Roosevelt Dynasty Claims Bryan Victory in East
National Chairman Mack predicted a landslide for Bryan in the East and Democratic gains in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, Delaware, Indiana, and Ohio. He linked Roosevelt’s letters to Democratic gains and said Longworth’s remark about eight years Taft supports a Roosevelt dynasty. Hans Streit, coal passer on the battleship Vermona, died Saturday. Japan plans a grand welcome for the American fleet in Manila ahead of an Oct 17 Tokyo visit lasting a week.
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Empire State
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Delaware
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Longworth
Rock Island
Taft
Hans Streit
Japan
Tokio
Manila
Fleet in Typhoon Anchorage Found Unsafe
The Atlantic battleship fleet rode out a typhoon that battered Manila Bay for 12 hours. Winds up to 100 miles per hour unroofed buildings and toppled trees while cutters hid in Pasig river. Admiral Sperry ordered six ships to Cavite as shore communication failed.
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Manila Bay
Pasig
Sperry
Connecticut
Kansas
Minnesota
Vermont
Virginia
Ohio
Bryan backs liberal pension policy for soldiers
Lincoln October 5. In an interview Bryan denies claims he spoke or wrote against pensions for soldiers. He says he favors a liberal pension policy and was never against pensions.
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Bryan
Lincoln
Roosevelt on stump to aid Taft campaign
Lincoln Nebraska October reports from Fairview say President Roosevelt plans at least six speeches from Atlantic to Pacific for Taft. Bryan shifts Iowa focus with a Des Moines campaign route to Perry Tama and Cedar Rapids en route to Chicago. Bryan to meet Taft in Chicago banquet plan. Gore meets Bryan before St Joseph trip. Taft spoke at Havelock with Burlington shops earlier.
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Tama
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East
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St. Joseph
Havelock
Burlington Railroad
Debs challenged by mob at Grand Central station
Eugene V. Debs socialist presidential candidate arrived in New York on the red special drawing about 4000 spectators. Police lines broke as crowds surged and Debs moved to the train’s other side to escape. He spoke at the Hippodrome and American Theater with large audiences and red flags waved.
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New York
Grand Central Railroad
Eugene V. Debs
Debs
Hippodrome
Haskell Appeal Raises $3000 for Fight With Roosevelt
Guthrie Oklahoma October 5 Governor C N Haskell reports 3000 raised to support his campaign against President Roosevelt W R Hearst and others An interior department agent examined Prairie Oil and Gas records and the libel suit against Omer Benedict editor of the Oklahoma Times during that week
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Guthrie
Okla
C. N. Haskell
Oklahoma
W. R. Hearst
Interior Department
Prairie Oil Aml Gas Company
Haskell
Omer K. Benedict
Oklo-1
Homa Times
Night Riders Fire Home Kills Family in Hickman
In Hickman Kentucky fifty night riders attacked Dave Walker a Black man burning his home and shooting him his 5 year old daughter and infant. Mrs Walker and three other children were fatally injured. The eldest son is missing believed cremated. The mob planned a whipping after Walker allegedly cursed a white woman and drew a gun. They doused the house with coal oil and set it aflame.
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Dave Walker
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Walp
Mulberry Street Tenement Fire Kills Ten Injures Dozens Escape
In New York City an incendiary fire in a Mulberry Street tenement killed ten people and injured about a dozen, with around 30 escaping death by narrow margins. Police and firefighters suspect a deliberate attempt to destroy the house and its occupants.
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Mulberry Street
Automishap claims four lives and injures eight others
Grand Rapids dispatch reports Richard Brink, a clothing merchant, killed when his touring car overturned at Winter's crossing on the Holland interurban line. Mrs Brink and the Middleton pair are among the injured in the Michigan accident.
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Richard Brink
Winter's Crossing
Brink
William H. Middleton
New York
Charles Weisbecker
Harlem
Edgewater
N. J
Weisbecker
Louis Ungrich
Laughing at a Campaign Plank Turns on Taft Platform
Lincoln Oct. 5 a Republican paper misquotes a tariff plank as Bryan’s and mocks it. Bryan says Rosewater is wrong to claim it came from him and notes the error shows the platform itself is being ridiculed by Republicans. The piece suggests Democrats may exploit the blunder.
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Lincoln
Neb
William Jennings Bryan
Omaha
Omaha Bee
Victor Rosewater
Republican Executive Committee
Republican Publicity Bureau
Rosewater
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Bee
Omaha World Herald
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Patter
Taft
War Cloud Over Turkey Bulgaria Clash Deepens
Reports from Sofia and London detail Bulgaria proclaiming independence, Austria Hungary mobilizing, and Turkey seeking a peace conference. European capitals weigh intervention while Bulgaria plans frontier mobilization and Ferdinand remains firm.
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Austria
Germany
Kaimil
Paris
France
Pichon
Ferdinand
Hard rap for Taft from labor leader
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, denounces William H. Taft for calling labor leaders lying and for injunction and Sherman act criticisms. Gompers says Taft is losing temper and dignity and that workers know his attacks target them, not leaders. John W. Kern also spoke on campaign issues in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
William H. Taft
Denver
Taft
Gompers
Labor
Congress
America
Korn
North Carolina
Asheville
N. C
John W. Kern
Baseball Directors Meet to Consider Disputed Games
Cincinnati and Chicago clubs protest the Sept 23 game played in New York City. National League directors Hermann of Cincinnati Dreyfug of Pittsburg Murphy of Chicago Ebbets of Brooklyn and Davey of Boston met to review the protests with Murphy and Dreyfus barred from part of the session. The meeting aimed to resolve the disputed game while Chicago seeks pennant implications. In Chicago October 5 Joseph B. Tinker was arrested charged with assaulting John Ginocchio. Judge Heap postponed the case until the 23rd.
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Dreyfus
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Ivague
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New York City
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Dreyfug
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Joseph B. Tinker
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