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The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-11
THE NATIONAL PRoH1B1T1oN1sT

Through the hard work of Chairman Hay of
Madison county the Prohibtonists held one of
the most enthusiastic county conventions of their
history Thursday, nominated a county ticket of
leading citizens of the county, adopted broad
guage platform, applauded an earnest speech by
Chairman Pitts, selected Mr.. Hay county chair
man and reorganized by election districts along
state lines. Local papers gave two columns to
the convention, printing the platform in full and
also part of Mr. Pitts speech In the evening Mr..
Pitts addressed large audience at the close of
fine literary and musical program, upon the
Onward Sweep of the Great Prohibition Wave:
How to Bring It to New York." and at its close
a collection of 500 was received, which was di-
vided equally between the county and state COM
mittees.
Dr. Ernest L. Tiffany the state superintendent
of Venango work, who is attending county con-
ventions in Southern New York on behalf of the
state committee, reports remarkable exhibitions of
interest in the Prohibition cause and the Prohibi
ton party. He has just attended the conventions
of Livingston, Steuben, Schuyler, Ontario, Yates
and Wayne counties. At these six conventions
last year there were sixty-six delegates present.
This year the delegates total one hundred and
seventeen Last year $161 was raised at the con-
ventions and this year $685.. Prof J. L. Da-
vies of the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary presided
at the Livingston county convention, and Profes-
sor Perry A. Carpenter, member of the faculty
of the seminary, was nominated for school COM
missioner and will make canvass to win. At
Mt Morris, where DR.. Tiffany spoke after the
Livingston county convention, the w. c. 7. U.
pledged $24 for the party's campaign fund The
Schuyler county convention was held on Memo
rial Day at Watkins. Miss Marie Brehm, for
merly president of the w. c. T. U.~af Illinois,
was present at the Wayne county convention at
Newark In connection with these conventions
Dr. Tiffany has addressed audiences in large
number of central and western New York points,
meeting with most cordial reception every
where A very remarkable feature has been the
fact that the local papers have given large space
to the reports of the conventions and meetings
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-11

tNs3Ef CHAIRMAN I'll
The Leader to Whom York State Is Rallving.
Another encouraging feature is that practically
every delegate elected from every county has
pledged himself to attend the state convention,
and there have usually been contests over posi-
tions the national delegation, one county with
but a single delegate to elect having seven can
ddates.
DR.. J. A. Hartman, Albion, N. Y, chairman of
the committee upon arrangements for New York
states delegation to Columbus, has completed ar
rangements and is preparing a statement to be
sent every New Yorker intending to attend the
convention at Columbus
Every Prohibitionist not elected as delegate,
but who intends to attend the national convention,
should at once send his name to both Chairman
c. E. Pitts, Oswego and DR.. J. A. Hartman Al
bion-to the former that his name may be sent
with others to counties having vacancies, and to
the latter that he may be sent full particulars as
to transportation, etc.
The national convention will be the greatest in
our history and every New Yorker should bend
every energy to attending. It will be an event
long to remember.
81 AS most of our supplies were printed months
earlier than usual, demand for funds comes much
earlier, but although we have thousands of dollars
pledged, money is coming in slowly as yet and
we need it badly we have several hundred dol
lars in printing bills to be paid Immediately.
Every New York Prohibtionist is urged to pay
as much of his pledge as possible Immediately
Dutchess county Prohibitionists held large
convention Monday, nominated strong local
ticket elected delegates to all conventions, and
reorganized for the campaign. The Hon. w. w.
Smith presided and County Secretary Brown was
secretary. The local papers gave columns to the
convention State Chairman Pitts delivered an
address upon party work and growth, and it is
safe to say that Duchess county Prohibitionists
are far more determined than ever to push the
fight to victory. Last fall they more than doubled
their vote in the county.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
ORCHARD ESCAPES HAhGMAh
DEATH SENTENCE OF A NOTORI.
Gus CRIMINAL is COMMITTED.
ldaho's Pardon Board Fixes His Pun
ishment at Life lmpris-
onment.

Boise, Idaho. - The state board
of pardons on Wednesday commuted
the sentence of Harry Orchard who
was under sentence to hang next Fri
day for the murder of ex-Gov Steun-
enberg, to Imprisonment for life.
Orchard was arrested ten days af-
ter the assassination of Steunenberg
at Caldwell, Ida, December 80, 1905,
and a few weeks later while confined
in the Idaho penitentiary confessed
his guilt to James MCFARLAND, a well
known detective, at the same time
asserting that he was employed to
commit the crime by officers of the
Western Federation of Miners. AS a
result of his confession Charles Moy-
er, president; William d. Haywood,
secretary-treasurer of the western
Federation of Miners, and Charles D.
Pettibone were arrested in Denver
and brought to Idaho to answer to
the charge of murder.
John Simpkins, another member of
the federation, was also indicted and
is still a fugitive. Haywood and Pet
tibone were acquitted after memora-
BILE trials in which Orchard told a
story of wholesale assassinations
which shocked the world Following
the trial of Pettibone the case against
Meyer was dismissed. Orchard, who
was indicted separately, when ar
raigned after his confession, stood
mute, and the court directed that a
plea of not guilty be entered His
case was continued from term to term
until April 10, this year, when it was
called at Caldwell and he asked per-
mission to change his plea The
court granted the request and Or
chard pleaded guilty to murder in the
first degree.
In pronouncing the sentence of
death week later, Judge Wood rec
commended that the board of pardons
commute the sentence, saying he was
firmly convinced that Orchard had
told the exact truth at the trials of
Haywood and Pettibone and that he
was therefore, for the service he had
rendered the state, entitled to elem
ency.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
TAKE STEP TOWARD REVISION
Senate Committee on Finance Has Be-
gun Its Work.

A step toward tariff revision has
been taken by the committee on fl
nance of the United States senate. The
committee met in New York and gave
evidence that it intends fairly to fof-
low the instructions laid down in the
resolution which was passed at the
last session of congress. The country
has the right to expect that the Work
of the investigation of conditions with
view to action will be continued in
the spirit in which 1t has been begun.
Three subcommittee were ap-
pointed by the greater committee
which has Just held its first working
meeting. Senator Hopkins Of TIIf-
nois was made chairman of she sub
committee whose investigating work
will be of vital importance to- the
great middle western industries. In
brief, the work of the Illinois senator
and of those Immediately associated
with him will be ITO consider what
changes in customs rates are desira-
BILE, to obtain proof of the reEative
cost of production in this country and
in the principal competing foreign
countries of the various articles af-
fected by such changes"
AS a cold matter of fact this sub
committee has more important work
than has either of the other three
bodies into which the main commit
tee has been divided Senator Hop
kins promises hard work. The fHfor-
nation obtained will be of especial
value to our manufacturing interests
and of scarcely less value to ether
American industrial pursuits.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
WITH FIREWORKS AND MUSIC
Citizrr7s OF Utica, r.. ", Welcomed
Congressman Sherman to
His Home.

Utica, n. The Homecoming
last night OF Congressman James
s. Sherman was made the occa-
sion of such demonstration as has
rarely been seen in this section of the
state. The welcome to the Republi-
can candidate for the vice presidency
was - non-partisan affair and to a
great extent personal. for the con-
gressman's recovery from his recent
somewhat alarming illness gave added
reason for public rejoicing upon his
safe return.
Mr.. Sherman, accompanied by Mrs.
Sherman and Dr. Carter. reached here
from the west at 9:18 o'clock. AS his
train drew into the station bands
played. fireworks were set off. can
mons doomed and church chimes rang
out. In Baggs square and every other
spot adjacent to the New York Cen
I trail station thousands of persons were
crowded. Mr.. Sherman stepped from
the train slowly, looking pale and
i. worn. A monster procession formed
in the vicinity of the station and es-
coIted the candidate to his home. The
line of march covered fully two miles
and the paFaders included organiza-
tions of a ciric. military and fraternal
nature.
The route lay through the principal
streets. the buildings of which were
decorated with f1agss1 Streamers and
notices. all illuminated by electric
lights. 4 dozen bands furnished mu-
Gil Irxau ynE-tfc fo,
tuIe, and thousands of persons
ranged along the route cheered. At
Afr. ShermanTs home the formal well
come took place. the principal speech
being by Mayor Wheeler.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
MAN FAMOUS FOR SO YEARS AS
= WRITER JOINS THE
MAJORITY.
WELDED A F0RCEFUL PEN.
Won Fame as a War Correspondent
and Critic Of the Acts of Men
High in Office and Also
Wrote Many Books.

Cincinnati, O.. Murat Halstead,
one of the leaders in American jour
nalfsm for over half a century and
widely known as a vigorous editorial
and magazine writer, died at his
home IN this city Thursday afternoon,
in hrs 18th year. At his bedside were
HIS wife, his son Robert and one
daughter. Mrs. Arthur Stem. Mr.. Hal
stead had been failing in strength for
several months and on Wednesday
suffered from cerebral hemorrhage.
ME-. and Mrs. HaIstead celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary a
LITTLE more than year ago, at which
time Mr. Halstead's health seemed
fraiT. and as time passed he grew
weaker. so that the news of his death
was NOT wholly unexpected. The sud
den death of his son Marshall n few
months ago was a severe shock 10
him and is believed to have had an
adverse effect on his health. Albert
consul at Birmingham, England.
Mr.. HaIstead was one of the great
editors of the nineteenth century and
one of the strongest tributes to his
incisiveness as a writer was in 1889,
when his nomination by President
Harrison to be American minister to
Germany was rejected by the United
States senate because of articles he
had published charging corruption to
some members of that body.
!; He was native of Butler county.
! o., end after a short service on a lit
erary weekly he in 1853 became con-
nected with the Cincinnati CONNER
I cial, in which he secured a small in
terest year later. becoming chief
owner In 1865. Nearly 20 years later
his paper was consolidated with the
Gazette and he was editor-in-chief of
( the combined newspaper until years
afterwards, when another consoida-
ton was effected, new owners secur-
ing control.
For a time he was editor of the
Brooklyn Standard Union and during
, the last ten years he has figured
largely as a magazine and special
news writer. besides preparing num-
. Der of books on matters of historical
interest In the civil war Mr. Hal
stead personally reported many bat
ties, being rated as a war correspond
ent OF the first class and later in the
Franco-German war and in the Span
/ ish-American war he added to his rep
utation in that line
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
WARNS AGAINST A BLUNDER.
Washington Star Deprecates Sugees
tion That Has Been Made

There is a renewal of the sugges-
tion that If the Democrats capture the
presidency and elect majority of the
next house an extra session of the
present congress will be called and
the tariff revised before the Republi-
cans surrender power.
Even If the maneuver could be ex-
ecuted it would be unfair and unwise
unfair in that it would be an at
tempt to nullify a part of the meaning
of the election, and unwise, because
the attempt would fail.
Does anybody suppose that a Demo
cratic president and Democratic
house of representatives would accept
such revision of the schedules as
the Republicans on their death. bed
would make? They would not, bat
would Immediately upon taking office
propose a revision of their own. They
would feel themselves instructed to do
so by the election returns. Thus we
should see the country twice stirred
within six months on the tariff subject
But such an attempt on the part of
the Republicans could not succeed.
The Democrats of the house could Of
fer but small resistance but the Dem
ocrats of the senate could, and would,
block the program. BY a united eff
fort-which they would be certain to
make-they would talk it to death.
Less than four months would be the
time allowance, and the routine busi-
ness would have to be taken into ac-
count. Either the tariff bill, or some
of the supply bills, would have to be
abandoned. And as for the supplies,
Uncle Sam must have his rations.
Revisions, as everybody comedies, is
coming. The only question is how soon
and by whom. Next spring is early
enough, and it is for the people to say
at the polls who shall do the work. A
Democratic victory, it is true, would
not dispose of the Republican senate,
but even that body would have to take
some account of popular expression
at the polls which had commissioned
Democrats to deal with the subject
Washington Star.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
LOST A BAG OF SPARKLERS.
Diamond Dealer Claims He Was
Robbed of Gems Worth
$4,000.

Chicago.-S. C. Powell, a buyer
employed by Stern Brothers &
Co., wholesale jewelers. in the Co.
lumbus Memorial building. 1o3 State
street, reported to the police Tuesday
that he either lost or was robbed of
sack containing $4,000 worth of
unset diamonds. Powell claimed that
he had purchased the diamonds a
short time previouely and had en-
tered the Columbus Memorial build
ing with the intention of Earning
them over to his employers. He said
he entered the elevator, but instead of
getting off at the floor on which his
firm is located, he sode to the fourth
floor and entered a barber shop.
When he went to the offices of his
employers about Is minutes later
he discovered the diamonds had dis
appeared.
Powell declared that he was almost
positive he had the diamonds in his
possession when he entered the
building. He said that he had two
bags of diamonds. one containing
$4,000 worth of the gems and the
other $4,000 worth, and that he cav
ried one sack in either inside pocket
of his vest The police are inclined
to believe that Powell may have been
the victim of pickpockets before en-
tering the building.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
PARTY'S SWAN SONG
D. Q. HILLS REQUIEM OF THE OLD
DEMOCRACY.
Though in Sense the One-Time New
York Statesman Is Mistaken,
in Many Other Ways His
Words Are True.

David Bennett Hill sailed for Eu-
rope not despairing of his country,
but despairing of his party. Almost
his last words were:
There is no Democratic party!"'
His contention was that Mr. ryan
was never wanted by the Demo
cratic party-that he had forced"
himself upon 1t, etc. etc.-so that the
end of 1t all was: There is no Demo
cratic party!"
OF course, In one sense, Mr.. Hill
is entirely mistaken. There is a Demo
cratic party, growing daily in practi-
cal vigor. 1t is without American ira
ditions, and its ideals are not historic
American ideals. But it is there, a
visible force to be reckoned with.
1t is not the Democracy of Jefferson,
flinging the boundaries of the republic
across the Mississippi TO the Rocky
mountains. 1t is not the Democracy
OF Jackson, sternly repressing disrup-
tive tendencies and standing fast for
honest payment of honest debts. II
is not the Democracy of Polk, proud
VI thS lepuuit - StIehSln, puohihS ilo
banner to the Pacific, and wisely pro-
viding for its future growth. 1t is
not the Democracy of Tilden and
Cleveland, standing for efficiency and
economy in government and for ma
tional honor and honesty. 1t is not
the Democracy that stood always for
the reign and government of laws and
not of men merely.
OF that great and old Democracy, of
which he and Grover Cleveland, in his
honored age and retirement, are al
most the only survivors who in their
day played effective parts. the words
of David Bennett Hill are the requiem.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
MIR. Bryan's Income.

The San Francisco Call says:
I'VE congratulate Mr.. Bryan on his
prosperity and admire his ingenuity.
The longer he runs the fatter he grows
in purse. 1t makes little difference to
him whether he is elected or not. In
fact, he would lose money by sue
cess at the polls. He is the peerless
leader who plucks victory for himself
out of defeat for his party. He is the
greatest funeral director the world
has ever known, and he quite deserves
his prosperity, because it was a stroke
of real genius to conceive of the Dem
ocratic party as an asset"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
Form Currency Associations.

Secretary Cortelyou has issued a
circular of instructions about the op.
GRAFTON of the new currency act
This makes pertinent the observa-
tion that in a number of cities bank
ers are already taking steps to form
the national currency associations"
necessary for securing the emergency
notes where commercial paper lin.
stead of state, county, and municipal
bonds) is to be deposited against them
national banks desiring to deposit
bonds dealing directly with the treas
ury
Even in New York where bankers
were disposed to pooh-pooh the Al
drich-Vreeland emergency bill as pro-
viding a mere ''makeshift~ which
probably would never be resorted to,
ganizing an association.
These bankers still profess to think
the emergency" is not going to oc.
cur. But then, they add in effect.
seeing that it might occur why, we
may as well get ready for it be.
forehand; so let's organize anyhow"
That's it exactly.
That is all the supporters of the
emergency currency bill contended for,
namely. that ability to procure an ex-
ira supply OF good sound money would
be handy thing for bank TO have
round in case of emergency. These
bankers are admitting that when they
SihlU IN nrODnizn thn "na.
tional currency associations
Your house or store may never burn
down. Probably it won't. But it is a
comfortable thing to have it insured,
you know.-Chicago Tribune
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
CASTAWAYS ARE RESCUED.
British Warship Finds % Shipwrecke,
Sailors on a Desert Island

Sydney, n. S. W. While send.
ing a farewell message fastened
by quill to an albatross' neck. one
of a series of daily messages recount
ing the story of the wreck on Antipo-
des island in the South Pacific ocean,
of the French bark President Felix
Faure, 22 starving French sailors were
rescued by the British warship Pega.
sus and brought to Sydney. The cast.
aways, who lived a Crusoe life, scram.
bled ashore on Antipodes island, south
of New Zealand, and near where the
survivors of the British bark Dundon.
aid were rescued months before, after
their vessel was driven ashore during
a fog in March last and had almost
given up hope of rescue when the
British warship was sighted
The men were raveEous when res
cued, having been on short rations for
some time. They had needles made
out of blades of pocket knives, dinner
knives from an iron hook torn from
a cask washed ashore from the wreck.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
.REvOLUT|ON|STS
ARE DEFEATED
IN TWO FIGHTS WITH SOLDIERS
OF THE MEXICAN Gov
ERNMENT.
TROOPS PATROL THE BORDER
American Cavalrymen Are Acting as
Policemen to Keep Undesirable
Mexican from Crossing the
Boundary Line.

San Antonio, Texas.-A special to
the Express from Del Rio, Texas,
says:
1t is reported here that a company
of rurales on Tuesday surrounded a
detachment of eight of the revolution
lists who attacked the little town OF
Las Vacas and that a fight occurred
in the mountains southwest of the
city. The revolutionists were short
of ammunition and after the exchange
of few volleys their ammunition be-
came exhausted. The rurales are re-
ported to have charged the hiding
place of the men and, despite the fact
that they offered to surrender, shot
them to death.
A special from Saltillo, Mexico,
says:
The Viesca situation is clearing up.
All the bandits in that town have
scattered on the approach of troops.
Only by the merest chance did
Mayor Zertuche escape being killed
by the rioters on the day of the at
tack on his house.
El Paso, Texas.-Revolutionis on
Tuesday attacked the Mexican
post at Palomas, Chihuahua, 100 miles.
west of FL Paso, and We're repulsed
after a battle with the garrison.
The attack began when bomb
was thrown into the telegraph Office
thus shutting off communication with
outside points. In the fight which fol-
lowed, several hundred shots were
fired and many bombs thrown at the
headquarters of the officers.
Owing to the fact that the bombs
were ill-timed the officers were en-
abled to throw them away before they
exploded, thus saving the building and
their own lives. The fight lasted one
hour, after which the attacking party
fed to the mountains. One man was
killed, but he was a non-combatant.
According to advices received by
the FL Paso & Southwestern railroad,
their foreman at Mimbres, n NJ, is
prisoner in the hands of the revolu-
tionists. immigration and customs in
spectors have been called on duty at
Columbus, n. NJ, across the border
from Palomas.
itary forces are now in service for
the enforcement of the neutrality
laws along the Mexican border Gen
Meyer, commanding the Department
of Texas has reported to the war de-
partment that directions already have
been given for sending four troops of
cavalry from posts in his department
to Del Rio. AS to other points he will
be guided by his conferences with the
civil officials.
The employment of American
troops for this purpose is almost with
out precedent in recent years and the
law officers of the war department as
we'll as the attorney general have
been obliged to give close study to
the question of the extent to which
they may exercise the power of pre-
venting persons entering the United
States across the Mexican border.