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VOL. XXIII.
MEN IN SUICIDE CLUB
Dr. Rustin of Omaha Belonged
to Such an Organization.
ALL SWEAR TO KILL SELVES
A* the Only Solution of Their Moral
and Financial Distress—lnsurance
Companies Pay Claims.
Omaha, Neb.—An attorney employ
ed by certain interests connected with
the Rustin case, says he has evidence
to be disclosed later tending to show
that Dr. Rustin belonged to a suicide
club, composed of men as desperate
as himself, who mutually agreed on
death as the only solution of their
financial and moral distress.
These men, the attorney argued, had
met in the resorts where Dr. Rustin
first encountered Mrs. Abbie Rice,who
revealed in her testimony at the cor
oner’s inquest the astounding story
of the death pact into which she and
the doctor had entered.
J. M. Mclntosh, a brother-in-law of
Dr. Rustin, who was in Europe when
the tragedy occurred, has returned to
this country, and will be in Omaha in
a day or two to assume general direc
tion for the family of procedure to ob
tain the insurance the doctor left,
which is said to have amounted to
$75,000. One company has already an
nounced its readiness to turn over
$22,500, the full amount he carried.
County Attorney English, who, with
the aid of the police department, is
investigating the mystery of the death
of Dr. Frederick T. Rustin, reports
that he has unearthed six important
witnesses whose testimony has not yet
become public. He says their testi
mony will materially help in the so
lution of the puzzle.
TENNESSEE MINERS OUT.
(Effort to Enforce Recognition of Union
in Blue Gem Section.
Jellico, Tenn. —Trouble is reported
in coal mines in the Blue Gem section
of the Jellico coal district. It is also
understood here that a labor disturb
ance has been created at Woolridge
and that a number of men are out on
a strike at the Woolridge mines. The
trouble in the Blue Gem mines is said
to be over the efforts of the United
iMine Workers of America to organize
non-union miners employed therein.
It is stated that in the Blue Gem
Coal company’s mine, which works
about 100 men, a number are on strike
seeking to enforce a recognition of the
union. Also that the Burk Hollow
Coal company’s mine has lost about
100 men by strike for union recogni
tion. The Jellico Blue Gem Coal com
pany’s mine may also be affected by
the agitation in favor of unionizing
all the Blue Gem mines.
Other mines operating in the Blue
Gem vein are the East Tennessee Coal
company and the smaller mines of J.
G. Rogers, C. W. Woodward and John
Carroll. It is said that 500 men are
employed in all the mines in this
vein.
No violence has been attempted so
far, and none is anticipated, as the
men have been orderly.
SEEK REDUCTION OF RATES.
Effort to Have Cotton Goods on Par
With Wool, Fur and Silk.
Washington, D. C. —The Association
of Union-Made Garment Manufactur
ers of America, which is composed of
firms in all sections of the United
States, has filed a complaint with the
Interstate commerce commission, seek
ing to compel railroads to haul manu
factured cotton goods at rates no high
er than those charged for garments
made of wool, fur and silk. The as
sociation also claims that the rate on
cotton garments should be no greater
per 100 pounds than that charged on
the material from which the garments
are made.
“SHEATH” CLOTHES TOR MEN.
Narrow, Clinging Coats Will Be “The
Thing” for Men.
Chicago, Ill.—Sheath effects have
invaded the male wardrobe.
Narrow, clinging coats, guaranteed
to adhere closely to the form of man
and impart the same swell appearance
affected by the other sex, w’ill be “the
thing” this fall.
The fact was shown at the opening
of the American style and fashion
show at 185 Dearboarn street.
One of the noticeable ‘sheaths” was
an exhibit from Pittsburg. It was a
business coat. Cut narrow 7 about the
hips and fastened by two cute cloth
buttons, it slopes upward in a delicate
curve, fitting snugly at the shoulder
and cut low in front. The “invisible
braid,” running along the edge of the
lapels and cuffs was declared “very
proper.”
MAMMOTH SPOT ON SUN.
One Said to Cover 2,250.000 Square
Miles of Surface.
Pittsburg, Pa. —Attracted by prob
ably the most remarkable auroro bore
alis ever witnessed in this section of
the country, Dr. John A. Brashear, the
well-known astrologer, made a meas
urement of an immense sun spot he
had photographed. This spot covers
2, 250,000 square miles of the surface
of the sun and has temperature esti
mated at sixty thousand degrees
above zero.
Dr. Brashear believes there is a
close connection between the auroro
borealis and sun spots and said: “I
expect we shall hear of magnetic dis
turbances due to these sun spots.”
dhr Sdumuuih Srihunr.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Reports that the great Mexican oil
well fire near Tampico has been ex
tinguished were brought to New Or
leans by passengers on the steamer
City of Mexico from Tampico. The
blaze, which has been compared to
a lake of fire, was put under control,
the passengers said, by the use of an
enormous piece of sheet iron, which
so reduced the volume of flame that
it could be smothered with water. A
high embankment is said to have
since been built around the w'ell to
contain the flow of oil until storage
tanks can be erected.
Two hundred men were trapped in
the Windsor end of the Michigan Cen
tral tunnel at Detroit with the tim
bers of the tunnel ablaze between
them and their only exit, fought in a
mad stampede for life and air, dash
ing through thick smoke- toward
greedy tongues of flames to life. Two
men, safely out once, went back down
into the inferno of roaring flame and
swirling smoke, hoping to rescue some
of their fellows who might have been
suffocated or trampled down in the
rush for aid. Those men died an aw
ful death as a result of their vain, but
splendid effort to save their fellows.
The rest of the men escaped.
A pacificatory note was sounded at
the opening session of the states gener
al at The Hague when in reading the
message from the throne on behalf of
Quenn Wilhelmina, who is too ill to
leave the palace, declared Holland
was doing everything possible to bring
about an amicable settlement of the
Venezuelan trouble. A large part of
the message dealt with the financial
condition of the country. The mes
sage was received enthusiastically.
Governor Comer of Alabama has or
dered the state troops to be In read
iness to go to Clay county, where op
erations of night riders are said to
be .becoming widespread among Ala
bama cotton growers, following the
example set by Arkansas growers, and
trying to intimidate cotton farmers
into cutting down the acreage and
Holding the year’s crop for the mini
mum price fixed by the growers in
convention at Fort Worth.
The stockholders of the Denver and
Rio Grande and its subsidary lines
have voted the issuance of $150,003,-
000 in bonds. The money will be used
in paying for construction work be
tween Salt Lake City and San Fran
ci co
”he lemarktbl? sueccs; achieved
by Orville Wright in his record break
ing airship flights at Fort Myer are
looked upon by French writers on avi
ation as the forerunner or beginning
of the practical navigation of the air.
Columns are devoted in the newspa
pers to the records of the American
inventor, and it is unanimously pre
dicted that within a comparatively
short time the prize of ?50 OGG offer
ed by the Loudon Daily Mail for a
flight from London to Manchester will
be captured • y the Wri/hts.
Alabama pig iron manufacturers an
nounce the sale of iron for delivery
during the first quarter of 1909 at $l4
per ton, No. 2 foundry, which is from
fifty cents to one dollar per ton above
the prices which are now prevailing
for immediate delivery. All furnace
companies are quoting this year iron
at $l3 per ton and car lots, delivery
within the week, bring $13:50 per ton.
No. 2. foundry. The aggregate of sales
for delivery during the last quarter
of this year is so large, it is given out,
that there is necessity for blowing in
all of the furnaces which are about
in condition.
An electric truck, its movements ab
solutely controlled by wireless elec
tric waves, has been installed in the
yards of the Union Pacific railroad at
Omaha, where its operations startle
the uninitiated. Many people are
startled to see the motor truck, at
tached to several other trucks, heav
ily loaded, start along the tracks or
suddenly stop without any apparent
cause, making its wayp through the,
big yards unattended.
By the terms of the will of H. L.
Hewitt, filed at Alpion, N. Y„ the bulk
of the estate, valued at $32,000, was
left to foreign and home missions, un
der the control of the American Bap
tist Home Mission society and the
American Baptist Mission union.
In a boiler explosion'in the Laura
mines at Aix La Chapelle, France,
five men w r ere killed and a score in
juredt
Washington.
Surgeon General O’Riley of the
army has announced the appointment
of George Dawson Heath, Jr., of Lan
caster, S. C., as a first lieutenant in
the medical reserve corps. Mr. Heath
recently took the examination for a
lieutenant’s place and was successful.
Orders have been issued by the
navy department transferring Assis
tant Naval Constructor R. P. Schla
bach from duty at Norfolk to Charles
ton. He will not report at Charles
ton, however, until October .
An appeal to the supreme court of
the United States has been ordered
by Attorney General Bonaparte to be
taken from the recent decision of the
circuit court of appeals decisions de
claring the commodity clause of the
Hepburn act unconstitutional. The
brief will be prepared by Special
Counsel L. A. Wilmer and will be pre
sented to the supreme court at the
October term.
Inspector Harrison, in charge of
the Washington division 'of postofiice
inspectors, has received a telegram
from Inspector J. B. Robertson, at
Newport News, Va., stating that he
had caused the arrest of James T.
Reed, assistant postmaster at that
place, on the charge of embezzling
$6,440 of the postal funds
THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET.
SAVANNAH, GA.. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1,908.
SOUTH CAROLINA LOSES
Fight in Liquor Case—Has No
Right to Sell Whiskey.
TEMPERANCE ISNOT AIDED
By Dispensary—Holds 11th Amendment
Never Contemplated That a State
Could Engage in Liquor Traffic.
Richmond, Va. —Covering every
phase of the South Carolina dispen
sary case, in an exhaustive opinion,
which deals with the broad question
of states rights, the United States cir
cuit court of appeals handed down an
opinion fully sustaining Circuit Judge
Pritchard in the appointment of re
ceivers to wind-up the affairs of the
liquor monopoly long maintained by
the Palmetto commonwealth.
The decision is a matter of para
mount importance in South Carolina,
where the dispensary has long been
the object of attack. Its failure to
serve as a temperance measure, along
with charges of graft, caused a revul
sion of feeling, which resulted in the
passage of a law to abolish it as a
state institution, at the same time per
mitting towns and counties to decide
by popular vote vote whether or not
they desire to retain it under local or
county management.
The decision is a voluminous one,
and holds that the proceeding is not a
suit against the state, and that the
complainant is not forbidden to main
tain his action by the eleventh amend
ment of the federal constitution.
It holds that the framers of that
amendment to the constitution never
conceived that a sovereign state could
engage in the liquor business and be
come a trader by buying and selling
an article of common traffic in com
petition with the citizens of the coun
try. The court questioned, therefore,
whether the state was exercising a
governmental prerogative or perform
ing a function necessarily or properly
incident to its autonomy as a state.
It declared that the funds in con
troversy, which the complainant clams
it should be paid from, being in the
hands of the commission charged
with the duty of abolishing the dis
pensary, the state has no interest in
so much thereof as lies necessary to
pay the just debts. The members of
the commission, according to the
court, hold the funds in trust for pay
ment of all just debts of the state dis
pensary and the creditors of the dis
pensary ‘have a property interest in
the funds in the hands of the commis
sion to the extent that the debts are
shown to be just and a judicial de
termination of the true amount of
such debts can in no way effect the
rights and interests of the state.”
The suit, said the decision, is not
against the state, nor is the state an
indispensable party.
Referring to the opinion of the su
preme court of South Carolina that a
suit against the dispensary commis
sion was a suit against the state, the
decision refuses io adopt that con
struction.
CAR OF POWDER EXPLODED.
Seven Persons Instantly Killed and
Thirty Others Injured.
Windsor, Mo. —Seven persons are
dead and thirty injured, four of whom
are not expected to live, as the result
of an explosion of a car of black pow
der at the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
station.
When it became known about town
that a car of powder was on tho
tracks at the station, a number of cu
riosity seekers, a majority of whom
were negroes, assembled. A. F.
Hershberger ,a Missouri, Kansas and
Texas freight conductor, became an
noyed at their presence.
In moving a keg of powder some
of the explosive fell over. Seeing it
on the ground, Hershberger remarked,
“I’ll show you how to scare negroes,”
and he lit a match and threw it into
the powder. Instantly there was an
explosion that shook the town, knock
ed one end off the depot and shattered
windows and stopped clocks for miles
around. The car containing the pow
der was hurled in every direction.
NIGHT RIDERS BUSY IN ARKANSAS.
Reported Farmers Organize for Pur
pose of Reducing Cotton Acreage
Jonesboro, Ark. —Night riders are
organizing in northeastern Arkansas,
it is reliably reported, for the purpose
of reducing the cotton acreage for
next year and compelling the holding
of this year's crop for the minimum
price set by the International Farm
ers’ union convention, which met at
Fort Worth, recently.
Three farmers in Craighead coun
tv and one in Poinsett county have
been threatened by a band of riders,
and considerable anxiety is felt by the
cotton buyers and ginners.
To Raise Price of Cotton.
New Orleans, La. —The Southern
Cotton Association will begin active
work to increase the price of cotton
unless present low prices improve
quickly, according to a statement of
President Harvie Jordan, of the South
ern Cotton association. Mr. Jordan
said that the present prices of from
8 1-2 to 8 3-4 cents per pound were be-
Ipw the cost of production and lower
than last fall, when panic conditions
prevailed. With returning prosperity
he said, and deterioration-of the crop,
prices ought to rise, and, he added,
that unless they did so. the associa
tion of which he is the head will be
gin an active campaign for such im
provement.
THREE NEW RAILROADS.
Moultrie Will Have Large Increase in
Its Railroad Facilities.
Moultrie, Ga. — Moultrie is again
threatened with the invasion of a
number of small railroads, and the
outcome of these projects is being
watched with interest.
A charter has recently been granted
the Sparks and Moultrie railroad,
which will use the bed of a road that
was built a number of years ago, but
never/chartered, and later taken up
and put down between Moultrie and
Tifton.
There is a road coming this way
from Adel, and is already built more
than half way. It is the property of a
large sawmill interest, and it is com
ing along at will, and with the avow
ed intention of coming in Moultrie be
fore it stops. Another road is being
built this way from Fort Gaines via
Arlington, Newton and Gamilia.
All these roads are independent of
Moultrie’s capital or Moultrie inter
ests. In fact, none of them have ask
ed for subscriptions or encourage
ment whatever from Moultrie, though
such encouragement will be extended
at the proper time. While there is
much uncertainty in railroad building,
and especially at this time, w’hen
business is somewhat depressed, it is
likely that Moultrie, will have one or
more additional railroad outlets in
the" course of andther year or two.
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Lewis Cooksey, the little boy indict
ed for murder and train-wrecking,
having, it is alleged, wrecked the
train on the Southern railway near
Buford when Engineer Ben Dewberry
amj his fireman lost their lives, was
tried by a jury before Judge Charles
H. Brand at Lawrenceville and ac
quitted on both charges.
Americus near-beer dispensers have
steadfastly refused thus far to pay
the state tax demand. Not one has
yet registered and settled. Some of
the dealers express hope that the
brewers may yet undertake legal pro
ceedings by injunction or otherwise,
thus at least delaying the collection
of taxes.
The waterwarks and electric light
systems at Canton soon will be com
pleted and water and lights furnished
the citizens under a fine system at
very reasonable rates. The sewerage
system will be installed later. In view
of these improvements and conven
iences the town is taking on renewed
life and dwellings are in great de
mand in that city.
Richard E. Ramset, one of the prom
inent farmers of the Augusta section
fell from the third story window of
the Genesta hotel in that city, break
ing his neck. There seems to be
doubt that the tragedy was the result
of an accident, the lights being out
at the time. Mr. Ramset was 63
years of age and served in the Con
federacy in the army of northern Vir
ginia for three years. He was one of
the most extensive farmers in Colum
bia county and his home was at Phin
izy, Ga. ,
The Savannah lodge of Elks open
ed their new club house on Oglethorpe
avenue west. The club was formerly
the residence of Colonel Bienre Gor
don and it will make a palatial home
for the order. It has almost been en
tirely furnished by donations from the
membership.
Lemuel B. Norton and B. P. Phillips,
well known members of the legal pro
fession in DeKalb county, and A. H.
Flake, manager of the light plant in
Decatur, were indicted on three
counts by true bills handed down by
the DeKalb grand jury at Decatur in
connection with an investigation of
the protest filed by supporters of S.
A. Morris, recently defeated by Hoop
er Alexander in the race for represen
tative from that county.
From a reliable source it is report
ed that the car manufacturing plant
of the South Atlantic Car and Man
ufacturing company at Waycross will
resume operations with a large force
on Oceober 1. One order is already in
hand of the company, with a larger
one in sight. Working full force, the
plant will employ between four and
five hundred men.
Postmasters for Georgia appointed:
Ambrose, Coffee county, Ivy W.Poor
man, vice J. R. Cox, resigned; Slo
cumb, Jones county, John W. Brown,
vice J. M. Childs, resigned.
Members of the vaudeville troupe
that appeared at the Lyric theater in
Macon attached the scenery, props
and everything about the theater on
account of back salaries owed them
by the management. It is claimed
that over $5OO in salaries is owed to
the actors and actresses.
An increase of about 20 per cent
marked the total registration of the
LaGrange public schools over the reg
istration on opening day of last year.
Patents issued at Washington to
residents of Georgia: Plant for hand
ling baled cotton, J. R. Fordyce, At
lanta; guard for car windows, J. S.
McKenzie. Atlanta; envelop, T. S. Cor
bitt, Kirkland; adjustable,stand, J. W.
Rice, Atlanta; ratary engine, L. M.
Singleton and C. E. Maddon, Alpha
retta.
The baseball fans will be glad to
know that there is a probability of
seeing the two great Georgia-Ameri
can players in the great international
sport during the state fair at Atlanta.
The proposition is that Cobb and
Rucker bring two opposing teams to
play the national game at the fair
grounds, they to pick out the best
players from the American and Na
tional leagues that can be secured.
The matter has been taken up with
Cobb and Rucker, and it is more than
probable that the arrangement will be
effected, and that Cobb will postpone
his Japanese trip till after the fair.
THREE FATAL WRECKS
Railway Accidents in Different
States Claim Many Victims.
8 KILLED AND 86 INJURED
Passenger Train in Mississippi Derailed.
Excursion Train in Illinois Telescoped.
Alabama Log Train Jumps Trestle.
Clarksdale, Miss. —Four persons are
known to have been killed and twenty
six were injured in a wreck on the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad
two miles south of here when two
coaches of a passenger train rolled
down an embankment. The known
dead are: Mrs. Virgie Graham, Glen
dora, Miss.; Miss Amber Russell, 17
years old, Anding, Miss.; Mrs. Rob
ert M. Gay, Glendora, Miss.; Unknown
White Woman, whose body remains
under the debris. The train, upon ap
proaching Clarksdale, was behind, and,
while running at a very rapid rate oi
speed, the chair car and a day coach
left the track. The wreck, it is said,
was caused by the expansion of the
steel rails after the engine and ad
vance cars had passed over them.
Samson, Ala. —The log train of the
Henderson-Boyd Lumber Company
was wrecked about five miles north of
Samson, killing three persons outright
and injuring twenty more. The dead
are; J. O. Stephenson, white a con
vict guard; Joe Wise, white, laborer;
Albert England, negro convict. The
engine was pushing a train of empty
cars, and the wreck occurred on a
trestle with a steep grade on either
side. The engineer was scalded, but
the fireman escaped unhurt. The en
gine and entire train left the track.
None worked more faithfully than the
convicts, and the three dead bodies,
with all of the injured, were removed
by them from the wreck, and carried
to Richford on a relief train.
Chicago, 11l. —A Chicago woman is
dead and a number are dying and over
forty persons were injured as the re
sult of a rear-end collision at Ches
terton, Ind., between a theatei’ train,
running out of Chicago, and the rear
coaches of an excursion train, running
from Chicago to Indianapolis. At the
time of the collision, a great cloud of
smoke from the forest fires hung over
the tracks, making the rear lights in
the excursion train dim and shutting
off a view of the tracks even a hun
dred feet ahead of the suburban train
at the time the trains came together.
The subruban train was running at
greatly reduced speed, owing to the
haze, or the injured list would have
been greatly increased.
MORE CEMENT FOR CANAL
Work an the Locks Will Be Delayed
Until July, 1909.
Washington, D. C. —A contract for
furnishing the isthmian canal com
mission with 80,000 barrels of cement
in addition to the 4,500,000 barrels al
ready contracted for with that com
pany, has been awarded to the Atlas
Portland Cement Company of North
ampton, Pa. It has been hoped that
the work on the locks at Gatun Miro
fiores and at Paco Miguel would be
commenced about January 1, as the
original invitations for furnishing the
commission with cement contemplated
that the deliveries in large quantities
should begin them, but as the w’ork
of excavations for the foundations of
these locks has progressed, it has
been found desirable to make them
deeper than was at first thought nec
essary, in consequence of which ac
tual construction work will be delay
ed until July next.
FUNDS FOR VICKSBURG PARK.
States Have Made Appropriations for
Monument to Soldiers.
Washington, D. C. —According to
the annual report of the Vicksburg
National Military Park commission,
a total of $797,000 has been appropri
ated up to this time by the various
state legislatures for memorials, mon
uments and markers, to certain per
sons and organizations.
Of the state appropriations, Illinois
leads with $260,000, lowa has $150,000,
Wisconsin $130,000 and other states
various amounts down to $5,000.
Union and Confederate memorials
both adorn the park. A warm tribute
is paid to the memory of Commission
er Lieutenant General Stephen L. Lee,
who died May 28, last, and by whose
death “the country lost a good and
great citizen, the commission an ef
ficient worker, and each of its re
maining members a dear personal
friend.”
It'has been proposed to erect a me
morial in the park commemorative of
the services of the union navy in the
operations of the Vicksburg campaign
and for the construction of such a
memorial an estimate for an appro
priation of $200,000 is submitted.
Army Under Charges.
Havana, Cuba. —The Union Espano
la in an editorial, alleged that the
United States army was smuggling
into Cuba great quantities of meat,
thus escaping payment of duties. Gov
ernor Magoon has ordered an investi
gation. He will institute proceedings
against the paper if it fails to sustain
the charges.
Child Sent to Prison.
Maysville, Ky.—Chester Savage,
aged 13 years, was sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary for the as
sassination of his uncle, two years
ago. The boy hid by the roadside and
shot his uncle. He is the youngest
murderer ever known in Kentucky.
OF POLITICAL INTEREST.
William H. Taft and William J.
Bryan, rival candidates for the presi
dency of the United States, will meet
at Chicago October 7, at a banquet
given by the Chicago Association of
Commerce.
Eugene W. Chafin, prdhibition can
didate for president, spoke to a large
audience at Portland, Ore., during the
course of his address, of w’hich pio
hibition formed only a part, Mr. Cha
fin declared that never in the history
of the country were there so many
great questions to be settled, and de
clared that neither the republican nor
the democratic party were able to
grasp the situation.
The republican campaign textbook
for 1908 has been issued by the re
publican national committee. It is a
volume of five hundred and thirty-six
pages and contains in detail an ex
planation of the quesitons that are
under discussion in the present presi
dential campaign and the attitude of
the republican candidate thereto, con
trasted in some cases with the pres
ent or past attitude of their democrat
ic opponents.
Aiming to become at once a factor
in Minnesota politics, the indepen
dence party has selected a state tick
et to be placed before Minnesota vo
ters. William W. Allen of St. Paul
has been named for governor and
Roscoe B. Higbee of St. Paul for lieu
tenant governor.
Invading the Foraker stronghold.
Judge Taft addressed two meetings
at Sandusky, Ohio. The first was at
the Soldiers’ home, and the second
at the opera house, where a large au
dience assembled. Taft’s visit is ex
pected to heal the break of the two
factions in Ohio politics. Both speech
es were extemporaneous.
It now appears that Admiral Cer
vera thought he was talking about the
late General Shafter when he an
nounced his hearty support of Taft for
the presidency.
William Jennings Bryan when ask
ed if he had read the Labor day
speech of William R. Hearst replied
that he had not but he understood
that Mr. Hearst had made some crit
icism of him. “I am fighting Mr.
Taft,” said Mr. Bryan. “Either Mr.
Taft or I will be elected. If Mr.
Hearst will declare that he is endeav
oring to help elect Mr. Taft and Mr.
Taft will endorse Mr. Hearst as a
representative of republican ideas and
Mr. Hearst’s ‘methods of campaigning’
I will answer Mr. Hearst, otherwise
I do not feel called upon to do so.”
With the rival political forces en
gaged all along the line on land, nav
al warfare began at Chicago when the
cruiser Theodore Roosevelt, which in
times of peace is a huge excursion
steamer, left the Chicago river man
ned by republican speakers and some
four hundred members of the Mar
quette club, a republican organization
of that city. Four states will be
touched by the boat dui'ing the cruise.
Mr. Bryan has informed the nation
al committee that he desires that
traveling men’s bureaus be establish
ed at state headquarters in all debat
able states.
Congressman Lilley of Connecticut
who brought about the congressional
inquiry into the Electric Boat com
pany’s method of getting goveinment
contracts, has been nominated for
governor of Connecticut.
The purpose of the republican cam
paign book, it is stated, is to furnish
in concise form for reference such
information as is likely to be requir
ed by speakers, writers and others
participating in the campaign. Sub
jects likely to receive special atten
tion in the campaign, such as control
of corporations, the money panic and
the relief afforded by the treasury de
partment, wages and prices, tariff, the
Philippines and the work of the army
and navy are presented as fully a^
practicable.
Judge Alton B. Parker, democratic
candidate for president in 1904, has
declined to accept the nomination for
governor of New York, Judge Parker
in declining stated that it was his de
sire never again to hold public office.
Chairman Hitchcock of the repub
lican national committee has been no
tified of the withdrawal of Judge
Wright, the nominee for governor of
one of the republican factions in Ten
nessee. This leaves a clear field for
Tillman, the nominee of the other re
publican faction. It was said at na
tional headquarters that the with
drawal of Judge Wright would unite
the requblicans of Tennessee, and that
a determined effort to carry the state
would be made.
Giving a detailed statement of the
amount of property owned by him,
which he placed at $150,000 at the
outside, William J. Bryan, democratic
•"’dida** for president, in a speech at
Olney. 111., declared as false the accu
sation of Speaker Joseph G. Cannon
that he w r as worth a millian dollars,
and called upon the speaker to be as
frank in making known to the world
the amount of his own earthly posses
sions.
Professor Aaron S. Watkins of Ohio
prohibition nominee for the vice pres
idency, like E. W. Chafin, the party’s
nominee for the presidency, is making
a whirlwind tour of the LTnited States.
Seldom have there been two standard
bearers for any party who have dis
played a dash and go equal to that
shown by these two on their cam
paign. Both seem to be equally untir
ing.
Tentative proposals for a joint de
bate between William H. Taft and
William Jennings Bryan in Cincinati
September 23 have been received at
both camps. The present plans are
for a Bryan meeting on that date in
Cincinnati. Taft has no date and the
chances are for bringing the cam
paign to a climax. According to re
ports, Bryan will accept the defi.
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