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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1903
Page
2
A editorial warns of rising crime and mob vengeance across the nation with sensational reports from Delaware and Chicago. It urges expeditious legal methods to curb lawless acts by Black individuals, argues for policing measures, and appeals to legislators to confront the "negro problem" to uphold the majesty of the law.
A Treasury Department immigration official is accused of selling private papers, about 4000 items, to railroad and steamship companies. Agriculture seen another scandal over free seeds with a political favorite hired as seed contractor inspector, plus neglect by a Wilson protege. An Ethnology Bureau probe follows a defaulter and Spanish war veteran’s hire. A congressman blames long party rule for widespread corruption and notes Roosevelt’s limits in prosecuting graft.
The report notes two more indictments in postal cases against Ex-Congressman Driggs of Brooklyn and J W Miller of the same city, with Machen Groffs and George E Lorenz and his wife also charged again. Ex-Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith cites alleged collusion by Tulloch and Inspector Smith, tied to Bristow’s reply, while Payne denies plans to resign amid illness. Roosevelt heads to Oyster Bay for summer, attending church conferences. municipal waterworks ownership is debated nationwide. Trustees' Sale.
Trustees offer multiple lots in Caroline County Maryland at public sale in front of the Denton court house. Lands include Lot 1 home farm of Dr Thomas Hackett and six additional tracts with timber, peach trees, graveyard, and various boundaries. Lots 3 4 offered separately then as a unit. Lots 6 7 offered first. Auctioneer FP Covey. Attorney Fred R Owens.
Editorial notes urge a quieter patriotic observance of the Fourth, urging serious thinking on civic duties and improved government. Report covers Democratic State Central Committee meeting in Baltimore, candidate talks for Comptrollership, editorials on Maryland politics, and visits by prominent figures like Sir Thomas Lipton and J Pierpont Morgan.
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