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... A dispatch under date of 'Mont
gomery, Ala., November 21, says:
"The senate today passed a bill to
prohibit the sale, giving away or pos
gessing of liquors In clubs. It pro
hibits exactly what the Georgia law
allows. The act will become effective
JTanuary 1, 1909, in counties where
the, sale of liquor is to continue till
then Xn all others January 1 next."
"The Ntfshvllle municipal league, in
gession at Providence, It. I., elected
ofllcers as follows: President, Charles
i;? Bonaparte, Baltimore; vice presi
dents, Charles Richardson, Philadel
phia; Thomas N. Strong, Portland,
Ore.; Henry L. McCune, Kansas City;
falter L. Fisher, Chicago, and James
R; Baxtfer, Portland, Me;;; secretary,
Clinton. TRogers woodruff, . Philadel
phia; treasurer, George Burnham,
Jr., Philadelphia.
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&The national prohibition convent
tlon for 1908 has been called; to meet:
during the first week of Juno at .Co
Rumbus, Ohio. " (.
&A special dispatch Xrom Chicago,
111., to Sioux City, la., Journal says:
The ca'Use of prohibition received a
trenfendous impetus by a sweeping
4ecIsion of the Illinois supreme court
today. The court held that the own-;
is of property rented lor saloon pur
poses are liable for "damages in cases
df illegal sale of 'liquor vby their ten
ants. The courtfurther holds that
Jnot only actual damages, but, also?
tin'dtctlve or exemplary damages,
may be had against an owner of a
"building who had no knowledge of
th.eillegal sale of liquor made by his
tenant if the violation. of the law is
established against his tenant.' Pro
hibitionists declare that the decision
is the most important affecting the
liquor traffic made in many years, if
not the most important ever made in
any court in the United States. The
decision "was on a . case in whi6h. a
seventeen-year-old boy had".-rbeen
killed vby ir train while drunk.' His
fattier 'sued not only the saloonkeener
iCnpV6Ta the boy the liquor, but the
the building attempted to evade re
sponsibility by asserting that ho had
no knowledge that his tenant' was a
saloonkeeper."
"The court of appeals today decided
that the act passed at the last ses
sion of the legislature providing for
a recount of the votes cast at the
mayoralty election in New York City
in November, 1905, is unconstitu
tional. The contest was instituted
on behalf of William R. Hearst to un
seat Mayor McClellan on the ground
of fraud in the counting of the Votes.
The decision was unanimous."
A IQNG60MVFOB SALE
A monarch by ttfe name of Ybor
shi is advertising a kingdom for
sale in several continental newspa
pers. He offers his throne, crown,
scepters, dominions, and subjects for
sale, with thirty wives thrown in,
for the modest sum of $200,000.
His realm is that of Aysbonia, a strip
of land in Africa 250 miles long and
ninety miles wide. The power of
life and death is the king's prerogat
ive, and goes with the crown, as
does the granting of all concessions.
A special attraction of the offer is
the royal crown, which is -a neat dia
dem made of human skulls. The
throne Is made of skulls and thigh
bones.. Thus far his dusky majesty
appears to have had no offer. New
York Tribune.
An Associated Press dispatch un
der date of Montgomery, Ala., No
vember 19, follows: "The s'pnate
this afternoon- passed the prohibition
bill 32 to 2. The law is to become
effective January 1, 1909. "When
two carloads of Mobile women' Same
to the city today to lobby against
the bill, they found that delegations
from Montgomery, Selma and Bir
mingham, who favor that measure,
had filled the senate galleries until
not a seat was left. It was a plan
to" crowd them out and it succeeded,
kittle children stood in the lobbied
and pinnecf ribbons" on every one
who came in. The scene was one
bf the most spectacular in the his
tory qC th.e state. When the Mobile
ladies arrived they found that they
had. ,to stay outside in the already
overcrowded lobbies. Children were
kept out of school today to work
against whisky."
CUT DOWN THE SURPLUS
No schemes for providing elastic
currency, no, plans for shackling the
individual states by national char
ters for corporations, will ivail to
remedy our troubles. . Nothing will
effectively serve except putting an
end to over-taxation. The govern
ment muBt stop drawing a needless
revenue through the customs and in
ternal tax collectors. When that is
done, it will not be -necessary Jto re
sort to complicated ways of getting
the treasury's unneeded money back
into circulation. St. liouis Republic.
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MR. MORTON SAFE
The evidence of the Santa Fe's,
carelessness in certain little matters
must make Mr. Paul Morton very
glad, that he is now connected with
a company that never did anything
out of the way.--Ohio State Journal.
MR;BRYkNNE XME NQMIMATION
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Jacob , Gould SliurmanV president
of .Cornell University, declares, that
Governor Hughes of New York is
willing to be a candidate for fh .
. - t - - w.v f a-
uuuy mm aaus mat the governor
ils the strongest man tho republicans
can nominate.
Washington dispatches sav nnn-
pessman Burton is not to-be til--lowed
to become n mnmiwi. n -u
house ways and meanB committee.'
Speaker Cannon regards Mr. Burton
as irregular" on the tariff cmestion-
John D. Rockefeller iRsiiPri iivr,T,
the Associated Press this statement:
I am informed that there have ap
peared in several newsnaners -r
jently reports that I possess $100 -000.000
of United States BLrn.
ment bonds, which I have refuel
to loan or sell for the nnmnaa
helping the situation or of aiding ad-
uiliuiuu uuuumuon oy tlie banlcs I
do not own at the nresent timA 'r,
have I owned at any time during tho
recent crisis any United States gov
ernment, hrmda wVinfntrkx
. - .. ,nyu,j
An Auburn, N, Y.. disnato.li nnv
Iried by the Associated Press follows:
Minneapolis Journal (rep.) The
party will start 'with a candidate
whose personality i$ engaging, whose
character is ahove reproach, whose
patriotism is proved. It will not
have the advantago of a candidacy
which has in it any element of nov
elty or surprise. The party will not
have, to learn anything about its can
didate. But the country will lose
the romance of politics which is, to
a large extent, involved In the spring
ing up of new men. Mr. Bryan was
one of those surprises himselL
Twelve years ago ho went to Chicago,
a delegate whose seat was contested,
and returned home the standard
bearer of the democracy. In the
Interim Mr. Bryan has talked almost
incessantly and written when his
audience, wearied, had retired to
slumber. There is npthlng new to
say about him. He Js.a. veteran now,
not a colt. .. . . u
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New York World. (?) Announc
ing his readiness to accept the demo
cratic nomination for president, Mr.
Bryan, in the bourse, of a, 1,10.0-word
statemont, says; "It only remains
for the democratic party to coavince
the people that it can he in,trjifcted
with the work of reform." A trifle;
a mere detail. After eleven years
of Mr. Brvan's leadership $ people
are so well satisfied ;wlth the demo
cratic party's trustworthinew that
there tire only two democratic United
States senators north-of Mason, and
TMxon's line, and-one of thenars a
silver republican. In- state after
state not h single democrat, repre
sents a district in congress. There
are only six democratic governors
north of Ohio, and four of them were
elqcted on local issues in solid re
publican states. Even Kentucky has
gone republican Of course Mr,
Bryan will accept the democratic
nomination! A formal statement toJ
that effect Is superfluous. But why
should the democratic party accept
Mr. Bryan? Is tho party so infatu
ated lth defeat that it would not
exchange the certainty of disaster for
even the possibility of victory?
Denver News (dem.) To the
News the statement of the case ap-;
pears hoth fair and dignified. For
Mr. Bryan to declare himself a. can
didate would be ungenerous and un
wise. He has been honored by the
party, as he well says, and can not
in fairness ask it to take any action
,ior nis personal sake. But for Mr,
Bryan to refuse to be a candidate
under any circumstances rrould sim
ply be to sulk in his tent, at a mo-
.mwuv, wuen every ngnter Is needed
by the democracy. He has done
neither of these things. He has
simply said that he is a loyal demo
crat, ready to serve in the, ranks or
to lead the charge, just as the party
shall decide. It is hard to, see how
uny.iauit can De . found .with that.
It may( be objected that Mr. Bryan
knows this makes him practically
certain of the nomination. This is
true. Mr. Bryan can not help know
ing that he is away and beyond the
most popular democrat in the party.
But this only makes it the more im
perative that he. act with fairness to
that party and thi he has. done.
His strength, is at its service, to use
as the party may dictate. It doer
not detract from the dignity of that
statement to say that its maker wall
knows where that strength is likely
to be used. We question very much
If Mr. Bryan will be personally
pleased by the nomination, which, we
uenevo is coming His way. Jt Is. the
uuubu mat interests him, and his loy
alty to that cause no man can doubt
Cedar Rapids (la.) Gazette. Mr
Bryan will undoubtedly be the dem
ocratic nominee. He -will
pledges of support count for any
thing. But whether he is or not, he
will continue to be a well beloved
citizen, a man whom the people ad-
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