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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1908
Page
2
Taft and Dolliver rally crowds across Julesburg Pine Bluffs Cheyenne and Denver. Taft defends court power and taunts Bryan over jury trials while praising beet sugar interests and promising standard protections. Crowd noise and young supporters welcome Longworth and his wife Alice.
The itinerary released from Republican National headquarters details Governor Hughes’s travels starting October 4 from Chicago. He will address audiences in Wisconsin Minnesota and South Dakota with stops in St Paul Watertown Sioux Falls Sioux City Onawa and Omaha. The Nebraska leg includes Ashland Havelock Lincoln Seward York Grand Island and Hastings among others with key speeches in St Joseph and Wichita. The Missouri Kansas and Illinois segments follow with five minute stops en route back to Chicago arriving October 9. The party travels in two private cars Plymouth Rock and Idlewild.
In Princeville Illinois public school pupils greeted James Sherman as the train paused for two minutes Sherman urged the children to vote Republican and declared the scene the most inspiring he had seen in the state promising similar enthusiasm would sway voters if replicated elsewhere
Taft’s North Platte remarks on labor drew approval from a Col. audience largely of workers. He criticized Samuel Gompers for alleged lies about him and, in Ogallala, received a watermelon from a Democrat with a wry reply, thanking them that it was a melon not a lemon.
West Virginia Lincoln Republicans withdraw to aid national ticket. Parkersburg report notes misrule by a Republican State Committee and usurped seats at the state convention. The executive committee says the priority is Taft and Sherman and a Republican Congress, halting further state reform efforts for now.
The Indiana and Towan campaigns will skip Ohio events as Beveridge and Dolliver cannot appear there. Governor Harris is set to speak in Ironton on October 15, with W. G. Harding scheduled for Jackson October 10 and Wellston the same evening.
New York reports Secretary of State Elihu Root visited Republican National headquarters last Wednesday and inquired into campaign work. President Roosevelt reportedly sent Root to assess the effort and blamed National Treasurer Sheldon for campaign lapses. Sheldon absent. aide confirms no official reply to the rumors.
The collateral trust noteholders plan to bid in the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway property at foreclosure, potentially taking ownership. The Central Trust Company chaired the noteholders and Protective Committee, controlling about 14 million of the notes, with proceeds to cover purchase and outstanding receivers' certificates.
The article reports on Charles Hitchcock declining a national headquarters for the campaign and proposing state committees raise funds instead. Visitor Wade Ellis from Ohio praises Hitchcock to President Roosevelt, while speakers for Camp Taft include Taft Sherman Fairbanks Reet Strauss and Senators Borah Delliver and Smith. Financial outlook turns brighter as subcommittees work on a plan with state support shifting to the National Committee.
Assistant Treasurer Fred W. Phe reports New York sources show slower money flow to the campaign fund with an average contribution of $62. He notes receipts are hard to obtain and expects continued fundraising challenges.
The speaker asserts no money has been received from any Federal employee and that the committee has not solicited Federal employees. The remark underscores a lean campaign fund compared with earlier years and emphasizes independence from federal contributions.
In Camp Taft New York on October 2 a large crowd gathered for a Republican rally with former Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw as chief speaker. Shaw spoke at length about William J. Bryan's record and stance on campaign issues.
Governor Hughes loses his voice due to a bad throat from exposure and is forbidden to speak for a day or two by throat specialist Dr. A D Campbell. He nevertheless appears at Jamestown Opera House to apologize for his inability to speak after planned speeches in Wellsville Salamanca and Randolph.
President Roosevelt removed Lincgin Avery, Collector of the Port at Port Huron Michigan, and directed the removal of Charles H Dailey a Treasury special agent there. The Civil Service Commission found proof of serious violations of rules on campaign assessments and noted Dailey's pernicious political activity.
Obituary notes the death of Mrs. Joan Dunsmuir widow of Robert Dunsmuir and sister of James Dunsmuir former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia in Victoria British Columbia.
A Nebraskan speaker praises German Americans for their language culture and work ethic, cites their role in building the nation, and endorses Democratic prospects. He questions Republican reliance on experience, defends appointments, and argues Democratic victory would restore prosperity amid ongoing economic panic linked to tariff policy.
Democratic National headquarters announces a Bankers' Committee with prominent bankers from each state to back Mr. Bryan. Members are mainly bank presidents and will focus on mobilizing bankers around postal savings banks versus Republican plans. The committee has not yet elected officers.
New York dated October 2 reports Democratic National Committee plans to target William Nelson Cromwell a Republican Advisory Committee member and explore his corporate ties. The probe follows a recent attack by National Chairman Mack on George R. Sheldon.
Meredith Nicholson presents a lively comedy The Little Brown Jug at Kildare with rapid action and 40 wit and a double love story. The work echoes his earlier success The House of a Thousand Candles and features a Governors daughter dialogue across Carolina.
Chairman Mack attacked Treasurer Sheldon but declined to issue a statement. Mr Sheldon said the statement was not something he wished to reply to.
Bartlow Ohio Democratic National Committee member appoints a committee to organize Bryan Clubs in Ohio colleges. Appointees include Hugo Schlesinger Columbus Roscoe Carle Fostoria Floyd C Williams Cincinnati Law School A Wilson Duvall Miami University F M Portz Wittenberg College Roy Lash Ohio University R A Swathin Defiance Goldwin L Buck Oberlin Thomas L Sidle Western Reserve Cleveland N W Peters Tiffin Arla Morgan Athens William Price Forest Marvin W Pope Cleveland Joseph Hostetter Cleveland. He will meet soon to push Bryan club formation across state colleges.
In Brown County Ohio on October 2, voters approved local option by 602 votes, closing 23 saloons. Georgetown led with an 86 vote margin, Ripley dry by 27, Union Township dry by 153, and several townships showing dry majorities Perry 318 Eagle 79 Jackson 64 Lewis 1 Higginsport 1 Stoling 13. Women actively campaigned at polls.
In Perry County on October 2 incomplete returns show the drys with a 1100 plurality as fifty four saloons were voted out. Perry County, normally Republican, is sometimes carried by Democrats.
A petition for a local option election in Greene County was filed with Judge C. H. Kyle of the Common Pleas Court this evening. The document carries 2,780 signatures.
A Bombay dispatch from Hyderabad, capital of a flooded district, describes the city as a vast grave with streets turned to mud and corpses. Death toll is uncertain, natives estimate up to 50,000, and 600 bodies were recovered from a single location. Funeral pyres burn continually as damage is placed at 200 million rupees.
The sixteenth National Irrigation Congress in Albuquerque convened to adopt the resolutions report and elect officers. George L. Barstow of Texas was elected President with H. B. Loveland of San Francisco as Vice President and J. D. McConnell of San Francisco as Second Vice President, B. A. Fowler of Arizona as Secretary. W R Hearst spoke, noting his focus on oil interests and denying political letters. The group endorsed an international congress to meet in 1910.
National party ticket filed with 10 000 names and State ticket with 11 000 names. Joseph Otte of Cincinnati is Independence party candidate for Governor and J A McKittrick the candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
Chicago on October 2 reports Judge Cutting denied John J. Healy's petition to erase John B. W. Wayman from the Republican ticket for State's Attorney. Wayman had won the August 8 primaries. Healy claimed fraud in his defeat.
Ernest Girard, owner of a Ninth Avenue wine cellar, planned his funeral after a dinner with three friends at a major uptown hotel. He killed himself with a gunshot to the head, his body found in Central Park. A $150 certified check to a burial house lay in his pocket, and he had arranged that the shop close for a family illness. He had met his friends at a rendezvous that led to the undertaker’s address. Ill health was cited as the motive.
Fukumura Takaho, seventeen, an Osaka orphan, stabbed herself to death in a sacrifice to prolong Marquis Inouye’s life, as advices via the steamer Iyo report. Before dying she mailed a bloodstained post card to Marquis Inouye declaring her intent.
George M. Massey, manager of the local branch of the Menter & Rosen bloom Company, was found dead in his Birmingham store. A note left by Massey hints at self-inflicted act, stating there is no one responsible. His accounts are reported in good shape.
A brisk fire at Winthrop Beach swept Crest Hall and the Ocean View Hotel early Oct 3. Seventy five guests were housed, with six cottages razed. Help arrived from Boston Chelsea and Revere as flames threatened cottages and the Summer Colony.
An unknown passenger on a Louisville Southern Railway train from Lawrenceburg to Lexington leaped from the moving train as it crossed a high bridge. The jumper fell about 286 feet into the water below but details on injuries or survival were not provided.
A Wisconsin woman writes that after eight years of Postum she drinks it three times daily and can eat normally. She says quitting coffee eased dyspepsia bloating and headaches, with her parents and husband also sharing gains after stopping coffee. She notes she is not a gusher and shares plain facts.
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