Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1908 — Page 4

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POPULISMINCOUNCIL

Fire* National Convention of the Campaign Opens at the Mound City. BETAS MSB FAIL IB A MISSIOB Want the Convention Postponed and Are Eebnffed Ail Around. Indiana Republican* Go on Record for Their Favorite Bon, Fairbanks —Feature* of the Plat* form Adopted. The Populist national convention was called to order at 10 a. m. Thursday In the Olympic theater, at St Louis, by James H. Ferris, of Illinois, chairman of the Populist national committee. After an address by Perris he turned the gravel over to General Jacob S. Coxey, of Mount Vernon, 0., who had been decided upon for temporary chairman. John S. Allen, of Norma, Okla., was chosen secretary. For permanent chairman of the convention, Frank E. Richey, of St Louis, was chosen. After the convehtlon was organized adjournment was taken. Bryan Men Are Rebuffed. Friends of William J. Bryan made earnest but highly unsuccessful efforts to Influence In his favor the action of the convention. The majority of the members of the Topullst party and the various reform organizations participating in the convention rebuffed the Bryan people at every turn. They also refused to classify Bryan as anything but a Democrat who has no right to participate In the councils of the Populist party or to receive consideration at its hands. Everywhere repulsed the Bryanltes will carry the fight into the convention as a last resort Wanted the Meeting Postponed. Their demand was for a postponement of the convention. They declared, that In their opinion, the nomination of candidates at the present time is premature, and that It would be wisdom to await the action of the Republican and I>emoeratio conventions before placing a ticket In the field. They admitted that they are in a minority as compared to the Thomas E. Watson men, but said they had letters from Watson himself In which he expressed the opinion that it was unwise to hold the convention at so early a date.

Had No Success with Farris. A conference was held between .las. H. Ferris, chairman of the Populist national committee, and T. B. Jones, of Omaha; A. M. Walling. of David City, and E. A. Walrath, the secretary •of the Nebraska state committee, the three last representing the Bryan Interests. Ferris flatly refused to consider the adjournment, declaring that 1 the convention must be held and nominations made. ! Three States Likely to Bolt. ' The delegates from Nebraska held a cancus. and determined to ask the convention for the adoption of a platfrom, the selection of a new national committee, and an adjournment until after the Republican and Democratic conventions arc held. If these things are deniPd and the convention proceeds tp make nominations Nebraska, Michigan aud Minnesota will walk out of the convention.

INDIANA REPUBLICANS Organise Their Convention and Cheer Fairbanks and Roosevelt. Indiana Republicans in state convention - at Indianapolis Thursday cleared the way for the adoption of a platform and the nomination of a state ticket today. Organization was completed with the selection of Representative Jesse Overstreet, of Indianapolis, as temporary chairman. Julian Hogate, of Danville, was chosen secretary. Ad dresses were made by these two gentlemen and by Senators Beveridge and Hemeirway nud Governor Hanly. Senators Beveridge aud Hemenway, Governor Hanly and Chairman Goodrich of the state committee were elected national delegates at large. The platform, after a vigorous Indorsement of Vice Presldent Fatrhapk* as Indiana’s choice for the pres dcutlal nomination, and Instructions to the national delegates to vote apd work for his nomination at Chicago. Includes a plank written by Fairbanks which insists upon a revision of the tariff by a special session of congress, to Ik» called for that purpose immediately after the fall elections. Fairbnuks aso wrote a letter to Chairman Overstreet to be read to the convention which outlines his tariff views as reflected In the plank which was adopted. Other planks include a demand for a law against child-labor, written by Senator Beveridge; recommendations for • national bureau of mines; allowing the defendant a notice and heating before an Injunction Is granted; national health law*; currency reform, without naming any particular bill; a law supplementing the present state liquor law* to provide for rocal option with tho county at a unit; a more general

primary election law; an inheritance tax lawj an Indorsement of President Roosevelt; waterways Improvement, an economic administration of national affairs, especially of the army and navy, and prohibiting corporations from contributing to campaign funds.

NATIONAL LEGISLATURE!

Synopsis of the Proceedings In the Senate and In the House of Representatives. At Washington', Saturday, but little progress hag been made In the bouse In considering the agricultural bilL Consideration of the bill had not been concluded when the house adjourned. The passage of a large number of bills of minor Importance occupied the entire time of the senate Monday. The session was brought to a sudden close by lack of a quorum. Charges of a serious nature against Gifford Plnchot, chief of the forestry bureau, were made in the house by Smith (Cal.) and Mondell (Wyo.), dnrng the consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill. He was charged with secret activity in the matter of water rights at Los Angeles, and with Illegally paying the expenses of delegates to conventions In the west, and having a bureau press bureau. He was defended by Holland (Neb.) and Scott (Kan.). The bill was still pending at adjournment. Time of the senate Tuesday was consumed in consideration of a bill to permit the building of a dam on the Snake river, Wash., and an adjournment was only reached after Hepburn announced that he would not permit a vote to be taken. Some bills of minor Importance were passed. After having undergone many changes the paragraph of the agricultural appropriation bill relating to the bureau of forestry was finally passed by the bouse. A little less than onehalf of the bill had been completed when the house adjohrned. The passage of a bill authorizing the the construction of a dam across the Snake river In the state of Washington and the consideration of a measure for adjudicating public land claims of states against the government aceupded the entire session of the senate Wednesday. Debate of the agricultural appropriation bill In the bouse continued and good progress was made on the bill. Clark (Fla.) made a bitter attack on Attorney General Bonaparte In connection with the peonage prosecutions In the south. Clark said Bonaparte was no lawyer. Caulfield (Mo.) defended Bonaparte.

EXCHANGE GALLERIES SHUT

New York Police Fear Anarchists May Make Attack—Berk man Rea leased. With the release in New York of Alexander Berkman, treasurer of the anarchist federation of America, on cash bail of SSOO, and the release from court of all but two of the suspects and witnesses arrested after the explosion of the bomb in the hands of Selig Silverstein In Fiiiou Square on Saturday Inst, that portion of the police slate of the record was wiped clean. Following the receipts from police headquarters of information that evi deuce had l>een obtained that an anarchist attack might be made, the (’on solidated Stock Exchange has decided to close its galleries. Similar warnings are said to have been sent to officials of the Cotton and New YorkStock exchanges. The gallery of the latter has been closed for a month or longer. The Cotton Exchange gallery has been closed since Monday.

Fire Routs 100 Families.

At Chicago Tuesday more than on-' hundred families -were drlveu out of their homes early in the day by two of the most spectacular fires seen In Chicago in years. The fires started in the fashionable Oak Place apartment hutlding. housing sixty families, at 1741-45 North Clark street and extending through to 1441-5 Aldlne avenue. The second blaze was in the Francis apartment building. Rhode* avenue aud Thirty-Fourth street.

Vanderbilt Sued for Divorce.

Within an hour after he had sailed from New York for Europe Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was made the defendant In a suit filed with the supreme court by his wife. The suit Is for absolutedivorce. Justice O’Gorman, before whom the proceedings were instituted, appointed David McClure, a local attorney, referee to hear testimony and to report findings and recommendations to the court.

Admiral Evans at San Luis Obispo.

The Connecticut of the Atlantic fleet, with Rear Admiral Uobley D. Evans on board, arrived off Coronado and the admiral was taken off on the tender Yankton, and brought to this city, where a private ear had been placed nt his disposal. Admiral Evans plainly showed the effects of his Illness. He left later for San Luis Obispo to receive treatment at the mineral hot springs.

Captured Mosby Three Times.

Colonel Ellhu R. Rockwood, a well known New York photographer, dropped dead In his studio of valvular heart disease due to rheumatism re suiting from exposure In the civil war. Colonel Rockwood had the distinction of having three times captured the famous confederate guorr ilia, wivuCl 1 John S. Mosby. Both were Masons and three times Mosby wgs set free after playing poker all night with his captor.

Morrid Boy!

“Po you do any settlement work?” _ “Of conns. I always drink n chan* tr.“—Yale Record. . . .rr ■. ■ .

MANY COAL PITSIDLE

Estimate la That 250,000 Man Have Laid Down Their Picks for a Time. WORK GOES OB IB SOME STATES Bew President of tho V. M. W. Would Eevive the Interstate Bole. situation la Not Indloatlve es Trouble —John Mitchell Retires and Lewis Succeeds Him—Old Officers Banqueted. Two hundred fifty thousand picks dropped from the bands of as many bituminous coal miners of the United States In the evening of March 81 not to be used again until a wage settlement has been reached and a scale adopted between the members of the United Mine Workers, and the coal op-

TOM L. LEWIS.

erators of the various fields. This morning 250,000 men are Idle, and thousands of coal mines of the country are deserted. The situation, however, does not indicate prolonged strike. An open winter and industrial depression have left a large stock of coal on band and the differences between miners and operators are very slight. "Politics” Delays Settlement. It is practically agreed that the present wage scale will be continued, but some politics in connection with the change in the national officers of the miners’ organization, and local differences between operators and miners have resulted in temporary suspension from work until a new wage scale h» agreed to either by districts or individual mines. Until two years ago th:> bituminous coal mining wage of tho country was based upon the agreement reached in the central competitive field consisting of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and western Pennsylvania, and considered as a unit. Operators Refuse to Meet. This unit system was broken two years ago. Since that time the miners have tried to get back the unit rule, or interstate agreement, but operators of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, atter negotiations lasting all the the past winter, have refused to meet In interstate convention with the miners. As a last resort President Mitchell called the miners in national convention and district settlements were authorized with the present wage scale as a minimum, and failing to agree by districts miners were authorized t > sign the present scale with operators’ individually STATUS OF THE MATTER NOW

Work to Go on In Indiana, Michigan and. Perhaps, Ehewhere. Vice President Lewis, who succeeded President Mitchell, Is endeavoring to revive the interstate unit rule. In the meantime district joint meetings are being held in the various states. Central Pennsylvania and the block coal district of Indiana (Clay county! are the only two districts that have signed. Indiana operators and miners, in session at Terre Haute, are adjusting their smalL differences, and have decided to continue at work pending a settlement. There will be no strike In Indiana, neither will there be In Michigan. The Illinois district meeting at Springfield ha* not reached an agreement, but the relations between the opposing interests arefriendly. '

In Texas a strike has been postponed for at least ten days. Western Pennsylvaniabas npt reached an agreement, and the mines have closed, throwing out of work thirty thousand men. Ohio mines have closed also, as no agreement has been reached. The southwest district, consisting of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas, is holding its meeting at Kansas City, and it Is said the miners will be Idle for a time. Thirty-five thousand men are affected. The min ers of the Kanawha field In West Virginia are holding their joint meeting at Huntington, and while no agreement has been reached one Is expected. Weat Virginia and Kentucky miners and operators will continue operations, It U believed, pending a settlement. President T. L. Lewis said he would make no mote for several days. Ha wishes the negotiations now In progress In the Tarlous districts to reach some kind of a conclusion before he begins to work eat hi* plans.

We purchased the goods in Rensselaer for this big sale and we are going to sell them In Rensselaer for SO cents on the dollar. Located In Hotel Rosey block.

STOCK WANTED TO PASTURE. Have 200 acres of bluegrass pasture, watered by good wells with good windmills and good tanks. Reasonable prices. ' ALONZO WOOD, McCoysburg, lad.

CALL THE NEW FOR

Apples, pine' apples, Oranges, bananas, Onions, potatoes, Sweet potatoes, White fish, cod fish, Fine canned goods, Crisp crackers, New breakfast foods, ™ Fresh bread, cream cheese, Best coffees, onion sets, Nut meats, fresh cookies, Lettuce, radishes, Celery, asparagus. Coal oil and gasoline, In fact anything In clean, fresh groceries. We pay highest market price for all country produce. HOME GROCERY. No matter what you want, come to the big sale that is now on, and will continue for 10 days. You will find everything at money saving values. It’s a carnival of bargains. It is the sale event of your town. In Hotel Rosey block.

W. S. Richards, Painter and Paper Hanger, ’Phone 331. Wanted — 2,000 rolls of paper to hang, and all the painting in Jasper county. Fifteen years experience in Rensselaer. Ijuneß An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

SOMETHING NEW. c . - .'*■ The Dairy Queen Cream Separator. 1 Positively lightest running. Easiest cleaned. Easiest operated. Closest skimmer. If you are going to buy a Separator It will be to your advantage to Investigate this machine, as it has no equal. I also sell the U. S. Separator, which you know to be a good one. Also sell oil especially made for cream separators. Do not use inferior oil on your separator—lt don’t pay. Call and see these Separators at my store. D. M .WORLAND. Phone 23.

t * season we’re X strong on the new models in sack suits. If you want to see some of the N most swagger styles ever I • 4 ' • :V* j.-i'VV' > v ' made in men’s clothes just come in here some day and ask to see one of our Hart Schaffner & Marx Varsity models; there are | half a dozen or more styles in the Vanity line; ■ some one of them will be sure to suit you. BusineM suits, sls, $lB, S2O, $22, $25. This store is* the home of Copyright 1908 by Hart Schaffner & Marx Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes •' • . I . . * j , ' / Murray’s Clothing Store Rensselaer, Indiana . ■ - r • • ’ . ',

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