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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1902
Page
4
We are authorized to announce O. L. Newman of Batesville as a candidate for Representative from Ripley County subject to the Ripley County convention decision.
The article notes J W MacKay may not know his own wealth, with speculation that his net worth could reach about twenty million dollars. Authors discuss possible valuation and its implications for his status and public interest.
A fierce thunderstorm with lightning and heavy rain struck Baltimore on Sunday afternoon around one o'clock. The resulting damage destroyed property and caused eleven deaths.
Major Edwin F. Glenn of the Fifth Infantry was found guilty of administering the water cure to native Filipinos and received a one month suspension and a fifty dollar fine.
The trans Pacific cable project in which the late J. W. MacKay was involved will be laid probably by next July despite his death. The line will connect the United States with Manila.
The Richmond Times asks Mr. Bryan if he would back David B. Hill should Hill secure a nomination. The piece notes a prior question about Hill’s support for Bryan and argues the other way around deserves answer first.
Bryan says harmony will exist within two groups. He implies two Democratic parties, the Bryan faction and the reorganized faction, each internally harmonious. The remark suggests split leadership and potential internal stability amid factional realignment.
John W Gates claims railroads have paid out rebates to large shippers amounting to funds that could have paid the national debt. He says the railroads bore heavy losses from these favors but asserts the practice has ended and will not resume.
The piece argues that Bryan led the party to a crushing defeat in 1894 by backing the Wilson tariff. It assigns responsibility for party disaster to Bryan since that date, noting he was not alone and that more Democrats aided the failure than helped elect Cleveland in 1892.
A commission is appointing to take options on land for a new army post near Indianapolis and is expected to choose a site in August. The project promises financial and social benefits and would provide security in case of riots, a scenario the city has not faced in recent memory.
The Indianapolis Journal asserts the Democratic party was wrecked by a Democratic Congress that passed the Wilson bill, not by Cleveland or Bryan. Senators and Representatives bear responsibility, not Cleveland.
After criticizing the Wilson tariff and the Democratic Congress, the text argues that Bryan drew a large vote by opposing tariffs and advocating free coinage. It suggests Cleveland Hill Olney and others could have helped but did not, implying Bryan’s unique impact within the party.
On Tuesday July 22 in Greenville Mississippi Ashley Cocke and Tom Lauderdale were hanged for murder. On the scaffold Cocke cursed the crowd and said $11,000 had been deposited in a bank so that $1,000 would be paid for each of the eleven jurors who condemned them. He wished to be hanged before 11 to dine in hell with Lauderdale.
Archbishop Ireland backs the administration on the Philippines friar question and expects Rome Manila negotiations to wrap up by correspondence. He notes Governor Taft has resumed duties in Manila and condemns Catholic societies for publicly criticizing President Roosevelt over the expulsion of Spanish friars without sufficient information.
The farewell audience for Governor Taft by Pope Leo III sparked questions about why a plain American citizen received such royal Rome honors. The scene included Vatican dignitaries, Swiss Guards, and gendarmes raising broader questions about whether Taft’s departure symbolized formal Papal endorsement or a display of imperial status for the mission.
The year 1902 has seen numerous fatal accidents and disasters including the Johnstown mine disaster, a western mine disaster, a Baltimore storm, flood crop losses, and the sinking of the Primus on the Elbe with 50 drowned among 185 aboard. Floods claim about 80 lives in a week and railroad accidents add to the death toll.
J W MacKay a long time San Francisco millionaire died in London England after a long career in finance and real estate. Details of the death and exact date are not yet available.
Sunday evening tribute speaks of Mr MacKay as a self made immigrant from Ireland who rose from ship carpenter to wealth after the 1849 gold rush. He endured ups and downs, found fortune in an abandoned mine in Nevada, and died with a reputation for honesty fairness and kindness and many friends.
The speaker says Attorney General Knox will campaign on the trust issue and declare he has sparred with major trusts already. He promises to knock out the beef trust and railroad merger trust and then pursue others that restrain trade, while distinguishing harmful from beneficial trusts and enforcing the law.
The piece lauds President Mitchell for wisdom and prudence in labor matters. It cites his stance against unnecessary strikes and credits him for the Indianapolis convention’s decision to create a $250,000 weekly fund to aid anthracite miners, funded also by other labor groups, argued as more beneficial than sympathetic strikes.
The Versailles Republican is sold by Geo. J. Cravens after thirteen years to Charley Thompson and William D. Robinson. Cravens built the paper into a leading local publication with strong circulation and advertising. The new proprietors, both Republicans, are regarded as intelligent and capable. Thompson is described as a practical newspaper man.
At Manhattan Beach New York on July 21 four men Senator DeBois of Idaho ex Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota Prof Droppers of South Dakota and George Shibley of Washington formed a committee to guard the Bryan Democracy. They plan to influence the 1904 Democratic platform with Bryan’s input and if blocked to form a new party based on the Kansas City platform with referendums as a core principle. Bryan would be central in the new movement to oppose the reorganized party and protect anti progressive aims in the West.
The piece defends Joe Scoopmire amid an investigation into possible county debt. It argues the Republican party bears no blame regardless of outcome, asserts Scoopmire’s integrity, and contrasts GOP and Democratic records to claim Republican honesty in Ripley county.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal remedy improving stomach and kidney function, liver health, nerves, and blood. It claims cures for kidney and liver troubles, stomach disorders, nervousness, rheumatism, neuraglia, and malaria with a 50 cent guarantee by G A Bans.
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