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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1901
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard prints daily and Sunday editions with varying subscription rates from one month to one year. It lists main and regional offices in Anaconda plus branch offices in Butte Missoula and Great Falls and multiple eastern and western newsstand locations.
The piece muses on Memorial Day evolving beyond flowers and oratory toward public questions shaping the nation’s future. It emphasizes reverence for the federal Constitution, warns against degrading it, and urges sober debate on issues raised by McKinley era governance to preserve the republic.
The piece condemns field of West Point cadets educated at public expense for mutinous conduct and arrogance. It notes expulsions as deserved and warns there is no place for self-importance in civil or military service. It mentions plans to disrupt Washington and challenge the superintendent.
The cadets avoided authorities and went to New York to seek jobs in the Venezuelan asphalt business. They found work, easing fears of Venezuelan raids on American asphalt operations in South America. The dismissed cadets join the field as non public charges.
A Vassar girl who walked twenty three miles daily to lose weight was operated on for appendicitis last week. Faculty and students debated athletics, while Dr. Shrady stated exercise does not cause appendicitis, noting the patient is recovering and will resume her twenty three mile daily routine.
Ohio born Charles Warren Fairbanks is singled out as a potential 1904 Republican nominee. The piece contrasts ancestral Ohio roots of presidents with Fairbanks’s rise, notes shifts in party dynamics, and links him to Indiana allies and businessmen like Chauncey Depew and Hanna while questioning traditional pathways to the presidency.
A Memorial Day remark revisits the Fitz John Porter case. Porter, once condemned as a traitor for allegedly disobeying orders, was exonerated by Congress during Cleveland's era and had his record cleared. Critics pressed old accusations even after his death, arguing he betrayed duty for political reasons.
Critics of the dead corps commander keep the Porter era debate alive, while Gen John A Logan opposed pardon for Porter. The longstanding dispute, renewed by Porter's foes, shows the public’s view settled long ago by a military commission Congress and the president.
The United Brethren Church in Christ proposes expelling the word hell from the apostle’s creed and replacing it with hades. Dictionaries note hades as the departed spirits’ place, while hell denotes wicked spirits. In common use the terms are interchangeable, with hades chosen to avoid offense.
A satirical round-up notes Kaiser Wilhelm’s orders for revised official speeches, with advance sheets in Reichsanzeiger and “follow copy” by newspapers. It mocks censorship, quotes politics, and jests about memorial day, Miss Laurie, McKinley, Bryan, and public sentiment across Europe and the United States.
Weather and winds threaten the exposition as Memorial exercises clash with baseball, horse racing, and fishing. The Cuban convention weighs Platt amendment consequences, The Commoner previews strong features, and anticipation grows for Minister Wu’s stance on the Supreme Court decision. Memorial day orators plan bouquets for McKinley while graves glow with rainbow colors.
In Denver the Western Federation of Miners and Western Labor union hold sessions addressing district conditions and irrigation policy. Delegates consider moving federation headquarters to Denver, funding a permanent building, and allowing interchangeable union and miner cards. A movement to defeat Edward Boyce for re election gains traction amid fallout from Coeur d Alene actions.
Berlin officials plan a May 24 greeting at the Brandenburg gate for Queen Wilhelmina following Emperor William's wishes. A zapfenstreich will be staged in Potsdam in her honor tomorrow evening. A Magdeburg convention urged establishing an imperial bureau of education to disseminate commerce and industry information. The Vosische Zeitung notes Germany may need to import 1.5 million tons wheat and 760,000 tons rye due to ruined harvests.
Dos Passos for Pacific Commercial company challenges validity of Palawan concession made before the Spooner amendment. The 1900 contract with the sultan of Sulu granted rights across Palawan. Secretary Root will study if the grant was proper and remains in force after the Spooner act.
The case against Jule Webb charged with killing Chad Hall ended in acquittal after a five minute jury deliberation. The trial moved to London from Clay county on change of venue. The indictments against Phil McCullum and Taylor Sparck were dismissed following Webb’s acquittal.
In Passaic New Jersey riots at the Atcheson Warden and Co handkerchief factory disrupted a shift of 1000 4300 striking girls gathered to protest and were met by police. Four leaders were arrested while one was lost amid a charge by the strikers as doors and windows were smashed.
Chicago May 20 The state seeks light on the death of Marie Defenbach and a mysterious packet sent to her by Dr August M Unger. The case involves Unger's brother found dead in the Grand Union Hotel with poison in his stomach and a life policy directing funds to a sister. Witnesses say Defenbach expected to live but died after a later warning, and a ring with traces of poison tied to the doctor will be used as evidence.
The National Woman Suffrage Association opened its 28th annual convention in Minneapolis at the First Baptist church with Susan B. Anthony present as honorary president. Officers include Carrie Chapman Catt and Harriet Taylor Upton, with Avery likely retiring temporarily. The body will decide how to spend funds from a winter bazaar and will hold executive meetings in Buffalo on Sept. 9 and 10.
At a Paris University Club banquet the American ambassador Horace Porter said tomorrow's celebration showed North and South tensions had vanished. Gustave Larroumet praised American universities, Gaston Deschamps joked on US life and art funding, Adrian Hebrard urged closer ties, and Max Nordau noted American student effort in German universities.
Stockholm May 29. The Aftonbladet reports the Russian council of ministers rejected by a large majority the proposal for conscription in Finland. The proposal was supported by M. Krouropatkin the war minister. Grand Duke Vladimir voted with the majority.
Twenty one persons were taken from a Wichita suburb hotel to the pest house after resisting health officers. Nine policemen were detailed to remove them and later fumigated. the hotel was quarantined for smallpox.
Vienna May 24 Nothing is known here regarding a United States report that a motion was introduced in the lower house of the Reichstag urging the foreign minister Count Golochowski to seek official action to form a European commercial league against the United States.
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