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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1911
Page
4
The piece contrasts seven weeks of Democratic House activity with a static Republican Senate. It highlights passed measures on reciprocity, reapportionment, tariffs, direct election of Senators, and investigations. It claims House momentum contrasts with Senate inaction and political advantage for Democrats.
The Newark Star argues that using the office as a stepping stone to a national post is a grave sin for a Governor. It recalls Griggs leaving the governorship for a Washington cabinet post and Fort’s 1908 stance that a Governor cannot seek Vice President due to a three year term contract. The piece dismisses the idea as overblown and notes implied contract notions.
The piece argues that Fort would stay in Trenton until March if nominated and denies Wilson as a credible presidential threat. It dismisses the idea that electing Wilson as governor would propel him to the presidency and criticizes the Star for amplifying this obstacle as a campaign issue. The author calls the argument a mare’s nest and urges dropping the shadow fight.
Governor Wilson in Portland admitted that logically the recall should apply to judges as well as other officials but dismissed logic as unimportant saying he does not care about it. He warned that denying the logic invites expansion of recall to judges eventually.
A Canadian shirt and collar factory shows doubled output and 50 percent higher wages after improving ventilation. Absences due to sickness drop from one in twenty to one in fifty among female operators at a Cambridge Massachusetts telephone center after installing artificial ventilation.
Representative Kahn of California argued last week that the recall would not have harmed Washington Lincoln Jefferson Madison or Roosevelt if it had been included in the Constitution during their presidencies. He noted the heated public debate that accompanied the process and questioned the feasibility of ratification.
The page weighs political ideas on recall and constitutional change, questions whether recall would work in historical crises, and notes about opportunities for graduates to travel on government funds. It mentions teachers for public schools in the Philippines, 9000 Americans in the program, and a cautionary line about crime and lawlessness with a New York diamond theft joke.
The Brooklyn Eagle notes division over whether Mr. Bryan will seek renomination or nominate another to boost Commoner revenue. The piece warns Bryan could gain or wreck the Democracy depending on his move, while also describing telephone transmission and carbon microphone history from the N Y Press.
A historical discourse on how the Sherman Antitrust Act sought to define restraint of trade. It discusses the problem of enumeration versus broad reach, the need for a definable standard, and the court’s application of reason to balance permissible and impermissible restraints.
The World attacks Sherman law interpretation while New Yorkers dispute Court appointments. The piece critiques Governor Wilson on public service and hotel standards. It discusses Cohalan's Supreme Court appointment as political debt, and argues Bryan will shape the next Democratic nomination with Bryanism as the defining factor.
The poem mocks Taft and Wilson as they play golf, linking their actions to politics and graft. It imagines a court filling legislative gaps by judgment, while lampooning officials and urging skillful play to defeat bad rulings, with lines referencing Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and graft.
A compact reflection on solitary struggle and personal faith, noting how crises test us alone and push us toward God and inner resilience as taught by the Ladies' Home Journal.
Bartley Houlihan’s funeral drew relatives and a large Knights of Columbus and Phil Daly Hose Company presence, with fire department members in uniform. Rev. William P. Cantwell officiated at Star of the Sea Church at 10, songs by Mrs. Heldt and Miss Herbert on organ, pallbearers from the Knights and Dalys, Daly’s hose wagon bearing flower offerings, interment at Mt. Carmel cemetery under William H. Morris Jr. funeral director.
A Louisville Courier-Journal quotation reflects on large families and later empty nests. The speaker recalls ten children who all married, noting occasional return of divorced offspring, illustrating changing social ties and modern family dynamics.
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