Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-10-16
PARTY GETS $4,000
FROM A. carnegie
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL BODY
10 RECIPIENT OF GREAT
TAFT FUND.
BRYAN MAKES GREAT
NUMBER OF SPEECHES
He Talks Twenty-Four Times In Nile.
souri,, Beginning at 1880 A. NJ
Kern, Democratic. Vlce-PresidsntlaI
Candidate, Ends Tour Of South.

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Andrew Carnegie has contributed $780,
900 to the campaign fund of the Re-
publican national committee was an
nounced Friday by State Chairman
Timothy L. Woodruff. Mr.. Woodruff
also announced that Mrs. Russell Sage
has contributed $1,000 to the same
fund.
There have been no other large con.
tributions from individuals, Mr.. Wood.
run said, but small sums are coming
in from various sources.
George r. Sheldon, treasurer of the
National Republican committee, when
asked about the contributions. declined
to discuss them. saying that he would
publish list Of all the contributions
made to the Republican COMMITTEES
after election.
An appeal for contributions to the
Republican national campaign fund OF
$50 each from 10000 business men.
was issued by Mr.. Sheldon.
Bryan In "a Speeches.
Higbee, Mo-, Oct 12.-Campaigning
In Missouri In q special train provided
by the Democratic state committee
and with representatives Of all the fac.
tons of the party aboard. William
j. Bryan Saturday broke all his
speech-making records since he re-
ceived the nomination for president. Ac,
cording to the program mapped out
for him he delivered during the day
"a addresses, the last at st. Joseph,
Mo-. at eight o'clock Saturday. The
Democratic candidate was out on the
rear platform of his car as early as
1880 o'clock expounding Democratic
doctrine.
Monroe City Mo-: Stoltsville, Paris,
Holiday, Madison. Moberly and Hig.
bee turned out immense cheering
crowds and responded with a hearty
I'VE will to an appeal by the can.
didate to poll the biggest Democratic
vote in the history of the state. He
urged his hearers to support the Demo
cratic candidates for every elective
Office. Mr.. Bryan got no little salts
faction out of letter which had been
handed to him and which had been
written by j. X. Richards. acting at.
torney general of the United States
to the president of the Joliet Bale Tie
Company of Joliet, ILL.,, wherein 1t
was stated that the selling Of the
finished product for less than was
charged for wire in the coil was not 9
violation of the law against monopo
lies In restraint of trade. He declared
1t to be specific illustration Of the
intquity of the trusts. The enthusiasm
as the candidate passed through the
state was unbounded and he remarked
aboard the train that 1t exceeded any
of his experiences in his former cam
patgns.
Kern Ends Tour In South.
Huntington, w. Va. Oct. 12.-John
w. Kern. the Democratic vice-presi
Dental candidate. reached this city
from Clifton Forge. Va. and left two
hours later for Point Pleasant 81
miles north, where he spoke at noon
He returned at once and addressed Z
meeting here Saturday night, which
concluded his southern speaking cam
paign. After day or two at his
home in Indianapolis, Mr.. Kern vii
enter upon an eastern tour. His
itinerary, as outlined in a message t.
him by the speakers bureau of the
national commission in Chicago. fol
lows: Elizabeth and Newark. N. J.
October IA; New York city. October
Is: two speeches at Brooklyn, October
16; Bridgeport, Conn. October II;
Utica, N, T., October 10, and tenta
tive engagement at Syracuse on DC
tober 20.