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Show Umpire Becomes a Politician. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 21. Francis Fran-cis .O'Loughlin. the American league umpire, better known the country over as "Silk" O'Loughlin, is out of the baseball game for the season. He has entered the political game as .candidate for Senator in the Forty-third Senatorial Sena-torial district. "Good Roads" Armstrong now holds the Senatorial bat from that Republican Republi-can stronghold. "Strike one" Is counted for "Silk," who hopes to make a home run to the capltol at Albany. "Silk" O'Loughlin Is a young man with an Immense grand stand of friends ln "Rochester. So confident are they that he will win that they even now address him n3 Senator. While his nomination was considered In a humorous light at first, Silk doesn't think It so. "The Democrats have nominated me," he said today, "and I'm going to win. I think I have an oxcellcut chance, and even If the prospects wore not nearly so bright as they are, I would stay in to the finish. Baseball is all right on the field, but I don't carry It into the campaign. It would not be proper, and besides, I never did draff baseball into my talk off the diamond." |