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The Commoner.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER U
6
Jlr tv-t&fwrtftfr1
I
ili-
m,' iiyiti.'.I) MTATKS sciial' has passed
J Hhip Hiilisldy bill. An Associated IM-i-hh
dispatch under date of WuhIiIiikIoii. March JU,
follows: "The ship subsidy bill was passed by
the senale today. II. pays In sixteen knot ves
sels pIviiiK between this country and homn
America. Hie Philippines, Japan. China and Aus
tralia, $1 per mile, tlie amount awarded by t 10
act of IS!) I to vessels of twenty knots only. I no
bill was amended in the senate so that twolvo
knot vessels will receive $2 per mile which is
the allowance under exisliug law to sixteen knot
vessels. A mend men Is were also adopted pro
viding that though two or more linos of steam
ships plv from Atlantic ports to South America,
under the provisions of the bill, one line shall
.,., ..i in... i.m'iM kmiiMi of Cam Charles, and
It I I I ILI, L f W Mll HU 'U" " - - I - -
Ktlnulatinu that no more shall be paid
Kldles than is received rrom ship
government."
or sud-
sorvicc by the
pi 1 13 OMAHA (Neb.) lU'o
1. news: " '01' Such is
lltYln hook bv Richard L.
editor of iirvun's Commoner
prints this item of
the Kingdom,' the
Metcalfe, associate
was selected Fri
day by the Nebraska Teachers' Heading i lrcic
Board managers as the 'culture' book for the
teachers to read in their circle course the com
ing year. The board was presented with a mass
of commendatory letters of the Metcalfe book,
lei tors from Covernor Sheldon, Associate Justice
Harlan and educators throughout the country,
all of whom spoke of (he work in the highest
terms. 'Of Such is the Kingdom has already
gono through live editions and this order from
tho Nebraska school teachers will require a
sixth edition of between six and seven thousand
copies. Arrangements for tho publication of this
largo edition have not. as yet been made."
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1110 N10W YORK democratic state committee
met in New York City March 10 and adopt
ed (his resolution: "Whereas, In our opinion
the welfare of the country and of tho democratic
party will bo best served by nominating July
next at Denver the candidate for the presidency
and vice presidency who shall at that time and
place appeal most strongly to the intelligence
and judgment of the delegates gathered from
all parts of the country; and Whereas, We be
lieve that before a choice so full of Importance
to tho people shall be ninde tho delegates repre
senting tho different states should receive and
should avail themselves of the benefits coming
from consultation and deliberation with one an
other and should have before them the political
situation as It may exist at the time of tho hold
ing of the convention, llosolved, That we, the
democratic slate committee of the state of New
York, hereby call upon the democratic electors
of the state to choose as their delegates to the
national convention of the party the ablest and
strongest men in their ranks, and to send them
to the national convention unfettered by condi
tions and unpledged and uninstruetod as to
candidates." Mr. Connors, chairman of tho com
mittee, says that the sentiment of New York
state is for Covernor Johnson of Minnesota and
nuueu mat mo New York delegation would
uninstruetod.
go
O-
sixty-eighl delegates from
uninstruetod. Ohio, with
expected to favor Judson
Pennsylvania will bo
forty-six delegates, is
Harmon as against
a N ASSOCIATED Press dispatch from St.
IX Paul, Minn., March 20, follows: "The
Minnesota democrats who havo undertaken the
v.ask of putting Covernor John A. Johnson in
tho White House havo reached that stago of
lholr campaign where they are ablo to present
some tlgures. These tlgures, though they mav
not turn out to be facts, are none the less in
teresting. They purport to show how the first
battle may be won by defeating Brvan for the
nomination. After that, the Johnson sponsors
assume, their task of winning the election will
bo comparatively easy. They base their hone
of winning the nomination upon the uninstruct
ed delegates, and they believe that these can
bo swung Into line for Johnson when it becomes
apparent that Bryan can not be named on the
first ballot. There will be 1,002 delegates in the
Denver convention. It Is figured that the seventy-eight
delegates from New York and the
Bryan. Delaware, with six delegates, win uu
for Judge Cray, who may also have the dele
gates from Maryland. These states, with tho
twenty-two delegates from Minnesota for John
son, would make a total of 22G delegates against
Bryan. Under the two-thirds rule it would be
necessary to round up only 109 more delegates
to prevent the nomination of the Nebraska lead
er and the adoption of his platform. The John
son supporters figure that If a few of the south
ern states delegates could be switched from
Bryan or if the northwestern states would fol
low the lead of Minnesota, Bryan would undoubt
edly be defeated for the nomination and Johnson,
as tho next strongest man, would be named to
head tho ticket."
O
nBRE IS AN interesting story concerning Sen
ator LaFolletto's great speech and is told
by the Washington correspondent for the Chi
cago Record-Herald: "Before Senator LaFol
lette appeared on the scene today Senator Aid
rich sprang a surprise by reporting the finance
committee's amendments to the bill eliminating
railroad bonds as security for national bank
circulation and retaining the provision of the
present law, which prohibits the retirement of
more than $9,000,000 of circulation in any one
month. It was known that Mr. LaFollette in
tended to attack this feature of the measure and
to make it serve likewise as a basis for argu
ment in favor of his plan for physical valuation
of railroad property. 'What can LaFollette talk
about now?' whispered senators, and for an
hour before Mr. LaFollette got into action there
was much quiet laughter among the Aldrich
group. Senator LaFollette locked himself up
and thought it over, and instead of showing any
evidence of being disconcerted remarked, by
way of preface to his speech, that the changes
made in the bill by the committee made tho
remarks ho had to offer all the more important."
I
O
IS FREELY charged in republican circles
that the administration is using the federal
patronage to advance the interests of Mr. Taft.
For instance, the New York Evening Post says:
"It is a somewhat unhappy coincidence that, on
tho very day when the Oklahoma convention de
clared for Taft, the senate should have refused
to confirm the nomination of Grant Victor to be
United States marshal for the eastern district
of Oklahoma. The ground alleged was that the
ollice had been promised to Victor to induce him
to drop Fairbanks and go for Taft. The man's
actual conversation was nuoted: be wn nnnv.
Iw. 1-.7 IT. - ,. .' ' !'",
u- uuuuuu uie money: rve oeen offered
jiiarsnaisnip uy intchcock, and the place
well.' Of course, such things have been
injure. ior certain senators to stand
ai in is unblushing use of federal
v .ilvlv tuu uuiuuiuus. iney nave done the
same thing, and would do it again. But the
sorrowful part of the exposure of this particulir
employment of the spoils system is that it ii
in conflict with the president's strong assertion
in his letter to Mr. Foulko. Hn n ,. u ,on
H.rn,. 4i. i ,,. ", .. nun ill
"bmu,u" "l uiiurgo mat appointments
been made or promised in order to secure
fcan.'& iur laic, i-iere is a seemingly
of it. It only shows how easy it
iiuu&uvuit to ue imposed upon.
can now do is to send Mr.
tho
pays
done
aghast
patronage, is
had
dele-
clear case
is for Mr.
The least ho
TTUnlinrwilr ,. i
robukft fnr mnlrlno- flir. ,.:i wwv &ulip
. .....0 w.v, inusiuuill
one thing and do another."
appear to say
THE IOWA
structed
o
republican
vote for
also endorsed
Allison rrcrlii
state pnnvfinft., ,
Uo ii.. , 'w,uu in
i- UUIUKUIUK' - Mll'irn
M:ni TT m , .. "- law ui
iuhuu ii. nut. Tiie convention
oumuor wiiuam u. Allison, the
iirn iiriitio o r Aiti I.. a M
& !.! v : i t fiiiiiiiir'ii iii' . l if r r j-v - n it ..
Associated Pi'ess'repo V of the meet n -
"The Allison people dominated t he f convoS? on
from its opening to its close, ad ha 1 thlnm
their own way throughout, .'he Cumn ns neonil
although dofontfwi i n ..-..;". ll"8 PetIe,
n?oi ,iiii'r ," T ;:. . "- ."vuiuion. took
uv"b1H " waving, as uicy declared,
cial
ospe-
forced
the standpatters to indorse a plank calling for a
revision of the tariff and they made a point of
frequently reminding the Allison people of tho
fact. The latter insisted, however, that there
are as many revisionists in their ranks as with
the Cummins men and declare that the vote in
the convention today showed conclusively the
relative popularity of the two men throughout
tho state. When the chairman of the committee
on resolutions read the plank declaring that
Senator Allison had served his party and his
country well, a delegate from Polk, the home
county of Cummins, interrupted with, 'and tho
railroads.' When the platform announced that
the senator possessed strength for all emer
gency, another delegate from the same county,
asked sarcastically, 'Then why don't he use it?'
The Allison men were as quick to retort as
the Cummins men were ready to jibe and the
witty sallies that passed from one side to the
other set the convention in frequent roars cf
laughter, irrespective of factional feeling. It
was generally expected before the final session
of the convention that there would be a ma
jority and minority report on the tariff and tho
Cummins men had prepared to make a strong
fight for the adoption of the Ohio plank. When
the committee was actually settled down to
work, however, it was evident that the Allison
people were determined to indorse the plank
themselves and the only fight that was made on
the report of the committee on resolutions was
against the indorsement of Senator Allison.
Aside from the vote on this question and one
on the report of the committee on credentials the
convention was unanimous and all selections
for delegates and alternates at large were made
by acclamation."
N
o
Iowa,
THE
state
TARIFF
platform
question
adopted
the republican
at Des Moines,
March 18, says: "We-have faith to be
lieve that the republican party, under the Guid
ance of the people, will meet just public require
ments in the future as in the past. We declare
unequivocally for protection as the cardinal prin
ciple of the republican party and we affirm our
unalterable purpose to maintain it. Events
have confirmed the wisdom of makers of the
national platform of 1904 wherein the party
pledged 'readjustment of rates of duty only
when conditions so change that the public in
terests demand their alteration.' In accordance
with this declaration of four years ago, the re
publican party of Iowa endorses the declaration
of the Ohio republican platform of this year in
behalf of revision of the tariff by a special ses
sion of the next congress, insuring the main
tenance of the true principle of protection by
imposing such custom duties as will equal the
difference between the cost of production at
home and abroad, together with a reasonable
profit to the end that without excessive duties
American manufacturers, farmers, producers
and wage-earners may have adequate protection."
-O
N
THE DISTRICT COlirt. fit. Hnlrlwoll TVlnlin
X Judge Wood imposed the death sentence on
Harry Orchard, confessed murderer of former
Governor Steunenburg. The Associated Press
report says: "Stating that he believed that
Harry Orchard, in his testimony in the trials
of William D. Haywood and George A. Petti
bone for the murder of ex-Governor Frank
Steunenberg, told the exact truth, attempting
to conceal nothing, Judge Fremont Wood, in
the district court, today recommended that the
state board of pardons commute Orchard's sen
tence of death to imprisonment in the state
penitentiary. The sentence of death was pro
nounced in accordance with tho plea of guilty
entered by Orchard Tuesday of last week, when
arraigned. Judge Wood presided at both tho
Haywood and Pettibone trials. In sentencing
Orchard and recommending the commutation of
his sentence, Judge Wood reviewed the case
from the time of the killing of Frank Steunen
berg to the present, including the arrest of
Orchard, his confession, the arrest of Charles
; 5;?yer PresIdGnt of the Western Federation
ot Miners; William D. Haywood, secretary-
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