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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
5
The Monticello Express supplement from Thursday October 22, 1908 includes brief local notices and items of interest. It lists community happenings, upcoming events, and small notices likely reflecting residents and area happenings of Monticello and surrounding locality.
A pictorial supplement presents reference to the congressional senatorial and county Republican nominees. The piece urges readers to judge their abilities and qualifications, and to vote the Republican ticket straight at the polls.
The piece portrays James W. Good as a candid, unblemished Republican candidate for Congress and H. R. Chapman as a candidate for State Senator. It highlights Good's health, vigor, independence from corporate interests, and Rooseveltian reforms. Chapman is noted as a physician and longtime mayor, with roots in Monticello and Durant.
E M Babcock stands as a sturdy independent candidate with Iowa pioneer life roots. He resided in Jones county for nearly fifty years, worked as a farmer, teacher, Lenox college student, and for thirty years as a Wyoming business leader. He served on the school board, was elected mayor three times, and chaired the town council seventeen years. He pledges to advance Jones county with intelligent, judicious governance.
Louis Gardner of Monticello is praised for honesty and editorial skill while W. K. Pearson seeks reelection as treasurer. The piece also endorses H. G. A. Harper for Clerk of the District Court, C. C. Johnston for sheriff, Halsey for Recorder, James Ke. Remley for County Attorney, TuHos. G. Richardson for Superintendent, Dr. Ben H. Chamberlain for Coroner, and C. W. McMaster for County Supervisor, detailing their backgrounds and qualifications.
The piece profiles M J McNeilly with twenty six years in Center Junction as farmer businessman and trusted community leader. It also profile s C A Sutherland a Scotch Grove township farmer and J K Hale Cass Township incumbent praised for prudent tenure and strong Republican service.
A Jackson Two presents an instructive parable in which a Republican farmer debates party loyalty, voting for national figures Taft and Porter versus local candidates. The piece argues the General Assembly seat is not local and urges support for Chapman for the upper house and Babcock for the lower to align with Republican aims and the U.S. Senate choice.
The piece surveys the split in Democratic strategy on Black voters, contrasting West Virginia and Western states favoring disfranchisement and segregation with Nebraska Kansas and Ohio efforts to organize Black Bryan clubs. It notes South Democrats resisting the local race approach and questions the party's ability to attract Black support while highlighting Roosevelt Brownsville fallout.
In Toledo at a G A R reunion, Taft and Foraker publicly affirmed unity behind Taft’s bid for the presidency. Taft recalled his early chance under Foraker, while Foraker rejected claims of personal enmity and pledged loyalty to the party and its Chicago convention nominee. Moraker praised Taft’s qualifications from bench to canal projects and urged support for his election.
The speaker lauds the Republican record on labor reform. He cites enforcement of the Eight Hour, Employers Liability, and child labor laws in the District of Columbia and calls for a firm endorsement of Mr. Patton’s Cincinnati declaration on labor policy.
Poem by Julian Durand comments on William Jennings Bryan and colleague Kern aboard a frail ship career metaphor. It teases Bryan as an optimist who plans another run after this defeat and notes Taft and Sherman leading the race, with Bryan philosophizing about the future.
The Omaha Bee notes Taft could redeem his tariff revision pledge if elected, while Bryan would be powerless to advance free trade with a Republican Senate opposing him. The comparison frames the feasibility of each candidate’s commitment.
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