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'US? iH!rU- JSKjiwliiwHii j iwfiiw s The Commoner. VOLUME 8 "NUMBER 25. t.. .jefci i in ii c- llllllii HH I mMOTMtoAi2 CURR6NT V1 u' . -- " '" 1" " i nnar-r-fii ''UmtifT kyt,w , v mW W'" GOPICS S tfSSA THOMAS W. LAWSON, the Boston speculator, attracted public attention for a few hours by announcing that he would raise a ono million dollar campaign fund for a ticket composed of Governor Johnson of Minnesota for president, and Mr. Bryan for vice president. Tho Minne apolis correspondent of the New York World quotes Governor Johnson as saying, with refer once to Lawson's offer, "that sounds like a very oxcollcnt proposition." ANEW YORK clergyman has devised a novel euro for gossiping. A Utica dispatch to the Chicago Record-Herald says: "Rov. Henry Macllravy, who for soveral years has been the pastor of a Littlo Falls church, told his congre gation last ovoning that he was going to curb tho gosBipers who livo In the town. He was of tho opinion that in Little Falls there are just twelve fountain heads of gossip, and he said that thoso twelve might well bo matched against all thd other gosalpors of the country, they having qualities and faculties amounting to genius in i gossip, and at least they would win prizes in a contest. In order to curb loose tongues Mr. Mac llravy announced that ho had decided to set apart one Sunday of the month to squelching i gosslpers. He will on that day recite the gossip, ' without the names of tho victims but with tho names of tho gosslpers. In this way the public will become acquainted with tho twelve gosslp ers' names, and some who are not far behind." A CHICAGO dispatch dated June 22, and printed In tho New York World follows: ' "Governor John A. Johnson's managers packed up their belongings at tholr Grand Pacific hotel hoadquarters today to go to Denver, there to make a last stand against the nomination of W. Ji Bryan for president. They admit that Mr.- Bryan has 'within thirty or forty' of tho necessary two-thirds of tho delegates instructed , rr xx -i. fu. -...-,i.j-1 i.. crwui'gia, lNUX'lU . Carolina, Vormont and Montana, which will bo held by July 1, he will get all the additional votes he needs, according to the Johnson man agers figures. Nevertheless the Minnesota can , dklato will be represented at Denver by a fight ing organization. The effect of the nomination of ,W. H. Taft upon the democrats of the east Is expected to aid the Johnson men, Delegates from the south who are bound by loose instruc tions may be impressed, it is believed, by the declarations of the New York World and the Brooklyn Eaglo that they will not support' Bryan, and that against tho Nebraskan Taft would carry New York An appeal to delegates toVcdnBlder the success of the ticket as of more Importance than their instructions may be made by'the Johnson boomors." O . GROVER CLEVELAND, twice president of the United States, died at his homo at Princeton, N. J., Juno 24. Tho funeral took placo at Princeton, June 2G, President Roose velt and a large number of distinguished men from all sections being in attendance. An As sociated Press dispatch from Princeton, dated June 24, follows: "When death came, which was sudden, there were in, the death chamber on tho second floor of the Cleveland residence Mrs. Cleveland, Dr. Joseph D. Bryant of New York, Mr. Cleveland's family physician and per sonal friend; Dr. Goorgo R. Lockwood, also of New York, and Dr. John M. Carnochan of Princeton. An official statement given out and signed by tho three physicians gave heart trouble, superinduced by stomach, and kidney ailments of long standing, as tho cause of death While Mr. Cleveland had been in poor hoaltli for the past two years and had lost a hundred pounds in weight, his death came unexpectedly Some three weeks ago ho was brought homo from- Lakewood, where his condition for a timo was such that the hotel at which he was stay ing was kept open after its regular season be cause ho was too ill to be moved. But when Mr. Cleveland was brought back to Princeton ho showed signs of Improvement and actually gained five pounds In weight. Although con fined to his room continuously after his return to Princeton, It was not until yesterday, that :-T uuuuiuon aroused uneasiness on ...'. i. ,v tho part of Mrs. Cleveland. Undoubtedly affect ed by the heat, Mr. Cleveland showed signs of failure, and Mrs. Cleveland telephoned to Dr. Bryant, who came over from New York on the train, arriving here at 4:24 p. m. Dr. Lock wood followed Dr. Bryant from New York and when they reached here Dr. Carnochan, who had been Mr. Cleveland's local physician since the former president came to Princeton, was also called in. During the evening Mr. Cleveland seemed to rally, and Mrs. Cleveland, who also has been optimistic about her husband's health, felt assured that it was merely another of the many attacks Mr. Cleveland had suffered, and she informed those who inquired that Mr. Cleveland's condition was not serious. Mr. Cleveland became worse during the night, and Mrs. Cleveland was called to the bedside of her husband. The distinguished patient sank into unconsciousness, from which he recovered at times, only to suffer a relapse. This con tinued throughout the night and early morn ing. The last time he became unconscious was about two hours before he died. Death was peaceful. Just before he died Mr. Cleveland sought to say something, but his words were inaudible." THE CAREER of the late Grover Cleveland is . epitomized as follows: Born in' Cald well, Essex county, N. J., March 18, 1837; re ceived an academical education at Fayettesville and Clinton, the latter in Onedia county, New York; father died in 1853, and he went to New York and was bookkeeper and teacher in- Insti tute for Blind; moved to Buffalo in 185&T be came clerk in a law. office, and .as admitted to the bar in 1859; assistant ' district attorney of Erie county 1863-6; sheriff of Erie -county, 1870-4; elected mayor of Buffalo in 1881; -elected governor of New York the following year; elected president of the United States in 1884; broke all records by vetoing 115 out of 987 bills; married Frances Folsom in the White House, June 2, 1884; during his term Washing ton, Montana, North, Dakota and South Dakota wore admitted to statehood; was nominee for same office in 1888, but was defeated by Ben jamin Harrison; again elected president in 1892; settled Venezuela boundary dispute n 1895; re tired to private life, but always was prominent in movements for public welfare; elected trustee Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States June 10, 1905; died at his home in Princeton, N. J., June 24, 1908,, THE FUNERAL ceremonies for the late Grover Cleveland were simple in character, agree ablo to the wishes of Mrs. Cleveland, and in har mony with the unostentatious life. An Associat ed Press report said: "Mr. Cleveland vas buried with all the simplicity and privacy that he him self might have wished as a private citizen rather than as the former chief executive of the nation. There was nothing that savored of the official and the military element was injected solely as a measure of precaution in protecting President Roosevelt. The president arrived at 4:38 p. m. and was met at the station by Gov ernor Fort. The president, Governor Fort and Secretary Loeb were driven at once to Westland Upon his arrival at the house the president went to Mrs. Cleveland, offering his sympathy and expressing keen regret at Mr. Cleveland's death The president then returned to the recention room where the body lay. A few minutes later the four clergymen who officiated came down th stairs to the hall leading to the rece5tio7?oom followed by Mrs. Cleveland and thf children The services began with an invocation by Rev Sylvester W. Beach of the First Presbyterian church of Princeton which was followed ly Scriptural reading by Rev. Maitland of the West Farms Presbyterian church of New York -i former pastor of Mr. Cleveland, who read from the fourteenth chapter of the Book of John 25 a number of passages from the fourth and twenty-second chapters of Thessalonians AnS they shall see his face,' read Dr Rnrtwf closing, 'and his name 'shall b? in the! ? for? heads; they shall hunger no more, neither tfalrrt any more; neither shall the sun ? light unon thim nor any heat for the laujV wh!cf isX mfdjt of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains' of water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes.' Dr. Henry VanDyke then said that 'according to the re quest of one whose slightest wish at this mo ment we all respect, there will be no address or sermon, but there was a poem written more than a hundred years ago by William Wal worth which is expressive of his character.' He then read the poem, 'Character of Happy Warrior.' This was followed by readings from the Presbyterian book of common worship, tho services at the house concluding with prayer. The services were concluded at 5:30 and five minutes later the casket had been tenderly car ried to the hearse and the procession started on its way to the cemetery. Along the streets from the house to the cemetery national guards men, mounted and on foot, policed the way. The cemetery was reached a few minutes before 6 o'clock. The members of the family alighted from their carriages and with the four clergy men in the lead walked slowly down the grav eled path leading to the open grave r.nd the rose strewn, grave of Ruth, both almost hidden in the profusion of green boughs and flowers. Mrs. Cleveland stood with Esther and Richard and Dr. Bryant as the coffin was slowly lowered into the grave." THE LAST honors paid the dead statesman were strictly private, both at Westland, the Cleveland residence, and at the cemetery, in compliance with the wishes not only of Mrs. Cleveland but those of Mr. Cleveland as well. The services' at the house, which began at 5 o'clock (eastern time), lasted about half an hour. The clergymen alternating in the cere monies there and at the gravef were the Rev. Henry VanDyke of Princeton ' University, the Rev. Dr. William R. Richards of 'New York;, the Rov. Chester Burch, 'pastor of tlie 'Firs't Pres byterian church of Princeton, in which Mrs. Cleveland is a communicant, and the Rev; Mait land V. Bartlett, a former pastor of Mr. Cleve land and the present pastor of the West Farms Presbyterian church of New York. The active pallbearers were George B. McClellan of New York, Commodore E. C. Benedict, Dr. Richard Watson Gilder, John P. Finler, Prof. Paul Van Dyke of Princeton graduate seminary; Paul Mor ton, ex-secretary of the navy; Prof. Howard Mc Clenahan of Princeton university, Prof. Andrew F. Wheat of Princeton, and Archibald D. Rus sell, Junius S. Morgan and Bayard Stockton, trustees of Princeton university. Mrs. Cleveland in issuing invitations to the funeral, considered first Mr. Cleveland's own friends and neighbors of recent years and also selected from among them the list of active pallbearers. No official distinctions were recognized. The word was given out: "Mrs. Cleveland has many personal friends who, perhaps, might have desired to at tend, but because, she declares, Mr. Cleveland lived as a private citizen, she wished a private funeral with only friends who knew him in attendance." MR. TAFT, who is a graduate of Yale college, witnessed the boat race between Harvard and Yale college crew, June 25, in which Yale was defeated. The Associated Press said: Amid a deafening din of steam whistles and horns and the shouts of collegians, the Harvard varsity eight shot their boat over the finish line tonight, winning from the crippled and dis tanced Yale crew that classic of American col lege acquatics, the Harvard-Yale boat race. But instea.d of a race Harvard finished the last mile and a half alone, while far behind Yale limped along with but seven men at the oars, while Griswold, the stroke the man who had been relied upon to set the winning pace bent for- war imp aud falnt from the terrifice strain of the opening two miles. Up to this unexpected climax it had been a strong struggle, worthy i eJ?est traditions of the old antagonists and with the fitting setting of a marine spectacle such as has seldom been equalled along a re gatta course for brilliancy and magnitude. For the first time, too, the president of the United btates was taking keen and active interest as a champion of, the crimson colors, , nu -although I 4i