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to Vol. 19. No. 958. MAGOON AT THE HELM Issues Proclamation Assuring Natives That Liberty Will Not Be Violated Havana Charles E. Magoon as sumed the governorship of Cuba at noon today, succeeding War Secretary Taft. In his proclamation Governor Ma goon said: "The policy adhered and the as surances given by Secretary Taft will be strictly adhered to and carried out. As provisional governor I shall exer cise the powers and perform the duties provided for by the third article of the appendix to the constitution of Cuba lor the preservation of Cuban independence and the protection of life and property. "As soon as consistent with the at tainment of these ends I shall seek to bring about the restoration of the ordi nary agencies and methods of govern ment under the other and general pro visions of the Cuban constitution. All the provisions of the constitution and laws which for the time being would be inconsistent with the exercise of th powers provided for by the third article of the appendix must be deemed to be in abeyance. All the other provisions of the constitution and laws continue in full force and effect." War Secretary .Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Bacon will start on their return to the United States this afternoon on board the battleship Louisiana. BROOKLYN DEMOCRATS IN SPLIT Five Club Governors Quit When W. R. Hearst Is Given Indorsement. New York Af'er the Brooklyn Democratic Club had at a meeting de cided by a vote of 21 to 6 to indorse the platform of the Buffalo convention and to pledge its support to the candi dates on the Democratic ticket, five members of the governing committee presented their resignations, giving as their reasons that they would not have their names connected with that of W. R. Hearst. "Many members, including Edward M. Shepard, J. Edward Swanstrom, Henry Hentz and A. Augustus Healy, who had publicly declared their oppo sition to Mr. Hearst, were not present. As soon as the vote had "been an nounced Henry S. Rowland, the secre tary, resigned his place, declaring that he believed that Mr. Hearst was a So cialist and not a Democrat. Francis tendered their resignations for the same reasons. VETERANS DRAW COLOR LINE Spanish War Soldiers Want Negroes to Organize Separately Washington The United Spanish- A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO POLITICS, AGRICULTURE AND HOME Lincoln, Nebraska, American War Veterans drew the col or line when it was decided that in states where there were camps com posed of negro members of the organi zation the negro camps should be or ganized into separate departments and that hereafter the word "negro" should be used instead of the word colored. Captain Hamilton Ward, Jr., the newly elected commander-in-chief of the veterans, accompanied by John Lewis Smith, the newly elected adjut ant general, called on President Roosevelt today and discussed the proposition to establish rifle clubs among the veterans of the Spanish war and to create the veterans into something like an assembly reserve al least a nucleus that m'yl r be used by the United States in case of war. No conclusion was reached. NO ELIGIBLE MEN, GIRLS IN POOL Unmarried Women of Minnesota Town Issue Declaration of Independ ence by Organizing Club. St. Paul, Minn. Unmarried women of Le Sueur, Minn., hayfe,J.sued a dec laration of independence as regards the sterner sex. To the number of six teen, of whom nine are school teach ers, they have organized themselves into a Five Hundred club, and intend by unfeigned gayety during the long evenings of the winter to demonstrate to man he is in nowise indispensable to their happiness. This was the out come of a solemn conclave in which the woman admitted that, through no fault or failings of their own, but wholly on account of the scarcity of eligible men, they were doomed to so cial celibacy during the coming winter. SUES BIG HARVESTER COMPANY Kansas Charges International With Preventing Competition. Topeka, Kan. Criminal proceedings against the International Harvester Company of America on fifty counts were begun in the district court of Shawnee county by the filing of papers by Fred S. Jackson, assistant attorney general of Kansas. The charge is made in each count that the de endant has entered into a unlawful combina tion with the International Harvester company of New Jersey for 'the pur pose of preventing competition and es tablishing a monopoly in the trade of harvesting and " other agricultural im plements in Kansas. All' of the counts are based on the exclusive con tract feature of the contracts Issued to agents. . .. THREATENS GREAT LOCKOUT Fifty Thousand Building Trades Em ployes May Be Idle. Chicago A lockout of 50,000 build ing trades employes is threatened as the . result of numerous sympathetic strikes in various buildings now being erected in the down town district: At a conference between union Represen tatives and several contractors no' so- October 18, 1906 lution of the difficulty was reached and at the close the contractors issued an ultimatum which was in effect: "Return, to work or stay away for ever." i The strikes are said to have been caused by rivalry between the steam fitters' and plumbers' unions as to which trade shall install pneumatic tubing. Among the structures affected are the new county court house, the Commercial National bank building and the new Marshall Field structure. It is said that close to $3,000,000 worth of contracts are tied up uendinj; a set tlement of the difficulty. DEMOCRACY GAINS, SAYS BRYAN Nebraskan Finds Text in Observations in Tour of World. Springfield, Mo. William J. Bryan addressed several thousand people for an hour and a half in Central park to day, saying in part: "At all times and in all countries there are two parties the democratic and the aristocratic. One of these parties is for the people and the other is against them. In toe lastyear'I have visited nearly every country of the world and find these two parties everywhere. And in ev ery country the democratic party is growing stronger and the aristocratic party growing weaker. Aristocracy is gradually dying out of the world. In this country there is one party that is much nearer to the people than the other. And that is the Democratic party." BURTON TO GO TO PRISON Senator Burton of Kansas Is Denied a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court Washington The United States Su preme Court denied the motion for a rehearing in the case of Senator Bur ton of Kansas, convicted of practicing for pay before the postoffice depart ment wihle a senator, and must serve six months in Iron county, Missouri, jail and pay a $2,000 fine imposed by the federal court of St. Louis. Bur ton now has no way of escaping pun ishment. ...,.. CHAUFFEUR IS FINED rN&ncyj France The chauffeur of the automobile of the Duke of Montpenzier who ran over and killed a railroad workman near this city, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and to pay. a fine of $120. The duke was not prosecuted. DISCUSS CHURCH QUESTION ' Paris The cabinet at the meeting today again discussed the church and state separation law, but no final de cision was reached. The matter will be taken up pgiin at the next meeting of the. cabient, October 16. The rench parliament will be convoked October 25. Canton O. Celery growers in this vicinity- report a loss of $25,000 from the severe :old spell of the past few days - - ' LIFE Subscription $1.00 ACCEPTS NOMINATION W. R. Hearst Issues Letter to Demo crats Asserting Pride in Their Confidence. New York William Randolph Hearst sent a letter to W. J. Conners, chairman of Democratic state conven tion accepting the nomination for gov ernorship as follow: "I accept the nomination of the Dem ocratic party, bearing in mind the rec ord of the great party in the past and knowing that the membership of the party is determined still to be ruled by the principles of Jefferson and Jack son for the best interests of the whole citizenship, rather than for the selfish interests of any party, class or indi vidual seeking for special privileges. : "It cannot be denied that certain individuals and classes have at times secured control of the machinery of the Democratic party and attempted1 to use it for their own personal or class profit. The duty of true Demo crats is to deprive or all authority with the party those who represent only special interests and who seek to pro mote such interests at the expense of the general welfare. Traitors Driven Ou. "The Democratic convention at Buf falo did this thing in a most conspicu ous and effective manner. Democrats, so-called, but seeking after special pri vileges in reality, were driven over into the Republican party, where those of their class flourish. "The line is now clearly drawn be tween special privileges on one hand and equal opportunity on the other. The Democratic party, purged in this state of corporation control and pledged to end the boss control through which corporations act, now has an opportunity to serve the people as efficiently as it did in the times of Jefferson and Jackson. "To serve the people and the party today as effectively as in the days of Jefferson and Jackson it is only nec essary to be sincerely Democratic and loyal to Democratic principles. "The attitude that the Democracy should take toward great capitalisfic organizations is now precisely that of Jackson toward the United States bank which appeared as a menace in his day. "The property rights of every man and of every organization of any kind must be respected, but today as In the day of Jackson, it is necessary to de clare that no power shall rise up great er than the government, or menacing to the government. Wealth Must Not Dominate. "The Democrats of today must de clare and they must mean that no matter how great the wealth of indi viduals or corporations, that wealth must not be an Irresponsible dominat ing power In government. J "The "people beyond any question de