Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1908 — POLITICAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES

Elmer Dover, who has been placed In charge of the republican national campaign headquarters in Chicago, has been secretary of the republican national committee since April, 1904. He was previously for seven years secretary to Marcus A. Hanna, and from 1889 to 1897 was a newspaper man. His newspaper experience began at the age of 16 years, when he became an editor and manager of a county paper at McConnellsville, 0. He is a native of Ohio, and has lived in that state all his life. — * — The gubernatorial fight in South Carolina is beginning to attract attention. Governor Ansel, who was elected two years ago by a large majority over several of the strongest men in the state, is opposed for the second term by State Senator Coleman L. Blease of Newberry. Governor Ansel is understood to favor a state prohibition law, with the privilege of any county voting in county dispensary if it wants the sale of liquor. —*—* In the matter of given names of the presidents, “James” holds the record, with five —Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan and Garfjeld. “John” is next, with Tyler and the two Adamses to its credit. “William,” in the persons of “Tippecanoe” Harrison and McKinley, has had two presidential bearers, and whether Taft or Bryan is elected next November will tie with “John” “Andrew” has been borne by Jaekson and Johnson. The three “apostolic” names thus have ten of the twenty-five presidential names. —* — “I have carefully read Mr. Bryan’s speech,” said Mr. Chafin, “and to me the most significant thing said by him was that the democratic platform specifically outlined all the remedial legislation that we can hope to secure for the next four years. As the platform makes no promise to do anything on the temperance question, but reaffirms its former utterance against it, Mr. Bryan pledges the liquor traffic that it will Ijave nothing to fear during his administration.” The retirement of Alvin J. Kitt from the Goodland Herald removes a successful editor from the newspaper craft of northwestern Indiana. Mr. Kitt has been identified with this line of work from his boyhood and he ranked as a resourseful and forceful writer. He took charge of the Herald when it was in its embryo state and ‘developed it to a high state of effl•ciency. For more than thirty years he supported every movement for the betterment of Goodland and he was fearless in the advocacy of things that appealed to hla sense of rlght. —* — John W. Kern, democratic candidate for vice president, will be one of the speakers at Fountain Park on j democratic day, August 27th. —* — The democrats have arranged to open the campaign in Terre Haute on September 9, when Thoinas R. Marshall, democratic candidate for governor, will be the speaker. —• — The socialists of Vanderburg county opened 'their campaign with an address by Mrs. Alleha Hayhurst Hart, of Richmond, who is assistant state organizer. The socialists have a full county ticket in the field.