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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
4
The New Ulm Review announces publication by The New Ulm Publishing Company on Wednesday June 24 1908. The issue notes post office storage and second class matter status for New Ulm.
The New York Evening Post comments on President Taft and public figures in a zigzag of satire and policy positions. William Jennings Bryan discusses prohibition while noting it is not a national issue. Taft resigns as secretary of war and Luke T. Wright is named as successor. St Peter hosts a Buffalo goats homecoming with mixed reception as Sherman’s influence is debated.
William Jennings Bryan arraigns the Chicago convention as retreating on reform planks. He notes votes against publicity for campaign funds, railroad value, income and inheritance taxes, and direct election of senators, urging Roosevelt Republicans to resist the anti reform drift. Also reports on a birth, YMC A camp plans, a university summer school instructor, a lightning fire at Chas Sievert’s farm, and losses.
The New York World welcomes William H Taft as next president should the Democratic convention nominate William J Bryan It hails Tafts potential presidency as ending Rooseveltism its autocratic style and warlike rhetoric while restoring constitutional government It warns of Prohibition related dangers and praises Tafts constitutional background and independence if he follows his own judgment.
President Roosevelt, informing the nation of Taft’s nomination, extols him as fearless, disinterested, and deeply in touch with all classes. He likens Taft to Lincoln in plainness, pledging protection for honest workers and owners alike, and opposing privilege while championing broad American citizenship.
Minneapolis Tribune notes a bleak view of prohibition's side effects with observations on loathsome places near border areas of military reservations following abolition efforts.
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