Connecticut western news., 1907-12-19
News of
A Week
Paragraphic Photographs Of the
Worlds Doings

PRESIDENT Roosevelt issued the fol-
lowing statement: ION the night after
election 1 made the following an
nouncement: L am deeply sensible of
the hoEor done me by the American
people i'll thus expressing their conf
dence in what 1 have done and have
tried to do. / appreciate to the full
the solemn responsibility this conf
dence imposes upon me, and l shall do"
all that in my power lies not to forfeit
it. On the 4th of March next / shall
have served three and a half years,
and this three and a half years consti-
tute my first term. The wise custom
which limits the president to two
terms regards the substance and not
the form, and under no circumstances
will l be a candidate for or accept an
other nomination. 1 have not changed
and shall not change the decision thu
announced" In some quarters the Is
suance of the statement is credited to
what is termed the indiscretion of Sec
rotary Cortelyou in letting his boom
get started too early.
After deciding to hold the next DEM
ocratic national convention at Denver
and fixing the date of the meeting for
July {, 1908, the Democratic national
committee at a meeting in Washing
ton entered upon a spirited debate on
the propriety of accepting more of the
100000 offered by Denver for the
convention than actually needed to pay
the convention expenses in that city.
The opposition to the acceptance of the
contribution took the form of a reso-
luton by Representative Clayton OF
Alabama declining money not actually
needed for convention purposes, but
after q long debate the resolution was
laid on the table by a vote of 81 to Il.
The committee adopted a resolution at
the instigation of Perry Belmont ia
voring the policy of publicity for cam
paign contributions.
The annual report of Frank p. Sar-
gent, commissioner general of immi-
grafton, shows that 1,2S5,340 aliens
came to this country last year. The
immigration for the year 1907 exceed
ed that for 1906 by 1S4,614 and that
for the year 1905 by 25S.S50, or an in
crease over tie year 1906 of more than
II per cent and over the year 1905 of
more than % per cent. During the
fiscal year 1906 12,432 aliens were re.
jected at our ports, during the past
year 13,064, an increase of $50; hence
tho total number of those who have
sought admission In 1907-viz, 1,29S.-
413-exceeds the number who applied
| in 1906-viz. Lib, 16T-by 1S5,246. The
1 80 10
preceding year, thousands Of them
landing here surreptitiously.
Postmaster General Meyer has is
sued the following order: THAT here
after and until the close of the first
| day of January, 1908, postmasters are
| directed to deliver all letters arriving
at their respective postoffices address
ed plainly and Enthusiastically to Santa
| Claus without any other terms OF
expressions identifying the person for
| whom such letters are intended, to any
| regularly organized charitable society
| in the city or town of address, to be
used exclusively for philanthropic pur-
poses. In the event that claim should
| be made by more than one society for
| letters so addressed such letters will
Il
be equally divided according to num-
Der between or among the societies
making such claim"
Samuel Gompers, president of the
] American Federation of Labor, in a
speech at the annual banquet of the
| National Civic federation in New York
declared that the workingman realized
! that the financial situation is not any
fault of his. Speaking of the threat
ened decrease in wages for labor, he
said: "Twenty times in the last twelve
hours since / have been in New York
men have come to me and whispered
in my ear and told me that the work
ingmen must come down in their
wages But let the employers of labor
remember that If they attempt to force
down wages they will not have the
easy sailing they did years ago."