Baltic Meet tensions and political odds in headlines
A digest of political and civic notes: Baltic tensions cited as a pretext for returning home, strong crowds for Folk and Henry Davis, and Bryan. NYC board of education refuses corporal punishment, Kansas City eyes a union depot. Lexington-Lafayette bridge stakes loom, World’s Fair airship tests disappoint, mastodon skeleton found in Kansas City, state stock market surge, and calls for elastic currency. Roosevelt and Parker electoral predictions. Republicans push Indiana purchase warnings. Armour-Swift grab riverfront near Union Depot in Kansas City, with riverfront floods and government wetting efforts ongoing.
Initiative and Referendum Debate in Missouri
The piece criticizes the Direct Legislation League of Missouri and its push for a second constitutional amendment to institute initiative and referendum. It argues the method would not curb corruption, citing past rail and bond debts, and warns reforms could dilute the electorate, empower special interests, and distort press and voters’ roles.
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Direct Legislation League of
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Referendum vs Representation in Legislative Reform
A critique argues initiative and referendum empower industrial interests and waste public funds. It contends people would back recall via referendum, but argues expert, representative governance yields better service than costly citizen direct rule. It warns of monopolistic laws and costly, unreliable outcomes from frequent direct votes.
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Cream of Tartar
Maxwell Proposal for Reclaiming Land by Irrigation and Diking
George H Maxwell proposes adopting a standing policy to employ idle men in reclaiming worthless land across the country through irrigation and diking. He urges offering workers options to buy small parcels for homes as part of the program. He argues it would double natural wealth and finance itself from ongoing profits, contrasting with populist socialist ideas.
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George H. Maxwell
Episcopal Church Convention Hears Divorce Canon Debate
At Boston's general convention the Episcopal Church discussed a canon to forbid remarriage after divorce. The proposal was amended to allow divorce on scriptural grounds if the innocent party waits one year. The decision is praised as a bold moral move for the church's social role.
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Episcopal Church
Boston
Secretaries’ admission shocks party leadership reveal
A New York report quotes secretary Hey asserting the Republican path is so clearly laid out that deviation is impossible. The remark, long suspected, marks an unprecedented admission by a high party authority.
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Hey
New York
Republican Party
Archbishop Glencon Opposes Free Textbook Amendment
Archbishop Glencon opposes a proposed free textbook amendment to Missouri’s constitution. He argues it may be proper for a penitentiary but not for free people, contending it undermines individual responsibility and could lead to a broader expansion of state welfare programs.
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Glencon
Abstract Line Breaks in a Historic Trial Language
An odd remark about questioning Admiral Rojestvensky triggers ridicule in a criminal trial scene. The judge struggles to maintain decorum while the sheriff calls for order, highlighting tensions between authority and defiance in a wartime maritime setting.
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Russia
England
Rojestvensky
Sevare
Republican party backs South redistricting aimed at suffrage limits
The Republican National Committee circulated a note quoted in the Kansas City Star saying the party would pursue redistricting in Southern states to restrict suffrage, a move described as potentially fatal to the party if pursued after Roosevelt's election. The piece suggests the plan would split the party and is viewed as extreme.
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Republican National Commties
Kansas City Star
Roosevelt
Voters poised for strong turnout despite county apathy
The county’s apparent apathy is not indifference to election results but voters having made up their minds and avoiding campaigners. Democratic voters are expected to turnout in force, preserving the usual nationwide and local majorities on national, state, and county tickets.
Dan Patch Sets New Memphis Pace in 1 56 Time
Report notes the pacing record fell Thursday in Memphis with Dan Patch clocking 1 56. The piece debates whether faster times prove horse speed or man made devices like wind shields and ball bearing sulkies aided performance.
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Dan Patch
Memphis
Dockery era fuels Missouri university growth without tax hike
Governor A. M. Dockery presided over rapid University of Missouri expansion from 1900 to 1905. Revenue rose from about 218000 to 435000, with 300000 spent on new Columbia and Rolla buildings, two more nearly finished at Columbia, and equipment and library holdings surging. Student enrollment climbed from roughly 1487 to near 1900.
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A. M. Dockery
Missouri
Commonwealth
University of Missouri
Dockery
School of Minee
Columbia
Rolie
Columba
Postmaster’s Son Arrested for Colonizing Plot
The article reports Udell and allies directing a scheme to plant 250 Philadelphia negroes in Van Cott’s Assembly district to vote Republican. Postmaster Van Cott and a cashier are jailed on $2,500 bonds. investigators claim aides planned fraud, while detectives and the Tammany faction probe further.
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Acheme
Philadelphia
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Tammany Organization
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