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The Commoner.
VOLUME 11, NUMBER 3
At Columbus, 0., Judge Kinlcoad
refused to quash tho indictments
against stato senators involvod in tho
loglslativo bribery charges.
It was decided in Now York that
Josoph B. Reichmann, formor presi
dent of tho suspondod Carnegie trust
company must stand trial on tho in
dlctmont charging him with a misdemeanor.
Prey, a German aviator in tho
Paris-Turin air race, was dashed to
tho ground noar Romo. Plis life was
saved by a heavy helmet which pro
tected his head.
Wall street Is said to havo prepared
bids to cover moro than tho govern
ment's now $50,000,000 3 per cent
Panama canal loan.
. Judgo Julian W. Mack, of Chicago,
was olectod president of tho con
ference of charities and correction at
tho Boston convention.
Tho steel foromast of tho old
battleship Maine was shippod from
Havana to New York.
Tho Gould intorests purchased the
International & Great Northern rail
road for $12,645,000.
Railroads have been granted an
extension from August 1 to January
1, 1912, in which to comply with the
commodity rate requirement.
Tho assembly committee on elec
tions of tho Wisconsin legislature
voted to recommend concurrence in
tho joint resolution declaring that
Senator Stephenson bought his seat
in tho United States senate and ask
ing that body to investigate his elec
tion. No change whatever In the text
of tho resolution as it passed tho
senato will be recommended. Tho
committee will roport tho resolution
back to tho house and it will bo put
on tho calendar for consideration.
fire which did $300,000 damage in
tho manufacturing districts. It is
claimed that an incendiary is at work.
A United Press dispatch from
Rosebud, Oro., says: "Tho first in
stance of tho application of the re
call to tho judiciary was begun hero
when petitions were circulated
against Judgo John S. Coke, of the
second Oregon district. The pro
posed recall is based on an allegation
that Judgo Coke's instructions to the
jury In tho case of Rev. McClellan,
charged with murder, so radically
favored tho defendant that a verdict
of acquittal was roturnod. The peti
tions were sent to the attorney
general, who approved their form.
Thoy are being circulated by Attor
ney E. I. Cannon. Under the low, if
sufllcient names are secured to war
rant a recall election, Judge Coke
automatically becomes -a candidate
for re-election. Ho was appointed to
tho bench in 1909 to fill a vacancy
and was elected a year ago."
A Paris cablegram, under date of
Juno 18th, and carried by the As
sociated Press, says: Fifty aero
planists took wing early today from
tho aviation field at Vincennes on the
first stage of the European circuit
race which calls for a flight to Lon
don and return with stops at various
places going and returning. Two of
the aviators almost Immediately after
been working as part of a system. It
was brought out in the hearing that
the Prairlo Oil and Gas company is
tho transportation company, purchas
ing tho crude oil and transporting it
to tho Standard Oil company of
Kansas, which is the refining com
pany. Tho latter turns tho refined
products over to tho Standard Oil
company of Indiana, which is tho
marketing end of the enterprise. The
state asserted that this division of
labor showed an illegal agreement
between the three. The defendant
companies are enjoined from owning
stock in each other. Thoy are en
joined from selling petroleum or pe
troleum products cheaper In one part
of the state than in another for the
purpose of driving out competition,
and from making contracts with' tiny
person to cause tho latter to refrain
from selling oil in Kansas. The
Standard Oil company of Indiana, the
selling company, Is restrained from
selling under different brands or
trade names oil of the same quality
and value.
tho start met with traffic deaths and
at least one was gravely hurt. Tho 0f his discourse and makes them not
ORATORY
That William Jennings Bryan is
the world's greatest platform orator
is an acknowledged fact. While men
may differ with his political views
they are unanimous In according to
his eloquence the palm of preemi
nence and in placing him in the
circle of the great maBters of human
speech. He possesses every faculty
of the orator and to a superlative
degree. His conceptions are original,
his scope of vision complete and all
absorbing, his analysis penetrating,
microscopic and logical, his diction
strong and graceful, his utterance
full of the charm of the exquisite
music of the voice. And above all
he possesses that magnetism which
transports his hearers into the realm
from the confederate survivors of the
war. They say to our president and
theirs:
"Viewed from either a personal or
an official standpoint it brings to the
association greatest pleasure. It
speaks volumes for the breadth and
generosity of tho sentiments tho
American people now hold of tho
gigantic conflict of 1861-65, and tho
universal recognition that the men
of the south fought for what they
esteemed a' great principle and which
they backed by unfaltering courage.
"This feeling plays a most Impor
tant part in the restoration of that
perfect harmony and confidence felt
by both the north and the south. As
brave men we are not unmindful of
either the courage or the patriotism
of the federal armfds. As our own
soldiers, we emphasize the achieve
ments of those who followed tho
stars and stripes.
"No. patriot would change the
spirit of peace and unbounded faith
felt by Americans in the superb des
tiny of the republic, and which fills
the hearts of all true men in every
part of our country."
No doubt there is still, with many,
a lingering regret for defeat, but the
men of the south who best under
stand are glad that the Lost Cause
was lost, that they retain unimpaired
in common with us the priceless heri
tage of the fathers and may feel a
homeland Interest In the prosperity,
progress and prospects of an un
divided republic.
Grand Army of the Republic it was
at first. Grander Army it is now for
the gracious part it has had in com
pleting a victory of war with so re
markable a victory of peace.
. A San Diego, Cal., dispatch, carried
by tho Associated Press, says: "Dick
Ferris, the Los Angeles promoter and
theatrical man, who has attained no
toriety in connection with tho in
surrection in Lower California, was
arrested here on a charge of con
spiracy. His arrest is believed to bo
in connection with that of others of
the Mexican liberal junta in Los
Angeles the violation of the neu
trality laws.
"Ferris was summoned before the
federal grand jury two weeks ago,
just after he had been elected presi
dent of the so-called republic of
Lower California, a position ho held
for a day.
"When the summons came from
the federal inquisitors, Ferris de
clared that fie had not taken his sud
den elevation to the rank of rules
seriously and had not thought of
violating tho neutrality of the United
States, vlt was all a' joke on himself,
ho said, played by tho insurrectos."
dead:
CAPTAIN PRINCETEAU, whose
motor exploded in midair, flooding
him with gasoline and burning him
to death.
M. LE MARTIN, who dashed
against a tree, the motor of his aero
plane crushing his head.
Tho injured:
M. Gaubert, a former lieutenant in
the army, who was entered in the
civilian race under the name of Dal-
ger. He was found lying senseless
near his machine in a wheat field four
miles from Vlllars-Coterets. His in
juries are serious.
M. Billo, whose aeroplane struck
the earth within a mile of the start
and was wrecked. Bllle was injured
but not seriously.
Throe other aviators fell, M. Lor-
dian near Charleville, Oscar Morri
son close to Gagny, and M. Morin at
Chevron, within twenty-two miles of
Liege, which is the first stage of the
race. None of the men were badly
hurt.
Four convicts in tho penitentiary
at Waynesville, N. 0., were killed in
stantly. Twelve were mortally in
jured and seventeen guards seriously
injured by the collapse of a bull pen
in which they were housed in a
mountain pass.
only understand but feel his very
thoughts. There is a popular notion
that tho age of oratory is dead but
that will never be while William Jen
nings Bryan retains his power of
oral utterance.' Albany (New York)
Times-Union.
"Why not join our settlement
work? Wo are teaching poor girls
of the slums to cook and sew."
"I don't know how to do either
of those things myself, but I wouldn't
mind giving elementary instruction
in bridge whist." -Louisville 'Courier-Journal.
A fire in manufacturing plants at
St. Louis resulted in a one million
dollar loss.
"Big Tim" Sullivan, now a New
York state senator, has declared in
favor of woman's suffrage.
' The indictments against Boss Cox
have, again been quashed.
Stv Louis was viBlted by a second
The Kansas stato supremo court
has rendered a decision in the state's
suit against three subsidiary com
panies of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, prohibiting them
from combining to stifle competition.
The three companies against which
the suit was brougrt are the Standard
Oil company of Indiana, the Stand
ard Oil company of Kansas and the
Prairie Oil and Gas comnanv. all sub
sidiary to the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey. Each of these com
panies is chartered in Kansas to pro
duce, purchase and otherwise pro
cure crude oil, to refine It and to
markot It. No one of the companies
has been doing this according to tho
findings. On the contrary each has
A GREAT PEACE DAY
Roger C. Craven, of Omaha, Nob.,
in Memorial day address: How
much the spirit of Memorial day,
with its simple but unspeakably im
pressive and beautiful ceremonies,
has contributed to a complete peace
making can not be calculated. Some
union veteran passing the grave of a
confederate soldier, in the magnani
mity with which the emotions of the
hour expanded his heart, dropped a
flower upon it. The whole south felt
that exquisite touch. A confederate
veteran responded later by dropping
a flower on a union grave, and the
great reconciliation was begun. Thyi
It was that "the mystic chords of
memory stretching from every battle
field" and soldier grave, old time
patriots, union and confederate, "to
every living heart and hearthstone
all over this broad land," were again
and at last touched by "the better
angels of our nature," swelling the
chorus of the union. Though passion
had strained and disrupted, it had
not permanently broken the bonds of
our affection.
But, common as expressions of
mutual good will have become, we
are even yet occasionally astonished
at a circumstance showing how per-
ict is tne concord. Two years ago
the commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate veterans died from over
exertion in the ceremonies attending
tho reunion of Iowa and Wisconsin
veterans of the Grand Army at Vicks
burg. A few days ago the president
of tho United States wired his felici
tations to tho annual convention of
the United Confederate veterans as
sociation at Little Rock. In Its ronlv
we have an official statement-of their
present feelings, fifty years after
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