Roosevelt Nomination Advances as Perkins Elected New York Delegate
Chicago August convention scenes featured Theodore Roosevelt’s nomination and a unanimous choice of George W. Perkins as New York delegate. Knox’s credentials report barred Negro delegates. Roosevelt’s insistence on full recognition for Black voters sparked no floor contest.
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Darkey
Knox
Credentials Committee
Chicago
Albert J. Beveridge
Gerson LB. Levi
Temple Israel
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Beveridge
New York
George W. Perkins
Oscar Straus
Amos Pinchot
Straus
Perkins
Dixie
Leveridge
Congress Hotel
Soen
Oscar King Davis
Pro gressive committee roster lists wide national slate
The roster enumerates many named individuals across states from Alabama to Wyoming with numerous OCR distortions. Key figures include Joseph O. Thompson, Louis A. Drexler, Rudolph B. Leeds, John L. Stevens, George W. Perkins, and Thomas Lee Moore among others, reflecting a broad national committee.
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New
National Progressive Committee
Alabama
Joseph O. Thompson
Arizona
Au Seas
Cleveland
Louis A. Drexler
Patiol
Ais Acon
L. Anderson Suotriaw
Faoer C.W
McCluire Necate
Monroe Smocklinds
Chauncey Dewey
Indiana
Rudolph B. Leeds
John L. Stevens Kangan
William Allen White
Pearl Wight
Leo's Halbert
P. Gardiner
Massachusetta
Matthew Hale
Maryland
C. Carrington, Jr
Michigan
Henry M. Wallace
Minnesota
Milton D
Pardy
Missouri
Will H. Walker
Joseph M. Dixon
Nebraska
Nathan Merriam Pees Ts
William Savacool
New Jersey
John Pranktin
Fort
New Mesa
Miguel A. Otero
New York
George W. Perkins
Vermont
Charles MH. Thompson
Virginia
Thomas Lee Moore
Washington
West Virginia
William M. C. Dawson
Wisconsin
H. F. Cochems
North Carolina
J. N. Williamson, Jr
Wyoming
Robert D. Carey
Bas A. Y
J. Sullivan
Oklahoma
George C. Priestley
Vesechee cL
Siorty
W. Ae Pennayl
Inia
Rhode Island
Fawing, Tattle
South Dakota
R. S. Vessey
Tennessee
Weee
Tom Taylor Tosbes
Wiicae
Ese
Cde
Cooh Bison Dtah
Cesw
MOTON
Heiner
Clark Renominated in Ninth District Primary
Champ Clark speaker of the house was renominated for United States representative from the Ninth district in St. Louis primaries. This marks his tenth nomination and he faces no opposition in the race.
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St. Louis
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
United States
Congress
Clark
Darrow Counsel Fined Five Days or Overnight Jail
Los Angeles August 7 The trial halted as Earl Rogers chief counsel for Clarence Darrow was fined 50 dollars with five days in jail as the alternate. The court later ordered the imprisonment overnight and adjourned. Rogers then secured a writ of habeas corpus returnable next Monday.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Darrow
Earl Rogers
Clarence Darrow
Contenpl
Lorace Appel
Miecourt
Rogers
Franklin
Mavery
Bert Fanklin
McNamara
District Attorney objects to question as waste of time
Judge Trutton halted proceedings after District Attorney Fredericks objected acknowledging the remark as wasted time. Rogers asserted the witness was a perjurer and refused to withdraw his statement. The court imposed a fine and sentence based on the confrontation.
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Fredericks
Rogers
Trutton
Durbin Nominated by Republican State Convention
Durbin of Anderson was nominated for governor by the Republican state convention in Indianapolis. Other nominees included Shank, Chaney, and Carlisle. The ballot left Durbin short of a majority, but counties were shifting to support him for unanimity. multiple other state officers and judges were also nominated.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Winfeld T. Durbin
Anderson
Mayor Shank
John C. Chaney
Sullivan
Charles A. Carlisle
South Hend
Darwin
Thomas T. Moore
Greencastle
Fred I, King
Wabash
J. Newton Brown
Franklin
Jol Freeman
Terre Haute
F. H. Wurzer
South Bend
J. L. Peel
Samuel C. Ferrell
Fort Wayne
Supreme Court
Warwick H. Ripley
Woodwin D. Robinson
Evansville
Leander J. Marks
Winchester
David A. Myers
Greensburg
Federal Troops First Battle With the Rebels
A reform push and various progressive propositions were debated as county local option plank was defeated 1 004 to 429. James B Watson of Rushville served as temporary chairman and delivered the keynote. Judge Walker Olds of Fort Wayne was permanent chairman amid large, enthusiastic attendance.
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James B. Watson
Rushville
Walker Olds
Fort Wayne
Wells for Treasurer Named in National Democratic Committee
Governor Wilson announced Nola Wells former mayor of St. Louis will serve as treasurer of the national Democratic committee and Charles R. Crane of Chicago will be vice chairman of the finance committee. Henry Morgenthau of New York was chosen chairman.
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Trenton
N. J
Wilson
Nola Wells
St. Louis
National Democratic Committee
Charles R. Crane
Chicago
Henry Morgenthau
New York
Dodge Sues for Divorce in Reno Desertion Alleged
Philip T. Dodge president of Mergenthaler Linotype in New York files for divorce from Margaret B. Dodge in Reno Nevada. Complaint filed under seal states desertion as the main accusation and is described as not sensational.
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Linotype Company
Reno
Reno, Nev
Philip T. Dodge
Mergenthaler Linostype Company of
New York
Margaret B. Dodge
Confesses to Murder of 14 Year Old Naomi Elliott
Rangor Maine Aug 7 A confession that he murdered Naomi Etta Mitchell a fourteen year old girl at North Carmel the night of July 24 was made to Sheriff White in the presence of witnesses here by J Sherman Gray who earlier on the day was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of murder.
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Rangor
Naomi Etta Mitchell
North Carmel
White
J. Sherman Gray
Will Deport Five Japanese Shipwrecked Aliens
Secretary Nagel of the commerce and labor department plans to order the deportation of five shipwrecked Japanese found at Del Mar California after being blown across the Pacific in a fishing junk. They face a technical violation of U S immigration laws.
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Washington
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Pacific Ocean
del Mar
Cal
United States
Government to file replication in harvester case
The Department of Justice will file a replication to the harvester trust answer within ten days in Justice Sanborn's court at St. Paul Minnesota. Assistant Attorney General Fowler announced the action.
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Washington
Harvester Trust
St. Paul
Minn
Department of Justice
Fowler
Justice Sanborn
Progressives Sweep Kansas In Early Primary Returns
Early returns from Topeka indicate the Progressive Republican ticket wins statewide by a twenty to twenty five thousand majority. Roosevelt electors and Governor Stubbs are named for U.S. senator with Curtis defeated while the full Progressive slate gains state offices. A $4 000 000 bridge project is planned across the Mississippi at Memphis with public donations contributing toward the cost.
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Topeka
Kan
Roosevelt
Stubbs
United States
Curtis
Taft Names Maywood Postmaster Nominees
President Taft announced Harry H. Nichols as Maywood Illinois postmaster and drew the nomination of Lawrence C. Wines for the same office in Washington on August 7.
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Taft
Maywood
Washington
Harry H. Nichols
Maywood, Il
Lawrence C. Wines
New $20 Gold Certificate Counterfeit Warned
Secret Service detects a new counterfeit of the 1906 series twenty dollar gold certificate and alerts banks nationwide to be vigilant against the note.
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Washington
Aug
Secret Service
Mrs Ellen Farwell Dies in Lake Forest Home
Mrs Ellen Shel don Drummond Farwell, wife of John V. Farwell, president of the John V. Farwell company, died at her Lake Forest home from heart disease.
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John V. Farwell
Chicago
Ellen Sheldon Drummond Farwell
Lake Forest
No Nicaraguan Intervention United States Seeks to Protect Interests
Washington reports no U S intervention planned in Nicaragua but acknowledges grave conditions. About 500 Marines will be stationed at Managua and Corinto to safeguard American interests as tensions rise in the republic.
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United States
Managua
Washington
State Department
Thatepublic
Corinto
Taft asks canal action for tolls and force
President Taft asks Congress for immediate enactment of legislation to provide an operating force for the Panama Canal the government of the canal zone and the fixing of maximum tolls. He indicates free passage for American ships might be decided later.
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Washington
Catt
Congress
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Owen Sweeps Oklahoma in renomination bid
United States Senator Robert S. Owen led a decisive renomination win across Oklahoma over former Governor Charles N. Haskell, with campaign manager Hubert L Bolen estimating a margin likely exceeding thirty thousand votes. In Rome, Italian forces captured Zuara and its oasis near Tripoli, pushing back Turkish and Arab forces.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
United States
Robert S. Owen
Charles N. Haskell
Hubert L . Bolen
Owen
Tripoli
Rome
Italy
Zuara
Garment
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Perkins S
Committee On
National Party
William Jennings Hrgan
Johnson
California
Parker
Lindsey
National Progressive Party
Resolutions Committee
McCormick
Medill McCormick
Progressive Party
Illinois
Deneen
State Central Committee
Beauregard FP. Moseley
George W. Muller
Decatur
BE. D. Welford
Salem
William Prentiss
Speaker
Nettles
Fifth Avenue
Beut
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Lieutenant Becker
Fine Darrow Counsel
Durbin
Republican Convention
Wells
Gov. Wilson
P. T. Dodge
Maine
U. S
After Harvester
Progressives
Kansas
Gov
Memphis, Tenn
Memphis
Creed
Juarez
Mex
Huevas
Villa Ahumada
Chihuahua
Fernandez
Orozco
Fer
Mexico City
Permanent Commission of Congress
CANAL
Haskell
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