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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1908
Page
8
Entry dated September 6, 1907 at Cheyenne Wyoming under the 1879 act. Subscription rates shown: Daily Leader one year four dollars, six months two dollars, three months one dollar, one month sixty five cents.
A collage of satirical quips on politics reform and personalities. Mentions Lawson offering 1,000,000 to back a pro Johnson ticket. References to Johnson's nomination and electoral theory. Includes jokes about elections and a ducking of a boat and a garden poem. Also notes Hayden White’s looks in state papers and Mondell comparison.
The Salt Lake Herald says the Republican platform is notable for its sins of omission not content. Delegates rejected proposals on campaign contribution publicity and popular election of U S senators, and calls for a mines bureau and tariff revision tied to production costs. It notes enforcement against combinations stifling competition and extending the eight hour law to all government departments.
The Chicago convention defeated the publicity plank by a vote of 90 to 94 amid claims Taft and Roosevelt oppose disclosing contributions to the Republican National Committee. Observers suggest the leaders fear revealing campaign money sources and expect funds from undisclosed donors.
The article argues the Republican national convention shows deep splits with Taft and Sherman on one ticket and Roosevelt snubbed by leaders. It notes rejected campaign finance publicity, postal savings bank support, a tariff reform pledge, and an injunction critique, portraying the party as crippled yet patched for now.
A compilation of brief humorous exchanges and social snippets from multiple papers. Jokes range from vanity and manners to flirtation and mistaken pretenses, featuring ordinary people and witty retorts.
The Lander State Journal accuses George R. Caldwell, now Denver Republican travel writer, of fabricating a kidnap story about a mythical lady real estate agent tied to sheepmen near River ton. Sheepmen plan to confront him with a stuffed club over the absinthe sagebrush tale.
Washington report notes Chief Clerk Prender seeks mouse traps for the rural delivery division amid a mouse problem that disrupts female clerks at work. He warns a walkout risk as the bureau cannot fund traps, suggesting sending for census office cat Tip to eliminate the rodents.
The Union Pacific posted April figures with operating expenses down by nearly half a million while gross revenue fell. Net earnings rose as former workers laid off before the panic helped cover the shortage, and current staff faced reduced pay, the Rawlins Journal notes.
The excerpt mixes whimsical lines about Jim Hill fishing and moon missions with satirical notes on safety, a weather prophet, street car signage about theft, and a Chicago convention praised for sanity while predicting a louder event in Denver next month.
In St Louis on June 22 Mrs Dan Kneffler head of the Woman's Trade Union League urged a campaign to abolish the silk petticoat citing its distractive effect on workers. The plan focuses on education about hearing and wardrobe choices. Old papers offered at 6 cents a bundle, with ladder offian?
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