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Show Utah County Democrat I fj ACCEPTANCE Colored A PROVO President Rooseyelt Says Pillpinos Are Making Rapid Strides in Progress Toward Political Five persons were killed In a colFreedom. lision between trrctlon cars nine miles north of Piqua, Ohio. Ira D. Sankey, the singing evangei-- ' Oyster Bay, N. Y. Independence 1st, died at his home in, Brooklyn ci In twenty years was the promise August 14, at the age of G8. held out by President Roosevelt to wife, who nad got up the leaders of the majority party In Mistaking to close a window, for a burglar, Geo. the Filipino assembly on Monday. Parker, of Harper, Kans., shot her Senor Manuel Quezon, the majority dead. leader, expressed himself as delightBy the capsizing of a pleasure ed with the president's assurance and launch on the Wisconsin river near said that the president had said that Kilbern, Wis., four Chicago people the Filipinos would their politiwere drowned. two cal freedom greatly advanced The Canadian Pacific railway Is fil- years hence, according to present ling the vacant places in the shops at plans. Toronto and In West Toronto with After his visit to the president Sestrike breakers. nor Quezon said: Three women were burned to death I was completely conquered by the when a gas explosion wrecked the president. He is a great man. He dry goods store of J. V. Gavin at assured me that he favored giving all possible business concessions to Wheeling, W. Va. John Anderson shot and killed J. R. the Filipinos who are able to carry Leighton and wounded J. R. Brown at out improvements. But the best mesVernon, B. C., following a dispute over sage I can take to my people from an Irrigation ditch. the president le bis assurance that he A statement is pub- hopes to see the island absolutely lished in Athens asserting that the independent within the next twenty their years. The president said that be did Bulgarians have commenced campaigns of violence In Macedonia. not believe the Philippines would have learned enough about free gov8ix persons were killed and eigh teen injured In a gun explosion ernment before that time or become aboard the French gunnery schoolship rich and strong enough to defy outside enemies to be given complete Couronnet, ofT Les Salines dHyeres The death toll by Alpine climbers independence. "The president made it plain that this year Is a record one. In the month of July alone fourteen persons America does not wish to see any were killed and two seriously injured. condition brought about that would English is destined to become the give any other nation a chance to inuniversal language of the world, In terfere in the affairs of the islands. I the opinion of A. C. Meyer, member of can tell our people, however, that when we are strong enough the presthe lower house of the Danish parliaident believes we will be independment. ent. Thomas Robinson, counsel for the "I asked the president how soon Winnipeg grain exchange, while in a we could expect an extension of our delirium, jumped from a train near The presiMontreal. He was found dying beside present political rights. dent said that he was pleased with the tracks. The Paris newspapers announce the work of the present assembly and that King Alfonso will visit tho that he believed if the assembly next French capital In September, on his elected should show the same abilway to the Isle of WTight, to join ity, a considerable extension of power would be allowed. The next Queen Victoria. Thomas A. Edison i3 reported to assembly is chosen two years hence." have accumulated $25,000,000. Now he EXCURSION STEAMER WRECKED, proposes to devote his time to science, pure and simple, with no regard for Jaunt of Pleasure Seekers Ends semi-offici- financial productiveness. As the result of an explosion of fire damp In the Dudwell mine, near Germany, fifteen persons were killed and six are in hospitals suffering from serious injuries. The officers of the American Atlantic fleet entertained 2,000 New Zealanders aboard the battleship Louisiana on August 13. Among the throng were many handsomely gowned women. The bank of Afton, Oklahoma, which was closed last week pending an Investigation of Its affairs, has been reopened, the investigation showing there was no shortage whatSaer-seufken- , ever. Delegates to the convention of the Independence party met at Dallas, Texas, on August 11, and nominated E. W. Kirkpatrick, president of the Texas Farmers' congress, for gov ernor. Michael T. Maroney, aged 25, of Meriden, Conn., is dead as a result of Injuries received in a baseball game. He collided with another player white running bases, and was injured In the abdomen. T, 111 (iUi messengers pouch containing United States government pay checks for nearly $2,000 was early last week stolen, in front of the building occupied by the department of commerce and labor. The Methodist Episcopal church has begun an active crusade for the election of a speaker of the house of representatives "who will allow congress to vote on the Interstate liquor shipment bill." George Wilcox, a negro, formerly employed as a Janitor in the National Bank of Commerce, Kansas City, has confessed to the theft of a package containing $8,500 from the bank on April 25, 190. The Luther League of America, with a membership of 150,000 and representing 2,000,000 members of the Lutheran church in the United States, held Its eighth biennial convention In Chicago last week, with 1,500 delegates present. Dispatches from Baku say that a decree has been issued at Teheran Indefinitely deferring the convocation of the Persian parliament and that the shah has summoned five hundred adherents of the old regime to form a council of state. The Peruvian congress voted unanimously to protest against the Insult offered the republic, when President Padro was pushed off the sidewalk on a street in Lima by a former political prisoner named Pierola. The Democratic members of the house were absent. Dr. Robert Koch, th'e distinguished German scientist, the discoverer of the tuberculosis bacillus and of the cholera germ, will attend the international congress to be held in Washington in September as an official representative of the German government. Judge William H. Taft, through an agent, has bought a southern plantation horse 16 hands high, weighing 1,320 pounds. The horse won the first prize at the Blue Grass f.Hr.at Lexington, Ky., last wr k. It w!H be the uid 'hipped to Judge To' week. MODEL Of BREVITY UTAH NEWS SUM MAHY A ADVISES NEGROES TO ARM. SPEECH Subscribes velt and Candidate Sherman to Policies of RooseApproves State- ments of Taft. Utica, N. Y. In one of the briefest speeches ever delivered by a candidate for so high an office, James Schoolcraft Sherman at noon on 18, accepted the Tuesday, August nomination of the Republican party; He spoke for the from a stand In front ol his home in Genesee street, sur rounded by party leaders from differ ent sections of the country and by a . Men Under Arrest for the Blocton Shooting. Centerville, Ala. (Thirty-on- e prisoners, arrested ?n connection with the firing into a train Sunday at Bloc ton, In which three men were killed and eleven Injured, have been lodged In Jail and are being kept under heavy guard.' Robert Hayes, the only American in the number, who Is president of the Blocton local Miners union, was placed in a separate cell and heavily guarded. The circuit court will take up the cases two weeks from date. Thirty-on- e sixty-secon- d re-tur- n . cow-ardl- KEPT UNDER HEAVY GUARD. d Fri-day- Chicago. Chicago. Five hundred members of the congregation of Quinn chapel, one of the leading negro churches in this city, were told by their pastor, Rev. D. P. Roberts, on Sunday, to arm themselves and be prepared to defend their homes in the event of hu outbreak here similar to that at Springfield. Arm yourselves and be men, he "If a raging mob surrounds said. your home, protect your household, and when the man who would ruin your family and destroy your prop- d may have to do to the policies ol President Roosevelt. He declared there was no issue as to whether oi not the people shall rule. "Surely the people shall rule, said Mr. Sherman; "surely the people have ruled;' surely the people dc rule. Casting thus aside the campaign slogan raised by Mr, Bryan, the Renominee publican asserted that the overshadowing issue of the campaign really Is, Shall the administration of President Roosevelt be approved? Mr. Sherman made no attempt to discuss in detail any of the issues raised in the party platform, contenting himself with the declaration that he subscribes fully and heartily to all that has been written Into the Chicago statement of principles and to all that had been said by Mr. Taft in his speech accepting the OIL WELL ABLAZE. presidential nomination. He referred to the Democratic party as an aggreSmall Hole in Mexico Hat Developed gation of "experimental malcontents Into Veritable Volcano. and theorists, whose only claim to Mexico City. The great fire which history Is a party name they pilhas been raging in the Dosbocas oil fered. well, near Tampico, for Fighting Bob Evans Retires from days, has baffled all attempts which Navy. have been made to extinguish It, and Lake N. Y. Rear Admiral Mohonk, it is now greater in volume than ever Robley D. Evans, of the United States before. From a hole eight inches in diame- navy, who Is at this quiet mountain ter the well has widened into a vol- hotel, reached the age limit of 62 cano with a crater 100 meters across. years on Tuesday and passed from It is estimated that the flames reach the ranks of the countrys active sea a height of over 500 feet, while the fighters. His has been the longest black column of smoke continues into service (but two years short of hall the clouds. Tbe reports received a century) of any man who 1ms trom the students sent to the scene reached tjie office of rear admiral in by the Mexican government estimat- the United States navy. ed the amount of oil consumed at at All through the day the hotel was least 20,000 gallons per minute. thronged with admirers of "Fighting Bob," In order to congratulate him CAMPAIGN OF SOCIALISTS. on his birthday and, to wish him many more happy and Special Train to be Run From useful years. Telegrams by the cago to Pacific Coast. score reached him from all parts of Chicago. The national executive the country. committee of the Socialist party met Prohibition Candidate Accepts. here Monday and made plans for their Chicago. At Music hall Tuesday campaign. It was decided to send in the presence of a .large and night, from this city on August 31 a special audience, Eugene W. train to the Pacific coast carrying enthusiastic Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist party Chafln, of Chicago, accepted the nomcandidate for president, and several ination for the presidency by the other speakers, among them A. A. Si- Prohibition party. The address formons. It Is planned to visit 350 cit- mally notifying Mr. Chafln of his seies between here and the Pacific lection as the head of the Prohibition ticket was made by. Professor Chas. coast, after which the special will to this city, thence to the At- Scanlan of Pittsburg, on behalf of lantic coast. Addresses will be made the committee on notiflcatlorf apat the national convention. by the orators of the party at a large pointed members of the party from number of cities en route. A carload Leading Ohio, ot Socialist party literature will be Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska and othes states taken along and distributed. were present. Governor Haskell Is Vexed. Oklahoma City, Okla. Omar K. Benedict, editor and owner of the Times, has been arrested on a charge ot criminal libel. The warrant was Issued on complaint of Governor Charles N. Haskell, treasurer of the Democratic national campaign, it v. as based on an editorial In last s News, in which it was Intimated that Governor Haskell was in confer-ene- e with representatives of the Standard Oil company in the Coates house at Kansas City, Mo., on June 16 last, when he was supposed to be lu Muskogee. In erty steps across the threshold, let him step across the body of a dead man." He declared that America is a nation, which, with power to defy the world, refuses to grant protection to innocent and defenseless crowd of friends from and people forty years removed townsmen. The nomination was ten slavery, because of their color. Talks dered by a committee appointed at with the congregation indicate that tho Chicago convention in June, Sen- the negroes fear an outbreak in Chicago and are preparing for it. The ator Julius C. Burrows of Michigan chief of police, however, declared being the chairman and spokesman. that the chance of a race war here is There were brief addresses also by remote. Secretary Root, by President M. V. NAVY COSTS AST SUM. Strykef'of Hamilton .college, from which Mr. Sherman was graduated; by Mayor Thomas Wheeler of Utica, England May Borrow $500,000,000 to Build More Ships. and by Charles S. Symonds, chairman of the local reception committee. London. The British government, Mr. Sherman, in his address of ac- according to the Daily Telegraph, ceptance, followed the example of oontemplates raising a large loan in Mr. Taft in pledging the allegiance 'lew of the growing naval competiof any administration with which he tion abroad. It is stated that financiers of the highest standing have undertaken to find $500,000,000 on nominal terms to meet tbe necessities of the fleet for the next few years without disorganizing the annual budgets or casting a heavy burden upon the present generation. If such a plan is attempted it wHl be because it Is Impossible to forecast the future requirements of the navy until foreign shipbuilding programmes have crystalized, and the setting aside of this fund would be a declaration translated into terms of cash, of the countrys intention to maintain a standard at all costs. Sorrow and Suffering. Traverse City, Mich. Mrs. Isabel Lebonte of this city was killed and score of persons were Injured by the explosion of the boiled of the passenger steamer Leelanu, bound from Lee-lanto Fouche, on Carp lake. Hav lng aboard only pleasure seekers bound for Traverse City to attend wild west circus, the little steamer was plowing down the narrow lake with a steam pressure of eighty pounds trying to make up the time that had been lost In the earlier stages of the trip. The engineer discovered a loose bolt in the engine and shut off the steam. While he was working on the bolt the boiler gave way with a crash tearing off the top of the engine and demolishing the pilot house and the upper works of the steamer, but leav lng Engineer Edward Hardy unscathed by the havoc that swept before him. forty-thre- Pastor Fears Race War AFTER THE ELECTION?" Another Earthquake In California, Eureka, Cal., Aug. 18. Three sharp earthquake shocks, which knocked down more than a hundred chimneys, shattered about forty plate glass windows in the business portion of Eureka, broke much crockery In houses and sent many people scurrying from their beds Into the streets, occurred here early Tuesday. The damage reported so far Is estimated at between $2,000 and $3,000. The shocks extended a3 far north as Blue miles north of lakes, twenty-five e y FROM THE COMMONER ? MR. BRYAN'S PAPER INTEREST. THE FARMERS genS Cadillac (Mich.) reader of The Commoner writes: The farmers should be with us on the tariff and trust Around here the farmers questions. are getting 4 8 cents a pound for hides, against 11 cents a year ago. Yet the price of leather Is as high as It was last year, and no immediate promise of a reduction, and his shoes and harness are costing him fully as much as a year ago. This year our farmers received 15 cents for wool against a price of 24 a year ago, yet the American Woolen Company that controls about 70 per cent, of the leading woolen mills of the country Is charging as much for woolen cloths as a year ago and the farmer must pay as much for his clothing as be did last year and he is lucky if he does not get more cotton in his clothes than he does wool. Let us direct our efforts to convince the farmers and laborers that their interests lie with us. Along that line lies the road to victory. Yes, and the farmers should be with us on the question of an economical administration. They should oe with us in the protest against the exercise of arbitrary power by the s ipeaker, whereby the house of has ceased to be a' popular government They should be with us in the of the misuse of patronage; In the demand for railroad regulation that will regulate; In the advocacy of publicity for campaign contributions before election day. They should be with us in the opposition to that centralization . which would destroy our system of government and ultimately make It neces sary for the farmer, as well as other citizens, to look to the national capital, rather than to the state capital and the coqnty seat, when seeking relief from corporate abuses. They should be with us for the pop ular election of senators; for the Income tax; for the guarantee to the laboring men, as well as to all men, the right of trial by jury; for the farmer has a deep concern in the welfare of the laboring man who is the consumer of the farmer's products. They should be with us on the guarantee of bank deposits; for what shall It profit a farmer if he obtain high prices for his product, and then have no place where he may, with absolute confidence, deposit his money? They should be with us upon the great question, shall the people rule, for the farmer has a deep and abiding interest in popular government; and if he does not already know; It, Investigation will reveal to him the fact that in the language of the Democratic national platform, shall the people rule, Is the overshadowing issue which manifests itself in all the questions now under discussion. A repre-entative- n hard-earne- d Loeb on Fishing Trip. St. Paul. William Loeb, Jr., seers tary to President Roosevelt, was in St. Paul cn Saturday, the guest of Mr. George Thompson, editor of the Dispatch. Mr. Loeb will' return with Mr. Thompson to Camp Kobikana, near International falls, where Mr. Loeb TRIAL BY JURY, TOOI has been a member of a fishing and hunting camp with Secretary Oscar Straus for several weeks. Mr. Loeb Referring to the decision of the said he was entirely ignorant of the United States court of appeals in overtrend of public affairs, but waxed en- turning Judge Landis fine of the Stan-arthusiastic about the big fish in the Oil Company, the Chicago lakes in that region. He declared that says: he had "the time of his life. The members of the court scathingly arraigned Judge Landis, by inSuccess of Wireless Telephone. , as Paris. The naval lieutenants, Colin, ference, to denying the right of trial the defendant corporation, by Jury Jeance and Mercer, the Inventors oi of to visit punishment upon attempting a wireless telephone apparatus which a which had not even been corporation recent tests have shown to be superior indicted and of setting his personality to anything existing, achieved remark- and beliefs above the law. able success with their new instruMany Republican papers heartily ment on Sunday, communicating with the decision. Some of them approve the wireless station at Raz de Seine, are indignant that Judge Landis "by department of Flnlstere, a distance of inference denied to the Standard Oil about 310 miles. The officers are con"the of trial by jury, Company right fident that they can make great improvements In the apparatus, enab- but they condemn the efforts of Demoling the exchan ee of conversation up crats who insist that the right of trial to 600 or 700 miles. by jury be accorded to individuals in indirect contempt cases. Tried to Swim English Channel. UNFORTUNATE. London. Of the many attempts to swim the English channel none has In the light of the bitter criticism come nearer resulting in success than that made by T. W. Burgess, the dsited upon Judge Landis by Judge blacksmith swimmer. Burgess was Trosscup in releasing the Standard Oil compelled to, give up his attempt Company from fine, it will not do, of within one mile of Cape Grlsnez, on lourse, to criticise the court, although the coast of France, because of the ire have eminent Republican authority adverse tide. He entered the water for such a course, 1. e Theodore Rooseat Dover Monday morning, and In velt s criticism of Judge Humphreys spite of the rough sea and the cur- beef trust decision. We make bold to rents which carried him miles out of ay, however, that the New York his course, he remained In the water World puts it for twenty hours and eleven minutes. :almly, when it forcefully, although says "It is unfortu-patthis most harsh condemnation Tired of Life. f a Judge by his associates Louisville, Ky. Alfred T. Wimber- ihould have been forhigher his attempt of the Bankers' ly, state manager to punish the Standard Oil Life association of Des Moines, la., Company. and a Insurance man, was found dead In bed at his home Tues- k SUGGESTION TO MR. SHERMAN. day afternoon. Death was caused by a Associated Press dispatches say that pistol wound, according to the coroner. A letter found on Representative James S. Sherman, the a table In the room read as follows: Republican nominee for "I am neither drunk nor Insane. I will make a tour of the west in behalf have no domestic troubles or busi- of the Republican ticket. We sugness troubles. I have committed no gest that Mr. Sherman, who is Speakcrime. I am simply tired of life. I er Cannon's right hand man in the have always had despondent spells, for which my creator is responsible.' house, tell the people what he thinks of the Republican revolt against Writer of Short Stories for Children Dead. By tbe time Mr. Sherman gets through Boston. Mrs. Louise explaining to Republicans the Chandler methods of the oliMoulton, the well known authoress, died at her home here Monday after garchy In the house, he may have some an Illness of nearly nine months. Mrs. time to devote to his widely adverMoultons death was due to acute tised "arraignment of Democrats." Brights disease. Mrs. Moulton was NOT AN INCH CONCEDED. born at Pomfret, Conn., In 1835. She married William IT. Molton in 1855. Her husband died ten years ago. She The New York wrote a large number of short stories that the DemocratsEvening Post says "practically confor children, as well as a number of cede New York to the enemy. The novels and poems. She Bpent many Post Is mistaken. New York Is Demoyears of her life in London, where she cratic ground and every inch of it wl became well known In literary circles. ' d Record-Heral- d . e ade-juatel- y well-know- n self-inflicte- d t, Can-nonls- Cannon-Sherma- be contested. n A dispatch to the Chlcaro thk under d.u, of New Ton, lows: "The report that the stan'el ! Oil Company Is about to announjj? Increase of $500,000,000 in Its , stock was received with in,? great in the financial district here tldl Similar rumors have been circula? several times In tbe last few v? particularly In the west, but they have been met with denials hJ the Standard Oil Interests a nent financier who has close relatlo?.' with the Standard Oil Company I &m the same old 8u,re story again and that there . nothing In it. Certainly this would be a most inopportune time to tak. any such action, with a president! election only a few months ahead of us. I suppose It Is possible that soma thing of that kind may be done 80m. time in the future, but not this vear not now. This would be "a most inopportune time" to pump a half billion ot water into the Standard Oil gallons stock anything like that is done it will be in accordance with other Republican plans "after election." After the election" the tariff win be revised by a party that: derives its campaign funds from the tlpeclal of the tariff. After the election the contribu-tioDto the campaign fund will be published when it is too late for the people to learn that the trusts pay the bills for the Republican campaign. After the election Standard Oil trust stok will be watered If that course suits the purposes of the Rockefellers and the Rogerses; and after the election should the people reelect the special privileges party they will pay dearly for their Indifference to the solemn warning confront--lnthem, on every hand. ? s S BUt THEY FORGOT IT. The-NeYork Tribune says: "Mr, Bryan is not fortunate in his efforts t create political capital out of the reasonable popular desire for publicity in respect to campaign receipts and expenditures. A few weeks ago, while both the nominees were still in the position of candidates for the nomination, Mr. Bryan, in what he conceived to be a master stroke of adroitness. Invited Mr. Taft to express an opinion as to the propriety of shedding full light on the funds employed in a contest for the presidency, their sources, amounts and distribution. Thereupon Mr. Taft, who had hesitated to assume an authority not yet bestowed upon him, caused the fact to be made known that he had already declared in writing for complete publicity, which left Mr. Bryan in a somewhat less comfortable position that he had supposed himself to be assured of when he addressed his complacent suggestion to the prospective Republican candidate. But several important facts are remembered in this connection. Chairman Burrows forgot to tell to-b- the convention about the 'publicity letter he received from Mr. Taft. The Republican congress forgot to pass a law providing for publicity. The Republican national convention, which nominated Mr. Taft, defeated, by a vote of 880 nays to 94 yeas, the LaFoliette plank providing for publicity. And the best the Republican party is willing to do on this line is the promise that after the election Republican managers will take the people Into their confidence. NOT ISSUES! Attorney General Wade H. Ellis ot Ohio, who was a member of the committee on resolutions in the Republican national convention, issued a statement in which, referring to the propositions voted down in the Republican convention, he says: "Of the seven omissions he (Mr. Bryan) refers to, six are in no sense issues before the people at this time, nor has there been any attempt to make them such by the administration, nor by any other influential element in the party. The seventh concerns injunctions. Many Republican papers suppressed this portion of Mr. Ellis statement. The reason for the suppression will be readily understood when it is remembered that among the propositions which Mr. Ellis says are in no sense issues before the people are the following: Publicity of campaign contributions. Ascertaining the value of railroads. The national Income tax. The encroachment of predatory wealth. Popular election of United State senators. Mr. Ellis has, perhaps, noticed that since the publication of his statement the Republican candidate for president has given proof that he has discovered that the people have some concern In the proposition. TREASON! We would not for the world engage criticism of the court. But surely there can be no harm In repioduclng a Republican editorial (for whoever knew a Republican editorial to be out of accord with the accepted rules of polite society?). The New York Press, a Republican paper, referring to the Grosscup decision, says: "The judgment of the court of appeals, which calls for careful scrutiny and cool reading, can not alter the public conviction that the offenders behind the Standard Oil corporation la its rebate crimes desene to be In the penitentiary and will be sent there when the law Is enforced by those wba In take oaths to administer iL |