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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1908
Page
2
Indiana faces a heated local option debate with Democrats backing county local option and Republicans pressing temperance lines. Gov Hughes mobilizes support for Watson while lawmakers push Hanly’s special session law amid bribery allegations and a shifting political balance.
The piece argues electing Watson and a Republican Legislature blocks repeal by Democrats and liquor interests, noting Republicans hold a strong Senate majority. It suggests temperance-aligned voters will stay with the party, and says the state race dominates attention over the national contest.
Madison seeks La Follette to stump for Taft after Bryan crowd enthusiasm in Wisconsin worries Republican managers. Democrats highlighted La Follette's Bryan applause to suggest support for Bryan, prompting a push for La Follette to speak in Wisconsin this week. He had previously promised Taft to campaign in Nebraska and Kansas.
Andrew B. Humphrey of the Constitution League rebuts President Roosevelt on the Brownsville affair, insisting Foraker did not start or fund the agitation. He says the league began the investigation and that nickel and dime contributions funded mass meetings. The defense frames the issue as a perpetual struggle for fundamental law and justice.
James Duncan, second to Samuel Gompers in the American Federation of Labor, repudiates Gompers in urging union men to vote for Bryan. Duncan, international secretary and treasurer of the Granite Cutters' Association, says workers should study party principles and vote according to conscience. Copies were handed out at the Republican National Headquarters.
John W. Kern the Democratic vice presidential candidate may address a mid October city meeting in New York. The Association of Southern Democrats in New York held a Manhattan Hotel meeting and arranged a mass event around Oct 15 with Kern and Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler as speakers. General H. T. Douglas heads the association urging 80,000 Southern voters in the city to rally to the ticket.
Eugene W. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for President, told a large audience that New York Washington and Chicago incubate crime. He vowed to make Washington dry first and then clean out those cities to end the white slave traffic.
In Bridgeville, Sullivan County, a skull crushed skeleton of a man was found in woods near the site where a murdered man’s body lay a year earlier. The skeleton, clothed in heavy winter garb, suggests it has lain there since last winter. Coroner probes but no missing person has been reported.
Washington dispatch reports Joseph Stewart of Missouri, head of the Division of Railway Adjustment in the Post Office Department, appointed to succeed James T. McCleary of Minnesota as Second Assistant Postmaster General after McCleary resigned to run for Congress.
Taft and party move across Minnesota and North Dakota with large crowds in Grand Forks and Fargo. At Fargo a huge barbecue fed thousands from up to 450 miles away while Taft praised Republican prosperity and attacked Democratic rule and Bryan tariff ideas.
A debate featuring John S. Crosby Gherardi Davis Rowland B Mahoney and William H Wadhams at the Metropolitan Temple on Seventh Avenue drew loud cheers and shouts including Hearst he done it Aint that a disgrace and Youre a Socialist. Mahoney praised women while Davis and Wadhams defended Hughes as moral and state‑mighted. Daly, an Independence League figure, condemned both major parties and challenged Chanler Murphy and Conners. Carl Prager closed with a provocative yet obscured stance amid the uproar.
At a Columbus Circle gathering the Independence Party State Committee re elected all officers led by William R Hearst as Chairman and Reuben Robie Lyon as Vice Chairman. Laurence J Shearn, gubernatorial nominee, predicted victory citing Hearsts Oil disclosure stand.
Herman Ridder, newly elected DNC treasurer, pledges full effort to raising funds for a successful campaign. He says contributor names and amounts will be published by October 15 and daily totals thereafter, with a goal of 500 donors at $1,000 each. Norman E. Mack returns to help bolster the treasury and reinforce Bryan’s directions.
Herman Ridder of The Staats Zeitung will address the Central Federated Union after a conference with a committee. He seeks to intervene for Sanders, a reporter fired last March for a story not in accordance with facts. Ridder, accused by some as an enemy of organized labor, declined to discuss Sanders’ discharge but agreed to speak.
Albert H. Walker, a Park Row Building lawyer, sent THE Times a letter detailing charges by Haskell against Charles N Has Kell. The issues center on sale on credit of Ohio Southern Railroad stock to Roser, guaranteed by Haskell, with Barse as receiver.
The Democratic State Committee meets Friday to map the statewide campaign strategy with Charles Conners set to name the Executive Committee. Governor nominee Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler met with State Chairman William J. Conners, while David B. Hill’s chairmanship is uncertain. The Tammany Hall ratification meeting is postponed to Oct 15 as Democrats push for big late campaign rallies.
A Democratic Senatorial Convention in Mineola, L. I., adopts a resolution signaling support for Senator Carl S. Burr despite his opposition to the Hughes anti racing bill. The document hints at Republican tensions over water rights and a plan to sell out the county to New York City. Munson Morris of Jericho, L. I. is nominated for Congress.
New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes spoke in South Bend and Indianapolis urging support for Taft and Roosevelt policies. He warned that nominating Bryan would bring business disaster, contrasted with Taft and Roosevelt achievements, and defended labor against class-based legislation while praising public welfare and stable enterprise. He addressed direct election of Senators and court injunctions in labor disputes, stressing constitutional limits and national unity.
Gov Hughes plans a campaign address at Bethel Afro-American Methodist Episcopal Church in West Twenty-fifth Street next Thursday as part of a slate of political meetings. Pastor Rev. Dr. R. C. Ransom urged his Negro congregation to vote against Taft after recounting the Brownsville episode and voiced coolness toward the governor.
In tonight’s Republican congressional conventions in Manhattan and the Bronx incumbents are expected to be renominated in the Thirteenth Fifteenth and Seventeenth districts. Herbert Parsons J Van Vechten Olcott and William S Bennet are named for renomination with Millard J Bloomer challenging Bennet in his district.
The Kings County Republicans named assembly candidates by district at conventions. Designated nominees include Henry S. Goodspeed in the First District Arthur Hurley in the Third Charles J. Weber in the Fifth Thomas J. Surpless in the Sixth George A. Campbell in the Seventh George A. Voss in the Ninth Charles F. Murphy in the Tenth William W. Colne in the Eleventh George A. Green in the Twelfth Henry Shistner in the Fourteenth W. Stanley Miller in the Fifteenth Robert H. Clarke in the Sixteenth John B. Farrar in the Seventeenth Warren T. Lee in the Eighteenth Harrison C. Glore in the Twenty-First Samuel F. Weinstein in the Twenty-Second Isaac Sargent in the Twenty-Third. Eleven districts renominated incumbents.
Heavy rain helped quell numerous forest fires in Marinette County, Wisconsin, ending the blaze that had devastated the towns of Goll and Kinman on the Wisconsin and Michigan Railway. Residents fled to Marinette for safety as flames were brought under control.
Rain began in eastern Pennsylvania marking the end of a multimonth drought. Light showers failed to fully relieve dried streams and industrial shutdowns. Philadelphia sees its first rain in over three weeks and other parts of the state report the first rainfall in more than three months.
Eight to ten paper firms own over 600000 acres of virgin Adirondack spruce with International Paper alone controlling 250000 acres across Herkimer Hamilton Lewis St Lawrence Franklin and Essex counties. Fires threaten vast stands as officials urge state patrols and firewalls to curb spreads while costs delay firefighting funding.
Across the nation on September 28 temperatures plunged after a wind and rain storm. Chicago recorded 47 degrees early morning while St Paul faced near freezing conditions and Kansas City reported a 37 degree frost with light snow flurries. In Texas Waco logged 46 degrees as frost dangers spread to North Texas.
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