Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-03
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.
Gathered From the News Notes of
Many Papers.


An election will be held February
1 6 in the second Georgia district to
choose a successor to the late Repre-
sentative James NJ Griggs.
Iowa Prohibitionists will meet in
state convention early in April to
rhoose their candidates for governor
aId other state officers.
Speaker Cannon has accepted an
invitation from the Pittsburg cham
Der of commerce to speak at the
Lincoln birthday celebration in that
city
Warren G.. Harding, former lieu
tenant governor of Ohio, has an
nouced his willingness to seek the
Republican gubernatOrial nomination
this year.
George Hodges. member of the
Kansas senate viii probably be a
candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor at the general
primaries next year
George b. Cox. the Republican
boss of Cincinnati. has come out in
ton for the Republican nomination
for governor of Ohio
1t is predicted that every candi-
Iowa next year will be asked to an
nounce his stand on the prohibition
question. which promises to be the
chief issue of the campaign.
Kansas Democrats have decided
not to invite Governor Harmon of
Ohio TO be the chief speaker at their
Washington's birthday banquet. In
stead, they will ask Ex-Governor
81 ~ ID
porter, to be the guest of honor
The annual meeting of the Ohio
State league of Republican clubs,
which will be held in Dayton on
Lincoln's birthday. will be made the
occasion for a big harmony confer
ence,' in which the party leaders Of
every shade of opinion will be asked
to take part.
Conditions are believed to be ripe
for another hot political fight in
Montana. William A. Clark, the mill
liOnaire copper man. Is said to again
desire a seat in the United States
senate Another aspirant is William
G. Conrad. also a millionaire, and for
years staunch supporter of the late
Marcus DAILY, who was Senator
Clark's most bitter political foe.
There were twice as many voters
in the state of Nevada in 1906 as in
the election of 1904. The change
was due chiefly to the new gold min
ing camps in and about Goldfeld.
In the late election Bryan carried the
state by very close plurality. The
decline in the Democratic vote is said
to be due to the gains of the Social
ists who polled one-fifth as many
votes as either the Republican or the
Democratic party.
The entire nation will watch with
interest the workings of the new
general primary law in California
this year. The California legisla-
ture had long struggle over a direct
primary bill. and when most Of the
differences had been adjusted an OBJ
stinate fight continued over the Ques-
ton of the vote for United States
senator IL was declared i'm the de-
bates that any advisory vote would
be unconstitutional and against fed
eral law. and there was much dis
cussion as TO whether legislators
should be guided by the vote of their
districts or the general vote of the
state. Finally the bill was passed
with clause which provides that the
vote for senator shall be an adj
visory one for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the sentiment of voters in the
respective senatorial and assembly
districts in the respective parties. and
the members of the legislature shall
be at liberty to vote either for the
choice of their respective districts
expressed at said primary election or
for the candidate who shall have re-
ceived the Endorsement of their party
at such primary election in the
greatest number of districts electing
members Of such party to the legis-
lature"