Knox for President and Pennsylvania Platform Emphasis
The text urges delegates to back Philander Chase Knox as the Republican choice for President, with continued support for Pennsylvania figures like Penrose. It defends an elastic currency, harbor improvements, good roads funding, and a tariff defending American labor, while urging cautious tariff review and warning against Democratic or doctrinaire manipulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
America
Republican Party of
Pennsylvania
Congress
Democratic Party
Vermont Delegation Chosen At State Convention
Vermont's Republican state convention named six delegates to the Repub National Convention in Chicago and six alternates. The platform urged elastic currency revision, tariff balance, and continued Roosevelt policies. Fred M. Chapman chaired. C. S. Kana elected permanent chairman. The convention praised Roosevelt and urged a strong fall vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Vermont
Chicago
W. P. Dillingham
Montpelier
Fletcher D. Proctor
Proctor
Frank L Greene
St. Albans
Ailen M. Fletcher
Cavendish
J. R. Hadams
Fairhaven
R. W. Metuen
Vergennes
Rufus D. Godfrey
Bennington
John R. Mead
Randolph
Roosevelt
Congress
Fred M. Chapman
State Committee
C. S. Kana
New Haven
Committee of Resolutions
Anti Convention in Alabama Delegation to Convene Next Wednesday
In Birmingham on April 2 the anti administration faction of the Republican party held its state convention and endorsed the regulars. The uninstructed delegation will hold a convention next Wednesday.
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Birmingham
Ala
Republican Party
Delegates Named at Alabama Party Conventions in Birmingham and Attalla
The Congressional conventions endorsed the Davidson wing as lawful and nominated state office candidates for the November election. Delegates-at-large to the national convention in Chicago were Judge Asa E. Stratton Clinton, Charles D. Alexander Attalla, W. R. Pettiford Birmingham, and Major Charles J. Allison Birmingham. The resolutions gave no clear presidential candidate choice. The administration wing, led by J. O. Thompson Birmingham, to hold its Birmingham convention next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gress
Davidson
Chicago
Asa E. Stratton
Clinton
Charles D. Alexander
Attalla
W. R. Pettiford
Birmingham
Charles J. Allison
Republicans Conventions Post Taft Endorsements Across States
Across multiple districts from Ackerman Mississippi to Mobile Alabama delegates were chosen for the Republican National Convention. Endorsements favored Taft in many districts while others remained uninstructed or backed Roosevelt. Notable delegates include W. W. Phillips H. W. Durant George P. Codd August Marxhausen B. S. Robertson and Guy Carter with alternates J. C. Angier H. B. Worth Byron Boyd and Orlando W. Frost.
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Ackerman
Miss
4Th Congress
Roosevelt
W. W. Phillips
H. W. Durant
H. L. Rhodes
D. W. Tanner
J. M. Leverett
B. W. Fierres
A. Johnson
W. H. Russell
Foraker
Detroit
George P. Codd
August Marxhausen
Taft
Waterville
Chicago
Forest Goodwin
Skowhegan
Byron Boyd
Augusta
Orlando W.W. Frost
Bucksport
Charles E. Knowlton
Belfast
Greensboro
N. C
Congress
B. S. Robertson
Haw River
Guy Carter
Dobson
J. C. Angier
Durham
H. B. Worth
Spencer Blackburn
W. T. Rigsbee
Ashboro
E. H. McKissick
Helly Springs
J. A. Williams
Marshall County
J. D. Williams
Desota
Negro Bishop Opposes Taft at AME Conference
Bishop Alexander Walker of New York told the opening AME Conference session in Atlantic City on April 29 that the Republican party would lose the black vote if Secretary Taft were nominated. He said Roosevelt had tried to smirch the negroes army record and warned that voting for Taft equaled a vote for Roosevelt.
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the Tribune
Atlantic City
Alexander Walker
New York
African Methodist Episcopal Conference
Republican Party
Taft
Roosevelt
Negro Bishop Plans Taft Meeting
Bishop William B. Derrick of the African Methodist Episcopal Church announced last night a Taft meeting to be addressed by Booker T. Washington and others at Cooper Union on Tuesday night May 6.
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William B. Derrick
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Booker T. Washington
Cooper Union
Hughes to Take Stump in Niagara Orleans District
Governor Hughes announces a two day stumping tour through Niagara Orleans area to advocate anti-racetrack gambling measures and support the Republican candidate for Franchot’s successor. He plans stops at Niagara Falls Lockport North Tonawanda Albion Medina Holley and Schenectady Ithaca and possibly Elmira and Wilcox districts. The trip aims to gauge District sentiment ahead of a special session and potential racing-legislation outcome.
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Tribune
Martt
Hughes
Niagara-Orleans
Franchot
Democratc
Niagara Falls
Lockport
North Tonawanda
Albior
Medina
Holley
Schenectady
Senator Wemple
Ithaca
Cassidy
Elmira
Wilcox
Portland TAFT Delegates At Large Uncertain At State Convention
Portland Maine April 29 An expected selection of four Republican delegates at large to the Chicago national convention faces a potential split as Taft backers push a nonbinding resolution. E P Brown of New York arrived with a thousand eastern Maine delegates pledged to oppose instructing the delegates. The state committee met until midnight and will reconvene tomorrow while no resolutions were drafted yet and will be left to a convention committee to prepare.
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Montgomery
Ala
Taft
Union Springs
S. P. Parish
Lee
J. H. Culver
Henry County
Foraker
Sangor
F. B. Guernsey
Foxcroft
F. 4. Chandler
Addison
Francis P. McCaul
Eastport
Carl E. Milliken
Island Falls
Mobile
P. D. Barker
J. T. Peterson
Chicago
Roosevelt
Portland
E. P. Brown
New York
Hughes
Maine
Brown
Epworth League Endorses Hughes in Anti Race Track Bills
Rochester April 29 A Genesee Conference Epworth League session representing four hundred societies and seventeen thousand members passes a resolution endorsing Governor Charles E Hughes for supporting anti race track gambling bills before the New York Legislature. It condemns Senators who voted against the Governor and the Percy Gray law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Thenesee
Epworth League
Genesee Conference
Charles E. Hughes
New York
Percy-Gray
Republican State Central Committee Sets May 14 Convention
In Portland Oregon on April 29 the Republican State Central Committee named Portland as the state convention site for May 14 and endorsed the candidacy of Secretary Taft.
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Portland
Ore
Republican State Central Committee
Taft
Traffic club banquet endorses broad presidency need
In St Louis on April 29 a banquet for 13 railroads heard ay Yoakum B D Caldwell and A Blood urge a strong decisive leader for Roosevelt's successor. They stressed business and public interests shaping party platforms, restoring confidence, enforcing laws, and uniting merchants to push pro growth policy across parties.
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St. Louis
St. Louis Trafic Club
Ay Yoakum
Rock Island System
B. D. Caldwell
Lackawanna & Western
A. Blood
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Yoakum
Roosevelt
of &P
Hughes signs bills limiting state bank loans and more
Albany April 29 Governor Hughes signed measures restricting loans by state banks and trust companies in Manhattan to 25 percent of capital and surplus, with 40 percent elsewhere. The underwriter must post 25 percent cash collateral, and second mortgages face caps. Real estate loan totals are limited by location. Additional bills raise river bond interest to 5 percent and remove factory license display requirements under the tenement house law.
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Albany
Hughes
Clark Williams
State Banking Department
Manhattan
New York City
Upstate
Assemblyman Merritt
Assemblyman
J. S. Parker
State Labor Department
Arrests Major Halleck's Son Over Marriage Plan
Baltimore April 29 The Tribune reports Patrolman Peace arrested Wilfield Halleck twenty four believing him to be a deserter. He later learned Halleck was an inmate at St Elizabeth's Insane Asylum Washington having escaped in pajamas. Halleck, son of Major Walter Halleck Interior Department official, says his father confined him to stop a marriage to a New York girl.
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Fey
the Tribune
Baltimore
Peace
Wilfield Halleck
St. Elizabeth's Insane Asylum
Washington
Walter Halleck
Interior Department
Halleck
New York
May strike spread to eastern railroads threatens wage talks
William Delahay, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, reports Eastern railroads may face a widening machinist strike over a union wage scale and conditions. Machinists in Rio Grande shops seek an agreement. officials have not signed. The union backs a working pact with the International Association of Machinists, now on strike at Rio Grande.
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William Delahay
Amalgamated Society of Engineers
England
Rio Grande
International Association of Machinists
Hilo Grande
Wife of Herkimer judge dies suddenly in Utica
Mrs Evelyn Ward wife of County Judge George W Ward of Herkimer County was in her usual health when her husband left for court in Dolgeville. Shortly before noon she became ill, a physician was summoned and as he listened to the heart the pulsation ceased. She was born in Troy thirty five years ago.
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Utica
N. Y
Evelyn Ward
George W. Ward
Herkimer County
Dolgeville
Herkimer
Foreclosure Filed Over $20 Mortgage on Shore Road Property
Mineola special report: Robert E B Roosevelt Jr guardian for Olga Roosevelt infant filed foreclosure proceedings in Nassau County. The suit targets Elbert Wakeman Clara L Wakeman and Agency Realty and Mortgage Co to recover principal and interest on a $20 mortgage securing twenty-five acres along the shore road at Westbury Bay.
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Mineola
Long Island
Nassau County Clerk's Office
Robert EB. Roosevelt, Jr
Olga Roosevelt
Elbert Wakeman
Clara L. Wakeman
Agency Realty and Mortgage Company
Shore Road
Wyster Bay
Bryan delegates to Denver amid Cleveland greetings at Connecticut DEM convention
At the Connecticut Democratic State Convention in New Haven, delegates selected fourteen uninstructed to go to Denver, with four Bryan supporters known. The resolutions committee prompted a platform praising Cleveland alongside Bryan, while adopting a unity tone and outlining support for Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland, and Bryan as guiding figures. Delegates Walsh and Troup named at large. others unnamed.
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New Haven
William Jennings Bryan
Grover Cleveland
Denver
Committee On
Cleveland
Waller
Daniel P. Dunn
Willimantic
Thomas F. Noone
J. H. Barrow
Bryan
Archibald McNeil, Jr
Bridgeport
Thomsof Waterbury
W. Comstock
Comstock
Thomas M. Waller
New London
John J. Walsh
Norwalk
Alexander Troup
Connecticut
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Messrs. Troup
Kennedy
Cullinan
Cary
Johnson Aims to Unite U S and Canada in Trade
Detroit April 29 Governor Johnson of Minnesota spoke to the Western High School Alumni Association and met local leaders at Michigan Central Station. He rejected Wall Street ties, urged tariff focus, promoted government regulation not ownership, and voiced plans for a North American commercial union with Canada. He cited speeches in Sarnia and outlined a vision of free flow of products across the border.
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Detroit
Johnson
Minnesota
Alumni Association of
the Western High School
William B. Thompson
Michigan Central Station
Hotel Pontchartrain
Fred M. Warner
Michigan
Wholesalers’ Association
New York
Wall Street
Hudson
Tammany
Murphy
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
America
United States of America
Canadian
Ameri
Bering Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Sarnia
Canada
Democrats withhold district campaigns for McMahon
Niagra County Democratic leader Batten said no district meetings for McMahon in Niagara Orleans unless Governor Hughes visits and speaks. He predicted McMahon will win with GOP disaffection. Assemblyman Merritt said racing bills will be repassed. governor can call Legislature as he wishes. Also notes a Legal Aid Society benefit concert with Sembrich and Paderewski led by Carnegie Hall patrons.
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George W. Batten
Niagara County
Hoffman House
Niagara-Orleans
Mc Mahon
Franchot
Hughes
McMahon
Mr. Batten
Senate
Wallace
E. A. Merritt
St. Lawrence County
Assembly
Legal Aid Society
The
Mme, Sembrich
Paderewski
Mozart
Sembrich
Adamowski
Carnegie Hll
Mre M. Dodge
Willard
Paul M. Warburg
Louis Windmuller
Ndertmission
Priest Goes to Manila University Chair of Theology and Philosophy
The Rev W B Noon of the Dominican Order sailed on the Cunard liner Lucania for Manila to assume the chair of theology and philosophy at Manila University. Former instructor at Catholic University in Washington, he follows Taft's plan to Americanize the university and will receive a papal commission on return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Noon
Dominican Brotherhood
Manila
Cunard
Lucania
Manile University
Catholic University At
Washington
TaftUs
University of Manila
Class of '68 Celebrates Fortieth Anniversary
The College of the City of New York 1868 class marked its 40th anniversary with a dinner in the Hotel Astor yacht room. Fourteen surviving members joined eighteen of the twenty-nine graduates living today, with Richard R. Bowker as toastmaster and Professors A. G. Compton J. Ro Stmn and Adolph Werner as honored guests.
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College of the City of New York
Hotel Astor
Richard R. Bowker
A. G. Compton
J. Ro Stmn
Adolph Werner
Local Official Indicted Then Dismissed in Newtown Case
Former Newtown supervisor Bermey faced an indictment with lawyer George L. Glaser over auditing a fraudulent claim, which was later dismissed. Bermey, elected on a fusion ticket, served two years and four months. Metz’s letter to Bermel criticizes supply purchase methods and alleges poor pricing in some claims.
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Newtown
George L. Glaser
Bermey
Fusion
City Overcharges Spark Call for Bids and Oversight
A report criticizes officials for failing to ensure prudence in city purchases and for not inviting bids on non-contract orders. It questions how four department heads could certify charges as reasonable and just. The writer believes broader bidding could have prevented the need for examinations or investigations by the department.
No Senate Filibuster Probable Says Tribune Dispatch
Washington April 2 Senator Culberson appears unlikely to push a filibuster, with two leading Democrats saying they favor a reasonable plan to force a Republican move but won’t back any scheme delaying adjournment. They may back any bluff by their leader, but doubt success. The proposal seeks enactment of four measures including the Overman and injunction bill, the Culberson car shortage bill, and the campaign publicity bill. failure could trigger a filibuster, though prospects for unity seem weak.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Culberson
Senate
House
Interstate
Interstate Commerce Committee
Too Many Acts for Senator Kean in Senate Reading
Washington April 2 The Senate dealt with a routine Treasury measure when Senator Teller sought immediate consideration of calendar number 58 The reading clerk recited a convoluted title to amend multiple acts Kean protested aloud accusing the clerk of drinking Gallinger defended the clerk as sober Teller reassured reading continued Kean subsided but still questioned the reading accuracy
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Teller
Kean
Mr. Kean
New Jersey
Gallinger
Mr. Keats
Treasury Department
Committee On Finance
Public Works Bid Received on Baldwinsville Canal Work
Albany April 2 Superintendent F C Stevens of the State Department of Public Works announced that a contract for canal No 4 including work at Baldwinsville Scott Brothers of Atlanta submitted the sole bid. Their bid was 0 17.
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Albany
F.C. Stevens
State Department of Public Works
Baldwinsville
Scott Brothers
Atlanta
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Theodore Roosevelt
Alabama
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Bangor
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Houston
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Newton
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Bessemer City
George P. Pritchard
Mitchell
John M. Rhodes
Lincoln
C. F. Brialock
Catawba
D. Kirby Hope
Mecklenburg
Niagara-Orleans District
Maine Springs
Indorses Hughes
Oregon
R. Melvil Dewey
New York State
Schubert
Tennyson
Dr. Dewey
Evanston
Lit
Dewey
Aeolian Company
Aeolian Hall
Fifth Avenue
34Th St
Man For
President
B. F. Yoakum
BILLS
Major Halleck
Judge
Sadcess
M’mahon
Priest
Manila University
Class OF ‘68
Bhi
Metzs
Bermel
Metz
Bermel Yegeterday
Joseph Bermel
Queens
Senator Kean
Bill
Jixle Guarantee and Trust Co
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