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SEPTEMBER 15, 1911
The Commoner.
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F&uL Officers selected for the demo
cratic state central commltteo wore:
.Vice chairman, Chris Qruenther of
Columbus; treasurer, P. L. Hall of
Lincoln; executive committee, First
district, A. V. Johnson of Lincoln;
Second district, H. B. Fleharty of
Omaha; Third district, H. G. Miller
of Stanton; Fourth district, A. P.
Sprague of Aurora; Fifth district,
John Mooney of Arapahoe; Sixth
district, F. J. Taylor of St. Paul.
Chairman J. C. Byrnes of Columbus
and Secretary Leo Matthews of
Albion were selected for their re
spective offices at the meeting of the
Btate democratic convention held at
Fremont.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Denver says: An amendment to the
state constitution providing for the
recall of the judiciary as provided in
the Arizona constitution before it was
eliminated by President Taft, will
be submitted to Colorado voters at
the next state election, if the .cam
paign started by the direct legisla
tion league is successful. The
league's judicial committee has ap
proved the judiciary recall and rec
ommended that steps be taken at
once to initiate such an amendment.
of co-operation. Ho declared that
the farmers must immediately
change their business methods and
assist one another or they will soon
bo the playthings of "tho interests."
Ho pointed out that tho farmers aro
losing a billion dollars annually in
tho value of their holdings, while the
trusts on tho other hand are gaining
a like sum. United States Senator
T. P. Gore, who followed Brooks,
took up the cudgel for co-operation,
and his speech was confined mostly
to amplifying the statements of
Brooks. "You farmers will bo
buried deeper in misery than ever if
you do not co-operate," declared the
blind senator. "More attention must
be given to business if you are to bo
successful."
president's objections to these bills
ho said: "Theso and othor marks of
paternity suggest the question
whether tho vetoes may not have
been adopted offsprings, liko tho de
fense of Ballinger."
Former United States Senator
Roger Q. Mills died at his home in
Corslcana, Texas.
Arthur Pue Gorman, son of the
late Senator Gorman, has been nomi
nated by the democrats to be gover
nor of Maryland.
B. E. Glyck of Foxholm, N. D.,
drew first choice in the Fort Ber
tholdt land drawing at Minot, N .D.
The crater of Mt. Etna is emitting
ashes and lava, and people in the
vicinity of the eruption aro in panic.
James P. Latta, congressman from
the Third Nebraska district, died at
a Rochester, Minn., hospital, where
he had undergone surgical treatment.
The strike of Illinois' Central shop
men has been averted.
By a majority estimated at about
a thousand, Maine repealed the law
of constitutional prohibition.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
spoke in favor of reciprocity at the
Nebraska state fair and on the fol
lowing day Congressman Norris, re
publican, replied to him, attacking
the administration.
An Associated Press cablegram
from Deal, England, says: After a
lapse of thirty-six years, Captain
Matthew Webb's feat of swimming
the English channel was duplicated
by William T. Burgess, a native of
Yorkshire, but now a naturalized
Frenchman. It was Burgess' six
teenth attempt, he having first es
sayed the task in 1904. Burgess
started from South Foreland, Dover,
at 11:45 o'clock Tuesday morning.
He landed at Le Chatelelet, a little
village two miles east of Cape Gris
nez, at 9:50 o'clock Wednesday
morning, accomplishing the passage
in twenty-two hours and thirty-five
minutes. It is estimated that Bur
gess, owing to-the .serious sea course
-he was compelled to take because of
the baffling tide, covered Bixty miles
in crossing the twenty mile channel.
Eighty-one persons were drowned
- in a ship, wreck .on .the -west .coast of.
. South America.
T. J. Brooks of Tennessee, presi
dent of the National Farmers' union,
addressed that organization at Shaw
. -nee, Okla. A Shawnee dispatch says:
v -Brooks-spoke -atlength'on -histheme
With the organization of com
mittees in Merrick and Nance
counties last week admirers of
former Governor Joseph W. Folk
started a campaign to capture tho
Nebraska delegation for tho Mis
sourian at the spring primaries.
Tho first committee was fowned
at Central City with Robert E.
Barge chairman, and H. F. Allen
secretary. Among tho others promi
nent in the meeting were Dr. Earl
E. Boyd, county chairman; Mayor
E. H. Bishop, Attorney J. E. Dos
kines, Sheriff Milton Her, John Mc
Kendry and tho Rev. V. E. Shirley.
Messrs. Shirley, Boyd and Bishop
were appointed to draft resolutions.
The following was submitted and
adopted:
"Whereas, The democracy of
Merrick county, Nebraska, is de
cidedly progressive in Its tendency,
and
"Whereas, Our objects can only
be attained by the election of a man
as president who is a progressive
and constructive statesman, and
"Whereas, Our sister state of Mis
souri presents such a man in the
person of her former governor,
Joseph W. Folk, therefore, be it
"Resolved, We hereby indorse
Joseph W. Folk as the presidential
candidate of the democratic party
for 1912."
Chairman Barge also was in
structed to appoint a committee of
seven from the various townships of
the county to extend the organiza
tion Into those districts. 9
The organization of the Nance
county committee followed that of
Merrick county. Among those who
participated In the meeting at Ful
lerton were: J. N. Campbell, H. M.
Kellogg, editor of tho News-Journal,
Albert Thompson, W. P. Hatten, S.
F. Rolph and N. I. Claggett.
Chairman W. H. Orton of the
Nance county democratic commit
tee also announced his allegiance
to the Folk cause. The fol
lowing resolution was adopted by tho
Nance county Folk admirers:
"Whereas, We believe In a pro
gressive democracy and wish to
further progressive alms and ten
dencies to the end that a man In ac
cord with these ideas and possessed
of constructive ability may be chosen
as our candidate for president in
1912, and
"Whereas, The state of Missouri
offers such a man to tho democracy
of the nation in the person of for
mer Governor Joseph W. Folk, there
fore, be It
"Resolved that we democrats of
Nance county, Nebraska, favor the
said Joseph W. Folk as our candidate
for president."
President Taft's attitude toward
tariff Tef orm 'was attacked by Gover
nor Harmon of Ohio in a -speech be
fore the gathering of democratic
clubs at Boston, September 8. Gover
nor HaTmon said that the president's
course in vetoing tariff bills passed
by the special session of congress in
dicated that he had been reached by
'Vrong advisors.-" Speaking of the
A dispatch to tho New York
American, from Galnesvlllo, Texas,
dated September 5,- says: Senator
Bailey today announced hero that he
would not be a candidato to succeed
himself In tho United States senate
In a statement to the correspondent
of tho New York American, he said:
"You can say for me that I will
not be a candidato for re-election to
tho senate next year. I know tho
stato can not find a successor who
will be more faithful to the honor
and welfare of her people than I
have been, but I sincerely hope she
will find one who can represent her
in tho senate with greater ability
than I have done."
The primaries held in Virginia,
September 7, to select tho demo
cratic nominees for United States
senator, resulted In a victory for the
"machine men." Thomas F. Martin
and Claude A. Swanson wero re
nominated for the long and short
terms respectively. Tho "anti-machine
candidates" wero Representa
tives Jones and Glass, who, although
defeated by large majorities, mado
splendid advances in tho cause of
progressive democracy.
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A verdict of murder in tho first
degree was returned by the Jury at
Chesterfield courthouse, September
8, against Henry Clay Beattle, jr.,
indicted for tho murder of his young
wife on July 18, last.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Gary, Ind., dated September 8, says
that Mayor Thomas E. Knotts, five
of tho nine members of the city
council, City Engineer W. A. WII
liston and a son of one of the alder
men, were arrested on charges of
having accepted and solicited bribes
in a heating franchise deal.
R. T. Crane, a millionaire Iron
manufacturer, has mado public an
arraignment of the big universities
of the country, charging an alarming
prevalence of drinking and gaming
among the students.
John Jacob Astor and Madeline
Force, both of New York, wero mar
ried September 9, at Beechwood, tho
bridegroom's Newport house. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr.
Joseph Lambert, pastor of Elmwood
Temple church, Providence, R. I.
An Associated Press dispatch,
dated Fort Worth, Sept. 19, says:
United States Senator Joseph W.
Bailey today confirmed the report
that he would retire from the senate
at the expiration of his term In 1913
and would locate in this city. Mr.
Bailey said he and his son, now a
student In the law department of the
University of Virginia, would open a
law office here. In a statement Mr.
Bailey cancelled all speaking ap
pointments in the state. He said
that should ho fill' the engagements
already scheduled his enemies would
say he really Intended to stand for
re-election in 1913 and would point
to the fact that ho was addressing
Texas audiences as confirmation of
tho charges.
Aviator Fowler left San Francisco
September 11 . on his transcontinen
tal trip, with New York city as his
destination.
Governors of many states as
sembled at Spring Lake, N. J., Sep
tember 11, for tho third annual
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