Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-12-13
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
Statewide prohibition is being dis
cussed in Virginia.
Governor Brown of Georgia has
given his friends to understand that
he will be candidate for reelection
Congressman Charles E. Townsend
will be a candidate against United
States Senator ]. c. Burrows in the
Michigan primary next year.
special election will be held on
March in the Fourth congressional
district of Virginia to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Congressman
Lassiter.
Present indications point to State
Senator Arthur P German, a son of
the late United States Senator Cor
man, as the democratic candidate for
governor of Maryland in 1911.
Democratic leaders of Kansas are
arranging to hold a conference in To-
peka next month to agree upon dem
ocratic state ticket for the primary to
be held next August.
Congressman E. D. Crumpacker of
the Tenth Indiana district announces
that he will be a candidate for re-
nomination He has served six con-
secutive terms in the lower house
Robert B. Glenn, who has travelled
extensively about the country since
his retirement from the governorship
of North Carolina, believes that demo
cratic sentiment favors the nomina-
ton of Governor Harmon of Ohio for
president in 1912.
The son of the late Representative
DeArmond of Missouri may be nomi-
mated by the democrats to succeed his
father. The nomination will be equiv
alent to election, as the district is
heavily democratic.
Lee Cruce of Ardmore, who made
the race for the democratic nomina
ton for governor of Oklahoma two
years. ago, and was defeated >hx GilaS
N. Haskell, has announced hi
candidate for the goxernorshil
iect to the democratic prlqarie
summer
General J. Warren Keifer, whd has
been the representative in congress
from the Seventh Ohio district al
most continuously for the past thirty
two years, is to have a youthful OPP
ponent when the next convention
meets. The opponent is to be j. re-
tired naval officer, Lieut.. Roberf W.
Kessler of Tippacanoe City, Obi p.
OF vice presidents of the United
States New York has furnished ten,
i've of whom became PRESIDENT two
oy election and three by succession.
has furnished three
vice presidents, Virginia two, Indiana
.hree, Kentucky two, and South Caro-
ina, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Maine,
Illinois and New j rsey
1ne each.
Richard c. Kerens, who is said to
le slated for the post of American {
to Austria, has been prom
nent in political circles since 1884, {
II which year he became a member !
If the republican national executive
committee. Since 1876 Mr.. K erens
las been a conspicuous figure ih the !
abroad development of the south
vest, and at the same time one of the
eading republicans of Missouri and s
st. Louis, his home city.
o.
Henry Rosenberg of Indianapolis,
Who was the originator of the national s
ariff commission convention, is ex-
,ected to be the next republican can
lidate for congress in the Seventh /
indiana district. He has already de- s
Jared himself as an anti-Cannon man
md strongly in favor of the Bever-
dge-La Follette-Cummins idea OF real
ariff revision Mr. Rosenberg is a /
prominent business man of the Indi c
ma metropolis and has never held any S
Dublic office d
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emedy. 1t stops the cough, relieves L
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christmas gift to husband and friend, s
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