Alaska sentinel., 1908-04-16
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Jackson Day at Chicago was a far different affair from that of the New York gathering. There the banquet giv- en by the Jefferson Club was the scene of a Bryan love feast, in which GOO Dem ocrats cheered riotously the words of the Nebraskan.
 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 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 Republi- can State convention will be selected. Senator Foraker has issued a statement declaring that he will not abide by this action of the committee.
 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- gret, 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 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 I have taken. If this is true, 1t shows that we are on a rotten foundation, and it only came a few months sooner than it would QAVo uOuc Othci Wisc, anu IL oho"o VIC needed a 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 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 n 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 na- tiyes 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 a generation owing to lack of funds for >ducational purposes.