Taft Favored In Texas Delegations In Seat Contests
The Republican National Committee settled seat contests in Texas among 50 delegates and indicated Taft is favored, likely to win about 60 votes. Tennessee disputes dominated most of the hearing with two hours per side and included vivid testimony about hatchets and hall clashes. Wade Hollis and other lawmakers arrived with platform drafts as labor and business factions prepare for a possible clash over the injunction issue.
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Tennessee
Hale
Taic
Oliver
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Eighth
Jesse M. Littleton
Newell Sanders
State Central Committee
Littleton
Texas
Lyon
Wade Hollis
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Knox
R. H. Stevenson
Foraker
Resolutions Committee
American Federation of Labor
National Association of Manufacturers
James W. VanCleave
St. Louis
Denver
Chicago
Digestive Tonic Praised in Illness Recovery Story
A Sycamore Illinois farmer’s wife credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with easing long term stomach trouble. After trying doctors and other medicines she began the pills in Oxford New York and soon ate solid food slept better and regained health. Pills claim to build blood and nerves without narcotics and are sold nationwide.
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Williams
Amos Rogers
Sycamore
DeKalb County
Ill
Oxford
N. Y
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Allies Defy Taft Tactics in Battle for Republican Convention
Chicago dispatch reports the allies led by Senator W O Bradley of Kentucky refuse to concede. They organize to contest the Taft nomination, demand credentials reversal on Southern contests and constitutional reform for proportional national delegates, with plan for a hard fought national convention fight.
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Chicago
Taft
W. O. Bradley
Kentucky
National Committee
W. B. McKinley
Cannon
James FE. Burke
Penrose
Knox
Hemenway
Fairbanks
A. B. Humphrey
Hughes
Senator Dick
Foraker
Bradley
John C. Eversman
McKinley
Stampede chatter circles Roosevelt at convention hotel
Working for a Stampede Chicago reports third term whispers as Roosevelt backers push for a Roosevelt nomination by pressuring delegates. Roosevelts Second Term League headed by F. L. Bilger circulates material while Taft allies dismiss the idea of a Roosevelt stampede as overblown. Some Republican Congressmen allegedly control about 200 delegates and seek a landslide to force Roosevelt to accept.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
White House
Taft
F. L. Bilger
Illinois Delegates Sound Off on Guild for VP
Illinois delegates back Guild as a potential vice presidential pick amid Cortelyou doubts. Taft’s War Secretary Taft opposes Cortelyou boosting the ticket, fueling talk of colored voters rallying to Guild. Chicago papers weigh the race and rumor of black leaders seeking Democratic recognition.
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Guild
Governor Guild
Illinois
Taft
Wall Street
Tribune
Record Herald
Inter- Ocean of
Chicago
Committee
State Street
St. Louis
Tafts
Democratic Party
Ohio
Missouri
Kansas
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Maryland
Kentucky
Hill Declares Democratic Party Dead in Nebraska Quote
The statement asserts the party’s collapse as Bryan preserves faith, noting Nebraska turning Republican to its political center. The remark shifts focus to Bryan’s influence and regional party decline.
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Hill
Bryan
Nebraska
Hill Behind the Times
Prominent Democrats speculate that Hill s public tirade will not affect either William Jennings Bryan or Lyndon Johnson. Political observers say the attack remains unlikely to shift support or alter campaign dynamics.
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Bryan
Johnson
Hill
United States
Democratic Party
Guild’s Former Secretary Inspires Chicago Campaign Night
A. G. Groves, former private secretary to Governor Guild, arrived in Chicago and registered at the Auditorium Hotel to lend support. The hotel buzzed with GOP leaders wearing Guild buttons as Taft, Hughes, and Cannon allies mingled among campaign managers the night.
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A. G. Groves
Governor Guild
Auditorium Hotel
Guild
Bay State
Charles P. Taft
Knox
Frank Hitchcock
Taft
Arthur I. Vorys
Taft Boomer
Hughes
Boy Shot Down in Cambridge
Walter Donovan eight of 104 Sherman Street Cambridge was struck by an air rifle fired by Miles Lundstrom sixteen yesterday and lies in serious condition. Lundstrom was arrested at the North Cambridge police station and will be arraigned before Judge Almy this morning. Police say the youth fired indiscriminately on Pemberton Street. Donovan, returning from school, was found on the pavement bleeding from a head wound but the bullet did not penetrate the skull.
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Walter Donovan
Sherman Street
Cambridge
Miles Lundstrom
Lundstrom
North Cambridge
Almy
Pemberton Street
Donovan
Leahy and Murphy
State Senate OKs mercantile inspection bureau bill
The Senate approved the Assembly bill by 20 to 18 to create a bureau of mercantile inspection in the State department of Health and transfer enforcement of the child labor law in mercantile establishments in first class cities from local health departments to the State labor department.
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Albany
Senate
Assembly
Bureau of Mercantile Inspection
State Department of Health
Local Health Department
State Labor Department
Moran comments on Hill Bryan clash at Chicago 1896
District Attorney John B. Moran discusses David B. Hill and William Jennings Bryan, arguing Bryan should be Denver nominee and that Hill’s criticisms misstate party wishes. Ex-Congressman Thayer and Ex-Mayor Fitzgerald add support for Bryan’s strength and party unity amid the Denver convention.
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Denver
Adirondacks
Hill
Chicago
David B. Hill
W. E. Russell
Bryan
Klondike
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Bryan May, Too, Be A Disappointed Man. “Hill
Johnson
Fitzgerald
Democratic Party
United Party
Merger bill killed by House implicates New Haven stock sale
Attorney General Malone could seek a supreme court mandate to compel New Haven to dispose of its Boston and Maine stock. New Haven officials warn of likely lengthy litigation and reveal a potential buyer, E. H. Harriman, should Malone pursue the action. Malone discussed the matter with Acting Governor Draper in a recent conference.
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Commonwealth
House
Malone
Supreme Court
Isue
The
New Haven
Boston & Maine
E. H. Harriman
Union Pacific
Illinois Central Fame
Draper
Yale Crew Tries Course at Gales Ferry
Yale freshmen eight clocked 2:25 for the first half mile downstream from Gales Ferry with the varsity eight at slow pace and fours working a mile and a half. The afternoon four-oared race saw Wallis stroke win by a length and a half as frosh and varsity crews tested the full four-mile course finishing in 23:45 with no fatigue shown.
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Gales Ferry
Conn
Yale
Varsity
Navy Yard
Wallis
Frost
Livingston
Harvard crew practices and race notes at Red Top
Harvard varsity crew conducted a hard practice along the river from Harvard training quarters to the New London drawbridge finishing in 22 minutes 35 seconds. Yale’s crew and Harvard freshman boats also trained with times given for the freshman eight and four. Oliver Iselin’s 30-foot yacht Ishkoohd lies anchored off Red Top awaiting the race.
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Red Top
Conn
Harvard Varsity
John Harvard
New London
Naval Station
Chelsea
Norwich
New York
Richardson
Yale Varsity
Ide
Yale
Crimson
Varsity
City to Advertise Bids for Future Teaming Contracts
Mayor Hibbard ordered the advertising of bidding for all city teaming projects to prevent contractor disputes. Superintendent Emerson will oversee the process with the Roxbury district first in line for bids.
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Hibbard
Emerson
Roxbury
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