Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06

The national executive committee of
the Socialist party has decided to send
its candidate, Debs, in a special train for
a two months tour of the country, be-
ginning Sept. 1 at Chicago.
In an address at the unwilling of che
statue of Capt. John Underhill, a Long
Island pioneer, at Oyster Bay, President
Roosevelt made hot denunciation Of So
cialism in connection with his sermon on
citizenship. This attack has drawn the
fire of a number of prominent socialists,
among them J. G. helps-Stokes, the mill
ionaire New Yorker.
In addition to editorials in the various
Hearst papers, attacking the Democratic
candidate and platform, a letter from
Editor Hearst, now in Paris, to Samuel
Gompers has been published, in which he
tells the labor leader fatty that he has
''lost confidence in the ability, in the
sincerity and even in the integrity of the
leaders of the Democracy"
Upon the motion of Candidate Bryan,
the Democratic national committee, in
session at Lincoln, Neb, adopted a reso-
luton in fulfllment of the platform
pledge, declaring that ''it will accept no
contributions from corporations what
ever; that it will accept no individual
contributions above $4,000, and that it
will make publication before election of
all individual contributions above 500"
date of publication being fixed as Oct. 10
and all contributions received after that
to be published on date of their receipt,
but 40 large contributions to be accepted
within three days of election.
After visiting Candidate Bryan at Lin
coin in company with Kern, the Demo-
cratic vice presidential candidate, Presi-
dent Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor gave out a statement saying pos
itively that he would take the stump for
the Democratic ticket.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker of New
York, the defeated presidential candidate
of the Democracy in 1904, since the Dem
yer convention has announced his deter
mination to take the stump for Bryan and
Kern, and expresses the hope that they
can carry New York this year.
President Roosevelt will be urged by
the RepuDllCdu soldIe cOIHInlIJee Oh Ne
braska to take the stump in that State
for the national ticket. Senator La Fol-
lette is expected to devote much attention
to Bryan's home State.
In reply to telegram asking him if
it were true that he had told Bishop
Waters of the African Methodist church
that he disapproved of the dismissal of
the negro troops accused of the Browns
Vile riot. Candidate Bryan wired from
Lincoln that the report was untrue. He
added that he would discuss only those
questions mentioned in the platform.
In his address TO the returning Lincoln
delegates to the Denver convention Bryan
EXPRESSED his satisfaction with the plat
form and the nomination of Kern as his
running mate, and made much of the fact
that the publicity idea had prevailed. He
was convinced that this would appeal to
the reform element in both parties.
Like George Washington, ST. Patrick
and Abraham Lincoln, Cyrus Denton
Young. the veteran twirler of the Boston
Red Sox. is TO have a day 1t is to be
Aug. IS. and President John Taylor has
issued a proclamation that it shall be
holiday at the American League grounds,
at least.