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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1908
Page
5
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Indiana paper surveys 1908 presidential race and possible running mates. Dolliver and Fairbanks favored for Republicans. Johnson and Mitchell named for Democrats with Harrison or Chanler as options. Marshall’s gubernatorial bid praised for ethics and ideals guiding Indiana politics.
Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic candidate for governor, spoke in Richmond last week praising constitutional government and warning against executive usurpation. The address emphasized strong moral tone, restraint, and a return to lawmaking by the legislature with courts interpreting and the executive enforcing.
The New York Herald gauges delegate distribution for the Democratic National Convention. It shows Bryan well over two thirds by week’s end, with 712 votes expected and a Denver convention mostly aligned to his nomination. Anti Bryan forces push to curb his national committee influence.
An earnest essay notes how some people habitually report illness and dwell on symptoms. It warns that constant focus on debility can worsen wellbeing and even attract sickness, especially as seasons change and weather fluctuates.
The text argues disease comes from diseased thoughts and health from healthy ones. It urges firm control of mindset to resist illness, stay cheerful, and perform daily work, dismissing slothful moods as thieves robbing success and happiness. It cites civilization's progress from labor and perseverance.
Dun and Company reports May bankruptcies in the United States at 1 379 with liabilities 13 623 381 the best monthly showing since last July. Manufacturing and trading failures fall from earlier months as banking suspensions rise marginally in May. Fairbanks aides fear a split in Indiana Beveridge delegation but Beveridge backing remains strong in the Republican committee.
A Milwaukee convention of country brewers this week will focus on reforming the saloon trade. Plans, methods, and measures to suppress the bad saloon aim to ease hostility to the liquor business and curb brewery political influence. The revolt stems from anger at brewery control over candidates and officials.
The article argues brewers cannot curb a nationwide movement against saloons. It states reform must come from broader sentiment and favors a closed saloon solution. It notes states pursue absolute prohibition local option and remonstrance laws to reshape saloon operations.
The anti Taft camp argues Roosevelt must run for a second term citing Taft’s harms to Jewish voters, Negroes, labor, and veterans. The piece cites Indiana politician Landis predicting Roosevelt would accept a Chicago nomination if offered and hints at a stampede to back him for second place.
The article critiques Southern Republican faction fights in Chicago as a selfish, discreditable bid for federal offices. It notes most contested states cannot back the eventual nominee and recalls pastMoney allegations by John Sherman. It laments disgust in some Republican papers at this convention behavior.
John Ways Hammond, noted mining engineer and former Guggenheim employee, formally announces his candidacy for vice president on the Republican ticket. He fought in South Africa during the Jameson raid and pre Boer War years, later returning to locate and develop large gold mines earning a reputed half million dollar salary.
The era’s mood in France is seen as a release of long suppressed tensions with Jew baiting and royalist demonstrations following the Zola canonization and Dreyfus affair.
In Washington the bureau of corporations is expected to issue the initial part of its report on the tobacco trust. The focus will cover organization matters and the history of the concern. The Brat installment is not the only portion anticipated.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue provided limited material to the Department of Justice, which pursued most data independently to file suits against the tobacco trust last summer.
The article notes President Roosevelt's anxiety over Taft's fate in the Chicago convention and outlines extensive precautions to keep delegates from shifting against Taft. It suggests the national committee is shaping the nomination by controlling contest outcomes to safeguard Taft.
A gas company erected a factory and storage near the city’s largest hospital in Indianapolis. A third explosion in a year occurred on Saturday with terrifying force. Officials debate an ordinance to relocate the plant to reduce neighbor danger, a move critics call puzzling given the original proximity to the hospital.
Ten years after Emile Zola’s imprisonment over the Dreyfus affair and amid marked irony France placed his ashes among Pantheon immortals. The nation he helped force to correct a grave wrong receives the late novelist with mixed pride and delayed praise.
Prohibition reduced school funds in Mobile city and county Alabama causing a proposed special school tax to be put to voters. The saloon element opposed and defeated the measure delivering no gain to them but leaving schools to bear the funding shortfall.
The attorney general warns that if Thomas R. Marshall becomes governor, the West Baden and French Lick casinos would be moved under the state house dome. He characterizes Marshall's talk as cheap and silly, insisting no illegal activity would approach the governor.
A man released after twenty years for murder will gain a $100,000 payout for inventions he perfected in prison. The article questions whether a cell is a fertile ground for genius and notes the moral debate surrounding the windfall.
A new disaster report notes another explosion on a U S warship and urges a special inquiry into whether boiler suppliers to the navy failed in quality. The investigation could extend to whether contractors delivered reliable equipment to prevent future catastrophes.
A fragment suggests a theory about an event in Chicago next week. The text also laments bringing Joe Kealing back to Indiana and hints at a heroic curse tied to the action.
Mr. Bryan proposes returning a $15,000 campaign contribution to Thomas F. Ryan. The move could set a precedent that the Republicans who gathered corporate funds in recent campaigns may resist following.
Doubts about Taft’s domination persisted as the Republican committee actively moved to curb or remove competing influence. The effort signals internal party tension during the factional struggle for control and alignment ahead of party events.
Arkansaw believes that if it can stand for the kind of representation Jeff gives her in the United States senate she is doing as well as could be expected.
Senator-Elect Bradley cautions the national committee that actions in Kentucky contests may make Kentucky a doubtful state come November. Uncle Joe Caninen declines politics, but backs the congressional record. Bryan insists any campaign fund from Ryan must be repaid, with $15,000 likely to remain a persistent issue.
The article asserts that genuine bourbon must be made in Kentucky from corn and cites the Supreme Court. It condemns cheap rye substitutes in saloons and warns brewers that many dives threaten the liquor trade, noting a slow nationwide awakening.
Friends of the opposition press agree Marshall delivered a fine speech and left a strong impression. They see no weaknesses to attack unless Jim Watson's newborn son becomes a campaign issue.
A portrayal of the presidential influence as unmatched in the nation. The piece notes the ticket platform and national committee as aspects under the White House leader’s control, asserting unprecedented political power and frank use of it.
The piece notes Iowans preferred Allison amid party loyalties, acknowledging strong Smith and Browns support across regions. It suggests Standpartism may loudly protest the outcome while highlighting Georgia’s similar divides and constituency variety.
The piece extols Tom Marshall's character, abilities, and fitness for the gubernatorial race urging Democrats and all Indiana voters to consider his keynote appeal.
At the Fort Wayne Federation of Labor meeting J. W. Close resigned as president due to other duties. E. D. Reading became president and C. H. Johnson was elected vice president. Debate over dissolving the political committee and a proposed constitutional amendment raising per capita tax from 2 to 3 cents ended with the measure killed.
Lawton-Wayne post of the Grand Army of the Republic plans large delegations to the Ohio State encampment in Lima June 15 to 19 and to the National encampment in Toledo August 31 to September 6. Aiming for at least 100 Fort Wayne members, a committee including B. W. Skelton George W. Aldrich and I. N. Medsker will confer with rail officials on travel rates. Aldrich is the twelfth district delegate to the national encampment.
Two men were killed and five injured when an apartment house under construction at the southwest corner of Twentieth and P streets Northeast collapsed today in Washington. All victims were workmen on the project, two of whom suffered serious injuries.
A Valparaiso Indiana report notes June death of an elderly man named William Hows Otte. The county coroner lists the apparent cause as suicide, with no further details given in the fragmentary notice.
Rev J F Vichert delivered a sermon at First Baptist Church memorial services for the Union Veteran Legion. Adjutant Thompson directed rites with Roll of Honor, and G W Aldrich spoke. Morning services for Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors featured noted music and a dual-text sermon on bearing one another's burdens and each man bearing his own.
Two firefighters from No 2 Hose Company escaped unharmed when a passenger engine grazed the rear of their hose wagon at the Hanna Street crossing while responding to box 127. They jumped off before impact and resumed the run with no damage to the wagon or injuries to the crew.
William M. Clutter of 1002 Couumbia avenue was chosen by the city school board at its Monday meeting to replace D. L. Beaber as truancy officer. A Democrat and formerly deputy clerk in the Suverioa court, Clutter will assume the duties after Beaber’s several years in the role.
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