Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-07-08
REPUBLICANS HOLD JUBILEE.
Observe Semi-CentenriaI of Birth OF
Psrty at jackson, Mich.

Observe semi-CentsnniaI of Birth Of
Party at Jackson, Mich.
Jackson, Mich, July NEARLY
10000 people assembled in pictur-
escue grove in the outskirts. OF this
city yesterday to celebrate the semi
centennial anniversary of the birth
of the republican party. 1t was in a
smaller oak grove at the opposite
end of Jackson that fifty years ago
yesterday the first state convention
that was held under the name of ere
publican" took place. Here the init
ial republican state ticket was placed
in nomination.
Secretary of State John Hay was
the orator of the day and United
States Senator Charles w. Fairbanks
Of Indiana, republican candidate for
vice president, and Speaker Joseph
G. Cannon Of the national house OF
representatives were also present and
delivered addresses. On the platform
was seated representative delega-
ton of the republican leaders of this
state, headed by United States Sena-
tors Alger and Burrows. Senator
Burrows presided over the afternoon
session and Senator Alger was the
last speaker of the afternoon.
Behind the speakers platform rose
wall of bright, colored bunting with
immense pictures of John c. Fremont,
| the first republican nominee for pres.
ident, and Abraham Lincoln, the first
republican to occupy the White
House. In the front rows of the au.
dience were nearly thousand men
who voted for John c. Fremont for
president, some Of whom had partici.
pated in the original under the oaks
convention fifty years ago yesterday.
The following quotations are from
the address of Secretary Hay:
"The republican party had a noble
origin. 1t sprang directly from an
aroused and indignant national con
science
IF there is one thing more thar
another in which we republicans arc
entitled to legitimate pride, it is thai
Lincoln was our first president; thai
we believed in him, loyalty supported
him while he lived, and that we have
never lost the right to call ourselves
his followers"
What we have done, what we are
doing, and what we intend to do
on all three We confidently challenge
the verdict of the American people,
"To every grade Of law-breaker
high or low; to man who would rob
till or a ballot box; to the sneak or
the bully; to the hvpocrite and the
humbug, Theodore Roosevelt is more
than unsafe; he is positively danger
ous.'
Everything great done by thi,
country in the last fifty years has
been done under the auspices of the
republican party"
DESPERATE RAYoNET CHARGE.
Japanese and Russians Struggle Hand
to Hand.
General Kuroki's HEADQUARTERS in
the Field, (via Fusan). July 7.-Op
July two battalions OF Russians at.
tempted to break through the Japan.
csc outposts at the northern entrance
to Mo Tien pass. After daylight they
surrounded an outpost of eighty men
at the foot of hill and charged the
trench above. A bloody encounter
with bayonets, lasting a quarter OF an
hour, ensued The Russians attacked
the trench three times, but we're
driven up the valley by a japanese
reinforcement, leaving many dead
and wounded. An observer saw fifty
lying in front of the trench.
Toxic, July 7.-Supplemental dis
patches indicate that the fight at Mo
Tien pass on July was a desperate
hand to hand affair. A majority of
the Japanese injured were wounded By
bsycnets. The Russians surrounded
the outposts of the Japanese who
fought until relief came.
The Russians left So dead ana 40
wounded on the field. The Japanese
lost 10 killed and IS wounded. 1t is.
believed that the Russians sustained
greater losses during the pursuit than
in action.
# London, July THE Lao Yang
correspondent OF the Daily Telegraph
In dispatch dated July I. at i d. M.
says: "a battle is proceeding twenty
Aye miles from here,
ri Numbers OF wounded are heins
brought in from the mountains.
Evidently the enga cement is a sa-
we're one, y.
1T is believed that the japanese
arc continuing their advance with the
object of cutting off Mulsf,en =