The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.

washington, d. 4. May 9. 1907.
Senator Newlands has announced
that the next President will be a
Democrat. He called at the White
House this week to talk over rail
road matters with the President, he
and Mr.. Roosevelt being i'll decided
sympathy on this subject, though
political opponents. After his visit,
he told some of the correspondents
that he was not talking politics,
but that he would venture the pre-
diction that Bryan would be nomi-
mated and elected. He thought that
the Republicans would nominate
some good man, probably the choice
of the President, but he insisted
that the party was discredited and
could not elect sheriff if it wanted
to.
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Speaking of political possibilities
considerable amusement was created
this week by the rumor that Tho
mas Fortune Ryan, the boss of New
York finance, and a resident of Vir-
ginia, was after the Senatorship
from the Old Dominion. Mr.. Ryan
has always been proud of his native
state, and has given a good deal Of
money there first and last. His
most recent benelaction was the
immense cathedral just dedicated at
Richmond. Then came the news
that the Jamestown Exposition was
in financial difficulties, and Mr..
Ryan subscribed to large block
of the bonds that the company
issued and so helped them out
materially. The story was I'M
mediately started that he was after
the senatorship from that state,
and of course some of the yellow
journals went that rumor one bet
ter and said that he had his eye on
the Democratic nomination for the
Presidency. The story is almost
too wild to need denial. The fact
is that Mr.. Ryan did not want his
name known in connection with
the Exposition bonds, and as far
as the nomination either for the
Senate or the Presidency is con-
cerned, he is not only too busy to
attend to either, but his connection
with most of the biggest corporate
interests of the country would bar
him from the least consideration as
a matter of the most elementary
practical politics.
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The Congress of American Ply
sicians and Surgeons has been in
session here this week, and while
the most of their deliberations weie
entirely too deep to the outsider to
follow, there was one branch of the
discussion of the most vital public
interest. 1t was the section OF
the congress devoted to the study
and prevention of consumption.
Almost all of the progress in popu-
lar knowledge of this dread disease
in the past few years has been due
to the National Association. 1t has
branches in fifteen states, will have
them i'll seven more states before
the summer is over, and is affiliated
with the International Society of
the same sort which will have al
immense congress in Washington
next winter.
The chief work of the Nationa
Association now is education. II
has prepared a number of simple
volumes for free distribution. These
tell just what consumption is, how
it is spread and show the best
methods of precaution against it
They show that the disease can be
checked at almost any stage ant
entirely cured in the earlier stages
and in fact, give world of simple
and practical information thai
ought to be known by every one il
every community. The officers o.
all the state societies are anxious tC
forward this work of education
and persons interested will be fur
nished with literature and sugges
tions on application to them. Any
one interested and wanting advice
can get it by applying to the healtl
officer of the nearest town, who
will be able to put them into com
munication with the office of tn,
nearest state society
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A good deal was written las
Summer about the introduction o