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Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
Remarkable UnderpricinG on
Summer Footwear

Clearing out the stocks is our sole object now. We
have the goods and the inclination to make a record
breaking sale. Monday the selling will reach white heat
Nntn ahnsn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10
Hero of the First Class.

Fact is more thrilling than melo-
drama sometimes. According to a
telegram from greensboro, Charles
Nav. a fireman on the Louisville, Hen
derson & st. Louis railroad, rescued
a little negro child from death in
manner as spectacular as it was cour-
ageous.
The train was going down grade at
high speed when the engineer and
They knew that the reversed engine
would not stop soon enough to save
the child. The fireman started down
the running board and reached the
pilot in time to snatch the little negro
from the track In reaching for the
Youngsters clothing he lost his bal
ance and pitched from the engine. BY
a lucky chance he did not fall IN 'front.'
of the cowcatcher, and ne managed 70
drag the child into the ditch unhurt-
This sort of thing done on tne stage
for the entertainment and inspiration
of audiences fond of strenuous drama
is frequently ridiculed, because of its
improbability in real life
Possibly. Mr.. May may be awarded
a Carnegie hero mccall AS rue
letters carved in gold are very nice
things to have around the house 1t
Is comfortable to leave them 10 pos
terity as proof that the 1amiIy poasts
an ancestor who was altogether game,
but for his own personal use the
genuine hero does not greatly care
about medals.
Mr.. MAY. who risked his life in an
entirely disinterested effort to save
small black atom of humanity. is a
good deal more of hero than the
man who saves his sweetheart from
the lake or a burning hotel. or the
father or mother who rushes to the
rescue Of a child. He risked his life
unselfshly. He is, in fact. hero of
the first magnitude, and 1t is satisfy
! ing to know that there are such men
| in railroad service where pluck some
| times averts catastrophe.-Loul
Courier-Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10
NEW DEMOCRAT TREASURER.
Herman Riders Appointment Was
Surprise to the East.

New York, Oct. 10.-The appoint
ment of Herman Ridder to succeed
Governor Haskell as treasurer of the
Democratic national committee. came
as a complete surprise to many Demo-
cratic leaders. 1t was a surprise that
an eastern man should be appointed to
this highly important position, for it
was generally supposed that the east
had its share of honor in Norman E.
Mack's selection as campaign man.
ager.
On the whole it would be difficult to
find a better man for the place. Mr..
Ridder has the confidence of every
one; he is known for his honesty and
square dealing and yields consider
able influence through his paper, the
Stats Zeitung. He is one of the fore
most figures in German-American
journalism
Mr.. Ridder was born in New York
in 1851, and at the age of IL, began
work as an errand boy. Later he be-
came an insurance agent and in 1878
established the Katholiches Volks
Blatt. This was successful and led to
his establishing the Catholic News a
few years later. He became connect
ed with the Stats Zeitung in 1890,
and has been manager of the paper
since that day. He is a strong type
of the American business man, and Is
thoroughly capable of handling the
campaign funds in a business-like
manner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10

Hearst letters aimed at Foraker and
Haskell, and the Hearst letters will
take their place in American political
history along with the famous Morey
forgery, the Blaine Feast of Belshaz-
Ear" the Morgan disappearance and
other bombshell episodes.
The political history of the United
States had scarcely commenced before
personal bitterness and attack began
to enter into methods of campaigning.
No sooner had Washington stepped
down from the White House and the
first real fight for the presidency be-
tween John Adams and Thomas JEFF
ferson commenced than the practice of
campaign SANDER opened vigorously.
Students of history will recall that the
story was started against John Adams
in the course of this canvass rejecting
on his patriotism. Adams was openly
charged with never having been heard
of until some British soldiers killed
seven citizens of Boston. The soldiers
were charged with murder and it was
contemporary said of Adams that
explored but two lawyers could be
found hardy enough to defend them,
and John Adams was one. On the other
hand, Jefferson's critics vigorously at
tackled his loyalty as well, and it was
charged that when the English Tarle-
tans invaded Virginia, while Jefferson
was governor, "he basely fed before the
foe, resigned his office. and at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10
One of sherman's Stories.

Sherman is an excellent story-teller.
1t Is said he can beat Depew and Adlai
stevenson. Our candidate for vice.
president is credited with the follow
ing. There was an awfully irreligfous
fellow in Utica who had been given up
as a hopeless case by his family and
friends. He cursed and swore like
a pirate, and was always kicking up
row about nothing. One day the
Rev. DR.. G. happened to hear one of
his outbursts and said to him: NV
friend, just drop a few of those hard
words. Did you ever stop to think
where you will go when you die?' Col
shouted the fellow. Go! Why. to
heaven or hell; 1t doesn't make much
difference. / have a wife in each
place.-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10

sufficiently successful to attract any
widespread degree of commentator.
1t had been marked by the most disas-
trous panic in American history. It
had seen the absolute notification of
the merit system, due to the institu
ton of the spoils system as an inner
itance from Andrew Jackson. num-
Der of Van Buren's prominent appoin-
tees had defaulted. With these and
other arguments working against him
he was given an unexpected indorse-
ment in the unanimity of his renomi-
nation.
The most picturesque and exciting
presidential campaign in the history of
the country then ensued. Van Buren,
was an aristocrat and Harrison was
the plainest sort of commoner. Ridl-
culing Harrison's plain living Demo-
cratic newspaper said:
Give Harrison barrel of hard cider
and a pension of $1,000 and he will sit
the remainder of his days contented
in a log cabin"
From that hour the cider barrel and
the log cabin became the emblems OF
the Whig campaign. Wing enthusiasm
ran riot The campaign song made its
first strenuous appearance. Harrison
was affectionately referred to as Tip
pecanoe" in reference to his military
victory over the Indians. Against this
Wing enthusiasm the Democrats, who
were handicapped by Van Buren's ad-
ministration record, could make but
little headway.
The election resulted in an over
whelming victory for the Wings. They
carried all but seven states and re
ceived 234 electoral votes. as against go
for Van Buren,, while Harrison's popu-
lar vote plurality exceeded 10000.
Wing exultation. however, was short
lived. for Harrison outlived his inaugu-
ration but a few days, when exposure
to the severe weather on the day he
took his Office brought on a fatal Ill
ness. which carried him to his grave.
Vice President Tyler. it will be remem-
bered, had been chosen only as last
resort, and with the admitted under
standing that he was not loyal Parti-
con and the result was that the Wing
victory at the polls in 1910 soon became
a Whig disaster in the succession OF
Vice President Tyler.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10

For the first time since the dissolu-
ton of the Federalist and Republican
parties, 20 years before. a real party
struggle for possession of the govern
ment ensued in the campaign of 1910.
Four years previous there had been
something of a party contest between
the Democrats and Wings, but the
Wings were too newly organized to put
up a serious battle. In 1910, however,
it was different. The Wings and Dem
machinery, and a result a strictly
partisan campaign followed.
Not only was the battle hot for cleo
ton. but it was equally warm in the
preliminary skirmishes for nomina-
tions. Henry Clay was undoubtedly
candidate for the Wing nomination for
president he was undoubtedly the ia
vorite. But he had done much to
cause personal enmity toward him. He
inherited the opposition of the Anti
Masonic party. Because of lack of
strength in New York state he inner
tied the opposition of William H. Sew
ard, then governor of the Empire state,
together with the rising young editor.
his views on the tariff and internal
improvements. AS result of this stu
alton Wing leaders definitely set out to
keep him off the ticket.
The convention met at Harrisburg,
Pa, December 4, 1889. Meetings were
held in an old Lutheran church. When
the convention assembled it was evil
dent that a plurality of the delegates
! favored Clay. In order to circumvent
his nomination, the Wing leaders Sc
| cured the adoption of the unit rule,
| by which the majority of each delega-
| tion cast the full vote of the state.
| This done, a committee of three from
] each state delegation was appointed to
report to the whole committee the
| choice of the state, thus avoiding pos
| sibility of a stampede to Clay. State
| delegations voted separately and in Sc
cret, and this ingenious device was con-
| tinued until a nomination was made
| by strict machine methods. On the
| first ballot Clay had a clear plurality.
| William Henry Harrison. second and
| Winfield Scott third. After three days
| of ballotting Harrison was nominated
| Clay's friends were so bitterly disap-
| pointed that the vice presidency was
! thrown to the camp of his friends as
| a sop for their favor. The vice presi-
| Dental nomination was offered to sew
eral persons, but they all declined, and
finally it went to John Tyler, a politica
| hybrid who was part Democrat and
part TTfhi!g and who had been an ard
ent supporter of Clay. He was nom
| mated, historians say, because the
| party could get no one else to accept
The Democratic convention met al
Baltimore on May 8. 1910, and renom-
| mated President Martin Van Burer
| unanimously. Van Buren's four years
administration, however. had not beer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10

New Influence in Politics.

In all the states clustering around
the northern Mississippi and it's great
arteries to the east and west, a new
factor with which the old-time politi-
clan, or even the politician ofyesterday
never had to deal, has so quietly en-
tered the lists against the politician
class that, acute as is that class to all
conditions threatening it's sway, it has
failed to realize its coming and, except
in Iowa, to appreciate it's arrival.
Still this new influence, which Will
be felt in this campaign, has come to
stay, at least, for some years, and an
investigation leads to the belief that
it has the earmarks of permanency
and growing strength. Already in its
infancy, it has done more than all
other influences to change the attitude
of the country toward one of the two
presidential candidates standing for
election in this campaign; already it
has bridged with seemingly an un-
shakable platform the two great parti-
san barbados between which, in safe
ty, special privileges have pursued
ton and official immortality enjov inn
munity.
From that platform, which has not a
partisan prop of any kind under it, the
new influence snaps it's fingers in the
. face of the demand for blind allegiance
to party ties and from it Republican
La Follettes advocate the election of
| Democratic Folks and the defeat of
hOuSS ana HODklnSeS in
! the senate; Democratic Folks uphold
| the hands of Republican Hanlys; Re-
publican Hanlys strengthen Democrat
| ic Folks. From it La Follettes. the
organs. the Cumminses, the Hanlys,
the Johnsons, the Folks, the Hochs-
all irrespective of party-unitedIy de-
mand higher ideals, pure and
fairer government, better laws; the
election of honest men to office, men
! who can and who will enforce law.
The new influence is the latest eyo-
luton of an institution that began with
| the old camp meeting, that evolved
| into the chautauqua and the lyceum
| lecture course, and that has now ad-
| vanced until it is doing more than any
other institution in recent years to
| awaken the peoples moral conscious
| ness in governmental matters and to
sever their old partisan ties and ANAL
gamate them for duty. The chautau-
| qualyceum has arrived" as a factor
| in American politics.-Jefferson CITY.
| (Mo.) dispatch to Indianapolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10
A Square Deal

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ferment nutritive and soothing demul-
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Glycerine plays an important part in
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Besides curing all the above distressing
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10

very crisis of their fate left the peo-
pie to choose a ruler in his stead
Attacks on Clay.
The political bombshell made its first
appearance in this campaign few
days before the election in the shape of
an open letter from the French minis
ter, Citizen Adet. 1t was addressed to
the secretary of state and was pub
lished in all newspapers. 1t declared
that the administration had violated
the treaties with France and had con-
Quoted itself In a most ungrateful man.
ner toward the country which had rem
dered important assistance in the rev.
dictionary struggle
In the campaign of 1924 Henry Clay
was attacked for venality. He was
charged in a letter which declared that
his friends had limited that they, like
the Swiss soldiers, would fight for those
who would pay them best. 1t was al
legged that agents of Clay had ap-
port their candidate on condition that
Clay should be appointed secretary of
state. Clay was then speaker of the
house. He asserted that the letter was
a forgery and demonstrated his COM
mand of vigorous English by saying
that if genuine, he pronounced its au-
thor whoever he may be, base and
infamous calumniator, bastard and a
liar
Thus the famous letters which are
figuring in the 1908 campaign can show
a long pedigree dating back to the ear
Hest days of the republic, when the
use of correspondence as a political
weapon was first conceived and expert
mented with.
The Morgan Incident.
No political roorback ever excited
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Blaine had lost million votes and
Blaine was not to blame.
The Delmonico Dinner.
Blaine had to carry. There were other
campaign lies. In the course of the
campaign Jay Gould gave a dinner at
Delmonico's, in New York. for the
purpose of figuring out political and
financial plans for the Republican
party. Blaine was present, as were
many moneyed men of New York.
Promptly 1t was charged that Blaine
was selling the presidency for cam
paign funds and the dinner at Del
monico's became branded as Belschaz-
Ears Feast.
Nor even was this all. Blaine wrote
number of letters to Hooking Valley
coal interests and to western railroad
interests concerning public matters.
One of his letters bearing on these
subjects concluded with this admoni-
ton. burn this letter."
Even in days gone by 1t is evident
that political capital centered with
greatest revenue around private cor
respondence, and whether Blaine was
guilty or not of questionable conduct
he undoubtedly handed out bit of
sage advice when he advised the re-
cipient of a questionable communities
ton to burn this letter.
"A SENSATIONAL incident Oh the CIoVe-
land-Harrison campaign of 1888 was
the correspondence between the Brit
ish minister at Washington, Sir Lionel
West, and an individual purporting to
be Charles F. Murchison. 1t appears
that about two months before the
election Sir Lionel received a letter
with Murchison's signature. Murchi-
son represented himself to be an
Englishman recently naturalized who
was anxious for advice as to how he
should vote. He represented to him
Cleveland's attitude toward England
and to Mr.. Harrison, and being anx-
ious to cast his vote in the interest OF
the British government he asked Sir
Lionel what course he should follow.
Sir Lionel fell into the trap. He
wrote Murchison that ANY political
party which openly favored the moth
er country at the present moment
would lose popularity, and the party
| in power is fully aware of that fact
| He did not undertake to predict Pres
ident Cleveland's course in regard to
England, but he concluded with the
suggestion that he had every reason
to believe that while upholding the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10

position he had taken, Cleveland
would manifest a spirit of Cancellation
in dealing with the English cause. The
principal result of the incident was
the recall of Sir Lionel, who was fore
ed from his diplomatic position, al
though the incident had no appre-
cable effect upon the election itself.
There have been many minor politi-
cal bombshells, which, in their day,
have caused excitement, but these are
the greatest, and with them in his
tory will stand the Hearst letters of
1908.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10
Campaign Was Drifting on a
Sea of Dizziness.
BOmbshells and RoOrbacks of
b tOther Contests Recalled.
BEGAN WITH ADAMS.
Personal Attacks Have Been
Common in Politics.
Blaine Encountered an Unusual
Number of Misfortunes.

Washington. Oct. 1o-The Hearst let
tiers have saved the presidential cam
paign of 1908 from mediocrity. For
years presidential campaigns have each
beea marked by some glittering bonn
bAs-. which. b. the noise Of its explo-
sion, would become the all engrossing
feature of the year. For time it ap-
peared that Taft AMI Bryan were Meth
er 70 furnish the other with any seri-
Gus denunciation, bu. then came the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10

at their mothers knee. This had
a power in it that changed them
rom weak, delicate boys into
strong, robust boys.
It has the same power to-day.
Boys and girls who are pale and
weak get food and energy out of
SCOTS Emulsion. It makes
children grow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10

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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-19
FIFTY MORE MEN
= Work on the State Railroad.
State Crop Outlook Good.

Houston, Texas, June 12.-Yester.
day Judge w. H. Gill returned from
the meeting of the penitentiary board
at Austin, and reports the crop out,
look from the state farms as fine.
Most of the state convict land is stu
ated in river bottoms, but not in the
overflow district, consequently it has
suffered little damage from the
floods. Only about $50 acres were
slightly damaged, and they were not
destroyed
Judge Gill estimates that the state
will raise about six million pounds of
sugar, worth from 3-4c to &c per
pound, and one hundred thousand
bushels of corn. 1t is too early to
state what the cotton crop will be,
but the other crops are almost assur-
ed.
Fifty men were ordered taken from
the penitentiary at Rusk and put to
work on the state railroad at the re-
cent meeting, and as many more as
could be spared were to accompany
them, provided that the pipe industry
at Rusk was not to be crippled.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-19
GOVERNOR WILSON OF kENTUc-
KY PARDoNS TWO OF MEN
CHARGED WITH Compile
ITY IN GoEBEL CASE.
Powers Tried Many Times
But Always Got New TriaI-Jim How
ard Was Serving a Life SEN
tence - Former Governor
Taylor, In Exile, Com
ments on Pardons.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald
Frankfort, KY, June Ex-Governor
Wilson today signed pardons for Ca
leb Powers and Jim Howard, charged
with completely in the murder of Gov
ernor Goebel in that state several
years ago, and which case with the
resulting trials of the men charged
with the assassination, has attracted
national attention. Howard had been
convicted and was serving a life SEN
tence in the state prison. Powers
had been tried repeatedly and con-
victed at each trial, sentence ranging
from death penalty to life imprison-
ment, but he continued to fight his
case, and each time secured new
trial.
The pardons are unconditional.
Governor Wilson is republican, and
was recently elected. He did not APP
pear at the state house today when
announcement of the pardons was
made. Howard was notified at the
prison of his pardon, and at once
prepared to leave. He declined to
talk of the matter. He only said he
expects to visit Louisville relatives,
and then intends becoming a prison
evangelist.
The pardons have aroused the great
Test Indignation among the democrats
of the state and the friends of Goehel.
1T is feared by some that the release
of Powers and Howard may cause
trouble between the factions.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-19
Patrick Asks For Hearing.

New York, June 12.-Albert T.
Patrick, from his cell in Sing Sing
prison, where he is serving a life
sentence after conviction for the
murder of William Marsh Rice, has
again set in motion the machinery of
the law in an effort to gain his free,
dom. Judge Lacombe in the United
States circuit court today reached cal
endar No. 16 and in response to the
motion 'in re Patrick" it became APP
parent that Patrick stands alone in
his case and is unrepresented by coun-
sci. He asks that he himself, by writ
of habeas corpus, be produced in
court, there to show that his deten-
ton in prison is in contravention of
law and justice. The case will not
be reached for some time.