' up "fimir-. - r -r 10 The Commoner. VOLUME 11, NUMBER ST gjjgBBiiSi?rTSii.-ji't"' 'IIS vm I I ft. !- li fi ) I !H tt - tAj? ts- - in f- 7?isrfT- k-Jt com fl-iAiNDPif S3 twa Postmasters In session at Omaha, Neb., heartily applauded a proposi tion that Postmaster General Hitch cock bo made tho republican nomi nee in 1016. Republicans of South Dakota met at Huron and inaugurated a La Follette boom. A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch to the Omaha World-Herald, says: W. J. 'Bryan, under the auspices of the democratic state committee, will spend three weeks making campaign .speeches for the democratic state ticket, beginning October 5. The schedule will call for an average of three speeches a day. It is expected that every county seat in the state in the more thickly populated parts of the state will bo reached by Mr. Bryan. Chairman Byrnes ,of the democratic state com mittee will confer with C. W. Bryan regarding dates and locations. In his speeches in favor of tho demo cratic state ticket Mr. Bryan, will also address voters on national issues. A Louisville Courier-Journal dis patch says: There will be no strike of the shopmen of the Illinois Cen tral over recognition of the federa tion. Tho principal factor in ending the trouble was the action of the exe cutive board of tho international as sociation of machinists refusing to authorize the strike. Mayor Gaynor, of New York, through the chief of the bureau .of licenses, notified all persons engaged i, Jn the moving picture business not to Bhow any films or stereopticon views relating to the Beattie murder case. Mayors in various other cities have adopted the same course. Former Governor and Mrs. "Wil liam Larrabee celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at Ames, Iowa. actual rebels in imposing punish ment. The possibility of very serious results in Sze Chuen is great. If the rebellion is not properly suppressed it is likely to spread to other pro vinces where there has been much discontent of late. Some of the newspapers are urging the people to join In the uprising, but the mer chants everywhere are fearful that if the rebels are successful it might be the beginning of a general conflagration. France has replied to Germany's proposals on the Moroccan question, declining to accept. The interstate commerce commis sion began an investigation of Okla homa City's complaint that new rates proposed by the railroads discrimi nate against it as a packing house and livestock center. The interstate commerce commis sion suspended advances in freight rates on single packages and small lots until April 28, 1912. The referendum vote at Cleveland by the garment workers resulted in a vote of approximately 10 to 1 for a continuance of the strike. Tho Brooks locomotive plant of the. American Locomotive company at Dunkirk, N. Y., will be closed indefinitely. The eruption of Mount Etna is be coming more intense and a panic pre vails at Calania, Sicily. untrue the statement that tho pro gressives would throw their support from La Follette to ChaTles Evans Hughes. "The announcement of the candidacy of Hughes is an effort of the regulars to confuse the progres sives and swing votes to Taft," said Mr. Nolan. Rodney J. DIegle, former seargent-at-arms of the Ohio state senate says he is preparing a confession and that it will make startling revelations con cerning bribery in the Ohio legisla A Cape Girardeau, Mo., dispatch, carried by the Associated Press says: Eugene E. Abbott of the First Pres byterian church here, resigned, giv ing as one reason that his salary of $2,000 was excessive, considering the amount appropriated in charitable and other church work. He has ac cepted a call to a church at Fulton, Mo., where his salary will be $1,800 per year. Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio is confined to his home by a kidney affection which threatens complica tions. ' The republic of Portugal was for mally recognized by Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Italy and Austria. The rubberized balloon Viking, constructed for A. Holland Forbes of New York, has been purchased by citizens of St. Louis. Henry Harrison Hinckle, who is said to have read the Bible through eighty-five times, died a.t his home at Emporia, Kan., aged ninety-two. He has been a member of the Metho distchurch seventy-five, years - the people, all of whom would bo vitally affected by any radical change for the worse in their living con ditions," said he, "are singularly de pendent on you and although they may be temporarily misled, in the end they will realize that you are what we all know you to be, their true and lasting friend." After Mr Davidson concluded the president shook hands with the delegates, and made them a short speech, saying: "I am very much touched by your coming here to bid me Godspeed on this trip, which I am to take. I am going to do the best I can on this trip to talk to the people on the issues of the day, not alone the poli tical issues, for there are a great many issues that it is well for the people to consider that do not attract politicians at all. They are the is sues that do not figure in the head lines and yet contribute much to the welfare of the people and it is well for the people to understand them. I have not referred to the issues which your chairman and spokesman has touched on with so much elo quence, because I do not think it is necessary. Regarding reciprocity, the arbitration treaties and the tariff board, you know where I stand and it is not necessary for me to convince those who are of the same opinion that I am." James Russell Soley, former assis tant secretary of the navy, died in New York. A Pekin cable said: An imperial edict issued recently says that the ringleaders in the disorders in Sze Chuen province intended to proclaim independence. As a consequence the Chinese government lias ordered the viceroy to destroy the rebels tot the last man. The viceroy's attention having been called, however, to the 'fact that many of those taking part in the disturbances are misguided, the government instructed him to distinguish between them and the Prohibitionists won in the local option election in Morgan county, Ala. General Porflrio Diaz is at Baden Baden to take the baths. Three years and three days in the federal prison at Leavenworth was the sentence imposed ont James Brenton, former mayor of Des Moines, for selling liquor to. Indians. The Japanese minister of educa tion, M. Hazba, carrying out the new government's policy of interior de velopment, announced that two new imperial nniversities, accommodating a total of one thousand students, would be opened. The second annual Appalachian ex position was opened at Knoxville. Champ Clark of Missouri was given an enthusiastic welcome home by the people of Pike, Mo. Lieutenant (Jhoutar, a pupil of the French military aviation school, was killed while making a flight at Villa coublay. A gust of wind capsized his machine and he fell 300 feet. A Minneapolis dispatch carried by the Associated Press says: "W. L. Nolan, chairman of the executive committee of the Minnesota progres sive association league branded as BARGAIN OFFER for Limited Time to New or Renewing Subscribers THE COMMONER AND THRICE-A-WEEK NEW YORK WORLD, both One Year for Only One Dollar I I ' ' I' ' ' II II I I I Addre Order to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nebr Katherine Cecil Thurston, the fa mous author, died suddenly at Cork, Ireland. New England business men told Mr. Taft "good-bye" when he started for Beverly, Mass., on his western trip. Herbert M. Davidson of Wor cester, Mass., president of the New England Association of Commercial Executives, accompanied by eighty members of that association, went to Beverly to cheer the president off. "As you go out from among us on your long and arduous tour," said Mr. Davidson, "we want you to go with he Godspeed of New England ringing in your ears. Other sections may waver, but we will not. You are president and as such are entitled to our sympathy, our loyalty and our unfaltering truBt. And you have this in abundant measure." Mr. David son, applauded frequently by his as sociates, approved the president's course on reciprocity, his policy on conservation and his determination that the tariff shall be revised only -when a non-partisan body of men shall have reported that reductions are warranted. Even if the passion of the hour precluded approval of the president's notion at this' time, Mr. Davidson declared history would justify Tilm. "The great masses of A Los Angeles dispatch, carried by the Associated Press, follows: Declaring that President Taft is a reactionary and does not represent the true sentiment of the republican party; strongly urging consideration of Senator Robert M. La Follette as a candidate for the presidential nomi nation; attacking the last session of congress for failure to pass general tariff revision laws and recommend ing the formation of a new political party, Senator -Works told members of the united league Just where he stood on these questions. ''Republi cans are now facing the question whether they will build up the re publican paTty or turn against it and destroy it," said Senator Works. "President Taft is not a representa tive of the people. He is a reaction ary, but he also is a merry man, with a most plausible manner in explain ing away his mistakes. Taft and La Follette are destined to face each other in the next campaign and if it were brought to a popular vote today La Follette would be nomi nated. But, unfortunately the situa tion has not reached this stage. How ever, it will be the duty of all re publicans to stand, by the nominee. The democrats are split worse than the republicans ever were. Any re publican who votes the democratic ticket will be throwing away his vote. If, however, Taft does not secure a renomination, .republicans will be confronted with a problem. It would do no good to turn democratic. The democratic party is more reactionary and it is split wider .than the repub lican party ever was. Progressive republicans, therefore, will be con fronted with this alternative, to re main within the party and save it from defeat, -while working to purify and improve -it, or if they can not bring themselves to vote for Taft, to join progressive democrats who can not support Wilson, or any other can didate, and form n new party." Sena tor Works said he would choose to remain within the republican party and remain in conjunction with other republicans. t$ . During the Gqrman army maneuv ers, the dirigioie nanoon a j, caught fire and fell near Grossbelow. The crew saved themselves by jump ing as they neared the ground. A New York dispatch, carried by tho Associated Press, says: Charles F. Brooker, republican national committeeman from Connecticut, a i ' ii' ;!Lk