2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Evory Thursday, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION'. fer year K (M t paid to advance 1 Ml ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate ol ■ne dolar per square for one insertion and tl ft y pent, per square for each subsequent Insertion. Rales by the year, or for six or throe months, •re low aud unlforuj, and will be furnished on UPPllcaton. Legnl and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, ili; each subsequent inser tion fOcents per square Local notices 10 cents pe» line for one inser •ertlon; 5 cents per line for each subsequent •on«ecutive Insertion. Obituary : tlces over five line#. 10 cent* per line Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. <5 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for less than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRESS IS complete And affords facilities for doing the best class of work PAHTICI-LAK ATTENTION PAID TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub usher. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid lor in advance. Staggering Losses by Fire. The totals of Are loss in this coun try ma> signify little to the average mind, but the comparative figures should mean much. The figures is sued b\ the national board of fire un derwriters show that the average fire loss per capita in the United States for the last five years was $3.02, against o:'. cents for six European countries, including France, Germany and Austria It may be objected per haps that it is unfair to select this particular period for purposes of com parison. since both the Raltimore fire of 1904 and the San Francisco fire of 1900 are included in it. And yet, says the Xew York Globe, if these two fires, representing about $350,000,000, were deducted from the total fire loss of the country for the five years—which is es timated at $1,257,710,955 —the total would be reduced by but little over a fourth. And the American per capita loss would remain about <>M> times larger than the European. What, is to blame for this great disparity? Are we so much more careless than Europeans? Are European building codes, (ire departments and water sup plies from to 10 times better than those found in the United States? Improving the Farmer's Life. In ilie earlier years of agricultural colleges some very intelligent farmers held their teaching in slight esteem. They were "theoretical," "scientific," and could bring to practical farming but little aid. Demonstrations, ex perimental farms conducted by col lege instructors, the results obtained by the first, few graduates who applied their college acquired knowledge to farm work changed the views of the farmers, who then more generally sent their sons to agricultural colleges. Even then for a time many of the farmers' sons alter finishing their studies went as before to the towns to seek careers instead of returning to the farm. Now, however, declares the New York Sun, not only do the farmers' sons return from the agri cultural college to the farm, but town boys influenced by the spread of in formation as to the attractive profits of agriculture earned by those who farm scientifically, go to the farm l'rom college instead of returning to the town. This is a skeptical age, notwith standing ihe fact that there are many "easy marks" who can be readily "worked" by appeal!! to their credul ity. A Hindoo hypnotist out in Ohio bad it lively experience owing to the prevalent doubt as to the genuineness of his exploits, lie professed to hyp notize a young girl and bury her in a grave in which she was left for nine days. Hut certain unbelievers alleged tha a tunnel led to ilie grave, tha: the coffin had a fa 1.. - bottom and that tl«»- girl's pretended hypnotic sleep without food was a "fake." So wrought tip were some of the crow I. says the Troy iX. Y.) Times, that there were thr< ais of "ge.n play" and general commotion. The excitement calmed down, but. while it lasted the <■ was every j. respect °f a row. The man fioui Ohio nowadays much re eembles his fellow-American from ,\ii. Hour I. He wonts to be shown. A«; ! ;:iho 112; : has been experi menting with a variety of wheat which he asserts furnirhes a peculiarly hard and hard', giain and is so prolific that a yield of 200 btishei* i.er acre may be anticipated. That propo. lion, If carried tb < vh the entire wheat belt, would give a total of five billion bus IK IS for the United States. As the world's output now is some thing more than three billion bushe's, the sanguine Idaho man's if fulfilled, would make this country still more completely than at present Ihe food purveyor of the glob?. Some allowance must be made for possibili ties, but the new wheat really appears to he a good thing. Some of the farmers resent the > 112 forts of the president to make their homes blighter. They think that a more practical way would be to s< id paint. Uj Iheui instead of a commis- Biofl, PRESIDENT URGES ELECTION Of TUFT REMARKABLE TRIBUTE PAID TO THE NOMINEE OF THE RE PUBLICAN PARTY. HELD UP AS MODEL CITIZEN OF NATION. In a Letter to His Old Friend, Mr. Conrad Kohrs of Helena, Montana, the Chief Executive Appeals to the Party to Support the Man Best Fitted to Carry On the Policies Inaugurated by the Present Ad ministration. Mr. Conrad Kohrs, of Helena, Mon tana, i* an old liino Montana cattle man and one of the moat prominent citizens of Montana. and the president came into c lose relationship more than i! 0 years PRO when they were both members of the Montana Stock Growers' association, the president being at that time the repre- M ntativr of the? Little Missouri Stock Growers in the association. The inti macy has been kept up ever since. Mr. Kohrs is one of the pioneer citizens of the northern Kooky mountain region and one of the men who has taken a leading part in Us great development. Sagamore Hill. Ovster Bay. N. V., Sept. 'J. 1908. My Dear Mr. Kohrs: T have received your letter about the candidacy of Mr. Taft, the man who I feel is in an especial sense the repre sentative of all that In which I most believe in political life. Kvery good citizen should desire to see both prosperity and justice, prosperity and fair and righteous dealing as be tween man and man. obtain permanently in this great republic. As a people we arc- justly proud of our business Indus try. of our energy and intelligence in our work: and it is entirely right that we should ask ourselves as to any given • onrse of conduct: "Will it be profitable?" But if Is also no less emphatically true that the bulk of our people, the plain peo ple who found in Abraham Lincoln their especial champion and spokesman, re gard the question: "Is thlflf morally right'.'" as even more important than the question: "Is this profitable?" when ap plied to any given course of eon duct. Indeed, in the long run our people are sure to find that in all dealings. alike in the business and the? political world, what is renllv profitable is that which is morally right. The last few years have seen a great awakening of the public conscience and the growMj of a stern determination to do away with corrupt'on and unfair deal ing, political, economic, social. It is ur gently necessary that this great reform movement should goon. But no reform movement is healthy if it goes on by spasms; if it is marked by periods of frenzied advance, followed, as such peri od:, of frenzied advance? must always be followed, by equally violent periods of reaction. To permit the direction of our public affairs to fall alternately into the hands of the revolutionaries and reac tionaries, c»f the extreme radicals of un rest. and of the bigoted conservatives who recognize no wrongs to remedy, would merely mean that the nation had em barked on a feverish course* of violent oscillation which would be fraught with great temporary trouble, and would pro duce 110 adequate good in the end. The tr ie friend of reform, the true foe of fbuses, is the man who steadily perse vers in righting wrongs, in warring against s, but whose character and training are such that ho never promises what lie cannot perform, that he always a little more than m ikes goo 1 what lie does promise, and that, while steadily advancing, he never permits himself to he jf ] into foolish excesses which would damage the very cause he champions. In Mr Taft we have a man who com bines all of these qualities to a degree which no other man in our public life sir.ee the civil war has. surpassed. The honest man of means, the honest and law-abiding business man, can feel safe in h!s hands because of the very fact 'I; it the dishonest man of great wealth, tiie man who swindles or robs his fel lows, would not so much as dare to de f : »1 his evil-doing in Mr. Taft's presence. The honest wage-worker, the honest la boring man.the hnnent farmer, the hon est mechanic or small trader, or man of small mears. can 112 -1 that in a peculiar sense Mr Taft will be his representative because of the very fait that be has the same scorn for the demagog that he lias •'nr rtu corruptionSst. and t at he would front threats of personal violence from a »r»ob with t'e uneoualing arid lofty in d'fferenee with whiei: lie would fruit the bitter iin'v'r of the wealthiest and most powerful c «rporations. * have naturalh a peculiar Interest in the success of Mr. Taft and in seeing 111 :n backed by a majority in both houses o f congress which will heartily support his p'tiie:. !. For tijo last ten ye ITS. while ( have been governor of New York and pr« -• dent. I have 1 een thrown into the c! srrt Intimacy with him. and he and I have on every essential point stood in hc-rtb t agreement. shor.M -r to shoul dor. We have the s jnc views as to what Is demanded by the natio: il interes* and honor, both within our o-vn borders a- d a*; regards the relations of this na • n with other natio: ■ There is no fight 112. r decency and fair dealing which I h : i *'c w;c •••! in which 1 have not h «1 hi? b.'artiest and most effective sympathy Mid s pport. and the policies for which I stand are his policies as much as mine. Mr. Taft can b<- trusted to e>cact Justice !'• m the railroads fer the very ?--a; n that he can be trusted to do Justice t« :'ie railroads. The rcinonels are the chief rsstruni-nts «-f interstate commerce in tie country, and tl ey an neither be held to a piv.p'T aceountalitli-y on the one hand nor given proper protection on t' «• nth. r. save by the affirmative action . 112 the federal government. The law a: i d down by the federal courts cb arly r. ows that the state; have not and can not devise laws adequate to meet the j f>!>l'-ms caused by the great grow'h of the ra'lroads elolng in inters? i!e com rverce business, for nvire than four-fifths of tie bu : ! ey<; of the railroads Is inter and tinder tie- constitution of the I 'nited States only t! e federal govern ! . t • in exc rclse co trol ther ver. 11 i . absolutely ne- « .-f ary that this control ill! be afilrmath " ;»nd thorou r ;, goi«ig. /II interstate hnrine.-s carried on by the pv. MI eorporatlons sliould. in the inter- st of the whole people, be far more closely cupf d than at present by the na t enal government: but tips is especially true of the rallrof»i*s. which cannot ex h" at all save by the- exercise of powers gi T'cd 11 ejn on behalf of the people, and which, therefore, chra ! 1 bo h-Id to a pe cul'ar aef-oiintability to the people. It is in the* interest of the people that ih.ey should not be permitted to do hijustice: and it is no 1« • s to the t of the people that tiny should not suffer injus tice. 11 is to the interest of sh'pper. farmer, wage-worker businf-ss iu:m. hon est shareholder, and honest manager alike that there should be economy, boa fvty■. intelligence and fair treatment of all The stockholders must receive an unpio return on their investments or the 1 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 1908. rail road 8 cannot bo built and am-c— --fully maintained; and the rates to ship pers and the wages to employes, from ths highest to the lowest, must all bo condi tioned upon this fa«-t. On the other hand, in a public ser\lce corporation we have no right to allow such excessive profits a.«: will necessitate rates being unduly high and wages unduly low. Again, while in all proper ways rates must be kept low, wo must always re member that we have no right and no justification to reduce them when the result is the reduction of the wages of the great army of railroad men. A fitir working arrangement must be devised according to the needs of the several cases, so that profits, wages and rates shall each be reasonable with reference to the othT two and in wages 1 include the properly amounts which should always be paid to those whose master ful ability is required for the success ful direction of great enterprises. If there is oi;e body of men more than another whose support I feel I have a right to challenge on behalf of Secre tary Tuft it is the body of wage-work ers of the country. A stauncher friend, a fairer and truer representative, they « annot find within the borders of the I'nited States, lie will do everything in his power for them except to do that which is wrong; he will do wrong for no man, and therefore can be trusted by all men. Mr. Taft has been attacked because of the Injunctions he delivered while on the bench. I am content to rest his case on these very injunctions; I main tain that they show why all our people should be grateful to him and should feel it sate to intrust their dear« st Interests to him. Most assuredly he never has yielded and never will yield to threat o.* pressure of any sort, as little if it comes from labor as if it comes from capital; he will no more tolerate the violence of a mob than the corruption and oppres sion and arrogance of a corporation or of n wealthy man. He will not consent to limit the power of the courts to put a stop to wrongdoing wherever found. This very fact should make the labor people f«»1 a peculiar confidence in him. His record as a judKe makes the whole country his debtor. Ills actions and de cisions are part of the great traditions of the bench. They guaranteed and set forth in striking fashion the rights of the general public as against the selfish Interests of any class, whether of capi talists or of laborers. They set forth and stand by the rights of the wage-workers to organize and to strike, as unequivocal ly as they set forth and stand by the doctrine that no conduct will b" tolerated that would spell destruction to the na tion as a whole. As for the attack upon his injunctions in labor disputes, made while he was on the bench, 1 ask that the Injunctions be carefully examined. I ask that every responsible and fair minded labor leader, every responsible and fair-minded member of a labor or ganization, read these injunctions for himself, if he will do so. instead of con demning them lie will heartily approve of them and will recognize this further as tonishing fact that tie principles laid down by Judge Taft in these very in junctions. which laboring people are asked to condemn, are themselves the very prin ciples which are now embodied in the laws or practices of every responsible la bor organization. Judge Taft on the bench—as since in the Philippines, in Panama, in Cuba, in the war depart ment showed himself to be a wise, a fearless, and an upright servant of the whole people, whose services to the whole people were beyond all price. I.et all fairminded men, wage-workers and capitalists alike, consider yet an other fact. In one of his decisions upon tiie bench Judge Taft upheld in the strongest fashion, and for the first time gave full vitality to, the principle of the employers' liability for injuries done workmen. This was before any national law on the subject was enacted. Taft's sense of right, his Indignation against oppression in any form, against any attitude that is not fair and just, drove him to take a position which was violently condemned by short-sighted capitalists and employers of labor, which was so f::r in advance of the time that it was not generally upheld by the state courts, but which we are now embodying in the law of the land. Judge Taft was a leader, a pioneer, while on the bench, in the effort to get justice for the wage worker, in jealous championship of his rights; and all upright and farsighted laboring men should hold it to his credit that at the same time he fearlessly stood against the abuses of labor, just as he fearlessly stood against the abuses of capital. If elected, he has shown by his deeds that he will be president of no class, but of the people as a whole; he can be trusted to stand stoutly against the two real enemies of our democracy— against the man who to please one class would undermine the whole foundation of orderly liberty, and against the man who in the interest of another class would secure business prosperity by sacrificing every right of the working people. I would for no consideration advise the wage-worker to do what I thought was against his interest. 1 ask his support for Mr. Taft exactly as I ask such support from every farsighted and right-thinking American citizen; bocau.se I believe with all my heart that nowhere within the borders c>f our great country can there be found another man who will as vigilantly and efficiently as Mr. Taft support the rights of the working man as he will the rights of every man who in goo I tilth rtrives to do his duty as an American citizen. He will protect the ju: rights of both rich and poor, and he will war relentlessly against lawlessness f.nd in justice whether exercised on behalf of property or of labor. f i ;i the bench J idge Taft showed the two qualities which make a great judge: wisdoai e; d moral courage. They are al s» t! •• two qualities which make a great president. Sincerely yours, T ll':' >i n) kto n(i o •: ve i .t. Mr. Conrad Kohrs. Helena. Mont. Unique Southern Railroad, The Public Belt railroad of New Orleans has boon partially completed, and is about ready to h \gln business. This Belt railroad is unique. The eti- Mre water front on both banks of the Mississippi river belongs, with the < x ccnticn of several special landing ; to the municipality itrdf. In ord r to enable the rail:r:ul cars to re::eh the wharves and to lie along side the ships for the transfer and ex change of cargoes the city of New Orion-s, owning the river banks has buill along the river front a railroad whose tracks connect with thos * of aIJ tii<- trunk lines reaching this city, arid by of ibis municipal rail way it is a : iir.ple affair to receive cars from all the trunk lines and to deliver rars to all these lines r.nd either connect with t»ie shipping in the river or with the stores, ware horses and factories hi various parts of the city, and with which the Belt connects. —N. O. Picayune. GoLh Dress Alike. Both men and women in Lapland I'IVSS precisely alike. They wear in.lies belted loosely at (he waist, tlgh* j I'joechcs. wrinkled leather etocklir? i •i pointed shoes, their whole ai j I ranee, in short, is identical, at leas lu the casual observer. AEROPLANE FULLS; DEATH FOLLOWS LIEUT. SELFRIDGE IS KILLED AND ORVILLE WRIGHT SERIOUS LY INJURED. A PROPELLER BLADE BROKE. Aeroplane Is Wrecked While Encirc ling the Drill Grounds at Fort Myer, Va., and Carrying Two Passengers. Washington, D. C.—After having drawn the attention of the world to his aeroplane flights at Fort Myer and having established new world records for heavier than air flying machines, Orville Wright on Thursday met with a tragical mishap while making a two-man (light. The aeroplanist was accompanied by Lieut. Thomas E. Self ridge of the signal corps of the army. Lieut. Selfridge was terribly injured and died at 8:10 o'clock Thursday night. Mr. Wright was seri ously injured, but is expected to re i cover. While tlie machine was encircling the drill grounds a phopeller blade snapped off and, hitting some other part of the intricate mechanism, caused it to overturn in the air and fall to the ground, enveloping the two occupants in the debris. Soldiers and spectators ran across the field to where the aeroplane had fallen and assisted in lifting Wright and Selfridge from under the tangled mass of machinery, rods, wires and shreds of muslin. Mr. Wright was conscious and said: "Oh, hurry and lift the motor." Lieut. Selfridge was unconscious and had apparently struck the ground with greai force. His head was covered with blood and lie was choking when the soldiers extricated him from tin der the machine. Dr. Walters, a New York physician, was one of the first to reach the spot and rendered first aid to the injured men. When their wounds had been bandaged Wright and Selfridge were taken to the Fort Myer hospital at the other end of the field, it was feared that Wright was suffering from internal injuries. He had lapsed into a state of semi-consciousness by the time he reached the hospital, while Selfridge did not regain consciousness at all. He was suffering from a frac ture at the base of the skull and was in a critical condition. After a. hurried surgical examina tion, it was announced that Mr. Wright was not dangerously injured, lie is suffering from a fracture of his left thigh and several ribs on the right side are fractured. Both men received deep cuts about the head. Mr. Wright regained consciousness at the hospital and dictated a cablegram to his brother at Le Mans, France, md requested that the same message be sent to his sister anil father at Dayton, 0., assuring them that he was ull right. Mr. Wright on Wednesday replaced the propellers which he has been us ing with' another pair, the blades of which are six inches longer. They were used for the first time in Thurs day's disastrous (light, and many who have witnessed Mr. Wright's flight* at Fort Myer believe the change of pro pellers caused the accident. An exam ination of the broken blade showed that it had been snapped off at a point one-fourth of the distance from the hub. A deep indentation in the broken piece indicated that it had struck some other part of the aeroplane. Octave Chanute, the father of aero nautics in America, who came to Washington several days ago for the purpose ot seeing Or\ill<; Wright's 'lights, examined the wreckage. He said that, if the Wrights had used but j .'ne propeller instead of two t lie re j suit would have been at least as se i l ions. Only Thursday morning Mr. Wright .ad been asked what the result would ! ' e if fit!" of his propellers broke whih ! lie machine was in (light. "The other ' I propelh-r would tend to turn the ma ; hine around," he said, "but. I would ; top the motor and glide to the earth." City Officials Invitee! Plague. St. Peti rsburg. Russia. Three lnindr <1 and five ca:;es and 115 death; from Asiath fhnl:;ru were reported lo: he"l hours nullng at noon Thur; ■ lay. The municipal administrations ,a;e uml-'T lire from it! l sides for their <-iiv.inal inefficiency in handling the "pidemi and for Ih ir iailttre to make adequate |»r 'paration for hospital, am bulance and sanitary devices. A 1 though they had ample warning of the 'oming of the disease, no effective steps w. re taken to stamp out th? scourge; even th» clemeiitar.\ precau tion 3 of disinfecting and cleaning wen neglect'd. Marshes are Ablaze. Laporte. Ind. —A wall of flame . mile long is sweeping through the Kankakee marshes, destroying everything in its path, it is feared that there will be a repetition of the !i:e r;f 1873, when the flames ate ten et into the earth. Big Registration in St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo. The registra lon if St. Louis vqtertfi for the presi j.tkil (!'.eticn dosed Thursday night tul Indicates that i'.ic roc; :d ha ; been .oken. ATTACKS FORAKER AND BRYAN W. R. HEARST MAKES SENSATION AL SPEECH AT ST. LOUIS. Tells of Money Paid to Foraker by Standard Oil Co. and Calls Bryan a Political Juggler. St. Louis, Mo. William Ran dolph Hearst, in a speech opening the Independence party's campaign In Missouri at the Odeon theater Friday night answered the reply of Senator Foraker to the letters read by Mr. Hearst in Columbus Thursday night and read two more letters purporting to have been written by John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil Co. to Foraker. ' The new letters, .Mr. Hearst said, refuted the contention of the Ohio senator that all his work for the Stand ard Oil Co. related solely to Ohio mat ters. The first letter follows: "New York, January 27, 1!»02. "My Dear Senator: —Responding to your favor of the 20th, it gives me pleasure to hand you herewith a cer tificate of deposit for $50,000, in ac cordance with our understanding. Your letter states the conditions cor rectly and I trust the transaction will be successfully consummated. Very truly yours, "J. D. ARCHBOLD." The second letter read by Mr. Hearst was as follows: "New York, February 25, 1902. "My Dear Senator: —I venture to write you a word as to the bill intro duced by Senator. Jones of Arkansas, known as S. B. intended to amend the act 'to protect trade and com merce against unlawful restraints and monopolies, etc.,' introduced by him December 4. "It really seems as though this bill is unnecessarily severe and even vicious. Ik it not much better to test the application of the Sherman act before resorting to a measure of this kind. I hope you will feel so about it and I will be greatly pleased to have a word from you on the subject. The bill is, I believe, still in committee. Yours very truly, "JOHN 1). ARCHBOLD." A good sized audience greeted Hearst when he began his speech, but approval of his utterances was by no means unanimous. Hisses were mingled with cheers when he assailed the Democratic party and Mr. Bryan. Mr. Hearst devoted a portion of his speech to Gov. C. N. Haskell of Okla homa. treasurer of the Democratic na tional committee, whom he charged with having served the Standard Oil Co. To the defense of Mr. Haskell that another Mr. Haskell was involved, Mr. Hearst replied with affidavits al leged to have been made by ex-Attor ney General Monnett of Ohio and As sistant Attorney General Bennett of that state, in which the name of C. N. Haskell distinctly appears. Mr. Hearst gave his reasons for leaving the Democratic party. "Mr. Bryan," he said, "is a shell man at a county fair, executing a shell game. Where is the little ball of free silver, of public ownership, of the referendum? Gone. "Air. Bryan is an astounding juggler. He balances on one hand Belmont, the union labor breaker, and on the other, Gonipers, union labor leader. ".Mr. Bryan is a political loose skin man. You cannot tell whether he is coming or going." Chicago. 111. —Gov. Haskell of Okla homa gave out a statement Fri day night denying that he had ever had anything to do with the Standard Oil Co. as charged by Air. Hearst at Co lumbus. "It is true that a Air. Haskell was mentioned in the records," said Gov. Haskell, "but instead of being 1 it was \V. C. Haskell, a former United States marshal at. Cleveland, and now an em ploye of the District of Columbia. Frank S. Monnett, former attorney general of Ohio, knowing this to he true, came all the way to Oklahoma last year to exonerate me during my campaign." BUSINESS BULLETIN. Gradual Improvement Is Noted, a Number of Factories Having Resumed Work. New York City.—ll. G. Dun & Ce.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Gradual improvement in the com mercial situation is encouraging, al though the volume of trade has not expanded in proportion to the growth of confidence. Resumption of work at manufacturing plants is the best evi dence of progress, the number of unemployed steadily, though slowly, diminishing. Scarcity of water is an adverse influence at several points. Peveial returns for the last week ex hibited little or no loss as compared with similar figures tor 1907. Steel mills have more business in sight, although ii is believed that many large undertakings will not be closed until after the election. Plans are numerous, however, and much of the contemplated work will materialize. A current fat n.r of va!ue is the increased demand by railways for both rolling.' stock and equipment. Careless Nurse Caused Three Deaths. San Diego, Cal. The careless ness of a nurse in leaving water con taining atropine where it was accident ally ii.-ed in taking medicine lias caused three deaths among patients at the county hospital. A fourth death i.; exp 'cted. Cholera Appears at Odessa. Od ssa, Russia. — The cholera whr b Is raging throughout Russia hrs in v,\ded Ihi 3, the inot.t important port ." ih( Muck Sea. &cvea P* r on;-; h s»'< .'I. d ( 112 tli dist are. GHANLER WILL OPPOSE HUGHES NEW YORK STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION NOMINATES A TICKET. J. A. DIX GETS SECOND PLACE. All But One of the Candidates Choser. * Were Nominated by Acclama tion McCarren Op posed Farley, Rochester, N. Y. —Following (a the> Democratic state ticket: For Governor, LEWIS STUYVESANT CHANLER.. Lieutenant Governor, JOHN A. DIX. Secretary of State, JOHN S. WHALEN. State Treasurer, JULIUS HAUSER. Comptroller, MARTIN 11. GLYNN. Attorney General, GEORGE M. PALMER. State Engineer and Surveyor, PHILIP P. FARLEY. Justice of the Court of Appeals, ALBERT HAIGHT. Nominating all but one of its candi dates by acclamation and adopting a. platform which arraigns the adminis tration of Gov. Hughes and pledges earnest support to the Denver plat form and candidates, the Democrats state convention on Wednesday nomi nated as the head of its ticket for gov ernor the present lieutenant gover nor of the state, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler of Duchess county. All op position to Chanler disappeared after a conference of the state leaders which occupied a greater part of Tues day night. The ticket decided upon by rt«»* lead era with one exception seemed to meet the approval of all the delegates, and the nominations were made with great enthusiasm until the office of state engineer and surveyor was reached. The conference candidate for this office was Philip I\ Farley of Brooklyn, an anti-McCarren man. Sen ator McCarren took the platform "to resent an insult." iie declared the nomination of Far ley was agreed to without any regard to the Kings county delegation and was intended to embarrass them. Mr declared he would always support Democratic nominees, but would not hold himself responsible for the action of people who felt themselves in sulted. Parley won on a roll call, but a mo tion to mal<e the nomination unani mous was lost by two or thr -e scat tering negatives. Tile platform says: The Democracy of New York, in statf convention assembled, reaffirms and re news its allegiance and devotion to th«- fundamcntal principles of the Dt-mucrHtin party and heartily endorses the platform adopted and (lie candidates nominated by the Democratic national convention at Denver, and we pledge to both our hearty, earnest and enthusiastic support. The Republican state administrations since David B. Hill's term as governor are accused of gross wastefulness, and it Is demanded that the public expenditures shall he so safeguarded that sinecures shall be abolished, that economy shall be practiced In every public department, and that the business of the people be. trans acted 011 the line on which successful private enterprises are conducted. The promises of reform upon which the present governor was elected, the platform alleges, have not been kept. Wer point as proof of this fact to the expendi tures of 1!IU7, which are larger than the e- travagunt sums expended under the predecessors of l!«v. Hughes. We cliurgtr him with the responsibility for this was to find with giving his time to the pursuit of spectacular methods and self-advcrtis ing Issues, rather than to the work of re form and retrenchment, upon the prom ise of which he was elected governor tw years ago. We insist that in this most important feature of his administration he has been derelict and remiss. Instead of cutting off the tax eaters from t! list of officeholders, he has caused ni*;v one> to be added to it, and in the two public service commissions, which have been brought into existence at his dictation, lie has created officeholders who have woefully failed to better the condition ol affairs < onlided to their charge. \Ve believe that government of the siali by commissions Is only another evidence of the Republican policy of centralization and is in direct opposition to the principle of gr>v. rnmi nt by the people. We are opposed to all sumptuary i uis lati' a and we believe that the people are best governed who ale least go\ ■ enieil. We favor the election of I'nitod Kates senators by direct \ote of the people. The dictation of the nomination of his sueeesv rand of the nominee for gover nor of the state by the present federal chief executive we resent as a dangerous precedent. Tl:> i sample of personal government n» tlii federal capital has been clo-i.»|y fol lowed al the state capital and the vita qia -llon is "shall the people ru and govern themselves. Asked for a Recount. Lansing, .Mich.—-Gov. Wartior ami Dr. Bradley, the Republican can didates for the nomination for gov ernor at ihe recent state primary, liave asked the state canvassing board for a recount of the votes cast in sev eral cities. Says Rcretin Belonged to Suicide Club. Omaha, Neb. —An attorney on, ;uoyi <i by inter':-;: connected "vitl t.'." Bur,tin cast says he bas < i i*■ u <. tending to show that Dr Ru ), 1.:. .edto a : : ui !de club.
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