Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — STIR AT A NOTIFICATION [ARTICLE]

STIR AT A NOTIFICATION

* Chanter Creates It by Making Some Unkind Remark* of Connere. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Oct. 2. —In accepting at “Rokeby,” the ancestral Chanler estate, twenty miles, from here, the nomination of the Democratic party for governor, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler. the resent lieutenant governor of the state, caused a decided stir among hi** hearers by prefacing bis set speech with a statement that “free from all hampering obigations of every kind I shall know no master but the people’s will and the people's Interest.” i This was aimed at Chairman ConBiers. of the state committee, who sat 1 Just behind Chadler. Chanler said his ! attention had been called "to an editori lal in a morning paper In New York. 1 based on an Interview published In the afternoon of the day before, purporting to give an outline of the policy of the Democratic party In this state. Whatever of my speech of acceptance has found Is way Into the public prints Is due not to the conception or the intellect <tf any man other than »»▼. j

gels, but presents what t must regard as a betrayal of the confidence which a candidate of a party has always been warranted in reposing in the chairman‘of the state committee.” Mrs. Mary Sullivan, one hundred and seven years old, was the first person to congratulate Chanler when he concluded his speech. FOKAKER ISSUES A CHALLENGE Invites Somebody to Invoke the Law Against His Legal Practices Cincinnati. Oct 2. —That the law be Invoked against him if he has done any wrong Is the conclusion of a statement by Senator Foraker, which he has given to the Associated Press. Before making this suggestion he sums up the various charges that have been made, and discusses briefly the legal ethics as to service for various clients. The statement says: The questions in this whole matter In which the public is concerned are: I—Whether I was employed, which was never concealed or denied, and 2 —The character of the employment —whether it had any relation to my duties as senator or influenced me in any manner in regard thereto. On all these points I have answered fully in my former published statements. I have not until now spoken of the compensation I received, becanse, if the employment was improper it would be no defense to show that it was a small sum, but If on the other hand the employment was proper the compensation concerned only the company and myself—nobody else. If my former statements are true, as I know them to be, the employment was entirely proper and legitimate and therefore the question of compensation is ♦one I do not feel called upon to discuss with Mr. HearsL”

I'oraker then repeats that his employment by the Standard Oil company was confined to the affair of that company in Ohio, and was ended long before the company was the object of legislation by congress or of attacks In the United States courts, and such employment lias never been renewed. He concludes as follows; “If I committed an offense against the law let somebody specifically point It out and proceed against me. The courts are open * * • If there be any just basis for this reckless, wholesale defamation and attempted assassination of character let It take some tangible, open and fair form of procedure where all interested can appear and be fully beard.” Sherman Busy In Illinois. Peoria. 111., Oct. 2.—The hardest days’ work of his speech-making i\mpaign in the middle west ended here for James S. Sherman, the Republican vice presidential candidate, in a great meeting iu ’be Coliseum, where several thousand persons heard him discuss the political issues. Sherman started the day at Decatur, wiiere be began talking on sports before the students of the Milliken university, but by the time he reached this city almost every subject current In national politics was thoroughly gone Into. He had good crowds at every point and there was plenty of enthusiasm.

Discord Story Is Denied. Chicago. Oct 2. —A report that the congressional committee of the Republican organization had complained that Chairman Hitchcock, of the national committtee, was neglecting the work for representatives in congress, is denied by Hitchcock at New York, and Representative McKinley, chairman of the congressional committee, telegraphs from Peoria, and is backed by Representative Sherman, that there Is no truth in the report t Kern Off for Alabama. Cincinnati. Oct. 2.—John W. Kern, Democratic vice presidential nominee, passed through this city on the way to Birmingham. Ala., where he will speak at two meetings today. He will address the members of the Business Men’s club during the noon hour and will speak at a rally in the afternoon. Kern had just left Michigan, where he has been speaking to large audiences on the campaign issues, and said he was pleased with the outlook. Massachusetts Democrats Boston. Oct. 2.—With scarcely a jar in Its proceedings the Democratic shate convention nominated a state ticket for the November election, chose sixteen presidential electors and adopted a set of resolutions, the main planks of which advocate tariff, labor and state administration reforms. The state ticket chosen is headed for governor by James H. Vabey. of Water town.

Beveridge on Bryan’a Trail. Valley City, N. D., Oct 2.—Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, was cordially acclaimed at a great political demonstration by several hundred townsmen and farmers on his arrival from the east and during an address in the Auditorium on tbe tariff. Hamilton Fish for Congress. Poughkeepsie. Oct 2. Hamilton Fish, assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, has been nominated for congress by the Republican convention of tbe Twenty-first district, defeaing the present representative, Samuel McMillan.