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VOLUME XIII., NO. 192.
J. W. KEEN, OF
FNOIANA.'
NAMED
Nomination Made By Ac
clamation. Greatest En
thusiasm Marked En
tire Proceedings
MR. KERN’S CAREER.
1849 —Born at Alto, Howard
county, Indiana.
1854 —Family removed to War
ren county, Ohio.
1864—Family returned to Alto,
Ind.
1866—Entered the University
of Michigan.
1868—Graduated from law
school; began practice at Koko
mo. Ind.
1870—Defeated for the k gisla
ture. •
1872 —Chosen city attorney of
Kokomo.
1884—Elected reporter of state
supreme court; removed to In
dianapolis.
1888 —Defeated for reporter's
office.
1892—Elected state * senator.
1894—Re-elected to state sen
ate.
1897 —Elected city attorney of
Indianapolis.
1899 — Re-elected as city attor
ney.
1900 — Defeated for governor
ship of Indiana.
1904 Again defeated for gov
ernorship.
1905 — Deniocratic candidate
for senate.
1908 —Democratic vice presi
dential nominee.
DENVER, Col.—John W. Kern, of
Indiana, was nominated to be democ
racy’s candidate for the vic e presi
dency at a few minutes after 4 o’clock
Denver time, last afternoon. The
nomination was made by acclamation,
and shortly afterward the convention
adjourned sin e die.
The end came after a three-hour
session, which was marked by the
greatest enthusiasm, despite the fact
that the delegates had hardly recov
ered from the harrowing experiencs
of th previous session, which had
lasted almost until the break of day.
All during the morning the vice
presidency was th e only topic of in
terest, and many candidates were sug
gested, but after the convention got
into action it was soon apparent that
the trend of sentiment was toward
Kern, and before half the states were
called for nominations it was certain
that he would be the nominee.
Charles A. Towne, now' of New
York, but formerly of Minnesota, and
Clark Howell, of Georgia, were pre
sented to the convention and were
given good demonstrations, but be
fore the end of the call of the states
both had had their names withdrawn.
TO WIFE’S AND
HOWELL S NAMES
WITHDRAWN.
Mr. Towne mounted the rostrum
and took himself out of the race,
throwing his strength to Kern. Dele
gate J. T. Hill, of Georgia, who, in
nominating Mr. Howell, had made
quite a hit with the convention, rose
and withdrew Mr. Howell’s name, and
seconded Kern for Georgia.
This was the begining of the end,
and after that the call was nothing
more than a Kern chorus.
Before the call of she states for
votes began, Senator Smith, of New
Jersey, moved that Mr. Kern be nom
inated by acclamation. This motion
was seconded by Walsh, of Connecti
cut, and carired with a shout.
A great demonstration followed, the
Indiana delegation leading. As soon
as it subsided, the r- Aion to adjourn
was put and carried, and the' Denver
convention, the first e -er held in the
mountain country, passed into history.
Prentiss bailey is
WITH THE NEBRASKAN
The Old Democratic War
Horse, Who Bolted Eight
Years Ago, is Now Heart
ily in Favor of the Demo
cratic Candidate.
UTICA, N. Y.—E. Prentiss Bailey,
veteran editor of The Observer, and
one of the democratic war horses of
Central New York, who bolted the
democratic ticket eight and one half
years ago, when Bryan was the
standard bearer, is going to remain
regular this campaign, and will wield
his pen in support of the Nebraskan.
This faot is made evident in a se
ries of editorials in The Observer
In which ,’*r. Bailey pours out a brim,
mlng me dffre of praise for Bryan and
IIS platform and otherwise Indicates
srarra allegiance.
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EDITORS IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON.—Members of the
Virginia Press association spent the
forenoon on a trip to Great Falls, a
resort on the Virginia shore of the
Potomac, where they were guests of
the Alexandria county (Virginia)
Board of Trade.
SKETCH DF CAREER Of IE PRESIBENTIAL NOMINEE
John Worth Kern -has been regard
! cd for years in Indiana as the worthy
successor of Thomas A. Hendricks,
who was the running mate of Samuel
J. Tilden in 187t> and was elected
vice-president on the ticket with
Grover Cleveland in J BS4. For more
than a decade it has been said that
if he could not carry the state it was
useless for the democrats to try.
He was born in the village of Alto,
Howard county, Indiana, on Decem
ber 20, 1849, and with the exception
of a few years of his boyhood, when
he • resided with his father in Inde
pendehce, lowa, all of his life has
been passed in the Hoosier state. His
father, Dr. Jacob H. Kern, was a dis
tinguished physician who died only a
tew years ago in Roanoke, Va. In
his old age Dr. Kern purchased a
country place in the mountains there
and his son, John W., became a fre
quent visitor to Roanoke. The mem
bers of his family stil go thei'e and It
is said that ir.’ Western Virginia he
is almosf as well known as in In
diana.
Mr. Kern paid his own way through
college, graduating with high honors
at the University of Michigan, and
afterward won the degree of bachelor
of laws in the law school of that in
stitution, all before he was twenty
years of age. He was admitted to
bar at Kokomo, Ind., in 1869, and al
most immediately he began to win
fame in ;he criminal courts.
Mr. Kern was "drafted” when he
was 21 years old to run for the legis
lature for the republican county ol
Howard,-but was defeated. He was
chosen city attorney of Kokomo for
six terms over republican aspirants.
WORKED IN
EVERY CAMPAIGN.
In 188-f he wav, elected reporter of
the spreme court. Since then India
napolis has been his home. Ho has
worked in every campaign, served the
county in the legislature, and was tho
leader of his party in the state sen
ate. He was city attorney under tho
last two administrations of Mayor
Thomas Taggart, from October, 1897
to October, 1901. In 1900 he was
nominated for governor, but was de
feated. He was again the candidate
In 1904, but was beaten bv Governor
Hanley. nefore the 3t. Louis con
WEATHER FORECAST—Fair tonight and Sunday.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 11, 1908.
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| vention four years ago Mr. Kern’s
| name was prominently mentioned
j among the vice-presidential possibili-
I ties.
Mr. Kern has been president of the
Commercial club and has alyways
been conspicuous in ail state and ci
vip movements. He has been mar
ried twice. His first wife was Miss
Julia Ann Hazzard, whom he wedded
in 1870. By her he had two chil
dren, the eldest of ivhom, Frederick,
Kern, served with General Shatter in
Cuba and died two years ago.
His first wife died in 1884 and he
married again in 1885.
NOT A MAN OF
GREAT WEALTH.
While Mr. .Kern’s income from his
legal practice is very large, it is said
that the prominent part taken in the
social affairs of Indianapolis by him
self and wife has made it impossible
tor Mr. Kern to accumulate anything
approaching a substantial fortune.
John W. Kern has appeared in
some of (he most famous cases tried
in the middle west in the past quart
er of a century, and has triumphed
over many of the most eminent law
yers ol the nation. ills practice and
his family are his two hobbies. He
is said to be never happier than when
working on a brief in his library at
home amid the chatter of his chil
dren’s voice.
DOES NOT DRINK
LIQUOR IN ANY FORM.
In his younger days Mr. Kern in
moderation, but now he never touches
liquor in any lorm. He is said to
have that the bottle was one
of the evils of politics and he would
have no more of it.
In religion he is a Presbyterian
nnd is a fairly regular attendant at
church with his wife
Residents of Indiunupolis, irrespec
tive of politics, sing his praises as a
citizen and a man. In politics Mr.
Kern has always been a staunch
democrat. He stumped the state in
the Interest of Judge Alton B. Par
ker’s candidacy and never let up for
anything until he was certain of vic
tory .
Previous to the democratic conven
At the top is a recent pho
tograph of Supreme Court
Justice William J. Gaynor.
Mr. Gaynor is very popular
in his home state of New
York. Below is a snapshot,
taken at Denver, showing,
from left to right, Norman
E. Mack, of Buffalo; John
Osborne, Thomas Taggart,
of Indiana; Roger Sullivan
and Urey Woodson. At the
bottom is a photograph of
Henry Clayton, permanent
chairman of the Demo
cratic National convention
TAFT AND SHERMAN
ARE HEAVILY PLAY
ED FAVORITES
CHICAGO.— The first political
wager to lie recorded in Chicago on
the presidential election was made
last night between H. G. Merry, of
Baltimore and N. E. Mcßride, of the
Auditorium Annex. Mr. Merry wager
ed SI,OOO against SSOO that Taft and
Sherman would be elected He de
dared he would accept similar wagers
to the amount of 50,000, declared
“Bryan and Kern will receive the low
est electoral vote of any presidential
candidates in years.”
BOOKMAKERS INDICTED.
NEW YORK.—lndictments which,
if sustained on trial, may send 22 men
charged with bookmaking to jail for
one year each were reported by Kings
county grand jury under the recently
enacted anti-betting laws.
tion of 1896. Kern was a gold man,
and did all he cou’d to prevent the
nomination of Bryan and the adop
tion of the famous free silver plank
in the platform of that year Once
Bryan was named, however, he loyal
ly supported him.
BISHOP A.A. CURTIS
DIED EARLY THIS
MORNING
BALTIMORE, Md.—Right Rev. Al
fred A. Curtis, formerly the Roman
Catholic bishop of Wilmington, Del.,
and for a number of years the vicar
general of Baltimore, died at St. Ag
nes sanitarium here at 8.45 this morn
ing.
BISHOP POTTER
WONDERFULLY
RALLIES
COOPERSTOWN, N. Y.—With the
aid of the heroic efforts of hi* at
tending physicians, Bishop Potter ral
lied wonderfully, and today It was
announced that his condition Is once
more hopeful. Ills pulso, respiration
and temperature were about normal,
and ne took nourishment woll.
HR HAVE PARTY LEADERS BEEN SO CONFIBENI
OF VICTORr AS THEY HAVE IN THIS YEAR’S CAMPAIGN
BRYAN IS BEADY FOR BIS MANY
CAMPAIGN CONFERENCES
FAIRVIEW, LINCOLN, Neb—W. J.
Bryan, a willing listener, heard tales
of the Denver convention from mem
bers of the Lincoln Bryan club, who
PENNILESS GIRL, NEAR RELATIVE OF
J.P. MORGAN, COMMUTER SUICIDE
NEW YORK.—Miss Louis Boyer, 52
years old, relative of J Pierpont Mor
gan, and cousin of the Rev. Dr. Theo
dore L. Cuyler, committed suicide in
her apartment at No. 233 East Twen
ty-first street by inhaling gas.
Miss Boyer was penniless and her
rent was due.
Merchants Have Narrow Escape From Death
At the Hands of the Haytlan Autocrat
NEW YORK.-Adolph Valbrue and Dantes Thodule, merchants of Port
Au Prinpe, Hayti, saving themselves from being shot as enemies of the
government by the narrow margin of one hour, are in New York to
day on their way to CuracOa. They arrived on the Prins Wilem IV, and
were met in Brooklyn by friends.
A telegram was received at Port An Prince said to have been sign
ed by Nord Alexis, president of Hayti, reading in part: 'Take the
men from their beds and shoot them'at once "
Friends of the two merchants had the telegram held back in the
receiving office until 2 o'clock, July 4.
At 1 o clock, with only a few packages, the men were out at sea.
The fugutives say whole families, including many women, are in prison
In Hayti starving to death for purely imaginary offences. Fearing there
may be some extradition treaty through which they can be reached
they will remain in hiding here until they sail. Both fear for their
families.
LIBOR LEADERS
SBEJ 1 BUT
Marble Company Brings
Suit For Fifty Thousand
Dollars, Alleging Injury
By a Boycott. Gompers
and others will he Forced
To Remain in Denver.
DENVER, Col —The departure from
Denver of Samuel Gompers,
John Mitchell, John B. Lendon, Frank
B. Morrison, Joseph Valenine, James
Duncan, and Max Morris, will be de
layed a week or ten days on account
Of their having been served with pa
pers to appear as defendants in a
suit brought by the W. R. Thompson
Marble company, against them as
leading officers of the American Fed
eration of Labor for $50,900 for al
leged damages tt> its business by a
strike and boycott.
These officers will have to appear
before a commission july 17 give
testimony. The trial has been set
for August 4. and It will probably be
necessary for the leaders to return t >
Denver at that time also.
Officers of the Colorado State Fed
eration of Labor and the Denver
building trades council are co-dofend
ants to the suit.
ram ousted
FROM POLITICS
—— I
Justice Kelly Denied Writ
of Mandamus, Restrain
ing the Appointment of
Anti-McCarren Men.
NEW YORK. —The supreme court!
of Brooklyn today practically ended j
the political career of Patrick H. Mr !
Carren when Justice Kelly dented him
a writ of mandamus, restraining the
board of elections from appointing an
tl-McCarren men as election Inspect
ors, poll clerks and ballot clerks dur
ing the coming primary and regular
elections In Kings county.
This decision removes absolutely
from McCarren's control the- politic il
machinery of the democratic party
In Kings county and the patronage
which has gone with It. The 4,000
election Inspectors, poll clerks nnd
ballot clerks who will serve at the
primary In September nnd at the reg
ular election, will be Murphy-Coler
men.
DAILY AND SUN DAY, SB.OO PER YEAR. ,
! have returned from Denver.
Bryan, who had been under a heavy
strain for a fortnight, enjoyed a full
I night's rest, and arose greatly re-
freshed, ready for the many confer
ences he will have with his supporters
during the coining week. Chief in
importance will be the visit to Fair
view of members of the new national
committee next Tuesday, when the
campaign plans will be discussed and
the matter of a new chairman taken
up informally.
*lO UPRISING
10 BE QUICKLY
QOELLEDBY U. S.
Soldiers With Machine
Guns Have Hastened To
the Scene of Action. The
Entire Tribe is Said to be
on the War Path.
BISBEE, Ariz.—lt is reported that
the Navajo Indians w r ho occupied a
reservation of • 8,000,000 acres in
Northern Arizona, and New Mexico,
have gore upon the war-path and
thirty soldiers with machine guns are
hastening from Fort Huachuoa to
quell them if force is necessary. The
Navajo tribes numbers 20,000 and
they have alwavs been considered the
most peaceful of Indians. They have
half a million head of live stock and
years ago settled down to quiet peace
ful pursuits.
Is There Any “Help Wanted” in
Your House or Business?
You are not likely to OVER-RATE the importance of finding
THE RIGHT PERSON when you are looking for a worker of any
description. Nin e persons out of ten UNDER-RATE it. Almost any
"Help Wanted” ad. is IMPORTANT ENOUGH to publish in THE
BEST HELP-WANT MEDIUM in the city. If lt,’s not important
enough for that, the need of "help" is neither urgent nor important.
People who look for work through the want ads. are in the habit
of reading and answering the ads. that appear in “their own"
paper. You can figure out what sort of people look upon
The Herald as "their own paper." A paper that ap
peals to Intelligent people—not merely the rich, or
prosperous, or "the better classes of people—but
INTELLIGENT PEOPLE; people who like a
balanced, sanely conceived newspaper—
is not that kind of a paper apt to
reach the INTELLIGENT KIND
of workers?
And do you want to employ any other kind? And Isn't the Au
gusta Herald that sort of a newspaper, with that sort of a clientele?
You probably "know the town" well enough to know that it Is; to
know that the intelligent workman Is Just as surely n render of this
newspaper us Is the Intelligent banker, if your quest for “Help” Is
pursued through the columns of The Herald, It will be pursued with
the purpose nnd likelihood of finding THE BEST PERSON IN THE
CITY FOR THE PLACE.
8,061
Circulation for June
Daily Average
Expressions Come From
Heart. Party Reunited in
Spirit As Well As Name.
Republicans Have
Wrought Own Defeat.
(By Ernest Eli Roeser.)
DENVER, Colo.— Never before havs
the leaders of the democratic party
been so confident of victory as they
are this year. In other years the
leaders of the party have, as a mat
ter of policy, expressed confidence in
the outcome of the election. This
year the expression seems to come
from the heart and to be accompanied
by sublime confidence that the time
for democratic victory is at hand.
At a meeting of the national com
mittee immediately after the adjourn
ment of the convention there was
assembled a group of men, who, with
the exception of only one or two,
wore expressions of confidence that
were born of their convictions and
were not the result of an assumption
of manner which might be excusable
and proper under the circumstances.
With the end in view of establish
ing the conventions, a number of the
most prominent democrats attending
the convention were interviewed to
day, with the following result:
Norman E. Mack of New York —
The tariff, trusts, guarantee of bank
deposits and the regulation of rail
road rates constitute the paramount
issues of this campaign. The plat
form handles these subjects in a mas
terful manner—much better than did
the republican platform. I firmly be
lieve the democratic ticket will be
elected this fall.
Urey Woodson, secretary to Nation
al Committee—Of course the demo
cratic candidate for the presidency
will be elected. The republicans made
it possible. The people are awaken
ing to the fact, that republican pros
perity is a snare and a delusion, and
that their hope of real freedom, real
prosperity, and of a real fair deal
lies in the election of the democratic
ticket.
Josephus Daniels of North Carolina
—Bryan and Kern will be elected.
One has only to compare the two con
ventions to distinguish the differences
between the chances of the two par
ties. The tariff, trusts and anti-in
junction planks will, in my opinion,
form the paramount issue. Of the
ultimate result I have no doubt, vic
tory awaits democracy this time.
VICTORY AHEAD,
SAYS MR. GORE.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma—We
have the winning candidate; we have
the platform, and we have victory
ahead of us. The result of republican
administration and of republican fail
ure have made it possible for us to
elect. The democratic party will ba
swept into power with an overwhelm
ing majority.
James W. Tomlinson of Alabama.—
I believe there will be a democratic
victory this year, and I know that I
am not deliberately deceiving myself.
The country has been coming to this
for a long time. Mr. Bryan has been
a strong candidate on each occasion
that he has run, hut he has had to
contend with a natural but unprece
dented wave of prosperity. The
panic of this year and the existing
conditions demand a change and a
change we are going to have.
Fred W. Fleming of Missouri—My
state always gives the democratic ma
jority, but this year we will give Mr.
Brvan, a greater majority than we
have ever given a candidate before.
The time has come for the democrat*
Continued on page seven.