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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-09-24
CHOP THEM WITH HIS AXE.
Thgf gfRepublican Gang and Blind Pig defend
g ers gets a good trouncing.

Brother Andrsws of the Lid
gerwood Broadaxe goes after
the Gang with his little axe
and gives them a good trim
ming as follows:
The Fargo Forum and some
other of the stalwart republic
an papers kept nagging at Gov.
John Burke over his apparent
failure to enforce the prohibi-
ton law, till he turned on
them and gave them all they
had coming, and the Broadaxe
is nightly glad of it. Of all
the rank fakes that ever posed
as prohibition republicans, the
gang in this state has the
prize. and it's newspaper apol-
ogists had the drubbing com.
ing Ito them that Burke had
given them.
To begin with they had ac-
cused Burke of making a big
fuss and securing no results.
The national "gang" puts the
same accusation agains t
Roosevelt. They say: "He
made grand-stand plays but
pat none of the rich criminals
injaif."s And both Burke and
Roosevelt were prevented from
doing anything by the very
men who now accuse them of
failing to do anything! Burke
says, in effect: II have done
all I could with the men and
the laws you have given me to
work with. 1 have secured
evidence against law-breakers,
have put it in the hands of
youFs.republican officials; l
have done all that the law
will permit me to do. There
is nothing done-and the fault
lies with your attorney gener
al, McCue, aud his assistant,
Stevens"
He goes on to say: II could
not act as my own attorney in
the cases; I could not hire
other attorneys. The laws
you made pinned me to McCue
and Stevens"
A law was introduced into
the last legislature, he tells
them, that would, permit the
governor to remove from office
any officer guilty of mal-feas.
ance in the performance of his
duty. The republicans of the
Legislature defeated the bill
and A. c. Johnson, republican
candidate for governor, voted
against it! Not only that, but
Stevens, now assistant attor-
ney general, and then member
of the House, moved that the
vote by which the bill was lost
be reconsidered and the mo-
tion to reconsider be laid on
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-09-24
I TRIBUTE TO W. ]. BRYAN,
From the pen Of Hon. ]. G. Monaghan, Of
H Note Dame University.

last thing to think of in con.
nection with his candidacy for
the presidency.
Is he fit7 Bryan, bred in the
Drawn and brain breeding
west. will bring to Warrington
not only what he went there
with, in the early nineties, but
the ripened result of fifteen
years of careful blowing, hoe
ing. reaping and harvesting of
the golden grain fields of the
world. No man has had such
a chance to study, not even
Taft. No man ever made bet
ter use of his time. On the
basis of his college education,
Bryan has been able to build
up superstructure surpassing
anything of which we have
knowledge. In a day that is
dawning, when we are to be
one of the worlds great pow
ers, politically as well as com.
merciallv, his knowledge of the
worlds affairs, his splendid
share in the worlds work, will
fit him for just such work as
he will find on his desk at
Washington, D. c., every day,
if he is elected president. Our
foreign affairs, not only be-
cause of the Philippines. but
because of our Pacific coast
and other Pacific possessions,
will take up much of his time.
Our rapidly increasing foreign
commerce will interest him.
In extending it, he may be able
to direct it into new channels,
and secure success for it in old
ones.
When in London, on his2way
home from a trip around the
world, he attended the Worlds
Peace Congress. His speech
was the best delivered before
that body; his ideas, the no.
blest as we'll as the most prac-
tical. Never was the nation
prouder of it's Great Common
er than it was that day; and
never had the Republic better
reason to be proud than when
he, one of the kingliest of her
sons, set a pace in peace for
royalty. Not all our efforts at
The H ague, Portsmouth,
Toxic or anywhere else, where
so fruitful as this mans one
earnest, honest effort in Lon
don, and which raised him to
heights high as Lincoln at
Gettysburg, LOWELL in his great
ode, Washington in his fare
we'll address, Jefferson in his
Declaration of Independence,
Henry in his address to the
terrified Royalists. God give
him power to 60 on in the good
work.
By a mans deeds is he best
known. Bryan is the1 type of
man most needed in our public
life. Absolutely incorruptible
with convictions 40 we'll az
courage, with ideals to which
he 10 faithful, he will, if elected
president, be a constant source
of inspiration to the whole
country. His aims are high,
his purposes holy. In The
Commoner, a paper he owns
and edits, he will not take the
best paying advertisements be.
cause of moral purpose to
publish nothing that will, di-
rectly or indirectly, injure the
morals of his readers. What
that means can be learned at
the Office of any high-toned
paper. He is out now with q
declaration in favor of publici.
ty of funds for the campaign,
land he has put a ban on any
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-09-24

YEssBryan's "cross of gold" speech
IAN Chicago. The echo of that
speech still lives. Why? Like
Sall true eloquence, like the or
alton for the crown, and the
Philippics of Demosthenes, it
shad in it the ring of sincerity.
Bryan rings true. In religion,
sin morals. in politics, in every
q pathway of life, the great Ne
EAbraskan rings true. This it is
that gives him power. 1t is
this that has endeared him to
q the hearts of our people; and
Sit is that has helped him to
hold them, in spite of all kinds
.'Sof adverse efforts of his enc
down to the present day.
II Never, in all our history, has a
been 80 loyal to a man as
the Democratic party has been
Ito Bryan. Neither Webster nor
Clay, Blaine nor Mckinley,
could boast of such loyalty and
& love.
'ss 1t is a mistake to date tn
rise of Bryan from the Chicago
ssi ss,,siconvention of '96. He was in
ECongress in 1892. He was act
Five then, energetic and aggres-
sive. His work in Congress
gave great promise. No speech
on the tariff was as bold, clear,
I fearless and far-reaching. 1t is
to be regretted that Mr.. Bryan
did not remain in Congress.
That was the place for him.
His "cross of gold" was the
worst mistake he ever made.
1t was the mistake of his life.
1t led him from the .horny
path of constructive states.
manship to the flower-filled
path of the popular orator.
The nation had no great need
of Chautauquans; it had them
/ in hundreds. 1t did need great
constructive statesmen. It
hasn't had but one or two in
twenty-five years, and not five
in fifty.
The first time I met Bryan he
reminded me of Cicero. I said,
$50 must the youngI Cicero
have appeared" I did not think
of Caesar then; 1 never think
of Caesar now, when 1 see. hear
of, or read after, Mr.. Bryan.
Even the mature man is sug-
gestive, but no longer of Cice-
70.
Is Bryan a radical? If so, is
he dangerous? The dangerous
men in this Republic are the
men who think William Jen-
nings Bryan is dangerous, or
that he would be dangerous
president. Bryan believes in
law, he believes in order. His
whole life is full of facts, as
we'll as words, to prove it. He
is no more a dreamer..than
am. I hope, as 1 would to God
that every man who er.knelt
at a mothers knee in this broad
land, that he 10 an idealist, that
he has high ideals. God only
knows what the nation would
be now had it not had its ideal.
lists, its Hancocks and Henrys
it's Otises, and it's Lincolns and
Lees. But, say some, "Bryan
is to bring in government own.
ership of railroads, socialism.
anarchy" Nobody is in any
doubt about tn e dangerous
men in this Republic. Some
are even to be found in rail.
road officers. They are the un.
scrupulous men who would
run up the freight rates or run
down the wage-scale to pay di.
vidends for sublimely watered
stock. Against these, Bryan il
iron or brass. No! Mr.. Bryan
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-09-24
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SOusAAouSlouS Ol& enough 20 De
dangerous.
l wish we could have a sym
postum for this column, of
what even his enemies will say
of him when he passes away.
Mark what was said of Cleve.
land before and after his death.
1 put my bays and laurels on
live. not dead, mems brows.
Bryan brings into public life
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
He was never one to white
wash over the black acts of
men who could coerce consci-
ence when it protested against
a congressman taking fees as
a lawyer. The Golden Rule,
expanded and expounded in
the large, is the law of his life.
1t is his guide to all that he
gives to God, and in all that he
gives to man. This may unfit
him for the Presidency. Per
haps it does. Washington's
ways have seldom or never
been the ways of Jesus Christ.
As he said, with that superb
literary sense, when at the con-
ference of governors gathered
to save us from our sins wan.
ton destruction of our resour-
ces: "There is no twilight
zone between the nation and
the state, in which exploiting
interests can take refuge from
both; and my observation is
that most, not all, but most of
the contentious over the line
between nation and state are
traceable to predatory corpora
tions, which are trying to
shield themselves from deserv-
ed punishment. or are en-.
deavoring to prevent needed
restraining legislation" That
one sentance is worth all the
presidential messages since
McKinley's death. For Will
liam Jennings Bryan there is
no twilight zone in which the
editor or, congressman can ex.
ploit interests at the expense
of peoples morality. He re.
minds one of Papinian, who
went to the block rather than
write a brief in defense of
Caracalla, who, murdered Geta,
his brother. With D. Aggas-
seau or Thomas More he would
have welcomed death in his
defense of honor and the law.
1 am not prophet. 1t is
hard to predict. Still. if pre-
diction based upon a belief
that is based on years of care
full observation is worth any
thing, Bryan, if elected, will
make a good and a great Pre- ST.
dent. Besides, he has back of
him much that ia best in our
traditions and history. The
platform upon which he stands
is not platitudinous-it is
sound timber, every plank.
There will be no compromise
with crime. No Paul Morton
will be whitewashed, no politi-
cal criminal or scalawag ap-
pointed to office. No statistics.
will be tampered with till they
tell tale such as parties in
exigencies call for. The divis-
ions, bureaus and departments
will not be made to subserve
partisan purposes, as, alas,
they have too often been made
to do under others.
These, then, are the main
features of the man. Whether
he wins or looses he will 20
down to his grave a great
American, a splendid speciman
of what was thought of when
Lowell wrote the great ode in
which he referred to Lincoln
az the First American. Lucki-
ly the land is no longer de-
pendent upon one man, how
ever great The fathers, faith
full to their trust, planted the
tree of liberty 80 deep that it's
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-22
FAMOUS NAVAL EXPERTS TO
TAKE PART IN CONFERENCE

Newport, r. l., July 21.--AS com
mander- n-chief of the American army
and navy. President Roosevelt will ar
rive here tomorrow morning on board
the converted cruiser Mayhower to at
tend one of the most importan confer
ences of naval officers ever held In
the country. More than 100 officers
men of high rank and attainments will
go over in details the plans for the
two battleships now being built and
the drawing of others about to be laid
ont. President Roosevelt will open
the conference with an address In
which he is expected to take up a
number of important naval topics. He
will not go into technicalities of any
sort however. nor will he atetmpt to
advise the officers for this part OF
the proceedings will be open to a
limited number of invited guests, in
cluding mostly naval and army Off
GERS from the stations surrounding
Newport. When the address Is con-
cluded the door of the conference
room will be closed to all except Of
flcers OF the war college, Of the gem
eraI board from Washington of the
special "battleship committee" and -
the Newport summer conference. This
will be the first time the president has
ever consulted with so large a num-
Der OF naval experts and II Is believed
ne viii take advantage OF the occa-
sion to draw from them their most
advanced ideas as to modern battle
ship construction No immediate de-
cisinn Of any Importance Is expected
to develop from the conference. which
Is really to be a preliminary and gem
erai discussion which will be followed
by other conferences at Washington
and Oyster Bay and also here at New
port during the remainder Of the sum-
mer. II has been said that the confer
ence of tomorrow Is the outgrowth OF
criticism Of the turret placlngs on the
North Dakota. sister ship TO the
other 10000 ton Dreadnaught. the
Delaware. but officers at the college
deny this. Il Is said that such confer
cnce has long been anticipated and
has to do with ships Of all classes.
Commander Albert Key, on duty as
Inspector at the Fore River ship
Building company who Is said to have
lcontinued on Page J, Column -
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-22
TROOPS PATROL ALABAMA
COAL MINING DISTRICT

Birmingham, Ala. July 2i,-With
groups of cavalry and infantry sta
toned at the more important mining
camps of the districts tonight, Cover
nor Conner and Sheriff Hidgon feel
more secure ii tne edofts To 9naintaln
order during the coal miners strike.
The only outbreak today was in the
Blue Creek region near Adger this
morning when one negro was shot and
killed and two deputy sheriffs serious
ly wounded. Newsome and Whitley,
the deputies, commanded group Of
armed negroes to halt and the negroes
opened fire. Troop d of Birmingham,
eighty strong, was at once dispatched
to Adger with instructions to dispense
all assemblages and arrest any one
bearing arms.
Everything is reported quiet in the
mining camps tonight.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-22
AMERICANS FIGURE IN
TURNVERIN PRIZE LIST

FRANKFORT on the Main, July 2t.-
Seven American turner's gained a suf-
ficlent number of points In the ath-
letics of the international tournament
here today to entitle them to figure in
the prize list The events consisted of
both apparatus and field work. $50
points being the maximum number
possible to attain. The highest man
among the Americans, however, VIII
helm Lemke, of Rochester, scored
only 11O points, giving him twenty
eighth place.
The Germans showed great super
iority in appartus work The Ameri-
cans expected to score the most points
In the field events. but they we're pIac-
ed at disadvantage owing to the fact
that spiked shoes were not allowed
to the old fashioned methods Of start
ing.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-22
NAVAL OFFICER SLUGGED
REPORTER, IS CHARGE

Honolulu. July 21.-United States
Attorney Breckens has filed informa-
tion against Lieutenant Commander
j. F. Carter, United States navy
charging him with malicious assault
on F. b. Moore, newspaper man, at
the naval station a fortnight ago. The
hearing was continued to August l..
Lieutenant Carter is in command of
the United States ship Iroquois, sta
toned here He had demanded a re-
traction of certain statements, ap-
pearing i'm the Bulletin on which
Moore is employed. Moore declined to
admit that the statements complained
of were false and there was an alter
cation during which Carter struck
Moore with his fists. Lieutenant Car
ter has recently been assigned as ex-
ecutive officer of the Georgia.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-22
4. c. POTTER
PASSES AWAY
Eminent Episcopal PreIate
SuccumbS to Lingering III
ness; Relapse Monday Proves
Fatal.

Cooperstown, n. Y. July 21.--
Henry Goldman Potter, SEVENTEEN pro-
testant Episcopal bishop of the diocese
OF New York, died tonight at Fern
leigh. his summer home here after
an illness of several weeks. aged "a
years. The bishop was unconscious
all day and the end, which came at
1856 o'clock tonight. was peaceful and
quiet.
Gathered at the bedside of the dying
churchman were Mrs. Potter. wife of
the prelate: Mrs. Mason G. David,
who came from California, and Miss
Sarah Potter his two daughters;
Alonzo Potter. his son; Mr. Edward
s. Clark. stephen c. Clark and Mrs,
and Mr.. f. Clark. Mrs. Charles Rus
sell and Mrs. william Hyde, his two
other daughters, who are abroad, have
been notified.
Death was due primarily to en-
bolism in the right leg, following a
long attack Of liver and stomach trou-
BILE. and the end had been foreseen
for several days by the bishops ply
sicians. Bishop Potter suffered Sc
we're relapse yesterday morning and
though oxygen was given, his decline
was gradual and he sank into uncon-
seriousness early today which lasted
until the end.
No arrangements for the funeral
have as yet been made. but 1t is prob
able that services will be held here
and that the body will be removed to
New York and a public funeral VIII
be held at Grace church. The bishops
Illness first became publicly known
early in the spring when announce
ment was made that he was unable
to take part In the Easter services. A
diagnosis showed that the bishop was
suffering from a stomach and liver
malady and after II was given out In
May that he would not be able to at
tend the Pan-Anglican congress In
London, June is, plans were imme-
diately made to bring the bishop here
when his condition would permit.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-22

tion of contributions. The conference
also adopted the following resolution
introduced by A. M. Stevenson, for
mer committeeman from Colorado;
Resolved, that the thanks Of the
republicans of the states of Kansas.
Nebraska, North Dakota. South Da-
kota, Colorado, Wyoming. Utah, H1aho,
Nevada, Montana. California, oregon,
washington, Oklahoma and Texas and
the territories of New Mexico and Ari-
zona, whose representatives are at this
conference. are due and are hereby
especially rendered to the Hon. Frank
Hitchcock, chairman of the republi-
can national committee. from the
great interest he~has taken in his
party in the west and assembling this
conference and for the friendliness ex-
tended to all those present.
I'VE pledge to our national chair
man our earnest and unanimous sup
port in this campaign and beg to as
sure him of the personal esteem and
friendship of all those present"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-22
RACE TRACK MAGNATES
INDICTED IN NEW YORK

New York. July 21.-It was an
nounced late tonight by counsel for
the race track interests that the three
men indicted this afternoon by the
Kings county grand jury in connec-
tlon with the race track gambling in
vestigation are William Ingelman,
principal owner of the Brighton Beach
race track; Christopher Fitzgerald,
president of the Brighton Beach Rae
ing association, and John G.. Cava.
naugh, manager of the betting ring
There was another sensational move
in the race track war late in the af-
ternoon at Brighton Beach. Shortly
before the fifth race Acting Captain
Kuhne, with half a dozen detectives
raided the offices of John G. Cava-
naugh, manager of the betting ring
A thorough search was made of the
place and every book and scrap of pa
per that could be found was conas-
Gated.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-22
PROHIBITION
PARTY FIRST
IN FIELD
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
FORMALLY LAUNCHED
Candidate for President Praises
Columbus Platform as Only
Positive Declaration of Prin-
cipleS Before People.
IBy Morning Journal Special LEASED wlre.I

IBy Morning Journal Special LEASED Wire.I I
Chicago, July 21.-The prohibition
national campaign was formally OPEN
ed tonight by addresses delivered by
prominent leaders of that party at a
mass meeting held in Evanston. Ill.
The principal speech was made by Eu-
gene w. Chafin, the presidential nom
inee, Other speakers were Chairman
Jones, of the prohibition national
comtittee; A. G. Wolfenburger, ma
tional chairman, and others. Mr.. Cha
fin said
The prohibition party ran its first
candidate for president in 1872, when
a majority of the voters in but one
state, Maine, favored the principles of
prohibition. Today there Is scarcely
state in which a majority of the vot-
ers do not believe in the principles of
the entire prohibition of the manufac-
ture and sale of liquor.
The principal work of this cam
paign must be to educate the voters,
to the giving of their votes to po-
litical party pledged to carry out this
reform. The question of prohibition
is distinctly political. and in order to
carry out that policy and to enforce
the law the efforts of all officers are
required. These officers are elected
through political parties, and prohibi-
tion, therefore, becomes emphatlcally
political party question.
Many temperance people urge that
we should keep this matter out Of pol
itics. These same people are voting
the republican and democratic tickets
with a personal liberty plank In the
platform. by which directly or by re-
affirmation, declaration Is made in
favor of the saloon.
Their idea seems to be that IT a
political party declares in favor of the
liquor traffic that makes II nom
partisan question, but If a political
party declares against the liquor traf-
flc that means taking it into politics.
THE Columbus convention has
given the country the only political
platform this year in which a major
ity of the people believe. We have
presented the only platform that one
voter I'm thousand win read
"The democrats and republicans
have held their conventions and the
average voter is not at this moment
able to understand what the Issue is.
1t will take speeches of acceptance by
Mr. Taft and Mr.. Bryan to make up
some issues, and when they are made
up we are certain they will be only
fictitious issues"