Taft expresses regret leaving bench at Germantown
Taft speaks at Bath County Court House dedication in Germantown Hot Springs Va. confirms aim to defend citizenship duties and government oversight. He recalls eleven years on the bench and praises Bath County's balanced politics. Kellogg Moore discuss labor issues and future campaign plans shaping a union friendly acceptance speech.
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Bath County Court House
Germantown
Charles Taft
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George R. Anderson
Judicial Circuit
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Court House
Hot Springs
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Warm Springs
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William H. Taft
Ohio
Warm Springs Begy
Willis Moore
Weather Bureau
Frank B. Kellogg
Moore
Washington
Kellogge
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Cincinnati
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West
Chicago
Prof. Moore
Labor
Republicans Prepare New City Headquarters Tower Office
Workmen shape the tenth floor of the Metropolitan Life Building at Twenty third Street and Madison Avenue for the Eastern headquarters of the Republican National Committee. Chairman Frang H Hitchcock will arrive from Cincinnati by Aug 1 to oversee move in for a multi room complex. The State Committee plans to relocate July 31 to West Thirty ninth Street near the Republican Club with a covered passageway.
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Lloyds' Bryan Insurance Bets Rumor Becomes Serious Plan
Capt. Arthur H. Clark of Lloyds at 66 Beaver Street says no formal communications from Juondon on bets against Bryan’s election have arrived. He notes Lloyds may insure against Bryan in a legitimate way, as with rainfall insurance for a July 4 event at a park near Atlantic City, with brokers in London handling the policy.
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Arthur H. Clark
Beaver Street
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Capt. Clark
London Direct
Hitchcock Unites Western Republicans for Unified Campaign
Frank H Hitchcock chaired a four hour meeting in Colorado Springs with seventeen Western state Republican leaders to plan a joint campaign across the region. He aims to link state efforts into one West wide effort while maintaining state divisions and direct discussions continue through tonight with individual talks.
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Antlers
Clayton
Ollie James
Tom Heflin
Republicans In Auto Wreck Near Colorado Springs
A touring automobile carrying New Mexico Republican leaders H. C. Bursum W. E. Martin and F. L. Weed with RNC Chairman Hitchcock turned turtle in the Garden of the Gods at noon today. The car landed in a deep gully but all occupants escaped injury.
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New Mexico
Republican State Committee
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F. L. Weed
Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Gompers Uncommunicative After Denver Labor Convention
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, returns from the West and declines to discuss politics. Frank Morrison says the Denver convention action met their demands, and dismisses critics from Mulholland Feeney and White as not representing current labor leadership. Morrison questions the weight of their criticisms and defends the federation’s stance.
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Washington
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West
American Federation of Labor
Frank Morrison
Federation
Denver
Gompers
Morrison
Mulholland
Gompers Cited in Contempt in Bucks Stove Case
Justice Anderson summoned Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchell to appear Sept 8 to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of the court s injunction in the Bucks Stove and Range case. The petition from Bucks Store and Range Co alleges union leaders violated orders by public remarks and by printing the Bucks name in a boycott list.
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District Supreme Court
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Frank Morrison
John Mitchell
Executive Council
United Mine Workers of America
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Justice Gould
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Federationist
Bucks, Stove and Range Company
Gompers Worries Unions Over Democratic Pledge
National Secretary J E Pritchard of the International Pavers and Rammers Union doubts President Gompers pledge to back Bryan. He argues a Democratic record before a Republican Congress would hinder unions seeking favors. He notes his union has few strikes and warns of discord if Democratic support is framed as obligatory.
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Bryan Urges Democratic Fund Drive For Campaign Cash
In Lincoln on July 20 William J Bryan calls on Democratic papers to raise funds from readers arguing mass contributions can curb corporate influence. He notes Oklahoma City’s The Oklahoman and Memphis The News-Scimitar started a dollar fund and discusses related party platform issues and negro vote dynamics in Ohio.
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Do not agree with Gompers in Indiana Union edit
The Union Indianapolis editorial condemns members who place party loyalty above trade union solidarity. It notes some reject Gompers' call to support Bryan due to anti injunction planks. The piece predicts fewer will choose party over labor this year.
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Mrs Byers Found Safe After Hotel Stop in Atlantic City
Mrs Anna Byers of Pittsburg was found at the Hotel Rudolf in Atlantic City New Jersey. She says the disappearance scare was caused by her friend Mrs Elizabeth Morgan getting nervous after missing a train and spreading the rumor.
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Guffey Faction Denounces Denver Delegates at Philadelphia Meeting
At a Philadelphia Democratic City Committee meeting the Guffey faction adopted a resolution denouncing the Denver National Convention. The resolution endorses William Jennings Bryan for President and John W. Kern for Vice President while criticizing the convention action that seated eight delegates from Philadelphia aligned with opposing delegates.
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Democratic City Committee
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William Jennings Bryan
John W. Kern
Denver
Saving Chicago's Babies in Health Crusade
Chicago officials launched a baby saving crusade after a rise in infant deaths last week. The Board of Health hired sixty physicians and thirty inspectors to target tenement districts including Little Hell Smoky Hollow Little Sicily and the Italian colony north of it and the Black Belt to educate and clean out areas west of the river between Fullerton Avenue and the drainage canal.
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Phelps Stokesnominates for Assembly in East Side District
The Vorwarts reports millionaire socialist James G. Phelps Stokes will run for the Assembly from the Eighth District in the Lower East Side. Mrs. Stokes will campaign, while veteran socialist Jacob Panken considers withdrawing to support Stokes. Tammany’s Moritz Graubard holds the seat. Stokes’ bid faces strong local opposition and district loyalty.
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