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Show I, s j Boiled Down News I . From Political Pot v . f SPRINGFIELD, ill.. March 33. A telegram from Governor Edward 1. Edwards Ed-wards of New Jersey asking that his name be left off the Democratic ballots bal-lots as a candidate for president at tho preferential .primaries in Illinois Tuesday, April 13, was received by (Secretary of State Louis I. Emmorson 1 today. i . NEW YORK, March 13. The ccn-trul ccn-trul federated union, representing local lo-cal organized, labor, placed ltsc-.'f in opposition to' the. wishes of Samuel Gorupers, president- of the American Federation of Labor, by adopting a resolution asking affiliated bodi?s to seod delegates to the stale conveMion jof the labor party at Schenectady, May 29-30. Mr, Gom.pers in a recent communication communica-tion to various central bodies urged a program calling for the election of la- ibor's friends and the defeat of its ene- imie8 in the old political parties, precluding pre-cluding participation in a separate la- Jbor party. BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., March 13. In a conference of the 31th and J7thl congressional districts of the New York state league of women vatcrs, in session here today, members of the league and representatives of other women's organizations unanimously voied to oppose the nomination and re-election of Senator James Wads-wcth, Wads-wcth, Jr. TROY, N. Y., March 13. Senator Miics A. Poindoxter of Washington opened his eastern campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in an address here, Tho league of nations covenant he placed in the samo category as the socialist internationale, declaring theii advocates were pursuing different differ-ent methods to bring about same conditions con-ditions of internationalism. Senator Poindoxter defended the anti-strike clause in the railroad bill and declared that the mission of the Republican party as decreed by the course of events Is to maintain the complete sovereignty and independence indepen-dence of the United States by withdrawing with-drawing quickly and permanently from Euiopean affairs. NEW YORK, March 13. William G. jMcAdoo telegraphed Coleman C. Vaughan, secretary of state of Michigan, Michi-gan, that he would Immediately release re-lease delegates from' any obligation to support him if the Democratic electors in the Michigan primaries endorse him io president- Mr. McAdoo's telegram said: I "My conviction is so strong that alii delegates to the next Democratic national na-tional convention should go uninsiruct- ed thar I have been seizing every opportunity op-portunity to further that resolve." nn |