Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-08-27
POLITICS AND
POLITICIANS

IL Inc republican SIdIe CoHNtHlloH IL
i donnecticut will be held in Hartford
! September 10 and IA.
Former Vice President Charles w
Fairbanks will stump Indiana this fall
fbr the republican congressional and
state tickets.
sPort Huron has the distinction OF
being the first city of importance in
Michigan to adopt the commission
form of government
One of the most interesting political
battles of the middle west will be
fought out in the republican primaries
IN Wisconsin early next month.
Congressman Samuel w. Mccall OF
the Eighth district of Massachusetts
is writing a history of the late Thos
b. Reed, speaker of the house.
| Former United States Senator Jas
McCreary has announced his active
candidacy for the democratic nomina-
| ton for governor of Kentucky to sue
coed Governor Augustus E. Wilson.
The new chairman of the republican
Territorial comm ttee of Arizona is AL
bert H. Sames, a prominent young at
torney who has practiced in Douglas
since his graduation from the Column
bia Law School ten years ago.
Claude R. Porter, the democratic
choice for governor of Iowa, is a
prominent lawyer, a brilliant stump
speaker, strict Presbyterian and a
Total abstainer in which the prohibit
ton radicals are said to have much
confidence.
An interesting political contest in
South Carolina will be settled at the
democratic primary election which is
to be held at the end of this month
No fewer than six candidates aspire
to succeed Governor Ansel, who de-
clinsd to be a candidate for reelection.
The republican state convention in
New Jersey will be held in Trenton,
probably on September 20, one week
after the primaries. The party has
not yet decided upon it's candidate for
governor. The man most frequently
mentioned is Vivian NJ Lewis of Pat
erson, at present state commissioner
of banking and insurance.
Governors are to be elected in
thirty-six states this fall Maine, Yer
mont and Arkansas will choose their
executives in September and Georgia
in October. In the remaining thirty
two states the governors will be
s1s--fs at the general Etfv51fG!..s III vU=
yember, when representatives in the
Sixty-second congress will also be
elected
: The democratic state committee of
Montana has decided that no indorse-
ment of candidate for United States
senator shall be made at the coming
state convention. The convention has
been called to meet in Livingston on
the second Thursday in September !
The democrats are hopeful of electing |
one of their party to succeed Senator |
Thomas H. Carter, republican. The
present legislature is republican on |
joint ballot by only two majority.
L. E. Donohue, county treasurer OF
Olfuskee county, Oklahoma, is a great |
grandson of General Ethan Allen of
revolutionary fame.
Congressman Victor Murdoch of
Kansas is speaking in the state of
in behalf of Miles Poin-
dexter, the insurgent candidate for
tie United States senate
General George w. Gordon, COM
Of the United Confed-
crate Veterans, has been renominated
'or congress by the democrats of the
Tenth district of Tennessee.
Republicans and democrats in Hi
lois will hold their state conventions
IN the same date in September, the
in Springfield and the
ashamed in East st. Louis.
At the coming November election i
If Lexington, Kentucky, will vote on t
he proposal to adopt the commission |
orm of government for their city. t
The speech of President Taft at
he convention of the League of Re- {
publican Clubs in New York next t
Month will probably be the only po- t
tical address he will deliver before g
lection.
Some of the republican leaders in
'ermont predict that at the state cleo
on next month the average off-year t
lurality Of their party may show con- d
derable falling off on account of the c
EXCEPTIONAL strength of the democratic n
andidate. s.
Though the state election in Ken
lck is nearly twelve months distant,
lere are already four announcements
# the democratic gubernatorial nom