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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
3
President Roosevelt opened the conference on the conservation of natural resources urging a nationwide sane plan to prevent exhaustion. He warned that reckless use threatens future prosperity and called for coordinated action to preserve soils forests waterways and nation’s heritage for future generations.
Eugene V. Debs will be the Socialist party standard bearer in the 1908 national campaign. On the first ballot at 1:20 Friday in Chicago the party gave Debs a large majority, with a motion to nominate by acclamation. J J Carey briefly challenged Debs, while Benjamin Stanford was nominated for Vice President by acclamation at 2:00 a m. May Wood Simons received 20 delegate votes for Vice President. Seymour Stedman of Chicago was next with 43 votes.
President Roosevelt warned the nation of exhausting natural resources due to wasteful methods. He urged Congress to fund perpetuation of the waterways commission or he would do so himself, stressing the value of lumber coal oil minerals and soil. He stressed irrigation and canalization of rivers to expand arable land and improve transportation.
The report recounts a raucous Socialist convention where J W Slayton and G W Wooddy polled votes amid fervent speeches. Phil Callery urged Debs as sole standard bearer amid praise and scorn for Roosevelt Taft Bryan Moyer Haywood Pettibone and miners trial attitudes.
W M McDonald, an Englishman, was hanged at Pittsburg for the murder of his common law wife. A stay of execution had been obtained through the efforts of Ambassador Bryce.
A Washington rumor places George B. Cortelyou as New York GOP governor candidate, with Winfield Scott Schley to be Navy Secretary if Bryan wins. Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Democrats form the George Gray League to back Judge Gray for president, while Taft and Bryan loom as likely nominees. Taft delegates reach 400 plus, counting 1,000 pledged to Taft overall, with Southern states in contest.
Chicago aldermen salaries are raised from 1500 to 3500 by a Senate vote of 31 to 1 led by Senator W Clyde Jones who opposed the raise citing city finances and police fire cutbacks. A plan funds the increase via future ordinances and holds over members with $1500 to $3500 difference for clerk hire.
The Legislative Voters' League issued a bulletin urging entry of a new type of lawmaker highlighting the salary increase for Assemblymen from 1000 to 2000 as an incentive for financially constrained candidates. It notes voters choose party nominees, allowing men to run who avoided races due to bosses. Senate passes bond bills supported by Mayor Buese and Chicago officials and by mayors of fifty Illinois cities. A property valuation bill shifts to one third of actual value, voting 26 to 9.
The House passed a bill removing the secretary from the five member board and leaving five commissioners, giving Mayor Busse another appointment. A separate Senate bill proposes a $25,000 appropriation for a Sherman Park monument in memory of John P. Altgeld.
Johnny Green, a ten year old mascot for the Wyoming baseball team, was swept into deep water while wading in the Spoon River near Wyoming in Stark County. He was seen by a few playmates before vanishing from view as the current carried him away.
A Bloomington jury set aside banker Thomas Crumbaughs will leaving half a million dollars to a Spiritualist church. The verdict followed a sensational trial in which letters showed Crumbaugh allegedly influenced by mediums claiming to speak with his infant sons spirit.
A canvass of Illinois miners in the Peoria field will be started within a few days. Night in Jail Shakes Resolve. One eight in jail was enough for Belleville’s $00,000 bachelor. Siebert, 60, refused to pay a $10 fine for drunkenness, then chose the county workhouse but later paid after a night in a cell.
A wide survey notes union activity from Britain to Mexico, including British unemployment averages, Mexican organizer efforts, and Montreal longshoremen opposing bonuses. It covers San Francisco barbers, Minneapolis ministers, co operative sewing shops, New YorkState idle rates, and eight hour laws in Tennessee and Baltimore. It also mentions French manufacturers, Canadian railway and metal unions, and early 20th century street lighting and electrical campaigns.
Takota Wesleyan defeated Hamline in a debate at Hamline. St Paul aldermen adopted an ordinance mandating fireproof school buildings. St Olaf beat Gustavus Adolphus with the municipal ownership position negated by St Olaf. Rey Edwin A Schnell elected president of Town Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant Iowa. James A Hull, longtime Minnesota ag school supporter, dies at his Edina Mills home. Anti vaccinationists win as Minneapolis Board reinstates Roy Larsen at Seward school. Sisters of St Joseph seek Rockefeller funds for Crookston school expansion. Wahpeton State School of Science affiliating with North Dakota Agricultural College granting juniors status and two-year completion.
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