NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE results of the primary elec-tion held in California on Au-gust 16 were encouraging to pro-gressive Republicans of the entire natirn. The great fight waged against the...
...Longworth declared that while he had the highest admiration for Mr...
...It was found that most of the men summoned to ;.ppear as prospective jurymen had been approached, or that members of their family had been questioned in regard to lodge affiliations, political beliefs and prejudices, and their attitude toward Browne and political corruption generally...
...Cannon, meanwhile, asseits thit he will not retire from the race but that if defeated in the caucus, he will yield to the will of the party majority...
...Governors of far western states held a meeting last week, at which it was decided that delegates from these states to the National Conservation Congress shall be instructed to urge the passage of legislation giving to the separate states the control of water power sites and the burden of the work of conservation...
...Roosevelt for temporary chairman of the state convention to meet at Saratoga on September 27...
...News Notes The minority members of the Senate Cost of Living Committee have made their report...
...The state committee met on August 16 and by a vote of 20 to 15 refused to name Mr...
...The men so approached were excused by the judge...
...Although Mr...
...Longworth closed his statement with a declaration that the responsibility for it rested solely upon himself, a widespread report that President Taft and his advisors had decided to make known the administration's attitude toward Cannon in this way received credence...
...Meat Trust Evidence Destroyed Last week Alfred R. Urion, general counsel for Armour and Company, and president of the Chicago school board, with three other Armour officials was brought before Judge Landis cf Chicago to be examined on a charge of contempt of court...
...This is the only official statement issued by the ex-President since being rebuifed...
...The great fight waged against the Southern Pacific railroad machine by the Lincoln-Roosevelt League resulted in a sweeping victory for good government, Hiram Johnson, the League's candidate for governor won by a plurality estimated at 20,000...
...Congressmen McLachlan and Smith, members of the state machine and prominent in the Cannon organization were also defeated by progressives...
...Roosevelt issued the following statement: "To the various persons who asked me whether I would accept the position of temporary chairman of the state convention I said I would do so only if they were sure, after knowing my attitude, that they desired me, because my speech would be of such a character that it might help if the convention nominated the right kind of man, on a clear-cut, progressive platform...
...A request was made for their note-books in order to further the investigation into certain phases of the alleged combination...
...Longworth is known to be in the confidence of the President and has had many conferences with him during the last few weeks...
...Ex-President Roosevelt met his second defeat at the hands of the New York Republican machine since "the return from Elba...
...Although the official returns have not been made at the time this is written it seems probable that John D. Works, progressive Republican, won on the advisory vcte taken to guide the legislature in its choice of a successor to Senator Flint, who will retire at the end of his present term...
...The statement was issued shortly after such a conference, at which were present the President, Mr...
...California has long been under the domination of the railroad machine and this victory is even more encouraging to progressives than the Kansas results because of the domination of the press and of practically all public offices by a corrupt machine...
...The legislature is almost certain to be composed almost wholly of Lincoln-Roosevelt League candidates...
...It is probable that the State's Attorney will b:ing the matter before the next grand jury in an effort to ascertain who is responsible for this attempt to "influence" the jury...
...Instead, Vice President Sherman, leader of the "regular" forces and a pronounced reactionary, was chosen...
...While Mr...
...Strength is given to this rumor by the fact that Mr...
...Wiley has waged a bitter fight against the use of this preservative but has not been sustained by Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture...
...Congressman McKinlay, the most prominent of the California standpatters, was defeated by William Kent...
...but that it would hurt if neither the right kind of man were nominated nor the right kind of a platform adopted...
...Cannon Deserted by "Regulars" Although Mr...
...Congressman Norris, progressive, was renominated without opposition, and the progressives won a victory in the second and third congressional districts of the state...
...Roosevelt Rebuffed by Machine New York state politics were of as great interest last week as were the elections held in California and Nebraska...
...The second trial of Lee O'Neill Browne, charged with bribery to secure the election of William Lorimer as U. S. Senator from Illinois, began in Chicago on August 22...
...Bingham declared ihat the Department had refused to allow Dr...
...The officials of the company stated that this had been done in the regular course of business, but the jury was of the opinion that the books had been destroyed in order to hide from it certain valuable and essential information...
...were examined bcfoie twelve men were finally selected...
...Longworth and the administration's chief political advisors...
...Cannon, personally, and although he had supported him for the Speakership live times, he would, if reelected, oppose him in caucus at the beginning of the next Congress, if the Republicans maintain their majority in the House...
...The court officers were informed that the note books had been burned, soon after the jury had demanded them...
...Taft's alleged participation in the machine's plan to side-track Mr...
...Cannon continues to reiterate that he will be a candidate for reelection to the speakership of the House, the demand cf progressive Republicans throughout the country for pledges from congressional candidates that they will not support him or the ideas for which he stands, seems to have reached the ears of even the "regulars...
...Jury Corruption in Chicago...
...Progressives Win in Nebraska, Also In Nebraska, where the issue between standpattism and progressivism was not so clearly drawn and where the liquor question complicated matters, Senator Burkett defeated his progressive opponent, C. O. Whedon...
...Immediately after the committee took action, Mr...
...The statement given cut by Representative Nicholas Longworth at Beverly, Massachusetts, on August 18 is cf interest...
...The first trial of Browne resulted in a disagreement after the jery had deliberated for many hours...
...Hundreds of p: os-;ectiye juior...
...Attorney General Bingham of Indiana on the 19th made the charge *hat officials of the Department of Agriculture had tried to hamper him in efforts to uphold the law of his state prohibiting the sale of food containing benzoate of soda...
...Wiley and members of his "poison squad" to go to Indiana to testify as to the effect on their health of the use of foods adulterated with benzoate...
...Reports, said to be well based, were soon afloat that the former president and President Taft had come to the parting of the ways, because of Mr...
...They find that the tariff, trusts, combines, and monopolies are chiefly responsible for the increased cost of living and attack the views of the Republican members who some time ago made a report absolving the tariff and dealing lightly with the trusts...
...Uri^n was absolved by Judge Landis of direct connection with the burning of the books, it has not yet been determined why the books were destroyed, and the other officials of the company charged with contempt of court are still liable to prosecution...
...Roosevelt...
...The grand jury which is investigating the workings of the alleged meat trust had several days before this examined a number of stenographers employed by Armour and Company...
Vol. 2 • August 1910 • No. 34
