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Tho Minnosota republican conven
tion mot at Minneapolis, April 1G,
and electing delegates to the national
convention Instructed them to vote
for tho nomination of Mr. Taft until
ho Is "solected by tho convention."
An Associated Press dispatch un
der dato of Chester, Pa., April 16,
follows: "Riot and bloodshed
marked tho third day of the street
car strlko hero today when tho Ches
ter Traction company attempted to
oporato Its cars with imported strike
breakers. The strikers and their
sympathizers stormed the trolley car
that was started out of tho barns and
In tho melee two mon wore shot.
William Grlesemer, a claim agent for
tho company, was struck in tho arm
by a bullet and William Borgmann,
tho motorman who had charge of the
car, was struck in tho foot by an
othor bullet. Ho was dragged from
the car and beaten and was rescued
from tho angry strikers and their
sympathizers with difficulty. Griese
mbr, besides being wounded, re
ceived a dislocation of tho shoulder.
Several other traction employes were
also cut and bruised. A mob of fully
1,000 men stood guard' near tho trol
ley barns at daybreak, awaiting a
move on tho part of the traction offi
cials, and when the first car was run
out on tho tracks followed by the
appearance of abput forty strike
breakers In charge of Grlesemer, the
crowd became furious."
cablegram to tho New York World,
says: "Count Andreas Potocki, gov
ernor of the Austrian Polish province
of Galicia, was assassinated this
afternoon by a Ruthonian student
named Mioroslap Sjczynski, while
giving audience to a delegation of
students. Tho assassin fired three
shots from a rovolvor, all of which
took effect. The governor died soon
afterward, but first asked his secre
tary to inform his majesty at once.
'Tell him,' said tho dying man, 'I
was his most faithful servant.' The
assassin did not resist arrest. When
led through the governor's ante
chamber ho said to the Ruthenian
peasants who were waiting for an
audience: 'I have done this for
you.
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Tho Montana democratic state
committee unanimously endorsed
Mr. Bryan for president and called
the democratic convention to meet
at Bozeman May 7.
A FINANCIAL COMEDY
The Manhattan theatre adjoin
Manhattan bank in the Bronx
which used to bo called Harlem in
tho northorn part of the city, and
during the run upon the latter in
stitution a young man about nine
teen years old took his place in the
line. Three or four hours later,
when he reached the paying teller's
window, he asked for two seats at
the end of a row In the second bal
cony. Although he was an intelli
gent human being, and the people
in Urm hfiforo him and after him
were discussing the financial situa
tion only, ho assumed they were all
waiting to buy tickets for the play,
and remained in his place nearly the
whole day. Chicago Record-Herald.
Tho Michigan democratic state
committee defeated a resolution en
dorsing Mr. Bryan for president and
called the state convention for Lan
sing May 20.
PAYING ELECTION EXPENSES
The government pays the expenses
of elections, and provides the entire
machinery for voting. In the state
of New York it also defrays the ex
pense of holding the primary elec
tions of the different parties. Is
there anything revolutionary, or
wrong, in the proposition favored
by President Roosevelt, that the gov
ernment should also defray the ex
pense of conducting political cam
naiens? It is surely as imnortant
to instruct the people in the Issues
at stake as it is to provide them with,
honest primaries and adequate elec
tion machinery. Wall Street Journal.
It is reported that republicans
haye agreed with tho president that
jumuHs wjii . uujourn May y. uon-
"gressman watson of Indiana was
asked by the Associated Press about
putting wood pulp, on tho froo list.
His answer was: "How will wn bo
able to do this without precipitating
tariff revision at this session of con
gress? If wo send a free wood puln
bill to tho senate the tlGmoornla. thorn
Will take on a thousand amendments
an,a wo will bo forced at once into
the. muddlo of tho revision of the
tariff 'which will keep congress hero
for many months longor."
Tho democratic state convention
for Delaware mot at Dover and in
structed delegates to tho national
convention to vote for Judge Gray.
.juubu uruy sent a lotter to tho con
vention asking that ho bo not en
dorsed but the convention did not
heed the letter.
Herbert Asauith. England's new
premier, has named the following
cabinet: Lord president of the coun
cil, Lord Tweedmouth; secretary of
tno colonies, laarl of Crewe; chan
cellor of the exchequer, David Lloyd
George; first lord of the admiralty,
Reginald McKonna; president of tho
board of trade, Winston Churchill;
president of the board of education,
Walter Runciman.
A PREVAILING EXCUSE
"Judge," said the prisoner, who
had been caught with a chicken in a
sack, "you ought'er go easy with
me."
"Why? You stole the hen."
"I admits it, Jedge; I admits it,"
responded the prisoner. "But it's
solemn truf dat hen jest seemed to
bo my affinity; yes, sah." Philadel
phia Ledger.
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The Guaranteed Bank
Proposition is Popular
stated the principle. He had. pointed
the way. He is given, the credit
which naturally adheres to- such ac
tion. Mr. Bryan is the only man of
first-rate public prominence who has
dared deal with this question in any
way, The president has been silent;
Taft has been silent; Hughes has
been silent; Cannon and Aldrich,
with - the president's support, have
been trying to pass a measure which
the entire country knows is ineffec
tive. Bryan, rind Bryan alone, has
spoken out in a way to command at
tention. How much good that ojie sugges
tion has done Mr. Bryan as a presi
dential aspirant can be judged only
by visiting, among the people. It is
not a theory, but a -fact. It has
gathered confidence round him. It
has made thousands upon thousands
of men feel a faith in him that they
never felt before. They have said:
"We always thought Bryan was noth
ing but a dreamer of impossible
things, such as free silver, free Phil
ippines, government ownership of
railways. Now we find him intense
ly practical. When a great crisis
arises in the country's affairs he is
the only public man who comes to
the front with a proposal that goes
to the very heart of the trouble.
There must be something in Billy
Bryan after all."
It is too much to say this one sug
gestion, this one fortunate stroke,
will make Bryan president, or even
carry him near to the presidency.
But it has immensely bettered his
position. He is on account of it
stronger than he ever was before.
His old friends and admirers all
stand by him. Now he has new ones.
He is looked upon differently. Ho
has risen. This is all true. It is a
truth which must be taken into ac
count in any impartial estimate of
the force of Bryan as a seekdr for
the presidency.
He alone has connected Hh!ev' wo;
great topics in the public mind the
panic and" the presidency has joined
them in discussion, in suggestion, in
looking ahead, in a way out, and with
himself as the 'beneficiary of the
union. It was a clever stroke. '
Tho democratic society of western
Now York in session at Buffalo
adopted tho following resolutions:
"Whereas, It is the fundamental law
of tho democratic society of western
inow xoric to support all regularly
nominated democratic candidates;
Resolved, That tho democratic socie
ty pledges itself in advance to loyally
support tho presidential candidate of
tho democratic convention, whoever
he may be; Resolved, That in har
mony with tho foregoing resolution
tho democratic society desires to
record itseir in favor of tho nomina
tion of William J. Bryan of Ne
braska, and respectfully urges tho
New York state convention to in
struct its presidential delegates to
support him first, last and always."
By a vote of 199 to S3 the house
Zl representatives declared in favor
of two now battleships Instead of
four as recommended by the presi
dent, m-oi
A Lomberg, Austrian Poland,!
Writing to tho Chicago Record-
Herald under date of Miles City,
Mont., Waltor Wellman, Washington
correspondent for that paper, said:
Miles City, Mont., March 30. Wil
liam J. Bryan never made a better
bid for tho presidency than when he
suggested that the federal govern
ment should guarantee the deposits
in all national banks. It has given
Bryan a strength throughout the
country which few men are aware
of except those who travel about and
mingle with all sorts of people and
learn what Is really going on in the
public mind. It should be remem
bered there are two great and com
manding topics of thought and dis
cussion before tho American people
today, and only two. Ono of these is
the recont panic, and the other Is tho
making of a now president. The
panic was drama, it was tragedy, it
entered tho life of almost every man
in the country, sharply or indirectly.
It is tho one thing I find men talk
ing about wherever I go, from tho
far oast to tho far west the panic,
how it came, why it came, who is
responsible, how future panics may
bo averted.
Tho business men, tho men of af
fairs, the men who are carrying on
tho great commercial activities of the
country, the men one meets and talks
with in tho smoking-rooms of sleep
ing cars, in hotels, in clubs, tho mer
chants ono meets in cities and towns
the bankers, all are convinced there
is something radically wrong with
the financial and banking system.
They know the recent panic was not
commercial, it was not industrial, it
was purely a banking and currency
collapse. Business, which they rep
resent, which is their life, was hit a
blow from above which staggered it,
a blow which came from a quarter
where business has the right to ex
pect only safety and support and
helpfrom the banks. Realizing
this, feeling it deeply, resenting it
bitterly, demanding that it shall
never occur again, these men, hun
dreds of whom I have talked with in
all parts of the country, want some
thing done, and want it done imme
diately. Such was tho setting of the stage,
such the psychological condition,
when Mr. Bryan came forward with
his proposal that the government
guarantee bank deposits. That idea
met with Instant response in all parts
of the land. It impressed millions
or men as a sensible and proper and
necessary thing to do. Government
guaranty, they say, would make the
collapse of confidence an impossi
bility; with confidence in banks un
impaired there could never be runs
on banks; with no runs there could
bo no panic like the one which swept
the country last fall, starting at New
York and stopping not till it had
reached the borders of all the seas.
Not every ono agreed that the ex
act method of accomplishing this re
sult proposed by Mr. Bryan was the
best one to be adopted. But he -had
YET THEY ARE NUMEROUS-,
The Bristol Herald-Courier defines
a gentleman as "a man that's 'clean
inside and outside, who neither looks
up to the rich nor down on the poor,
who can lose without squealing, and
win without bragging, who ip con
siderate to women, children, and old
people; who is, too brave to lie, too
generous to cheat, and who takes his
share of the world, and lets other
people have theirs." A pretty good
definition; it is also a pretty good
definition of an angel. Washington
Herald.
You'll Know
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erable. But you will bo Intensely" in
terested in how to get rid of it.
nfciSlL4?, stP those cold chills from
chasing up and down tho spine, the
efntpain in "1 Umh d back,
nausea, coughing fits, sneezing., dis
charge from tho oyes and nose, muscu
headacho8' tlmt brain-wracking
Tho best treatment known for this
dreadful affliction is
Dr. Miles' Nervine
Dr. Miles' Nervine cures by building
up tho nervous system, and destroying
tho germs which poison tho bipod. If
taken when first symptoms appear is
almost a sure preventive. vvw.
I suffered several weeks with Grip
and nothing I took seemed to benefit
m?- I suffered almost death, until I
tried Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine
From tho first day I folt better. It re I
lieved my misery and pain, and travo
an appetite, and in a f ow days I
n& 149i. 3!,eL?t" Jackson, Tenn,
Tho first bottle will benefit,' if .not,
tho druggist will return your mony..;
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