The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-04-30
POLITICAL POT POURRI

POLITICAL POT POCRRI
Although the republican state con
vsntion at Boston. April 10. electe'
four delegates at large to the Chieag'
convention without giving explicit
Instructions for Taft. resolution
was adopted declaring that a major
ity OF the state convention was il
favor OF the nomination of the wal
secretary.
The Delaware democratic state
convention at Dover. directed it,
delegates to seek the nomination OF
Judge George Gray for the presiden-
cy. Notwithstanding that a letter
from the judge asking that this be
not done was read to the convention.
The letter had been kept secret up
to the last moment.
The April number of the Ameri-
can Federationist does not contain
the usual list OF firms defined as
unfair" because of their failure to
recognize the union of their en-
ployes. This omission follows the
decision of the supreme court relat-
ing to the illegality of the boycott
under the Sherman antitrust law.
President Gompers of the fedora
ton explains that while organized
labor must obey the law as interpret
ed by the highest court, he is sure
that congress will soon change the
law SO as to relieve labor. Anyway
he believes that not the supreme
court nor any other power can COM
pei a unionist or friend of labor to
buy a boycotted article.
After hot fight in the New York
state democratic convention over the
seating of the Brooklyn delegates,
headed by State Senator McCarren,
resulting in their defeat at the hands
OF Leader Murphy of Tammany and
withdrawal with threats that never
again would New York have demo-
cratic mayor, the New York state
convention of democrats resolved to
send uninstructed delegates to ..1e
national convention and that the
unit rule should prevail. The small
Bryan minority lead by Walker and
Thomas withdrew without making a
minority report. The unseating of
McCarren was part of design to ex.
tend the sway Of Tammany Hall
across the bridge into Kings county.
McCarren said that he would carry |
the fight to Denver.
The chief result of the first full
test Of the uniform primary law in
the state of Pennsylvania, April II,
was a division on the question of To-
cal option, the liquor interests
holding the cities of Philadelphia
and Pittsburg while the optionists
carried most of the rural counties
Now, however, begins the real fight
of the temperance forces which will
end at the polls in November.
Congressman Livingston Of Geor-
gia, has taken the unusual course in
his fight for denomination OF urg-
Ing democrats to oppose the disfran-
chising amendment to the constitu-
ton on the ground that the votes OF
The negros will be needed to defeat
Tom Watson, the populist.
Organs OF the socialist party have
found another propaganda weapon
in the latest attempt Of the Phila-
ielphia police authorities to suppress
public meetings on Sunday. In one
case entrance to the hall engaged ,
BY the local socialists was prevented I
BY a platoon OF policemen, and in l
another case where a meeting had
begun the police entered and forcibly
expelled the speakers and the entire
audience, using clubs freely. q
Edmund Kelly, former legal ad- 8
riser Of the American legation at +
and now one OF the prominent '
members Of the New York branch +
II the socialist party. has signed I
lrticle in the International Socialist c
Review, entitled, "The Confusion Of I
Tongues" proposing radical change +
n the tactics OF his party In Amer
ca. He holds that the policy of rev. '
'lution. while consistent and logical t
n country like Germany, where the '
,arty has the throne, the nobility a
ind the church to overcome, is ut. i
erly untenable and unnecessary in t
his country where the machinery of t
democratic government exists and '
where the real enemies of socialism +
are on the inside-in the fierce in
lividualism Of American character"
lie believes that the word reform"