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Eastern Political Situation.
An Associated proas dispatch from
New York, undor date of October 2,
glVes an Interesting rovlow of the po
litical situation in that section. It Is
roportod that conventions woro hold
In the congressional districts within
the boundaries of tho boroughs of
Manhattan, tho Bronx and Richmond,
The nominations follow:
RepublicanEighth district, Mon
tague Lesalpr, renominated; Ninth,
convention adjourned; Tenth, con
vention adjourned; . Eleventh, Henry
Blrroll; Twelfth, Charles Shongood;
Thirteenth, James W. Perry; Four
toonth, convention adjourned; Fif
teenth, William H. Douglas, ronomi
natod; Sixteenth, convention ad
journed; Seventeenth, Harvey T. An
drews; Eighteenth, Frank 0. Shaof
fer. Democratic Eighth district, State
Senator Timothy D. Sullivan; Ninth,
Henry M. Goldfoglo, renominated;
Tenth, William Sulzer, renominated;
Eleventh, William R. Hearst; Twolfth,
Georgo D. McClollan, renominated;
Thirteenth, convention adjourned;
Fourteenth, Ira F. Ryder; Fifteonth,
convention adjourned; Sixteenth, Ja
cob Ruppert, jr., renominated; Sov
ontoonth, Francis E. Shober; Eigh
teenth, convention adjourned.
Interest in tho nominations cen
BRIEF POLITICAL NEWS.
A reader of Tho Commoner at Red
mond, Wash., writes as follows: At
tho King county democratic conven
tion hold at Seattle, Wash., on Sep
tember 5, a number of rcorganizers
draftod a platform- which uttorly
ignored the one adopted at Kansas
City In 1900, and attempted to secure
its adoption. But tho country dole
gates woro "watchful, and In selecting
their members of tho platform com
mittee, Instructed them to work for tho
adoption of a resolution reaffirming
tho Kansas City platform. When tho
committeo -et and the resolution was
proposed it mot with "strenuous" op
position from tho corporation demo
crats, but they were In tho minority
and the resolution was adopted. They
also protested against the platform as
it passed the committee, when it was
presented to tho convention for rati
fication, but their efforts were of no
avail. When tho voto was taken such
a loud, earnest and enthusiastic "aye"
burst forth that the reorganizes could
not muster courage enough to volun
teer oven ono feeble little "no."
Democrats all over the United States
could profitably take a lesson from the
action of the country democrats of
King county. Had they not instructed
their members of the platform com-
mlffon no -Hinv trt it- ia "flnllo-ra t-n
m.orGSL in mo uomiimuons cen- ' - --w "-, uwmnu w
tered in that to bo mado in tho Elev- doughnuts" that tho reorganlzers
n .ii.ui.i i 1 1. i j. i I wmilM ritivn nncaori -rioi riln-lVirrt
entii district oy tno ucniocrum uecuuuu
the Tammany leaders had announced
early in tho day that William S. Dev
ory,and his loaders would not be aK
lowod seats In tho convention. Dovery
on hearing this, sent an emissary to
the hall. He threatened mandamus
proceedings ana said if it was too late
for this method of attack ho would
attack tho legality of tho convention
proceedings if a nomination was made
With6UtTtiC6gnizinghim and 'his asso
ciates. Before the convention Secre
tary Smith of Tammany announced
that the leaders recognized the legal
ity of tho election of the Dovery dele
gates and thr1: moy would be given
seats.
Tho nomination went by acclama
tion to William Randolph Hearst, edi
tor and proprietor of tho New York
Journal. He was placed in nomina
tion by Former State Senator T. C.
O'Sulllvan and William S. Devery
made a speech seconding the nomina
tion. In the Eighth district, where- Perry
Belmont was thought to be tho only
candidate, State Senator Sullivan was
would havo passed their platform
through tho committee.
Nominations of September 11 were
as' follows:
Dubuque, la. Ex-Governor Boies of
Waterloo was formally nominated for
congress by the Third district con
vention tonight.
Manchester, N. H. The democratic
convention hero nominated for con
gressman in the First district Albert
S. Langley of Exeter.
Evarts, Mich. The Third district
democrats today nominated Dr. J. J.
ravis of Lake City for congress.
New Philadelphia W. B. Stephens,
a lawyer of Cincinnati, was nominated
for congress by the republicans of the
Seventeenth Ohio district.
Cedar Rapids, la. Sam B. Wright of
Tipton, who was nominated for con
gress by the democrats of tho Fifth
Iowa district, probably will decline tho
nomination. A committeo will be ap
pointed to fill tho vacancy it he should
decline.
Oxford, Cal. The republicans of the
nominated. ThlB waB done by tho ul" uaiuorumuwu-wi wuuy uouu
jolnlng of bands of Ue Richmond bor- n,ateLM- ,J, D.anAel? for cone83 on
ougn aeiegates ana tnoso lea oy Mr.
Sullivan.
Tho candidates nominated represent
constituencies formed under a redis
ricting of New York county.
A special election will bo held to
fill the vacancy in the old Tenth dis
trict, which was represented by Amos
J. Cummings, deceased.
tho fifty-ninth ballot
Denver, Colo. The republicans of
the First Colorado district today nom
inate 1 Robert W. Bonynge for congress.
r An Impious Doctrino.
. President Baer of tho coal trust de
clares ho and his associates tfre tho
trustees of Providence in the manage
ment of their property, and they no
doubt protend to believe Indeed, may
sincerely believe that their course has
the approval of the Almighty. Here
we have property worship impiously
confounded with the worship of God,
In a doctrino of industrial tyranny
which tho great mass of the American
people have rebuked, but which they
havo not yet found tho means to
abate.
Talk about tho pretense of the dt
. ylno right of kings It is but tho make
believe of children compared with tho
assumption of tho divine right of prop
erty which, ir thus declared with the
earnestnessv of fanaticism. Jonlln
(Mo.) Daily Globe.
Nominations for congress in Mis
souri, so far as made, are as follows:
First district, James T. Lloyd, demo
crat, Shelbyville; L. T. Robinson, re
publican, Unlonvllle; Second, W. W.
Ruckor, democrat, Keytesvllle; Third,
John Dougherty, democrat, Liberty;
R. E. Ward, republican, Birmingham;
Fourth, Chas. F. Cochran, democrat,
St Joseph; M. A. Reed, republican, St
Joseph; Fifth. W. S. Cowherd, demo
crat, Kansas City; Sixth, David A. De
Armond, democrat, Butler; J. B. Lind,
sey, republican, Lockwood; Seventh,
C. W. Hamlin, democrat, Springfield;
G. P. Pealo, republican, Springfield;
Eighth, D. W. Shackleford, democrat,
Jefferson Cltrj'Dr. I. N. Enloe, repub
lican, Jefferson City; Ninth, Champ
Clark, democrat, Bowling Green; Dr.
Alonzo Tubbs, republican, Canan;
Tenth, Richard Bartholdt, republican,
St. Louis; Thirteenth, Edward Robb.
democrat, Perryvillo; John H.-Raney,
republican, Greenville; Fourteenth,.
W. D. Vandlver, democrat, Capo Gir
ardeau; H. P. Kinsolving, republican,
Maiden; Fifteenth, M. E. Benton,- dem
ocrat, Neosho; Theo. Lecoff, r.epubll-7
can, Nevada; Sixteenth, Robert Lamar,
democrat, Houston; B. F. Russell, re
publican, Stcelvllle.
Nominations for congressman tho city
of Chicago havo been made as fol
lows": Martin M. Madden, republican
1st district; Martin Eriierich, demo
crat, 1st; James R. Mann, republican
2nd; Frank Brust, democrat,. 2ndb; W.
O. Wilson, republican, 3rd; Dan Mprr
gan Smith, jr., democrat, 3rd; Georgo
P. Foster, democrat, 4th; James Mc-
Andrews, democrat, 6th; William.
Lormler, republican, 6th; Allan C. Dur
borow, democrat, 6th; Phillip Knopf,
republican, 7th; John M. Hess, demo
crat, 7th; William F. Mahony, demo
crat, 8th; H. S. Boutell, republican,
9th; James J. Darden, democrat, 9th.
Other Illinois congressional nomi
nations are as follows: Howard M.
Snapp, republican, Joliet, 11th district;
James O. Monroe, democrat, Bloom
Ington, 11th; Chas. Fuller, republican,
Belvidere, 12th; Jullian R. Stewart,
democrat, Piano, 12th; R. R. Hitt, re
publican, Mt Carroll, 13th; Lewis
Dicks, democrat, Freeport, 13th; B.
F. Marsh, republican, Warsaw, 14th;
Thomas R. Marshall, democrat, Keiths
burg, 14th; Georgo W. Prince, repub
lican, 15th; Jonas Olsen, democrat,
Galva, 15th; J. V. Graff, republican,
Peoria, 16th; John M. Nlehaus, demo
crat, Peoria, 16th; John A. Sterling,
r jublican, Bloomington, 17th; Z. F
Yost, democrat, Pontiac, 17th; Jos.
Cannon, republican, Danville, 18th;
Henry C. Bell, democrat, Marshall,
18th; Vespaslau Warner, republican,
Clinton, 19th; Wilber B. Hinds, demo
crat, Mattoon, 19th; Henry F. Rainey,
democrat, Carrollton, 20th; Ben. F.
Caldwell, democrat, Chatham, 21st;
W. A. Roderberg, republican, East St.
Louis, 22nd; Fred Kern, democrat,
Belleville, 22nd; Jos. B. Crowley, Rob
inson, 23rd; Pleasant Chapman, repub
lican, Vienna, 24th; J. R. Williams,
democrat, Carmi, 24th; Geo. W. Smith,
republican, Murphy sboro, 25th; James
Lingle, democrat, Jonesboro, 25th.
Judge H. P. Birdsall of Clarion, Ia
was nominated for congress by the
Third district republican convention
i September 25. This Is the district
at present represented by Speaker
David B. Henderson, who recently de
clined a renomination.
With the Paragraphers.
Mr. Baer'a foolish remarks have
made him more notorious than hU
wrong doing. Memphis vNews.
-The Commoiieivtlk-of,- "republican
iloglc." We 'did-, not; know that that
brand- of- logic existed. Memphis
News.
What, the republican vneod most la
.somebody,, who can tell them now to
reform the tariff, without changing It
Memphis Scimitar.
"Tho people make the. issues' said
John P. 'Altgdld. The-people are mak
ing tho'trust-breedlng. tariff an Issuo.
If you don't belieyerlt askSpeakor
Henderson. Springfield (111.) Repub
lican It is to be hoped that President
Roosevelt will not repeat the rude but
eloquent bon mot of Bob Cousins re
garding the Iowa platform. Bob de
nounced it as a "dirty, lousy He."
Johnstown Democrat
President Roosevelt's attitude to
ward the trusts is much like tho atti
tude of a prize-fighter posing for a
photograph. He never moves for fear
of spoiling the picture. Indianapolis
Sentinel.
Every time a gold democrat gets a
place on a democratic ticket the re
publicans rejoice with as much acclaim
as though one of their own were
chosen because that is what it means
in tho end. Columbus Press.
Mr. Henderson says that the coun
try at large does not understand the
Iowa situation. It is just possible that
the speaker does not know any more
than the people of whom he speaks
sd disparagingly. Buffalo Times.
Roosevelt should lose no time ex
plaining to Mr. Littlefield that his
urgent appeal to Speaker Henderson
to continue in the service of the trusts
was only another sporadic eruption
of words which he did not propose to
back up by deeds. Columbus Press.
Mr. Roosevelt after all Is not right
up to date. If he were ho would hast
en to get a patent on that unique
invention of 'his to the. effect that
there is no connection between the
tariff and trusts. Johnstown Democrat.
On September 18 Col. Lewis Perrlno
was nominated for congress by the
democrats of the Fourth New Jersey
district
Anthony C. Daly of Marshalltown,
la., has been nominated by the demo
crats of the Fifth Iowa district for
congress and will contest tho re-election
of Robert G. Cousins, the repub
lican' nor' iee.
Kansas City. The republicans of
the Fifth Missouri district today nom
inated Robert T. Vanhorn for 'congress.
Associated press dispatches under
date of September 9 contain the fol
lowing: Denver, Colo. Congressman John F.
Shafroth, who has been classed as a
silver republican, was tonight nomi
nated for re-election by the democrats
of the First district by a vote of 126
to 109 for Clay B. Whltford of Denver
Columbia, S. C Reports from the
primaries received so far, show As
berry C. Latimer leading Evans for
the sehate by 10,000, and D. C. Hey
ward leading Talberfc for gpvernor by
7,000. Both certainly are elected.
O Joy, O Joy!
Her pretty face was wreathed In
smiles,
Her eyes danced with delight,
And now and then she sweetly sighed,
Her gladness was too great to hide,
Endeavor as she might.
"My child, my child," her mother cried,
"What fills you with such glee?
I .see you smiling all the day,
What Is It makes you joyous? Pray
, Keep not tho truth from me."
"My heart Is glad," the maid replied,
"And joy Is in my soul,
Because" she heaved a happy sigh
"Last night he fondly told me I
Was worth my weight in coal."
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Henderson Idea.
Dave Henderson is so wedded to the
tariff-bred trusts that he declines re
election to congress because his party
in Iowa favors a revision of tho tariff.
Henderson is one of the fellows who
Is firmly convinced that the only way
the people can prosper Is through the
process of taxing themselves rich for
the benefit of the trusts. Joplln (Mo.)
Daily Globe.
5peak up r-
Will papers which pretend to be
democratic be so cood as to specify
what issues o2v tbnsas City.ljlat-
i.uiui mo uui HO WW
uoiumbus Press.
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