Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — POLITICS AND POLITICIANS [ARTICLE]

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

It is announced from Cleveland that William J. Bryan will make his runni i? for the presidency under the personal direction of Mayor Tom L. Johnson of that city, w’ho is said to embody those qualities that made the late Senator Ilanna such a power in the world of politics. James W. Wadsworth, former Republican Congressman from New York, who as chairman of the House committee on agriculture clashed with President Roosevelt on the meat inspection bill, came out in an interview bitterly assailing the President, calling him a “humbug and a fakir,”

Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, who died in 1898, held the record, still unbroken, for length of continuous service in Congress, although Senator Allison is running it very close. Mr. Morrill was twelve years in the lower house, going directly to the Senate, where he remained for thirty-two years. Mr. Allison has served eight years in the IJouse and Thirty-four in the Senate, but there is a break of two years in his record. To the Washington correspondents the President .confided the definite statement that he would favor Secretary Taft for the next presidential nomination and that he would so arrange affnirs that Taft might take the stump in Ohio this summer...... ' ’

By a vote of 23 to 5 the Florida Senate adopted a resolution declaring the 14th and 15th amendments to the national constitution void, and to. disfranchise the negro io that State. It was certain that the House would follow suit and that the whole matter would come before the Supreme Court.