No Pact Between Taft and Foraker
Middle Bass Island Ohio September 3 Special to The New York Times reports Foraker backs Taft for president without promises from Taft or any authorized speaker. Gen Corbin Keifer and Lewis deny Taft authorization. Foraker seeks a free field in Ohio while remaining a Senate candidate. Taft avoids Ohio entanglements and Foraker plans to stump for Taft with stops across Erie Seneca Whango Hardin Logan Montgomery counties and a Cincinnati Union Station demonstration.
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New York Times
Middle Bass Island
Ohio
Senator Foraker
Judge Taft
Taft
Gen. Corbin
Toledo
Charles. T. Lewis
Lewis
Gen
Keifer
Foraker
Senate
Corbin
Mr. Taft
Middle Bass
Cincinnati
Ohio State Committee
Erie
Seneca
Whango
Hardin
Logan
Montgomery
Union Station
Charles P. Taft
Taft Recap Vermont Vote Shows Strong Republican Lead
Taft called Vermont election results satisfactory with about a 30,000 majority, similar to 1900 and 1904, signaling no strong Democratic shift. He planned a speaking tour while photographers shadowed him. Taft aimed to curb overconfidence. Maine votes loom with different local dynamics. Taft’s morning fishing yielded five bass and one pickerel. Charlie caught bass and sheepsheads.
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Vermont
Taft
Maine
Charlie
Mr. Taft
Foraker Denies Secret Taft Peace Pact Claims
Senator Foraker, in Cincinnati, says a Toledo Times report alleging an agreement with Judge Taft is false and created for mischief. He recounts meeting with a Toledo Times representative who claimed AP circulated a long story about a peace agreement, which he says never existed.
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Taft
Ohio
Lincoln Club
Senator Foraker
Toledo
Gen
Corbin
Foraker
Senate
Cincinnati
Toledo Times
Associated Press
Judge Taft
Taft Campaign to Use Paid Speakers in October
Chicago September debate notes that most national speakers for Taft and Sherman will not be available until October first. Senators Beveridge Borah and Leslie M Shaw and perhaps Secretary Garfield may be ready by September tenth. Chairman Hitchcock says paid speakers will supplement volunteers during the last two weeks as Taft stays in Cincinnati and may make brief Midwest trips.
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Chicago
Taft
Sherman
Beveridge and
Borah
Leslie M. Shaw
Garfield
Department of the Interior
Hitchcock
Cincinnati
Middle West
Tates
Federal Employes Warned Over Political Campaign Resignations
The Civil Service Commission cautions federal workers about resigning to engage in politics with hopes of reinstatement. The policy, signed by President John R. Black, states no reinstatement certificate will be issued if the member resigned to run for office or partake in political activity that would be prohibited while in service.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Commission
John R. Black
Gov Hughes greeted coolly as crowd gathers in Watertown
Gov. Hughes arrives after Gouverneur visit to speak on government administration and fair race changes. A slim crowd of under a hundred at the station and a large turnout of about 10 000 at the fairgrounds heard a speech stressing open government and responsible leadership. Senator Cobb and Cahill hosted a dinner, while ex Senator E R Brown missed the event. Some Brown delegates reportedly back Hughes for Saratoga.
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New York Times
Watertown
N Y
Chamber of Commerce
Gov
Hughes
Gouverneur
New York
Band and Company
Governor Hughes Receives Enthusiastic Welcome in Gouverneur
Gov. Hughes visits Gouverneur N Y where business and residential districts are decorated and about six hundred residents attend his address at the fair grounds. He is escorted by the Fortieth Separate Company drum corps and a delegation of leading townsmen. He speaks on anti gambling laws and urges honest, uninfluenced judgment on public questions and praises the county fair as an educational institution.
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Gouverneur
N. Y
Primary test on Hughes renomination expands in Manhattan
Congressman Herbert Parsons announces a ten district test in Manhattan and the Bronx to gauge support for Gov. Hughes renomination. Districts include Second Sixth Ninth Eighteenth Nineteenth Twenty-fifth Twenty-sixth Twenty-ninth Thirtieth and Thirty-fifth in the Bronx with Parsons hopeful of a decisive result guiding Republican strategy.
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Herbert Parsons
New York County Republican Committee
Gov. Hughes
Manhattan
Bronx
Parsons
New York County
Hughes
Lower East Side
Middle West Side
Middle East Side
Upper West Side
Madison Square
Upper East Side
Hearst
Republican Party
Delegates in New York Primaries Back Hughes Movement
In Ithaca delegates favored renominating Gov. Hughes and opposed Sen. Owen Cassidy for voting against winter racing bills. Leaders expect Hughes solid city support at the county convention, with county towns aligning. Ministers and professors campaigned for Hughes at the polls. In Binghamton twelve of thirteen wards backed Hughes administration and directed delegates to support him.
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New York Times
Ithaca
N. Y
Hughes
Owen Cassidy
Watkins
Binghamton
Postal Clerks Repudiate Cards Linking Union to Bryan
The National Federation of Post Office Clerks in New York faces uproar after cards showing union device and a Bryan pledge are circulated. Union leaders Cahill Brennan and Postmaster Morgan seek a fraud order, while Albert Rossdale returns and the Schuetzen Hall meeting repudiates the cards and vows to prosecute print作者.
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National Federation of Post Office Clerks
William J. Bryan
Samuel Gompers
New York
Rossdale
Schuetzer Hall
St. Mark's Place
Bryan
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
West Virginia War Fails to Settle at RNC Meeting
A Republican National Committee sub-committee heard from Scherr and Swisher factions in a lengthy session but did not settle the West Virginia dispute. Decisions were postponed to next Wednesday after chairman Hitchcock returns to New York. A. C. Scherr appeared with I. M. Grant and two lawyers. Swisher was represented by two delegates.
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West Virginia
Republican National Committee
Messrs. du Pont
Brooker
Ward
Scherr
Swisher
Hitchcock
New York
A. C. Scherr
I. M. Grant
Charles W. Swisher
Jackson
Mr. Conners
Jack
Hearst
Conners and Murphy
Carnegie Hall
Conners-Murphy
Oneida
Cayuga
Conners
Rochester
Smith
Erie County
Tammany
Murphy
McCarren
Brooklyn
Homer 8. Cummings
Connecticut
Herbert P. Bissell
E. L. Jones
Maine
John W. Tomlinson
Alabama
J. Walter Smith
Maryland
John H. Coughlin
Massachusetts
R. E. Lee Mountcastle
Tennessee
J. Taylor Ellyson
Virginia
W. E. Chilton
Charles F. Thayer
Edwin A. Newman
Washington, D. C
Willard Lauisbury
Delaware
Eugene E. Reed
New Hampshire
Thomas H
Brown
Vermont
John 3. Walsh
Frank Jerome Hoyle
New
McCarren Wins Ruling in Brooklyn Voter Enrollments
Senator Patrick H. McCarren scored another legal win as Supreme Court Justice Blackmar denied the Anti McCarrenites bid to strike about 10 000 names from the enrollment books. The ruling lets election inspectors challenge voters at the primary elections on a case by case basis.
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Patrick H. McCarren
Brooklyn
Supreme Court
Blackmar
Parker Sees Mack and Dodges a Democratic Boom
Ex Judge Allen B Parker met Norman E Mack at the Hoffman House and offered to campaign for Bryan in the East. Mack, a DNC leader, is pressured to back Parker for governor at Rochester as the party eyes a strong state convention.
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Allen B. Parker
Norman E. Mack
Democratic National Committee
Hoffman House
Judge Parker
National Committee
Bryan
Mack
Parker
Rochester
West
William J. Conners
Mr. Conners
Herman Ridder
Chanler
Martin W. Littleton
Littleton
Tammany
Murphy
Conners
Jackson
Hearst Opens Indiana Campaign for Independence Party
William R Hearst and Thomas L Hisgen kicked off the Indiana Independence Party campaign at Englishs Opera House in Indianapolis. Hisgen spoke to farmers in Lebanon earlier, urging a market for farm produce free from buyer and merchant price distortions and pledging relief for business labor and agriculture.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Independence Party
Opera House
William R. Hearst
Thomas L. Hisgen
George W. McCaskrin
Illinois
Hisgen
Lebanon
150 000 Negroes for Bryan pledge from Texas GOP
In Galveston on September 3 the Texas Negro Republicans, about 150 000 voters, pledged to back Bryan. They split from Lily-Whites who hold federal offices, saying they will back the party that improves economic conditions and civil liberties, and resists presidential coercion of electors.
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New York Times
Galveston
Texas
Bryan
Bryan Returns Home From Midwest Trip
Willam J. Bryan arrived in Lincoln Nebraska at noon after a tour in Minnesota and South Dakota. He praised the audience turnout and planned to speak at the state fair the next day. Charles W. Bryan sent Gov. C N Haskell a 2000 dollar check from The Commoner funds with receipts through September 1 and a 34 dollar infant contributors gift to the campaign.
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New York Times
Lincoln, Neb
Willam J. Bryan
Minnesota
South Dakota
Georgia Republican Leader backs Bryan in shift
Atlanta Sept 3 Thomas M Blodgett chairman of the Republican State League of Georgia seen as a key figure in the Georgia delegation fight at the Republican National Convention has announced support for William Jennings Bryan.
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New York Times
Atlanta, Ga
Thomas M. Blodgett
Republican State League of Georgia
Georgia
Bryan
Subway Project Costs Total 54 Million
Public Service Commission reports city subway expenditures to the Department of Taxes and Assessments. The table shows 54,802,944. Please note Contract 1 covers City Hall to the northern end, Contract 2 runs City Hall via Brooklyn to Long Island Station, and a third item covers payments to date on the loop lines through Centre Street and the Delancey Street extension. The total reflects contractor payments up to now, not the final loop line total.
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City of Subways
Public Service Commission
Department of Taxes and Assessments
City Hall
Brooklyn
Long Island
Flatbush
Ners
Eookra Oeder
Manhattan
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United
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de Lancey Nicoll
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Congress
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Haskell
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the Knapp-Felt Shop
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