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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
CAR men VOTE STRIKE
CLEVELAND MUNICIPAL CREWS
TAKE ACTION.
Employees of Old Line Say Its Prom.
ises Must Be Kept by Low Fare
Consolidated Concern.

Cleveland, O., May 4.-Voting on
the question of strike by the en-
ployes of the Municipal Traction Com
pany closed and the sentiment ex-
pressed by the men was in favor OF
quitting work in order. they said, to
enforce the demands of the motormen
and conductors of that section of the
local consolidation formerly known as
the Cleveland Electric Railway for an
enforce the demands of the motormen
hour and other privileges.
International Vice-President Behner
of the Street Car Mems union said:
mot five per cent Of the men voted
against the strike resolution. The
counting of the ballots was merely
/ formal"
1--WE have all our plans ready for a
strike; there will be no tie-up, and
little disorder" said General Super
intendent Cook of the Municipal Com
| pany Rumors Of impending trouble
were circulated early. Guards for car
barns were reported to have been
sought.
eve propose to take care of our
runs, but will not interfere with the
runs of union No. $685." said President
Smith of union No. AS, composed OF
old Forest City employees. IF non.
union men take the places Of striking
members of union 26S it will be none
of our affair. We shall continue to
/, operate regardless of-what happens to
the Others"
The Forest City men are said to
number 800 out of total of approx
mately 1000 street car men. Presi.
dent Du Pont of the Municipal Com
pany refused to recognize the old
Cleveland Electric agreement with the
street car union when committee Of
union men visited him.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05

from the coins, and declared that
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard OIL
Company and J. Pierpont Morgan
should be indicted for treason, and
then continued with the following
burning apostrophe to the press:
Let scavengers Of plutocracy howl;
truth, Gods living truth-where are
its defenders?
Miserable travesties upon noble
manhood, post-graduates in all arts
of SANDER or defamation, challenge
the subsidized press.
The people know your designs and
spurn your pretense, whether under
show of argument or more servient
hypocrisies.
go! Damnable imps Of pelf and
greed, defy your taunts!
Tear to fragments my political ca
reer if 1T comport with your execrable
will.
"Stife and distort my every utter
ance.
"Not satisfied, If such be your bru-
tai frenzy, lash my poor form into in
sensibility.
Then If it be your further pleasure
gnaw from my stiffening bones every
vestige of quivering flesh.
Howl in wretched bestiality through
my own innocent blood as it drips
from your fiendish visages.
Drag, then, If you want, what re-
mains into your foul dens and burn
1t upon the altar of Baal
Dare a senator align himself with
the people? What?
Yes, men, illustrious servants OF
the people, have lifted honest voices
here and e, where against the march
of plutocracy, to fall ambushed, pc
litically assassinated and by whom? BY
the trusts wearing masks. All, sir
newspaper masks"
The senator spoke for two hours
House Leaders Get Busy.
Washington, May 2.-There are
signs of partial surrender by the
house leaders to the legislative pro-
gram put up to congress by President
Roosevelt. BY the introduction in the
house of an anti-injunction bill and q
resolution authorizing the house com
mittee on ways and means to prepare
for revision of the tariff by working
through the summer recess, Mr.. Payne
the majority leader, has indicated hii
surrender and the surrender of the
speaker and Representative Dalzell o
Pennsylvania to those two policies o
the president. All three have promised
the enactment of child-labor law fol
the District of Columbia; they have
under consideration the framing of {
bill making the government liable fol
injuries to its mechanical employees
a currency bill is being worked TO-
night and day and campaign-funt
publicity bill awaits their early sane
ton to pass the house.
No action will be taken this session
on the proposed amendments to tn
Sherman antitrust law unless an ur
expected agreement is reached anon
the friends of this measure as to it
final provisions.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
THE WORLD DoDeEs.

Writing to the New York World, 7.
K. VanDyke of Harrisburg, Pa, says:
Here are three questions for the
World to answer:
Il. Did the World support Bryan in
1896 and 1900?
20. Will the World support Bryan
in 1908 if he is nominated by the over
whelming vote of the national con-
vention?
SO. For whom does the World speak,
naming specifically the interests
which control it's utterances?"
Over Mr.. VanDyke's letter the
World prints this headline. Answered
with Pleasure. and below the letter
appears the following:
Answers:
81. The World did not support Mr..
Bryan in 1896. 1t supported him in
1900 on the issue of the un-American
policy of Asiatic colonial government.
SO. 1t is not easy to conceive of cir
cumstances in which the World could
conscientiously support Mr.. Bryan for
president this year.
AtO 1AIClSoIo COAIlOl Iu0
utterances of the World are the pub
lie interests.-Ed. World"
But the World does not answer Mr..
Van Dykes third question. He asked
For whom does the World speak,
naming specifically the interests
which control its utterances." And
the only answer which this great
newspaper makes to this question is:
''The interests which control the ut.
terances of the World are the public
interests"
But that by no means answers the
question. 1t is mere assertion and
leaves the reader dependent upon the
word Of the editor of the World, which.
in this particular, may be OF no value,
Let the World state the extent Of
the financial interests held by Its own.
er, Joseph Pulitzer. in railroad com.
| panies and in great corporations COM
monty known as trusts.
With this information the readers
of the World will be in better position
to determine the special interests for
which the New York World is carry
Ing on Its campaign of misrepresenta-
| ton with respect to Democrats who
have not the favor of the World and
its masters.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
THE WOOD PULP RESOLUTION
FOR BuNcoMBE ONLY.

The speaker of the national house
has introduced his resolution for an
Independent investigation of the paper
trust and the allegations that have
been made against 1t by the publish.
ers. The resolution was passed yes.
terday and the speaker appointed an
investigating committee. But If any
of the standpatters imagine that they
are fooling anyone their capacity for
self-deception is extraordinary.
Who takes the resolution seriously
Who will take the investigation seri-
ously in view of the origin and pur-
pose? 1t will be regarded as an in
vestigation for "Buncombe county
only" The new trust busters are in
no hurry. Though there is nothing
doing" in congress, it is not expected
that the work will be completed be.
fore adjournment. And then the ma.
tional conventions will monopolize at.
tention, and no one will remember
wood pulp. After that the dog days
will furnish dn excuse for slow pace.
Out standpat friends intend to lex
plOiIE thC AC0oiulAOh III IACll uSS-
stricts," to point to it with affected
pride as statesmanlile substitute for
revision. They will run the risk of
hooting and jeering. Their little game
is too transparent. Their only serious
argument-that they could not touch
wood pulp and paper without reopen
ing the whole tariff question-was
gone when it was shown that the adj
mitted need Of forest-saylng furnished
a complete and convincing reason for
treating the wood pulp and paper du-
ties as belonging to separate and dis
tinct category. The house minority
is on record as acquiescing in such
treatment Of these duties. The anx-
ious standpatters know that telling
quotations from presidential mes
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
TARS At MONTEREY
ON Voyage NORTH.
ATLANTIC BArTLEsHlP FLEET
SPENDS DAY THERE AFTER
SANTA BARBARA VISIT.
ADMIRAL EVANS SOON
TO RESUME COM MAND
Within Few Days Fighting Bob"
Will Again Take UP His Position
on Bridge for a Short Time-otfi-
GERS Wives Feature of Sightseeing.

Monterey, Cal, May Following
the festivities at Santa Barbara, the
Atlantic battleship fleet arrived here
at an early hour Friday and the sail
ors and officers prepared for a single
days stay. Thousands cheered the
warships as they dropped anchor.
The fleet passed Port Hartford late
Thursday afternoon, steaming close
into the shore to give the residents
of that community good view of
the long line of fighting craft. 1t was
originally intended to spend a day
at Port Hartford but these orders
We're changed After one day at
Monterey, the two squadrons of the
fleet will separate, the eight ships of
the first squadron steaming across
the bay to Santa Cruz for three
days stay.
Second Squadron to Join.
They will be Joined at Santa Cruz
by the second squadron Monday in
order that the entire fleet may be
there for "a hours, as will be the case
at Monterey. Then Tuesday Admiral
Evans will resume command as the
fleet is about to leave Santa Cruz for
the Golden Gate. The day of depar-
ture from Santa Barbara was over
cast and gray, in striking contrast to
the brilliant weather of six days ago
when the battleships cast anchor in
Santa Barbara channel A floral ball
and dance of the flowers, given by the
young women of Santa Barbara socie-
ty on the tented Plaza del Har, kept
the ships launches running until a
late hour.
Journey North Again.
The last of them had scarcely been
slowed away on the superstructure
when the signals to get under way
were hoisted on the Connecticut and
| Admiral Thomas, on the bridge of his
flagship, led the way to the north. The
fleet was anchored in two long col
umns, the Connecticut at the head of
| the one closest inshore. This line was
first to get under way AS the Vir-
ginia, the last of the eight vessels in
the first squadron column, cleared the
position occupied by the Alabama, the
latter got under way and took posi-
ton in the long line, followed by the
seven other ships of the second
squadron.
Wives Arrive by Train.
The train arriving at Monterey was
crowded to the capacity Of it's extern
sive equipment. The wives of ma
val officers who have come to the
coast and who are accompanying the
| ships, filled two special Pullman cars.
| Some wives met their husbands first
| at Coronado, while others joined them
| at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara
| Their presence adds considerably to
| the interest of the tour and while
their presence was not figured on by
most of the local committees, the
women have been quite royalty enter
tanned by friends at the various stop.
ping places and have been provided
with accommodations of honor at the
parades and other entertainments ar
ranged for the officers.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
Davis makes warm
Speech IN SENATE
ARkAhsAs STATESMAN WOULD
INDtcr ROCKEFELLER AND
MORGAN FOR TREASON.
pENoUNCES TRUSTS AND
coMMENDS PRESIDENT
Scores Subsidized" Press Of tho coun-
try In lmpassloned Phrases-Lsad-
ers Of Congress Get Busy Hoping
to Appease Roosevelt.

Washington, May 2.-That the art of
eloquence is not dead in America was
proved Friday when Senator Jefferson
Davis OF Arkansas delivered speech,
some passages of which cannot be
compared with anything less impas-
stoned than Milton, Dante OK Whit
man.
After moving to discharge the COM
mittee on judiciary from further con-
sideration of his bill "for the suppress
sion of trusts, pools and combinations
IN trade" Mr.. Davis read from a man
uscript which he had prepared care
fully, he said, so that no incorporate
language should escape him.
During his speech he roundly de-
nounced the trusts, commended the
presidents recent measure outlining
measures for relief, spoke of the re
noval Of the motto I'm God We Trust"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
Warden Stays an Inmate.

Wheeling w. Va. May 4.-Jesse
Briggs, negro, serving life SEN
tence in the state penitentiary at
Moundsville, was shot and killed by
Warden C. G. Dawson Saturday.
Briggs broke from the lock step, and
when ordered to get back in line be-
gan throwing rocks at the warden.
Dawson then shot him through the
breast.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
KOREAN PLOT IS Fooled
BISHOP HARRIS SAVED FROM
THREATENED DEATH.
Natives of Hermit Kingdom Had Pre-.
pared to Assassinate Missionary
In San Francisco.

San Francisco, May Warned
that number Of Koreans In San
Francisco were preparing to assas-
sinate Bishop Merriman Colbert Har-
ris upon his arrival in San Francisco
on the Pacific mail steamship Korea
from the Orient, Surveyor of the
Port Woodward, accompanied by a
number of other federal attaches and
members Of the local police force, met
the steamer upon its appearance in
port and, placing the divine upon the
revenue cutter Golden Gate, caused his
removal to Oakland. The action of
the government officials came in re-
Spouse to request from Washington.
AS companion OF the late Durham
w, Stevens, adviser to Korea, who
was shot down at the ferry depot while
on his way to Washington, and one
who had studied conditions in Korea
under the Japanese rule, Bishop Har-
ris was warned by the American am
bcssador to Japan and the Japanese
officials before leaving the Orient to
avoid making any statements on the
Korean question upon his arrival at
San Francisco which might be likely
to arouse Korean residents In this
city. While the bishop was making
his way around the Pacific on the
liner Korea a number of kilograms
were received from Washington by
local federal officials to the effect that
plot to murder missionary upon his
arrival had been formed among the
Koreans of this city, and the surveyor
Of the port was directed to take every
possible means of safeguarding the
divine during his stay here.
ANGERED SPOUSE KILLS TWO.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
Robbers Get 5000.

Tyron, Okla, May Alive bank
robbers entered the Farmers Bank Of
Tyron Saturday and after demolishing
the big safe with seven charges of
dynamite secured $500 and made good
their escape. While three of the
gang remained on guard outside the
tN2 others Cracked the aafs.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
Refuse Cash for Embassy.

Washington, May 4.-On point of
order by Senator Culberson the senate
Saturday killed the committee amend
ment to the diplomatic and consular
bill appropriating 100000 for an en-
bassy building in Paris, which was put
on the diplomatic appropriation
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
DISCHARGED Worker suicid.

Ardmore, Pa, May 4.--Following
fire which destroyed the barn of Louis
Halberstadt, farmer living near here,
the body of John Jacobs, farm hand,
was found in strip of woods on the
farm with a bullet wound in the head.
The farm hand had been employed by
Halberstadt but had been discharged.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
Transferred to Washinaton.

The Hague, May 2.-J. Loudon, min.
lister of The Netherlands at Tokyo,
has been appointed the diplomatic rep
resentative Of his government at
Washington: He will succeed R. de
Marees Van Swinderen, who has been
made foreign minister in The Neither
landa' cabinet
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
BOYS Injury Causes Death.

Grand Rapids, Mich, May "A 49,
year-old boy, William Havercamp, died
Saturday at his home here as a re-
suit of being struck on the head dur
ing local central league ball game
by pop bottle thrown from above
him in the bleachers.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
WASHINGTON Editor Dies.

FL Paso, Tex, May &C. Arthur
Williams, associate editor of the Wash
ington Cd. CO Herald, died here Fri
day of tuberculosis. His health failed
while he was in attendance at the
jamestown exposition for the Herald
last year.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
Rob Store of $4,000 in Diamonds,

Tacoma, Wash, May 2.-Three un.
known men entered the jewelry store
of Frank c. Hart, and while the at
PENDANTS were in a back room stole a
wallet containing $4,000 worth of dia-
monds and other precious stones and
escaped.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
peneen Praises AsyIums.

Chicago, May 1.-Gov. Charles s
Deneen, in an address at ladies
night entertainment of st. Martins
church, Austin, held at Library hall
declared Illinois far ahead of Other
states in the union in the matter Of
caring for its wards.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
jap Officials Punished.

Mukden, May 4.-The assault cpl
sode of April 6 at the American con-
sulate has been closed. The Amer
lean staff has been exonerated and
] three of the Japanese officials have
been punished,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05

Several representatives Of public In
terests at Washington no doubt wish
some of the American newspaper re-
porters would go on strike like those
German newspaper men.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
First Boat at Head of Lakes

Superior, Wis, May 1.-The pack.
age freighter Munsey of the Anchor
line arrived at the head of the lakes
Wednesday. This was the first boat
arrival of the season from below the
500.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
Fleet win Stop at Honakena.

Hongkong, May 2.--It was learned
here Friday that the American gov
eminent has accepted an invitation for
the battleship fleet to visit Hongkongs
on its way around the world. j
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
Lvnchinu Nav Follow Assapl+

Lynching May Follow Assault.
Denver, Col, May 4. - Mrs. Nellie
Kulicks was dragged into a box car
and assaulted by negro near her
home in Globeville Saturday. She is 7
in serious condition. A posse is
searching for the negro and a lynching
may follow his capture.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05

The United States steel corpora
TONS 1907 earnings were the greatest
in it's history. You would look long
while for tariff revisionist among the
managers of that corporation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
Ten Inches of Snow in New York.

Buffalo, N. Y, May 2.-Seyen inches
of snow fell here Thursday and night.
AT jamestown Friday morning the
snow was ten inches deep. Friday
opened with the sun shining bright
and the snow disappearing fast.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
"rHE FULL DINNER PAIL.

The state labor department of New
York on April 10 issued bulletin in
which it is stated that at the close Of
1907 one out of every three union men
in the state was idle. The trades
union policy is to not only shorten the
working day, but to limit the number
,of working days per week in order te
insure work enough for their MEM
bers to provide against want. For In
stance, the International Topographic.
al union has law prohibiting q mem:
Der working more than six consecutive
days if there is any member of the
union looking for work in the local
jurisdiction. Many local unions
adopted five-day law early last win
ter in order to distribute the work
among more men. Other unions do
the same thing, and this served in
large measure to tide many men with
families over the winter. But If one
out of every three union men in New
York state is.out of employment, what
must be the proportion of jobless men
in. the unorganized trades and occu-
pations? The campaign slogan of the
full dinner pail" would elicit more
jeers than cheers if offered to the
workingmen of New York today.
The New York Evening Post insists
that organized labor demands the
legalizing OF the boycott. The Post
is unable to see what organized labor
demands is merely that member of
union may legally do what he might
legally do If not member OF the
union. In other words. organized la
Dor demands that the possession of
union card shall not deprive man Of
his rights as an individual under the
law and the constitution.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05

Mr.. Hartman has just scooped In
another $50,000,OO0 on railroad deal.
But Mr. Hartman is "a practical
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05

A Republican exchange says that
Senator LaFollette would be more OF
a Republican il he voted less often
with the Democrats. True, but he
wouldn't be right nearly SO often.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05

sages and resolutions of manufactur-
ers and clubs and other organizations
were at their disposal to justify to all
minds the singing out of the schedule
in question for revision at this time.
They are reckoning without the COM
mon sense and the humor of their con-
stituents.
(The above is not Commoner edi-
torial. 1t was not taken from any
Democratic paper. 1t appeared as an
editorial in that devoted old Repub-
lican newspaper, the Chicago Record
Herald-issue of April 22.)
The proposed plan to have COM
mission revise the tariff is not nearly
so good as the plan of letting the
people elect a congress that will re-
wise 1t in the interests of the people.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-11-30
EX-GOVERNOR IS
IMPROVING SLOWLY
Daily News Special.

Oa1ly News Special.
Jackson, Miss, November 30.-News
from the bedside of Ex-Governor Rob-
ert Lowery is to the effect that his
condition is perhaps improving, but
very slightly. He has had very lit
tie real suffering lately, but is very
weak and far from being out of dan
ger. Having been confined to his bed
for something like three months, while
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-11-30

fore convicted on similar charges, only
two are now serving prison terms,
William Startling, of the Merchants
and Planters Bank of Greenville. and
George Richburger, of the Bank of
Jamestown, having been given par
dons within the past few months. H.
S. Rourke, cashier of the defunct bank
of Scranton. is now serving a peni-
Tertiary term, and a strenuous effort
is being made to secure for him a
pardon.
Another bank official now in trouble
is Fred Powell, former cashier of the
Bank of Magee, who arrested at Hat
tiesburg last week, and will be given
trial on the charge of embezzlement
at the next term of the Simpson coun-
ty circuit court five months hence.
His shortage is said to amount to
about 100000
Hardys populations. according to
his own admission. amounted to $685.
1892, His defense was to the effect
that there was no criminal intent in
vOlved; that the bank directors knew
that he had overdrawn in the sum
named, and the amount had been in
vested in what he regarded as a SOL
vent manner. The failure of the Pin
ola Lumber Company, in which Hardy
was financially interested with his
brother-in-law, brought about the ex-
posture.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-11-30
FOUR BANKERS
SERVING TIME
Startling, Richburger, Rourke and Hardy
Convicted Within Less Than
Three Years.

Jackson, Miss, November 3O.-W. H.
Hardy, Jr., former cashier of the Bank
of Meadville, who was convicted in
the circuit court of Lincoln county
last Saturday of embezzlement, is the
fourth Mississippi bank cashier to be
sent to the penitentiary within the
past three years. 1t is likely that his
case will be appealed to the Supreme
Court, and win probably come up for
hearing on the February call of the
criminal docket.
OF the three bank cashiers hereto