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Clarence C. Morley to the Governorship in Colorado...
...Paulen to the Governorship of Kansas...
...Colonel Morrow's successor Colonel M. L. Walker, the Canal Engineer of Maintenance. Ever since Major General George W. Goethals, the Canal builder, retired in 1916 as the first Governor of the Canal Zone, it has been the custom to follow each retirement by appointing to the Governorship the Engineer of Maintenance, who is an assistant to the Governor and conversant with Canal affairs. In this manner Brigadier General Chester Harding succeeded General Goethals; Colonel Morrow succeeded General Harding ; and now Colonel Walker succeeds Colonel Morrow-continuing an unbroken line of experienced administrators...
There is a suspicious resemblance between the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for the Governorship of New York state, in 1924, and the nomination and consequent election of his more famous father to the vice-presidency...
Ever since leaving the Governorship he has been trying to enter the Senate. In 1914 he lost the nomination to Senator Smith. In 1918 he lost it to Senator Dial; in 1920 to Senator Smith again. In 1924 he won. The Senate has another fire-eater to look forward...