The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-03-20

rary chairman, and he declared tina:
the issue of the campaign would be
the continuance Of the Roosevelt poll
cies. The platform indorses these in n
way to suit Taft with special reference
to the rate bill and the employers lia-
bility bill and favors tariff revision and
according the negro all his civil rights.
Burton is favored for Foraker's seat
in the senate.
Haywood's Philadelphia Meeting.
Despite the previous announcement
of the Philadelphia authorities that the
meeting Of Socialists to hear w. d.
Haywood March l would not be al
lowed. the meeting was held, a police
officer sitting on the platform in plain
clothes and u squad being held in wait
cheered the Western Federation man
in his attack on President Roosevelt
and justification of stealing on the part
Of the unemployed. He referred to the
president as 1.-The man who shot Span
iards in the back and then told about
it." and the chairman of the meeting,
Moore, called Roosevelt a capitalist
tool" The latter asserted that the re-
cent riot in Broad street was not a
riot, but a fight started by a bicycle
cop and a wagon deliberately running
into the parade Of the unemployed.
Mcclellan and Murphy Peace Pact.
The fact that Leader Murphy OF
Tammany and Mayor Mcclellan of
New York lunched together recently
was thought to be an incident having
an important bearing on national poll
tics. 1t was the outward sign that the
long rumored peace pact between the
mayors faction of the local Democracy
and Tammany had been achieved.
This would mean that the state organ
ization would send an anti-Bryan dele
cation to the Denver convention and
that Mcclellan again might become q
party leader, possibly a presidential
candidate.
Socialists Charge a Plot.
The Appeal to Reason and other
leading Socialist papers are raising a
great cry Of alarm over a bill recently
introduced in the senate by Penrose Of
Pennsylvania which would give to the
postmaster general absolute power to
exclude any publication from the mails
which he sees fit. The Appeal init
mates that this is part of the conspir-
acy directed against it by the govern
ment and that if this bill is passed an
attempt will be made to suppress the
Socialist press Of the country.
Caleb Powers For Congress.
From his prison cell, where he awaits
pardon or another trial, Caleb Powers
has begun a canvass Of the Eleventh
Kentucky district for the Republican
congressional nomination. He urges
that this will be in the nature Of a vim
dication at the hands Of his home PEG.
pie.
Taft Meeting at Boston.
Secretary of War Taft and Senator
Burkett of Nebraska We're the chief
guests Of the Republican. club of
Massachusetts and addressed a great
gathering in Symphony hall. Burkett
insisted that the agitated condition of
LuC guilty Nuo A1OL uuC " IdO1(uiAoLu,
but was 'the proof of business dishon-
esty." He said the trouble with Wall
street was that it wanted to force its
Measure of business morals Oh all the
rest of the people. Taft was needed to
finish Roosevelt's work.
Socialist Membership $4,000.
National Secretary ]. Mahlon Barnes
Of the Socialist party, in his official re-
port for 1907, says the. sale of party
stamps indicate a total membership |
Of about $4,000 at the present time. al
though the average for the year was
only 1920. The party has forty state
or territorial organizations and 1000
locals. The states having the greatest
number are in order named as follows:
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wis
consin, Ohio, California, Oklahoma,
Massachusetts, New Jersey and Mime
sofa.
Bradley Elected Senator.
Former Governor Bradley of Ken
lucky, the first Republican ever to hold
that Office. has been elected to the
United States senate with the aid of
four Democratic votes after the with