AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 230, 22 June 1908, Page 7

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

MR. TAFT'S SUCCESSOR. THE CANDIDATE FOR THE VICE-CHAIR «' TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrYBIfIHT (Roc. Juno 21, 4.40 p.m.) New York, June 20. The Republican National Convention has nominated Mr. James S. Sherman, of Utica, New Yt>rk, Congressman, as candidate for tho Vice-Presidency. Mr. Luko E. Wright , has succeeded Mr. Taft as Secretary for War. SPEECHES HEARD BY WIRE AT WHITE HOUSE.

New York, June 19. Throughout the sitting of the Republican Convention at Chicago—where tho nomination for the Presidency has just been decided in Mr. Taft's favour —Mr. Taft and President Roosevelt sat at the end of a wire -at the White Houso in Washington, listening to tho speeches,, and sending sheaves of telegrams to their agents at Chicago. THE NEW FIGURES. James Schoolcraft Sherman, congressman and lawyer, born at Utica, New York, on October 2i, 1855, was chairman of the. Republican State Convention in 1895 and 1900. He has represented various New York districts in Congress, has been Mayor of TJtica, and is President of the Utica Trust and Deposit ComP an l'' ...

Luke E. Wright, born in Tennessee in 1847, was in 1905-06 -Govornor of the Philippine Islands (whero Mr. Taft himself has done such ominent work), and in 1906-07 was American Ambassador to Japan. These administrative and diplomatic services give him no doubt strong claims to Ministerial rank. He is classified in books of reference as a Democrat, but he adhores to tho gold standard as against the silver campaign of tho original Bryanism; and in tho present stuto of American politics the inclusion of such a Democrat in a /Bopublican Cabinet may not bo as surprising as at first sisjht it would appear. Three sons of Mr. Wright served in tho Spanish-American War.