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Show I- WASHINGTON, D. C With the TAT rapid approach of the Preslden-VV Preslden-VV tlal primaries, there Is a grow-M grow-M lng demand for information as to tho various Tlepubllcan Presidential candidates. Tho support-crs support-crs of Senator John W. Weeks, of Massachusetts, have been quick to meet this demand by giving out the following facts concerning tbelr candl- Senator Weeks is a natlvo of Now Hampshire, a graduate of tho Nnyal Academy at Annapolis, served for . threo years In tho Navy In the Asiatic ' Station, and later went to Boston, where he eventually became InterMtid In a number of financial Institutions, including the First National Bunk, of which he was vice-president. Ho was Mayor of Newton, Mass., served six terms In the lower House of Congress and. upon elevation to the United States Senate, severed all business connections to give all of his time to PlThe Massachusetts Senator was especially es-pecially active In securing passage of he Postal Savings Bank bill, was author au-thor of the Federal Migratory Bird Law in tho House, was author -of the gnnt Appalachian Law whereby the gournment regained control of the vast watersheds of tho Appalachians, ond gained prominence as an Inde-pendent Inde-pendent thinker when he supported ' tho Democratic law providing for fed. oral reserve banks.' He was one of the few Republicans to "M"'"' , law, and did so uausc ho thought there was moro good In It than bad, and It was an Improvement of tho laws then existing. Politically. Senator Weeks Is pro-tyesslve. pro-tyesslve. It was Senator Weeks who Insisted upon tho Insertion of progressive progres-sive planks In tho Republican plat- form In the rccrnt Stato elections, and it was this action, moro than anything else, that resulted In returning Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts to the Itepuhllcan fold. As a presidential candidate, ho has i strong following In the West, as well as his owr.,part of the country There are a number of States In hlch tl.o presidential primaries will t be held until a day or two prior to the convening of the Republican convention at Chicago and tho political leaders in these States are now busily engaged in devising means of circumventing circum-venting this threatened difficulty. In West Virginia where tho primaries will not bo held until the day before the convention It has been decided to let the voters select their delegates at a Judgeship election in May, tho choice to bo ratified on tho date originally origi-nally sot for the primaries. It now nppears probablo that the State of Minnesota, in Its forthcoming presidential primaries, will go to Senator Sen-ator Cummins by default. Tho other candidates seem Inclined to look upon that Stato as part of his rightful territory, ter-ritory, Just as they consider New England Eng-land as belonging to Sonator Weeks, and it Is doubtful whether any appreciable appre-ciable contest for the State, so far as first choice Is concerned, will be made. As to tho matter of second choice, however, tho situation Is different. Sov-eral Sov-eral of tho prominent candidates, and not a few of tho lesser lights who are hopeful of bursting forth as tho logl- cat "dark horse," havo very active fol-I fol-I lowers In Minnesota who aro conduct-I conduct-I lng quiet campaigns for their favorites. favor-ites. E. A. Sims, a member of tho State legislature of Washington, who was recently a visitor at tho national capital, cap-ital, gavo the East an illustration of how a full-blooded Westerner does things when ho makes up his mind that they should bo done. Sims is something of a leader in politics "out home," and when ho left for tho East ho promised to look over tho various Presidential candidates and pick out "the right man," Ho attended every Republican meeting ho could find at tho capital, talked with all of tho candidates can-didates ho could reech, and Anally placed his O. K. on Senator John W. Weeks. "I never do things half-way," ho ex plained, and having made his cholco, he engaged two of the hotel stenographers stenogra-phers and Immediately gan tho .dictation .dic-tation of nearly threo hundred personal per-sonal letters to his friends and legislative legisla-tive colleagues in tho State of Washington Wash-ington urging them to support Senator Sena-tor Weeks. |