Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 46
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 30, 1907
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POLITICS AND POLITICIANS
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There are indications that all of the present members of congress from
Mississippi will have opposition for re-election next year.
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Horatio S. Earle, who is at present state highway commissioner of Michigan, has
announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for governor.
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The adoption of direct primary laws by the state governments promises to produce
some conflicts over the make-up of the state delegation to the national
republican convention next year.
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Charles H. Greenleaf and Rosecrans W. Pillsbury are again preparing to make a
try for the republican gubernatorial nomination in New Hampshire. Both
were unsuccessful candidates for the honor a year ago.
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Friends of Thomas R. Marshall, of Columbia City, Indiana, are advocating his
nomination for Governor by the democratic state convention next year.
Though noted as a lawyer, Mr. Marshall has heretofore not been prominent in
politics.
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In the battle now being waged for and against the saloon, Delaware is witnessing
one of the interesting campaigns in her history, not even accepting campaigns
when J. Edward Addicks sought to gain admission to the United States senate.
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If vice President Fairbanks keeps up his present pace he will undoubtedly set a
record for stumping tours. Since congress adjourned las(t) spring he has
twice visited the Pacific coast and has toured extensively in the South and
Southwest and been heard in New England and the Middle West. Practically
no section of the country has escaped his oratory.
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Virginia Democrats say they are going to send a solid delegation of democrats to
congress in the future. Col. Campbell Slemp, who died a few weeks ago, was
the lone republican from Virginia in Congress, and the democrats from the Old
Dominion say that he will be the last. The republicans do not take the
same view, however, and are preparing to nominate Bascom Slemp, son of the
deceased representative, for his father's seat in the House.
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The wave of prohibition which during the past year has swept a large section of
the South with surprising results is gaining a good start in the East. On
the day of the general election next week, Delaware voters for the first time
will have the right of franchise to determine whether the second smallest state
in the Union shall enter the column of "dry" states. The vote will go by
districts.
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General Charles R. Brayton, republican national committeeman from Rhode Island,
and for more than a generation a mighty power in the politics of Rhode Island,
has announced his intention of not taking any part in the present state
campaign. With the retirement of General Brayton, Rhode Island politics
loses one of its most picturesque figures. Although blind for many years,
the general had a large following, and his personality was a forceful element in
the republican politics in the state. Of late, however, his political
enemies have waged a vigorous warfare against him with the result, apparently,
that the once-powerful "boss" has decided that it was time to quit the field.
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