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Show MODilOW WILSON CHOICE OF IhW, mi imi king Attorn ay Returning From East Comments on Political Po-litical OntlooK. ' t Kor pre i fint of the L'hited Mates '- WoiiHrow Wilwu of New Jersey. . i'hsmp Clark of Mif-r.ourr. j Judttoe Harmon of Ohio, in t lie order named these are the. men who Mauri chances for fioiuinutiuu for candidate for president lit the Democratic torivcntinn to ho held iu 1912, in tbo opinion of William H. White there may be a shiftiug of places or a new man may enter the race, the feeling in tbe eat at present is that one of these three men will bn tbe nominee of the party, said Judge King this morning, .fudge King has jii at returned from a visit to the tat, which included several days in Washington. Wash-ington. Hoe king of roibli- itrcaiiJeu-tiui itrcaiiJeu-tiui candidate Judge King said: "The sentiment in the enat is growing grow-ing in favor of Wilnon. lie is making a record for himself and for hi partv becoming a man that the party and the country will have to take into consideration. consid-eration. I know nothing of the obiert of his trip to the weat, but in the. east be is regarded with high favor hv conservative con-servative business men of both parties. "Another man that- will bear careful care-ful watching is t'hsmp Clark, tbe pre- ent si ten her or toe nouae. speaker Clark is carrying out tbe announced program of the Democrats in tbe house, in a wsv that is satoniahing the people peo-ple of the cast. He will have to be reckoned with when it comes to the aominntion for the next president. ti over nor Harmon, is another strong man; he has a large following, has msde a good record as governor of Ohio and may be the nominee of the party Of William J. Brvaa. Judge King said that he had ant beea considered in the east aa a possible candidate for the presidency, and that he, Judge King, did not think that there was any idea in tha mind of Mr. Brvaa to be a candidate. Discossing the present congress, ia special session. Judge King said: "The Democrats are working entire ly harmoniously. Any story to the con trarr le falae. The membera ' of the houee have ot through a eaat amount of buaineaa to date. They are working hard, ant the Demoerata have kept all of their party platform pledgee, eo far aa they have been able to get their billa through. "The aenate, however, ia working lowly. That body ia doing little or nothing, and I would aot be eurpriaed if the extra seasioa lasted until some time la August." . Speaking of the political outlook in the east Judge King said: 4 ' Prom all that I could learn, the pros pects ef the Democrats were never aa bright aa they are today. The people peo-ple feel that a change should be made. They are tired -of tha administrstioa adminis-trstioa thst haa held tbe reine for rears; they are becoming convinced from what the ma jority of the members of the house have already dona that they mean Jhusiaes, and that ia what they want. ''I believe that, if the election were to be held todev there would be ao question as to which party would win. 'l think (bat I am safe ia saving that the decision ef the eupreme court ia the rttandard Oil ease was hailed with delight bv every business man of tbe east. The deeiaioa already bee bad ita effect ia the buaineaa of the eaat. I Corporation mea do not feel that the government won a great victory in the decision, but they do feel that the huei. eeee maa and. the investor know what the law is. "The reeult of the decision of the bigheet conrt ia the land means that business' men and investors will follow ths ruling, which will mean that there will ao longer be timidity on tbe part of the inve-tor." |