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Newspaper
Journal World Spirit
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
4
A call to remove political influence from state educational and penal institutions urges a civil service test for all administrators and staff. The speaker warns against reviving Lee era favors and cites past misrule at Vermillion and related hospitals as a reason to resist political meddling.
The list names candidates for Congress and state offices across districts including Burke in Pierre Eben Martin Shober Polley Hinning Johnson Clark Astrud Dokken Robinson Thorson Tobin Giles Sedam Chamberlain Young Holbrook Birks Pay Boyle Hagen Smith Tolmie Coughlin Buell Curtis Hotheld Hotalling Somers Teets Wright.
The Democratic Party attacks the current South Dakota administration claiming the Board of Regents and Governor Crawford politicize higher education. They cite factional fights, prior campus tensions at Brookings and Vermillion, and say the governor personally inspected the institutions proving a merit based, nonpartisan policy.
A Chicago newspaper editorial condemns the Springfield race riot calling it mob violence against blacks, including arson and murder. It argues lynching and riot are crimes, notes Gov Deneen’s militia intervention, and praises Abraham Lincoln for freedom while criticizing the crime’s stain on the city’s name.
Summary notes a Saturday Evening Post article misstates Alaska purchase cost as eighty million dollars, when the real price was seven million. It questions claim of 220 bushels per acre, suggesting figures are inflated by ten.
The annual address alleges that law promises equality before all but corporate forms, especially large industrial ones like Standard Oil, operate oligarchically and distort open access. It questions whether corporate power can endure alongside a political system of universal participation.
Governor Cummins issues a proclamation calling the Iowa legislature to meet in extraordinary session to consider an amendment to the primary law. The move aims to adjust the existing framework governing primary elections and related procedures.
The session opens August 31 with a plan for a popular vote to choose a successor to Senator Allison. The governor, highly popular, is expected to back a primary nomination at the November election, potentially avoiding a special election. Radical critics unlikely to be appeased by any act short of drastic change.
In a speech of acceptance Bryan asserts the people should rule and recalls past defeats in 1896 and 1900. He warns that under him the people will rule again and be buried by ballots in 1908, concluding with a moral to speak less.
In a May to November tale set in a Greenwich Village colony Sue and Johnny live as artists in a squat brick building. Johnny falls ill with pneumonia and clings to life as an ivy leaf outside their window holds her to hope. Behrman, an aging painter below, dies of pneumonia after painting the last leaf that saves Johnny.
Judge Carland of the United States court at Sioux Falls sentenced George D. Horras, a former ... to five years in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth Kansas. The ruling follows a federal case and reflects the court's decision on his prior conduct.
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