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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1907
Page
4
A Michigan legislative debate centers on replacing the read labor tax with cash taxes for property and township wide road and bridge funding. Senator Fly's tax plan aims to improve country roads, with farmers urged to support the measure as essential to markets and neighbor connectivity.
President Roosevelt defends his past remarks on Moyer and Haywood amid labor union criticism. He argues criticizing individuals does not taint their overall citizenship and upholds justice regardless of corporate wealth or labor influence. Debs denounces Roosevelt as hypocritical in a front page attack in the Appeal to Reason.
After George I s, Cortelyou takes Treasury duties and is asked to name a confidential clerk to an assistant secretary. Though tired, he politely but firmly declines the elder's request, feeling unfit for the appointment, while the elder remains hopeful.
Governor Warner urged a campaign finance reform bill to curb spending at polls and require itemized expenditure statements by all political actors. The house debated amending the election law and discussed direct nomination of United States and state officers, with strong opposition to some provisions and support for others.
The Mutual Life Insurance board reelected CA Peabody as president with Emory Mewlintock as president pro tem. The new board split on key committees, naming prominent Peabody ally Higety Botham Travy and Gray, while Judge Gray questioned Paris Lexa’s role. Separate notes mention NYC, New Haven and Hartford Railroad finances and a Chicago capital syndicate planning a $20 million infusion to fund a Chicago South and Southern Indiana venture, plus a Sundberg committee report on Hotitate trust property and a Cleveland Electric Railway service cut. The article ends with a plug for Early Riser pills.
Editor Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal contends a new party may emerge from the era's dissonant factions, while Taft and Roosevelt era politics stir in New York and Ohio. Reports note H Hughes administration support, Oklahoma's constitution signing, and labor unions' sharp replies to Roosevelt, as political maneuvering unfolds.
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