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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20
LONG is FOR TAFT.
Massachusetts Man Favors War Secre-
tary for Vice President.

Massachusetts Man FavOrs War Secre-
tary for Vice President.
Chicago, June 2D.-John D. Long
of Massachusetts ,ex-secretary of the
navy, today authorized the Associated
Press to announce that his candidate
for vice president was William H.
Taft, secretary of war, whom he re-
CARDS as in every way the most avail
able and best man.
There can be no question of the
strength of Mr.. Taft said Mr.. Long,
''he has made his record. The coun-
try knows him and the ticket 'Roose-
welt and Taft would, in my opinion,
sweep the country. My reasons for
favoring Mr.. Taft are these:
"FirSt-Eminent qualifications as a
presiding officer dignity, sound judg-
ment and elaboration are character
.second-His close and warm
friendship for the president. He
would certainly make an agreeable
running mate for Mr.. Roosevelt.
''Third-The fact that he is splen-
didly qualified for the increased re-
sponsibility, which devOlve upon the
vice president in case of an emer-
gency, and lastly, or perhaps 1 should
have said first the fact that there is
a strong sentiment throughout the
country trending toward Taft for the
presidency in 1908.
'sObiection would be urged to Mr..
Taft on the ground that 1t would re-
move a strong man from the cabinet
and put him in a position less promi-
nent To the first objection I should
say that Mr.. Taft would be of i'm
mense assistance to the president, as
he is a member of the cabinet, and to
the second objection that Mr.. Taft is
so we'll known it is impossible to lose
sight of him. True he has recently
assumed the war portfolio, but his
work is in a sense completed, SO far
nc ig
there is no great emergency which
would necessitate his remaining sec
rotary of war.
my suggestion of Mr.. Taft is every
where being warmly received and es-
pecially among the eastern delega-
lions the sentiment seems to favor
him for the vice presidential nominal
ton"
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ALL ROOSEVELT'S WAY.
Continues from First Page.l

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pulverized. He thinks it not necessary
to continue trust protection by way of
raising campaign funds. He believes
Mr.. Cortelyou will be able to get funds
even if the beef trust and packing
house trust should be fined every
morning before breakfast and actually
forced to do business in competition as
in the good old days. He does not point
with pride to the fact that soon after
the beef trust investigation commenced
beef prices went I'D with confidence
and prices of cattle down with assur-
ance. He proposes to make a rough
house before the committee on resOlu-
tions and if turned down come before
the convention with a minority report
and say things. He wears no gum
shoes, but has a record for being in
the open and is not afraid to address
the convention for publication. In fact,
being an oldtine newspaper man, he
believes it is legitimate to take the
public into his confidence by means of
the press.
1t is being asserted that Mr.. CorteI-
you has in store a large bump for
the beef trust and that he will spring 1t
as one of the high cards of the cam
paign in due time. The shift in prices
in bold defiance of the investigation
being made by him is said to have
forced a conclusion to start something.
The mass of delegates apparently are
giving comparatively little attention to
the platform. The prevailing opinion
is that the wishes of the president
should be largely consulted on that
point and the impression goes to the
extent of believing he has indicated
his views to his particular friends. That
Senator Lodge mas drawn up the prin-
cipal resolutions of the platform is gen
orally conceded and all doubt as to
whether he would be chairman of the
committee on resolutions has been dis
PEELED by the notification which Acting
Chairman Payne has given the senator
that he will be recognized to make the
motion for the appointment of the plat
form committed
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OUT IN SMITH COUNTY.
PopuIists Name a Strong Ticket With
MoIlison for Representative.

Smith Center, Kan. June 20.-The Peo-
pies Party county convention held here
Saturday for the nomination of county
officers was one of great Importance to
the voters of the cOunty-enthusiasti
harmonious and well attended.
Smith is one of those counties that
NAMED steadfastly in the POpulist col
umn from 1890 to 1902 It is the home of
Secretary of State Burrow. Two years
ago, meeting defeat on the county ticket
by less than 100 votes, few of the lead
ers at once turned Democratic and COM
menced the fusion talk that proposed the
utter destruction of the Peoples Party,
that had for so many years won annual
victories regardless of any old party.
This course aroused the early promoters
of the Peoples Party and the way the
old timers and the farmers rolled into
the convention from every township made
the political pie hunters who had said
they were all dead look like the proven
bal 80 cents, to say nothing of that 30
pieces of silver that has always cOntroll-
ed the actions of the average political
somersaulter-
The convention got right back to first
man. Following is the ticket nominated;
REPRESENTATIVE, John Nollison; treasur-
err J. e George: sheriff, VIM Long; clerk.
F. T. Thompson. county superintendent,
w H. Lyon: county attorney, Webb Nc
Nall: register of deeds, W. H. Myers
clerk of court. w F. kunze; probate
judge julius Jarvis; coroner, DR.. D. W
Relihan: surveyor, n. H. Wilmington.
commissioner Second district, J. II. Det-
wiler: commissioner Third district, Chas.
ID Dettmer
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MARKETS TODAY.
Tendency in Wheat Pit Toward
Firmer Prices.
Excellent Growing Weather
Causes Easiness in Corn.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Cattle Are Steady to a Shade
Lower.
Hogs Are Strong and Five Cents
Higher.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.

Chicago, June AT-Senti mcnt
in the wheat pit was divided, but the ten
dency was toward a frmer market I'm
der the information of a considerable de-
crease in amount on passage there was
quite a demand at the start. SeptembeR
opened a shade higher to &c lower, at
795sq7s11zc to 1886 After advancing to
T99z Gp795sc, a. decline to 1850 followed on
selling by scalpers. Julyl opened 4sq12c
higher to 3sqAc lower, at SS5sq9414c and
sold up to S43sc. Minneapolis, Duluth and
Chicago reported receipts of 361 cars,
against 40 cars year ago.
Shorts We're active purchasers of wheat
throughout the entire session as result
Of numerous crop damage reports The
part of the session. After selling up to
SO1sc, September closed at l9BQSOc, a gain
Of &c. July closed sc higher, at $3.50
$3.50, after touching S4sc-
CORN-Excellent growing weather and
big increase in the amount on passage
caused an easier tone IN corn July open
ed a shade to &c lower. at 47s4c to AKA
47Zc, and sold at 475sc, and reacted to
472tc- September opened unchanged and
&c lower at 4Sssd4S1kc, and held at asa
After selling at 4s5ssz4sa4c, September
closed unchanged, at 477sc.
OATS-The feature of trading in oats
as a result of the selling of the July OPP
ton was easier. Other deliveries We're
firmer in sympathy with wheat July
1850. September opened unchanged to a
shade higher, at 3la4c to 31AQS17sc, and
VISIONSEProvisions were firm on
an active demand from brokers and pack
ers. There was a decided scarcity of Of
ferings at the start and buyers We're
forced to bid the market up sharply in
order to bring out any sales Septem-
Der pork opened 15d30c higher, at S13. 00lJ
1905 and sold up to S13O71h September
lard was 71sd171kc higher, at S7.05d7.15
Ribs were up 10d221zc, at S7.5567. 571s.
WHEAT-Cash: No. 2 red, S101; No. 3
red, 95cd$ 800; No 2 hard, soc; No. hard,
S2dS6c: No. / northern, -97c1$1.00; No 2
northern, S66SSc: No. 3 spring, S0085c.
RYE-June, &c: July, Gle; Sept, SOC.
OATS-No q 40c: No s. 395Ac.
CORN-No. 2, 4Sd4S14c: No 3, 471ld4Sc.
FLAX-Cash: NV, S107; S--W-, s1.01;
June, S1.0O: Sept, 81. 05.
TIAIOTHY-June, S2.95: Sept, $3.15.
CLOVER-June, $1075.
BARLEY-3Sd57c.
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New YorI, Sroclra.

Wall Street, New York, June %
STOCKS-The tone of the opening of the
stock market today was firm with small
advances, except for Metropolitan Street
Railway, which ran off a point. South
eren Pacific and St. Paul advanced IS
point The market was narrow and dull.
A further relapse to 1105z by MetrOpOh-
tan Street Railway and large realizing in
Southern Pacific forced the active stocks
back slightly. The advance was resum "a
later under the. leadership Of United
States Steel preferred which was bought
in large blocks up to 55A Other favor
ties sold well about Saturdays close. es-
pecially St. Paul, Southern Pacific, Mis-
souri, Pacific. Amalgamated Copper and
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Anaconda rose
25z points.
There was some shrinkage in the de-
mand but prices yielded but little.
Southern Pacific was lifted = point over
last week. Republic. Steel preferred adj
vanccd IA points and St Joseph ana
Grand Island first preferred 1 point. Met
ropolitan Securities fell point and Cen
eral Electric / point.
Bonds were firm at noon
Buying corverged on Southern Pacific
for a time during the afternoon and il
rose to 34ss While the general market
stfffened in sympathy the improvement
was of little consequence. Toledo, st.
Louis and Western advanced 1iz points
and the preferred ~ points.
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HOG CASE IN HIGHEST COURT.
James Dwyer Won't Pay His S. Fine
in City Now.

James Dwyer doesn't propose to
pay a. fine of five dollars imposed on
him for raising and keeping swine
within the city limits of Topeka-if
he can help it. And he has carried
the case to the supreme court in order
to get out of the fine.
Dwyer and his wife were once ar
rested for violating the anti-hog or
dinance. Mrs. Dwyer was acquitted,
but Mr. Dwyer was adjudged guilty
and sentenced to pay a fine of five
dollars for his offense. He appealed
to the district court. but got no relief
there, and today he carried his appeal
to the supreme court. There is no
allegation that the ordinance under
which he was convicted is invalid. but
that he was wrongfully convicted.
1t is doubtful if a case was ever be-
fore carried to the supreme court to
escape the payment of a fine of five
dollars unless a constitutional ques-
ton was involved
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ROOT TO SOUND
THE KEY NOTE,
CONTINUED from First Faee.1

Continued from First Page.O
with this the national convention
viii adjourn.
The national committee will remain
in the city to choose a chairman, who
will be manager of the campaign; a
vice chairman, and a secretary, who
will be his assistants, and an executive
committee, who will act with him in
an advisory capacity. The chairman
will be George Bruce CortelyOu of the
department of commerce and labor,
and the secretary will be either Elmer
Dover or Charles w. Johnson of Min
neapolis.
The chairman and his assistants
will then proceed to open headquar-
ters for the campaign, one of which
viii be at Chicago and the other in
New Y ork.
Several weeks after the convention
adjOurns the committee on notifica-
ton will wait on the presidential and
vice presidential candidates to notify
them of their selection. The chair
men of the two committees will de
liver the notification in a carefully
prepared speech, which will be re-
piled to in an equally carefully pre-
pared speech by President Roosevelt
and his running mate. This speech
by the president will be his only con-
tribution to the literature of the cam
paign.
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HOW LAFoLLETTE FELL.
The Defeat of Wisconsin's Governor
Charged Up to Railroads.


Chicago, June 20.-Walter Wellman
in the Record-Hera1d says
In writing the history of the day it is
well to adhere to the actual facts, and
the truth of history compels that the
railroads are looking after their end of
the business with their accustomed
skill and aSsiduity.
Governor La Toilette of Wisconsin
may still have enough life left in his
body to know by this time what run
over him. 1t was a railroad train. How
could he have expected it to be other
wise? His political speciality has been
fighting railroads. He has fought them
in season and out, fairly and unfairly.
He has capitalized his animosity to
them. He has built up a machine of
enough, like Stephenson's COW, to
stand in the path of the locomotive.
And it has been bad for the COW.
This is what happened. Appeals went
out from the presidents of railroads in
Wisconsin to their brethren all over the
wrecxer of the Badger state This was
an opportunity to dispose of him which
must not be neglected. And to a man
the brethren responded. They went to
work among the national committee
men from their regions, and when the
railroads start out on a trail like that
they are able to use q good deal of
steam.
Every railroad company in the
United States that knows it's business
makes a speciality of attending to
what are called the fine points of
politics, and one of these fine points
is to make sure of having friends
in the organization of both of the
great political parties. They may not
be able to control primaries and dele
when it comes to the selection of
committeeman.
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ARGENTINA BALKED,
She Very Nearly Sold six Cruisers to
Russia.

st. Petersburg, June 20, p. M
It is now definitely established that
negotiations for the purchase by Rus
efa of six Argentine cruisers had al
most reached a successful conclusion
when Argentina raised the question as
to under what flag they would be
transferred she being unwilling to
sell direct to a belligerent- The me
dunn through which negotiations
were conducted suggested that they
he transferred to Venezuela or Costa
Rica, or Bulgaria, which would turn
them over to Russia, but President
Roca rejected the proposal, lnslstlng
mai a bona. ide power should be the
purchaser Then Turkey negotiated
through the Argentine legation at
Paris. The result of the negotiations
is not known
Commander Moneta has arrived on
his way to the far east to observe the
operations for the Argentine navy
General Reynolds, of the Argentine
army. who had been ordered to join
General Kuropatkin, is i'll in Sweden.
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kaiser WiIheIm,s Fast Run.

Plymouth, Eng, June ZO.-Ihe
average speed of the North German
Lloyd line steamer Kaiser Wilhelm,
which arrived here at 1887 this
morning for the distance, 3,172 miles
from Sandy Hook light house to Ply
mouth. was 23.5S knots per hour as
compared with the 23-51 knots of the
Deutschland of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can line. While the Deutschland S
total time over the long distance route
is still SO minutes shorter than the
time just occupied by the Kaiser Viii
helm. she actually did not travel so
far by only 5.23 miles The best days
run of the Kaiser Wilhelm was 564
miles.
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Chicago Livestock Market.

Chica go.June 20--CATTLE-Receip To-
day. 26 900 head Market for choice cattle
steady; others 10dI5c lower. Good 10
prime steers, $5.75u6 80; poor to medium,
s.. 50q5.25; stockers and feeders. 81. ESQ 4.50:
cows SI.50I4 so. heifers, s.. O0G14.75; cam.
ners, 81. 50a2e0; bulls. S2.o0Q4. 40; calves,
g. 5OQ55O; Texas fed steers, S4-S546-25;
Receipts today, 5000 head; esti-
mated Tuesday, 1900 head. Market 5u19c
higher. Mixed and butchers, s.. 0Od5-25-
good to choice heavy, S5.20d5.30; rough
heavy, S4.9Od5.15; light, S4-95d515; bulk of
sales. 50. 1Od5-20.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 1900 head.
Sheep and lambs strong Good to choice
Wethers, $4.7565.25. western sheep $4.JJD
800: native lambs, S. O0d6.5O western
lambs, $6.O0d7.00; spring lambs, s500d7-65.
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of the raid by the Vladivostok squad
ron They say VIadivostok has proved
more valuable as a naval harbor and
better as a strategetical position than
Port Arthur.
Piece of the Cross for AIexieff.
st. Petersburg, June 2O--The
patriarch of Jerusalem has appointed
Viceroy Alexieff a Knight of the True
Cross and has sent to the viceroy the
decoration containing a piece of the
true cross with a letter expressing the
hope that it will preserve him from
all harm and enable him to come out
victorious in his fight for the orthodox
church
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Kansas city Live Stock Market.

Kansas City. No. June 20-CATTLE-
Receipts today, 5000 head, including 5000
head of southerns. Market steady to d.
shade lower. Native steers. SA25G6. 40:
southern steers, $3.O0Q5.70: southern cows,
s.. 0OG4.Q0: native cows and heifers, 81. 001r
8 40. stockers and feeders, s.. 0Gd4.70. bulls,
s.. 50d4.25; calves, S2-5Gn4-25, western
steers. 81. 25N600. western COWS, 81 20fI 800.
Receipts today, 1900 head. Mar
lxet sc higher Bulk of sales, S49545-9
heavy, s., o0d5- OH packers, S4-95a5-05;
SHEEP Receipts today. $500 head
s. 0Od6. so: range wethers, S4.OOQ4.75; ewes,
81 50lJ4 so
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carn,,.nts of Reindeer Wool.

From their herds of reindeer the
IaDlanders in northern Europe take
the woolly hair and make from it
blankets which are remarkable for
their excellent qualities of resisting
moisture and cold OF these blankets
the United. states consul at Frankfort,
GERMANY has this to say:
"A close examination of the hair of
the reindeer furnishes an explanation
of its peculiar value. The hair does
not have a hollow space inside for
its whole length, but is divided or
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St. Louis, Mo, June 2O.-CATTLE-Fe
ceipts today, g. 900 head. including 1900 head
of Texans. Market lower for Texans ana
steady for natives. Beef steers. $4z5d6-67
stOckers and feeders. 50. 006t42 Is; cows and
heifers, S2.25@5 As, top for fancy corn fed
heifers; Texas steers, 100000, Texas
cows and heifers, s.. 75d3.75.
HOGS-Receipts today, 900 head Mar
ket about &c higher. Pigs and lights.
$4l5q4s5; packers = $3.50; butcners
and best heavy, S5O0d5-25-
SHEEP--Receipts today, 800 head
Market steady to strong. Natives, $50
10; lambs. s5.O0a7.25. Texans. $. 4oa4.I5.
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Kansas City, June 2O-Close-WHEAT-
Receipts today, is cars Quotations
were lower. July. 74szc; Sept, rose; Dec,
704s 0f709zc- CASH No. 2 hard, sSdes1so:
No hard. S3Qs6c; No. 2 red, s9odS1 .1os
No. red, 9S6esc.
COMMANDED steady July, E5z855kci
Sept, 49, 6437kc: Dec, 3Ssk d8S7kc. Cash.
No. 2 mixed, 5065Oazc; NO. 3. SOC; No. 8
white SOC; No. 3 white, 4994e1kc-
OATS-Narket steady. No. 2 white -
43c: No mixed. Hc-
RYN64c.
HAY-Chodce timothy. 80 OodnQSO-chol-a
prairie, IS
BUTTER 1sa15o; dairy. faa-
EGGs-Fresh, 1sc.
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New York. June O-MONEY-Afonev ON
call easy, 1G15A per cent, closing bid IL
and offered at 1 per cent; time loan&
easy and dull: 90 and 30 days, 2 per cent.
months, 3d3A per cent
CLOSE Prime mercantile paper, 31AR
"a per cent; sterling exchange firm, with
actual business in bankers bills at 81 $50
d4Sl35 for demand and at s. s535i14 $50 for
60 day bills; posted rates. S4s6 and 1sss
commercial bills q S51s.
SILNER-Mexican dollars, 445kc
BONDS-GOvernmen bonds easy.
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Cortelvon Is Coming.

New York. June 2O.=Secretary Cor
telyou, of the department of COM
merce and labor, will arrive in Chi
cago Tuesday night or early Wednes-
day morning. It was reported he was
summoned to meet the Republican
leaders, it having been his previous
intention not to go west until after
the national convention had adj
journed
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Gibraltar. June 2O.-The United
States battleship squadron, consisting
of the Kearsarge, Illinois, Maine and
Iowa, arrived here today and Will sail
for Tangier after coaling.
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Cotton Market

day. 100 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet
and % points lower Quotations per 100
pounds: Middling uplands, Sis; mid
ding gulf, S11.5O.
Galveston. Tex. June 2O-COTTON-
Market lower at lie per pound
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ST. and CoRee tn New YorI..

New York, June 20.-SCGAR-Raw SUI
gar steady Fair refining, 3ssc; centrifu-
gal IS test, 27-32c; molasses sugar. s1sc.
Refined sugar irregular Crushed, $500
powdered. $500, graduated, $3.50.
COFF'EE-Marzet steady. No. Rio,
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ket steady. Creamery. 1s5za1T5e; dairy
12d16c.
EGGS-MarlZet steady. At mark. cases
included, 14d141zc.
Oh EESE1-AIarket easy. Daisies. SGT
Twins. 7Ag7zzc: Young Americas. Sc,
keys, 1oc; chickens, 1oci springs, 15G2oc.
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St. Louis, No. June 2O.-WOOI-Marl<ek
steady Territory and western mediums,
16a2lc; fine medium, 16G17c; fine, 15dI7c.
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New York Rntfer.

New York. June 20-BUTTER-STarI
firm Creamery, common to extra, 800
1Sc; state dairy, common to extra, IA
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Range d Prices on stock.

FURNISHED by J. E. Gall, Commissions.
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth street. Telephons
1855 Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Co.. Kansas City. MOI
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Furnished by A. NJ. NcDermort Commits
sion CO., Stocks, Grains, Provisions and
Investment Securities. Rooms 20 and p.
7O2 Kansas ave.l
Liverpool. 1 80 D. m. Wheat I'D higher
corn a lower.
Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat. z
cars; graded. 1. Corn, rs cars: eraded
50. Oats, 1l6 cars; graded, g.
Opening Liverpool cables: Wheat and
corn unchanged.
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Chicago, June 20-Charles Netcher, I
president and treasurer of the Boston |
store, died today after an operation |
for appendicitis.
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Range OF Prices

FURNISHED by J. E. Gall, Commissions.
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth street. Telephone
$50 Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Co, Kansas City. Mol
Chicago. June 20.
Open High Low Close Sat
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CORN
Knnsas Cltv Grain.

Furnished by ]. z. Gan. Commissions,
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth street Telephone
4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Co, Kansas City Mol
Kansas City, June %.
Omen High Low Close sat
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?Ex-dividend u per cent

Chicago Produce Market
ChicaRo. III. June 2o.-BUTTER-AIar-