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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
1
A reader asks whether Judge Judson Harmon supports the franchise tax plank in the Ohio Democratic platform adopted at the May 1908 State Convention. The inquiry seeks any public information or sources naming who holds such information and will disclose it to the Olio public.
Major W L Siebert of the Panama Canal Commission spoke at the Ohio Valley Improvement Association convention in Louisville urging locking and damming the Ohio River and rejecting reservoirs as impracticable. Other speakers backed a unified deep waterways approach, nine foot Ohio stage, and bond funding if needed to advance inland waterway development.
In Cetinje on October 22, Princesses Zenia and Vera led Montenegrin women in a street demonstration over Austria Hungary annexations. They marched with Prince Nicholas, carrying Montenegrin flags, as women urged men to defend national rights and formed a Red Cross nurse committee afterward.
Baron Von Aerenthal told the Foreign Affairs Committee that talks with Turkey re Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sanjak of Novipazar have not been broken off despite newspaper reports. He voiced hope and said Austria-Hungary might accept an international congress if the program aligns with its views. He predicted Servian agitation would fade.
The Sofia correspondent reports Bulgarian envoys returning from Constantinople after a failed mission. The Bulgarian government still hopes to reach an agreement with Turkey. The break is attributed to Turkey insisting on capitalizing the Roumelian tribute, which Bulgaria refuses.
President Roosevelt declined to intervene for Bosnia and Herzegovina as the U S is not a signatory of the 1878 Berlin treaty. The issue arose from a San Francisco mass meeting of Serbians urging U S action. The State Department will issue a formal reply outlining U S policy.
In New Haven on October 22 Ambassador Bryce keynoted the third Dodge lecture on The Responsibilities of Citizenship. He argued party spirit is a civic necessity in large communities but urged that municipal affairs remain free of national party politics to ensure capable and honest city administration.
Miss Cecilia Schoenfelder eighteen, a grocery store cashier, faced a revolver and demand for money as she neared her home at 1553 Dudley street. She screamed and fought back, chased the suspect Herman LavVanier twenty six, pressfeeder, to a shed, where he was captured until police arrived at the Fifth District Station.
West Virginia campaign swing sees William J. Bryan lecturing farmers and miners across Ohio Kanawha and New River valleys. He defends President Gompers AFL and warns laborers against coercion while noting Roosevelt critique. Bryan departs for New York on a Chesapeake and Ohio special.
Democratic headquarters announce a whirlwind finish with four special trains in Indiana and Ohio starting Monday. John W Kern and Thomas R Marshall lead Indiana specials, while Judson Harmon heads one Ohio train. A large roster of speakers including Gore, Towne, Rainey, and Harmon will tour both states, delivering speeches and literature to reach nearly every voter.
Lieutenant Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson, King’s Messenger since 1901 and Queen’s Messenger since 1895, died today in London. He led a detachment in the Emin Pasha relief expedition under Henry M. Stanley in 1887 to 1890 and married Miss Anna d in 1904, daughter of the late Addison B. of San Francisco.
In Elmira New York on October 22 delegations from towns marching clubs and brass bands joined a parade honoring Congressman James Sherman who spoke at the Lyceum Theater. Sherman contrasted Republican deeds with Democratic promises and urged voters to reelect Fassett while praising Governor Hughes and his administration.
Taft addresses large Indiana crowds saying he will keep using prosperity arguments against Bryan as they hold truth. Bryan in West Virginia defends Gompers and hammers corruption charges. Sherman at Elmira shows sympathy for his opponent and contrasts GOP deeds. Howard at Columbus backs Taft. Rogers, State Fire Marshal, in Columbus, lambasts Judge Harmon.
A Columbus meeting invitation describes lunch and refreshments to be provided at 7 30 p m on Saturday October 24 by Judge Harmon and a railway telegraphers committee to explain treatment by Harmon Critics warn the lunch may influence voters and cite Ohio law on giving inducements to electors with penalties up to 500 dollars or three years in prison
A juror identified as Gordon Wendell fell ill with acute indigestion and kidney trouble causing a temporary halt in the trial of Charles W. Morse and A. H. Curtis. Wendell is at home under federal guard. prosecutors hope to resume the trial within the week.
Italian cruiser Fieramosca to escort the Duke of the Abruzzi and his bride from New York to Italy with Etruria joining. Reports say Elkins family will attend Rome marriage deed ceremony and Senator Elkins may receive a Chevalier title later. Duke travels incognito to Naples for a secret conference with the Duke of Aosta.
William Van Sleet and Dr. Sidney S. Stowell soared in the Pittsfield balloon for fifty five miles from Pittsfield Massachusetts at 11 a.m. and landed near North Milton New York just after 5 p.m. The descent was reported safe by Van Sleet who said the craft could have continued but the Adirondack forests loomed.
Seventeen women suffragists arrested October 13 during the storming of the House of Commons were sentenced at Bow Street Police Court to terms from three weeks to three months. They declined bond and chose imprisonment over release on good behavior.
Taft campaigns through Indiana defending injunctions as protective for workers and property. He ridicules Bryan's bribery charge, distinguishes party platforms on injunction use, and stresses that injunctions prevent repeated harm. Debs is labeled Socialist while Taft draws large coal miner crowds.
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