NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering BEFORE another issue of La Fol-lette's reaches its readers, elections will have been held in all but two of the states. Principal interest, of course, centers in the contest...
...But thorough inspection has almost banished the disease and done much to enable the state to take front rank in the production of dairy products...
...Harriman will also give $1,060,000 far improving the park...
...The railways, he declared, must be limited to a reasonable profit on the value of the property actually engaged in their business, this to be determined by a physical valuation—a measure which he believes the great majority of Republicans favor...
...Garment Makers Strike More than 40,000 men, women, and children garment makers are out on a strike in Chicago...
...Senator Cummins declared that there are three great national issues that must be satisfactorily met within the next few years: the regulation of corporations—railways, trusts and public utilities such as the telegraph and telephone...
...One of the witnesses, who said that regular testing of cows would result in wiping out tuberculosis in the dairy herds of Illinois within five years, also stated that "A condemned animal is not necessarily a total loss...
...Grant McCutcheon and Harry T. Stacy are said to have appeared before the grand jury and confessed that they each received $125 from Charles E. Erbstein, one of the attorneys for Lee O'Neill Browne in his second trial on the charge of having bribed Democratic legislators of Illinois to vote for Lorimer for U. S. Senator...
...There is no doubt that the south will remain as steadfastly Democratic as in the past...
...The whole address was a plea for harmony within the Republican party...
...In Massachusetts Senator Lodge, standpat Republican, is encountering strong opposition in a fight for reelection...
...The first of these charges was denied by experts who appeared before the committee and who stated that the number of tuberculous dairy cows was increasing enormously in Illinois, due in a large measure to the greed of dairymen...
...The number of deaths from tuberculosis among men of this age engaged in agricultural work is comparatively small...
...When the strike began, many of the employees were unorganized, but when the union workers "walked out" they were followed by practically all the rest, who joined the unions at once...
...McCutcheon was one of the members of the jury in the second Browne trial, in which a disagreement resulted...
...tariff revision, and the conservation of resources...
...A man could not remain healthy in rack an atmosphere...
...The principal attack on the Republican ticket has consisted of predictions by the Democrats that victory for their opponents will mean the reelection of Mr...
...As predicted at the time of Mr...
...Dalzell defeated a progressive candidate for the nomination in the primaries, by less than 300 votes and is being hard-pressed for reelection...
...They have pointed out apparent inconsistencies in Roosevelt's course as President, in applying the anti-trust law and the other progressive legislation which he has advocated and endorsed...
...But while admitting the faults of the measure, he praised the tariff commission idea and the plan to revise each schedule of the tariff separately, on accurate data gathered by an impartial board of tariff experts...
...He also said that the government must limit and supervise bond issues...
...Thousands of express drivers in New York City and New Jersey are out on a strike...
...Cummins Urges "Harmony" With a plea for "party harmony" Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa addressed the Hamilton Club, a Republican political organization of Chicago, on October 24...
...Senator Cummins said that Republican voters would commit a grave error if they voted for Democrats when Republican nominees for Congress do not stand for progressive principles...
...that the Democratic ticket was named by that most corrupt of political organizations, Tammany Hall, and that the Democratic candidate for governor was formerly prominent in the councils of the wall paper trust—now dissolved...
...The Democratic party seems to have a fair chance to retain control of the state offices...
...New York to Have Maguificeat Park On October 29, Mrs...
...The number of women strikers is estimated at more than ten thousand...
...It is said that Stacy, as a mutual friend of a jackpot politician and of McCutcheon, who had been included in the panel drawn for jury service in the Browne trial, got into communication with Erbstein and acted as go-between in the negotiations...
...Many of the smaller shops have already agreed to the terms of the workers' unions...
...In Indiana one of the most important campaigns of the year draws to a close...
...The Democrats are hopeful of carrying the state and their candidate may defeat Representative Townsend who won the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator from Julius C. Burrows in the primary of a few months ago...
...As he stated in one of his speeches, the issue is between special privilege and popular government, or, in his own words: "We (the Republican party of the state) stand for honesty and the workshop...
...News Notes Governor Stubbs of Kansas when called to testify for the complaining shippers in the hearings before tile Interstate Commerce Commission on the general advances in freight rates, last week, said that the railroads were attempting to pay high dividends on grossly inflated capitalizations and valuations...
...Many of the farmers who testified expressed strong hostility toward tuberculin testing...
...The Democrats now have nine of their party in Congress...
...Bitter Contest in Pennsylvania In Pennsylvania the bitterest fight is being waged on the Penrose machine's candidate for governor, John K. Tener...
...It is said that Erbstein promised Stacy and McCutcheon a sum of money of jackpot dimensions, and sinecures in the state service, for their help in securing a disagreement of the jury, that the smallness of the renumeration he gave them angered Stacy, with the result that he confessed to State's Attorney Wayman...
...Tener denies these charges and has brought suit for criminal libel against the owner of the paper...
...Edward H. Har-riman, widow of the great railroad operator, deeded 10,000 acres of land to the state of New York for park purposes The state has transferred to the park commission the site of a former prison in order to make the park a unit...
...The Fight in New York Perhaps the most interesting of the eastern political battles will be fought out with ballots in New York state...
...The Democratic machine is controlled by the same forces which year after year have nominated corrupt Republican tickets, and so the progressive voters of the state have organized the "Keystone Party...
...In California, Hiram Johnson, a powerful public speaker and leader of the progressive Republicans in the recent primary fight which resulted in such disastrous defeat for the Southern Pacific machine's candidates, is opposed for the governorship by Theodore Bell, a strongly progressive Democrat...
...The Philadelphia North American, the great progressive paper of the state, published sensational charges against Tener...
...Roosevelt to the presidency, in 1912...
...He termed as an outrage their simultaneous action and declared that they ought to be prosecuted under the anti-trust law...
...Republicans Battle for Ohio The reelection of the Democratic governor of Ohio, Judson Harmon, would serve to place him prominently before the voters of the party as a possible candidate for the nomination for President in 1912...
...Our opponents stand for political corruption and the bucket shop...
...The Democratic theory of states' rights was branded a grave menace, which if followed out would prove totally inadequate to check the aggressions of trusts and all predatory wealth and would make impossible efficient conservation...
...He himself has borne the brunt of the Democratic attack and has delivered the most telling blows against that party's ticket...
...Senator Cummins said that the Sherman anti-trust law must be enforced and a national incorporation law considered...
...A Chicago council committee, appointed to investigate gas rates of that city, will make an appraisal of all the property of the company which furnishes the gas of the community, determining also the cost of reproducing the plant...
...In Colorado, Governor Shafroth, a progressive Republican, is fighting for reelection, against the forces of corruption exposed to the light of publicity by Judge Lindsey in "The Beast and the Jungle...
...A bulletin issued by the Department of Agriculture on October 30 warns wood users that the supply of hickory, the best fuel wood and the most difficult to replace, is almost exhausted, and that a shortage is imminent, unless action is taken to prevent such a condition...
...John w. Kern, unsuccessful candidate for Vice President and many other public offices, is the Democratic candidate for the Senatorship...
...Much usable timber was left after the flames had been extinguished and this will be sold at a low price by the government...
...Beveridge has had the active support of many of his progressive colleagues of the House and Senate during the course of the campaign and may be the only Republican on the state ticket to be elected...
...The Republican party's accomplishments since it was given charge of the country's affairs, were reviewed and praised...
...It is his opinion that, with all its faults, the Payne bill is far superior to any measure based on a "ruinous and falacious" theory of free trade...
...The Republicans of the state are making a hard fight to retain control of the legislature and to elect a Republican governor...
...the men in it who do not stand for progressive principles should be replaced by Republicans of more advanced opinion, but not by Democrats...
...But in the Pacific Coast states, in the middle west, and in the east voters will have an opportunity to express themselves on the great public questions of the day—and, in a measure, to demonstrate whether a democratic form of government is an advance over the older institution of monarchy with its claim of "divine right," and all that that principle involves...
...Senator Cummins reaffirmed his belief in the protective tariff principle and denounced the Democratic free trade or "tariff for revenue" policy...
...Wisconsin is a state whose dairy herds a few years ago were seriously infected with tuberculosis...
...One of the experts said: "Go into one of those stables early in the morning and you can hardly breathe—the air is so hot and bad...
...Another contest in Pennsylvania which will be of national interest concerns the Congressional representation of the Thirtieth district, which now sends john Dalzell to the House of Representatives...
...Two members of the Indiana Congressional delegation are Republicans, but it is impossible to forecast whether they will be reelected...
...Jack Pot" an Issue in Illinois In Illinois the progressive Republicans are making a determined effort to shake from the state the shackles of special privilege with its attendant corruption...
...As usual, there are few real contests in the southern states, where differences of opinion were settled months ago in the primaries...
...Most of them will pass for beef in a slaughter house...
...Several Republican congressmen in Michigan who have been subservient to Cannon face defeat...
...They declared that more cows are infected with tuberculosis through the test than cases of disease are found with it, and claimed that the loss to them through the enforced slaughter of animals discovered to be infected, would be enormous...
...The strike b^gan in one shop five weeks ago and has spread rapidly until every non-union clothing factory in the city is affected...
...The amount destroyed is equivalent to less than one-sixth of the country's yearly cut...
...An interesting report of the census bureau issued on October 26 shows that of the total number of deaths from all causes among printers, lithographers, and pressmen between the ages of 25 and 34, 51.5 per cent, are caused by tuberculosis...
...The voters of this state will have an opportunity to register their opinion as to the advisability of a statewide civil service act, and the passage of a law providing for the initiative and referendum...
...The most important office to be filled is that of U. S. Senator to succeed Albert J. Beveridge, a candidate for reelection...
...On the day following the conclusion of the second trial, in which the jury of which McCutcheon was a member disagreed, the jurors had an expensive celebration, at which much wine was drunk, and during the course of which they dined together twice and attended the theater...
...He has spoken in every part of the state, always to large audiences...
...that on the only occasion when he have to do with national questions of policy, he attempted to secure a higher duty on products in which he was financially interested, notwithstanding the fact that the party whose principles he avows, stands for free trade...
...Indictments of those involved in the story, are expected at this writing...
...The people of the state will vote in the November election on a proposition to issue bonds te the extent of $2,500,000 for the further extension and improvement of the project...
...The Republicans, on the other hand, say that no personal issue is directly involved...
...In this way an accurate basis will be found on which to make rates...
...The Republican party must be kept in control, said Senator Cummins...
...Pasteurization was condemned by many of the men interested in the investigation as a mere makeshift which could never take the place of sanitary precautions and absolute cleanliness in the dairy and especially at milking time...
...The Republican platform is a progressive one, and the Democrats have no real leader...
...Many of the Republican papers of the state are in open revolt against the Penrose machine, and especially refuse to support Tener...
...Then, coming to the tariff, the Senator from Iowa stated with decision that he did not intend to retract any criticisms of the Payne bill which he uttered in debate, and since the bill was passed...
...Republican Senator Dick is being fought by the progressive element of his party, led by James R. Garfield, cabinet officer under Roosevelt...
...He fears the return to power of a party holding the idea of state sovereignty, even though its members are honest and well-intentioned...
...He declared that he was as firmly convinced as ever that many of the schedules of that law are iniquitous...
...A ticket composed of men of integrity has been placed in the field by this party, but the number of uneducated foreigners employed in the mines and the steel mills of the state makes reform difficult...
...The Democrats have nominated a "reform ticket...
...Principal interest, of course, centers in the contest between the Republican and Democratic parties for control of the next House of Representatives, but many state fights will be brought to a conclusion on November 8 in which the issue is clearly drawn between government by the people, and misrule in the interest of holders of great special privileges...
...The recent great fires in the national forests of Montana and northern Idaho are estimated by the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture to ha^ e killed or destroyed over six billian board feet of timber...
...The complete census returns, according to a Washington dispatch of October 24, will show a slight percentage of decrease in the number of farms and farm acreage but a marked advance of farm land values and permanent farm wealth...
...that his success and that of the "new nationalism" would be a blow at democratic government undermining the rights of the state and the individual...
...More Illinois Scandal That "corruption breeds corruption" cannot be doubted if the stories told to a Chicago grand jury last week are true...
...Several riots have occurred since the strike was called but the express companies were making no attempt to deliver goods on October 30...
...Cows are "stuffed with food" without regard to the effect on their health, for the purpose of forcing a larger milk yield, and, as a result, the animals become depleted and fall a ready prey to tuberculosis...
...Illinois Seeks Pure Milk Last week a committee of the Illinois legislature, appointed for the purpose of investigating the tuberculin test for dairy cows and pasteurizing of milk and its products, heard the testimony of a number of farmers, dairy experts and health officers...
...Roosevelt's triumph in the Saratoga convention, the campaign has been waged around his personality...
Vol. 2 • November 1910 • No. 44
