Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-28

and within all the purposes which states
| can best. or can alone, within their own
| borders, and for their own citizens, sub
| serve.
| lican state committee Yesterday proposed
| Mayor Gaynor of the greater city for
| membership i'm the Annias Club. The re-
publicans had been using the cry of
| Murphy made him. against Dix with
! considerable effect, until Gaynor himself
| announced that he was the first man to
proposed and urge Dix for the guberna
| torial nomination. Now Prentice says
| that Mayor Gaynors choice was Judge
| keogh. not Dix, and claims he can prove
| it.
| The republican managers denounce the
| Gaynor-DiX choice proposition put out
| by the democrats frame-up intended
| for no other purpose than to repair the
damage done by the Murphy made him
| cry. And Mr.. Prentice says a friend of
| Judge Keogh's is authority for the state
ment that the jurist, and not Dix. was
| Gaynors choice.
Bar Negroes From Councils.
Following the authorized report that
| President Taft contemplates appointing
a negro to he assistant attorney general
| of the United States comes the announce
ment from Columbia s. c.. that the lily
| white republican convention called by
Capt. John G. Capers, republican nation
al committeeman from South Carolina.
| VIII complete a now party OrganiZa ton
| and drop the negro from the councils of
| republicans in the state. The convention
| will not put ont ticket this year. but
will have lily white candidates for Con
| gress in all of the seven South Carolina
| districts in 1912.
Capers says the plan was not suggest
ed by the Washington administration.
! At Oakland Ctty. Ind, yesterday Sena-
| tor Albert j. Beveridge who is fighting
| hard to retain his seat in the Senate. for
the first time announced himself i'm favor
OF an income tax and against ship sub
sidy proposition. He was loudly ap-
| plauded
Following the advice often given to less
distinguished men. William Jennings
| Bryan has "hired hail. and with or
without the sanction of the Nebraska
democratic organization will speak to
| the voters in Lincoln next Monday night.
| 1t is his plan. reports indicate. to cam
| paign throughout the district by himself
| in this manner. Although Bryan volun-
! teered to speak some weeks ago, the
democratic committee paid no attention
! to his offer. as he is understood to be
opposed to the democratic candidate tor
| governor. James G. Dahlman.
1t Is generally conceded by the political
wiseacres in Ohio that the withdrawal
of Foraker from the stump. following his
assaults On Roosevelt aud his laudation
| of Taft makes the situation in the state
even more chaotic than ever. County
committee members express dissatisfac-
| ton. They seem to regret the loss of
| Foraker. Foraker himself has made no
| statement.
Use of "Plain and Ugly"
| Tom Sherman, son of Vice President
| Sherman. publicly called Senator Daven
| port a liar at a political meeting in Utica,
n. Y. last night. Davenport in the course
Of his speech referred to the Utica Ice
Company, OF which Mr.. Sherman sr.
is president and his son vice president
There is the young mouthpiece of the
Utica Ice Company said Davenport,
| who personally boasts that there are
300 votes in the eighth ward to be stealth
| lily Withdrawn from the ticket. Think OF
| it. people Of the eighth ward. both re-
publicans and democrats, being told how
| many of then, are to be voted against
this ticket on election day!'
| Tom Sherman Immediately jumped up
and yelled; ITS lie" and You're a
| liar.'
| terruption The incident caused some ex-
element.
| In a speech at Salisbury. y. c.. yester-
| day Vice President Sherman made a
warm defense of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
| law, declaring the country does not want
| cheap things, and that the farmer and the
| laborer are at present getting higher
! wages than ever before. He insisted that
| the UciHotTdtS were always wrong ana
! the republicans always right.
! Prentice Seeking Funds.
| Appeals for campaign contributions,
sent out by Ezra Prentice. chairman of
| the New York republican state commit
| tee, are pouring in on employees OF the
state department at Albany. But the APP
peal concludes. this letter is not intend
ed for Officehoders,' and those employees
who think that the injunction means what
1T says are somewhat comforted thereby.
Women employees received the letters as
we'll as men.
At mass meeting OF the republicans
of White Plains, y. Y, last night Sena-
tor Depew praised President Taft and
stirred up lot of enthusiasm when he
declared that more has been accom-
plished by President Taft than by any
other administration since George Wash
ington's time President Taft believes in
upholding the platform on which he was
elected
1t is of interest just now, with the polit-
ical situation in such Il state of calorics
throughout the country that Senator Mel
son w. Aldrich of Rhode Island, whose
term will expire next year, and who is
not candidate for re-elect on, has leased
avenue, New York city, and is said to
hereafter. But the senator's friends say
he will continue to occupy his new and
palatial residence in Providence. and has
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