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mmmsR le i TU . ' T.--V ' The Commoner. VOLUME ,7, NUMBEK 3T 12 V fr IW Ik' l I-' . 'A :ii if u li ' ,1 1 ; M i Mi lit ft ii W: m ii;!i f swu - '"ltf i Ifig' UtacaMM Twenty-sevon inombors of tho crow of a Japanese battleship wore killed by an explosion in target practice near Kure, Japan. Judgo Grosscup in tho federal court of Chicago -.approved tho ap poal"b6ud in the 4um of $6,000,000 glvoh by the Standard Oil company in taking its appeal from the Judge Landid' line. At a special election held in Chi cago September 17, tho proposed now charter for the city was rejected Dy a largo majority. 1 Major James Carroll, United States army, died at Washington City. " George A. Pettibone of the Westr !ern Federation of Labor, who was about to go on trial charged with .the Stbunenberg murder was taken seriously ill and removed to a hos pital. ' ' . r' F. G McNally, president of the fannd-McNally publishing house, is tlead. I , r Rear Admiral John G. Walker, of th'e United States navy, is dead. ' .Warrants for the arrest of four--teen, persons involved in the Penn sylvania state house scandal have been Issued at tne instance or .renn sessions, constitute more than forty per cent of ihe members who have been willing to- enlist themselves squarely on one side or Ihe other of tho proposition. Thirty-six of the members approached by correspond ents of the Herald declined to go on record, excusing themselves on the plea that the question was fraught with too great considerations to be readily answered. If the same pro portion in favor of a quick disposi tion of the islands obtains among these and among those who could not bo reached for expressions of opinion, -it is clear that a big ma jority of the coming congress would welcome some method of relieving tho country of its Oriental wards. The interviews published- are supple mentary to the 138 which appeared in tho Herald a week ago today. The members who were quoted then and those whose interviews appear this retention of the islands, even for a limited time, involves the necessity of a big increase in the navy. Almost without exception this alternative is accepted by the members who are on record for holding the islands. Senator Stone Missouri is one who thinks the Islands should be got rid of. He returned recently from the -Philippines and judged the situation at close range." constitution, and not to proclaim statehood,' said Dinwiddy. 'In this struggle the good people ought to have, and in my judgment will have, the support of the best people of all parties through the land.' " The democrats of New Jersey have nominated for governor Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr., of Trenton. Tom Johnson has been nominated by the democrats of Cleveland, O., for his fourth term as mayor. In the platform the three-cent fare is given a prominent place. The nomination was unanimous and the convention was very jenthusiastic. Mr. Johnson was first elected mayor in 1901 and was re-elected in 1903 and 1905. On September 21, at Norfolk, Va., Governor Folk was the principal ora tor at the "Missouri Day" celebra tion at the Jamestown exposition. His address was from the standpoint of liberty to the individual, his sub ject being "Liberty of the Individ ual, a right, not a Privilege," crease of 19 per cent in gross reve nue and of 4.6 per cent in net reve nue for a representative month this year, it is evidence of the astonish, ing productive power of the country, holding up general prosperity in spite of a system which increase cost artificially and constantly to ward tho point where net revenue vanishes. The showing the surplus-producing states are making for themselves, for the railroads and for the country this year in spite of all artificial di advantages is little short of remark -u'i ie. In dealing with it there nhoul'l be no. "buts" in fhe wrong plae. -St. Louis Republic. Rear Admiral Chadwick addressed the American League of Municipali- sylvjanla'a attorney general. Follow- ties at Norfolk, Va., and said ing is a list or tne men ror wnom mat luurope is rar aneau oi America warrants were issued: Joseph M. Huston, architect and his active as sistant, Stanford Lewis, both of Phil adelphia; John H, Sanderson, Phil adelphia, chief contractor for fur nishings; Congressman H. Burd Cas sol,r Marietta, Pa., treasurer and exec utive, Officer of the Pennsylvania Con struction company, contractors -for steel filing cases; Jphn II. Shumaker, Johnstown, Pa., former superintend in municipal government. President Roosevelt left Oyster Bay Wednesday, September 25, for Washington. On Sunday, September 2 9, he will start on Ms western .and southern tour. He will be at Keo kuk, Ia October. 1, St. Louis, Octo ber 2, Cairo, 111., October 3, and Memphis, Tenn., October 4. At uuuuuvuiiui v. w... M.x, .-.v. . ent oL public grounds and buildings, I Memphis the speechraaking- program will be interrupted and the president will start for the camping grounds. who receipted for the furnlshinKS. George-. I Payne and his partner, fcharles G.vWettor, both of Philadel phia, builders of the capltol and con tractors for the $303,000 attic; Wil liam P., Snyder, Spring City, Pa., former auditor general,, who ap proved the warrants of th6 contrac tors; William L. Mathues, Media, Pa., former state treasurer, who paid the bills of the contractors; Charles F. Kinsman, Wallis Boileau, John G. Nelderer and George K. Storm, all of Philadelphia, stockholders in tho Pennsylvania Bronze Co., or ganized by Sanderson for the manu facture of the $2,000,000 lighting fixtures; Frank Irvine, auditor in the auditor general's office, who "ad mitted the accounts of the contractors. He will break camp on October 21, going directly to Vicksbur, MIbs., to make his promised speech there. The return to Washington will im mediately after be begun, and the White House will be reachedon the afternoon of October 23. One hundred and sixty-two United States senators and representatives answered the New York Herald's question, "Why not sell the Phil ippines?" The Herald makes this abstract of the returns: "Of these approximately four-fifths are un equivocally in favor of disposing of the islands in some manner just as soon as sucn action can be taken with honor to the United States and with justice to the Filipinos. Forty are for the outright sale of tho Phil ippines now, and have no hesitation in saying so. Ten more would de liver at once into the hands of the islanders their government and their national destiny. Those for Immed iate sale, added to those for the im mediate surrender of government jurisdiction over these Insular pos- The New Jersey republicans have nominated for governor Supreme Court Justice John F. Fort, Eleven men were killed and seven injured by a cage plunging 750 feet down the Bhaft of the Jones and Laughlin Steel company- mine near Negauuee, Mich. ROOSEVELT TO THE RESCUE Congressman Burton will need the oratorical aid of President Roosevelt before he gets to the end of hfs tus sle with Tom Johnson for the may oralty of Cleveland. To come any where near winning he must make a whirlwind campaign and employ the heaviest artillery he can command. The contest is of such importance to the political fortunes of the re publican party that the president would be justified, in taking a day or two off and going over to Cleveland to say a good word for Burton. The election of Burton would mean that Ohio is solid for Taft, and that means a great deal for Mr. Roose velt. But if the president's candidate can not be elected mayor of his own town, though he can be elected to congress from it, the presidential in fluence in Ohio is too weak to be good for anything, and the republi can party of the state is in danger of defeat in next year's election. The oldest inhabitant never heard of a purely municipal election that cut -so deep into national politics as this one will do. It is, in fact, the first skirmish of the national contest to be fought next year. The size of the Tammany vote polled in the city of New York has sometimes decided presidential elections, but that was In presidential years, and upon national issues. The avowed issues in the Cleve land election are altogether local, but it is really a contest for control of the republican organization in a piv otal state. The stakes are big enough to make it worth while for the president to take the stump strenuously for Burton. St. Louis Republic. SHOULD HEED WARNING The northwest should heed tho warning of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane and order its coal in time. The "car famine" of last winter should not be repeated. The northwest' is familiar with its -own climatic conditions. If it keeps back its grain until snow falls, and withholds its orders for coal until that season, it will have itself to blame if it freezes while its coal is stuck in snow drifts. New York Tribune. PLATFORM i ... j. -.- -,i .. ii -. TEXT BOOK Federal Judgo Lochren at St. Paul has issued an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of the commodity railroad rates enacted by the last Minnesota legislature! . An Oklahoma City dispatch car ried by the Associated Press under date of September 20, follows: "The Rev. E. C. Dinwiddy, national coun sel for the anti-saloon league, tonight declared that the Influence of tho temperance forces of the entire na tion would be brought to bear upon President Roosevelt to Secure his ap proval of the constitution. 'The j: liquor men, who were defeated in a fair fight at tho polls, are how join ing with certain elements of the re publican party and planning an ap peal to the president to reject the "BUT" The department of commerce and labor at Washington publishes a bul letin showing marked increases in cost -of living and also an advance In wages just as the Railway Age unaertair.es to explain the condition of the country as shown by railroad returns for July, 1907. Beginning with the increase in the cost or operation, which results from artificial increase in the cost of everything, it continues that the July figures of 1907 compared with those for July, 1906, "show an increase of nineteen per cent in gross revenue from operation, ah """"increase of 27.4 per cent in operating expenses and a gain of but 4.6 per cent in net revenue from operation." The only complaint to make of this Is that the conjunction "but" is mis applied. 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