Connecticut western news., 1907-09-26
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NTeSlQent ROOSeNelI nus lell ogee Bay for Washington and on Sund' will start on his western and southc.i speechmaking tour. At Memphis oa Oct. the speechmaking programme will be interrupted, and the president will start for the camping grounds in northeastern Louisiana. He will break camp on Oct 21, going directly to Nicksburg to make his promised speech there. The return to Washington will then be begun, and. the White House will be reached on the afternoon of Oct. 23. In the six speeches he Is to deliver on his trip 1t Is understood the president will say things more radical than he has yet given utterance to and will pledge his administration to war to the death on all lawbreakers, high and low. There is to be increased eff fort to break up illegal combinations and not ray of hope for the defiant financiers of Wall street. To prevent Wall street from getting advance in formation the president has decided that hereafter only three copies of his vance. These are to go to the Associ' ated Press, the Publishers Press and the Lafran news bureau.
 William k. Hearst took occasion to deny that he was candidate for the presidency. "I am not a candidate for the presidency on the Independence league ticket or on any other ticket" he said. "and 1 cannot conceive any conditions under which I would be .a not say this Tn the Rooseveltian sense publicly declining the nomination and privately working to get 1t, nor do l say 1t through any feeling of pique or disappointment at the result of the late election. 1 am well satisfied to be a private citizen and to labor through the league and through the election of others to promote the principles I be lieve in. I dislike holding office, I dis like running for office, and dislike particularly being placed in position where the sincerity of my principles can he questioned through campaign ing for an office that I do not wan and that would only consent to hold through sense of public duty as ] would serve on jury"
 Supreme Court Justice ]. Franklin Fort of New Jersey was nominated for governor of that state at the Re. publican state convention in Trenton on the first ballot. The nomination was not accomplished until late owing to long wrangle over the platform on the excise question. Justice Fort re ceived 753 votes, Chancery Clerk VI vian NJ. Lewis of Passaic received 1T9 votes, Sheriff Frank H. Sommer of Essex 120 votes and Supreme Court Justice Mahlon Pitney or votes. The Colby element will support the nomi nee. The platform contained what was intended as m indorsement of the so called bishops law in these words, "The Republican party has accom-. plished needed reform in excise legis, lation and pledges itself to the mainte- hence of it."
 A thrilling story of how Percy c Bissell, frantic suitor, armed with revolver, forced Miss Belle Grouse of Stanhone to go with him from Ocean Grove to Asbury Park, N. l., to be married under threat of murder was revealed by the girls father, Rev. N r. Grouse, pastor of the First Presby terian church of Stanhope. The hero ism of brother clergyman in the mid dle of the marriage ceremony saved the minister's daughter from harm The clergyman took the pistol away from Bissell and gave Miss Grouse ar opportunity of running away from her admirer.
 Mrs. Adeline Mason. wealthy wid ow of Wilimantic, Conn, has decided to defy the social leaders of the towr who threaten ostracism if she marie, w. G. Clemons, whose romantic court ship of less than five weeks is the tall of the place. Mrs. Mason is sixty years old. while Clemens is only thirty-five But we will marry even if the whole whole world oppose" was the an nouncement made by both Mrs. Nasor and MT. Clemens to reporter, "and what's more," added the prospective bride. I'm sure our union won't prov, misflt."