Daily Advocate (Newspaper) - October 26, 1908, Victoria, Texas 1 11 VICTORIA TEXAS AFTERNOON OCTOBER 26 1908 NUMBER 185 A LANDSLIDE WM JBRYAN Democratic Chairman Mack Claims The Election of NebrasKan by an Overwhelming Majority Was the Largest in the History of Mr S L Brasier and Miss Elvira it MR BRYAN OVER 300 VOTES Thirteen States as Safe Additions to Vote of Solid Will Reach Snores of the Atlantic POTHER STATES MAY SWING INTO LINE PAIR WILD MULES Eighty Per Cent of Labor Vote and Says Every Element is Working for Democratic Suc CAUSED EXCITEMENT IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY Made a Dash up Constitution Street and Ran Upon Levys Sidewalk A pair of wild mules belonging to Joe Pickering and hitched to a stout farm wagon made a dash down Constitution Street yester day morning They ran upon Le vys sidewalk for a short distance cess Despite Previous Great Reand were finally at Bled publican Majorities soes store Will Rogers the driv er was thrown to the ground when New York Oct National the wagon left the sidewalk but I Mack today election of Bryan landslide Mr Mack an that his reports showed Mr Bryan would receive at least 301 electoral votes or 59 i than is for a authorized a 1 Wlls slightly injured A which Peddler seated on the 1 walk narrowly escaped being run over Majority May Be Increased This comfortable majority will increase rather than decrease counted In addition to the Solid in this I include am there will either vote for Bryan or not vote at all Confident of Ohio and Indiana Ohio and Indiana every ele ment is working for our success and despite the great Republican majorities of previous years I am confident that both States will be in the Democratic column They are for Bryan today and there is uo reason for believing that the next week will witness a change that Mr Bryan will carof Eighty per cent of Vrt v T r labor vote in both States and y New i ork New Jersey Con tully as large a percentage of the Mr Idaho Montana population arc for Nebraska Nevada Indiana Bryan I Deleware Kansas and South I Illinois is doubtful with the total of 301 votes AH the country there is a change 25 to 50 per cent from the vote of 1904 to Mr Bry result is no longer in doubt in New York The 30 votes of the State are assured for Mr Bryan will win by a substantial plu The Empire State can no longer be included in that territo ry called the country from information gained Prom a thorough canvass and re ports from every county iu the State From Connecticut I have re very encouraging reports Robertson the Democratic Candidate for Governor will carry the State by about 20000 ty and the National ticket backed y a united party has the best in years for winning the vote New Jersey sounds an note and there is every rea believe that that State will rin the Democratic column This an extravagant statement you take into consideration that the tremendous Ko of 80000 in 60000 in rc chances in favor of Mr Taft but if be wins it will be by a greatly reduced plurality The Pacific States all show Bryan trend and a disgust of the extravagant destructive policies of Mr Roosevelt In each in Oregon States issues an to 7000 in the l contest in 1907 tain States from information have received within fortyeight hours will I am confident be counted in the Democratic col unin In fine I figure at the present time Mr Bryan will have at least 301 electoral votes I include in my estimate the following States Solid South 166 Mon tana 3 Colorado 5 Nebraska S Nevada 3 Indiana 35 Ohio 23 COMMENTS ON FORECAST OF NEW YORK HERALD The first line of the head of the Heralds forecast statin g that there may be a landslide said just what is coming and I am i ii m ov surprised that the canvassers have sold by Heath Hewitt not paid more attention to it So T A BTi Ft r TT A CLASS OF 176 AT ST MARYS CHURCH MR DIETZEL AND MISS WEBER WEDDED SUNDAY the Also Dedicated One hundred and children the largest class in the Helen Weber were married at the history of the church were con home of the brides parents yes tinned at St Marys Church yes tunlay morning at oclock torday by Eight Reverend Bishop the ceremony being performed by J A Forrest D D of San Anto nio assisted by Very Reverend Jo seph of St Louis Rev Father F X Heck pastor of the church his assistant Rev Father James and Rev Father Etschenberg pastor of Our Lady of Church of this city The three memorial windows re cently placed in the church were also dedicated Fathers of and Charles of among the guests present D II Griggs of Jacksonville 111 deputy of men of America has been trans ferred to this district and to the Jacksonville dis The organization is in healthy condition in this section and has nearly a hundred mem bers in Victoria aloue many of our most prominent citizens be longing to it Mulder Stafford who has been located at Mercedes for two year or more in charge of some grad w 3 ing contracts on the big canal there was in the city the past two days having returned to Meree des Mr Stafford has determined to leave this section very shortly going to Val Verde County to en gage in the stock business and has returned to Mercedes to make arrangements for his removal Brownsville Herald Sale starts Monday Reduced prices on everything in stock Be gan Dry Goods Company gold bracelet bearing one small diamond Finder return same to this office and receive re ward am Owing to the dull season scarcity of money we are forced to release sufficient funds to meet oui obligations and in order to do so we offer the public bin reduction an important factor The prices on our entire stock Be gan Dry Goods Company The Cumberland Presbyterian Synod instructed the trustee of Trinity University and the Texas Female Seminary at to demand those properties from the Presbyterian Church of tho ry to sue for possession Henry Horward was indicted as a principal accomplice and acces Delaware 3 Kansas 10 New sory in the Conditt murder York 39 New Jersey 12 Connce 7 South Dakota 4 total 301 Served as coffee tho new coffee sub fnl toasted grains malt nuts etc have been so cleverly blended as to give a wonderfully satisfying coffee taste and flavor And it is made in umy uu i saHl if rx v v lest it and see Dr of tho Norman K Mack Democratic Na Shoop created Health Coffee that the aml tional Chairman is correct Thai people a genuine coffee organization T substitute and one that hrt 1S one of the substitute and one that would be thor satisfying in every respect to far Taft getting 280 elee The Supreme Court hold votes is concerned that is Galveston abran bui of the Question Mr Mundt Married This After Weddings Mr George Dietzel and Miss CHOLERA VICTIMS Unsanitary Conditions in St Petersburg Aid in The Spread of The Dreaded to 400 Cases Occur Daily Rev John B Hudson of the First Presbyterian Church in the pres ence of a large number of friends and relatives following which an elegant repast was served The groom is the worthy young son of Mr and Mrs Michael Diet zel and years held a re sponsible position with the well known firm of A Levi Company His charming young bride is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Adolph The happy couple left for Hous ton Orange and other on their bridal tour Mr S L Brasier and Miss Elvi ra Mundt were married at the home of the brides parents this afternoon at oclock Rev John B Hudson officiating members of the family and a few intimate in attend ancc ilr Brazier is a son of Mr and Mrs J Brasier of Nashville Tenn and for the last few year has been employed by the Wolf son Dry Goods Company of San Antonio The bride is the fair young daughter of Prof and Mrs 0 E IT Mundt her father who is principal of the Houston Higl School being one the leading educators of the State Mr and Sirs Brasier s bridal SMALL HAZY COMET LIES SLIGHTLY TO SOUTH AND EAST OF VEGA Halleys Comet Largest and Most Celebrated in History Due at an Early Date Houston Post A small comet has put in ap in the evening sky As yet it is rather dim to the naked eye but may be distinguished as a short hazy streak lying east and west across a few degrees of space It will appear much plainer if the eye is focused to one side or the 50 PER CENT PROVE MORTAL Doctors Are Overworked and Morgues Are Filled to Ceilings With Bodies Awaiting Identifi Causes Disease SEWAGE IN THE CANALS CREATES TERRIBLE STENCH First of the Epidemic Were Workingmen Who Drank the Water but of These Canals the City St Petersburg Oct To to tour will include San Antonio to the east irom Paso Denver San Francisco and other large Western cities after which they will make their home in Los Angeles Gal County Klein licensed the following to wed Saturday S L Brasier and Miss Elvira Mundt John Machalck and Miss Rose Rudolph Dvorak and Miss and George Dietzel and Miss Helen Weber Yoakum Barn Fired by Lightning Yoakum Texas Oct barn of Woodward Davis on the outskirts of Yoakum was struck by light M my last night and with its entire contents was con by are The barn contained about 1200 bushels of corn fod der buggy and harness fine blooded stallion purchased United States It may be while ago at a cost of was also burned to death no insurance Loss J Homer Gaddy of Waco State organizer for the Retail Merchants Association of Texas is known to grocers everywhere city luls for a as Dr Health Coffee will trick liass tomorrow Tuesday even a expert Not a grain of evening at S oclock to be held in room of the Progressive Lea gue An invitation is extended to every merchant with their clerks A circular will be distributed to r calling attention to some Mr Gaddy best posted men in this line in the State and has recently organized in sev eral South Texas cities and towns them are Houston Corpus Vega As is usual the tail is turn eel away from the direction of the sun Not much is known of this com et locally but it is probably one of the that periodic ally visit the sun The earth is rapidly moving away from the re gion of the comet and while it to is other instead directly on inhabitants of lands comet To find the comet is either Unknown the west at about S p m Lifting or kept well in hand the orgies of the eyes nearly to the Milky AVay which is overhead and a little to the right the bright first magni tude star Vega is found This star is the brighter one west of the Milky but may be further known by the fact that two small stars lie northeast and southeast respectively from it and together with Vega form a triangle Now the comet lies about half way be tween Vega and the brightest part of the Milky Way in fact almost iu the western edge of it and er Russian towns b ible There thanks to the lack of organization and grossly unheal thy conditions victims have been lying ill in the streets neglected in the hospitals and in the cemeteries I have had ports of morgues so the bodies are stacked up from floor to ceiling Those coming to claim relatives who died of other diseases have been obliged in cases to spend hours in the pesti air till they could find the bodies they sought and could pull them from among the There is no drainage in Peters burg worthy of the name All the sewage is thrown into which are never cleaned more than once a year and send up wil probably increase in as as the ness it will likely appear to sink thaws n the The first too far into the west to bo visible victims of the epidemic were after a few weeks It may attract and por much more attention as it emerges on the of the sun in which case it will be visible in the eastern sky during the early morn tors who drink the water out of these canals which is poison at the best of times let alone when the cholera is about inr later in the winter lave put comet wn of the larg est and most celebrated in the his tory of astronomy is due to be come visible at an early date and unless some unforeseen accident has befallen it while away on its recent journey into outer space our back star gazers will be treated to the sight of a comet worth while in the course of a few months Pickets Lockhart Tex Oct nio Santoya a Mexican was this morning found dead hanging be tween the pickets of the fence about the place of Ed Pen a er Mexican The facts developed in the examining trial lead to the belief that in a drunken condition he fell and caught his neck be tween the pickets and died cither from strangulation or exposure An analytical chemist testifies that signatures to the famous Wil liam M Rice will which Patrick expects a strong organization was charged with forging Now the police rds at the street corners to forbid them under a of paying a to drink the water and the magistra cy has made arrangements for hot tea to be distributed gratis in all the principal streets The sale of fruit lias been strictly forbidden and it therefore goes to other towns from the cholera infected districts Considering these things it is therefore not surprising that 300 and 400 cases occur daily of which at least 50 per cent prove fatal Everybody who can afford to do so has tied from the city The dreaded disease has now found its the houses and into the Cadets Col lege The hospital and town am are unable to cope with the work for people half down ill who felt perfectly well a few minutes before It is hard to be lieve that most of them are sent in cabs and public conveyances to the hospitals but such is the case and what is more these vehicles are not even cleaned
