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-wrww'?tr'W"m" "" ','VUWjg'ilwp'WW(aHWiiji;jyiip? The Commoner. VOLUME 8, NUMBER 25 nmv n t Jf ."""fT KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE . HOW THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COVNENTION VOTED ; WHEN REQUIRED TO "TOE THE MARK" ON REFORM ' PROPOSITIONS SUBMITTED BY REFORMERS ELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE The plank providing for election of United States senators by the people was defeated by a vote of 866 NAYS to 114 YEAS. campaign" the names of all contributors and the amounts contributed or promised and the amount and purpose of all disburse ments, and to whom paid, was defeated by a vote of 880 NAYS to 94 YEAS. embodying Senator LaFollette's ideas gen erally, wag defeated by a vote of 950 NAYS to 28 YEAS. PUBLICITY OP CAMPAIGN FUNDS The plank providing that campaign man agers publish from time to time "during the LA FOLLETTE'S PLATFORM GENERALLY The entire minority report offered by Representative Cooper of Wisconsin, and PHYSICAL VALUATION OF RAILROADS The plank providing for LaFollette's plan for the physical valuation of all railroads as a basis for the fixing of railroad rates was defeated by a vote of 917 NAYS TO 63 X JLJX3LM. HOW OHIO, TAFT'S HOME DELEGATION VOTFD On all these DroDositions election of senators Kv tk nnL 1,,.; c -i i Ti. . c . r i 11 i . jrjpw voiuauuu ui iaiiroaa property, publication of- campaign funds, and the adoption of LaFollette's ideasOhio, Mr Taft's home delegation-voted in the negative, and unanimously in each instance, with the exception of the proposition for the election of senators by the people, in which case TWO VOTES FROM OHIO were cast in the affirmative. iU f Who Will Be the Victim? Tho following editorial Is from the Buffalo (N.Y.) Times: It is plain that Candidate Taft has framed up, a great bunko game for somebody. Who is to bo tho victim? Will it be Theodore Roose velt, or wil.1 it bo the system? Mr. Roosevelt selected Mr. Taft as tho man to further his policies aa president. He directed the work of securing delegates and packing the national convention for him. Ho will naturally oxpflct Mr. Taft to stand on Jiis policies if elected , ;. The policies of Mr. Roosevelt are" thor oughly hated by the system, tho chief members of which are Mr. Harriman, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Mor gan, Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Rogers. They want, those policies put down just as soon as they can bo They are rejoicing because Mr. Roospvelt is to retire from ofllce on the fourth of next March. i Y?1 these samo men of tno system declare that the nomination of Mr. Taft for president Is perfectly satisfactory to tljem, and that so far as they are concerned a better choice could not have been made. u 1 !iy does tho 8ystQm want Taft? Has ho given the word that tho system will be immune wi JKnl ment, f0P mladeeds he wins the election? It would seem that tho system would want such an assurance before putting its O K:.on a candidate, and opening its strong box besides to assist him in his campaign If Mr. Taft Js going to be for Mr. Roosevelt he Js going to bo against the system. If he la going to be : for the system he is going to bo against Mr. Roosevelt. . D0 if ?0?eo-!He !SL goins t0 b0 bunkoed. Who is it to bo? Mr. Roosevelt or the system? V i, J? cnconsus ot opinion is that it is going to be Mr. Roosevelt. Buffalo (N. Y.) Times. f SOMEBODY WILL BE FOOLED Tho following editorial is by Henry. WnU Jou?naird Printed in th Lo"vmeenCouHeJ: As the republicans frame the aihmn somebody, is to be fooled migTitily Who ia it likeliest to be, Rockefeller and company who will provide the sinews of -war, or the malses of the people, who are expected to provide the votes? That is the sum of it, whichever way we take it, or consider it. We are promised a change of policies. Of which policies- the policies of the republican SLd?entr the P?,1Icies of the republican con gress? The republican party can not be true to tho ono without repudiating the other It can not at one and the same time keen'sten with Roosevelt, the radical, and CannoS the standpatter; with tariff reform and the gospel of protection; with the trusts of the east and tho farmers of the west; with the people ad fS,e8r7atom In ne WOrd' rePcanismPfor " and MammonreSUrCeS Ml DOt Serve both G When tho republican congress refused to enact a aw of publicity, under whose operation blackmail could no longer be levied upon an? interest by tho managers of either organization t proclaimed the purpose of the republicans tp lay tribute upon the corporations and to f?v the fat out of the manufacturers, again to sen the foreign embassies to the millionaire ? 2nd promises of no rear interference to the trust magnates, as a return for the means ofonr2 ing the ballot box and buyingKection Is It possible that they look for a hicrn letter of Mr. Taft, prematurely exploded to make denial of this? Is it nossib? tSn? to rely upon certain glittering genwaJltlS ey president adroitly kept ontotsMuLV the crucial moment to help them deSv fflndi a vote of eight to one they strnSr ?S7iit?, Bl of their platform. Thev Kav ? Ideal out ing the country by a frL vote ? P? ? Carry" of winning the elL?ion exlent bvIf COUnt5 all that is meant by the popuHs ?LKunt'tK have patched together at ?h?i! ? aullt tne behind which they may work ti? 3 aTscreen vices of Hanna and CwteTyou ? familiar de' tl-d partake by the ofmini Vi t0 slt down ftnd Loods anSy cold stoS JolTlh0t canned Chicago apparently w!thStf5?r ffJ6 men-u at law or Uie uplifted I h nf of Jhop.uro food -Louisville finrieVj55Si. AnaniaS Club' A NATIONAL CHAUTAUQUA FOB COLORED PEOPLE The Bible Eduqational Association, organ ic VTn laWS f New Jersey' witn branches J 9nH I Temple' Ph,ladlPhia, Pa., and hLn I Yemnt aVenUG' Was&ington, D. C, has been offered a valuable property at Pont Pleas ant, New Jersey, for the establishment of a na- ureVstt '" thG Cl0red T f The objects of the Chautauqua $e: To give nnfUeh,C,UrSe f instruction iZhe English Bible, special normal training for public school nplT; !PGClal StUdies In sociology; and a special ecture course by. persons eminent in their calling. These courses are to be given with a view h f0 StUdy'f the word f God; the dnH f g0d citIzenshiP.- Proficiency in domestic and social economy; training for mis- TZ r7f?tlle cultivatl of civic virtues; and to insti into tho colored people the neces sary appreciation o2 moral responsibility, the value of common politeness, and the necessity or a greater economic efficiency. ,Jnifty USand d"ars are' neede r the SSwTappeal TSF Pleasant' N J" our pllfS? i pePIe in sections of to the flJSw? iontTi ag liberally as possible worSorSl raaenancePof this A. fS Sh0uld be"8ent to Hev. George WarneJ 9t(T ft?01!' " or to Hon. B, H. warner, 91G P street, N: W., Washington, D. C. SAMUEL G. JMILLBR, President. JESSB LAWSON, w Vico President ERNEST J, STEVENS, Marb?e&f; June.8 bSSS; Floyd W $2S;S ChUi' New York, K Y.; Jlev. dSiaPanV11??13;1111 ?hurch' PIlila" altv WnSfr ?rof-Ke"y Miller, Howard Univer- 5Sl m2SdSfttofr DNC-J HnsMll H. Con Pennsylvania PlG Univerty, Philadelphia, u V V - A -.Hfc b j,