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A threo-cornerod flght for gover
nor ia on In Illinois. Governor
Dcneon fs on tho republican ticket,
Frank H. Funk on tho third party
ticket and Judge Edward F. Dunne'
on the democratic ticket. Tho pros
pects for Judge Dunne's election aro
good.
It. C. Haskins, president of the
International Harvester trust, testi
fied at Chicago that tho trust sold
last year one hundred million dol
lars' worth of farm implements but
only cleared one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars as profit.
Another exhibit purported to show
that Ay. Perkins was chairman of
. tho corporation finance committee,
and that of tho six members of tho
committee four were officers of tho
steel corporation and members of the
steel corporation's finance commit
too as follows: F. H. Cary, Norman
H. Ream, G. F. Baker and Mr. Per
kins. Another exhibit was that of Mr.
Perkins, Cyrus H. McCormick and
Charles Deering hold all the stock of
tho International Harvester company
and tho selling company of the In
ternational Harvester company of
Now Jersey.
Monopoly in violation of the Sher
man law is the offense wh'.ch tho
government is seeking to prove,
without giving to George W. Porkins,
Cyrus H. McCormick, Charles Deer
ing and other defendants any chance
to become immune from possible
criminal prosecution.
J An Associated Press dispatch re
porting the proceedings of the hear
ing, says: Government attorneys
presented what was purported to be
an original agreement by which
George W. Perkins, Cyrus H. McCor
mick and Charles Deering formed a
"voting trust" which placed them in
absolute control of the $140,000,000
corporation. Tho agreement, dated
August 2, 1002, was for ten years
and expired a few weeks ago. If was
introduced by the government to
show that these three men had
turned over to them all the stock so
they had the sole voting power of tho
corporation.
According to the government at
torneys, tho case is an exact narallel
to the "beef trust" suit, and there
will be no duplication of the method
adopted in that instance which per
mitted testimony by main defen
dants and resulted in the celebrated
"immunity bath."
Alderman Curran of New York has
sued Mayor Gaynor for ono hundred
thousand dollars libel. Gaynor re
ferred to-Curran as a grafter.
Standard Oil interests to obtain con
trol of the company, can not be
found. The mon are C. M. Hlggins
and W. R. King, whom Samuoi
Untermeyer, counsel for tho Wators
Piorco company, is anxious to ex
amine to dotermine to what extent
the Standard Oil company of New
York competes with outer subsi
diaries of the dissolved Standard Oil
company of New Jersey. Mr. Untor
meyer contends that tlie dissolution
of the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey was a farce, and that no real
competition exists.
at-largo. In a letter to George M
Palmer, democratic state chairman
Mr. Straus said: n'
"On account of my brother havlnc
unexpectedly been nominated on tho
progressive ticket, it would not do
for my name to appear on another
I trust you will appreciate my posil
tion and accept my apologies for any
inconvenience that I may be caui
ing."
South Dakota republicans met ia
state convention and declared for
Taft.
The Oregon progressives have
nominated A. E. Clark, a Portland
lawyer, to succeed Jonathan Bourne
as United States senator.
Democratic reports from Pennsyl
vania continue to improve.
The loss by the horse plague in
Kansas is estimated to be about ten
million dollars.
An effort will be made in the Ne
braska supreme court to prevent the
third party from being given a place
on the official ticket.
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'Stolen Delegates"
Wilson's Conquest of the Bosses
Tho Birth of tho "Moose"
And many other stirring inci
dents of tho reqent Republican,
Democratic, and National Pro
gressive conventions aro graphi
cally deBciibod and keenly
analyzed by
W. J. BRYAN
In his new book, just issued,
"ATaleofTwo
Conventions
Mr. Bryan devotes graphic, day-by-day
chapters to the Republi
can and Domooratlc conventions,
all written on tho spot, and
I Kivcs us a. goou account or tho
PrOClOSHlvn cnnvnntlnn rph
book contains tho platform of
each party, and somo of tho
notable convention speeches, in
cluding Mr. Bryan's own at
Baltimore, with comments on
tho speoches of acceptance of
Taft and Wilson. Somo o tho
best cartoons of the poriod ar
included,
12mo, cloth, Illustrated, $1.00 act
IS you itouM preserve clear rt,e
ef wkat w do He at ike conven
tions, set tkls book.
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A story of one woman's work is
told in an Associated Press dispatch
from Chicago in these words: Miss
Virginia Brooks, the West Hammond
reformer, won a victory when the
city council of the suburb at a stormy
meeting discharged Chief of Police
John Kulczky. A special committee
appointed to investigate charges
against the chief of police reported
that he had been guilty of neglect
of duty in failing to close disorderly
resortB, and recommended that he be
dismissed.
The vote on the discharge of the
official was 9 to 8, Mayor Wozcszysp
ski casting the deciding vote.
The chief of nolico n.rnrm fn fh
meeting and deniec" ho had ever been
ordered by the mayor to close tho
resorts. Ho said that when he
threatened to close tho places one of
tho aldermen interfered.
The mayor called upon another
member of the police department to
prove that ho had ordered tho chief
to close the resorts, and ho corrob
rated the statement of the city's
executive.
A straw vote made by tho Cincin
nati Enquirer In Indiana, Kentucky,
Michigan and Ohio, shows a strong
drift to Woodrow Wilson.
A United Press dispatch from Chi
cago says: Chief of Police Mc
Weeny stationed a man at tho Pekin
theater on the South, aid here to
prevent tho showing of moving pic
tures of tho funoral of Mrs. Etta
Duryea Johnson, who shot herself in
her husband's cafe recently. John
son has obtained a temporary injunc
tion restraining the theater, from us
ing tho pictures and the police cen
sor has also barred them.
A New York dispatch, carried by
tho Associated Press says: Two wit
nesses, directors of tho Standard Oil
company of New York, wanted by
counsel for tho WJitors-PIorce Oil
company In defending the action by
An Associated Press diHnat.o.h frnm
Denver says: A declaration in favor j
oi me recall or tne president was
made here by Colonel Roosevelt. He
proposed that if, as president, he
found that his views were in opposi
tion to those of the people he should
take the stump in defense of his poli
cies and should quit office if he could
not win the support of the electorate.
Colonel Roosevelt's declaration was
made in reply to a Question ad
dressed to him by William J. Bryan
in a recent speech at Pueblo, Colo.
"How many terms," Mr. Bryan
asked in a list of queries which he
said Colonel Roosevelt should an
swer "may the president of the
United States serve?"
Colonel Roosevelt gave his answer
in his speech before a crowd which
filled the auditorium.
"As far as I am concerned," he
said, "I should be glad to have the
recall for the president. It is not In
the progressive platform, and this Is
merely an expression of my personal
feelings. My own experiences was
that I could do nothing as president
except when the people were heartily
with me Tho minute I ceased to
have them with me, whether it was
ray fault or theirs, I ceased to have
power. Under such conditions I
would prefer to leave the presidency,
unless in fair, open fighting on the
stump, I could bring people around
to my way of thinking. Such a
course I think, would be to my ad
vantage and to theirs.
"As to the number of non-consecutive
terms a president might have,
every argument in favor of any limi
tation of tho terms of the president
can refer only to consecutive terms.
Any third term talk which refers to
non-consecutive terms is an utter
absurdity.
"Mr. Bryan professes to believe in
the people. It was to the people
that I made my appeal, and In the
primaries by votes varying from two
to one to fifteen to one, tho people
decided that the talk of a third term
in this case was tho veriest bugaboo
ever held up to frighten political
uuuaren.
A New York dispatch says:
Nathan Straus, brother of Oscar
S. Straus, progressive candidate for
governor of New York, resigned to
day as a candidate on tlie democratic
ticket for presidential elector-at-
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