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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1908
Page
2
A western store advertises a Monday sale offering fancy waistcoats priced at five and six dollars, with a special offer on regular waistcoats. The promotion aims to stimulate business in the west section.
The report notes 225 Taft instructed delegates and 192 uninstructed delegates. Over 100 of the uninstructed are Taft supporters, giving Taft near 700 delegate strength. Eight states joined Taft, with 36 states overall instructing or endorsing Taft through conventions or resolutions. List shows instructing sources by state.
Secretary Taft's Washington headquarters released a statement noting a total 584 pledged delegates, including 517 instructed, 36 by resolutions, and 31 by personal declaration. Unpledged delegates total 169, with over 100 known to favor Taft. overall strength conservatively estimated near 700.
In Portsmouth Ohio on May 16 factions in the Tenth District held two Republican delegate conventions. The regular meeting chose Himer Dover and J C Clutts as national delegates and Dr W Lowry as elector while the balters named Philo Clark Edwin Jones and Matre Beeman. A Bannon faction convention did not instruct delegates Elmer Dover or Clutts and supported War Secretary position. Johnson faction bolted and met separately at the Washington Hotel with Philo Clark and Edwin Jones for Taft.
The Brownlow faction met in Jackson to name delegates to the National convention. Terry Abernathy of Selmer, Davis of Henderson County, and Morris of Carroll County were chosen for Congress and national committeeman J. W. Oliver was endorsed. Delegates instructed to vote for Taft.
The Republican representatives of the Eighth Congressional District met in Conroe Texas and instructed delegates to the National convention to support Secretary Taft as the party’s Presidential candidate. Delegates elected were J. M. Sloan of Navasota and J. M. Adkins of Har—.
The document lists alternates E. W. Atkinson of Grimes County and Spencer Graves of Ft. Bend County, with Wi. A. Mathear serving as Presidential Elector in Austin.
The Republican Convention of the Ninth Congressional District met in Yoakum Texas and voted to support President Roosevelt’s administration while instructing national delegates to back Taft for the nomination. Delegates were C M Hughes of Wharton and A E Lessing of La Grange and E B Barden of Victoria was chosen Presidential Elector.
Republicans in Floresville Texas convene the Fifteenth Congressional District endorsing Roosevelt while backing Taft for the presidential nomination. Delegates elected Ed Lassater and EB Nolte with alternates C. J. Martin and J. N. Miller. John C. Scott is named as Presidential Elector.
The Twelfth District Republican Convention in Fort Worth endorsed the Taft administration and instructed delegates to vote for Taft for the Presidential nomination. Delegates include Sam Houston of Fort Worth C. C. Littleton of Weatherford. alternates A. L. Cole of Erath County and Co. E. Taylor of Tarrant County. Presidential Elector T. A. Baker of Johnson County named.
Republicans of the Fourth District met in Sherman Texas on May 16 and adopted resolutions endorsing President Roosevelt administration and Secretary Taft as the Presidential nominee. Delegates to the National Republican Convention were instructed to vote for Taft, first and last.
Attorney General Bonaparte writes Third Circuit Judges to set an early hearing date after June 15 on suits against Pennsylvania coal railroads for alleged interstate transport in violation of the Hepburn act commodities clause. He will appear to argue.
Patrolman William Saffin chased a man from a pirate craft in the canal at Liberty and Plum early this morning. He fired five shots and reportedly hit the swimmer and pursued him to shore. The boat carried over 1000 pounds of brass.
Early morning blaze gutted a vacant stable at 627 Oak Street belonging to Thomas T. Van Antwerp as residents at Bethesda Hospital and nearby homes awoke to reflections of flames. Investigators suspect tramps sparked the fire, with about $1,000 in losses and no injuries reported.
Taylor E Brown commander in chief of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War heads the Chicago convention at the Public Library Building. He served as Captain in the First Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was the first US officer to land in Porto Rico, later earning a brevet major general nomination for gallantry. Brown, born in 1860 in St Louis, was a pattern maker before law studies and becoming a Chicago patent solicitor.
Greenville Ohio May 16 The Republican Executive Committee selected delegates for the circuit judicial convention in Springfield June 25 to nominate a successor to Judge Harrison Wilson The list includes O E Harrison W W Tev olution and others instructed to support Judge J Allreid of Greenville with several named alternates.
A New York date piece reports on Army Canteen aims to curb drunkenness by providing beer and light wines at posts while soldiers face stricter access off duty. It also covers a chain of scandals from elopement rumors to a public-school crusade against vice and a shipboard arrest involving a passenger theft.
A sermon and address on frontier ministry reflect the Methodist outlook, urging faith, unity, and social responsibility amid rising wealth inequality. The General Conference discusses changing presiding elder to district superintendent and efforts toward union with the Methodist Protestant Church.
Fragmentary OCR lines discuss ideals of American citizenship and duties. The text emphasizes personal example and the obligation to uphold typical national virtues. No clear event, date, or named individuals are identifiable.
John Baker age 74 died after a brief illness at his son’s Somerville home. He is father of Mayor Ben F. Baker. Dr Robert Goldbeck a pianist and composer died at home in St Louis aged 73. The Most Rev Mariana Casa Nova archbishop of Santiago Chile died yesterday after serious illness announced recently.
A Cleveland grocer reports a longtime customer base benefited from switching from coffee to Postum Food Coffee. He cites his own two year improvement in nerves and appetite after abandoning coffee and using Postum as directed.
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