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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1908
Page
5
The speaker describes the legal profession as intellectual fighting, notes the bar's influence on politics, and congratulates Bath County on its beautiful courthouse. He urges public officers to stay fair, praises Judge Anderson's hospitality, and thanks Bath County representatives for the reception.
The Tribune Bureau reports Washington believes Rep Henry Clay Loudenslager of New Jersey will become chairman of the Congressional committee with Albert L. Dawson of Iowa as secretary. Sherman reportedly favors the current secretary, while an Utica informant says Loudenslager has been agreed upon by the executive committee. Dawson has been offered the secretaryship and may accept to help run the campaign.
Youngstown Ohio July 20 Governor Hughes of New York will open the Republican campaign in Ohio on September 5. He sent a message from Saranac New York accepting the invitation to attend the rally in the campaign season.
William J. Bryan criticizes private funding limits but opposes public disclosure by the Republican National Committee before elections. George R. Sheldon, treasurer, says the GOP will adhere to publicity laws and may reveal gifts received by the committee, citing New York and federal laws as precedent.
The Union organ of Indiana labor admits many members will reject Gompers's view of labor duty to the Democratic ticket. It argues Bryan suits organized labor, but notes many members still prioritize party loyalty over their trade body. Indianapolis dispatch from July 20.
Lexington report says Leslie Combs, former US minister to Guatemala, denied hearing of Cabrera contribution to Roosevelt campaign. W Godfrey Hunter also denies involvement. In Mexico City political exiles claim Dr Herman Prowe spoke truth about Cabrera's payment to the Republican campaign fund.
Congressman C Bascomb Slemp Virginia Republican leader returns from Hot Springs conference with William H Taft and vows a strong fall effort. He will open Republican headquarters in Roanoke in early August and says Virginia should be in the Republican column.
The first session of Republican leaders with Chairman Frank Hitchcock opened in Colorado Springs with 16 states and territories represented. An auto mishap on a Garden of the Gods tour involved C C Bursum and others, but no serious injuries occurred. The conference reviewed state conditions and planned vigorous campaigns for Taft and Sherman across California through Wyoming and into Oklahoma and Texas.
James Kerr Democratic National Committeeman says no fight for control in Pennsylvania. He calls for state committee self management, harmony, and an independent chairman. He avoids backing either Guffey or Kerr allies, naming three potential chairmen and noting Harrisburg meeting to decide control. Philadelphia supports Denver slate but condemns convention actions.
Pittsburg July 20. Through agency orders from the H. C. Frick Coke Company labor pool the Steel Corporation subsidiary seeks American labor to replace foreigners. Agencies abroad are told that foreigners intending to return to coke drawing jobs should come slowly as Americans are filling their places.
Lincoln July 20 influential Eastern Democrats told William J Bryan the Denver anti injunction plank was weak since the Hill bill allows a jury trial only when demanded by the accused outside jurisdiction. Bryan sought an inquiry while A P reported the Allen amendment made jury trials mandatory in specified cases.
Lincoln July 2 W J Bryan urged Democratic newspapers to raise a mass fund for campaigning. He cited Oklahoma City The Oklahoman and Memphis The News-Scimiter subscribing dollar gifts as evidence of support. He said contributions from many individuals could end corporate influence and that the party should cap contributions at 10000 with publicizing totals. Two Omaha farmers, aged 82 and 79, delivered five dollar gifts in person at Fairview.
Bryan appears likely to win Rhode Island’s electoral votes if Democratic leaders in the state align with President McGowan who returned to City Hall as Acting Mayor. McGowan met Rhode Island delegates in Newport after Denver, who report strong Bryan sentiment and note Tammany’s Denver activity. Metz, still away, will return by Friday for the July 27 injunction hearing on the First Avenue subway appropriation.
A Lackawanna traveler escapes confined car air by riding with an open window through the mountain air from the rock and rill to Buffalo. The piece notes the absence of stuffy compartments and directs readers to the telephone directory for Lackawanna ticket offices.
In a page one debate, Rudolph Modest of Cigarmakers' Union No. 9 argues Gompers cannot bind union members to a political pledge. He says unions are industrial bodies with members of diverse beliefs and will vote per conscience. The article notes past AFL political battles, including a failed effort to defeat Congressman Littlefield.
Hot Springs Virginia July 2 After a day of talks with Judge Taft on the labor feature of the acceptance speech Professor Willis L Moore chief of the United States Weather Bureau ventured with reticence to say that organized labor would be entirely satisfied with the position Taft has taken. Twelve of the fifty typewritten pages of the speech were devoted to the labor problem.
In a letter from Reidsville Georgia dated July 17 1908 St James B Alexander argues that Georgia politics are unsettled with Taft and Bryan competing factions. He notes conservative Democrats favor Taft over Bryan predicting Bryan’s nomination could help Taft win Georgia. He warns of possible cross party deals and urges Republican organization to solidify Taft Sherman support amid calls for prolonged elector selection.
Atlanta dispatch reports Republicans plan a white electoral ticket to back Taft in Georgia. Electors named include Col. Robert Lowry of Atlanta and J. F. Hanson of Macon. Lowry has written papers explaining the case. Republican executive committee to meet July 30.
Jamestown N Y July 20. A Chautauqua County Democratic Committee meeting broke into rare disorder with regular electees omitted from the roll call and names of men favoring State Chairman Conners substituted. Ousted members say they had no chance to vote on any measure.
Chicago reports that Eugene W. Chafin, the Prohibition Party nominee for president, will speak at the first national rally on July 21 in Evanston. Aaron S. Watkins, running for vice president from Ada Ohio, will deliver his first campaign speech on August 13 at a rally and picnic in Sylvan Dell Park Lycoming County Pennsylvania. Beginning September 1 both nominees will begin an extended campaign tour.
The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived at Queenstown at 11:33 p.m. setting a new eastbound record of five days and thirty seven minutes from New York. She already held the record, set on June 2 last, with a time of five days three hours twenty-one minutes.
Miss Elizabeth Mecabe of East Orange New Jersey paddled a canoe out to Christian Neillson who fell from a shoreline ledge off East Benedicts in Greenwich. Neillson unable to swim weighing over two hundred pounds was pulled ashore with help from Jesse Eckman and Thomas Flynn after Mecabe grasped him.
The Department of Justice plans suits against seventeen hundred defendants including Senator Robert L. Owen and Theodore N. Barnsdale over six thousand Oklahoma deeds. Special assistant A. A. Richards argues lands were Indian property and could not be bought or sold under current law. The new act takes effect July 27, seeks to clear titles so lands stay with Indians or be sold by them.
Albany July 20 Mrs Jennie Evans widow of Albert Evans formerly a New York Central Railroad conductor and last twelve years day matron at Union Railroad station was found dying beside the Speedway near Manning Boulevard a half empty bottle of carbolic acid and a soda bottle nearby she had been melancholy six weeks and left her job in June after a nervous breakdown Her son Irving Evans is critically ill at Raybrook Tuberculosis Hospital and daughter Ethel a manicurist remains at home She was forty eight years old and survived by her son and daughter.
The Chicago Health Department launches a campaign to cut infant deaths amid a rise to 151 under-one-year fatalities in the latest week, up from 112. Officials blame the city’s growing Slavic population and push education for Slav mothers as part of a broader drive funded by a $10,000 hot weather care program with 75 physicians deployed to crowded tenement districts.
The article details a death threat admission and an absolute divorce granted to Mrs. Van Rensselaer with a prohibition on remarriage. It traces the family's prominence in New York society, including connections to the Gracie and Bronson households, and notes Van Rensselaer brothers' dairy and real estate work, bankruptcy in 1908, and social introductions by their mother. It also recalls a Newport era debt disclaimer tied to Mrs. Hoyt and a rumor about a mixed-breed maid.
City Detective Richard Kelly reports opium use in Pittsburg is limited to thieves gamblers and certain social outsiders with about five percent of physicians involved. Dr Lawrence Litchfield of Allegheny County Medical Society questions the five percent figure and argues addiction spans ministers lawyers and others more than mill workers.
George L Beecher four years old son of Henry W Beecher of 206 Sherman avenue and a Yale Sheffield Scientific School graduate drowned today at the beach after an epileptic fit while sunbathing.
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