Outlines Party Policy At Democratic National Convention
The speaker at the St Louis convention defends democracy’s approach, contrasts two parties, and criticizes Republican tactics. He cites Root and Roosevelt, accuses plagiarism, defends anti trust actions, and pledges a future Democratic platform focused on tariff reform, fiscal responsibility, and noninterventionist foreign policy. The speech emphasizes constitutional governance, white supremacy context, and a new era for Cuba and the Philippines.
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St. Louis
John Sharp
Williams Bald
Root
Roosevelt
Haid
Ishu Root
Teddy
Liliu
Tweed
Republican Party
New York
Cleveland
Spain
Favkless
Kansas
West
Morton
South
Europe
United States
Central America
Democratic convention rift over Parker Bryan clash at St Louis
At the Democratic National Convention in St Louis July 7 8 delegates heard lengthy remarks by Representative John Sharp Williams and supported Parker for president amid a fierce Bryan Cleveland split The scene featured a Cleveland chant a Bryan merit and a Parker counter demonstration This dispatch covers credentials rules permanent organization and platform debates plus Bryan's controversial bid to overturn a credentials report and the subcommittee platform draft including tariff and income tax planks and anti monopoly language.
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Louis
John Sharp Williams
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
James K. Jones
Arkansas
Williams
Bryan
Grover
Parker
St. Louis
William Jennings Bryan
Credentials Committee
Committee On Permanent Organization
Champ Clark
Gnairman Williams
New Yorker
Committee On Resolutions
Messrs
Daniel
Hill
Pattison
Hamlin
Cable
Poe
Davis
Dubois
Shivney
Newlands
Messrs. Bryan
Willams
Hil
Tilman
Canada
United States
United States Senate
Tolstoi's Efforts Futile in Russo Japanese War
The Novyoo Vremya cites Tolstoi's London Times piece on the Russo-Japanese war calling Tolstoi's work futile and likening the war to a hurricane that cleanses Moscow while spurring Russian energy. An optimist replies that the unexpected now seems routine to him.
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Tolstoi
Bt. Petersburg
Novyoo Vremya
London Times
Tolato
Moscow
Optimiat
Republicans Hold Jubilee in Jackson on Centennial
Nearly 10 000 people gathered in a grove near Jackson to mark the 100th anniversary of the Republican party. Secretary of State John Way delivered the oration with U S Senators Fairbanks Alger and Burrows among speakers. A bunting wall bore portraits of Fremont and Lincoln as veterans from Fremont’s 1856 ticket sat nearby.
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Jackson
Midh
John Way
United States
Charles W. Fairbanks
Indiana
Joseph G. Cannon
House of Representatives
Alger
Burrows
John ©. Fremont
Abraham Lincoln
White House
Russians Attack Japanese Outposts at Mao Tien Pass
General Kuraki reports that two Russian battalions attacked Japanese outposts at Mao Tien Pass at dawn on July 4 under heavy fog. Russians were repulsed but returned three times before being driven off. Japanese pursued three miles westward. Russian losses: thirty dead and fifty wounded. Japanese losses: fifteen dead and thirty wounded.
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Toklo
Kuraki
Readings on Wit and Words Across Cultures
A collage of jokes and quips from various figures and eras. Mrs Ridgway's retort on money in marriage, a Caesar reference, Churchill and Shell memory lapse, a costermonger at a funeral, Landseer puzzles, Persian proverbs, Richard Mansfield satire, a Berlin Kaiser quip, and a Chicago tea store owner silencing a neighbor's dog with blunt language.
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John Ridgway
Paris
Guy de Maupassant
Chicago
Mist’ Jones
Kidney Pills Cure Wisconsin Man in Chippewa County
It Pays to Read Newspapers reports Frank M. Russell of this place, plagued by kidney disease and fatigue, improved after taking two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, enabling him to walk all day. The account claims his case is the most wonderful ever known in Chippewa County Wisconsin.
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Berlin
Cox, Wik
Frank M. Russell
Dodd
Bright
Mr. Russell
Chippewa County
Wisconsin
Indictment of Aaron Burr Found in Richmond Archives
The original Burr treason indictment has been located in Federal Court archives in Richmond Virginia. The document bears the signature of John Randolph of Roanoke as grand jury foreman. A stray line about a girl and a marriage sea appears, but the core fact is the recovered Burr indictment.
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Aaron Burr
Federal Court
Richmond
John Randolph
Roanoke
Grand Jury
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Shell
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Sir Robert Peel
William Waldorf Astor
London Clubmen’s Benevolent Society
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Landseer
Richard T. Gotthell
Columbia University
Richard Mansfield
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