Word: governorship
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Being a Southerner, he is a Democrat. The State, during his governorship, was predominantly Republican, but, in 1908, the Republican legislature elected him to the U.S. Senate and the U. S. public inspected him for the first time. He had a retiring chin, a blunt nose, shrewd eyes and, at that time, a fine head of dark hair beginning to be streaked with gray. He was reserved, goodnatured, low-voiced, quiet, yet had the courage to precipitate a party row and fight it through?as afterwards developed...
Immediately after his graduation from the University he entered journalism and became president of the Auburn Publishing Company, which published the "Auburn Citizen". From this field of activity he was quickly drawn into politics. After a defeat in 1898 as an independent candidate for the Lieutenant Governorship of New York State, he was elected Mayor of Auburn in 1903. He gave the city an administration marked by reform and progressive action on various problems of municipal government...
...October, Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu evicted Tuchun Lu of Chekiang (TIME, Oct. 27) ; but the victory in the North of Super Tuchun Chang Tso-lin over Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (TIME, Nov. 10) reversed matters and Tuchun Lu, ousted from the Province of Chekiang, was given the Military Governorship of Kiangsu in place of Chi, ousted. This meant that Shanghai had fallen for the second time and was again in Lu's hands...
...Osborne is well qualified to speak on subjects relating to crime and prisons. Since 1885 he has been prominent in public affairs in New York, being a candidate for the Lieutenant Governorship of New York and holding the office of mayor in Auburn, N. Y. from 1903 to 1905. He has also taken an active part in forest, fish, and game conservation holding the office of Forest, Fish, and Game Commissioner...
...pardoning activities during the two stormy years he has held office. All that time he has been faced by a hostile (Republican) legislature. He is succeeded as Governor by Ben S. Paulen, a Republican. Paulen, Davis and Editor William Allen White conducted a triangular fight for the governorship last fall. (For further news of Kansas see EDUCATION...