NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering PROGRESSIVE Republicanism continues to win. In Minnesota, the people of the First District turned down Congressman Tawney, one of the "wheel-horses" of the Cannon...
...A number of minor employees already have been convicted...
...He also sent a letter of apology to a Socialist who had been arrested while speaking before a crowd which blocked the sidewalk...
...Taft's administration was endorsed- The character of the platform makes it apparent that Governor Deneen intends to wage his war against the Lorimer faction by enlisting popular support to his side by advocating a legislative program that contemplates a greater measure of papular government...
...Tawney ascribed his defeat to the voting of Democrats in the Republican primary...
...Oregon sends two Congressmen to Washington to represent the state...
...While it appeared probable early in the week that the "old guard" would be able to maintain a majority in the convention and name the Chairman and the platform committee, the results of the primaries and conventions held during the week for the purpose of naming delegates to the convention, encouraged the progressive leaders of the state and they freely predicted that the convention would be controlled by them...
...one of the most aggressive of the "old guard" leaders...
...In New York, Theodore Roosevelt put the "old guard" to rout, and his supporters will absolutely control the convention...
...improvement of the primary election law...
...Railway Men to Discus* Wages During the next two weeks, representatives of the great railway brotherhoods and general managers of all western lines will meet in Chicago to discuss an increase in the wages of 80,000 railway engineers, conductors, brakemen, baggagemen and other employees not affected by the wage increases granted by the railroads a few months ago...
...In Oregon, one of the standpat Congressmen was defeated by a man who announced himself as a progressive and declared himself against Cannonism...
...In the course of his speech he took occasion to pay high tribute to Mr...
...Physical Valuation Demanded Shippers and representatives of commercial organizations from many states of the middle- and south-west on September 22 assembled at Topeka, Kansas, upon call of Governor Stubbs of that state...
...The result of the election was the defeat of Congressman William R. Ellis of the Second District by A. W. Lafferty, who ran on an insurgent platform...
...The figures show that imports have increased to the extent of $100,000,000...
...He says that when the Hearst papers first began attacking him so savagely and so continuously, he received many clippings from those papers with threats written on the margins and also received many anonymous letters threatening his life...
...This was announced after a meeting of the committee in Chicago on September 26...
...abolition of minority representation...
...Tawney as chairman of the Committee on Appropriations was largely responsible for the cutting off of funds to carry on the work of the secret service in connection with land frauds...
...Sugar Trust Offic'al Sentenced Charles Heike, secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company, on September 19 was sentenced by Judge Martin of New York to serve eight months in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $5,000 for complicity in the sugar weighing frauds in the customs service, through which the company of which he was an officer robbed the government of millions of dollars...
...It is said that President Taft's advocacy of Tawney, in connection with his defense of the tariff law, proved an obstacle that Tawney could not remove from the path leading to reelection...
...The penalty for violation is $5,000...
...Tawney has served long in Congress, but the people of his district seem to have become convinced that he was not their servant, despite President Taft's eulogy of him in his home city of Winona...
...the initiative and referendum...
...The mayor believes in absolute freedom of speech...
...Investigating Lorimer Scandal The subcommittee of the Senate committee on privileges and elections, appointed to investigate charges of bribery in connection with the election of Senator Lorimer of Illinois, held its first public meeting in Chicago on September 22...
...that the revenues under the new law exceeded those for 1909, when the Dingley law was in force, by about $:W,O00,00O and that the average ad valorem rate of duty paid was 1.60 per cent...
...Outlook Bright for Roosevelt The features of last week in New York politics were the defeat of Vice President Sherman's supporters in his own district, and the victory of Roosevelt men in the district represented on the Republican state committee by William Barnes, Jr...
...less...
...Taft said that he would not take an active part in the fight for control of the state convention, press dispatches report, but the Roosevelt forces have his moral support...
...The meeting also approved the demand of the railways for permission to raise freight rates...
...Legislative corruption was strongly condemned, and demand made for a thorough investigation of the "jack pot" methods of legislation at the last session...
...Deneen Advocates Progressive Measures With Governor Deneen in control of the Republican convention tn Illinois on September 23, a platform was adopted which embodies many progressive measures...
...It also was stated that James A. Tawney, a member of the committee, declared at the meeting that although he believed his defeat by an Insurgent was due to the voting of Democrats in the Republican primary, he would do all in his power to secure the election of Mr...
...Delegates declared that they believed the increases in wages, and the increased cost of materials and general operating expenses, necessitated more revenue...
...The result is looked upon as another addition to the anti-Cannon, anti-machine forces of the House of Representatives, Tariff Figures Published On September 25 the bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor gave out figures covering the operations of the Payne tariff law for the first year of its existence...
...Anderson, his erstwhile opponent...
...Labor Unions in Politics One of the most significant events of years, affecting labor conditions, occurred on September 25, when, for the first time in the history of railway unions, members and delegates representing 308,000 men of the four great divisions of railway employees in the east, voted unanimously to take concerted action in national and state politics...
...The case will test the constitutionality of the law, which is designed to protect not only railroad passengers, but railway employees, also...
...The President was severely criticized during the course of the discussions for his failure to direct the Attorney General to prosecute Tigorously the suit instituted when the railroads simultaneously and uniformly raised freight rates, in the spring...
...Mayor Gaynor, because of his determination not to read accounts of the attempted assassination, at the time the letter was written was not aware that clippings of these attacks by the Hearst papers had been found in his assailant's pockets...
...Gaynor describes his feelings after being shot and states that he has not read the newspaper accounts of the affair because he fears that to do so "might warp my mind about myself...
...Another Progressive Nominated One of the last primary elections held this fall, was that which took place in Oregon on September 24...
...A committee was appointed to urge President Taft to see that the federal anti-trust law as it applies to all lawless corporations and combines is rigidly enforced...
...He also was active in securing the abolition of the Roosevelt conservation, country life and other commissions...
...Senator Lorimer is also represented by counsel...
...They declared that if the Interstate Commerce Commission, after a careful investigation, found that the railroads were not earning a fair return upon the property used in their business, then they would willingly pay increased freight rates...
...Both of the present members, who are "regulars" were candidates for reelection...
...Heike is the last implicated man connected with the company to be brought to trial...
...Sydney Anderson, running on a strongly "insurgent" platform, won the nomination by a majority of about 3,000...
...The delegates made plans for the formation of a permanent organization to protect their own interests and those of the public from railway extortion...
...He was aided, however, by President Roosevelt's denunciation of Tawney at the time of the secret service imbroglio between the House and the President...
...conservation of water power...
...Roosevelt was assured by the President that he stood as formerly—for the Cobb primary bill and the elimination from control of men like Barnes, Woodruff, and other members of the "old guard...
...The other regular representative, A. C. Hawley, of the First District, was renominated by about 3,500 votes...
...The statement issued by the committee says: "the statements that have been made in the newspapers and otherwise to the effect that the National Republican congressional committee would not render assistance to candidates classed as insurgents is not only an unjust reflection upon the political integrity of the committee but is absolutely and unqualifiedly untrue...
...Committee Will Aid Progressives The Republican congressional committee will give assistance to all Republican nominees for Congress, irrespective of their attitude towards Cannonism...
...Following are some of them: sweeping, statewide application of the civil service...
...Some months ago Mayor Gaynor in a speech before representatives of the press denounced Mr...
...Hearst and his journalistic methods in a manner that attracted the attention of the entire nation...
...In a statement given out on the day following the election, Mr...
...The law prohibits the employment of trainmen for a time exceeding sixteen consecutive hours...
...The Committee says that all possible aid will be given to Republican nominees and that a great Republican victory in the fall elections is assured, notwithstanding the claims of the Democrats to the contrary...
...Free Speech in Toledo Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo...
...Lafferty's plurality is estimated at 2,000...
...The committee was also directed to use its influence to secure the passage by Congress of a law making mandatory the ascertainment by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the physical valuation of all railroad lines in the United States...
...Tawney has been Speaker Cannon's real "right hand mae" and, as such, he has played an important part in the making of legislation, especially as chairman of the great House committee on appropriations...
...company pensions for superannuated employees, hours of labor, and other matters of interest to railroad employees...
...Taft Endorsement Troublesome Anderson, who was nominated, made the fight against Tawney unaided by any considerable part of the press of the district and with practically no money at his disposal...
...The committee decided to allow the Chit-ago Tribune to present the case against Senator Lorimer, through its attorney...
...Ohio, has ordered his chief of police to issue an order prohibiting, under penalty of dismissal, members of the police force from interfering with anyone who is making a speech in Toledo, no matter what time or place or crowd...
...It is said that other regular Republicans who have been defeated for renomination by progressives, will follow the same course...
...a corrupt practices act...
...Sixteen-hour Law" Tested The second prosecution against a railroad company for violation of the "hours of service act" passed by Congress two years ago, was begun on September 23 by the U. S. District Attorney of Chicago...
...He said: "Whatever your political affiliations, do not let party lines blind you to your true interest or prevent you from doing what you think is best and right...
...It is reported that they discussed the New York state political situation and that Mr...
...Tawney und to urge upon the voters of the district his retention in office...
...When Mr...
...In Minnesota, the people of the First District turned down Congressman Tawney, one of the "wheel-horses" of the Cannon organization, and nominated in his place a young, energetic, and able attorney, Sydney Anderson, who ran on a vigorously "insurgent" platform and was aided by national progressive leaders...
...Delegates expressed the opinion that the present hearings before the Intestate Commerce Commissioners were largely superficial and useless because of the lack of a real basis upon which to establish rates...
...The 3,000 delegates and members present at the meeting, were addressed by Warren S. Stone of Cleveland, Ohio, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers...
...Taft made his western trip after the Payne tariff bill had been enacted and when criticism of that meas-ure was at its height, he stopped at Winona, Minnesota, to deliver the famous "defense" of that measure which has been used as a campaign document by the Republican Congressional committee...
...Tawney i$ Defeated One of the most important Progressive victories of the year was won on September 20, when in the primary elections held throughout Minnesota, the voters of the First District decided to retire Congressman James A. Tawney...
...establishment of a permanent tariff commission...
...It is reported that the "regulars" are bo chagrined and angry over his defeat that they will throw the support of the Republican machine to the Democratic candidate, thus defeating Anderson...
...Five members of the committee were present on the opening day and the two remaining members were expected to arrive for the hearings within a short time...
...These increased in number as the attacks continued and finally caused him to abandon his long walks about the city...
...On September 19, Colonel Roosevelt and President Taft had a conference at New Haven, Connecticut...
...Minnesota disapproves of the Payne law as strongly as do all of the western states, and those of the east as well...
...In pursuance with the new policy, a series of eight questions will be put to candidates for state legislatures and the national House of Representatives, asking for a definition of their attitude on the universal adoption of safety appliances, and on employers' liability laws, where such do not already exist...
...See that the men you vote for stand for the right principle, regardless of party, and support those men who meet the requirements, and you will not only be doing the best thing for yourselves but for the public...
...The other "regular" members of the Minnesota delegation were renominated, as were the "progressive" Representatives of the state...
...This is not a political move at all, as is generally understood, but a move to get away from the old lines of partisan politics...
...That the President and the former President also discussed national politics and the outlook for 1912, and that decided coldness existed between them, also was stated...
...revision of the tariff schedule by schedule...
...popular election of United States Senators ; and an employers' liability law...
...Gaynor Blames Yellow Journalism A letter written to his sister by Mayor Gaysor of New York a few weeks after he had been shot and while still confined to the hospital, was made public on September 19...
Vol. 2 • October 1910 • No. 39
