Taft Victory Seen as Key to Billions in New Projects
Chicago business leaders say hundreds of millions await in railroads factories and lighting upgrades if Taft wins. They warn a Bryan victory could freeze investment and stall construction for four years, harming employment and bond markets nationwide.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
William H. Taft
Bryan
Taft
Senate
H. E. Fisher
Joliet & Southern Traction Company
Yoakum
Roch Island
Fisher
Chicago
Dierkes Leads Democratic Campaign Meeting In Walnut Street
Herman Dierkes treasurer of the Democratic Campaign Committee addressed nominees ward executives and precinct committeemen at Workmans Hall Walnut Street praising receipts and urging candidates to perform well. Other speakers included Charles Roth county treasurer Dr Hart congress candidate and Stanley Beadle.
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Herman Dierkes
Democratic Campaign Committee
Workman's Hall
Walnut Street
Democratic Committee
Herman
Dierkes
Charles Roth
Dr. Hart
Congress
Stanley Beadle
Bryan starts on his final tour
William J. Bryan begins his last nationwide tour from Fairview Nebraska taking a Burlington train to St. Louis to address stockyard employees before a Mississippi River crossing. He ends the Nebraska Colorado leg in Fairview then proceeds by special car to Lincoln with Mrs. Bryan, Rose, Mayor Brown and four reporters for a long, speech filled journey ending November 2. He plans four Chicago speeches tomorrow night after a day of car platforms.
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Lincoln
Neb
William J. Bryan
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Mississippi
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Nebraska
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Rose
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S Bryan
Chicago
Chicago & Alton
Bryan predicts Taft trip won’t sway Southern voters
William J. Bryan, en route from his home to St. Louis, says Judge Taft’s southern tour will have no effect on regional voters. He declines to discuss state-by-state results and says he may count doubtful states for electoral votes to discourage his followers.
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William J. Bryan
St. Louis
Taft
South
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Gore to Speak in East on Campaign Swing
Senator T. P. Gore will depart Lawton Oklahoma October 25 on a special train to New York for several days in the national campaign there. He will return the same train and continue campaigning along the route through Indiana Illinois Ohio and Kansas.
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T. P. Gore
New York
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Kansas
President Shaw Addresses Convention of Suffragists
Buffalo, N.Y. Oct 18 Delegates to the National American Woman Suffrage Association fortieth annual convention heard President Anna H Shaw urge equal toil and adequate pay. Jean M Gordon urged a democratic spirit among privileged women to improve labor conditions and oppose charity in favor of justice.
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N. Y
Star Theater
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Anna H. Shaw
Miss Shaw
Jean M. Gordon
Parish of Orleans
New Orleans
Shaw
Miss Gordon
America
China to adopt parliamentary system by 1917 plan
Peking dispatch outlines a nine year program to transform China from an asserted despotic system to a parliamentary government. The charter mirrors Japan with fourteen laws and a phased timetable from local self government to a full constitutional framework.
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Pa Kuang Hsu
Russia
Plan to avert crisis in Balkans reaches agreement
The article reports on a near crisis between Turkey and Bulgaria over mobilization and war fears. France helped avert hostilities by conveying assurances from Bulgaria, prompting Turkey to countermand mobilization. Internal tensions and possible international talks loom as Moscow, Vienna, and London watch closely. Czar Ferdinand returns from Bizitra.
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Council For National Defense
Abruzzi Gains Kings Consent For Marriage
Turin reports the King has given consent to the marriage of the Duke of the Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins. The Duke plans to depart for the United States likely via Havre. Newspapers say Miss Elkins would become an Italian royal princess with honors of royal rank after marriage.
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Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
United States
Havre
Elkins
Daughter Missing In Ohio Circulates Distress Call
John Berry of Conway Kentucky asks Hamilton Ohio police chief to find his sister Lizzie Spoonemore and inform her of their dying father’s condition. Lizzie had moved from John or Canal streets to Richmond Indiana where she works at the Windsor Hotel. Telegram notified her of the illness.
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Socialist Party
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Dayton
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Richmond
Ind
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Maine and Alabama Sail Part Ways at Sea
The battleship Maine reports muting from the Alabama in mid ocean on October 14. The Alabama is due in New York by October 21 while the Maine is expected in Portsmouh tomorrow night for repairs after their separation from the Atlantic fleet.
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Kentuckian Found Dead in Pass Ky
Thompson was found dead this morning at Pass Kentucky with his ailment marked and crushed remains reported. Police indicated no immediate cause of death and the incident is under investigation by local authorities.
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Pass, Ky
Mistaken Bulgarian Call to Colors Triggers Balkan Tension
Sofia reports that Turkey mobilized its Third Army Corps in Macedonia due to a Bulgarian error in calling out three series of reservists. Earlier Bulgaria summoned 15 000 conscripts from the same series who had been relieved twice for various reasons, now expected to join the army.
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Turkey
Macedonia
Bulgaria
Servian Foreign Minister to push Balkan understandings
Belgrade reports M Milovanovic leaving for Berlin London Paris and Rome to present Servia s wishes in the Balkan crisis He is urged to stand firm by Crown Prince George who warned that he speaks for 200 000 bayonets and must make no concessions for Serbia to regain stability.
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Balkan
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London
Paris
Rome
George
Mobilizing Third Army Corps in Macedonia Gains Strength
The Salonika correspondent lists effective men for the Third Army Corps now mobilizing in Macedonia. The Nizams total 68,000 troops and the Redifs 48,000, with active forces at 45,000, making 161,000 armed men. Guns and munitions are arriving rapidly including 110 rapid firers and 200 heavy guns on the way. Bulgaria may direct rail talks with Turkey over the Oriental Railroad, Ferdinand pushing ministers to heed powers’ advice, amid a special session of the Sobranga.
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Paris
Salonika
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Temps
Macedonia
Sofia
Oriental
Ferdinand
Hey
Tir Sobranga
Gompers Foresees Labor Victory With Bryan Election
Evansville Ind October 18 Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor told a crowd in Evans Hall that Bryan's election and Watson's defeat would be labor’s greatest national victory. He denounced the Supreme Court Sherman antitrust ruling limiting labor unions and criticized Watson and his support for Speaker Cannon.
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W. J. Bryan
United States
James E. Watson
Indiana
Organized Labor
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
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Terre Haute
Evans Hall
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Watson
Speaker Cannon
Congress
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