Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-13
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-, jackson Day at Chicago was a ia
different affair from that of the Ne,
York gathering. There the banquet gi,
en- by the Jefferson Club was the seen
of Bryan love feast, in which 600 Den
ocrats cheered riotously the words of tn
Nebraskan.
Fiscount Aoki, the retiring. Japanes
ambassador, in an interview at San Fran
CISCO, declared in positive terms tina
there could be no such thing at presen
as war between this country and japan
He said the questions at issue were no
such as would cause war and that al
the high officials of Japan were convinced
of the good faith and friendship of thi.
! country.
The Ohio Republican State Centra
| 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 IL, when delegates to the Republi-
can State convention will be selected.
Senator Foraker has issued 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
I'D tnnr
rccuperation 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 a square deal that means
exact and honest equality before the law
and under constitutional guarantee"
After his return home from Washing
on Mayor Dahlman of Omaha gave to the
press a corrected statement of his much F.,
discussed interview with President Roose- |
relt. According to this the President
said: Tell the boys out West that this
inancial panic is being placed on nv
shoulders by reason of the position ,
lave taken. If this is true, it shows that
We are on a rotten foundation. and it only
anne a few months sooner than it would
ave done otherwise. and it shows we
eeded a houSecleaning. You can tell
hem also that | don't care what ex- Judges
I judges or ex-Governors or Governors
ay about it." Mayor Dahlman says that
: this was spoken in the presence of
light or ten other persons as message
D the West, he felt free to give it out.
Secretary Taft. who will soon begin the
of an extended report on his
in the Philippines, in n re-
ant interview expressed himself as highly
leased with the progress already made
the islands. Peace. he says. prevails
lroughout the Philippines to a greater .
ltent than ever before in their history.
nd agriculture is proceeding without fear
ON predatory bands. lie finds the na-
YES receptive TO education and to mod
n western conceptions of religion and
,litics. and says there is no difference
tween the educated and the ignorant
filipino that cannot be overcome by the
ucation of one generation. The Secre-
ry thinks the people should not be in
usted with self-government until their
imary and Industrial education is COM
etc. and this may require more than a
neration owing to a lack of funds for
ucational purposes.