Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-11-10
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MetcaIf Tackles Jap Problem.

Metcaf Tackles Jap Problem.
By direction of the president, Victor
H Metcalf, secretary Of commerce and
labor, has been hurrying to San Fran
cisco to investigate the causes reSDOn-
sible for the exclusion of Japanese
children from the public schools Of
that city. This action indicated the
profound interest and concern of the
president over this threatened impair
ment of our relations with Japan. Sec
rotary Metcalfs mission has been COM
municated to the Japanese govern
ment, with the assurances of the adj
ministration's desire to observe all
treaty obligations. Should the San
Francisco authorities fail to realize the
effect of their policy upon these obliga-
tons 1t is understood that the president
will consider the power of the govern
ment to enforce treaty guarantees. 1t
is also reported that some of the Japa
nese restaurant keepers of San Fran
cisco have been boycotted.
League Nominations Saved.
In a decision reversing the lower
court the New York court of appeals
on Tuesday affirmed the right of the
Independence league of New York city
to make nominations by multiple pc
tftions. This was heralded as another
Hearst victory, although it affected
only the candidates who had been
thrown out
Pennsylvania Graft Charges.
Taking up the gantlet thrown down
by the regular Republican leaders,
State Treasurer Berry Of Pennsylvania
filed with Attorney General Carson
detailed statement of the overcharge
and irregularities in connection with
the completion of the $13,O0O,OO0 state
capitol He said there was a scheme
Of bidding by which the prices bid for
work exceeded the bid many fold.
Attorney General Carson replied that
the proofs were insufficient to substan-
tiate Berry's conclusions and refused
to act The North American has Of
fered to duplicate for S1,OOO,OOO the en-
tire metal furniture. for which the
state was charged 100000.
Moody and Knox on Stump.
Attorney General Moody and United
States Senator Knox made speeches
for the regular Republican ticket in
Pennsylvania. but both took occasion
to enforce national issues and to de-
clare that local and municipal abuses
within the party should be remedied.
First Alaska Delegate.
Frank Fl. Waskey, who is the first
delegate from Alaska to the national
congress, has reached Washington. His
home is at Nome, near the arctic circle.
He was elected on a nonpartisan ticket,
representing the interests of the min
ers.
The Canned Speech Campaign.
Photographed campaign speeches are
not an entire novelty, but the Hearst
campaign in New York has gone this
idea one better by sending abroad
throughout the state monographs of
Hearst oratory, with moving picture
attachments. The speech lasts six
minutes, after which moving pictures
go on for about ten minutes. The pic
lures show Mr.. Hearst in the act of
delivering his speech and the hand
shaking scene that followed. 1t fol
lows him to his carriage and shows his
carriage moving through the crowd to
the station and the pulling out of the
train amid the cheers Of a throng of
people. The biograph also throws on
the screen cartoons and notices.
Croker Against Tammany.
An event which was thought to have
important bearing on the result in New
York was the statement by Senator
McCarren, the Brooklyn Democratic
leader, who bolted Hearst. that a ca
blegram had been received from Rich
ard Croker, former leader Of Tam
many, as follows: Congratulate you
on manly stand you have taken, win or
lose'
Root Speaks For Roosevelt.
The heavy gun in the closing days of
the New York campaign on the Repub-
lican side was speech by Secretary of
State Root at Utica The secretary
said that the president regarded Hearst
us. wholly untitled to be governor-in
fact, as an insincere demagogue. He
declared that Roosevelt and Hearst