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iBell of Vermont a telegram saying
rthat if this woman was hanged the
M31ark family desired that Admiral
Clark's picture be turned to the wall.
' A jury at Waco, Texas, found a ne
,gro guilty of assault and fixed his term
of punishment to confinement in the
jjtate prison for 1001 years.
United States Senator Mitchell is on
trial at Portland, Oregon, charged
with land frauds. Former Judge Al
bert H. Tanner, a former partner of
Senator Mitchell has given damaging
testimony against him.
District Attorney Jerome has asked
for a grand jury investigation into the
acts of the officers and directors of the
Equitable Life Assurance society. He
insists upon the distribution of all the
profits received from the syndicate
transactions of "James II. Hyde and
associates," as well as all money lost
to stockholders through wasteful management.
Washington has been agreed upon
as the place for the peace conference.
President Roosevelt has appointed a
committee of five to recommend im
proved methods of transacting the
public business in the various depart
ments at the national capitol.
James W. Alexander, president, and
'James H. Hyde, vice-president, of the
Equitable Life Assurance society,
have resigned and their resignations
have been accepted.
An examination of the estate of B.
H. Gaskill, a Philadelphia banker, re
vealed forgeries which have resulted
in a loss of nearly one million dollars.
New York capitalists have entered
into a contract for the erection of
what is to be known as
building in the world" in
city.
"the tallest
New York
S.
crat,
P. Sheerin, a well known demo
suddenly died in Chicago.
Russia has agreed to August 1 as
the date for the Washington peace conference.
during last winter, "by expenditure of
large sums of money, the company de
feated the passage of a bill in the Illi
nois legislature intended to permit the
manufacture of binder twine in penal
and reformatory institutions." It is
further declared that "it has been the
practice of the company ever since its
organization to expend large sums in
corruptly influencing legislation in
Illinois and elsewhere."
The corporation's managing direc
tors are charged with being responsi
ble for these tactics. The bill sets
forth that $8,000 was expended in 1903
In defeating the passage of a bill by
the legislature of Kansas bearing- on
alleged contracts between the Inter
national Harvester company and its
agents. In the same year, it is
charged, money was used corruptly to
kill a measure in the South Dakota
legislature providing for the establish
ment of a binder twine factory in
the prison at Sioux Falls. Mrs. Swift
also charges that the managing direc
tors of the corporation paid to cer
tain labor leaders $15,000 for the pur
pose of terminating a strike.
Congressman Rainey's Plain Talk
James Dalrymple, the Glasgow trac
tion expert invited by Mayor Dunne of
Chicago, has returned to his home.
His report to Mayor Duime will be
mailed from Glasgow.
Secretary of State Hay has returned
to Washington after an absence of
several months. His health is greatly
improved.
' Cablegrams announce that the feel
ing in Stockholm against King Oscar
is intense owing to the king's pacific
attitude.
Paul Morton has retired from Mr.
Roosevelt's cabinet and is succeeded as
secretary of the navy by Charles J.
Bonaparte.
Attorney uenerai Moouy nas ren
dered an opinion in which he upholds
the contention of the secretary of the
interior that the latter's signature Is
necessary to validate patents for
lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations in Indian territory.
Henry T. Rainey of Illinois recently
delivered two speeches In New York.
One speech was delivered at the Jef
ferson day banquet given by the Dem
ocratic club of New York city, at the
Waldorf-Astoria. On the preceding
night Mr. Rainey spoke at the Jeffer
son day banquet given by the Harlem
Democratic club. It will be remem
bered that Judge Parker spoke at the
Waldorf banquet, and those who re
member Judge Parker's speech may be
interested in reading extracts from
Mr. Rainey's speeches.
Extracts from Mr. Rainey's Waldorf,
speech follow:
Democrats no longer blindly follow
even that greatest ot all party leaders
whose memory we honor here tonight.
The interesting question now is not
what Jefferson said one hundred years
ago but what would Jefferson do if
confronted with present conditions.
fof the United States. -Ruf tun .,...
crats who do the voting staved at
home or refused to vote. The' demo.
cratlc party Is nothing if u ib not
radical and progressive. The impres
sion had gone out that the party was
being made a reflex of the republican
party. It was not a democratic de
feat It was a democratic default
The varied uses of steam and elec
tricity have not changed and never
can change natural laws and the bet
ter methods of transmitting intel
ligence which have been so generally
adopted In the last two or three years
have not changed and can never
change that human law which prevails
In all free governments where men
are permitted to think and speak for
themselves and which always divides
the people into two great parties.
Jefferson did not invent any new
theories. He simply crystalized Ideas
that have existed since the dawn of
time. Writing to John Adams in 1831
Jefferson said: "Men have differed In
opinion and been divided into parties
by the opinions from the first origin
of societies and in all governments
where they have been pern.itted freely,
to think and to speak." The same po
litical parties which now agitate the
United States have existed through all
time.
Sweden has asked the riksdag for
authority to treat with the Norwegian
government in the effort to bring
about a peaceable separation of Swe
den and Norway.
.- The members of the Spanish cabinet
have resigned and their resignations
have been accepted by King Alphonso.
The United Norwegian Lutheran
church convention at Minneapolis
closed after farewell services. The
question of uniting with the other Lu
theran churches was left to the trustees.
A dispatch to the Chicago Record
..Herald, under date of New York, June
20, says-: Leon Barnes, a lawyer, will
amplify his charges against Former
Secretary of the Treasury John G.
.Carlisle, whom ho accused of perjury.
.Mr. Barnes retained Mr. Carlisle as
assistant in a case in which the form
er obtained $89,000 counsel fees. Mr.
'Carlisle sued for and was given a
Verdict of $25,000 as his share of the
fees. Basing his charges on the alle
' gation of perjury, Mr. Barnes applied
'to the court to restrain the former
secretary from collecting the amount
of the verdict. Mr. Carlisle inter
Vposed a demurrer and Mr. Barnes to-day
obtains permission from Su
preme Court Justice Kelly to serve an
..amended complaint,
The interstate commerce commis
sion has fixed a hearing at Birming
ham, Ala., July 12 in the matter of
S. J. and S. Cannon against the Mo
bile & Ohio Railroad company involv
ing alleged unreasonable rates on
flour in carloads from St. Louis, Mo.
, Defeats do not discourage demo
crats. The principles we stand for
can never be defeated. Men who pose
as leaders may be rebuked candi
dates may be defeated, but the princi
ples about which we rally can be "de
feated only when government by the
people is defeated.
Mrs. Margaret G. Swift of Chicago
has filed In the Illinois circuit court
a suit against the International Har
vester company. Mrs. Swift's hus
band was formerly employed by the
company as head of the experimental
, department. Reforming to this suit
the Chicago Record-Herald says: Mrs.
Swift charges bribery of legislatures,
particularly those of Rlinois, Kansas
and Su'tji Dakota. Shq alito that
No verdict, was reached in the case
of William G. Crawford, charged with
conspiracy with August W. Machen
and George E. Lorenz to defraud the
government In connection with con
tracts to furnish letter carriers' sat
chels to the post office department.
Six states were represented at the
Inter-collegiate peace conference at
Goshen, Ind., a movement inaugurated
by the faculties of Mononite and Dun-
kard colleges to promote the cause of
peace throughout the world. Among
the speakers were Dr. Benjamin F.
Trueblood, Boston, Mass., secretary of
the American Peace Society, and'W.
L. Pearson, Penn college, Oskaloosa,
la.
Attorneys for eight of the largest
national banking .institutions in Ken
tucky filed suits to restrain the Ken
tucky state board of valuation and as
sessment from taking into considera
tion the funds they have Invested In
government bonds in seeking to arrive
at the value of the shares of stock
of the banks for the, purpose of taxa
tion, . 1 : f T -':
At the present time the enemy is
flushed with victory. Never in all its
history has the republican party ob
tained such complete control national
ly and in the states. Ninety-five years
ago the French Influence was supreme
In the capitals of Europe. Flushed
with victory at the head of a million
men the great Nanoleon was mnmli.
ing upon the Russian capital. His
armies seemed invincible. Never in
all his career had he apparently been
so strong. But the great common peo
ple of Europe were aroused as they
never had been before, and at that
very moment Waterloo the complete
downfall of his empire and his own
banishment to an obscure island were
less than four years away. And so at
the present time the great commori
iicuiJic ui luis country are aroused as
they never have been before and if
the radical tendencies in the demo
cratic nartv onnMnim rholn nacnt-
progress of development the Waterloo
and complete downfall of the republi
can party is less than four years
away.
Already the skies are clearing. The
winter of our discontent is at an end
Brighter days are just ahead. The peo
pie make the issues not the poli
ticians this is the lesson of the cam
paign of 1904.
Are there in the democratic party
men who are trust beneficiaries''
Such men must take their places in
the ranks, if they remain in the party.
In the future the fight against the
criminal trusts must be unrelenting
uncompromising.' In this great fight
there is no middle ground.
i:
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The election of last November dem
onstrates that there is no room in
this country for two ultra-conservative
parties. In the campaign , last year
the leaders pf the democratic party,
local, state and national, were for the
first time in many years working har
moniously together fighting all of
them for victory. We presented a
strong candidate most eminently qual
ified to fill the high office of president
There can be no harmony of ac
tion between men who suffer from
the unlawful encroachment of corpor
ate wealth and men who are trust
beneficiaries. But, for every trust
beneficiary who leaves the party, a
hundred men will come from the ranks
of the enemy. There is no room now
for conservatism. Nothing but aggres
sive, radical, concerted action can
successfully meet the problems of the
future. We have enough enemies to
fight in the republican party there
ought to be no enemies to fight in our
own ranks. The impression went
abroad last year that we were simply
fighting for the offices. We are fight
ing now for the right and the air is
filled with the shouting of trium
phant democracy.
In this great momevent the new
aggressive and progressive democratic
party Is leading.
In my own state which last year
gave the greatest republican majority
it ever gave from the great city by
the lakes comes the first news of
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