Campaign of 1888 Sees Dignified Party Battle and Tariff Focus
The 1888 campaign featured a party battle over tariff policy, with Grover Cleveland defending tariff aims and Benjamin Harrison rising from Indiana as the Republican candidate. The race emphasized issue over personal appeal, sparking a nation watching a close, dignified contest.
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Cleveland
Allen G.thurman
Ohio
Thurman
John G. Carlisle
House of Representatives
Kentucky
the Treasury
John George
Dallas County
Missouri
George
Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
White House
The
Republic
Washington
Jefferon
John Quincy Adams
Republican League Clubs' Rehabilitation Under Hammond
The National League of Republican Clubs has been revitalized over three weeks under John Hayes Hammond who shifted from mining to politics. Delegations sweep in from California to Michigan as Ohio plans six delegates at large and four per district, with events at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Music Hall in Cincinnati.
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National League of Republican
John Hayes Hammond
National League
Hammond
Friends
William Howard Taft
Frank Hitchcock
National
Taft
H. V. Speelman
Ohio
Guido Gores
California
Michigan
Indiana
Hy D. Davis
Cincinnati
Denver
Chicago
Guido, Gores
Soldiers and Sailors’ Memorial Hall
Senator Foraker
Gores
Stamina League
Hynicka
Messrs. Speelman and
Mr. Davis
Buckeye
Ohio League
Linton Hotel
Laning Testifies on Loans in Norwalk Bank Case
Congressman J F Laning of Norwalk testifies in an embezzlement trial tied to Norwalk Savings Bank stock. He explains a joint collateral plan with Ohio Trust Company and his Laning Company to raise funds after his firm burned, claiming the trust officers knew of the transactions. He denies intent to defraud as tears appear during his testimony.
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Fremont
J. F. Laning
Norwalk
Norwalk Savings Bank
Ohio Trust Company
Laning
Drought Halts Tobacco Packing In Burley Society Meeting
Special Dispatch reports Winchester Kentucky September 15 The District Committee of the Burley Tobacco Society finishes this year’s business as the current board nears retirement Most members expected to be re elected Dry weather delayed crop packing and no full sample line yet The Boards of Control across counties meet September 26 and the District Committee will be elected October 3.
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Commercial Tribune
Winchester
The
Burley Tobacco Society
Boards of Control
Congress probes Wisconsin paper industry in Menasha
Chairman James R. Mann led an all day session in Menasha as the Congressional Paper and Pulp Investigation Commission examined pulp supply, wood and paper prices, labor hours and possible combinations. Augustus Spies and Senator William Jones testified. mills at Neenah and Menasha were inspected before a planned stop in Appleton.
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Appleton, Wis
Wisconsin
James R. Mann
Chicago
Congressional Paper and Pulp Investigation Commission
Menasha
Augustus Spies
Marinette and Menominee Paper Company
Marinette
Wis
William Jones
Bangor
Mann
Henry B. Dean
Providence
R. I
John L. Norris
New York
Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Neenah and Menasha
Appleton
Troops to visit Morrow on march through hometown
In Xenia Ohio on September 15 Colonel F W Mansfield orders two battalions of the Second Regiment United States Infantry to reroute from Lebanon to Morrow, Mansfield's boyhood town, on their march from Camp Perry to Ft. Thomas. The change does not extend the route and aims to pass soldiers through the Civil War era town. Mansfield is son of E D Mansfield of the Cincinnati Gazette.
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Commercial Tribune
Xenia
United States Infantry
Camp Perry
Ft. Thomas
Morrow
F. W. Mansfield
Warnesville
Lebanon
Mansfield
Town
Colonel Mansfield
E. D. Mansfield
Cincinnati
Noted Author John Collings Found Dead in England
Prof. John Churton Collings, noted author essayist and lecturer, professor of English literature at Birmingham, was found dead in the woods near Lowestoft today. It is believed he poisoned himself during a period of melancholy related to illness. Collings, born in 1848, leaves a notable literary legacy.
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Lowestoft
England
John Churton Collings
Birmingham
Collins
Taft Greetings and New York News From Taft Headquarters
Taft received congratulations on his birthday and a congratulatory telegram from Governor Hughes after the New York convention renominated him. Leslie M. Shaw visited Taft at the Linton Hotel bringing cheering news about Bryan’s platform. An excursion party from Greenfield, Ind., called at the hotel for a brief, nonpolitical reception.
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Taft
Linton
New York
Bryan
Scarborough
Wilberforce
McKinley
Illinois
W. T. Vernon
Register of the Treasury
Washington
Congressman Burton
Cleveland
Mr. Taft
Burton
Greenfield
Ind
Linton Hotel
J. T. Rush
S. W. Trapscott
Thomas Trainor
John T. Johnson
New York Democrats Set Chanler For Governor Nomination
Rochester dispatch reports that after talks among Charles F. Murray Daniel F. Cohalan Tammany Hall State Chairman William J. Connors and National Chairman Norman E. Mack the Democratic slate for the New York Convention includes Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler Lieutenant Governor Francis Burton Harris Secretary of State John S Whalen Attorney General Frank Kellogg Comptroller Martin D Glynn State Engineer George Ricker and Treasurer Julius Hauser The factions pledged harmony ahead of the convention and Chanler was predicted for the first ballot while McCarren controversy and credential battles were eased by a deal with Murphy and Mack reducing friction.
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Rochester
Charles F. Murray
Daniel F. Cohalan
Tammany Hall
William J. Conners
Norman E. Mack
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Francis Burton Harris
New York
Frank Kellogg
Glen Falls
George M. Palmer
Schohari
Martin D. Glynn
Albany
George Ricker
Erie
Conners
Charles F. Murphy
Mack
Mr. Murphy
Senator McCarren
McCarren
Murphy
Kings County
National Committee
Bryan
Factio Chautauqua
Einner
Committee On
Patrick H. McCarren
Brooklyn
W. J. Bryan
John W. Kern
Grover Cleveland
Saratoga
N. Y
Charles E. Hughes
Horace White
Onondaga
Samuel S. Koenig
Edward B. O'Malley
Charles H. Gaus
Accounting Asked of Hargis Estate in Kentucky Suit
A Jackson circuit court suit, filed by Evelyn Hogg, daughter of the late Judge James Hargis, seeks to place the Hargis estate property, including a department store, in receivership. Beach Hargis’s bail motion was denied. health concerns cited. Hargis faces murder charges with new counsel Mrs Will A Young, trial planned for Irvine Estill County on December 16. Family members reportedly willing to post up to $60 000 bail.
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Richards
Common Pleas Court
Lexington
Jackson
Evelyn Hogg
James Hargis
Llewellyn Hargis
Beach Harg
Hargis
Adams
Will A. Young
Wife uses unique method to get husband to return
Mrs Paula Richter reportedly bound and gagged, robbed, and carried away by a party in an auto after being found in her yard at 1137 Sycamore street. Witnesses place a man connected to her last Sunday at the scene and police investigate a staged abduction while Richter claims the episode was a ploy to win back his affection.
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Paula Richter
Kirk Richter
Auto Livery Company
Broadway
Sycamore Street
Mrs. Richter
Borck
Third District
Richter
Holland Recruit Men in New York
In anticipation of war with Venezuela Holland recruits in the United States to serve as secret service agents and later form a foreign legion against Castro forces. P F Joubert of Johannesburg admits the plan and advertises for adventurous Americans, drawing many applicants in New York and Brooklyn and beyond.
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Holland
New York
Foreign Legion
Venezuela
Zuela
United States
P. F. Joubert
Joannesburg
South
Iica
Hotel Astor
P Morrisini Dies Suddenly in New York Banker's Death
Giovanni P Morrisini banker and philanthropist dies suddenly at 74 from heart failure at his Riverdale country home New York. Survived by son Otillie P Morrisini married to a Virginia belle and two daughters Giulia praised as a horsewoman while Victoria caused a scandal by eloping with the family coachman leading to disinheritance. He rose from sailor to Erie Railroad auditor via a rescue of a boy named Nathaniel Marsh's son and later earned the confidence of Jay Gould and benefited from Goulds friendship.
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New York
Giovanni P. Morrisini
Riverdale
Victoria Morrisini Schilling
Giulia Morrisini
Otillie P. Morrisini
Virginia Belle
Morrisini
Clifton
Staten Island
Nathaniel Marsh
Erie Railroad
Hughes Renominated by First Ballot at New York Convention
Charles E. Hughes won the Republican State Convention on the first ballot with 827 votes, a landslide over James Wadsworth Jr. and John K. Stewart. The vote followed a tense fight with a late bloc from New York County sealing Hughes’s unanimous renomination. The slate for other offices was announced, and the convention adjourned at 5:30 p.m.
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Charles Evans Hughes
New York
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
Livingston County
John K. Stewart
Montgomery
William Barnes, Jr
Albany
Teiders
Timothy L. Woodruff
New York County
Nassau County
Hughes
Saratoga
Charles B. Hughes
Lafayette B. Gleason
James W. Wadsworth
Charles E. Hughes
Barnes
Root
Mr. Barnes
Frank K. Cook
Livingston
Wadsworth
J. L. Moore
Stewart
Isles BE. Hughes
Sherman telegraphs Hughes on renomination in 1920 race
James M. Sherman Republican Vice Presidential candidate sent a telegram to Governor Hughes from New York en route to Wilkes Barre. He congratulated Hughes on his renomination and predicted an enthusiastic campaign and a successful outcome for the state.
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New York
Union
West
Taft
Hughes
James 5
Sherman
Wilkesbarre
Rochester man accepts honor in brief speech
Rochester, N. Y., September 15. A local figure expresses deep gratitude for an honor conferred, stating appreciation and humility in a concise, formal acknowledgement. The remarks reflect a tone of respectful recognition and civic sentiment.
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Rochester, N. Y
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Frederic J. Haskin
Mr. Cleveland
Congress
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William Henry Harrison
Tippecanoe
Virginia
Pocahontas
Zachary Taylor
Indianapolis
Republican League
Magic
Marion Club
New England
Pennsylvania
League
Burley Society
Wisconsin Paper Industry
Congressional Committee
John Collins
Leslie M. Shaw
Shaw
New York Democrats
Chanter
John S. Whalen
Monroe
Julius Hauser
Suffolk
Mr. Chanler
Hargis Estate
New Woman Counsel
Vene
Legion’ Movement
B. P. Morrisini
New York State
Great Enthusi
Victor
VEYOR
Frank M. Williams
Madison
Thomas B. Dunn
Court OF Appeals
Albert Haight
Herbert Parsons
Republican General Committee
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