Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 30, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 October 1908 — Page 7

WORST THE WORLD ~ HAS WIINESSED

And it Came Under ths High Protec tive Tariff and Republican Con- ; trol in Every Branch of ' - the Federal Govern- ’ " ment. In a public address; Mr. Shaw, re cently Secretary of the Treasury un der Mr. Roosevelt, said: “The strin gency of 1907 is generally conceded to have been the severest the world has ever witnessed.” $ How consoling it is to read in the republican platform this glowing sen tence: “A Republican tariff has al ways been followed by business prosperity.” " =*3 = 2 - Mr. Aldrich, in his speech on the Aldrich Currency bill in the Senate of the United States only last winter, “Mr. President, the financial crisis from which the .country has just emerged, which culminated in a serious panic in October, was the most acute and destructive in its immediate consequences of any that has occurred in the history of the country. Nothing but the heroic measures taken by the representatives of the great business and financial institutions of the country acting in co-operation with the Secretary of the Treasury, prevented a total collapse of private credit and a disastrous destruction of all values. The country was saved by the narrowest possible margin from an over whelming catastrophe, whose blightihg effect would« have been felt in every household.” |

< * L ] . On Februray 11, 1908, Mr.*Shaw, in a speeth he made in Michigan, said: “Over 300,000 freight cars are stand ing on the tracks, 30,000 locomotives white leaded and out of commission one-fourth of the population of several large cities idle, and for the first time under a Rapublican administration, free soup houses .in every industrial center; the price of farm produce naturally and _materially depreciated, furnish an object lesson which ought to produce a measure of sobermind edness on the part of the American people.” o ee e : From the public press is taken the following news item coming from Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 8, 1908: “The cry of the unemployed daily grows more distressed in Pittsburg There are 15,000 men idle, and the spectre of the dreaded soup houses again makes its appearance. The first soup house will be opened by the Sal vation Army Monday morning, and unless th\ere is a radical and prompt change for the better, more places ol this kind will be in demand before many days have elapsed. The situation is not really alarming, but it is bad enough. Soup houses have been the dread of the business men and civic leaders, and every effort has been made to avoid them.”

Here is the followifig news item from Chicago, dated Feb. 11, 1908: “Chicago, Feb. 11, 1908. Never in the history of the ‘Chicago-Relief and Aid Society’ has theré been such a demand for assistance as at the present time, is the claim of Superintendent Kingsly, who is in charge of the distribution of funds /by the business men’s relief committee, which has just raised between $25,000 and $30,000 fm' needy families. Never in the historyl of the society have we had so many} appeals based entirely on the lack of employment.” - ‘ * = .‘ % Not long ago Mr. Dalzell, who writes the tariff tax, recently as dictated by the men who put up the money fo pay ‘the expenses of republican campaigns, w 0 “We do not read our tariff lessons out of books. We read them by the blazing light of open furance doors, amid the noise of industrial activities and in the sweat of our brows that we coin into wealth, and God help the man or party that would put out these fires, still the music of that noise, and send the workmen home to a foodless and hungry household. : - “It was under republican rule that this music was stilled, that the fires were put out,; and that soup houses fad to provide for the.foodless and hungry.” : No longer can any Republican ever fool the people by claiming that “a republiean tariff has always been followed by business prosperity.” -The time has come—the hour has struck—for a change. Thousands of Republicans take their positions and will vote for Bryan in November.

Ee Revision. : It is an old-time Republican cry that “the tariff will be revised by its friends” Representative McCall of Massachusetts, a .Republican, hit the nail on the head when in referring to this ery he said! “If the tariff cannot be revised when two-thirds of the membership of both housés Is. Republican, when .is revision fo come?” ‘Revision, through the. Republican party, is to come whenever the beneficlaries of a high protective tariff ares willing to surrender the enormous advantages they possess; and this sur render will be made whenever human selfishness is destroyed.”

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Two years ago James E. Watson, now the Republican candidate for gov ernor, was a candidate for congress in the Sixth district, which he had represented(?) for several terms. His un: popularity in the district where he is best known will be seen from the official returns of the vote in the counties comprising the district, as the figures are set out on Page 9 of the “Abstract of Vote” issued by the secretary of state. Watson's vote is compared\ with that cast fpr Sims, Republican candidate for secretdry of state: Counties. < Watson. Sims. DBCATHF L. coiv v sesvanie 2000 - 2623 Fayette _......0 . 00. «2012 = 2007 Frankiin ... ... e IA~ 34T HAneotk .5:.......cuh5. o 28T %238 Henry .. ..... .o 0880 33811 Rush (His home county). 2,655 2,696 Bhelby ..... ..cciovaa. BRIV 163 ORlon .oi i . viisniis T 984 WAYRE ... hivasssu a 3 4803 = : 22,135 23,349 . Watson ran behind 5im5,..... 1,214 But this is not the worst of the case. The Sixth congressional district is heavily Republican. A comparison of Mr. Watson’s pluralities in the years 1904, when the attention of the people was attracted to national affairs, and 1906, when they took time to,look inte Watson's record, shows the following striking difference: - 5 1904—Watson’s p1ura1ity........ 7,043 1906—Watson’s p1ura1ity........ 1,506

AXohE of .....iiviiviinst van BT Mr. Watson saw the handwriting on the wall when he looked at this vote. It was a practical repudiation of him by the people who inew him best. Another race for congress meant his defeat. He appealed to the Republican state machine, which he had long served, to sav.é his political life by giving him the nomination for governor. The machine gave it to him.. And the ped ple now have a chance to finally repudiate both Watson and the machine which has bled the taxpayers for twelve years. @& i

-“ALL AGAINST WATSON.” At the annual meeting of the Indiana Federation of Labor at Vincennes last week the fact was developed that the Republican state. central committee, through ex-Congressman Cromer, of Muncie, had been at work trying to control the action of the federation. Many letters written by Cromer to delegates were exhibited in which he stated that he was writing at the request of the Republican -comvmittee and asked them to stand by James E. Watson. The federation, however, adopted a resolution reaffirming its opposition to Watson and degouhcing« Governor Hanly for calling the special session of the legislature. The Watson resolution contained the following statement: : o :

Notyithstanding the fact that it was pointed out to the leading Republican politicians of the state that the record of one of the candigates for the nomination for the office of governor was such that, if nominated by the Republican conygntion, he would be opposed at the polls, not only by the Indiana Federation of Labor, but by the railway organizations as well, the convention turned a deaf ear to our pleading and selected as its candidate a man who is responsible for the appointment of a member of the Citizens’ Alliance as the factory inspector of the state of Indiana, a. man who, as a member of congress, voted to annul the eight-hour clause of the Panama canal bill; who opposed the bill presented by the railway employes pertaining to their hours of labor and voted for one they did not want; a man who voted against the bill indorsed by the American Federation of Labor creating the :Department of Labor, the secretary-of which is to be a member of the cabinet; a man who is the personal and politieal friend of labor’s arch enemy, Joseph Cannon, speaker of the national house of representatives, and as “whip” of the house ig in accord with his prinolples and policies; in brief, the Republican convention nominated James B. Watson as its standard bearer over the protest of organized labor. * * We therefore recommend the reffirmation of our opposition to James E. Watson as announced at the Muncie convention last year and offer the following as our campaign slogan: “All against Watson.” .

AN AUDACIOUS 'AND INSOLENT PERFORMANCE. g (Springfield Republican.) ' “1f Mr. Sherman ever did anything In public life to attract national attention, prior to his nomination to the vice-presidency, it was his appeal to Harriman for campaign funds in 1908, as revealed by the President’s letter. Harriman at that time had not become.so notorious and so cbnoxious to the American people as he became somewhat later, yet his business character and political standing were as well understood in the autumn of 1906 by Republicans like Mr. Sherman as they are today. Taken in connection with the campaign fund publicity is‘sue, the Sherman nomination seems to be as audacious—we will not say insolent—a performance as the Republican party in these later years of its. history has been guilty of.” -

:00.oo¢oopogoaoooaoopdci96 e Living Cost—Wages, . $ Has cost of living increased § : faster than have wages? The @ e answer is found in the tollow-‘: : ing table of two lines: : ° . 'lncreasa. ¢ $ Cost of living .....49 per e2nt 3 : Voaßts. Lissiige e dd periceel @ e Frank W. Hitchcock, now g : ‘National Republican chairman, : o former first assistant postmas- ¢ S ter-general, recommended a $ * $5,000,000 increase in the com- @ e Densation of letter carriers, giv- : : ing as his reason that cost of : e living has materially increased. o : Salaries of senators and repre- : - 5X : sentatives were increased 50 per e e cent, and many speeches were : : made in both bodies to show : e that so heavy has been the in- ¢ $ crease .in living cost that the $§ ® raise in congressional salaries e : was necessary, lest only wealthy : : men be able to accept office in : e ecither branch of the congress. o s Need-any housewife be told . o these facts? lls there a head of e e 2 family who does not realize § © their truth? ® ° ® ° ° 000000600000000000000000009

- The Republican Party’s Own Answer. - In his address to the Republican national convention, Temporary Chair; ‘man Burrows referred to the Republican victory in 1904, and then asked: “In view of this indorsement, it becomes pertinent and ‘opportune to inquire, what has the Republican party done in the last four years of government control to forfeit public confidence or create distrust in its capace ity for future administration?” . For this question the Rochester (New York) Union and Advertiser finds a striking answer, This is the answer which the Union and Adver tiser takes out-of the mouth of Senator Burrows’ own party as stated in the Republican Platform of 1896; “In the broad effect of' its policy it has precipitated panic, blighted industry and trade with prolonged depression, *closed factories, reduced work and wages, halted gpterprise and crippled American production. Every consideration of public safety and individual interest demands that the government shall be rescued from' the hands of those who have shown themselves incable of conducting it without disaster.” .

:00000000000-c:ooooooooooo ® THE CHINESE QUESTION. E “ i Q $ Mr. Bryan says, “Keep the e e Chinese out.” Mr. Taft says, o e “Is it not the duty of members 5 ® of Congress and of the Execu- e : tive to disregard the unreason- : ® able demand of a part of the ® ° ; 7 : ° e community deeply prejudiced ¢ ¢ upon this subject in the far * e west, and insist upon extending e : justice and cburtesy to a peo- : : ple from whom we “are deriving o e and are likely to derive such im- § : mense benefit In the way of in- e o ternational trade.” IN OTHER o : WORDS TAFT SAYS LET THE : : CHINESE IN. 5 : 00000000000000000000000000

“May Be Reduced Fifty Per Cent.” On August 23, 1907, Mr. H. E. Miles, chairman of the tariff committee ot the National Association of Manufacturers, - wrote to Senator Foraker a letter in which Mr. Miles said: “About forty per cent of all the ‘members of our association who have by correspondence pronounced for revision declare in their letters .that their own schedules MAY PROPERLY BE REDUCED FIFTY PER CENT OR MORE WITHOUT HURT TO TI,-lEIR RESPECTIVE INDUSTRIES OR TO THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.” } ~ How exorbitant must be this preeious tariff fostered by the Republican party when even forty per cent of its beneficiaries, frightened by the rising tide jof public sentiment, admit that their" OWp schedules “may properly be reduced-fifty per cent or more without hurt to their Bespective industries, or to the country at large.” : If the common every-day experience of the consumers is not sufficient to awaken, Republican veters to the iniquity of the existing tariff system, surely the confession in the letter referred to ought at least to challenge attention and invite thoughtful investigation. »

DEMOCRATIC CLUBS ANI? SONGS. The . organization of Democratic clubs is proceeding at a tremendous rate throughout the state. There are Bryan and Kern clubs, Marshall clubs, Business Men's clubs, Traveling Men’s clubs, 30-Cent clubs, Early Voters clubg, Young Men’s clubs—and just plain Democratic clubs. Every man in every one of them has énllsteq for the campaign. Never in any previous campaign for a generation has there been such unity and enthusiasm. B means work, votes and victory. ‘And besides, it should not be forgotten that there are glee clubs, whose duty it is to add to the pleasures of the campaign and swell the . general enthusiasm. Fred T. Loftin of Indianapolis has issued a Democratic campaign song book, down to date, and s 6 has Vincent P. Kirk of Plymouth, and nobody need lack for good Democratic musie. Let the welkin ring.

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BALLOON ST, LOUIS 'OCCUPANTS OF GORDON BENNETT ~ CUP COMPETITOR RESCUED BY SCHOONER.. OTHER AERIAL CRAFT MEET WITH MISHAPS _Some' Descend In Water, Others Connect with Dry Land—Wireless Message from Lightship Tells of Disaster to Amerlcan Contestant. Berlin>™Oct. 14.—A wireless message received here Tuesday from Arnold, the conductor of the St. Louis balloon in the Gordon Bennett race, says: ~ “Lost everything in the North sea.” Another dispatch received here says that the St. Louis sank in the ‘North sea and that its occupants were rescued by a schooner. The balloon St. Louis, in charge of M. Henry Arnold, left Berlin on Sunday in the international cup contest. It was sighted Monday morning at 10:50 o’clock from Calau, moving in a southwesterly dfrection. ' It is the second American balloon to meet with an accident. The Conqueror blew up at an altitude of 4,000 feet immediately after the start, and the two oeccupants had a miraculous escape from death. The Spanish balloon Montanes, another contestant, came to ‘grief ‘Monday morning over Saxony, ‘but the pilot and his assistant reached the ground without sustaining injury. ~ Fog Confuses Navigators. - It is believed here that the fog prevented Mr. Arnold and. Mr. Howitts who accompanied him, from seeing the water and that they were blown out to sea without knowing where they were going. The Belgian balloon Utopia landed at nine o’clock Monday evening near Cuxhaven, within 500 yards of the beach. :

The German Koeln landed Tuesday on the Island of Norrstrand, and the German Pegnitz came down at dawn Tuesday about 200 yards from the water near Bremerhaven, These airships left Berlin Monday in the endurance contest, fourth class. Half a dozen others-have come down close to the sea. ~ Wireless from Lightship. - The wireless message from Arnold was sent from tHe lightship off Heligoland. i f : ; The schooner that picked up the balloonists is the pilot boat Wangeroog: So far as is known the two men have not yet been landed. The Amerika 11, with Capt, McCoy and Mr. Voghmann on board, landed safely near Cuxhaven Tuesday afternoon. 7 " The Princess Victoria’s German bal loon dropped in the harbor of Ottermdorf Tuesday. The occupants, Milarch and von Roedert, swam aghore. : Triple Wreck at Buffalo, N. Y. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 13.—Three trains were wrecked in the New York Central yards near the Black Rock station Monday night. - A yard engine with a string of cars attached, a freight train coming into the city and Michigan Central passenger train No. 3, were in the mix-up, which resulted in the fatal injury of only one man, John W. Kinney, engineer of the switch engine, who was caught between the tender and boiler.

- Warships to Samos. ' Saloniki, Européan Turkey, Oct. 14. —The Turkish cruiser Meijidieh and three torpedo boats arrived here Monday and proceeded on their voyage to the Island of Samos, Samos ' lies about 40 miles southwest of Smyrna,” whieh is in Asia Minor. It is the nearest Grecian island to the Turkish coast and pays an annual tribute to Turkey.

Big Lumber Mill Destroyed. .- Seattle, Wash., Oct. 14.—A special from Blaing, Wash., says: The Jenkins mill plant, ‘one of the largest lumber mills in the northwest, caught fire Monday night and was almost completely destroyed. - The losg is estimated at abohit $500,000.

;7R e E 5 BRITAIN SEEKS TO INFLUENCE TURKEY AGAINST WAR. May Not Oppose Bulgarian Inde pendence, But Compensation May Be Asked—Troops to Be Kept. Londbn, Oct. 14.—Foreign Secretary Grey and M. Iswolsky, Russian minister of foreign affairs, spent Tuesday in telegraphic correspondence with the capitals of BEuropé regarding the forthcoming conference of the powers to settle the near-eastern question. Details of this meeting, however, have not been arrangéd. . : In falling in with the proposals of M. Iswolsky Great Britain has acted with the concurrence of Turkey. If Turkey takes Britain’s advice, she will accept the independence of Bulgaria and the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovnia as accomplished. facts, and ask for compensation. e The report circulated Tuesday that the’ powers are considering handing over the Sandjak of Novipaza® in European Turkey, to Servia, and _the statement frem Paris that Bulgaria has given Turkey three days to recognize her independence, are not credited. i oA

Sofia, Oct. 14—There is no cloud on the Bulgarian horizon in the official view here of events that have occurred since the proclamation of Bulgarian independence by Prince Ferdinand October b. The government is convinced that the chancellories of Eu‘ope will take a more favorable view >f Bulgaria’s action as soon as the langer of \g_general conflagration is

The troops now under arms, includ‘~='the reserves recently called . out, ~2ch a total of 120,000 men. They ™1 keep under the colors for another “onth. The guards on the frontier =7O been given stringent instructions ‘0 keep well within the territorial lim‘t¢ of the new kingdom and to avoid ~shing with the Turks. 3 ‘The illness of Prince Boris, eldest son of King Ferdinand, is the reason for the absence of members of the royal family from the festivities in Sofia in connection with the king's triumphant entry into -his |capital. Prince Boris goes under the title of czarevitch in Bulgaria.:

JAPANESE KILL 22 KOREANS.

Affair Kept Quiet—Marquis Ito Holds Conference. Seoul, Oct. 14.—1 t has just been learned that:22 members of the ‘Il chinhoi,” . the pro-Japanese organization of Korea, were killed by Japanese gendarmes at Choladox. The affair has been Kept quiet, but has occasioned much uneasiness because it might be considered as a ruthless slaughter of unoffending Koreans by the Japanese soldlers and calculated to confirm previous reports of unnecessary cruelty practiced by the Japanese in Korea. . b - ‘The matter has been reported by Marquis Ito, resident general of Korea, whe is now in Tokyo. : Advices ffom Tokyo state that Marquis Ito hag held conferences with Premier Katsura and Viscount Terauchi, minister of war, and it is understood that a cabinet council will be called to consider the-question and decide upon the future action to be taken. { e

" Rumors of Disagreement. Rome, Oct. 14—The rumors of the breaking off of the supposed engagement between the duke of Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins cannot be traced to any authoritative source, neither court officials, government circles, the Vatican authorities nor the personnel of the United States embassy having the slightest information on the subject. : 1L

Warrant for Bank President. Pittsburg, Pa., O@i§ 14—A warrant was issued Tuesday for the arrest of R. K. Eissan, president of the Farmers™ and Merchants’ bank of Mft: Pleasant, Pa,, charged with misapplying $50,000 'of the bank’'s. funds. Charles E. Mullen, former cashier, was arrested in conneotion with the same charge, when the institution failed a year ago, - : .

~ The current number of the Indiana Hulletin of Charities and Correction, tssued by the’lndiana Board of State é;'ﬂlil’-‘ities,‘ contams a report for the ‘nine months ending June 30, 1908, the figures relating to the institutions under the supervision of the board, ineluding the four hospitals for the insane, the school for feeble-minded, the snldiers’ home, soldiers’ and Sailers’ orphans’ home, the village fé_r. epileptics, the stateischools for the deaf and for the blind and the five penal and _correctional Qfﬁs‘ﬁtuﬁons\ : ‘The maintenance expenses of these institutions’ for the mine months make a total of $1,392,304.52, divided as follows: : SALARIES AND WAGES.S 517,778.41 Subsistence-. ... ......... 384327.33 Clothings ... 0. .... 63,580:70 OFFICE, DOMESTIC AND - - . OUTDOQR EXPENSES. 357,114.81 Ordinary repairs '........ 69,5603.27 2SA S g Pothk ...\ vy oiser . oo $1,392,304.52 * The above ﬁgurés are rather striking. They show that for nine months "ot this year the state has paid on account of the ahove named institutions the sum of $874,893.22 for salaries, wages, offige, etc., expenses, while in the same. time there was pdid for food and clothing for all of the state’s ‘eharges ,they sum of $447,908.03. In other WOrds, only half as much money was spent for.‘tl}e inmates of the institutions as was spent in the way of salaries, etc. Did the inmates.get too little or the officials too much?

STANDARD OIL WORKING FOR : TAFT. S ~ The trusts and monopoliés are working with all their might for Taft and Sherman. The Standard Oil company i.jas busy as the rest of them. The followinig article, which ‘is reproduced from the Gary ‘quning Times, a Taft paper, which printed it under big headlines, shows one line along which the Standard is working: : e s (Special to The Times.) : Whiting, ilnd., Sept. 14.— Positive declarations have been adduced that the Standard Oil company, victims of Judge Landis’ $29,000,000 fine, will support the republican candidates for national office in this year’s campaign. The information was received yester day by a Times representative ’Lfr:om a reliable source and is absolutely of the utmost importance to local office-seek-ers as it gives them the assurance that they may be carried into power on the strength of the national ticket, at least. Receive Literature. : For several weeks, oflice employes of the Standard Oil company at Whiting have received the issues of Harper’s Weekly, oné of the dominant republican papers of the year. Articles of unusual strength, advocating the Taft-Sherman platform and denoupo—ing Wattersonian ideas as advanced by Mr. Bryan have appeared weekly. The campaign waged by the Harper company has been virile in the extreme and will influence its readers to a miarked degree. ; There has been no charge made for these papers and the recipients have often refused to accept them from the postoffice, believing that they will some day receive a bill for the subscription. ot B

& Weeklies Gift of Company. Investigation at the Chicago postal headquarters, through which the Harper magazines pass, revealed the fact that the weeklies are the gift of the Standard Oil company, who have paid a year’s subscription in advance for upward of 200 of their employes. The method of campaign managing has been ‘kept very secret until diseovered by The Times representative and is a new one in political circles. It is believed that other corporations will follow the example of the oil interests and elect their candidates by the distribution of such sensible campaign lterature as that produced by the Harper company. ] :

Labor in Politics. . . [Evansville Advocate (Labor.)] ~ There is a plank in the platform of the Democratic party of such vital interest, not only to the trade wunions of the United States, but to all those who labor that too much importance cannot be attached to it. : In the event of the election of the Democratic party in. November labor, for the first time in the history of this unien, will have a bureau solely to look after its interests. It will be dignified by a labor man-being made a cabinet .officer, a man of practical knowledge of conditions in the labor world, a man- who will be a member of the president’s advisory family. " This very essential point has been heretofore completely ignored by Republican administrations, who hayve ‘seemingly felt that labor was not entitled fo-distinet and individual recognition. This is but further evidence of the sincerity of William Jennings Bryan when he announces as his slogan ‘“Let the People Rule.” - -~ | The great wealth producers of this gountry surely are entitled to this much recognition. Capital is important, but the man whose efforts have ‘made this capital surely is entitled to greater recognition in the conduect of the affairs of this United States than he has heretofore recelved. .

- REPUBLICANS AND MONEY. . Collier’s ‘Weekly has a_significant editorial in its issue of August 23 entitled, - “The Republicans ~ and Money.” It is given herewith: - “The election and subsequent death of Mr. Taft would mean the occupancy of the White House by an official fat-fryer who has during several years past approached, with deferential hat in hand, the president or treasurer of most of the large corporations in the country. It was in the course of this official function that ‘Sherman was profanely turned down by Mr. Harriman, with bitter denun'ctat;ion of the Republican-party and reeking messages for the head of that party, that the party and the head of it had not been grateful for the $250,000 which Mr. Harriamn collected and which Mr. Harriman collected and gave in 1904, Penrose, as one of the ‘executive committee of nine which is to do the actual work of the Republican campaign, is in error of taste and judgment but not a great geal worse. With T. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware, however, the case differs. Among the combinations now being prosecuted by the Federal Government is that aggregation of companies known as the Powder Trust. Mr. Du | Pont is ptjesident of the fifty million dollar Du Pont Powder Company, ‘president of the ten million dollar International Powder Company, director of -the International Smokeless Powder Company, and vice-president of the holding company, the Delaware Securities Company, which owns a majority of the stock of the Laflin ‘& Rand Powder Company. Suppose that Mr. aft, being successful, should be approached by Mg. Du Pont thus: ‘I am one of the ten men, including Chairman Hitchcock, who- have put you over the platé. I don’t want to be reminding you continually of the obligation; there is one small piece of patronage I sheuld like, and I shan’t speak to you about patronage again during your administration. There is a deserving young friend of mine whom I should like to have appointed to the position lately held by Mr. Purdy, in charge of that bureau of the Department of Justice which is seeking to break up my company, deprive me of seme of my property, and declare me a violator of the law? Someefhing analogous would have been the presence of Harry Thaw two years ‘ago on a committee of ten-to collect funds and promote the election of Jerome as - district attorney. "A -minority plank, calling for a statute providing for publicity of campaign expenditures,- was thrown out of the committee on resolutions by a vote of 52 tol 1, and was rejected on the floor of the convention by a vote of 880 to 94—Nebraska and Idaho and parts of Wisconsin and Indiang favoring it, The amount of Bourbonism still left in the Republican party is far too large.” s Crra “The People do rule,” says Sher man, the candidate of the trusts for Vice-President. The truth is that a bill introduced for the protection of the rights of the people canpot even be voted on in the house where Cannon and Sherman rule the roost, - 1

Tt is bad enough that under the dictation of the speaker and his Committee on Rules; labor bills are strangled and not permitted to come to a vote. But. worse than-that, if possible, is the fact that the Speaker py‘cks committees so that bills that he does not like cannot even get a heartxfg, but are strangled in committees by direction of the Speaker. The people are up in arms all aver the country, and Anti-Cannonism is growing in popularity. : 5 s e j_-._. -.-:.........—?'-.a—-_- - — -..a-:

THE REPUBLICAN SANDBAGGER. ‘' Judge F. S. Roby of the Appellate court, is not a candidate for'election this year, as his term will not expire yntil January, 1911. Biit the Republican state committee nevertheless levied a $2OO assessment upon him for camphign purposes. Judge Roby did not pay it, as he denied the right of the committee to- make the assessment, Then he received a letter from George T. Dinwiddie, vice chairman of the committee, which said: “These assessments have been put into my bhands for collection, and if I do not hear from you by return mail I will have to come and see you personally, as they must be paid. Of all the state officials and judges there are only one or two, besides yourself, who have not paid, and they will have tc pay, so kindly give this your immediate attention, as we are very busy and do not care to have to bother you in this matter. As I said before, If Ido not hear from you by return mail I will have to see you personally. Kindly send us your check at once, a 8 these. assessments are just and will have to be pald”-. = . ' In reply to the letter Judge Roby repudiated the claim of the commit tee and ended his letter to Dinwiddie as follows: el . “I have not the distinguished honor of a personal acquaintance with you. I note the effect which you attribute to a personal interview and will endeavor to avoid holding that interview in a dark place or on a back street.” oY e | Disagreements about money and “morals” are making a lot of trouble in the Republican camp this year.

“REGUBLIGAN EXTRAVAGANCE. The Republican state committee Is Issuing documents and sending “plate” ‘matter to Republican papers attempt‘thg to show that there has beeh mo ‘unnecessary increase in expenses and ?ﬁo increase in taxation under Repub‘lican management. We give the rate ~of state taxation for 1896—the last - :year of Claude Matthews’ adminis‘tration as governor, and that of the last year- available—l9o7—Governor “Hanly’s administration: - : : . 1896—Democratic. - Benevolent and reformatory....s 5 setatedeld Nivt 3 FAUoaHomll: o\ il I 8 Slate- i ol i b io i D State School . vaieceinocenses A 1 o 1507—Republican. Benevolent and reformatory ..$ 5 Educational ....... eoooooode. 234 SERLE Ll R e D State school syevuensecionese.. 136 We speak of the administration of - Claude Matthews as Democratic because he was governor and in 1896 we had'l_,had only one Republican legisiat;}lfé, which mérely continued the Democratic policy in vogue up to that ‘time. : ‘ ; Observe that in 1896 three cents of the 2923 went toward paying the state debt, and that there is no such levy in 1907." Under the operation of the Democratic law- for its payment we now have no levy for that purpose; . - but the Republicans, instead of reducing taxation as the debt and interest was being paid, have increased taxation. = 5 : e They have not only increased the rate, but the total taxables as compared with the Democratic penod, - have been enormously increased. The Republicans apply their levy of over - 33 cents to $472,709,072 more taxables than the Democrats had for the application of their levy of 2923. So the full Story of excessive taxation is not teld in the rate above. « . : : ~ To illustrate the increased cost of government we present the following record of disbursements: e 1894—Democratic. Stateand general fund (in- ~ cluding $§47,088 applied on state debt) ...............$2,787,267 ’ 1906—Republican. State and general fund (no - ' ~ payment on state debt)...55,093,265 z —Rockville Tribune.

THE STEEL TRUST OPENS i REPUBLICAN GAMPAIGN. _The Ohio Republicans opened their campaign at Youngstown and made a -display through-the:aid of the steel trust. Speaking of the ‘meeting the Cincinnati Enquirer said: : . The commanding feature of the day was the parade that preceded the speaking in Wick Park. There were a few over 12,000 men in line. Of these more than 10,000 came from the steel mills which form the chief and almost the sole industry of the city and suburbs. They were the employes of the Republic Iron and Steel company, the Youngstown Sgéet and Tube company, and the United States Steel corporation, better known as the steel trust. Supplied with uniforms gt the expense of these companies, the toilers presented a striking appearance as they ‘marched past the reviewing stand. Because of the opening a shut-down of the mills was ordered until next Monday and the occasion made a holiday. But few of these workers attended the meeting in Wick Park. This was easily seen by the lack of uniforms in the crowd. #Probably not over one-tenth of the turnout came to hear the speeches. e =0 ' The same account also says. this: ~ One of the unusual incidents occurred when the parade halted at the Elks’ Club. Someone called for a cheer for Taft. Out of the uniformed ranks in response came a roaring shout for Bryan and the column moved on. e So it seems that the steel trust may not be able to delivér the votes that it has promised for Taft. -

~Mr. Hearst and his candidate for president; Mr. Hisgen, stopbed in Indianapolis last Thursday. After a conSultation with Mr. Neal and Mr. Isherwood, they resolved themselves into one state and several congressional conventions and made'a few tickets. Afterward Hearst made a speéch ina theater to a considerable audience—composed mostl§' of Republicans—who were curious to see what a man who is worth a hundred millions and is the sole proprietor of a whole “party,” looks like. Mr. Hearst put in most of his time abusing Bryan—a fact which will strengthen Mr. Bryan in the estimation of the public. Hearst and his employes boast that they are in the game “to beat Bryan,” but the fact that they are against him will cause a large majority of the really decemt people to be for him. No Democrat will even think of giving any sort of aid or comfort to such a political adventurer as Heaxst. = -