Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-23
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Viscount Aoki, the retiring japanese
ambassador, in an interview at San Fran
cisco, declared in positive terms that
there could be no such thing at present
as war between this country and Japan
He said the questions at issue were not
such as would cause war and that all
the high officials of Japan were convinced
of the good faith and friendship of this
country.
The first open declaration of the con-
servative Democrats of the East who are
known to be unfriendly to the candidacy
of William j. Bryan took shape at the
Jackson Day dinner of the National
Democratic Club at New York. Ex-
President Cleveland sent a letter of re-
greet, in which, after expressing his in
terest in the success of the party, he
said: Our country needs conservatism,
recuperation from nervous prostration, re-
instatement of constitutional observance,
buoyant, but none the less safe and pru-
dent, Americanism scrupulous care of
every person and every interest entitled
to care, and a square deal" that means
exact and honest equality before the law
and under constitutional guarantee"
After his return home from Washing
ton Mayor Dahlman of Omaha gave to the
press a corrected statement of his much
discussed interview with President Roose-
welt. According to this the President
said: ''Tell the boys out West that This
financial panic is being placed on my
shoulders by reason of the position
have taken. If this is true, it shows that
we are on a rotten foundation, and it only
came a few months sooner than it would
have done otherwise, and it shows we
needed housekeeping. You can tell
them also that don't care what ex-judges
or judges or ex-Governors or Governors
say about it, Mayor. Dahlman says that
as this was spoken in the presence of
eight or ten other persons as a message
to the West, he felt free to give it out.
Secretary Taft, who will soon begin the
preparation of an extended report on his
observations in the Philippines, in re-
cent interview expressed himself as highly
pleased with the progress already made
in the islands. Peace, he says, prevails
throughout the Philippines to a greater
extent than ever before in their history,
and agriculture is proceeding without fear
from predatory bands. He finds the ma
tives receptive to education and to mod
ern western conceptions of religion and
politics, and says there is no difference
between the educated and the ignorant
Filipino that cannot be overcome by the
education of one generation. The Secre-
tary thinks the people should not be in
trusted with self-government until their
primary and Industrial education is COM
plete, and this may require more than
generation owing to lack of funds for
educational purposes.
The Ohio Republican State Central
Committee at its recent meeting decided
to give the members of the party an op-
portunity to express by direct vote their
choice for a presidential candidate on
March II, when delegates to the RepubIi-
can State convention will be selected.
Senator Foraker has issued a statement
declaring that he will not abide by this
action of the committee.
Jackson Day AT Chicago was a far
different affair from that of the New
York gathering There the banquet Civ
en- by the Jeffa.son Club was the scene |
of Bryan love- feast, in which 600 DEM
ocrats cheered kiotously the words of the
Eebraskan.