The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-25
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
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Brocktown, Mass, is thinking OF
adopting the commission plan of
government.
United States Senator Flint of Cal
ifornia will not be candidate for re-
election.
1t is reported that Governor Has
kell of Oklahoma intends TO retire
from politics at the expiration of his
term of Office.
President Taft and Speaker Cannon
have accepted invitations to attend
the annual dinner of the Republican
club in New York on Lincoln's birth
day
Democrats OF the Ninth Virginia
district will meet in convention March
/ to name a candidate to oppose
Bascom SIemp, the only Republican
representative in congress from Vir
ginia.
Representative Burleson of Texas,
one of the most prominent Democrats
in the house of representatives, pre-
diets that the next house will be
Democratic by at least 100 majority.
The Democratic leaders of Califor-
MIA, recently assembled in conference
in San Francisco, decided that ''eman-
cipation of California from Southern
Pacific rule" should be the chief is
sue of the coming state campaign.
The dominant faction in the Penn
sylvania Democracy is said to have
decided upon Congressman A. Mitch
ell Palmer as the most suitable cam
didate for governor. Congressman
Palmer is a resident of Stroudsburg,
where he publishes newspaper.
Congressman Gerrit ]. Dickema,
who has announced that he will be
candidate against Mr.. Canon for
the speakership, has long been
prominent Republican leader in Mich
igan. Prior to his election TO con-
gress he had served for number of
years in the Michigan legislature and
as chairman of the Republican state
committee.
1t is said to be the program of the
Democratic leaders of Maryland to
submit to the voters of that state
congressional amendment which dis
franchises the negro on the specific
ground of race Those back of the
movement declare that the Fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States is invalid in Maryland
because it has never been ratified by
its legislature.
Senator Wesley L. Jones of Wash
ington, who is at the head of the
committee to investigate the charges
against Secretary Ballinger, is ma
tive of Illinois. AS young man he
decided to go west and in 1889 land
ed in the town of North Yakima,
Wash, without a cent in his pocket.
Today he is one of the leading law
yers of the state, was a member of
congress for ten years and is now
member of the United States senate.
Politicians in Washington were
surprised to learn of the intention of
Representative Albert F. Dawson of
the Second Iowa district, to retire
from public life at the end of his
present term. Mr.. Dawson, who is
identified with the ''standpat' fac
ton, has been one of the conspicuous
leaders in the house. He is retiring.
he says, in order to go bac kto the
practice of law and add to his in
come.
CONGRESSMAN John A. T. Hull, who
has represented the Seventh district
of Iowa for twenty years, is again to
have fight for denomination. His
opponent will be Judge Solomon F.
Prouty, who came within forty votes
of securing the nomination at the last
primaries. Judge Prouty is identi-
fed with the progressive" faction of
Iowa Republicans and is known as a
close friend and adviser of Senator
Cummins