Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-28
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Niscount Aoki, the retiring japanese
ambassador, in an interview at San Fran
cisco, declared in positive terms that
there could be no such thing at present
as war between this country and Japan.
He said the questions at issue were not
such as would cause war and that all
the high officials of Japan were convinced
of the good faith and friendship of this
country.
The first open declaration of the con-
servative Democrats of the East who are
known to be unfrendly to the candidacy
of William J. Bryan took shape at the
Jackson Day dinner of the National
Democratic Club at New York. Ex-
President Cleveland sent letter of re-
greet, in which, after expressing his in
terest in the success of the party, he
said: Our country needs conservatism,
recuperation from nervous prostration. re-
instatement of constitutional observance,
buoyant, but none the less safe and pru-
dent Americanism; scrupulous care Of
every person and every interest entitled
to care, and a square deal" that means
sxact and honest equality before the law
and under constitutional guarantee
After his return home from Washing
ron Mayor Dahlman Of Omaha gave TO the
press a corrected statement of his much
discussed interview with President Roose-
yelt According to this the President
kaid "TeiI the boys out West that this
financial panic is being placed on my
shoulders nv reason Of the position |
have taken. If this is true. it shows that
we are on rotten foundation. and it only
came a few months sooner than it would
have done otherwise. and it shows we
needed a housecleaning You can tell
them also that don't care what ex-judges
or judges or ex-GoyeTnors or Governors
say about it." Mayor Dahlman says that
as this was spoken in the presence of
eight or ten other persons as message
TO the West. he felt free to give 1t out.
Secretary Taft who will soon begin the
preparation of an extended report on his
observations in the Philippines. in n re-
cent interview expressed himself as highly
pleased with the progress already made
in the islands. Peace. be says. prevails
throughout the Philippines TO greater
extent than ever before In their history,
and agriculture is proceeding without fear
from predatory bands. lie finds the ma
tiyes receptive to education and to mod
ern western conceptions Of rel;gioS and
politics. and says there is 40 difference
between the educated and the ignorant ,
Filipino that cannot be overcome By the
education Of one generation. The Secre-
tary thinks the people should not DC m
trusted with self-gogeTnment until their
primary and Industrial education is com
plete. and this may require more than a
generation owing to a lack OF funds for
educational purposes.
The Ohio Republican State Central
Committee at its recent meeting decided
to give the members Of the party an op-
portunity to express By direct vote their |
cboice for a presidential candidate on
MAI IL, when delegates to the Republi-
can State convention will be selected. |
Senator Foraker has issued statement
declaring that he will not abide by thls |
action Of the committee.
Jackson Day at Chicago was q far |
different affair from that Of the New
York gathering There the banquet Civ |
en- By the Jefferson Club was the scene |
Of Bryan lore feast IN which 600 Dem |
ocrats cheered riotOusiy the words Of thu |
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