The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-04
FORECAST OF NEWS
POLITICIANS OF VARIOUS STATES
 IN TRAINING.
Much Interest Centers in Effect of Taft's Recent Utterances-Bryan and Bailey May Liveh
 Affairs.

Although the political pot cannot be expected to reach the boiling point so
 early in October the present week will witness a warming up of interest
 in the affairs of state. Throughout the country. scattering district nominating conventions will be held, and while
 they will be local in character, the res
 olutions adopted here and there will
 have a significance understood by the
 political seers.
 Much interest will center In the in- fuence exerted by the recent speeches of President Taft The President has
 stated formally his views on the publ e questions which he had planned to dis
 cuss on his itinerary, and his speeches
 of the present week are likely to be Of
 a less formal nature, and inspired by the occasion which he pleases to grace.
 Senator Bailey and MT. Bryan may add something this week on the sub feet of free raw materials, and what ever they say will be widely read. Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot has returned to Washington full of fight, and has made public the double an- nouncement that he does not propose to resign under fire, and that a mon opoly Is forming to secure possession of the country's water power sites He
 believes that Congress must come to the rescue of the Nations natural re- sources, and he may be expected to add an issue or two for the fall campaign.
 Mir. Pinchot will go to St. Louis prob
 ably late in the week and remain there
 to join the President on his trop down
 the Mississippi River.
 President Taft will spend the week
 in California, arriving at Davis on
 Monday evening. The latter half of
 the week will be given over to visit
 to the Yosemite Valley. San Francis co, Sacramento. Oakland and other points will be visited.
 There promises to be no let up this week in the Polar controversy. Com mander Peary has prepared an argu- ment by which he expected to prove that he reached the pole and Dr. Cook did not, and this document may reach
 the public late in the week.
 The battleship Minnesota will re- main in the Hudson River at New York
 on Monday to receive a silver service
 presented by the State of Minnesota.
 The ceremony will take place at o'clock in the afternoon and a delega-
 ton of Minnesota officials Will be
 present.
 The Woman's Home Missionary So-
 c,ety of the Methodist Church will hold its twenty eighth annual convention at Los Angeles, Cal, beginning Wednes- day. The society has membership or
 10000.
 This will be a week of festivity at St. Louis, which city will celebrate on
 n grand scale the centennial anniver- | sary of it's incorporation.
 Professor Abbott Lawrence Lowell
 will be inaugurated as President of | Harvard University with ceremonies | occupying Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, at Washington. the As-
 sociation of Military Surgeons of the
 Tinted States win meet. At Syracuse. l N Y, on Wednesday. there will be held a meeting of the National League
 of Postmasters of the United States. l Tine National Association of Life Un- | derwriters will meet at Louisville, Ky, | on Thursday. l Among the sporting events of first 1 importance will be the opening of the | nost-season games between the Ma | tionals of Pittsburg and the Americans | of Detroit at Pittsburg on Friday, for | the worlds championship; the opening | of the Women's National Golf Champ | ionship at Philadelphia on Monday and ! the National indoor championships Of 1 the American Amateur Athletic Union
 at Madison Square Garden. N. Y., Mon- | day and Tuesday.