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Arizona republican., 1908-11-20

Closely following the death Of his most distinguished patron, Mrs. Astor, there passed away in this city a man who in his way was an equally impor- tant parsonage in fashionable society, but whose existence was practically unknown outside his ranks. This was Frank Johnson, who for many years has had charge of the outside ar engagements" for almost every wedding or other important function given by members Of the 400. His particular qualification was that he knew by sight every socially prominent man and woman in the city and was able to pre- vent uninvitSs persons from securing admission to these select affairs with out submitting real guests to the in dignity of showing their cards. His profession. was unique and he has left no successor to take his place in serv- ing this particular need of the socially elect.
 LONGACRE
Arizona republican., 1908-11-20

York's famous Madison Square Garden. hotel, the Garden is now New York s
 most historic public gathering place,
 and should it be sold and the property
 cut up into building lots it is hard to figure how the city would be able to find substitute for it. For years Madison Square Garden has been a center for gatherings and exhibitions attracting large crowds and of late years the only adequate one. Tn it take place annually the horse show. the automobile show, the circus, the larger winter athletic meets and all the greatest political gatherings. Since 1871 indeed Madison Square has been pretty well in the public eye. Previous to that time it served as a railroad sta- tion, but for the last forty-seven years it has been the largest amusement place in the country. The present building is the most noted of the archi- tectural creations of the late Stanford White, and it was on the roof garden there, curiously enough. that he was shot. The Garden was completed only in 1890, but has never been a profitable investment and for several years rum ors of the sale of the property have cropped up from time to time. Some seven or eight years ago it was report cd that the ground would be used for the erection of a mammoth department store, and later it was considered as site for the new postoffice. Should the property now be sold, juvenile New York would probably shed a good many tears for no other building in the country has ever entertained so many children.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-20

Golf, the ancient and royal pastime, is in a fair way soon to be ranked in the category of undesirable" or even criminal pastimes here because of its alleged evil influence on the youths who act as caddies. At any rate Po- lice Captain Mathot threatens to ap- peal to a police magistrates court to take drastic action against certain mil lionaire golfers of a noted local club and wealthy golfers" may soon become as unpopular term as wealthy male factors" provided of course that it's use can be reconciled with the athletic propensities of the present president elect. The evil influences of golf for the youngsters does not, however, lie in the picturesque language which they hear, nor even in the alleged bibulous tastes of some of its patrons. Rather it is found in the manner in which this game obstructs youthful education, ac- cording to Captain Mathot, who eX plains his position when he says, "We have been trying to keep the boys in school, but the rich and influential golfers come along in their automobiles and whisk the schoolboys off to the links where they pay them high fees to act as caddies." In other words young America hereabouts finds the opportu- nifty to earn a dollar or a half dollar preferable to the unremunerative edu- cation of the schoolroom. The dearth of caddies after the opening of the school season is always a serious prob lem to local golfers, which is now made worse than ever by Captain Mat hot's threat to have somebody arrest ed if matters continue as they are. It is for this reasdn that golf in New York at least, may yet be listed in the category of legal offences.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-20

Where and when Haas got that pistol may be an interesting aca- demic question, but it is difficult to see what relation there could be be- tween the settlement of it and the main matter, the guilt or innocence of Ruef.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-20

GOLD
 Miners and Ranchers, Notice! We do iron and brass cast ings of all kinds. Come in and talk to us.
 PHOENIX FOUNDRY co. E Ea. 451 s. 7th Ave.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-20

tween the real cost of running the department and the receipts it would not be so bad. since the people would merely have had service at less than cost. But it is evident that great part of the deficit represents waste and uselessly expensive methods.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-20
THE HOTEL A HOLLYWOOD.

 Situated n;d-way
Arizona republican., 1908-11-20

If nothing else comes of those sit tings of the ways and means com mittee, they have not been held in vain. Housewives and laundrymen of this country have learned that they can save money by buying American made starch in England.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-20

LONGACRE.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

did not scruple to bring the tally to
measure up to their notions of what
they thought it should be, either by
force of arms or taking liberties with
the ballot box.
A blacksmith, as big as Mr.. Taft,
was complained against during a GER
tain election for his bullying tactics in
behalf of the gangsters. Mr. Taft had
the man pointed out to him. He
strobe to meet the fellow, who will
ingly enough advanced half way.
Taft's right fist was abruptly removed
from where it was hanging by his
side to a point directly under the
blacksmith's left ear. The black
smith Immediately sought a reclin-
ing posture on the ground, and as his
friends dragged him away, Mr.. Taft
busted off his hands and remarked:
" Now, let's see what the trouble is
here!" Two or three little instances
Of this sort of militant good citizen
ship brought a measure of prestige
to him and aided in inculcating the
lesson in good government which the
Young law student was zealously try
ng to teach.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
THE TAI T RECORD.

tinguished dOdger. He is a daring
adventurer. He is political fakir.
Bryan is only Tillman in better
English. He is nothing but a Popu-
list in doctrine and practice.
1t is Bryan and POpulism, Bryan
and liquidation, Bryan and Riot,
Bryan and Ruin. The three RS of
Bryan's campaign seem to be Repu-
diatiOn, Riot and Ruin.
The flag that floats over the name
of Bryan is the flag of pirates. 1t is
the flag of Socialists and Anarchists
rather than the flag of Democrats.
There is nothing equivocal about
that testimony. 1t is as plain as a
pink wart on a pale face. There is
more of it. lots more. in the editorial
columns of Colonel Watterson's great
newspaper. but this is one of those
cases in which quite enough is en-
tirely sufficient.
Colonel Watterson is supporting
Mr.. Bryan this year more or less fer
wildly. But in spirit of selfshness
most unusual with him he refuses to
explain whether he is doing so be-
cause of his estimate of Mr. Bryan or
in sDite of il.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
MR.. BRYANS UNUSED PEN.

Addressing a political meeting IN
st. Paul October 10, 1895, Wllllan
Jennings Bryan said:
81 desire to express to the organ
lied labor of this city my grateIui aP-
probation of the gift which they nave
presented. 1t is a gold pen with a
silver holder, and If l shall be electeu
to be Chief Executive Of this Natloh
that Den and holder shall be used 10
sign q free coinage bill at the earliest
possible moment"
When Mr.. Bryan made that remark
whether It was a promise or
threat does not matter-the country
was suffering from the greatest IN
dustrial depression it has ever known
Hundreds OF mills and factories were
idle. a still larger number were run
ming on half or quarter time, hun
dreds of thousands of employees were
idle, and those still employed were
working for starvation wages.
The picture is not overdrawn. MT.
Bryan himself will admit its general
accuracy, and his friend, Mr.. Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, stated at the
time that there were then more than
100000 idle workmen in the Uni
ted States.
To these suffering toilers and their
less unfortunate brethren still en-
ployed, but at niggardly wages Mr.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
WATTERSORS TRIBUTETOBRYAN

Colonel Henry Watterson's speech
in Louisville on the night of October
s. which he announces will be his
only public utterance during the cam
paign, is interesting for two particu-
lar reasons. The first is its scant ref
erence to William Jennings Bryan,
and the second its abundant assur-
ance that Colonel Watterson's heart
still beats warmly for his native land.
Try a sample of his rhetoric:
"iy faith is yet strong in the free
born spirit Of American manhood. /
believe that the American voters will
rise in defense of American principles
and precedents, that they will admin
lister overwhelming rebuke to these
perversiOns of their institutional sys-
tenn"
After that inspiring utterance there
can be no doubt as to where the griz-
zled Demosthenes of the Blue Grass
stands. He is solid for the old flag
and an appropriation, if needed
in spite of his omission
of any extensive mention of William
Jennings Bryan, his estimate of that
gentleman is known of all men and
Is on record in plain black and white.
The general character of Colonel Wat
-ersOn's estimate of the Nebraska
politician may be sufficiently indi-
,ated by few selected phrases:
Bryan is boy orator. He is a dis
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
Mr. TAFTS ENTRY INTO POLITICS

It inhered in Mr.. Taft that he
should not shrink even the less at
tractive, to him, duties of citizenship.
He was in politics in Cincinnati be-
fore he had finished his law course.
The Mount Auburn districts were the
lists in which he first broke a lance
for clean politics and good govern
ment, for the preservation of the in
tegrity of the ballot and for the en-
forcement of the election laws. He
went into 1t heart and soul, and he
bruised knuckles and lost his temper
in fighting for the cause. He went
about it in this way, to quote from
lecture he delivered at Yale: "The
graduate will spend as much time as
he can in learning the local situation,
in becoming acquainted with the pre-
cinct and ward leaders, in consulting
them as far as he can, in making him
self acquainted, not only with the
well to do and well educated persons
In his precinct and ward, but also
with the laborers, the artisans, the
the saloonkeepers, in |
order that he may understand the /
influences in the primaries /
and elections of that precinct and |
ward.
Mr.. Taft's bulk and strength made
lin an impressive and a useful figure
IS watcher at the polling places
by certain gentlemen who
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
BRYAN WAS TOO MODEST.

In the course of his address before
the Lakes-tO-Gulf Waterway Associa-
tion in Chicago, October s, Mr..
Bryan, while heartily approving the
/ project under consideration, stated
that he had no plan to offer by which
| to raise the money required for the
| construction of the proposed canal
/ On this occasion as on so many 9TH
| ers Mr.. Bryan again displayed the
| extreme mOdesty and lack of self
confidence which have characterized
his public utterances.
1t would be a ridiculous and mex
cusable blunder to assume that, be-
cause he offered no plan for financing
the canal project, therefore Mr..
Bryan had no plan or that he could
devise none. AS matter of fact
plans are Mr.. Bryan's speciality, He
can supply them in bulk on an hours
notice, and if there is anything, from
exterminating potato bugs to amend
ing the Federal Constitution, for
which he hasn't a neat handmade
plan ready in stock, it is simply be-
cause the matter has never been
brought to his attention.
Mr., Bryan proposed no canal plan
solely for the reason that he was not
asked to do SO. If ne had been he
could have pulled a plan out of his
coattail pocket in full view of the au- .
dience ana without the aid of d con-
fedarate
Mr. Bryan holds that money is
created by law. Therefore, accord /
ing to his philosophy, if s500,0O0,-
600 Is needed to construct a canal
between the great lakes and the
Gulf all that is required is merely an
act of Congress creating that amount
OF additional money and turning it
over to the canal builders The
thing is as easy as rolling off log.
Mr.. Bryan in 1896 wanted the
to go into the business
Of creating money by fiat. He ear
nestly assured the people that Con-
gress, by single brief enactment.
could make silver bullion worth ,
l.29 an ounce everywhere in the
world and maintain the price at that
eYel forever. He has never quite
understood why the people rejected !
lis plan to make them and the Gov )
'rnment rich merely by an exercise
# legislative authority. I
If Mr.. Bryan were President and {
he canal builders needed money he
ould show them how to get it. He a
night, however, take a short cut and '
ropose to build the canal itself by .
lat instead of building it with fat /
lade money. Mr.. Bryan's plans are .
larvelously flexible, and he controls 7
lore than fifty per cent. of the entire ?
utput. i
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
WOMEN VOTERS FOR TAFT.

The women in the States whore
women vote do not have a party of
their own, with a Joseph's coat nlat-
form of everything all the nice wom-
en- think ought to go in it-not at
all. They line up on the Republican
and the Democratic sides and fight
fair in the regular way. The third
parties do not appeal much to wom-
en- somehow. Even the Prohibition
party is not strong in the woman suf-
frage States as compared to Others
and considering the fact that women
do vote. The State committees of
both great parties have their women
chairmen and committees and ali
work together with great ease. The
will get the major Dart
of the woman vote this year. One
woman gave a reason the other dav
it wasn't a good reason
but it may have some weight. foo
She said: Bryan is too great an
lsurper of woman's great privilege
to talk all the time-we don't like
t.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23

| Bryan appeared with what he de-
! Scribed as a sure cure for their dis
| tress. But he made an entirely erro-
neous diagnosis of the case. He
| asked the people to believe that their
| hardships were all due to our none
! tary system, and that if they would
allow him to tinker it after his own
notions the mills would resume, there
would be plenty of work and high
pay and the country would fairly
wallow in prosperity. Some of the
people-but fortunately only few,
comparatively speaking - believed
him, and it was that belief which
prompted the presentation to him of
the bimetallic pen in st. Paul. Thanks
to the saving common sense of the
people, that pen remains unusued to
this day.
Had Mr.. Bryan been entirely frank
in 1896 he would have explained to
the wOrkingmen that the grinding
hardship which then beset them was
due, not to anything whatever in our
monetary system, but entirely and
directly to the iniquitOus Wilson
German tariff act which he himself
had helped to place on the statute
books two years before. His pre-
tense that the Industrial distress
which oyerspread the country at that
time was due to the gold standard |
was the shifty attempt of a political /
trickster TO dodge the responsibility |
for the effects of q law which he /
helped to enact. The people saw |
through it, and the trickster was in
defeated
The principle OF free trade which
Mr. Bryan was instrCu entail in plac-
nS in operation Ivy means of the
" "ilson-Gorman act of 1894 is one of
he bases OF the Bryan campaign of
-90S. He misreprasents conditions
md their causes now just as he did
we've years ago, and brazenly pro
'oses as a cure for existing ills the
cry nostrum which produced them
n aggravated form when his party
vas last in power. That his campaign
+ false pretense should succeed is
ossible only on the insolent assump-
ion that public Intelligence has
loyed backward. not forward, since
Is last attempt to fool the people.
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
PAR. TAFT AS A NEWSPAPER MAN

When he left Yale there were still
steps to be taken to complete the
mental equipment of Mr.. Taft with
that education which, as he has said
of student, should be as thorough
and as useful as he himself wishes to
make it" Judge Taft, his father,
Notwithstanding his commanding So
cial and professional position, was
not man of large means. William
had to go to work. 1t was rather
necessary that he should in order to
foot the cost of his legal training,
which he began Immediately in the
Cincinnati Law School. To quote
him again there was that spur of
necessity to enter upon a life of work
without the temptation to lack of ef-
fort and idlencss which competency
always creates.
With his disposition there was no |
risk that however amply endowed |
with wealth Mr.. Taft would ever have /
been a dawdler, a waster of time and /
opportunity. But he had to go to
work, he needed the money. So he
got Job as reporter on the Times
Star, of Cincinnati The courts
was his assignment. He went the
'Ounds for the Times-Star for nearly
4 year. He was a good reporter, too;
SO good, in fact, that his work at
racted the attention of Murat Hal
stead, then editor of the Commercial
Gazette, who dangled a lure before
lis eyes in the shape of an offer of
i25 a week. William took it.
The chance this experience gave
i'm to study and understand the
sychology of a newspaper mans
lind and the fundamentals of the
rofession of collecting, writing and ,
rinting news accounts in good part !
Or the excellent terms upon which >
Ir. Taft, the public officer, and news :
aper men always have stood. He !
Understands them. He tells them no :
es, deals out no evasions. He trusts =
lem and they know they can trust
i'm implicitly. ;
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
HELPS THE WAGE E. RNER.

The Republican party has created
labor bureaus in twenty-siX Republi-
can States; has created factory in
spectiOn services in twenty-three Re
publican States; has provided free
employment bureaus in thirteen Re-
publican States; has provided boards
of conciliatiOn and arbitration in
eighteen Republican States; has pro-
hibited the employment of children
under fourteen years.in twenty-three
Republican States; has limited hours
of work for children in twenty-four
Republican States; has restricted en-
ployment of children of school age in
twenty-siX Republican States; has
prohibited night work for children in
eighteen Republican States: has pro-
hibited dangerous employment for
children in twelve Republican States.
1t has also limited the laboring
hours of women in fifteen States: reg
ulated sweatshOps in ten States; re-
quired wages to be paid weekly, fort !
nightly or monthly in seventeen
States; protected members of labor |
organizations in fourteen States, and |
protected the union label in twenty |
eight States.
Any party that has done as much !
as that deserves the workingmen's
votes and we therefore urge our coun-
trymen to vote for Taft and Sherman,
the Republican candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice-President, who are
pledged to continue the work OF the
party which has been so well main
aimed
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
A Labor Leader Writes
a Remarkable Letter to
His Brother Workers, Stat
ingWith Convincing Frank
ness How lnjudici0uS 1t
is For the Head Of a Union
to Give Advice along Poll
ticaI Lines.
IOmciaI Circular !


X Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. :, 1908.
X To the officers and Members
4 United Mine Workers of
X America:
4 Greeting-We are in the midst
\ of a political campaign. Every
X method known TO pOlIClcal man
! K ayers will be used 20 secure
4 votes for their respective candi-
K dates. This is especially true in
K the attempt to obtain express
X siOns from those holding Ot1iciaI
! K positions in labor unions.
X l am in receipt OF hundreds OF
X letters from men OF all shades
K of political beliefs and from all !
K parts Of the United States ask !
X ing for my opinion OF tine differ !
4 enJ Candidates OF my views upon !
4 the issues involved ia the po- )
K litical campaign.
4 The United Mine Workers did )
X not elect me international presi- }
X dent to influence your political }
X preferences or how yOu should }
4 cast your vote on election day. !
X You have elected me 10 direct }
K the affairs of the United Mine !
X Workers. The success OF the J
X United Mine Workers and the
X welfare OF its members have and
X Will receive my first and only
4 consideration as long as l have J
X the honor Of representing you. J
X / am not responsible for in !
X tervieys appearing in the news !
4 papers, alleged to be from me, \
X that l favor any particular can \
X didate. have declined to ex-
K press or to give a"y statement
X politically for or against any =
X candidate or issue, nor do l i'll 4
K tend TO do so. This letter will
4 be my answer to ell who ask i
K me for any advice along pO- 4
K litical lines. K
X l have the honor to represent X
4 an organization of nearly BOO K
4 900 members of every known 4
< nationality and different polit- X
4 iCal views. We have among X
K our members PrOhibitiOnists, X
k POpulists, Independents, So X
cialistS, Democrats and Repub- 4
icans. From what ! know of K
our members you are fully COM K
+ petcnt to decide for yourselves X
how you will vote on election 4
day. X
All my time is required to K
T look after The interests of the 4
t United Mine Workers. Those X
+ interested in the subject matter K
I of this letter will please refrain X
r from writing me in connection y
: with politics if they hope to get K
an answer. X
The Uaitcd Mine Workers as x
an organization has been in eX- K
istence for many years before X
this political campaign, and we K
all wish that it may live many X
years after the present cam X
paiga has passed into history 4
ana until every wrong OF which X
the miner complains is honor K
ably adjusted. Yours fraternaI- 4
ly and for harmony, X
L. l.. LEWIS, K
President L. II. W. OF A. X
K X X X X X X x 4 K X x X K X X X
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
OLD BILL TAFT

By REV. by. ]. BOATMAN'
Tune: America.)
For leader strong and great
10 man the ship Of state
Both fore and att;
To zuide where breakers roar
To safely land our store,
To quiet all uproar,
There's Old Bill Taft.
To White House there to stay
And Bryan send away
Upon a raft;
To do as Teddy did,
What all our people 65id,
For man upon the Id, ..
There's Old Bill Taft.
To do what's good and just,
Strike down the evil trust,
And all Of graft;
To keep our money pure
And plenty, too, and sure,
The hard times only cure,
There's Old Bill Taft.
Reform his flag unfurls,
Against all evil hurls
Unerring shaft;
Then let our trumpets blare-
Hes always on the square
At home and everywhere
Is Old Bill Taft.
ullerton. Cal, September, 1898.
1pyright applied for
Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
WHY Mr.. TAFT FOUGHT.

Old-time friends Of Mr.. Taft say
that as a boy he was a boy all over.
zestful for play, he was no less faith
full to work when 1t had TO be done
He worked hard and played hard.
Blessed with a brain as big and ca
pable as the huge, but not clumsy,
body that serves him so we'll, he took
to books with the same quality of en-
thusiasm as that with which he de-
plOyed his forces in stone or apple
fight with the Taylortown gang
boys who lived in a section adjoining
Mount Auburn in Cincinnati or
bent his footsteps toward the swim
ming hole when school was out and
tasks were done.
Those fights with the TaylortoWn
gang were pretty strenuous for anna
te1r affairs, too. They were a legiti-
mate heritage handed down to VIII
and his contemporaries from the boys
who had preceded them. Judge Taft
called VIII in one day and began
cross-examination into the reasons
why the Mount Auburn boys and the
gang periodically
rocked" each other.
What is all this fighting about!'
he asked.
oh" replied Win, II don't know
exactly, only we've always fought
hose fellows"
But why?" persisted the Judge.
What reason have you for fighting
hem?"
'I don't know" was the response,
only we've got to, that's all. Char
ey and Peter (his half brothers) al
Ways did, and somehow it seems nat
fraI -