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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1902
Page
5
The Republican outlook in Indiana grows as Senator Hanna tours the state. He praises Indiana's delegation, stresses loyalty to Republican ideals, and boosts Judge Henry Clay Allen over Brown. Reports note strong crowds, debates on tariffs, and calls for unity to maintain party strength in Congress.
A political plea urges Indiana Republicans to vote in the upcoming election to maintain a strong Republican majority in Congress and continue Senator Fairbanks in the Senate. It stresses the impact on national policy, warns against Democratic gains, and calls for mobilizing voters to avoid apathy and ensure decisive support for Indiana’s Republican slate and governance.
Senator Beveridge praised the business man’s role in public life at the Hanna meeting while noting presidents and governors with industrial backgrounds shaped reform. Governors Odell Crane and Indiana’s three successive leaders are cited for using business experience to address public issues and labor disputes.
The piece argues that the labor movement gains dignity from disciplined actions, notably the anthracite and bituminous strikes. It highlights Senator Hanna's praise for miners honoring contracts, the East’s support for arbitration, and the belief that annual contracts and joint arbitration boards can prevent future strikes while advancing labor rights.
The Hanna campaign across Indiana has energized Republicans beyond towns and counties. Tens of thousands will read his addresses, lifting Republican enthusiasm and pulling Bryan Democrats toward the GOP. Voters are now urged to extend the momentum with energetic, steady effort along the line.
In Indiana editorials urge Republicans to turnout the 10,000 voters in 300 precincts, praising Senator Hanna's statewide appeal and the GOP’s labor friendly platform. They contrast Roosevelt era policies with Democratic plans on trusts and coal, defending the Republican antidote to economic issues and warning about Democratic demagogy.
A collage of light comic exchanges from Chicago Record-Herald Philadelphia Record Boston Transcript Chicago Post Washington Star and others. Jokes about acting flattered women whist playing cards car purchases and misheard phrases showcase early 20th century humor and dialect in a wired society.
Rev. Richard H. Thomas of Baltimore and Prof. Cyrus Hodgin of Earlham advanced ideas advocating universal peace at a Friends conference.
The Five Year Meeting of Friends devoted sessions to universal peace with papers by Rev. Richard H. Thomas and Prof. Cyrus Hodgin. They urged disarmament and criticized war as a source of national misfortune, urging churches to act as welcome, social centers and advocates of peaceful settlements.
A board led by Admiral Taylor will tour Detroit Grand Rapids Muskegon and Michigan City to inspect a potential naval training station on the Great Lakes. The Michigan City site is favored and may be chosen, with the final decision kept private until Congress convenes.
The army will be reduced to 66 980 enlisted, minimum by law, under the February reorganization act. Infantry, coast artillery, field artillery, engineers, and cavalry cap sizes are set, with exceptions for Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley, and the Peking legation. Reductions occur by casualties, expirations, or transfers, while recruiting focuses on re-enlistments within three months. A $40,000 appropriation funds substitutes at posts to replace the abolished canteen, with plans to add reading rooms and gymnasiums under Major French and a small board.
An executive order from July 2 180 preserves Philippine Commission authority to extend inter island and coastwise trade rights to foreign vessels while U S laws on coastwise trade do not apply. Also, Col William Rafferty of the Fifth Cavalry was buried in the National Cemetery after dying in the Philippines last month.
A digest from The Sunday Journal highlights theater box office notes and social studies, with regional items from Washington and New York. It reports Henderson designating Steele to attend Representative Russell’s funeral, plus Roosevelt invited to Tuskegee by Booker T. Washington. Also notes Postmaster General Payne and Corteliyou’s Canton trip for McKinley Memorial site talks and early gun and transit franchise items from government sources.
Philadelphia October 4 a former Sioux chief now an Episcopalian rector Rev Philip Daloria Flora 8 D said he learned the true story of General Custers death from Appearing Elk a Sioux warrior who claimed he killed Custer Appearing Elk said he wounded a charging officer then killed him with a tomahawk and kept the revolver the head shaved man was Custer Daloria asserts Appearing Elk later died last spring
Washington coroner begins inquest into the death of Ada Gilbert Denrdo the fashionably noted dressmaker who died after a mysterious assault. Key witness Richard Cole was absent due to possible links to the case. Presley and two New Orleans brothers attended. Dr Wade H Atkinson testified about the victim's condition. Jane K Dennis in-law and other witnesses spoke of events surrounding the tragedy.
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