Woodruff Begins The Contest For Vice Presidency
A detailed narrative of White House talks and party maneuvering as leaders from Washington gather in New York to shape the Republican vice presidential selection. Secret plans, rivalries involving Lodge Long Fairbanks and Payne. administration control of convention rules and platform. anticipated four day session with debates on credentials and seating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fairbanks
Indiana
Senator Lodge
Secretary Long
McKinley
Long
Lodge
Massachusetts
Senator Fairbanks
Senate
Gay
White House
Hanna
Spooner
Depew
Payne
Grosvenor
Henry €. Payne
We 8
Washburne
Minnesota
Stephen B. Elkins
West Virginia
Cushman K. Davis
Iowa
Francis V. Greene
New York
Roosevelt
Cornelius N. Bliss
Thomas C. Platt
New York Machine
American Tariff League
A. 8. Grant
California
McKinney
Northwest
Henry G. Payne
Root
Allison
National Committee
Edward O. Wolcott
Wolcott
Committee On
Lodge Or Senator Fairbanks
Pariah
Manley
Mr. Payne
Committee On Credentials
Delaware
Louisiana
J. Edward Addicks
Addicks
St. Louis
Louisiana Contested Delegations At National Committee Meeting
Former Governor Kellogg leads a Washington based delegation including A. T. Wimberly J Madison Vance Jr and Richard Simms in a Louisiana contest against natives H Warmoth L B Clarke T J Woodward and Joseph F. Le Blanc. Sub committee to investigate and decide at meeting tonight with full national committee to follow. security and appointments planned at the Convention Hall.
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Kellogg
Louisiana
Washington
Port of
New Orleans
A. T. Wimberly
J. Madison Vance, Jr
Richard Simms
H. ©. Warmoth
L. 8. Clarke
T. J. Woodward
Joseph FE. le Blanc
National Committee
Wiswell
Scott
Payne
Hanna's Return to Lead McKinley Campaign Debated
Visiting Republicans hear that Senator Hanna will again direct the national effort for McKinley, despite ill health and retirement rumors. The discussion centers on his influence, Quay alignment, and the convention platform likely to echo 1906 themes with expansion and Cuban policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanna
National Republican Committee
McKinley
Republican Party
Senate
Pettigrew
Tillman
Census Enumerator Challenged by Mrs Sewall Reading Writing Race
Mrs May Wright Sewall, president of the International Council of Women, clashed with a census enumerator who asked if she could read or write and whether she was white or colored. The encounter ended without further incident as Sewall stood firm against the intrusive questions.
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the Times
Indianapolis
Ind
May Wright Sewall
International Council of Women
Counsel Was Prepared for Trial in Pierces Case
Special Telegram to Tux Timms reports in Wilmington on June 10 that A. B. Geary, counsel for the Pierces, was present and ready for trial. The muddled telegraph copy shows Geary prepared to argue the defense, with no further details available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tux Timms
Wilmington
A. B. Geary
Pierces
Pierce Death By Own Action Ends Trial Delay
The article reports Jim Pierce's suicide in his jail cell ending the planned trial. Letters from Pierce and another prisoner reveal innocence claims and worries for family. The Commonwealth postponed the Pierce brothers case to the September term and details on jurors and police theories follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Fields
George
Maggie
Pinney
Pierce
Smith
Commonwealth
Jim Pierce
Annie Pierce
Board of
Frye
Chester
A. W. Mathues
Joseph Sager
Albert Edwards
James W. Barker
8. H. Appleton
Jim
History of Murder From Day Eyre Disappeared
George Eyre was last seen December 21 at the Alpha boat house in Ches ter in a gunning skiff. Eyre’s body was found January 21 by a woodman near Raccoon Creek after searches and a theft arrest at the boat house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Eyre
Alpha Boat House
Chester
Eyre
B. G. Ladomus
James
Pinney” Pierce
Jim
Raccoon Creek
James Carney
Woodman
Raccoon
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Columbus
Robert Hitt
Uliness
Stone
Burrows
Hale
West
Pennsylvania
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Hirmself
Congressman Hitt
Illinois
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Bryan
Kansas City
George B. Eyre
Day Eyre
Mason
Olives
Atason
Mason A Company
Arch Memirans
Atin Awe Ant Gore Mney Fer Piet
Philadelphia
Wickinley
Sunday Times
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