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The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-29
QUESTIONS FOR TAFT TO ANSWER
ABOUT THE C. 0. P. PANIC

Why you called the father Of government by in
junction?
DO you think that Roosevets judgment in selecting
candidate for president is superior to all the delegates
that assembled in the Republican National Convention?
DO you think the choice favorable to the Republ-
can party in general?
Do you know the immediate cause of so many empty
dinner pals?
Notice the comparison of the Cleveland and Roose
vet uancs
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-29
TWELVE THOUSAND DEPoslToRs
The Columbus Savings and Trust Co.

The above fac-simile of of circular issued BY
the Columbus Savings Trust Co, in which $5OOOO of the State
deposited Treasurer McKnnon his wife and
Chs Green cashier of the State Treasury $50 shares Of
stock this McKnnon is of the directors and such
aderses prominently depostors cent? but State
Treasurer willing only q the public
in his custody
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-29
IT IS Time FOR A CHANGE

eyes the present treasury graft differs from that
in Judge Nashs time but only in kind not in character
The officers then put the state funds in banks without
authority and pocketed the interest The officials
required to put the funds in banks the taxpayers
will get the interest. But they put them in their
banks at lower rates than other deposos get and pocket
the difference. They jugge the deposits give
their banks the of large amounts for long periods
without any interest Yes, the scheme has been changed
meet the different conditions ito which the governor
refers but the object is just the and the result 1t
graft in motion then it is graft in several
tons now That is the only difference. Judge Har
mon at Ashland Oct. IT,
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-29
RAILROAD employees VS., Mr.. TAFT

The Brothrhood of Locomotive Engineers journal
in May, 1893, said Judge Taft's decision proealms
members of the b. of L. r.. band of conspirators.
Also ''We can not accept Judge Taft's decision in
any other light than treason to republican institutions and
the liberties of the people 1t is will be- and ought to be
denounced and repudiated by all liberty loving menv
How can Mr. Taft expect railway men 10 vote for
him for president in l9O8i
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-29
PRIcEs-RoosEvELr PANIC.

A house that rented for IS under Cleveland S panic,
now rents under Roosevelt's panic for $S per month
DO you think the aborngmen can live on 81. 80 day
and pay the high and most outrageous advanced prices
and only work two and three days in week and glad to
pet that
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-29
WE DON'T WANT ANY MORE PANlcs.

What we want is change. Put the government in
the hands of the people Taft and the labor crushers
do you any good The Democratic platform speaks
mills to start throughout the country and that prosperity
shall again be in abundance throughout the country vote
for William j. Bryan the Democratic ticket Nov g.
While YOU are about it, vote for Judson Harmon
for governor and the candidates the ticket with him
to clean out the state house from top to bottom.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-29

In 9 public address, Mr.. Shaw, re.
Gently Secretary OF the Treasury un.
der Mr.. Roosevelt said: "The strin.
eenoy Of 1907 is generally conceded 20
have been the severest the world has
ever Witnessed"
How consoling It Is to read In the
republican platform this glowing sen.
tence: "a Republican tariff has al.
ways been followed by business pros.
perity."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
BISHOP URGES METHODISTS
TO CAST VOTES FOR TAFT.
Church Head in Southern Asia Says
Republicans Are Material Aid to
Christianity in tina Philippines.

Church Head in Southern Asia Says
Republicans Are Material Aid to
Christianity in the Philippines.
Bishop w. #. Oldham, head Of the
Methodist Episcopal church in South
ern Asia, residing in Singapore, adj
dressed Chicago Methodist ministers
yesterday morning in the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church, Washington and
Clark streets, and made an eloquent
plea to those present to do what they
can to prevent change in the admin
istration in the Philippines. To do this,
he said, it would be incumbent upon
them to stand by the party in power.
DO not subject us to demagogic ex-
periments in the Philippines" said he.
Every missionary in the islands is add
ing his plea to mine. Our missionaries
are giving their life to the work and
the wonderful progress they have made
in the last four years, during which the
membership in the Methodist church
has increased from 1000 to $4,000,
shows the beneficial effect of the adj
ministration, as directed at present.
IF the candidate of one party is the
peerless one,' the leader of the other
is the fearless one,' and we want the
fearless one. The presence of old glory
has had much to do with our success in
the Philippines, where we have made
more converts in the last four years
than we have in the entire Chinese en-
pire in twenty-four years."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
TAFT-THE MAN.

His Life Marked by Sincerity, Faith
fulness, Purity, Kindliness and
Devotion to Duty.
There has been much talk about Mr..
Taft's religion, and many have cried
out against him on the ground that he
is not orthodox" He is a Unitarian,
as his father and mother were. He. has
never sought to conceal the fact. He is
willing to lose the presidency if man
is to be shut out of it for cherishing
the religious views Of John Adams,
John Quincy Adams, Jefferson, Madi-
son, President Eliot, and Everett Hale.
Professor James of Harvard says that
one needs only to worry about those be-
liefs which express themselves in ac-
tons, and we who know Mr.. Taft are
willing that he be judged by these If
sincerity faithfulness, purity of person
nj life. kindness, and an uncompromis-
ing devotion to duty are not indications
of true Christian faith and character,
we do not know what is.-The Home
Herald
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Vague and Dangerous Theorist.

While sitting in Denver, watching the
convention, we jotted down the opinion
that Mr.. Bryan's best hope for election
lay in retiring to the bottom of the
Pacific and allowing not single bubble
to escape Since that time he has
talked a great deal about the best way
of regulating trusts; he has made
special slogan of the Oklahoma patent
medicine banking plan; he, the vision
airy, has claimed to be heir to the prac-
tical Roosevelt; he has been desper-
ately involved in an encounter with
that almost invincible politician; and
he has cast false aspersions on the in
tegrity Of the governor of New York.
Too many bubbles have escaped. What
ever may be thought Of the Presidents
taste, in the controversy between him
and Mr.. Bryan the country will, we
imagine, feel the difference between
vague and dangerous theory upon the
one hand and shrewd, practical reform
upon the other; between hesitating and
vacillating arguments and the heavy
battalions of establishment fact.-Col-
liers Weekly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
ORDERS IP TAFT IS ELECTED.
Travelling Man Says He Has Taken
Many Such in the Last Few

Travelling Man Says He Has Taken
Many Such in the Last Few
Weeks.
"Talk to the effect that the travelling
men, or any considerable proportion Of
them, will vote this year for Bryan is
tommyrot," declared T. r. Travis Of
Kansas City in the lobby of the Loyal
Hotel, at Omaha. eff Bryan gets 20
per cent of the commercial travellers
vote he will do good deal better than
/ expect. Practically all the men in our
line are Republicans in the first place
and believe in Republican principles.
In the second place, all of them know
full well that they will get precious few
orders if Bryan should win. This is
not so much because Mr.. Bryan could
do any great harm himself, for he could
carry none of his wild schemes into
effect, but because business men are so
afraid of him.
IF he, by any miracle, should get in
things would shut down absolutely for
year. Everyone would be afraid Of
his neighbor; would think, and think
rightly, that Brown and Smith and
Jones would be afraid. 1t is exactly
the same principle that causes runs on
bank. Many intelligent depositors are
not afraid of the bank which has ample
resources, but they are afraid that their
fellow depositors will be afraid and so
they hurry down to get in line.
II have had many orders lately sub
ject to Taft's election. This was pure
business contract and not designed to
influence me. People simply won't be
able to swing the goods if Bryan is the
victor. This is not politics. 1t is BUSH
noSSo
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Why Taft Went South.

81 am going south to make a few
speeches-one in Kentucky, one in Ten
nessee, one in North Carolina, one in
Virginia and one in Maryland-not so
much with a view to carrying those
states as to show the people down there
that, no matter what they think, they
are part of the Union, and, being a
part of the Union, they ought to vote
for the Republican party, voting for
which will make them part of the ma
ton and give to them that influence
which people of their intelligence and
energy and progress and enterprise
ought to enioY."-William II. Taft.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Publicity Under Suspicion.

The list of contributions of $500 and
more to the Democratic campaign fund,
published with so much ostentation at
the request of Mr.. Bryan, has no aft
davit attached to it. Neither Chairman
Mack nor Treasurer Ridder was sworn
nor, for the matter of that, ex-Treas-
urer Haskell, who turned in some col
lecticns before he was made to walk the
plank. Therefore the list may not be
complete, and as published it is GER
tainly not compromising unless the So
600 check of Charles J.. Hughes, lead
ing corporation attorney Of Denver,
should put Mr.. Bryan on the defensive.
New York Sun Ind).
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
WHY GERMANS FAVOR TAFT.
Believe Bryan Theories are Menace
to Business.

to Business.
The German is, as a rule, a good
business man. He believes in the gold
standard-which Bryan does not; he
believes in protection for American in
dustry-which Bryan does not; he be-
lieves in expanding the money Of the
government for the benefit of all the
people, in the rural free delivery, the
irrigation of arid lands, the preserva-
ton and utilization of our forests, the
Improvement of agriculture and other
great public services which Bryan, &C
cording to the political platform which
he has subscribed, regards as "unneces-
sary and wasteful."
The prospect that Bryan would be
nominated drew bitter protests from
leading Germans and German newspa-
pers, including the newspaper con-
trolled by Ridder, the present Demo-
cratic campaign treasurer, who de-
clared that he would never support the
advocate of free silver and reputation
and of other vagaries offensive to the
sound judgment and honest character
of COMMUNICATIONS. The fact that
Mr.. Ridder has seen fit to change his
attitude toward the candidate whose
nomination he regarded as equivalent
to defeat does not mean that there has
been any general desertion on the part
of German-Americans from the prin-
ciples of sound money and of protetc-
ton for American industry. Citizens
of German origin, Democrats as well as
Republicans, throughout the United
States, are for Taft and the policies
which Taft represents.
The Germans common sense tells
him that Bryan is menace to bust
ness; that his political schemes are
visionary and impracticable, and that
he depends for his only substantial sup
port upon form of class hatred tend
ing to undermine and break down
American institutions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
why the worker. support TAT,

1t is noticed that a large majority
of the labor union leaders who are do
ing any talking in the campaign are
praising Mr.. Taft and are promising
to vote for him. In all his addresses
to workers-and he has made many OF
thenl-Mr. Taft has made ON excellent
impression. He is now travelling
through a region covering Ohio, West
Virginia and New Jersey, in which the
labor unions are particularly strong.
but everywhere he is meeting with a
very cordial greeting. He is getting so
many tributes from labor union chiefs
that the Democrats are resorting to
their old cry of "bribery."-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Hu~he, No. Hurt by Bryan.

Mr. Bryan does not appear to advan-
tage in assailing Governor Hughes for
his veto of the two-cent fare bill. He
insinuates that this is evidence of the
governors strong leaning to the side of
the corporations as against the people,
while as a matter of fact it is nothing
of the kind. The two-cent fare bill
was vetoed simply because the state
was adopting the policy of railroad rate
regulation through commissions with
mandatory powers. 1t would have been
the height of inconsistency to create
commissions to regulate fares and then
have the legislature itself and at the
same time assume the function
Springfield Republican.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
To Learn the Truth,

If any one doubts that detection from
Bryan is general, let him talk with
his Democratic friends. Whether they
are employers or employed, large per-
centage of them will be found of the
opinion that the country does not want
President who declares that what
Roosevelt has done to establish inter-
ests is as nothing compared with what
he will do. Those who are employers
or professional men want business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
High Prices and tn. Farmer.

1t is related that Nebraska farmer
who complained that "a reaper cost
$40 more than in 1896 was reminded
by the storekeeper that he paid for
the old reaper with 600 bushels Of
corn at 10 cents a bushel The mer-
chant said: IF you will bring me 600
bushels of corn now / will give you a
reaper, surrey for your wife and $50
in cash" The farmer admitted that
there must be prosperity somewhere
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Corporations are barred and excluded
rigidly from the joys of giving to the
Bryan fund. But in glancing over the
names of some of the largest subscrib-
ers the painful discovery is made that
they are corporation magnates, and the
frightful thought arises that the money
that some of them contribute smells
suspiciously Of corporations.-Bal
more Sun.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Those who are wage earners want
work. And business and work are
plentiful in times of financial peace
financial peace being quite as essential
to prosperity as industrial peace.-San
Francisco Chronicle,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

No one can doubt that if Mr.. Taft Is
elected he will redeem his pledge i'm
mediately upon his Inauguration to call
a special session of congress to revise
the tariff.-New York Werld (Dem.l
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Shall the wages of laborers in the
United States be maintained or reduced
to the pauper level of Europe? 1t is
for voters to say on Nov. s.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
The Two Candidates.

Here is the difference: Mr. Taft's
fitness can be measured by his acts,
but Mr.. Bryan's has to be measured
by his words.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

w. 8 40 ~ eaLsas SSaNaTfsRY
STEAM SH(lVEL AMID Df1EOGEMEM
1d07@- Mka4 ReA
- ~r1As e1xeue NJ
The number seam Shovel and Dredg explains fol
o Shovel
well Mr. Taft made
modern times his official acts personal
Brotherhood that has al
himself fair and just
violate Eghtour Taft against
the United
When this Panama. Taft
Isthmus him that
that there should Since Mr.
Taft Secretary Of dealings with
lied labor that prevailed while he Secretary Of
The committee which Taft with membership
card organization composed Of members of order from diff
called
accepting membership the Brotherhood
Taft other things: this
confidence justice
which
another all endeavored facilitate
this recognition because
did always decide in of accepting this
that there whom
my desire to do the square thing for everybody"
politicians
that Mr. Taft
he is
all interests whether labor
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
list the Democratic party has absolute
ly nothing to offer.
PrOSperity for All.

Under the continuation of this Re-
publican policy, Mr.. Taft as president,
this country will enjoy the highest de-
gree of prosperity. The interest of
every leading laboring community re-
quires diversity of occupations, pur
suits and objects of industry. The
more that diversity is multiplied and
extended, the better. To diversity en-
ployment is to increase employment and
enhance wages. Where there is work
for the hands of men there will be
work for the teeth. Where there is
employment there will be bread. 1t
is great blessing to the poor to have
cheap food, but greater than that, prior
to that and of still higher value, is the
blessing of being able to buy food by
honest and respectable employment.
Employment feeds and clothes and in
terests. Employment and well paid la
Dor produce, in a country like ours,
general prosperity, content and cheer
f,rIrn
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Comparison of Wages.

Under Republican RUE high wages
and prosperity in America have been
constant companions. The scale of
wages per week in the United, States
and Europe for number Of leading
lines of industry, based on official sta
tistics from the Bureau of Commerce
and Labor at Washington, are as fol-
lows:
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-25
Mad Passengers Attack Officers
With Kniues and Guns and Prevent
Launching of Steamers Life Boats
Hundreds Perish After Leav-
ing Malta When Ship Sard-
inia Burns to Waters Edge
flowed Ashore by Tugs.

Malta, Nov. 25.-The steamer Sar-
DINA, en- route from Liverpool 10
eastern ports, caught fire a mile out
side the harbor. Tugs succeeded i'm
Bleaching the vessel. Two hundred
passengers were aboari and 1t is
feared there were many fatalities, al
though definite reports are unavail-
able.
The Sardinia burned to the water
The fire started just after leaving
port. A panic followed. As the
flames approached the stern where
the passengers and crew of a gath
cred many jumped and drowned.
About 10 Greeks and Levantines
were aboard. These drew knives
and fought TO reach the life boats.
Officers were attacked with revolvers.
The fight prevented the launching of
boats. Tugs finally pulled the steam
er aground and rescued the survivors.
Seventy-fve bodies were recovered
It is believed Is are dead. There
were 80 English passengers and many
persisted.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-25
Ready for the Game

Both the Chess, Checker and Whist
cub and the Paducah Athletic club
elevens held regular practice last
night, the last before the close of the
gridiron season for 1908. Tonight
Coach Whitesides, of the c. c. & W..
viii give the team a blackboard talk
and explain thoroughly every play.
Coach Burns. of the Athletic club.
will give his players the last instruc-
tons for the game tomorrow.
Much speculation has been indulg-
ed in over the lineup Of the two
teams. The captains have given out
he following: c. c. & W--Elliott
re: Fisher, 1T; James. Rhodes or Sin
gleton, rg; DAILY or Singleton, G.;
Hughes, lg; Keller, It; Bagby or
Fitzpatrick, lie; Cope, Oh: st. John,
IN; Sights. RI, captain; Shannon, fb
Paducah Athletic club-Reeder, re;
Dunbar, TT; Brian. rg; Virgin, c; r.
Jones, lg; Callens, It; Bell. lie; Tuck
er, OBJ; L. Jones, In. captain; Bower.
RI; Polk or Burns. fb.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-25
JONAS SMITH HELD
TO GRAND JURY ON
MURDER CHARGE

After the evidence of the prosecu.
ton was heard in the examining trial
of Jonas Smith. colored, charged
with numbering his father, in police
court this morning, Judge Cross held
the defendant to answer without BAH
Eye witnesses to the tragedy testified
that the father was trying TO force a
shotgun from his sons hands while
the son was attempting to shoot John
Polk. This enraged the negro, who
turned upon his father, declaring
that If he could not XIII Polk he
would kill the old man. and fired, the
shot entering the left breast above
the heart The defendant declined
to testify this morning.
Other cases were: Petit larceny
Amos Wiley. dismissed; Henry White
continued until Friday. Grand lar
ceny--Ed Busfrey. continued; Fletch
er Brown, continued.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-25
PADUCAH LITTLE
AFFECTED BY ACT
OF COMMISSION
Rates Here Are as Low as they
Will be Under New
Ruling.
Wholesale Merchants Over
State Benefited.
LONG AND SHORT HAUL CLAUSE

By the order OF the Kentucky rail-
road commission yesterday giving the
railroads In the state the privilege to
ignore the clause OF the state consti-
tuition relating TO the long and short
haul rates, commonly known as the
"long and short haul clause" AMI TO
charge rates based on what Is tech
nically known as the 'lowest combi-
nation" basis. railroad men say that
Paiucah will not be effected They
say that Paducah being a common
point that the rates are reasonable
because Of the competition with the
river boats.
However. the action OF the com,
mission will mean an almost unllm-
tied increase In the business OF the
Wholesale merchants over the state.
and the return OF an enormous
amount OF business now lost 10 the
merchants. How much western Ken
lucky will be benefited b. the new
basis cannot be ascertained as yet,
but Il Is certain that the small In
land towns will have some benefit
However IL viii not be a. beneficial
TO the western part of the state IA
the eastern.
The competition between the deal
ers IN Louisville and those In Mem
phls and st. Louis is not expected to
be whetted by the "lowest oombina-
ton basis" The rate from Louisville
TO Mayne.d probably will be affected.
The Jaw has been In eject since
July 20. 1899. and since then trade
has been driven away from Kentuck>
Repeated EFFORTS have been made to
have Il set aside, but II was never
properly presented before the com
mission. In 1899 an effort was made
TO secure a notification Of the act,
but II met with only partial success.
the commission granting the exeep-
tlon TO few common points in the
state. Common points are such
points a. are touched by a river or
by two or more railroads.
Evidence presented before the con.
mission was that at several cities In
the state the dealers were shipping
cars out OF the state. and then re-
shipping them to the destination in
Kentucky In order TO secure the bene-
at OF the interstate commerce.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-25
WELLS DECLARES
JUROR ASKED HIM
FOR HIS COUNSEL

Murray. KY, Nov. 25. Especial y
The case of Jesse Wells. accused of
tampering with a grand juror, went
10 the jury today.
The only witness introduced by the
prosecution was Sam Mari member
IF the last grand jury. who testified
hat Jesse Wells attempted to infu-
nee his vote in the proposed indiet-
nent of election officers and Others
'or Irregularities at the recent pri-
mary. MARI said Wells promised to
reward him If he would prevent an
Indictment.
For the defense Wells himself tes-
.ified that Mari came TO him while
re was at work at Hays lumber ward
md they discussed the matter of in
iicting election officers and Republi-
,ans. Wells emphatscally denied Of
ering to reward MARI If he would
lrevent an indictment.
Wells was corToborated as 10 being
allied on by Mari by several work
men at the humber yard, who also tes-
.ified that Mari had been there to
see him on several occasions before
he found him in.