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The Commoner,
VOLUME 11, NUMBER 40
The senate investigating committee
In Session in Milwaukee investigating
f no methods employed to elect Isaac
Stephonson to the United States
senate, listened to testimony show
ing that the sum of $107,793 was
spent to carry the twenty-two hun
dred precincts of the state of Wisconsin.
In connection with the president's
visit to Omaha tho World-Herald
prints tho following:
President Taft and those who
havo supervised the arrangements
for his Sunday afternoon appearance
At the Auditorium under tho auspices
of tho Young Men's Christian as
sociation, are tho recipients of a stir
ring rehuko through an editorial
published Friday by tho Truo Voice,
the local organ of tho Roman
Catholic church.
The editorial, under the heading,
"Who Blundered?" is as follows:
"President Taft is to speak in
Omaha next Sunday under the aus
pices of tho Y. M. C. A. At St. Louis
tho other day ho laid the corner
stone of a Y. M. C. A. building. That,
of course, is his privilege. But it
must strike many that the president's
charity is very broad indeed when he
appears under the auspices of a so
ciety that would exclude him and
everyone of his religious belief from
active membership in the organiza
tion. "President Taft is a Unitarian in
Teligion and the Y. M. C. A. bars
such from active membership.
"That is the privilege of the so
ciety; and it is the privilege of the
president to be more tolerant than
tho organization under whose aus
pices ho will appear in Omaha.
"We understand that a number of
Omaha priests havo been invited to
appear on the platform with Presi
dent Taft next Sunday afternoon and
to participate in a Y. M. C. A. reli
gious service before the president
speaks. It is their privilege to de
cline the invitation; and we shall be
much, surprised if any one of them
accept it. It is unfortunate that
those who made- arrangements for
tho president's visit to Omaha should
have made it impossible for any priest
to participate in tho meeting Sun
day afternoon. Who is responsible
for the blunder?"
The "blunder" as outlined by the
above editorial has at least estab
lished a delicate situation in the mat
tor of the visit of the chief execu
tive to this city. Whether or not any
alteration of the plans already made
and perfected will be mad to re
lieve the situation can not be ascer
tained at time of going to press.
Tho Rt. Rev. Monsignor Colanerl,
chancellor of the diocese of Omaha
. and secretary to Bishop Scannell, re-
i fused to issue, a statement of any
kind. He simply referred to the odl
' lorial as the sentiments ho, would
himself convey. "I, or rsthor we,
are not interested personally in the
matter at all. I had not thought of
il and knew nothing of the editorial
' uatil I myself saw it yesterday,", -i
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&&'.&d sinco early in thel
-ofning. At his office, however, it
'-was stated that he would probably
Mmaln uncommunicative If apj-
liroached on tho subject.
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'A Detroit, Mich., dispatch, car-
rled by the Associated Press says:
Speaking before the Detroit board of
commerce to the topic, "It is the func
tion of tho law to punish wrong
doing and not to throttle business,"
George W. Perkins, tho New York
banker, said that tho people had
voted In favor of amending tho Sher
man anti-trust law. The voters, ho
said, had approved a plank of the
republican national platform in 1908
favoring amendment.
"The democratic party," he con
tinued, "at the same time, in the
trust plank of its platform, among
other things, declared for a policy
that would prohibit the control by a
manufacturing or trading corpora
tion engaged in interstate commerce
of more than 50 per cent of the total
amount of any product consumed in
the United States.
"In place of providing the suitable
publicity and supervision which the
republican party promised, for whicn
Governor Hughes' speech so ably ar
gued, and which the people of this
country indorsed, absolutely nothing
at all was done. And the republi
can party not only failing to carry
out the trust plank of the democratic
platform is actually vigorously carry
ing out the trust plank of the demo
cratic platform which it so strenu
ously attacked and which the Ameri
can people repudiated.
"The congress which adopted this
'do nothing' policy, which failed to
carry out these as well as other, in
structions received from tho people
in the last national election was re
pudiated by the people at. oureleor
tlons of a year ago, and now chaotic
conditions exist In the corporate
business world which 'mingle tho In
nocent and the guilty in a common
condemnation.' "
Goran law a method of allowing the
people to express preferentially their
choice for all of these offices, and it
would be contrary to what we are
trying to bring about to take advan
tage of this convention to get through
such an indorsement. It would be
cohtraTy to the spirit of the Geran
election law. I consider this resolu
tion a personal compliment and ask
that in due respect for the wishes of
tho people it is their right of pre
ferential vote on such a matter
that this resolution lie on the table."
One man was killed and several
others Wounded in a railroad strike,
at Houston, Texas.
J. C. Elliott, editor of the West
Point (Neb.) Republican, has been
nominated for congress by the re
publicans of the. Third Nebraska dis
trict. He will be defeated by Dan V.
Stephens, democratic nominee.
Westerville, Neb., has a man who
Is 117 years of age. W. S. Delano,
secretary of the Nebraska farmers'
congress, wrote a letter to the Lin
coln Commercial club, saying: "We
have a man here near Westerville
that President Taft ought to see
when he visits Nebraska next week.
This man waB born Jan. 15, 1794,
and was two years old when Wash
ington's administration closed.
Therefore, ho has lived under the
administration of every American
president. I do not think President
Taft has ever seen a man who can
say as much."
In the city was present to hear him
explain his attitude on tho tariff and
his nullification of the results of a
congressional session by exercise of
the veto. It was, a nonpartisan audi
ence present in a spirit of fairness
to hear tho president's side of the
story.
His first complimentary remarks
about the state and its officials
brought applause, but when he be
gan laying down his ideas and de
fending his official act's, the evidence
of approval, scantly enough at first,
grew gradually less, until the latter
part of tho address was delivered to
hearers oppressively silent, save for
the efforts of a few to inspire ap
plause by strained example. The
president's remarkable statement
that he vetoed the wool bill because
"no one had provided him with evi
dence that it would not ruin the wool
growing and wool manufacturing In
dustries" was received in dead sil
ence, although wool growing Is an
Industry of such magnitude in Wyom
ing that it Is a vital factor .in tho
prosperity of tho state.
Tho president's visit was followed
by wholesale expressions of disap
pointment and disapproval and the
opinion is well-rooted that his visit
to Wyoming has not aided him politically.
The town of Black River Falls,
Wis., with a population of 2,000
was visited by a flood and wiped off
the map.
Lee Halley, a striking working
man, was shot and killed at McComb
City, Miss. Other strikers were
wounded.
New Mexico politics begin to boil.
A Santa Fe dispatch, carried by the
Associated Press, says: The demo
cratic state convention nominated W. A large number of strike-breakers
C. McDonald as candidate for gover- brought into New Orleans by the
nor. Tho "platform, as adopted. Illinois Central were driven but of
An interesting story is told by the
Meriden, Conn., correspondent for the
Philadelphia North American as fol
lows: Peter B. Hall entered suit In
the city court, civic side, against Miss
Theresa Aichler to recover $12.53,
which, in his complaint, he says he
spent -while in her company June 7
to 22, 1910. The bill of particulars
is given. There are entires fpr trol
ley fares, ranging from a nlckol to
a quarter. Other entrieB Include
these:
Ice cream. 10 cents, supper. 45
cents; meal at New Haven, 63 cents;
shore dinner, $1; hiring horse and
wagon, $1; chocolate, 35 cents; hir
ing horse at Willimantic, $1.50; sup
per at Hartford, 60 cents; tip to
waiter, 25 cents.
Hall, who is a painter by trade, has
retained counsed in his suit.
praises the democratic house of rep
resentatives for making statehood
possible, thanks the progressive re
publicans for their aid; declares for
a tariff for revenue only; favors
direct primaries to nominate all pub
llo officials, Including United States
senators; advocates strict regula
tion of corporations, a non-partisan
judiciary, separate elections for the
judiciary and the initiative and
referendum. The progressive repub
lican state convention adopted a plat
form embodying the planks of pro
gressive legislation and "honest
government." It declares for a pro
tective tariff, but denounces Schedule
K; denounces tho republican party
of New Mexico and the ticket nomi
nated at Its recent convention.
town by strikers.
The Chicago Record-Herald, in
local news reports, says: Employ
ers of labor in the United States are
facing the most serious situation that
r
Angus McSween, Washington cor
respondent for the Philadelphia
North American, wires his paper
from Topeka that the Kansas dele
gation in the republican national con
vention will bo against Mr. Taft's
renomlnatlon and that should ho be
renominated. Kansas will probably
go democratic
Governor Woodrow Wilson con
trolled the democratic state conven
tion In session at Trenton, N. J. A
resolution was offered indorsing
Governor Wuson fpr the presidency
but this resolution was laid on thp
table at Governor Wilson's request
In making this xequetet Governor
Wilson said: "I appreciate this
great compliment from this conven
tion, but I take the liberty oi ask
ing that the resolution bo laid on
the table. I do not do this from any
sense of modesty, for any man
should be willing to accept such an
honor. But we have provided In the
'A Cheyenne, Wyo., dispatch to tho
Denver News sayB:
"Wumph Whee-e-e!" said Billy
Taft, a broncho.
"Whoop! Huh? Ouch!" said
Jack Martin, a cowbody.
"Haw, haw, haw!" said William
Howard Taft, president of the United
States.
Perhaps on no other occasion of
his entire trip has President Taft
beenso gratified as when, at Fron
tier park, the equine outlaw which
bears his name, handily unseated
Martin, as skilled and daring a rider
as you meet in a day's travel In
Wyoming, where good riders are as
common as are poor ones elsewhere.
President Taft has met with many
disappointments on his western trip.
A Cheyenne, Wyo., dispatch to the
Denver. News, says: President Taft's
visit . tPrt Wyoming manifestly , has
f ailed., rjfigaally of its purpose to
strengthen his waning popularity and
if. is apjp-Brent from public comment
tkaVhe no only did not make new
friends, but that he actually lost the
allegiance of many who heretofore
havo supported him.
The president's Cheyenne speech
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