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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
8
The Cheyenne Leader is the official Cheyenne city newspaper published by Lander Publishing Co. W W and Edminton serve as proprietors and publishers. It is issued every morning except Monday and includes subscription rates and delivery notes.
For Vice-President, JOHN WORTH KERN of Indiana. Wyoming Presidential Electors, JOHN H. WARD of Uinta County. ANDREW M'MICKEN of Carbon County. B. G. ROGERS of Big Horn County.
The piece argues that Republican governance has driven federal expenditures higher each year, quadrupling from Cleveland to McKinley to Roosevelt eras. It cites war and peacetime costs, links waste to trusts, and accuses party leaders of protecting broad corporate interests while the public bears rising taxes.
In a speech, Mr. Bryan denounces DuPont of Delaware as a defendant in a government conspiracy suit tied to the powder trust. He argues trust magnates dominate the Republican campaign, calling it a disgraceful instance of corrupted party politics and urging a rebuke at the polls.
A World-Herald summary notes New York papers mocked Democratic fund appeals but Chicago Democrats report 150 000 contributors with a goal of about a million names before election day. The piece contrasts Democrats appealing to common people with Republicans courting corporate donors and warns money power may shape future governance.
Fragmentary quote notes Wondell Philips urging mass mobilization to counter diner resistance and align public interests. The text implies a political or social struggle requiring collective action to swing outcomes.
Don’t forget the meeting this evening to organize a Bryan club at county headquarters on Eddy Street. Young men are especially invited. The item includes political commentary about Taft and Bryan and notes on currency and Roosevelt in a collected style.
A learned physician urged judging life habits by complexion and teeth, arguing both can be improved by personal effort. He linked beauty to bright complexions and pearly teeth, urging intelligent dental care, and advertises Dr. B. H. Sweatt at 1617% Ferguson Street as an up to date dentist.
A collage of jokes and light quips from Punch, Louisville Courier Journal, Washington Star, Baltimore American, and Philadelphia Press. Lines joke about poets pensions, magistrates and back slaps, skycraper hats, enemies, hammock signs, and a wife awaiting her husband.
A jumble of items notes the noiseless guns not selling as campaign hardware and vacationers returning home. It mentions Holland considering needs, Venezuela dust, Russell Sage estate assets worth 1 071 000 in gold bricks, and other assorted anecdotes about aging, ads, and a Turkish constitutional debate.
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