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IB J, to 6V ; j :uA WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO POLITIGS, : AGRICULTURE AND HOME LIFE Vol.19. No. 954. Lincoln, Nebraska; September 20, 1906 Subscription $1.00 THE MAINE ELECTION Labor Leader Gompers Says Money and Whisky Saved Congress- -man Littlefield President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor declares that money and whisky saved Representa tive Littlefield of Maine from defeat. "Everybody in Maine," said Mr. Gompers, "understands that Littlefield would have been beaten for the nom ination but for the liberal use of mon ey. His opponent was undoubtedly the choice of the majority of republi cans in the district, and would haye ,been nominated but for the use of money against him. And in the elec tionwith Speaker Cannon, Secretary Taft, Senator. Lodge, Congressman Hamilton, Senator Beyeridge. and the rest of the big guns they used against us, with the president declaring that the defeat of Mr. Littlefield would be a public calamity in the face of all these things we. would still have de feated him but for the fact that a . lot cf fellows who had been . opposed to Littlefield were hired to support him. "Vested interests throughout the east assisted Littlefield's campaign. I have originals of letters and circulars that were sent into' the district urg ing people to support Littlefield as against 'this man Gompers' which I am not yet ready to make public, but of which the public will learn more. For instance, I have a copy of a let ter that a big wholesale liquor house in New York sent to grocers all over Maine calling on them to, support Lit tlefield on .the ground that his defeat would be a calamity to business in terests. You know the prohibitionists were all for him, and yet his head quarters and his workers . used im mense amounts of whisky." President Gompers says the Amer ican Federation intends to go ahead with its program in other congres sional districts as originally planned. Chairman Griggs of the democratic congressional committee, in a state ment relative to the Maine election, says: v . " The only explanation I have seen offered by our republican friends for the slump in Maine is the whisky ques tion. My understanding is "that the Maine people have had the liquor question with them at every election for a great many years, and, with the same candidates for governor and con gress, and with the same question-as four years ago before the voters, it seems strange that in this election prohibition arose in its might and smote them hip and thigh, and It is more than strange that after the elec tion they 'switched their bob' and de clare the whisky question was the main issue, when so many of the re publican big guns who were imported into Maine, declared to the contrary. "The issues they discussed before the voters of Maine were not prohibi tion, nor were they the indorsement of Republican policies as exemplified by the present congress, but the stand pat doctrine, and the indorsement of the president. "If the small majorities received by the republican candidates, which afe the smallest since 1864, are satisfac tory to these gentlemen, they oight to be to the democrats. In the last election the republican candidate for governor received a majority of over 27,000 and at this election only about 9,000. Our average gain in each con gressional district is approximately 5,000. If the ratio of republican loss in . Maine holds throughout the coun try, the next house will be largely democratic. Why should not Maine be a weather vane this year as always in the past?" ; PLAYING FOR STRONGER NAVY German Government Lets no Oppor tunity Escape to Show Neces sity for Ships Berlin The disingenuous tactics of the kaiser's' government in .suppres- eign service the German flag will be conspicuously missing from a spectacle wherein it would be advantageous from every standpoint for us to be rep resented." - ' Americans will probably inquire why it would not be possible to detach for the purpose in question one of the German cruisers which are constantly in South American waters. ; NEW NAVAL STATIONS Understanding Has Been Reached - Whereby Chinsaewan and Yeng hung May Be Used HongKong It is believed in Tokio that an understanding has been ar rived at between Japan and Korea to convert Chinsaewan and Yenghung in to regular naval stations. - The former point is of the utmost strategic importance, as it guards the entrance to the Straits of Tsu-shima. 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Address, THE INDEPENDENT, Lincoln, Nebraska. , sing the fact that King Edward wished to visit Berlin in 1904 the supposed refusal of the king being used as a means of popularizing the increase of the fleet have been further manifest-i ed by Germany's refusal to partici pate in the international naval review to be held at Jamestown, Va.f next spring. ; The occasion is the opening of the Jamestown exposition, and an invitation to participate has been re ceived from the United States govern ment. It is learned that the German gov ernment declined the invitation on the ground that it has no ships which can be spared. There is excellent reason to believe that the true inwardness of the refusal is a desire to empha size afresh the "poverty" of the Ger man fleet. The government wishes to be able to say to the German people, practi cally: -'Now you see the shame which the reichstag's refusal to authorize new ships brings . upon us. Through our lack of sufficient cruisers for for- stronghold against attacks from the north. , The expenditure on the two new sta tions will, it is understood, be borne by Japan. The acquisition ' of these important naval bases is received here with great satisfaction. MICROBE OF WHOOPING COUGH Belgian Savant Discovers Germ Once Thought to Have Been Found By Others Dr. Congou, of the Belgium Royal Medical academy, after careful re search, reports the discovery of the whooping cough microbe. It is said to resemble Pfeiffer's influenza mi crobe, which at one time was consid ered by Doctors Jochmann and Krauss to be the real microbe of "whooping cough. The academy awaits the re sults of vaccination experiments with the new microbe. - The medical world is greatly interested in the discovery. RUSSIAN TYRANT DEAD The Man Most Hated by Russians is Dead From Poison Ruled With Iron Hand . Dispatches from St. Petersburg says the death of General Trepoff, the "iron-fisted" ruler of St. Petersburg in the days of the outbreaks, causes little surprise. Trepoff had been pur sued so relentlessly by terrorists that his death at any moment would have been taken as the thing to be expect ed. The public generally, in discuss ing the matter commented on the co incidence of Trepoff 's death, and the attempt " made to assassinate Count Witte, former premier, at Wiesbaden, Prussia.- With almost unanimous ac cord the belief is expressed that ter rorists' had a hand in Trepoff 's tak ing off.. The recent attempt to poison Trepoff is well remembered. General Trepoff was without doubt, the best hated man in all Russia and was .made the victim of more attempts at assassination than any other man in the empire. His vigilance, however, prevented such attempts from meeting with success. Trepoff rose to a position where he had more power than any other man in the kingdom. To him had been en trusted the emperor's personal safety. He was practically above ministers and the law, pursuing any course he determined upon unmindful whether it conflicted or not with established laws or decrees, of the cabinet 'mem bers. He ruled Russia and he ruled with a fist of iron. He first attracted attention as head of the police of Moscow in the early days of the revolution. He had ever since been effective in putting down uprisings, although he resorted to cruel practices,, drew the attention of Czar Nicholas, 'who brought him -to St. Petersburg and established him eventually as governor general of the capital. Following the awful slaughter of "Bloody Sunday," January 22, 1905, Trepoff was called to take command In St. Petersburg and in the following outbreaks in the city he dealt merci lessly with revolutionists. Any demonstration in the streets was dispersed by firing volley after volley into the helpless crowds. .: This won him the hatred of the people generally, to whom his name was a terror, and a death sentence from the terrorists. Time after time efforts were made to execute the death sentence, but in vain. Under the regime of former Minis ter of the Interior Durnovo and him self one of the hardest men in deal ing with the people who ever occu pied that position, Trepoff was made assistant minister. Trepoff used his power ruthlessly. The slightest outbreak on the part of the people was the cause for awful reprisals. Trepoff was accused of inciting the Bailystok massacres. The uproar