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Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
Mr.. TAFT AND THE EDITOR.

When Mr.. Taft was a young man
there was a scalawag OF the name of
Rose running a miasmic weekly paper
in Cincinnati. It was an unhealthy
sheet, given over to personal attacks,
the printing of scandaious gossip and
thinly veiled innuendo. Rose was a
hghting editor. He really could fight,
and he stood ready to back up his
articles with his fists. Also he con-
sorted with bruisers, who constituted
bodyguard. The town was intim-
idated. His victims squirmed, but
none of them cared to join issue with
Rose.
Mr. Taft did it. Rose would have
been all right had he possessed suf-
ficient wisdom to keep the point of.
his pen away from Judge Taft. But
he did not. So he was forced to take
the consequences, which came in a
hurry in the shape of a substantial
apparition of ESQ pounds, white-mad,
with locked jaws and a simmer like
that of cold steel flashing from his
blue eyes. Rose weighed nearly as
much as Taft, so no advantage was
taken of him.
Are you Rose?" demanded Mr..
Taft. Rose barely had time to wag
his head affirmatively and insolently
when he was jolted severely on the
jaw, hurled to the street, and, over
borne by the weight of the Nemesis
from Mount Auburn, was forced to
submit to having his face literally
ground into the dirt. IF you'll leave
town tonight I'll let 5ou up" offered
Mr. Taft, when the grinding process
had proceeded as far as he deemed it
should. Rose promised. Mind,
cautioned Taft, Il am coming down
town again tonight, and If you're
still here you'll think that this thing
has only just begun"
Rose did leave that night, and Gin
cinnati saw him no more for a
term. He went somewhere to lead a |
better life, and did it, so much so that |
when he finally did return to the city |
he felt impelled to hunt up Mr.. Taft |
and assure him that he harbored no |
animosity. He also explained one or
two things.
Il knew there was trouble coming
my way when you asked me my
name," said Rose, land l thought /
was ready for you. l was waiting for
you to hit, and then l was going to
Eat you mp because, you know, could
fight some myself But you fooled
me. You hit out with your left hand.
An amateur always strikes with his
light first, and I'd figured that you
wouldn't do anything different. But
over came that left of yours and
,aught me-"
They say that Mr. Taft's roars of
as Rose offered this explana-
ion could be heard over half of Gin
.innati.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
WILLIAM H. TAFT'S FATHER.
AF nirable Traits in the Parent of the
Republican Standard Bearer
Which Descended to Son.

Persistence, industry, justice, clear
! sightedness, all the inestimable legd-
cies of birth handed down by Judge
| Alphonso Taft to his son William,
were. dominant and determining quail
/ titles in the elder Taft's own career.
The place of his nativity was a
farm near TOwnshend, VT. The aus
tere, delYing round of farm life Of
more than a generation ago was his
portion until the voice within him.
the innate hunger for knowledge, for
a progression, spoke and stirred him to
ambitions for an education, to a fut-
ure living to be earned with his head.
rather than his hands. The Tafts
were folk in only moderate circum-
stances. So AlphonsO taught school
in winter, worked in the fields in
summer and saved up his money un-
til he had enough to bridge the hia-
tus 'twixt income and outgo during a
course at Amherst. His plans we're
detected for some reason, and he
chose Yale for his alma mater in
stead. He was graduated in 1888.
Another season of toll and saving
and he was financially equipped for
the course that turned him out a fin
ished lawyer in 1888. Cincinnati, a
raw, unshaped town, with a problem
atical future, needed men like AL
phonso Taft in the fourth decade of
the last century. He settled there,
and his law Office speedily became a
centre of legal and civic interests, in.I
which Judge Taft invariably took a
commanding part.
An intensely human man he was,
''Of imposing presence, dignity and
refinement, as has been written of
him" unostentatiOus, Kindly and |
gentle, yet of a strong and fOrcible /
character, which won for him re- |
spect, confidence and love" Almost I
the same enumeration of |
traits would serve for the son. He |
championed the cause of |
especially the common /
school system.
A pioneer in his sensing of what /
means of land transportation meant |
to Cincinnati, he strove to encourage I
the building of railroads as a compile /
ment to the advantages of Cincin /
natl. It was he who successfully ar
gued before the Supreme Court of (
the United States the claim of the
city for the estate of Charles Nc
Micken, which was the start of the
endowment fund for the University
If Cincinnati. He was Judge of the
Superior Court of Ohio. as his son
vas after him, and like him was also
Secretary of War and Attorney-Gen--
sral of the United States under Pres
dent Grant. Later he represented
lis country as Minister to Austria
Ind Russia.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
BRYAN CAN'T GET AWAY FROM
HIS SHADOW.

There is a famous story about a
man who sold his shadow to the
devil. and was haunted through life
by the fact that he was different from
all others of human kind in being
without a shadow.
Bryan is quite different from the
hero, or victim, of that story. He
wants to get away from his shadow
the shadow of the record he has made
as a champion of free silver and
ffty-cent dollar, of free trade and
abandonment of the Philippines, of
Government ownership of the rail
ways and other more or less disor-
dered fads and fancies, which have
accumulated from campaign to cam
paign, until now they loom up as the
most remarkable aggregation of po-
litical mOnstrosities that ever amazed
and appalled, the American people.
Bryan cannot get away from the
shadow of his past beat the air as he
may 1t is part of him, and he must
be judged by it as well as by the
later vagaries which he would fain
have considered as his sole political
outfit. There is only one Bryan, and
his shadow will not be buried out of
sight until both Bryan and his past
shall be showed under in November
by the ballots of American freemen
slecting Taft and Sherman President
and Vice-President of the United |
States.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
BRYAN AND LINCOLN.

While the grotesque something
styled Imperialism" is included in
the rich and varied assortment of
freak issues which Mr. Bryan offers
to his countrymen this year, he is not
urging it quite so vehemently as he
did in 1900. In the campaign of that
year he cheerfully assured his hear
ers that it was actually a live issue, a
menace to free institutions, and could
be overcome only by electing him to
the Presidency. He declared, more
over, that if Jefferson, Jackson and
Lincoln We're living they would rec
ognize the acquisition of the Philip
pines by the United States as a step
toward imperialism" and would op-
pose it with all their energy.
In his reckless zeal Mr.. Bryan tried
to make it appear that Jefferson was
opposed to the very principle which
found expression in the Louisiana
Purchase. He perverted the utter
ances of Jackson in a tricky attempt
to show that "Old Hickory" resisted
the policy that led to the acquisition
of Florida And finally he deliber-
ately misinterpreted the State papers
of Lincoln in an endeavor to show
that the Emancipator upheld the doc
trine that the American Government
has no right to suppress a revolt
against its own authority, and if he
were President at that time-1900-l
he would either withdraw the United
States troops from the Philippines or
order them to surrender to Aguinal-
do, the leader of the Filipino insur-
rection.
Mr.. Bryan's attempt to misrepre-
sent the principles and purposes of
Lincoln was the prize blunder of the
ludicrous campaign of 1900. There
was then, and happily still is, a
living son of Lincoln who, in distin- !
guished positions both public and |
private, has disclosed many of the |
rugged attributes of his martyred |
sire. Mr.. BTyan's perversions of Lin |
coins State papers were so fragrant |
and so frequently repeated that Hon. |
Robert T. Lincoln finally protested. |
He publicly and with great indigna- |
tion denounced "the uses, inventions |
and distortions" to which his fathers
language had been subjected by the |
Democratic nominee, and expressed |
the confident belief that the people |
would Judge them as they deserved. |
How completely that belief was justi-
fed at the polls is a matter of history.
To man of fine sensibilities a re-
buke like that from such a source /
would have been a staggering blow
right between the eyes It's effect
upon Mr. Bryan was far less impress
sive. The only lesson he drew from
1t was even If man knows history
he is a fool to misquote it.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
BRYAN AND PENSIONS.

In denying what he declares to be
certain erroneous statements with re-
spect to his attitude on the question
of pensions for veteran soldiers and
sailors and their survivors, William
snnings Bryan defines his position
these general terms: Il favor a
liberal pension policy"
It is needless to refer to Mr.
Bryan's record on the pension ques-
ton. On this as on other issues
free trade alone excepted-his record
is purely negative. His Jealous sup
port Of the Wilson-Gorman tariff was
in fact the only positive, aggressive
act of his career in Congress, and in
the history of the frightful industrial
ruin which that measure caused Mr..
Bryan's act is designated by broad,
sndelible mark in black.
Nevertheless, while Mr.. Bryan's
record on pensions is insignificant
and negligible, the record of his party
is properly a matter for careful ex-
animation. 1t may be outlined and
its tendency accurately indicated by
a few facts derived from official
sources.
During a single period of two years
under the administration of President
Cleveland S694 pensioners were
stricken from the rolls and 23,702
pensions were reduced. In the course
of his two terms President Cleveland
vetoed 524 pension bills, while Presi-
dent Grant during his two terms We
toed only five. Lincoln never vetoed
one, nor did Hayes, Garfield, Arthur,
Harrison or Mckinley
1t is worth while to carry the in
quiry a step further. The record in
Congress on fourteen important pen
sion measures prior to 1900 shows
that AT Democrats voted for those |
measures, while GAS Democrats voted |
against them. On the other hand, |
1868 Republicans supported them, |
and not a single Republican was re- /
corded against them!
With these facts to guide them the !
old soldiers will have no trouble |
whatever in determining where their
interests lie in the present campaign. |
The Republican party, faithful to the
nations defenders in time of war,
has been their steadfast friend and
protector in time of peace. AS
against its honorable record in that
respect we place the reproachful fact
that the only Democrat to occupy the
White House since the Civil War We
toed 524 pension bills while his
seven Republican predecessors vetoed
only five.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
EILLY BRYAN.
BY REV. HY. J. BOATNAN.

By REV. HY. j. BOATNfAN.
mo tune.)
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan,
Still a-tryin', still a-tryin',
Vainly tryin';
Thrice before US like chorus,
Jackass chorus most uproarious,
Tried to floor US.
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan.
Far too high your kites a-hyin'-
Winds a-layin';
Cease to mouth us, cease to mouth us,
Jackass discords don't alright US
Only rouse us.
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan.
Vainly cryin' like one dyin'-
Calf a-dyin';
Once you'd give us halves for whole uns
Silver dollars-them sixteen uns-
For our gold uns.
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan.
Give up tFyin', quit your tryin',
Call your Cry in;
Once you hitehed the ass and monkey,
Now you'd ride that poor old donkey
Played-out donkey.
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan,
Forces routed, forces fiyin',
Still you're tryin,;
Still you're pleadin' like a lover,
Oft rejected for another,
Better brother.
Billy Bryan, Billy Bryan.
You're a good un, you're a lion
little chained UNI:
But your roarln' sounds too chaffy-
Deed it's daffy-give us Taft-y,
Give us Taft-y
T.-A.-F.-T.
Fullerton, Cal. September, 1908.
Copyright applied for.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
WHEN THEAcTORS CAME TOYALE

during the last reunion of Mr..
Taft's class in Yale some one recalled
the advent into New Haven of
Count" George Johannes. histrion,
and his leading lady, Virginia, so
tall and so fair" The Count was re-
puted to be an actor. He was strong
in Richard III. The class of rs took
him to its collective heart in the role,
witnessing the performance from
block of reserved seats in the front
of the house. They liked the show,
particularly because the Counts tin
armor provided a surprising target
for beanshooters. The rs men were
good shots, and the Count that night
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
FROM SECRETARY ROOTS sAR.
ATOGA SPEECH.

Mr.. Bryan charges that the Repub-
lican party is responsible for the
abuses of corporate wealth. AS well
might he charge that the man who
plants cotton is responsible for the
boil weevil, or that the man who
plants fruit trees is responsible for
the San Jose scale.
Until the millennium has brought
the eradication of human selfshness
and greed, social abuses will come ac-
cording to the shifting conditions of
the times.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
TAFT SPEECHES INSPIRE CONFI-
DENCE.
(From the Brooklyn Eagle }

(From the BrOOklyn Eagle.)
The aggressive tone of Mr.. Taft's
speeches will soon put Mr.. Bryan
either upon failing defensive or
will driYe him to an outburst of rad
icaiism that will still further challenge
the apprehension and alright the
Judgment of the country The
thoughtful jurist is playing the mis-
chief with the mercurial Bohemian,
and the man OF Ohio who inspires
confidence is destroying the vogue of
the man of Nebraska, who inspires
only the reverse.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
MIR. TAFT REGISTERS.

The Republican Presidential candi.
date shows he is a good citizen by
going home to register. The regis
tration place was in a plumbing shop.
He was catechised thus by the reg
istry clerk:
"How old are your"
"Fifty-one."
How many years have you lived in
the State of Ohio?"
"Fifty-one.
How many in the country?"
"Fifty-one."
How many years in the precinct?"
"Twelve.
Married."
"Yes."
The distinguished citizen then
signed the registry book "Wm. How
ard Taft
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

It is the public interest, not the in
terest Of any single or separate in
terest, that demands the election of
Taft and Sherman, as well as of
Republican Congress.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

Mr.. Roosevelt caused it it be
denied that he would go q the
stump. But he spoke TO the itire
Nation, just the same!
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

Experience and association are the
frst-class qualifications Of Judge Taft
for popular promotion to the Presi-
dency.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

It is apparent that the private cor
of Judge Taft can stand
the sunlight of publicity.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

Perhaps Senator Bailey could cast
4 little oil on the troubled waters.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

read his lines to the accompaniment
of beans impinging against his he'll
met and cuirass until it sounded like
a professional rifle shot ringing a
continuous tattoo of bull's-eyes. But
when the boys carried their annre-
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

Every subsequent fact has refuted
every economic theory ever advocated
by Bryan.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
LABOR MOVEMENT
is NON-PARTISAN
Daniel j. Keefe, Sixth Vce-PreSident of the A. F. Of
L., Insists That President GOmperS Has Been Mis-
represented, and Denies That Any Attempt Has
Been Made to Swing Labor Vote to Bryan
TAFT A FRIEND OF LABORING MAN.

York, october-"We that
shall independent political domination
has in its history"
keynote o a j.
Kee Mich president of the international LOnghOre
Transport Association
president of the American Federation of Labor.
his statement which he made query from the
editor of the Buffalo Republic, Mr.. Keefe says
Il that the American Federation of Labor is
committed political candidate for PTes
dent been indorsed by the executive council.
belief that the general public does fully
position of the the
The policy of labor
non-partsan, and follows;
the council particularly of members,
working how they shall their in the
coming election has promised the of the working
particular We have strongly clearly and
phaay duty presented the situation in which the
working themselves the demands which
labor has made both political parties to action
which they should take the treatment they have received and have
of the working and
throughout the since both political
make their choice their conscience
dictate
Misrepresentation newspapers others
Notwithstanding and insist and have
that the labor
and independent from political domina
in its history.
The foregoing commit the American Federation of
Labor political party and is nonPartisan which permits
they please for President and
other without of criticism All of which heartily in
dOTse.
'some of the members
doubt will and for Mr.
which individual right shall and for
admitted membership in the international
Shovel and Dredg Men account Of his
strong advocacy of the eghthour law all
coming under the jurisdiction of the War De-
the eighhOur become an
the fault of the work.
men, Secretary Of War.
Mr. Taft Secretary Of War, has
Of organized labor than all his
predecessors.
a0ee "a q a. rrnS
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

CldLIOn OF aIusIV Iar as TO
endeavor to dr. Virginia
to her lodgingf 3ge it re-
quired the ara asta-
bles to dissuad
Mr.. Taft is md all the
time a Yale ma Aer, his four
brothers, hims his son Robert
are all Yale "a ID his youngest
son, Charles T., Jr., is going to be
when he gets big enough.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
MR.. TAFT AND THE
ROOSEVELT POLICIES
President RoosevsIt's Battle Won,
His Policies Have Reached
the Constructive Stage.
NO BACKWARD STEP POSSIBLE

As President Mr.. Taft WIN BE as
Loyal TO the Roosevelt Policies
as the Needle is TO the Pole
Under His Regime WIN BE Har-
mony. Prosperity and a Long
Period of development of En-
terprise and of National ard In
dividual Progress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-20
Poverty and Luxury.

Poverty and luXury-these are the
diseases OF our Industrial regime, to
the cure of which the Socialists offer
their Intellectual ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
since the population of the United
States is made up of 90,000,O00 irdi-
viduals, some of whom will be forever
on the verge of bankruptcy, however
great their income, and some frugal
and always carrying their account on
the right side of the balance sheet,
however small their annual allotment
of wealth
Poverty and luxury are twin diseases
sapping the life of society. the one
destroying ambition by Withholding
sufficient nourishment to the body, the
other rendering men worthless to so
ciety by i superabundance of the good
| things Of life. Poverty is disease
rot indigenous to our American soil.
1t 4; plague brought in by Immigrant
ships from wornout Europe. and the
patients are cured here by the thou
sands. So long as there remains an
Cncultivated acre of land anywhere in
enc Union there Is no real cause for
poverty nor any excuse for luxury
while a foot of land is undeveloped.-
J. T. Lincoln In Atlantic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-20
Nothing for Nothing.

Two weeks ago a jealous press agent
concocted and secured the widespread
publication of story to the effect that
the proprietors of a certain restaurant
in a Long Island town had set apart a
portion of the grounds surrounding
their establishment as a landing place
for airships. Printers Ink sees in this
harmless tale valuable free adver-
tisement for the enterprising restaur-
anteurs, and believes that if newspaper
editors combine to be SO gullible rate
cards and advertising contracts will
eventually disappear.
The fact is that as a business slim
ulant the story, ingenious though il
was, was not worth the trouble of get
ting il up. There wasn't half as much
in it to induce people to visit So-and
Sos restaurant as might have been put
into two lines of paid advertisement
without crowding.
OF course. the public was reminded
that such place exists.
To be effective real advertisement
would have to tell hungry folks why
they should eat there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-20
Value of en- Automaton Face.

when / first came to New York"
all the women had regular putty faces.
1t seemed TO me | never saw such
blank walls of eXpressionless faces.
would get into street car and look
about NE and COLD Lot Gttect any
Sign that any one else l-.2.,s' | existed.
Women looked right through me as If
| We're a pane of window glass. /
soon found out, however, that an ex-
pressionless face is woman's protec-
ton. 1t is not that New York women
cannot look bright and interested; ii
is because they dare not show any
came, being from Il smaller city
where every one knows every one
else, ! would get on car in Il lively
manner. look about me, smile and
study the people, just as l would do at
Lo:he. | soon saw men returning my
They naturally thought | was trying
to start Irritation. Several times
was followed as Il penalty for ny toe
Interested manner, and | began to
adopt the New York way. Now | &C
in many parts of the city acting u
near like an automaton as l can, see
ing 10 one, never expressing any in
terest or emotion in my face. and have
I learned the secret of going about this
big city unmolested." - New York
Times
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-20
8he Hrgus Daily Short Story
Gregory's Fortune Barry Preston.
Copyrighted 1905 by Associated Literary Press

The candles i'll the thousapds of Jap
anese lanterns which flooded the lawn
with their soft light were burning low
Here and there one would sputter un-
certainly and then go out, leaving II
break i'll the long lines of various col
ored illumination.
The orchestra in its palm bordered
pavilion played final selection, after
which the musicians put their instru-
ments In the cases with businesslike
fnality. The crowd which an hour
earlier had fairly swarmed the place
was now thinning out to a few scat
tered groups. Already the gayly cos
tuned young ladies at the various
booths were beginning to put away
their remaining wares. yawning openly
as they YEARLY took account of stock
and compared notes on the sales they
had made.
The annual bazaar for the Home For
Incurables always came TO just such a
stereotyped successful ending.
Quite apart from the other loiterers
DtilCH ItIcdlH ii ~ y tIlliS
maple. Peter Gregory watched the pro
ceedings about him the while he
smoked cOntemplative cigarette. He
had done his duty nobly He had
taken the many booths in order, per
| hitting himself to be swindled at each
| and making prodigal purchases Of use
less things, which he promptly gave
away.
One booth only he had not visited
and that was the one where, for thu
| amazingly small sum of 81. you coul(
have your horoscope cast. your past
| read and your future forecast by
| Mile. Nazro, Matchless Egyptian
Seer. First Appearance In America,
il one were to believe the lurid poster
just outside of the flap of the Graham
childrens lawn tent
Gregory glanced ut the tent in ques
| ton and puffed somewhat faster a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-20
Sounds Fish Make,

The horse mackerel, or scad, is said
to grunt. Purring noises are heard
from the cuckoo gurnaId when it is
being removed from the water The
herring. again, is said TO emit faint
squeak when the net has been drawn
over it, and there are other fishes
which are credited with vocal powers.
Most certain of all is the case of the
little creature known to many a
shrlmper and fisher boy as the hum
mer. or hard head (Cottus scorpius).
the sea bullhead. which when held in
the hand near TO the ear produces so
distinct q buZZing noise that it cannot
only be heard, but felt since the VI
bration caused by the sound is percept
ible by the hand. 1t seems to be the
result of fear and comes apparently
from the inside of the huge head
London News.