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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-31
First Event Of the Week.

The first event of the encampment will
be a reception by the commander-in-chief
this evening. Tomorrow the transaction
Of business will begin. The first PROPOSE
ton to be considered will be that to ANAL
gamate the Veteran Army Of the Phil
ippines with the Spanish War Veterans.
The military parade will take place
Wednesday. Col. NJ. Emmett Urell of
Washington will accompany the medal of
honor men, who will occupy . prominent
position In the line.
General disappointment is expressed
among the veterans at the refusal Of the
acting secretary Of the navy to order the
battleship Mississippi from Provincetown
to Boston during the encampment. The
ship carries many Of the Spanish War
Veterans. cit is declared. among whom
are several who distinguished themselves
in the campaign. Maj. Walter Scot Hale,
commander-in-chief of the veterans. de-
clared that the excuse given by Acting
Secretary Newberry-that the ship is on
"shaking-do cruise-is not saus-
factory. because the boat was :ecently
sent to Rockland. Me-, to take part in a
celebration of an "old home week"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-31
CURB QUOTATIONS.

Quotations furnished by F.. F. Hutton & Co.,
| members New York Stock Exchange; G. Bowie
| Chfn,nan mapaOor 12O1 Il at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-31

From the Vienna Familien Zeitung.
The Englishwoman is q queenly woman
whose qualities are the envy OF her con-
tinental sisters-but she is SO cold! She
lacks romance!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-31
SPANISH war VETERANS
SIXTH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT
AT BOSTON.
District Contingent Will Attend Re-
ception to Commander-in Chief This
Evening-Notable Guests.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON. Mass. August 31.-The dele
gates from Washington to the sixth an
nual encampment Of the United Spanish
War Veterans are arriving in the city to-
day and a muster roll Of them is expected
to be prepared this evening, when they
will all get together at the reception Of
the commander-in-chief. Among those
who have arrived or are expected later
from the capital are Col. NJ. E. Urell.
Capt. Lee NJ. Lipscomb, Maj. Fred s.
Hodgson. DIR. s. Clifford Cox, Edward L.
Cogan, G. E. Rausch. ]. Lyon King. Col
E. ]. Dimmick. Thomas A. Green. Gen.
Andrew s. Burt, Capt Sheridan Ferree.
Joseph Sullivan. Charles Harlow. Rufus
w. Pearson, jeremiah Costello. A. NJ.
Lawson, l. NJ Fisk and A. NJ. Mawson.
The notable guests Of the Spanish War
Veterans during the encampment will be
Rear Admirals w. S. Schley, Merry and
Dyer, Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Maj.
Gen. Frederick D. Grant and Maj. Gen.
%. o. Howard. Admiral Schley will be
the chief guest at a reception and ban
quet of the naval brigade at the Noting
ham Wednesday evening. Gen. Miles will
be the guest Of honor at the reunion Of
the 9Th Massachusetts Regiment.
Mai. Gen. William Stopford. retired,
Brig Gen. William A. Pew, Maj. Gen.
Jophanus III. Whitney, Gen. Embury p.
Clark. Col. William H. Donovan and Gen.
Charles Pfan will each be given BAN
uuetS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-31

Closing Quotations.
At the close of the stock market the fol-
lowing stocks had changed in price since
above quotations. there being no change
in balance of the closing prices:
Amalgamated Copper. SIN.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
PEOPLE HAVE LOST THROUGH HARRIS
WHAT THEY GAINED THROUGH PATTlS0N
They Must Vote For Harmon and His Associates
the Democratic Ticket to Regain That Loss
and Continue the Pattson Reforms by Cleaning
Out the State House.. ~-~~--
Out the State House.

portions being they
will
malignant Its
which Harris has
official punish the
of the
appointees
dollars with admins
himself
Harris that
Pason needed the
Ohio regain what they gained the election
Paison
thereby all
EN- if Governor Pattison had lived
the his
ufs his OATH should
Ohio only regain what they
Pason Offices who will
economic begun by Governor
Harris the boasted public meeting
Office whether national
all
his
scandaous
Legislature
asurdiy of they
hold what they gained by the election Patison
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
RACKET AND RED FIRE.

Chairman Hitchcock, of the Ma
tional Committee, who is managing
or mismanaging Mr.. TafG's campaign,
has announced that at has been con,
sidered the wisest plan to make the
racket and red fire campaign during
the month of October"
This is both interesting and i'm.
portant. 1t shows the kind of cam
paign that is to be put up in the finish
for Mr.. Taft-racKet and red fire.
And Mr. Taft is to make three cam
paign tours to furnish part of the
racket.
When it was first announced that
Mr.. Taft would go on the stump, it
was said he would visit the doubtful
states. His itinerary already an
nounced, includes pretty nearly all of
the Republican states, including Penn,
sylvania.
Let the racket and red fire pro
coed. 1t cannot conceal the empty
dinner pail nor stife the cry of hun,
ger and the demand for work going
up from the thousands of victims OF
the Republican panic.
Racket and red fire for Taft.
Reason, common sense and votes
for Bryan.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
STILL INITIATING BRYAN.

Mr.. Taft is reported to be busily
engaged writing speeches for his cam
paign tour. 1t is evident that he will
write them far enough in advance to
giye sufficient time for editing by the
president before Mr.. Taft delivers
them.
Mr.. Bryan has been criticised by
Republican editors for speaking
one subject at one place and on
other subject at another place, in
which way Mr.. Bryan keeps all the
issues Of the campaign before the
people. His Republican critics would
infer that Mr.. Bryan should have
only one set speech and deliver tina
wherever he goes, so that they coul
turn on the other side and say
Bryan delivered the same speech an,
had nothing new to say"
Now the word comes from Tai
headquarters that Mr.. Taft is writir
not "a speech" but speeches he is to
deliver during his trip. So that M
Taft is going to initiate Mr.. Bryan
again.
When Mr. Bryan had phonograph
records made of his speeches, Mr..
Taft's clackers made fun of him,
called them canned speeches." and
said it was undignified But Mr.. Taft
soon followed Mr.. Bryan's example
and had"canned speeches" of his own
made for campaign use.
Before he left Hot Springs Mr.. Taf
announced he would stick to his
brothers front porch and not make a
speaking tour because that is undig-
nified in a candidate for president
Now Mr.. Taft is going to make three
tours.
Instead of one set speech Mr.. Taft
is preparing to initiate Mr.. Bryan
delivering different speeches at diff
ferent places.
This is so complimentary to Mr.
Bryan that the people will make Mr.
Bryan president SO he can show Mr.
TAFT how to conduct that high Office
where imitation by Mr., Taft will
cease.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24

ing classes in the river and harbor
national convention last December,
and then give nearly a hundred mil
lion dollar increase to the military es1
tablishment for the coming year.
Railroad controllers demonstrated
in normal traffic times before the
panic that they had failed miserably
to provide adequate facilities for
handling the business of the country;
and SO eminent an authority as James
]. Hill asserted that, IL the roads ex-
tended facilities to meet the normal
period needs, they would have to ex-
pend $5,000,000,000 in five years for
terminals and double-tracking and
equipment.
The business men in the national
rivers and harbors convention knew
these things when they asked for an
nual appropriations of $50,000,000 for
ten years to come; why did the con-
gress deny that request?
Wouldn't you think a business man
was extravagant who doubled his ap-
preparation for brass bands to parade
before his Offices; and then refused
additional money for elevators and
trucks and runways for the handling
of the increasing volume of goods he
had in his establishment?
Remember, nearly $1O0,000,000 more
for military establishments; n omore
for rivers and harbers, was the record
of the last session of the Congress.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
Mr.. RoosEvELT's 5ELATED AP
PEAL.

Mr.. Roosevelt's hSsterical appeal to
the organized wealth producers Of the
continent, begging them to fall in line
behind Mr.. Taft, as the organized
wealth grabbers have already done, is
sufficiently answered by Mr.. Bryan;
for organized labor could hardly ac-
cept Mr.. Roosevelt's assurances as
to Mr.. Taft's purposes, unsupported
by Mr.. Taft's assurances of his own
purposes. 1t might not be superhuous
to add that when Mr.. Roosevelt ne
elected to save organized labor from
the insulting behavior of the conven-
tion by which at his solicitation Mr..
Taft was nominated, he lost what he
now begs for. At that convention the
men to whom Mr.. Roosevelt appeals
so piteously in his campaign letter,
were given hostile platform and told
curtly enough that If they didn't like
it they could "go to the Democratic
convention where they belonged" 1t
is rather late to invite them back at
the present serious crisis in Mr.. Taft's
political fortunes. Even If these con-
siderations we're not so persistently
obtrusive, how could labor" plat
form and a labor" candidate accept
able to the followers of Van Cleave
be acceptable also to~the supporters
of Mitchell and Gompers.-The Public.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
EDWARD M. SHEPHERD FOR
BRYAN.

Edward NJ. Shepherd, of New York,
has issued a statement in which he
reiterates his intention of supporting
Mr.. Bryan in the coming campaign,
explaining the reasons for his stand.
Mr.. Shepherd declares that the Repub-
lican candidate has committed him.
self to three policies, the continuance
of which cannot but "be dangerous to
The future welfare of our country
namely, the protective tariff, imper-
ialism, and Mr.. Roosevelt's program.
Here is Mr.. Shepherds statement:
Il shall support Mr.. Bryan for the
presidency. The issues being at the
last being fully made up, l am unable
TO see what Americans (of whom /
count myself one) who cherish the
traditional and beneficent Democracy
which was signally represented by
Mr.. Cleveland, can rightly do other
The Youngstown Vindicator asserts
that the Republicans show clearly that
they are worried. Stringing the voters
with promises isn't what it once was.
wise than support Mr.. Bryan. l say
this Notwithstanding Mr.. Clevelands
article which has been Published sew.
eral weeks after his death. The ar
ticle plainly enough and intrinsically
shows--and We should naturally infer
from Mr.. Cleveland's long illness and
the time of his death-that it was MOI
prepared for the campaign with the
issues which we now have or that it
represented a conclusion ON his part
to support Mr.. Taft or to oppose Mr..
Bryan. l cannot think it quite fitting
or fair that the article should have
been published at this time.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
MILLS AND BANK CLOSE.

The Niles News, a Republican paper
which labors to do it's best for the
party, prints a story about additional
mills for the town in the even of the
election of Taft to the presidency, one
plant being represented as ready to add
four mills and another sure to start
up. But like most Republican papers
the News prints the story in such a
way as to do harm, say nothing of
the discount that all such stories are
put to just now. 1t says: "Mr. Piper,
former manager of the American Tin
Plate Company, of this city, said the
local tin mill will start up without a
doubt if the election goes in favor Of
the trust. which is unanimously for
Taft and Republicanism." Here is
good Republican authority for it that
the Republican party is the party of
the trusts and Taft is their candidate.
But Just now it isn't so much what
will be done in the event of Taft's
election as promised by Republicans
that interests the people of Niles, as
what is going to be done to make
further losses of bank deposits out OF
the question. Interest in the Repub-
licanc ause has Jagged in Niles since
the bank closed it's dOors.-Youngs-
town Vindicator.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24

every 500 share Is a demand from
the holder for annual dividends, which
the people have to pay.
What has been done to prevent
such spurious issuance of watered
stock? These humid securities have
poured forth from Wall street in a
mighty food They have engulfed the
country with unjust transportation
taxes-for transportation charges
merely are taxes levied to maintain
the modern public highway, the
steam railroad.
Can complaint be registered if the
people this year question the validity
of halting pledges to devise means to
prevent the issuance of watered
stocks? When the controlling political
party, with every branch of the gov
ernment in it's hands, permitted these
abuses to grow to such huge proper
tions, is it probable that it will be the
most efficient instrument wherewith
to cure the conditions?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24

The banks which are afraid that by
the insurance of bank deposits their
own popularity might be decreased,
certainly can figure out no better con-
dition brought about by the establish
ment of postal savings banks. These
would also have tendency to take
deposits away from the established
hanks. More than that: Money put
in postal savings banks would all be
carried to the big centers and with
drawn from the communities where it
should remain to foster the industrial
and agricultural life. The reason the
Republicans prefer postal savings
banks is because the big bankers who
control that party with all the coun-
try to be tributary to Wall street for
money.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
WHY NO RELIEFT

Thomas w. Ryan testified on the
witness stand in New York that more
than 80 per cent of the existing rail
road stocks in this country is water.
Lest his statement might have been
misunderstood, District Attorney
Jerome asked Mr.. Ryan to repeat his
assertion, and then, when the latter
reiterated it, Mr.. jerome asked him
to explain.
Little of the stocks which have
been issued" Mr.. Ryan said, repre-
sent actual money investment in
most instances the stocks were taken
by the promoters, who invested mere
ly a few dollars in personal expenses
while promoting the enterprise. and
bonds were issued from the proceeds
OF which the road was built"
These stocks aggregate billions;
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
NEEDS CORRECTION, NOT SUP
PRESTON.

Another resignation at the Athens
hospital calls attention to the con-
slant tumult at that state institution.
This leaves for the present only the
superintendent and a ward physician
of two years experience, in charge of
1900 patients.
Still Governor Harris would say, as
he said in his speech at Youngstown,
that the state institutions are all
right because he has officially in
spected them; and that it would be
wrong to criticise because friends of
the unfortunate inmates become
alarmed and their anxiety, already In
tense, becomes distressing"
The way to put an end to such
anxiety and alarm is not to suppress
for criticism. The administration of
Governor Harris has been notorious
for state institution scandals and in,
vestigations, some of which have re-
suited in indictments by grand juries
1t is not surprising that Governor
Harris desires TO suppress crltclSm
But there are state institutions which
need to be officially inspected by a
governor who will clean them out, as
the state house needs cleaning out
If Governor Harris is elected, nc
better conditions at state institutions
can be expected than have existed
since he became governor and for
which he proposes no better reme6
than to quit criticising because il
alarms families of inmates and inten
SITES anxiety.
Judson Harmon will not be that
kind of a governor. He will have a
house cleaning of state institutions
that need it, as well as of the state
house, which also needs it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
SCARED.

That is graphic picture Mr..
Bryan portrays of the Republican
party on its knees, pleading with the
country to give it little more time
to do what 1t could easily have done
at any time the last twelve years, had
it been free or desirous Of doing so.
And it's "unequiYocal" promise TO re-
wise the tariff Immediately" not only
confesses through the two quoted ad-
verbs its broken promises in the past,
but the Taft Interpretation Of revision
to mean up with some schedules and
down with others. argues for further
deception and duplicity.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
BILLION DOLLAR CONGRESSES.

Mr.. Bryan has raised the issue OF
congressional and departmental ex
travagance. Departments may be ex-
travagant, just as well as wasteful
congresses, and so may wasteful
presidents.
With cost of living rising faster
than wages, doubtless these argu-
ments of Mr.. Bryan will appeal to the
people. Isn't it natural, after all, that
a political party, entrenched in power
for many years, should become ex-
travagant? And, really, hasn't the
Republican party grown into an ez'
travagance most fragrant?
The last session of the Congress
appropriated more than $1,000, 900, 900
Yet not a dollar was given for river
and haTbor improvements, excepting
oa contracts already opened up by
former appropriation bills.
Now, that's what Mr.. Bryan means
when he scores the extravaganza OF
the dominant party. He is for no mig
gardly policy; he is for many laudable
enterprises, and, as some opponets
have cited, Mr.. Bryan's policy would
entail considerable expenditures.
But, differentiate between the pol
icy which ignored the upited pleas oi
the business, commercial and produe
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
Not PoIIed Like Hoos.

Editor Morning News:-I read with
much interest in Sundays Repository
an alleged poll taken by a young boy
at the works of the Carnahan COM
pany in which he reports that nearly
all of the employees of that institution
are for Taft for president. The under
signed is employed by the CarnahaD
company and is also a member of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Tin Plate Workers union. ! believe
! am stating the truth when say that
their are not so members of that or
ganization that will vote for Taft.
Most all of our members have been
in lockouts and strikes in former
years aSd we know what it is TO be
victims Of the injunction Of which
Candidate Taft is the originator. So
far as the ALLEGED poll is concerned
1t was only joke as our men have
been fooled too often in the past to ex-
press their political opinions about
the fac )ry where they are employed.
/ have So desire to enter into any
political discussion only TO state that
the members of organized labor know
their enemies In this campaigL and
wa don't have TO be polled like a lot Of
hogs to make known our opinions
Fair Play"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24

A bank pass book should be thing
of established value; it should be ne
gotiable as a piece of money! 1t
should always be worth it's face value.
At the present time. most bank books
are of that sort. thanks to the gem
orally good character of our bankers.
But many citizens have experienced
periods of uncertainty as to the exact
value of those little books which were
the only evidence they possessed that
the bank owed money to them; and
hosts of people, right lately, too, have
found that, when they asked for their
money, they could not get 1t. Cannot
you see the benefit in law which
would insure the prompt payment to
you, of every dollar you had deposited,
regardless of whether or not some
particular bank had been mismanaged
and your money CHANGED to have been
entrusted it to the safe-keeping of that
bank?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
PAUSE FOR REPLY.


We commend to all our readers a
careful perusal of the article published
in this issue on the condition of affairs
in Stark county as administered by
the Board of Commissioners. The
people, as a mass, are honest and
patriotic. They pay their hard earned
taxes promptly and without COM
plant. Certainly when the officers
of the county, elected by the party in
power, are derelict in duty, they are
first of all offenders against their own
party, who placed them in power. 1t
is certainly gross ingratitude to their
own party. But in larger sense, 1t
is a wrong toward the whole people,
for public Office is public trust, and
the violation of trust, purposely or
carelessly, is the most reprehensible of
public offenses.
The publication of the records of
the Commissioners and the accompany
ing legal opinion is plain and un-
vanished. There is strange anomoly
in politics that the faults of public
servants should have to be published
and exposed by the minority party.
Common sense would seem to dictate
that it ought to be done by the pre-
vailing party, for man who loves
his party cannot consistently do so
unless he loves his country better
than his party, because a party must
be a servant of the public in order
permanently to maintain itself.
1t is not the purpose of this paper
to do injustice to anyone or to crit
icise the Republican party, for the of
fenses and crimes Of political parties
are always personal corruptions. We
appeal simply to Republicans and
Democrats alike to read this statement
dispassionately and draw their own
conclusions, considering at the same
time whether a change is not needed
in our county affairs. If the Roose-
welt (so-called) Reform Wave is to
be permanent, it must go to the root
of the matter and touch local affairs.
State issues and national issues are
not so important to us as to have
good housekeeping at home. If we
purify and renovate county affairs, it
will clear the atmosphere for state
and national affairs.
We of all parties must hook more
and more to fidelity and efficiency
in Office and not let our party
prejudice bully us any longer. Stat
utes must be obeyed to the letter; and
when they are. there is no room for
suspicion of graft. But when laws
are evaded, when the costs of public
buildings are punched into a subter
fuge of extras, the people have a
right, nay, it is their duty, to demand
an exposition as well as an expland-
ton. Comfort and utility, and not or
namentality and elegance, are the ap-
propriate and suitable attributes to a
poor-house kitchen. Pine finish
changed to veneered oak! Why? The
cost is more. but the service and util-
ity are not one whit better.
Why should the law be evaded IN
any event? Are not the people JUS
tilted in having their suspicious
aroused and demanding an accounting
when such a condition of affairs ex-
lists? Why buy thirteen thousand dol
lars worth of iron pipe at one whack,
when there does not appear to be the
mitigating element of a rebate in
price? Then, too, without adverLls.
to hn
people pause for a reply.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
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