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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
5
A speech excerpt argues metropolitan papers drift toward business aims and nonpartisanship. It proposes a bi partisan model with signed editorials from both parties, arguing it would preserve objectivity while meeting reader expectations for balanced coverage.
William Jennings Bryan addressed about nine hundred New York University Law School students at Washington Square and later spoke to the Business Science Club in the Aldine Association rooms at 111 Fifth Avenue. He urged truth telling, high ideals, and noted his evolving life plans while sharing insights on integrity and practicality.
The speaker reflects on plans, ambitions, and turning points including founding a newspaper after defeats. He argues democracy should allow aid without erasing self-help, contrasts democracy with republicanism, and cites Jefferson on party roles. He warns that radical remedies now appear, noting a government owned railroads threat as a last resort.
Senator P. J. McCarren announced he would attend the Democrat conference in Utica on Saturday but opposed a second state convention. He stated the Murphy Conners issue could be resolved through regular channels.
The New York Merchants' Association water pollution committee launches a campaign with the cry Death to flies to curb typhoid and other intestinal diseases blamed on filth-loving flies. Inspectors will map hiding places of filth before hot weather, urging cleansing of streets, stables, and houses and resisting costly fly traps.
Justice Morschauser at White Plains issues a writ of habeas corpus for Harry K. Thaw, returnable May 9 in Poughkeepsie. Thaw challenges Matteawan commitment as illegal, cites commissioners who ruled him sane, and questions restraint of liberty. Report by commissioners dated April 4, 1979.
Lieutenant John A. Pearson of the 7th Cavalry, stationed at Fort Slocum New York, was found guilty of disrespect toward a superior officer by a court martial at Governors Island. He is sentenced to confinement at the post for six months and a reprimand in orders. The case stemmed from Pearson’s sarcastic replies to his commanding officer over a report on repairs to a $4 steam gauge. General Grant urged improved conduct to minimize impact on his military record.
The Old Guard marked its eighty second anniversary with a parade church service and a celebratory dinner at the Hotel Astor. Notables included James Wenman Captain Billy Search Major Frederick W. Brown Captain Albert Mattoon and a toast roster led by Major Stadler. The event featured memorials for Guardsmen James W Thompson and John Deering with Chopin’s funeral march.
William Farwell, grandfather of Mrs Roy Hosmer McGibbon, indicates an attempt may be made to annul the marriage. He says the couple are too young. McGibbon remains separated from his schoolgirl wife and stays at the Hotel Manhattan following their Tuesday shopping trip.
A steel coffin containing a buried woman’s body on the Stanford campus has been exhumed by unknown persons. The motive and the deceased’s identity remain unclear. Nearby lore ties the site to a flamboyant French exile named Veter Coutts, though concrete links to him are unproven.
A general order closing all Burlington Railroad shops west of the Missouri River affects five thousand workers at Havelock Plattsmouth Wymore Merookang Alliance and Sheridan Nebraska. The company declares the shutdown temporary and notes the shops halt as a wartime measure.
Tribune Building reports progress on the Hudson Fulton celebration with committees selecting a park site at Inwood and researching Holland archives for Half Moon images. The plan includes a naval parade model of the Clermont and eight day events from September 25 1909 through October 9 with religious, reception, historical, military, dedication, and river days.
W E D Stokes purchased the Chesapeake Western Railway Company at auction for 5900 dollars, acquiring the entire outstanding capital stock and all bonds. The lot included first mortgage 4 percent bonds, preferred stock, and common stock with a total par value of about 15,000 dollars, plus 300.40 dollars of Pocahontas Company bonds. The purchaser also received the Chesapeake Western system’s sixty eight miles, a Virginia incorporated line operating from Bridgewater to North River Gap.
Solomon Raisier sued Julius Benjamin for $76 paid for prayer healing and toe treatment after a sore toe led to amputation below the knee. A Supreme Court jury awarded Raisier $2 after a ten minute deliberation. Benjamin, a member of a religious sect, denied practicing medicine or misrepresenting himself.
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