Hughes Support Grows for Governor Hughes Nomination
A statewide canvass led by John A. Stewart shows strong demand for Governor Hughes renomination across New York. Local letters from cities including Syracuse and Albany indicate broad Republican and independent backing, with officials predicting Hughes will win a majority of districts at the Saratoga convention.
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John A. Stewart
Republican League of Clubs
New York
Hughes
Saratoga
York
Syracuse
Horace White
Echenectady
Sentimen Sectady
Tica
Rochester
New Hamburg
Sporting People
Mount Son
Richmondville
Madison County
Wsaiea
Auburn
Rome
Walton
Poughkeepsie
Hi 46
Dutchess County
Buffalo
Richfield Springs
Wyde Park-On-Hudson
Batavia
Watertown
Fulton
Canton
Locus
Cattaraugus
Cattaraugus County
Malone
Vernor Hughes
Albany
Middle West
Ex Justice Addoms Favors Hughes Return
Six Justice Mortimer C. Addams of the state Supreme Court arrived on the Red Star Finland after a European vacation with Mrs. Addams. He said New York sentiment favors Governor Hughes for a second term and predicts his renomination means re election and helps the Republican national ticket.
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Mortimer C. Addams
Supreme Court
Red Star
Finland
Kellogg Visits Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill on Labor Day
Oyster Bay September 7. President Roosevelt spends Labor Day horseback riding and conducts light work after lunch. Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota, in town for a Standard Oil inquiry at the New York Custom House, calls on the President for a personal visit and leaves by the 2 40 train to New York. Congressman Calder obtains ground-pass access to Sagamore Hill but does not meet the President.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Loeb
Sagamore Hill
Republican National Committee
Frank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
Kellogg
New York Custom House
New York
Kelloges
Judge Lardis
Standard of Company
Calder
Brooklyn
Tribute to Governor Hughes at Northwest Conference
Bishop Berry praised Governor Hughes as courageous heroic and magnificent at the Northwest Conference of the Methodist Church in Attica Indiana on September 7. He warned that without Hughes as nominee the party could face a crushing avalanche of votes from the people who value righteousness and civic cleanliness.
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the Tribune
Attica
Ind
Berry
Hanly
Hughes
Northwest Conference of the Methodist Church
West Virginia Governor Nomination Talks Stir Goff Prospects
In Wheeling a Republican general conference discusses West Virginia options after Swisher and Scherr factions. Judge Nathan Goff persists in declining to allow his name while continued talks seek a truce until election day.
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Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
William L. Ward
West Virginia
Swisher
Scherr
Judge Goff
West
Burrows
Michigan
New Jersey
Newark
Wheeling
W. Va
H. C. Ogden
Nathan Goff
Milwaukee
Negroes Rally for Taft Sherman Support in D C
About three thousand African Americans attended a Taft and Sherman ratification event in Eckington Washington under the National Negro Taft and Sherman Campaign Club. Speakers urged voters to back the Republican ticket and return home to vote.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Eckington
D. C
National Negro
P. Drew
Cosmopolitan Baptist Church
Peace agreement seals single Republican ticket in Tennessee
In Nashville on September 7 a reconciliation conference produced a unified Republican slate for Governor, Railroad Commissioner, and Presidential Electors. T. Asbury Wright is withdrawn, and G. N. Tillman will run for Governor against Democrat M. R. Patterson as the two factions unite to back Taft.
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Tribune
Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
T. Asbury Wright
Rockwood
Brownlow-Austin-Houk
Harmony
G. N. Tillman
Evans-Sanders-Hale
M. R. Patterson
Taft
Department Commander Robbed in Ogdensburg
Major W. H. Daniels state department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic and Mrs. Daniels returned from the Toledo encampment to find burglars had forced a door panel and stolen all jewelry, including heirlooms, with no loss estimate yet available.
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Ogdensburg
N. Y
Grand Army of the Republic
Toledo
W. H. Daniels
State Department
Crank at Sagamore Detained Over Revolver Slips
A man from Boston named John Coughlin claimed as St Patrick was stopped near Sagamore after entering the area of the President's house. He carried a six barrel revolver and a dirk, with $80 found in silk inside a bag. He owned to being well dressed and intelligent, while papers in the satchel hint at an earlier shooting, the meaning of which remains unclear.
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Jack” Brennan
Coughlin
van Dyck
Boston
John C. Coughlin
St. Patrick
Warren Lewis
Prsoner
Brandegee Named Republican State Convention Chairman
New Haven Sept. 7 Senator Brandegee has been agreed upon as chairman of the Republican State Convention meeting tomorrow evening. He is expected to align with the state machine on who will succeed him and to indicate support for Taft. The probable state ticket includes Lilley for governor Weeks for lieutenant governor Gates for controller Emmons for treasurer and Gledhill for secretary of state. Everett J. Lake seeks the governor’s race and Woodruff has 57 pledged delegates.
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Tribune
New Haven
Brandegee
Brande Goe
Taft
Chicago
George L. Lilley
Waterbury
Frank B. Weeks
Middletown
Charles A. Gates
Willimantic
E. J. Emmons
New Milford
Eli Gledhill
Mystic
Everett J. Lake
Lilley
Woodruff
Gompers in Cannon's Home City on Labor Day
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor spoke in Danville Illinois the home city of Speaker Cannon addressing a large Labor Day crowd. He said he would deliver only his own vote and criticized both Republican and Democratic conventions for Labor demands. He urged voters to back H C Bell if aiming to defeat Cannon but Bell was not allowed to speak.
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Hughes
Saratoga
William 8. Hennet
Upper West Side
Washington Square
Madison Square
Ezra P. Prentice
Parsons
Bronx
Whittle
Samuel Krulewitch
Republican County Committee
Highes
New York City
Hotel Astor
The
Tribune
Danville
Ill
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Cannon
Congress
Bryan
H. C. Bell
Gompers
Bell
Mr. Gompers
Haskell
Labor Day Parade Split Over Gompers Endorsement
In Buffalo on Labor Day about ten thousand union members snubbed the parade amid a rift over Samuel Gompers endorsement of William Jennings Bryan. Thousands lined the sidewalks jeering the Weindorse Gompers banner and vowed to vote according to their own views, not labor leaders' dictates.
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Tribune
Buffalo
Democracy
William Jennings Bryan
Samuel Gompers
Taft
Gompers
Labor
Five alleged floaters held by Queens Sheriff
Sheriff Harvey of Queens County says five men were brought into Far Rockaway for use at today’s primaries. He claims larger gangs are planned and vows further arrests before polls open. The detainees were to work multiple polling places in Queens Ward 11 and 4, with deputies at each site.
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Harvey
Queens County
Far Rockaway
Queens
Ith
Jersey City
Newark
Lower East Side
Manhattan
Mayors Dahlman Gives Up As Primary Returns Favor Opponent
Practically complete returns from state wide primaries show A. C. Shallenberger of Alma leading Mayor Dahlman of Omaha by about two thousand votes with Berge the Populist in third for the Democratic governor nomination. Dahlman says he will support the nominee.
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Omaha
Neb
A. C. Shallenbereer
Alma
Dahlman
Berge
Alleged firebug adjudged vagrant in Yorkville case
John Lavarango was arrested Thursday in a tenement at 2 East 58th Street with a bundle of excelsior and committed to the Workhouse as a vagrant by Magistrate Wahle. Mrs Agnes Murphy, housekeeper for John R. Drexel at 1 East 59th Street, identified him from a line of men claiming he threatened to burn the Drexel home for money last Wednesday night.
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John Lavarango
East 58Th Street
Wahle
Yorkville Court
Agnes Murphy
John R. Drexel
Fast 59Th Street
Laverange
Drexel
Bryan's Job Like Task by Telegraph to The Tribune
Chicago dispatch chronicles W. J. Bryan making duplicate labor speeches in two Illinois venues and addressing the Iroquois Club. He coils through events with moving picture footage and a luncheon with Samuel Gompers, while organizers plan tours through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and states from West Virginia to New York.
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Tribune
Chicago
W. J. Bryan
Auditorium Annex
Iroquois Club
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Forest Park
Brand’s Park
Hearst Attacks Bryan Labor Record Before Labor Day
William Randolph Hearst pleads affidavits to charge Bryan called workingmen public beggars and accuses treasurer Haskell of anti labor secret alliance. He cites Gompers politics clash and recounts 1893 Ways and Means hearing remarks about manufacturers as robbers.
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William Randolph Hearst
William Jennings Bryan
Hearst
C. N. Haskell
Bryan
Gompers
Washington
Federation of Labor
Mr. Gompers
Mr. Bryan
Democratic Campaign
Man Haskell
United States
Ways and Means
William Jennings Girvan
James A. Chambers
Manufacturers’ Committee
Bryan and Hearst clash over wages and labor politics in Chicago
In Chicago on Labor Day eve 1908 Bryan rejects Hearst's charges linking manufacturers to theft and workers to beggars. Hearst defends labor and questions presidential fitness while signaling support for Taft, with Bryan framing the fight as Taft versus himself.
Melborne Fleet Seeks 221 Stragglers From Albany voyage
Melbourne dispatch reports a patrol from the American fleet failing to locate 221 men who did not go aboard when the ships sailed for Albany. Rewards have been posted for their apprehension as searches continue with limited success.
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Melbourne
Albany
Loyalty of Australia in Murmur of Welcome to US Fleet
London dispatch says Victoria Governor Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael and Premier Alfred Deakin affirm loyalty to Britain despite enthusiastic Melbourne reception of the American fleet. Deakin notes welcome signals kinship with the empire and British naval strength, while suggesting Admiralty may have missed a broader naval lesson.
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Victoria
Thomas Gibson-Carmichael
Earl of Crewe
Melbourne
Alfred Deakin
Commonwealth
Great Britain
Empire
America
United States
White Australia policy sparks British debate in London Times
London editors argue immigration and emigration shape Australia’s future. The Times says North Australia lacks profitable industries for white labor alone without state aid. It urges overcoming colonial jealousy to allow needed immigration while maintaining protection of the British navy and acknowledging Britain’s global responsibilities.
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London
Australia
the Times
The
Times
North
Officers Start on March in Army Training Tour
Burlington Vermont September 7 The second practice mounted march for officers of the regular army above the rank of captain stationed in the Department of the East began today under Major General Fr D Grant. Thirty miles were covered to a temporary camp at Grand Isle and more is planned for tomorrow with return to Fort Ethan Allen on Wednesday. The march requires seven and a half hours for two days. Officers include Colonels Heistand Howe Anderson and Lips, Lieutenant Colonels Houze White and Phillips, and Majors Taylor Mercer Schofield Brooks Brady Williams Straub Blake among others from New York Maine Rhode Island Massachusetts Connecticut and New London.
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Department of the East
Fr. D. Grant
Fort Ethan Allen
Leutenant
Grand Isle
Henry O
Heistand
Adjutant General's Department
New York
Walter Howe
Coast Artillery
Fort Adams
Rhode Island
George S. Anderson
1St Cavalry
Governor's Island
Fort Andrews
Massachusetts
C. C. Williams
Ordnance Department
Watertown
Mass
Oscar I. Straub
Fort Strong
Edmund M. Blake
Fort Greble
Bethune Believed in Los Angeles Amid Mental Distress
Detectives trace missing New York attorney F. D. Bethune from Buffalo to Chicago where he bought a Pacific Coast ticket. A Los Angeles detective agency reports he was seen on a local street today amid concerns of mental derangement.
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Los Angeles
F. D. Bethune
New York
Buffalo
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Bethune
Fight of Long Pat in Brooklyn Democratic race ends
In a fierce Kings County primary the contenders traded charges via press statements. Allegations included ballot stuffing and vote fraud claims against McCarren and Wogan, with leaders denying the accusations as Brooklyn Democrats and Republicans grappled for control.
Italian man sought in Middlesex County child murder
A four year old girl from Cliffwood was abducted by Gisanto Rosino an Italian visitor from New York after supper and later found dead. A county reward was offered for Rosino as authorities pursue the suspect and bring him to the New Brunswick jail.
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Matawan
Gisanto_Rosino
New York
Cliffwood
Middlesex County
Rosino
Dominick Scianto
Pownall
Middlesex County Board of Freeholders
New Brunswick
Funeral for Caldwell girl Edith Pickett
Montclair September 7 funeral services were held at the home of Mrs Linzie Pickett for Edith Pickett the Caldwell girl killed Saturday. Giovanni Mondragno wounded in the head at Mountainside Hospital remains under guard with suicide risk and faces murder charges once recovered.
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Montclair
Littia Edith Pickett
Giovanni Mond«gano
Linzie Pickett
Nelson B. Chester
Presbyterian Church
Grover Old Home
Montigano
Mountainside Hospital
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