Roosevelt Demagogues Targeted in New Labor Clash
James W. Van Cleave of Luck Stoves and the National Association of Manufacturers arrives in New York to mobilize against labor reform measures. He denounces the Hepburn anti trust and injunction efforts as demagogy, pledges a pro business fight, and warns that a taft Bryan ticket would face a solid manufacturers backlash. He defends independent workers against union coercion while opposing boycotts, closed shops, and discriminatory practices. The convention will gather 2000 leaders to debate the labor fight with figures like Bevridge Wu Ting Fang Littlefield and Fort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. van Cleave
Luck Stoves and Range Company
St. Louis
National Association of Manufacturers
Washington
Waldorf-Astoria
Waldorf
van Cleave
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Manufacturers’, Association
Roosevelt
Mr. van Cleave
White House
Capitol
Buffalo
Taft
Bryan
United States Supreme Court
Organized Labor
Standard Oil Company
Baldwin Locomotive Works &c. E
National Council For Industrial Defense
Senator Beveridge
Wu Ting-Fang
Littlefield
Gov. Fort
New Jersey
Labor unions blamed for killing apprentice systems in industry
The piece argues that post Supreme Court boycott legality labor unions delay business recovery and threaten skilled labor. It claims unions harmed apprentice programs in major industries, forcing reliance on immigrant workers to fill skilled roles during the presidential year and ongoing political influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Employers of America
Sonmie
Arope
Southern shift boosts Harrison while Bryan loses ground
A New York Times dispatch from Washington notes Democratic House members increasingly back Francis Burton Harrison for the second National ticket spot. Southern representatives show waning unity for Bryan with four of nineteen backing Bryan, Culberson and Johnson camps gaining. Pennsylvania mobilization looms as Harrisburg delegates head to the state convention. total delegates pledged to Bryan stands at 052, with uninstructed adding 220 after Pennsylvania.
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New York Times
Washington
Francis Burton Harrison
New York
House
Bryan
Culberson
Johnson
Gray
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Missouri Democrats Defend Bryan Endorsement of Augustus Thomas
A Missouri Democratic representative denounces reports that William Jennings Bryan’s request to name Augustus Thomas as an alternate delegate was refused. The statement clarifies the Denver delegation resolution and defends Thomas, praising him as one of Missouri’s foremost literary figures aside from Samuel Clemens and Gene Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Augustus Thomas
Springfield
Samuel ‘Clemens
Missouri
Passing of Bourke Cockran at Tammany Wigwam
The Wigwam hosts the annual anniversary meeting where Bourke Cockran departs Tammany and Daniel F. Cohalan is installed as Grand Sachem. Four new Sachems join, filling vacancies from Keenan Guggenheimer and McMahon deaths. Thomas Rush, George Loft, Julius Harburger, and Thomas McAvoy named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bourke Cockran
Tammany Trail
Wigwam
Daniel F. Cohalan
Cockran
Thomas FE. Rush
Patrick Keenan
George W. Loft
Mr. Cohalan
Julius Harburger
Randolph Guggenheimer
Thomas F. McAvoy
Daniel F. McMahon
Socialists in Convention Open in Chicago
The National Convention of the Socialist Party opened in Chicago with debates over whether to make a special appeal to farmers. Morris Hillquit of New York was chosen temporary chairman. Eugene V. Debs and William D. Haywood are the leading prospective presidential nominees, with a likely close contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Socialist Party
Morris Hillquit
New York
Eugene V. Debs
William D. Haywood
Western Federate of
McConnell Links Health, Electricity in Sermon at Calvary
Andrew McConnell continued his lecture series on How Christianity and Science Meet in the Laws of Health before Calvary Baptist Church worship. He described three kinds of mind, praised the electricity of the human body, and likened the brain to a battery as he explained how bodily electricity affects digestion and nerve travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew McConnell
Calvary Baptist Church
MacArthur
McConnell
Stabbed After Card Game In Williamsburg
Vite Fornack of 183 Meserole Street Williamsburg was critically injured from a stab wound in his left side near the heart. Police at Stagg Street Station hunted his assailant after a card game party at his home. Fornack was attacked early yesterday morning in the hallway after winning all the money triggering threats from among the players.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vite Fornack
Meserole Street
Williamsburg
Stagg Street
Fornack
Artists Drop Work to Boom Roosevelt in Third Term
Eight well known New York artists including Robert Henri Everett Shinn and John Sloan have formed a Theodore is Club to support Roosevelt’s renomination. Shinn distributes toy Roosevelt portraits to spark political action while Glackens denounces the economic glare behind political power and imagines paintings revealing Roosevelt’s true traits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Is
Mr. Roosevelt
Robert Henri
Everett Shinn
W. J. Glackens
Morris Prendergast
John Sloan
Ernest Lawson
George B. Lukes
Arthur Davies
Mr. Shinn
Waverley Place
Roosevelt
Ryan, McCurdy
Fiarriman
Pat M McCarren
Murphy
United States
Roosevelt Favored by California Delegates at State Convention
May 10 San Francisco A Sacramento Republican State Convention may be urged to back President Roosevelt despite his declared non candidacy. Unofficial ballots at recent primaries showed a preference for Roosevelt among California Republicans. George H Knight, who seconded Roosevelt at the last national convention, is expected to chair the convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Sacramento
Roosevelt
California
George H. Knight
State Central Committee
Chef Arrested After Larder Robbery at Trenton Catering
Ernest F. Lolshe of New York, brought in a week earlier to head the Hildebrecht Catering Company kitchen, was arrested as he tried to depart for New York. A night search uncovered a box of squabs and terrapin addressed to his friends in New York, suggesting theft began after his arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Ernest. F. Lolshe
New York
Hildebrecht Catering Company
Trust Co for Manasquan under way after bank failure
May 10 Manasquan plans move to form a trust company to replace the First National Bank now in receivership after President Magee died by his own hand. G Randolph Cook and George W W Burroughs drive the effort as Receiver John W Schofield travels in Washington and warns the bank’s affairs are in a worst possible state. A report of $175,000 in New Jersey & West Virginia Bridge Co. paper is unverified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
Manasquan
First National Bank
John W. Schofield
Magee
G. Randolph Cook
Stores & Cash Stationery Manufacturing Company
New York City
George W. W. Burroughs
Schofield
Washington
New Jersey & West Virginia Bridge Company
Bank Directors Face Million Dollar Settlement Demand
Waynesburg, May 10. Farmers and Drovers National Bank directors, after the bank closed last year following cashier J F B Rinehart’s embezzlement charges, receive demands from J H Strawn, the bank’s receiver, for a 1 million dollar settlement or face suit. The letters accuse directors of failing to audit Rinehart’s books and of allowing corrupt political use of funds, noting their responsibility after removing Rinehart as cashier but retaining him as vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesburg
Penn
Farmers and Drovers’ National Bank
J. F. B. Rinehart
J. H. Strawn
Rinehart
Infrequent Traveler Makes Two Historic Rides
Mrs. Sylvia Merriman aged seventy two rode a railroad coach for only her second time, yesterday traveling to Ansohla to visit her niece. She also enjoyed her first street-car ride with relatives Mrs Amelia Thompson seventy and others to Cheshire, her birthplace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Ansonia
Conn
Sylvia Merriman
Ansohla
Amelia Thompson
Amanda Bishop
Rose Andrews
Cheshire
Caliph Il the hippo calf teething at the Central Park Zoo
Caliph Il, six months old, the infant son of Miss Murphy the widowed hippo, may be cutting his first tooth. Keeper Snyder notes teething signs as the hippo plays with his mother, slides down a tank incline, and endears himself to visiting children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caliph IL
Miss Murphy
Hippotamus
Central Work Zoo
Caliph
Snyder
Caliph Jr
Central Park Zoo
Rock rolls onto train as it passes Fairmont
An early morning accident near Fairmont occurs when a large rock drops from a hillside and crashes through the roof of the Chicago and New York express smoking car on the Baltimore & Ohio line seven miles east of town. Three passengers sustain minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
West Va
Chicago and New York Express
Baltimore & Ohio
Hammond
Pittsburg Bank Defalcations Near Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand
Pittsburg May 10 The alleged defalcation of Allegheny National Bank cashier William Montgomery may reach 750000, as losses from district banks total about 5 million in three years. The report ties Montgomery to Quay era schemes, notes prior bank failures, and hints at political protection amid investigations.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
William, Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank of
M. S. Quay
Enterprise National Bank
Allegheny
T. Lee Clarke
National Bank
Waynesburg
Penn
J. B. F. Rinehart
Union Trust Company
C. S. Hixon
Clifford Wray
Oakland
Savings and Trust Company
William Workman
Workman
Appuboee
Farmers’ Deposit National Bank
John Young
Henry Reiber
Milia
William Montgomery
Montgomery
de Bacca Carteieum
Allegheny National Bank
Quay
Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
United States
Monty
Harrison
Senator Quay
Beaver
Philadelphia
Stoc
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Robert Hall
Tonopah Extension
American Journalist Dies En Route to Europe Aboard Lutzow
Cherbourg May 10 Joseph Leicht a first class passenger on the North German Lloyd steamship Lutzow died during the voyage. Leicht an American journalist residing in Minnesota. His body will be shipped to America next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherbourg
Joseph Leicht
Lutzow
Leicht
Minnesota
America
Prizewinners listed for limerick and converse contest
The Sunday Times awards include N Shea of Indianapolis winning the best fifth line for the April 19 limerick contest with 1 100 N Meridian St. Second prize goes to Clayton C Billow of Chicago and third to L K Howland of New York City. A Fort Wayne recipient, Mrs Louis L Millar, wins $5 for an incomplete limerick. A Clifford of New Haven receives $10 for the missing answer to the April 19 quiz. Leonie Nathan of New York wins $5 for an incomplete conversation with the exchange ending unfinished as He asks about equal rights and She’s reply remains cut off.
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The
Sunday Times
N. Shea
Meridian Street
Indianapolis
Ind
Louis L. Millar
Dubois and
Pittsburg Streets
Fort Wayne
Questg
A. Clifford
Hull Street
Cocker N
Times Square
New York City
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Gompers
Nottingham
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Bry
Connecticut
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Worth
Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Rhoda Island
Ruth Dakota
Wisconsin
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Johnson Wilk
Delaware
Eugene Field
Cohalan
Tammany
Socialists IN Convention
Theodore Ill. Club
Shinn
Waynesburg Bank
Hippo
Europe
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
REED @ BARTON CO
Jewelers & Silversmiths
Fieth Avenue, CO
Maiden Lane
Branes Linen
Xauys
Crane
Elect
Select
Eaton, Crane & Pike Company
Peviller
West 34Th Street
Fifth Avenue, N. Y
the Times
Clayton C. Billow
Dearborn St
L. K. Howland
Hudson St
N. Y. City
Brotherhood of Man
M. F. Dowley
East Fiftyseventh St
E. S. Wiers
Orange Road
Montclair, N. J
Leonie Nathan
Washington Terrace
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