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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1908
Page
4
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The text lists executive officers and candidates including President Taft, Vice President Sherman, Governor Glasscock, and secretary roles. It names state officials such as Stuart Reed, J. B. Durst, P. L. Long, W. G. Conley, M. P. Shawkey, and Congress representative Jas. A. Hughes. It also lists judges, senators, sheriffs, delegates, prosecutors, clerks, commissioners, assessors, surveyor, justices, school board member, and constables.
The Daily Leader notes Governor Glasscock in a political argument about reason and justice. It references scarce torchlight processions, illuminating letters, and a surgeon’s report on Mr Harriman’s stiff spine. The piece questions why a short sighted public won’t let the Standard run the country as before.
The article contrasts US foreign trade in the year to September with Britain. It notes a larger drop in British exports by 18.7 percent versus 13.2 percent for US exports, creating a substantial US trade surplus that helps settle accounts with other nations. It questions free traders about tariff impact.
The article notes that Gompers efforts to sway labor toward Bryan are seen as unproductive. It cites a New York noon meeting of the Commercial Travelers Republican Association where John W Armstrong, an organizer for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, endorsed Taft and Sherman. He said he met men willing to support the Republican ticket.
The piece denounces William H. Taft and Charles E. Hughes as exposing a political plunger in finance. It criticizes William Jennings Bryan for relying on public money and accuses him of demagoguery on silver, debt relief, and free trade. The rant ends with a Toledo fraud notice about Hall's Catarrh Cure and a patent medicine pitch.
The American Federation of Labor generally opposes Bryan and backs Taft. The view holds Taft would steer business onto safe lines, trusting workers to vote for him and the party that improved workers’ standing, contrasted with the Democratic South’s opposition to factory and child labor laws and union rights.
At the Western Society of Electricians meeting in Chicago F A Sager argues railroads will spend about 5 billion dollars to meet growing traffic by electrification costing 4 billion. He cites the New York Central Baltimore and Ohio and Erie as progress examples showing economic and safety advantages of moving from steam to electric motive power.
timetable notes select departures from Roanoke to New York Philadelphia and Norfolk with Pullman Sleeper and Parlor car services. afternoon and evening trains serve Roanoke Lynchburg Richmond Norfolk and Shenandoah Valley with meals and cafe car options.
In Topeka Kansas Taft campaign planners anticipate a major reception with Republican clubs from across the state sending a guard of honor from Wyandotte county two hundred Indians in war paint will participate The schedule includes stops at Dodge City Larned Great Bend Hutchinson Newton Emporia Osage and other cities before the rally in Topeka then a trip to Kansas City for a Sunday address. The event aims to surpass prior western tour receptions.
Mr Trueboy must dictate twenty six letters to be written to his wife before joining friends at the club. He instructs a fellow to record the string "A bedefghikimne pars tuyvwxy2" as the letters dictated, then proceeds with the game.
Willie compares biblical sages and argues Solomon would have charged admission when entering the lions den. The mother agrees Solomon was nearly as wise as Daniel, prompting playful moralizing in this humorous exchange from Ladies' Home Journal.
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