The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-22
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

w. u. DalS, Oh Jasper, ILL.,, mas an
nounced his candidacy to succeed
Congressman Richmond P. Hobson
of the Sixth Alabama district.
Mrs. Alma v. Lafferty, the only
woman member of the Colorado leg
;slature, has introduced 10 bills, all
of which have passed the house.
In the recent elections in Connec-
ticut the city of Hartford went Ii
cense by an overwhelming majority,
greatly to the surprise and disap-
pointment of the prohibitionists.
Grant B. Dimick, a prominent law
yer and politician of Oregon City.
has announced himself as a candi-
date for the republican nomination
for governor of Oregon in 1910
Friends of Ex-Governor J. Frank
Hanley of Indiana say that the for
NAL announcement will soon be made
of his candidacy for United States
senator to succeed Albert ]. Bever-
idge. Mr.. Hanley, it is said, believes
his battle for temperance will give
him a good lead.
The Connecticut legislature has
taken action which makes Lieutenant
Governor Frank B. Weeks acting
governor during Governor Lilley's ILL
ness. Hitherto no provision for such
a contingency has existed in Con-
necticut.
Former Vice President Fairbanks
will sail from San Francisco on May
16 for a trip of one years duration,
to include in his itinerary Hawaii,
China, the Philippines, Australia,
Africa and a large section of Europe.
His family will accompany him.
The republican state convention Of
Pennsylvania will meet at Harrisburg
June 16, but with quite a reduction
in it's representation. The number of
delegates is based upon the vote
polled at the last presidential cleo
ton, when there was apparently
much less padding of the ballot boxes
than in 1904.
Norman E. Mack, chairman of the
democrat national committee, has
completed arrangements for the pub
LEGATION of a monthly magazine, to
be known as the National Monthly,
and which will be devoted to the in
terests of the democratic party in the
nation. The first number of the mag
azine will make it's appearance under
date of May 1.
Thomas Rudolph is still prac-
ticing local lawyer and judge at the
age of 95 in Shippensburg, Pa. He
was recently nominated for his jul
dicial position by the democrats and
so popular was he that no candidate
was put up against him by the repub-
Iicans. If he finishes his term he
will be SO years old.
James R. Mann, who prevented the
introduction in the house of repre-
sentatives of the petition of Chicago
women for a reduction of the duties
on leather gloves and cotton hosiery,
has represented the Second Illinois
district in congress since 1897 and
for several years has been conspic-
uous in Illinois politics. He has
served as chairman Of the Illinois
state republican convention ana for
four years he was a member of the
Chicago city council.
There seems to be very general
impression in the inner circles OF
Tammany hall that the organization
should nominate next fall William T.
Jerome for district attorney. Four
years ago Jerome, singlehanded and
alone. won a reelection to the dis
trict attorneys office by over 1000
plurality, defeating the Tammany,
independence league, republican and
socialist candidates. 1t has been
frequently said that had Jerome been
nominated at Tammany's hands in
1905 there would have been no dem
ocratic state convention nominating
Hearst in 1906.