NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING

...Steffens testified the settlement between the defence and the prosecution to save J. B. McNamara from the gallows if he pled guilty was reached before the date on which it is charged Mr...

...He further said he felt he could "as a progressive Republican vote for Wilson consistently, if no Republican other than Taft is nominated...

...In Michigan a convention of Roosevelt followers divorced themselves absolutely from the Republican party...

...J. McGillicuddy of Maine, Congressman Albert S. Burleson of Texas, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, and William G. McAdoo of New York...

...Smith Resigns Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner of Corporations since 1907, resigned last week to associate himself with Colonel Roosevelt in his efforts to form a third party...

...NEWS NOTES — Lincoln Steffens was a dramatic witness last week in the bribery trial of Clarence S. Darrow at Los Angeles...

...Will not follow him into a new party...

...Bailey is one of Lorimer's most ardent defenders...

...Believe a new party abandons the ground that would make his claim invulnerable...

...He replied to the taunt that he is an "anarchist" by saying he is "more radical" than that...

...He said any interference in senatorial contests by the President constituted "a violation of the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution and ought to be severely condemned...

...Nothing but a brand new party will satisfy their wrath...

...I feel the new party represents these principles more directly and with more power and promise of performance than either the Republican or the Democratic party...

...The Republican party," he said, "has no candidate for President...

...For Governor they endorsed state Senator L. Whitney Watkins and for United States Senator, Theodore M. Joslin...

...Senator Works added that whether he would now vote for Roosevelt "depends on how he is nominated and whether he runs as a Republican...

...This resolution was introduced by Senator Bailey of Texas, and was aimed at President Taft because of the letter he wrote to Colonel Roosevelt, disclosing the fact that he had urged a number of the Senators to study the Lorimer evidence carefully, as he had, believing they would come, as he had, to the conclusion that the record presented proof of corruption and justified the exclusion of Lorimer from his seat...

...he is "a Christian...

...Its members may vote for the Democratic nominee or an Independent candidate without leaving or breaking faith with their own party, because it has no candidate...

...The resolution was modified before it was passed...

...Following is the membership of the board: Members from the national committee —William F. McCombs, Joseph E. Davies, Willard Saulsbury of Delaware, Col...

...Members from outside the national committee—Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, Senator James A. O'Gorman of New York, Congressman Daniel...

...He declared that neither Taft nor Roosevelt had been legally nominated...

...that the Republican party had no nominee and that voters were free to vote for whom they chose...

...The movement includes the principles that I believe in, that I have earnestly tried to further, so far as I could, during my term of federal service...

...News Worth Remembering ON JULY 16, by a vote of 35 to 23, the Senate passed the following resolution: "Resolved, that any attempt on the part of a President of the United States to exercise the powers and influence of his great office for the purpose of controlling the vote of any Senator on a question involving the right to a seat in the Senate, or any other matter within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Senate, would violate the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution and invade the rights of the Senate...

...Bailey made a violent attack upon President Taft...

...Wilson Names Managers Governor Woodrow Wilson has named 14 men to serve as a board of directors in his campaign for the presidency...

...Steffens said that Darrow's only concern was the saving of the life of his client...

...Works Hits Taft and T. R. Senator Works of California, a progressive Republican, issued a statement last week declaring that promoters of the Roosevelt party would be guilty of dishonorable dealings if they should attempt to regain control of the Republican machinery in states where the progressive faction controls the Republican party...

...Senator Works said the alternative for Republicans was to "rebuke corrupt politics," if they did not believe Taft was honestly nominated, "by refraining from voting for him, by voting for the Democratic candidate, or by voting for Roosevelt or some one else as an independent candidate...

...Roberts Ewing of Louisiana, A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, Joseph Daniels of North Carolina, Will...

...Darrow paid out money to bribe jurors...

...It was worded to apply to the future and not to the past...

...But the Roosevelt followers are so indignant, and wild with passion, that they are not content with this independent course...

...In his letter to the President, Commissioner Smith said he resigned "because I intend to support the progressive movement and the new pro-pressive party...

...R. King of Oregon, and Robert S. Hudspeth of New Jersey...

...They favored placing an entire ticket, both state and national, in the field...

...He gave in minute detail the history of the McNamara pleas of guilty...

...Some of Johnson's followers have called upon Senator Works to resign because he refuses to follow Roosevelt...

...Lieutenant Governor A. J. Wallace has telegraphed Works to inform the progressive voters whether he intended to vote for Roosevelt, Taft or Wilson, to which Senator Works replied by wire: "Will not vote for Taft...

...Governor Johnson and his state organization in California some time ago announced their plans to use the Republican machinery in the interest of Colonel Roosevelt...

...Would have voted for and aided in election of Roosevelt if he had stood on his just rights to the nomination at Chicago and run as Republican...