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11 'AUGUST , 112 The Commoner. and that the instant the steel cor-t pbration acquired the Tennessee Coal and Iron company's stock it subsided instantly and permanent ly." The committee reports that on October 26, 1907, President Roose velt issued a statement congratulat ing Secretary Cortolyou and the busi ness men who headed off the panic. The committee says of this: "Up until the time of this inter view the steel corporation owed its success and its permanency to the power and skill of the financiers who had created and the iron mast ers who had directed its operations. Since that time its dominance has been due in no small measure to the sudden, ill considered and arbitrary flat of the chief executive. "The president's refusal to inter fere was an absolute warrant to pro ceed. A suggestion from him to the attorney general was equivalent to a command: and upon a refusal of the attorney general to act, the cor poration was immune. This is ad mitted by Colonel Roosevelt, and ho unhesitatingly assumes full respon sibility in the matter." The report occupies more than 200 pages and much of it is criti cism of the methods of the trusts. Andrew Carnegie's steel making methods and his desire to extend his business are held out as the motives which compelled J. Pierpont Morgan and his associates to organize the steel trust. JVjCZZ 'it 1 fcv" W. D. Washburn, at one time senator from Minnesota, died at Minneapolis. William C. McAdoo has been made vice-chairman of the democratic na tional committee. United States Judgo Emory Speer, at Macon, Ga., received a long letter from Colonel W. A. Huff, former mayor of Macon, suggesting the judge's impeachment. Colonel Huff charged the judge with misconduct on the bench. Judge Speer issued a warrant for the arrest of Colonel Huff on the charge of contempt of court. Many citizens are going to Colonel Huff's support and they will insist upon impeachment for the judge. governor motored to Trenton. Ho devoted himself to matters of state until after 1 o'clock, when he met Senators Mark Smith of Arizona and Ellison Durant Smith of South Caro lina. Later in the afternoon ho talked with E. E. Grosscup, demo cratic state chairman of Now Jersey; J. Taylor Ellyson, democratic chair man of Virginia; Lewis Nixon, Robert H. Hudspeth, A. Mitchell Pal mer and a half dozen other visitors who had made no appointment to meet him. One thousand delegates gathered at Chicago to attend the new party convention. An Associated Press dispatch says: Further limitations on contributions to political campaigns were incor porated in a bill agreed to by the senate committee on privileges and elections and reported to the senate for passage. Prediction was made that it would be enacted at once. Under the new bill all corporations would be prohibited from contribut ing money or anything of value to the nomination or election of presi dential -electors, representatives of congress or state legislators who elpct . federal senators. Contribu tions of individuals to such nomi nations or eTections would be limited to $5,000; but this provision would not- apply ' to candidates themselves. Under the. present, law candidates for congress are limited to spending $5,000 in nomination and election, and, candidates for the senate $10,000. An Associated Press dispatch from New York says: The action of the Kansas state courts in refusing to order the names of eight Roosevelt candidates for presidential electors stricken from the primary ballot was partly reversed by Justices Van De vanter and Pitney, of the United States supreme court. While these justices granted the application of the Taft men for a writ of error di rected to the Kansas supreme court, their decision does not constitute a final victory for the regular republi A FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Editorial in New York World: No truer description of political condi tions In the United States has been written than this, from the London Nation: "The real fight in America (today Is between the powerful vested interests and the struggling aspira tions of a people nourished upon the principles of freedom and progress which they find themselves unable to realize in practice." This is a people's fight for free dom. That is the meaning of the Chicago convention. That is the meaning of the Baltimore conven tion. The strength of Roosevelt In the republican primaries, the strength of Roosevelt's third party movement, springs from the belief of hundreds of thousands of republicans that he is the champion of the people against privilege, that he is fighting thoir regular republi- "" "? ""'.: r "" . ,i con organization. Under its terms oaiue apius ""-"'u "u: Z? the right of the Roosevelt candi dates td have had places on the pri mary ticket will be decided by the full bench of the supreme court when that tribunal holds its regular ses sion hi October. Meanwhile the names of the Roosevelt candidates will appear on the ballots at the Kansas' primaries. ' The effect of the decision is to leave the whole Kansas controversy suspended until October, when it is expected the highest court will settle it before the national election. BATTLING FOR PRINCIPLE '"Editorial In Chicago Daily News: Believing that In party matters his words and' actions are based upon re gard for popular, rights and that neither personal ambition nor pri vate interests Influence him, the rank and file of the democratic party by its support made .Mr. Bryan the most powerful single factor in the conven tion vat Baltimore. ' His defeat in the contest over the temporary chairmanship served to expose the forces of the Interests and thus to draw against those forces the flro of the progressives In the party. To this, no. doubt, is largely due the fact that later developments in the convention were exceedingly gratifying- to those who believe in popular rule of parties. A time tried, sincere man, Mr. Bryan has the confidence of the democratic voters to a degree that has been seldom surpassed In party history in this country. In this is a personal triumph for him that is greater than a mere victory at an election. For victory at election may be gained sometimes at the cost of compromises destructive to principle and replete with disillusionment. To the Editor "Why do the -most worthless men often get the best wives?" Editor I don't know. Ask your ThMliajndi"rr-frBmarbSet, ; - . , to.T.) Benton McMlllln was nominated by the democrats for governor of Tennessee. ' In the Texas primaries Morris Shepherd was nominated to succeed Senator Bailey. Governor Colquitt was renominated. Martin Dies was renominated for congress. Revelations In New York indicated that within the last year two million, four hundred thousand dollars was divided among police grafters. Po lice Lieutenant Becker has been ar rested on the charge of murder. Mutsuhito, forty-four years Em peror of Japan, died July 30. Yo shlhlto succeeded his father as em peror, under the formula provided by the constitution promulgated by Mutsuhito. The death of the em peror is greatly mourned by his people. A Seagirt, N. J., dispatch, carried by the Associated Press says: Gover nor Wilson announced that W. J. Bryan had contributed $1,000 to the democratic national campaign fund, addressing the contribution to Sea girt. Mr. Bryan accompanied his check with a personal letter, which was not made public. The an nouncement of Mr. Bryan's contri bution came at the close of a crowd ed c.day,: Early in .the. morning. the against the plutocratic powers that prey. We believe they are mistaken. We believe their confidences Is sadly misplaced; but nevertheless It Is their Idealism that makes it pos sible for Roosevelt to tear the re publican party asunder. And at Baltimore Mr. Bryan's victories have all been won through this instinctive belief of the rank and file of the democratic party that whatever his blunders he is honest at heart and Is fighting their cause. When' he appealed to this sense of freedom he overturned the Wall street-Tammany coalition that had seized the convention. The unit rule received its death blow. Tho Bryan resolution paving the way for a bolt in case the convention nomi nated a Ryan-Morgan-Belmont can didate was adopted simply because the delegates did not dare vote It down. And when Murphy swung New York's 90 votes to Clark early Saturday mor.nlng the stampede failed because delegates who might have been glad to break the nerve wearing deadlock refused to follow Tammany Hall. It is a political situation for which there has been no parallel since 1860. Party lines are falling; party organizations are discredited, and the old political order is in its death throes. The American people are going to have a new dispensation. They have read the death sentence of the partnership between corrupt bosses and corrupt plutocracy, and the will of the people will prevail. This is a new birth of freedom. A HARD QUESTION From tho Now YorJ: World: Is it qulto fair for Mr. Bryan to com pel Thomas F. 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