The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-23


are requested to leave positive orders
with the Court when they wish such
advertising to appear in THE BA1TI-
MoRE COUNTY UNION. IF they fail to
ra~s-saeH AeFdef@ bne aBussneas may Be-
diverted into other channels.
Gov. SWANSON, of Virginia, who said few
days ago that be would cheerfully support the
nominee of the Denver Convention, added
81 believe that William Jennings Bryan is
not only the strongest, but the most available
man for the nomination as President. l am
for Colonel Bryan"
THE SOCIALIST party held its National Con-
vention in Chicago on the 18th inst and nomi-
mated Eugene V. Debs, of Indiana, for Presi-
dent of the United States, and Benjamin Han
ford of New York, for Vice President. The
convention was a small affair, but a very
noisy one. In the national election four years
ago the Socialists poled less than 500, 600 votes
in the entire country.
PETER LAWSON, of Sullivan county, New
York, who is So years of age, took his first
ride on a railroad train on the 18th instant.
AAC %" tAO A4ot tAn1A pass OtcE Tue ETl6 hdll-
road in 1S4S and has lived many years of his
life within five miles of railroad. There are
other remarkable things about Mr.. Lawson.
He lost his second set of natural teeth several
years ago and is now cutting a new set.
AN IMMENSE audience greeted Hon. William
Jennings Bryan at the Lyric in Baltimore, on
Tuesday night, when be delivered his now
famous lecture entitled 1.-THE Prince of Peace"
Mr.. Bryan was entertained. at the residence of
Mr.. S. s. Field. North Calvert street, and
among the few guests invited to meet him
were Gov. Crothers, Mayor Mahool and Mr..
A. A. Piper, of the Towson bar, president of
the Maryland Democratic Association.
AN INTERESTING feature of the annual meet
ing of the Women's General Missionary Soci-
ETY. of the United Presbyterian Church of
North America, held in Pittsburg was the ex-
hibition of 1000 yards of coored ribbon on
which was fastened dimes. The amount
totaled 5000 and was collected by various So
cieties over the country for work among the
mountaineers in the South. The total dis
bursements of the society for the past year
amounted to s1S9,910.34.
THE ARCHITECT of the new auditorium being
built to house the Democratic National Con-
vention at Denver, July 7th, has notified the
committee that there will be seats for II 600
persons, the first floor alone seating 5000. Of
these, 2,010 seats il the center will be for the
delegates and alternates. There are no Dillars
1viit "a urisks nEuns, coBofese AasI sseeisHo es
to be ireproof, and extra large exits are pro-
vided against the possibility of panic.
THE LATEST move of the Republican allies
combining against the nomination of Taft is
contained in the letter of former Senator
Chandler to the National Committee, raising
the right of Southern delegates to sit in the
National Convention if they were chosen by
convention, "a condition of whose action was
that no colored man should be allowed men,
bership." He urges that such convention
was not Republican body, in view of the
Fifteenth Amendment and the history of the
Republican party
THE MEMBERS of Tammany Hall organiza-
ton in New York will go to the Democratic
National Convention at Denver in great style.
They have already chartered five special trains
to carry $50 persons and the estimated cost of
the trip is $4,000. Upon arriving in Denver
the Tammany men will parade with martial
music before going to headquarters at the
Brown Palace Hotel. They expect to make
fine appearance, headed by Big Chief Murphy,
who will take charge personally of the cam
paign to present Bryan's name for nomination.
Mr.. THOMAS NJ. LANAHAN, one of the lead
ing members of the Baltimore bar, died at his
home in that city, on Sunday last, in the S1st
year of his age. He was native of Virginia,
but spent nearly his entire life in Baltimore. He
was o personal and political friend of the late
Senator German and stood high in the Demo-
cratic councils in Maryland. Mr.. Lanahan,
who was member of the Catholic Church,
was a brother of the late Rev. John Lanahan,
who was prominent minister of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. The late Samuel j.
and Charles NJ. Lanahan were nephews of the
deceased.
THE FIRST National Good Roads Congress
will be held in Chicago. June 18th, and in
Denver, July 9th, the day before the opening
of the Republican andt Democratic National
Conventions. The call for this Congress says:
Recognizing a wellnigh universal sentiment
in favor of the better public highway, and be-
ieving in discussion of this great problem
from every point of view will prove timely
and effective, all interested are urged to attend
the National Good Roads Congress at Chicago
June 18th, 1908, and Denver, July 9th, 1908,
that the results of its deliberations may be
presented for the consideration of the coming
national conventions, all legislative bodies and
the public generally"
THE CHICAGO Tribune, in recent issue, con-
tanned the following: William Jennings
Bryan could afford to pay s15O0OO or more for
the Democratic nomination to the Presidency,
even if he knew positively that he would be
defeated If nominated Mr.. Bryan expects
the circulation to his weekly magazine, the
ConlnOper, to go to l, OO0. 900 subscribers. This
would yield him a net profit of S2S0.000 per
year. Like the alert man he is, he is proftiDg
by his experiences of the past for Bryan
knows the financial value of the Presidential
nomination. 1t has enabled him to make an
income of 100000 year, exclusive of placing
him in the same class with plutocratic life in
surance and railroad presidents"
In THE line of practical craftsmanship the
President has done nothing better or more far
redC0luS IMAM the dSSeIHUlluS Vi Tue OOferuOrS |
of the land to consider the wastage of our ma
tional resources and to devise means to stop |
the same. This is purpose affecting the pres
ent and remote generations the world over. 1t |
is not dream, but astern fact that is confront |
ing the nation at large. Our mines and forests |
are being exhausted ruthlessly, and our water
ways run to the sea practically unused. We |
cannot renew the mines. but we can stop vast
ing them. We can renew the forests and
should begin doing SO on large scale at once.
We can make the rivers carry mighty COM
merce and produce immense power, and in
this regard private enterprise should be aided
by national wealth. Waste must stop or the
country will be on the brink of ruin before the
child in the cradle is fifty years old. To con-
slider this prospect the Governors were called
together, and it is to be hoped the first meet
ing will result in permanent good.