Sherman Nominated for Vice President by Republican Party
In Utica a formal notification of James S Sherman as the Republican nominee for Vice President for four years from March 4 1909 was delivered. Speakers praised Sherman s long service in Congress and his readiness to preside over the Senate, with Taft and Root lauding his character and leadership while stressing the party s platform and a government by the people.
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Roosevelt
Republican Party
United States
National House of Presentatives
Vincent
Senate
United Sates
Utica
Oneida
Elihu Root
William Cary Sanger
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Congress
New York
Sherman
Herkimer-Onesida
Sion
House of Representatives
Washington
Vernon
Willett Sherman
Hot Springs
James S. Sherman
N. Y
William H. Taft
Markbreit
Thomas Wheeler
Cincinnati
Taft
Ll. Markbreit
Sherman’s successor in Oneida Herkimer race
An informal Republican meeting at Sherman notification exercises indicates Charles S. Millington, banker of Herkimer village, appears set for the congressional nomination to replace James Sherman. William Cary Sanger of Sangerfield is a strong challenger, with Sherman and Mayor Wheeler likely backing Millington.
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Tribune
Uulea
Oneida
Herkimer
Sherman
Charles S. Millington
Herkimer Village
Congress
James 8. Sherman
Millington
William Cary Sanger
Sangerfield
Protest Over Gompers Manifesto By Labor Body
A statement from the piano and organ workers national body denounces President Gompers of the AFL for urging union men to back the Democratic ticket over anti injunction planks. It argues the move clashes with AFL constitution and condemns turning labor into a political party adjunct. It credits labor leaders with decades of experience and insists labor should remain a political unit.
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Piano and Organ Workers
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Taft's Virginia Day plan gains Taft support in South
Hot Springs Virginia August 18 Taft dictates speech for Virginia Day and reviews campaign literature with Richard Culahan head of Republican National Committee literature bureau. Culahan reports growing Taft sentiment in the South with old line Democrats praising the candidate and Kentucky Republicans pledging support. Taft schedules three speakers for the event, expects about ten thousand attendees, and outfits grandstand for women while men use bleachers. Taft plays golf postwork and remains in good health.
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Tribune
Hot Springs
William H. Taft
Virginia
Richard V. Culahan
Republican National Committee
Taft
Oulahan
Chicago
New York
Frank H. Hitchcock
West
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Nebraska
Mr. Culahan
William Haywood
National Committee
Culahan
South
White House
Georgia
Maine
Vermont
Dalzell
Iterary Bureau
James R. Garfield
Interior
Garfield
Mr. Taft
Representative Slemp
S$. Brown Allen
Messrs. Allen
Slemp
Kentucky
Aft
Thomas Bullitt
George C. Norton
Mr. Bingham
Philip Tuley
Louisville
Bullitt
Morgan
Columbus
Ohio
Governor Hughes greeted with cheers at Greene County fair
At the Greene County Agricultural Society fair the Governor spoke from a grandstand amid cheers and flags. He praised agricultural development, urged state unity, criticized public gambling, and noted recent legislation boosting agricultural appropriations to at least 250000 dollars. He planned to speak in Cortland and Oswego, while firemen's groups remained wary due to a veto of the Smith Foley bill.
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Frank Walters
The
Greene County Agricultural Society
Albany
Cortland
Oswego
Smith-Foley
Stone Declares Candidacy for Senate Nomination
Jefferson City Missouri August 18 United States Senator William J Stone filed with the Secretary of State his declaration of candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Senator under the state primary law. Governor Folk has not filed his declaration though he is an avowed candidate.
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Bryan
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Republican Congress
Republican Committee
House of Representatives
House
Congress
Senate
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Democratc
United States
Jefferson City
William J. Stone
Folk
Kern Notification Program Planned in Indianapolis
Plans announced for the notification next Tuesday of John W. Kern Democratic nominee for Vice-President. The event will be at the Coliseum on the State Fair Grounds, seating fourteen thousand, with Thomas Taggart to call the meeting to order at 1 3 p m and to transfer the gavel to Norman E. Mack. Theodore E. Bell of California will chair the invocation.
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Indianapolis
John W. Kern
Coliseum
Thomas Taggart
Democratic National Committee
Norman E. Mack
National Committee
Theodore E. Bell
California
Notit
Bryan Speech on Trusts Stirs Civic Meeting Plans
The education committee will deliver the notification speech and Mr. Kern will present his acceptance. Presidential candidate William J. Bryan will address the topic of Trusts. No street parade is planned.
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Cation Committee
Mr. Kern
William J. Bryan
Federation Indorses Gompers After Bryan Split in New Jersey
In Trenton on August 18 the State Federation of Labor narrowly backed Samuel Gompers by 66 to 64, after delegates left the assembly chamber. The convention rejected pledging support for Bryan, adopting a policy to avoid political pledges. A resolution favored modifying the Bishops' Sunday liquor ban as part of the session.
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Tribune
Trenton
N. J
State Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Assembly Chamber
State House
Gompers
Bryan
Bryan Busy On His Speeches In Anticipation Of Campaign
Lincoln August 18 W J Bryan spends cool weather drafting speeches for Indianapolis Topeka and other stops ahead of a ten day trip He revises a talk on The Trusts and comments on Oklahoma bank charter issues He serves as pall bearer at a Lincoln funeral and reports that The Commoner has raised more than 5 60 for the nationwide campaign from clubs and newspapers not counting Bryan or paper profits.
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Lincoln
W. J. Bryan
Indianapolis
Topeka
Mr. Bryan
Enid
Okla.) National Bank
Bryan
Congress
Oklahoma
BIG TIM DISCOURSES IN CHICAGO ON BRYAN
In Chicago the Democratic Congressional Committee and the Democratic National Committee consider cooperation and possible financial aid for Bryan backers. Timothy D. Sullivan reports Bryan sentiment nationwide, asserting New York will back Bryan and a Democratic state ticket will be elected. Tam many Hall is described as regular, ready to work for Bryan and oppose irregularity. Chicago labor leaders met with Mack to press their labor bureau agenda.
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Chicago
Gressman James Lloyd
Democratic Congressional Committee
Democratic National Committee
Congressional Committee
Timothy D. Sullivan
New York
Mack
Sullivan
Seattle
Bryan
Chasler
T& Ports
Tammany Hall
Ameri Labor
Cratic National Committee
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