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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
6
The Elizabeth Daily Journal lists its general manager Augustus Crane and multiple office locations in Newark, Elizabeth, and surrounding cities. It advertises delivery terms, rates per week, and advertising rates including one cent per word with a minimum charge, plus regional branches and wire service connections.
A Taft speech at Cooper Union on labor and capital frames his stance as favorable to workers rights. The piece argues Taft would safeguard labor against capital encroachments, suggesting his election would yield swift federal remedy for injustices. It surveys Taft’s potential impact on courts, tariffs, and foreign policy amid 1912 political currents.
The analysis argues that party regulars may back Bryan but will oppose his pet measures if elected. It contends that gold-standard factions, led by Tilden and Cleveland, will fight key Bryan priorities, potentially weakening support in the North and South. It questions how Bryan would handle tariffs, Philippines, army, canal, and other reforms, predicting renewed partisan wrangling and a strained Senate under a Bryan administration.
In Kearny voters backed Pamela Fakina as a first woman candidate for a school board seat, sparking discussion on women’s fitness for education governance. The article notes mothers and fathers increasingly engage in school problems beyond party politics and praises women’s qualifications for educational leadership. It highlights time, insight, and dedication as reasons women can improve school administration, while acknowledging controversy and political context surrounding the election.
The open primary proves decisive in New Jersey as candidates pledged to back local option and a state excise commission gain support. Essex county’s vote is described as the largest ever, with reformers optimistic about expanding primaries to Congressmen and governors, while rural counties resist. A cholera outbreak in St Petersburg prompts warnings on urban hygiene and drink, and a lighthearted note comments on the woman in the moon and freedoms from intrusion.
Letters urge a referendum on popular election of United States Senators. The writer, D. Edwin Davis of Elizabeth, argues voters must press candidates for pledge to allow the people to choose senators via referendum, citing Taft and Bryan as supportive but unable to enact it alone. September 22.
A garbled collection of quotes and fragments appears from multiple papers. It references Washington Star Philadelphia Inquirer and Louisville Courier Journal style chatter about manners and perception, with stray lines on companionship and conduct.
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