
ent one in the country. 1t is the only
election in which the whole country
Is interested, the outcome of which
seems doubtful. The only other i'm
portant contests are in Massachus-
etts, Rhode Island and Virginia,
where governors are to be elected.
In the first the Republicans are ex-
pected to hold their own, in the sec
ond the Democrats will do their
best to win their usual off-year VIC