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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1900
Page
2
The issue lists the Democratic ticket for national office on Thursday October 4 1900 with William Jennings Bryan for President and Adlai Stevenson for Vice President.
Despite urgent Republican efforts Harrison and Reed remain in retirement. Materialistic appeals of imperialism do not attract them, indicating persistent detachment from the campaign.
At a Port Angeles Socialist club meeting the topic stated that Republicans have advanced socialism more than any other party. The affirmative was adopted as the Republican speaker admitted being father of trusts while the opponent conceded trusts push socialism on the people.
The passage mocks a trust as solely stomach driven, equating workers to dimwitted creatures. It asserts only two movers ride on stomachs, armies and snakes, claiming men who earn their pay by hard work resist being lumped with those beasts. The distrust depicts the trust as brute force and reptilian movement.
The image published in the P. I. shows Browne's signature and date line were cut and pasted from another letter. A photo cannot lie, and the paper analysis will soon prove a forgery done in support of the American Book Trust.
Chairman Schively of the Republican state central committee accuses gubernatorial candidate Frink of voting for farmers on railroad laws while saying his record shows he served corporate interests. He warns farmers in eastern Washington not to be misled by the brazen approach.
Former Democratic state chairman H. T. Jones returns from Nome and rejects Republican overtures. He declares he will support Bryan and the entire Democratic ticket despite GOP attempts to woo him. The piece critiques campaign tactics of pressuring wavering Democrats and warns of their limited appeal.
Yakima County Superintendent Plumb defends the state board’s new books as generally sound with minor errors in geography and spelling. He says the spelling list is well graded and useful, while the arithmetic from prior years was weak but the current critique is driven by political maneuvering rather than fact.
A Seattle Review critique notes Pennsylvania coal miners hostile to endorsing Major McKinley’s prosperity aims. The piece portrays their stance as discourteous and contrary to expected gospel support amid political discourse.
Republican papers condemn the Cripple Creek assault on Governor Roosevelt and contrast it with the Bryan assault four years earlier by Yale students. The latter is deemed more disgraceful because the attackers were educated and expected to be gentlemen.
Albert Williams former Michigan attorney general and member of the sixteen man committee that coined the name republican in 1854 at Jackson is an enthusiastic Bryan supporter this year and will campaign for the democratic ticket. In 1894 McKinley, then Ohio governor, urged introducing Williams to a large audience as the sole survivor of the committee.
Credit guidance urges landowners to sell to any buyer if land-poor and to bring old bills to the Yakima Collection Agency located over First National Bank. The note implies quick collection options for debtors.
An old advertisement highlights prices at Elite for musical instruments and baby carriages. It notes McConnell’s home furnishings, Kinsey’s porcelain lined fruit jars, Keene’s bargain watches, and Schindeler’s Dueber Hampden watches, inviting calls for pricing.
W. W. Scott shot dead while aiding hop pickers to identify suspects after a holdup near Prosser. A second victim, W. F. Edwards, gravely injured as authorities pursue the fugitive gang in Yakima county. Sheriff’s posse scours Mabton to Horse Heaven for the large brutal thief with a neck scar and a decoy cover.
Lizzie M Cochran of Zillah sues Garrett H Cochran for divorce on cruelty and non support. Mrs Addie Howlett was granted a divorce from L B Howlett on incompatibility. Kate McCaw files for divorce from Sam McCaw. both are Indians employed by the Indian department. McCaw accuses wife of adultery in reply. Classified ads and health claims follow, including Viavi treatments and children's jackets offered by J J Macdonald's.
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