ROOSEVELT’S LETTER
Campaign Issues Discussed by the
President.
VERY SEVERE ON HIS OPPONENTS.
President States That His Administration Has
Beea Misrepresented Outright—It Would
Be Disastrous, He Argues, to Absnlon a
Siogle One of His Policies—False Criticism,
He Says.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. (Special).—Pres-
ident Rooseveit's letter the
Republican nomination for the Presi
It is in
accepting
dency was made public here,
part as follows:
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 12,
Hon. J. G. Cannon, Chairman
Notification Committee:
My Dear Sir—I]
1004.
of the
accept the nomi
1
by the
tion and cordially
form adopted by it
letter there are certain po upon
which 1 desire to lay especial stress
It is difficult to find ou
ferances of our
the real issues upon
pose to wage this campaign.
unfair to say that, having abandone
most of the principles
they have insisted during
approve th
In
*
t
opponents what are
which
w hic
"
n
it
to
as to what
lieve and
assert their bel
fact, it is doubtful if
olutely to press
soon
a5
as they rai
from it and
S
the future
ment in the
carried it
A party
ally va
sues
united on \
threatens widespread
whole ¢ y :
govern
present
government
consister
spirit of
huma
at
awed
and,
in enfor
terstate Com
tion
have
for national
mtelligently ar
questions affectin
because of tl
tal in great co
When they {
sat
iasy
of the
for the first time opened a chs:
Government
adequately
fg society
iccumulats
the
n
of Capi-
yoratic
Democrats) speak
protection robbery, they f
must mean that it is imme
to enact a tariff designed to secure
the American wageworker the benefit
ns,
of
course
as
we desire to up in this coun
try. To tariff in
sense as robbery 3
face false.
From time to time schedules must
undoubtedly be rearranged and read
justed to meet the shifting needs of
the country, but this can with safety
|
this
n its
mitted to the cause of the protective
system
or any country has there been an
alike to workingman and
just passed,
The army as it is now is as small
as 1t can possibly be and serve its
purpose as an effective nucleus
The expenditures of the nation have
been managed in a spirit of economy,
as far removed from waste as from
niggardliness,
The public work of the United
States has never been conducted with
a higher degree of honesty and effi
ciency than at the present time. We
have known no party in dealing with
offenders.
Melba's Auto Kills Mas,
Paris (By Cable).-~Mme, Melba, the
distinguished singer, while driving an
automobile here, accompanied by her
two cousins, the Misses Walker, ran
over a man about Bg years old and
killed him instantly. The accident ve-
curred on the Boulevard Peroire,
Mme. Melba being on the way from
the Hotel Ritz to Versailles. The
chauffeur was not to blame. as the
old man got in the way of the auto
mobile while trying to escape being
run over by a cab.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
—
Domestic,
Forest firds are raging in the prin
cipal timber districts. of California
to leave for the East via Ogden were
canceled
Charles Michaels, a New York bo
keeper, committed suicide to avoid |
ing killed by the brother of a stenog
rapher with whom he had become en-
tangled.
William F. McMullen, the
tor of the “spot light” at the Iroquois
Theater, in Chicago, at the
the disaster, has disappeared.
Banker Eiland has returned to his
home, in Portales, N. M., with a story
of being held up by Mexican brigands
and held for a ransom.
The National Executive Board
advises the men
district to accept
proposed reduction.
New York police broke by
into the flat of Mrs. Ehzabetl
eK
oper
pera
n
Calder,
her husband's death
In a quarrel at Glenwood Springs,
Col, Sergeant Boyle shot and killed
- (ET: vin tY Cuca 2 , 0
It was officially denied that Judge
York
cam
The
steamer |
coast,
saved
I'he
new
Thrilling
1 at a
ordered
Ness, has
+11
will
confined in
be
nn
igham of
Acting an i
: ’ .
Speake
Alabama, and garcuit Judge
% 3
nave taken : inve
lynching negro
untsvil
The
te
steps the
the
le, Ala
Treasu Department has
pay ize money to Admiral
Dewey and officers and men who
participated the naval battle
ehh
stigale
Mables in
he
at
A mob of Italians on the East Side
who had run over two chi
ing one of them
‘4 tit}
idren, kill
Foreign.
The Protestant provincial newspa
Prince's betrothed retaining her Cath-
olic name Cecilia after her marriage
All the newspapers of St. Peters-
Mirsky
terior.
The proposed visit of King Alfonso
of Spain to President Loubet
France has been postponed
spring.
An operation for an affection of the
glands was performed on Coquelin
the elder in Paris
Russia is reported to be opposed to
the proposed annexation of Crete.
The Russian Minister of the Inter.
ior says no reports of extensive anti
Jewish disturbances in several of the
governments of Southwest Russia
have been received. The only recent
disturbance, it is added, wae a small
affair at Biela, near Kieff, in which
no one was killed,
Work on the great Simplon tunnel,
in Italy, has been suddenly stopped
by the striking of a hot spring flowing
1,500 gallons a minute,
Louis Deibler, who directed the
guillotine of Paris for 20 years, died
at Anteil, at the age of 81,
to the ministry of the in-
RUSSIANS IN TIGHT PLACE
Reported That !” 900 Are Surreuzded By
the Japanese.
Reports of the Evacuation of Lisoysng
Wretched Condition of the Russian Soldiers
After Their Long Flight From Lisoyaog
Through Mud and Mire Thousands of Them
Shelterless in the Terrific Rainstorms.
While reg
i Peters.
rts received at St
forces
off
which ar- |
Japanes«
to
rg state that the
abandoned the attempt head
neral Kuropatkin's army,
. * i
at Mukden, the move-
mies
three arm
again veiled in
German correspondent at
mystery
Russian gation of
ng
Express says Kuropat
livided into five col
has reached
orth of Mukde
Mukden
Mukd
cva
DrORress
prog:
first
i at
Kuroki in
the fifth,
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TRAIN FELL INTO RIVER.
Czgloe and Ceaches on Seaboard Air Line
Plunges Through Trestle,
Charlotte, N. C, (Special)
after 1 o'clock A. M
Air 1
~-Shortly
41
No. 41 on
} oi ‘ :
Railroad con
train
the Seaboard
isting of
A fs » i ’
Iwo day c« aches and a |
ine
an express car, a mail
ull
“fF wa ley { {
€r, Was deralied at a trestle
of the Catawba rive
and 22 miles so
C., followed by
uthw
the
y
nd
and caboose,
engine
death of 4 persons ar
35 others,
J M
general manager of the
Barr, first vic
was evidence «
wreck the 1
tempt to
J having
{ ints
nected
He gave the following
“Train No. 41 '
Richard West
Mears 1 ne Ww
ut 1 oclock at the trestle
{ been
Was
re
f Catawba River, Sout!
miles southwest
engine passed
embangkn
lored Fireman Ed R
ing Ce
seriously
Weary Russisns Lay Down in Mud.
» 5 tv
toerihare x { i 3
Peters # Hy Laie}
I:
i it
tely established that
mine tired tr
ed on Weds
tseiera
remainder
march to
Japanese coul
flanks and try tc retreating |
! he «
but they
shots g
columns from the hills
4
are still in ontact,
exch
late «
even anging
A Mukden
of
spatch cent from
rrible phght
shelterless id
the he
1
and
the
iere. 1 he
the 880% |
approximate 20,000, against 30,000 |
Told to Stop Raids.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). —The |
the instructions to the Ruseian gov.
cated to the volunteer fleet steamer
Petersburg in South African waters.
is no news of the Smolensk,
which 1s to receive similar instruc.
tions. The instructions sent to the
steamers are understood to have been
delivered through a Russian and not
through a foreign agency, and reached
them both, it is stated here, at a
known rendezvous off the African
coast
Thieves Loot a Postoffice.
Charlotte, N. C. (Special). —Burg-
lars made a raid on Yadkinville, Yad:
kin county. They blew open the safe
of County Treasurer J. A. Logan in
his store and secured between $8000
and $10,000. The safe in the poftoffice
was also blown open. Postmaster
Mackie reports that over $410 was
stolen. The burglars secured ‘tools
from a blacksmith shop in the town
County Treasurer Logan offers a re
ward of $2,000 for the capture of the
burglars and money.
runmng
» ed f CyveY
Work.
| Packing lodusuy for Two Months
A Desperate Battie at Green Shoals, Guan
River, W. Va.
Huntington, W. Va. (Special) —As
a result of
nding bill
attempt
an
long wn
by a
feated— 53,000 People lavolved in Strike
The Loss in Wages $5,100,000.
Answer to United Stages snd (rest Britain
Concerning Contraband.
vicholas, together
1at 1 transmitted
Benkendorff showing
of the British government
The Russian F
te nt
with in
Ambassa
the
by
reign
pected
{ to the British gov
sf, Sir Charles
through
nge, the British
sia, Thursday
Russian government
sf
ambassador to
the formal reply of the
It t
wd in official circles here that
while not acknowledging
is
S314 herself
ships in the past, will more sg
the conditions under
cotton, become, in her view,
and
The British Foreign Office is satis
contra
it that such substantial concessions
will be made by Russia as will Jead to
an casy settlement of the vexatious
question.
Boxer Uprising Feared.
Bloomington, Ill, (Special)
Mclean county missionaries who
have been spending their vacations
here have received orders to go back
to China, as another Boxer uprising
is on in the district to which they were
assigned. Their headquarters have
been burned and their personal pro.
perty has been stolen or destroyed,
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FINANCIAL.
we Six
the inside house in
He has bought the
Bachman is
Warwick Steel,
stock this week.
Tube manufacturers reduced the
price $5 a ton owing to the cut in
steel,
There is an estimated short inter.
est of 1,000,000 shares of United States
Steel. No wonder the stock rises,
Uncle Sam’s August cotton report
makes the condition B41 compared
with a ten-year average of 73.2
FOUR DEAD IN WRECKS.
sylvania
10 KRansa
freight cars
baggage
were dera:l
ng ca
ightly damaged
train immediately made
passengers were taken
soon as possible
The dead
wrecked the
passenger
notive, the
smoker
and char On
of the
i
i
i
i
re left th
sleeg {
Was oniy sj
Was
ais
Care
yo
are Expressman Thomas
Danish nationality
The injured include, W. 1
Washington, D. C
fully bruised about the body
Altoora., Pa. (Special).—A freight
wreck occurred at Kittanning Point
| about 10:30 P. M., in which two men
were killed, four injured and a number
of cars wrecked. The killed are En-
gincer William Boardman and a
breaksman, name not given,
Babeox k.
who was pain-
Batted Ball Kills Bey.
Chicago (Special). Wendell Mil
{ ler, 12 years old, son of George M
Miller, president of Ruskin University,
at Glen Ellyn, Ill, was killed by a
batted ball while watching a base-
ball game. Miller was sitting in the
grand stand when the ball struck him
on the temple. He died in three min.
utes.
Weman Leaps From Train
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (Special) —-Mre
H. E. Remmers, en route from Dans
forth, lil, to Germany with her hus.
band, jumped from a New York Cen-
tral express train eight miles north
of this city and was killed. The coro:
ner says the woman committed sui.
cide Her husband says she had been
acting strangely for several days. The
body was brought to this city. Mrs
Remmars was nearly 80 years old
o ERE oak Roa ee
PANAMA BOLNDARY LINE
Migister Barrett Will Tey to Avoid Friction
With Colombis.
THE ART OF HOUSEKEEPING.
An Importast Work lnstituted By the Chicago
Board of Education.
ne of the board mem-
a course of study in
just completed
SUDerYvisog of the mar
i : 1
| 3
fer
deg
Sew ing,
ra and household arte
f
rte
ch
ir
ment, after a vear's work, and wh
been ¢ ¢ the
different branc
and
ver
has it te teachers
the
3 RY will he
new system.
Juding the chem.
of he leaning. al will be
taken up. The cla in sewing will
be taught how tch, to make but.
itonholes, 10 sew buttons, to darn
and hemstitch., Then they will
| given instroaction cutting and mak-
img garments. Finally they will be
{told how to shop, how to select suita-
{ble material and how to calculate the
{AaMOounts necessary,
Miilion-Dotlar Fire
(Special) Fire
wiped out an entire block of business
houses occupied by firme engaged in
the general merchandise business,
The loss is estimated at from $1,000,
000 to $1,200,000, with but little ine
surance. The burned territory com
sists of the square two blocks south of
the water front and facing one of the
principal plazas directly opposite the
customhouse
Cooking
taught,
House sanitation
together b the
istry IEE £0
to be
m
Progreso, Mexico,
Two Kitied ln a Wreck.
Birmingham, Ala, (Special). Two
men were killed and another seriously
injured in a wreck on the Southern
Railroad, between Dogwood and Wil-
ton, on the Birmingham and Selma
division, The train was running 0
miles an hour when the engine jumps
ed the track and struck the crossties,
turning completely over, crushing the
engineer beneath it. Several other
employes on the road are said 10 have
| been bruised but not seriously burt