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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1908
Page
12
The Anaconda Standard announces subscription rates and distribution offices with multiple branch locations and mailing details. It lists offices in Butte Missoula Seattle Portland and other cities, plus contact and postal information for readers and advertisers.
Senator Thomas D Love schedule shows a series of campaign speaking engagements in multiple Montana cities. Readouts include stops in Billings Deer Lodge Great Falls Helena Anaconda Stockett Butte Boulder Lima South Butte Lewistown Havre Choteau Missoula Dillon Port Benton and other towns with October dates and a few November entries.
The piece outlines a tense two week sprint toward New York as Bryan presses Taft on the Ohio trail with Ohio fears for Taft. It notes Taft touring New Jersey and Indiana, predicts costly campaigns, and discusses fund-raising struggles, labor support divisions, and the standout stump performances of Chanler and Hughes in New York and across the looming closing weeks.
Senator Joseph M. Dixon of Montana will leave national headquarters to campaign in his home state for Taft. Reports from Montana show mixed support and defections elsewhere, but the state is expected to vote for Bryan. Dixon remains a valued figure, yet Montana seems set to deliver its three electoral votes to the Democratic candidate.
A Montana newspaper critiques a Republican campaign poster for Norris printed in Spokane. The piece accuses Donlan of outsourcing printing to save costs, questions labor-relationship implications, and argues the poster misleads workers while highlighting Spokane imprint as a mark of unfair campaign practice.
Hamilton Fish of New York resigns from an $8 000 post to seek a $7 500 position. James R Sayre Jr of Newark settles $3 000 to charities. Clemenceau, famed for indigestion, visits Carlsbad yearly for two decades. Also reports on Amberin’s health, a sewing pioneer, Arctic explorers, and a pineapple debate at a hotel table.
A 1908 advocacy piece argues insects and weeds cost farmers 80 million dollars yearly, and birds curb pests. It urges a comprehensive national bird survey to count species, identify endangered ones, and guide protections upheld by federal reserves and strict bird laws. It cites Illinois fieldwork, Audubon actions, and state and federal efforts to educate and preserve bird populations.
Chicago dispatch reports Republican leaders alarmed by an alleged break in Rep. Longworth's Rock Island speech outlining a Roosevelt dynasty. Affidavits from Rock Island reporters and officials corroborate hearing remarks during the October 2 1908 republican day exercises, prompting questions about who heard them and their exact words.
A report of Congressman Longworth’s remarks at the Rock Island exposition session notes his joking suggestion of eight years of Taft, followed by Roosevelt and Sherman, as a staged path to the presidency. The remarks, though denied, drew wide attention and mixed reaction among about 5,000 attendees.
Harvard President Ellot argued colleges are not hotbeds of socialism, noting that socialism can fade as a person changes from selfish to selfless. He cited a village socialist who stopped borrowing after acquiring a cow, illustrating personal transformation.
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