text: PR b o T Y WP ik TR (SR |la & S RN O TMRERY L gb e W < QSR. R e i 0 ks gt bSR P s ol O U R P »1 § ) Mo es v R | D Elae Ry bR e Bt B AL e v e "}x* AT g N g‘r‘ﬂﬂ FTRE. TR Tl oy @‘?"‘\ IR e T BN AL ﬁ*‘ﬁ‘ﬁ‘ém i aaieorie g x%;;“" 4 ﬁ{‘i‘}\ ‘)p,%. g A :‘\“j-;"- “:t’v"ﬁv \‘ P R T 4 »i o g b & Nf’“ S o R u{‘& i b AR A o iy 5 iy : ; HARRY 8, NEW, Of Ivdiana, He called the Convention to order. LIFE OF WILTIAM H. TAFT, Born of Distinguished Parentage He Had Every Opportunity for Success. In the campaign in support of William Howard Taft for the presidency, there was no opportunity to arouse popular enthusiasm by appeals to that sort of sentiment which finds its basis and inspiration in admiration for the man who comes from most humble beginnings to positions of eminence and trust. He did not follow the plow in his boyhood. He was no rail plitter idn his early manhood. He never trod the paths of the canal. He never pondered affairs of state and destiny while working at the mechanic's bench or while plying the tailor's needle. No eloquent campaign orator ‘can arouse enthusiastic crowds by pointing to Mr. Taft as an illustration of what may be accomplished by the poor boy who makes his own way in the world, becomes a ‘‘self-made man” and then is presented as a candidate for public support and public office. Mr. Taft began life with every advantage given to the son of affluence and refinement. It is, of course, to his credit that affluence and refinement did not spoil him, as so many boys in similar circumstances have been spoiled. His antecedents were of a line of scholars and careful, honest, money-making and successful professional gentlemen. His grandfather was an honored lawmaker and afterward even more honored judge in New England. When William H. Taft was born, his father had already attained a position of prominence at the bar in Ohio. The father, the Honorable Alfonso Taft, became a judge, went into Grant's cabinet and finally rounded out his public career in the diplomatic service, serving as minister to Austria and afterwards as minister to Russia. In 1874, young Taft entered Yale. As a matter of course, he was known, at first, merely as the son of one of the distinguished men of the nation. Soon, however, he established a record for himself as a young man of highest ability, sterling honesty and wide diversity of talent. Outside of his reputation as a young man, he was a man of high integrity and a man of high integrity. For a time, he gave considerable attention to athletics. But he had earned exemption from the more imperative demands of field sports and he became one of the most earnest and successful students. Just before he became of age, he finished his university course and was graduated second in a class. of 120 members. Mr. Taft entered at once upon the study of law, meantime securing a considerable amount of experience as reporter. He was graduated from the Cincinnati law school in 1880 and soon after entered upon the practice of his profession. From that time to this, his career has been a continued course of honor, success, and preferment. His first public office was the position of assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton county, Ohio. His subsequent offices were: Collector of internal revenue, judge of superior court, solicitor general of the United States under President Harrison, judge of the Sixth federal district, governor-general of the Philippines, finally becoming secretary of war January 1, 1904. In point of historic interest, the placing of Mr. Taft’s name at the head of the republican national ticket marks the practical closing of the public usefulness in high positions of the great majority of the soldiers of civil war days. In the relations of personal and domestic life, Mr. Taft is a model of all that is upright, honest, devoted, and loyal. He has a most interesting family and leads a life of most complete domestic happiness. In 1886, he married Miss Helen Herror, daughter of the Honorable John W. Herror, of Cincinnati. They have three children. Mr. Taft entered upon the canvass for the presidency equipped by his character, splendid physique, fine scholarship, broad experience in government affairs and intimate acquaintance with the duties of the position for which he aspires. He possesses the confidence of the country, as a man of high character, of purity of private life and remarkable success in his public career. While his nomination has been practically forced upon him, his party by President Roosevelt, there is not the least conclusive evidence that, were the matter left to the cool judgment of party leaders and decided upon the basis of popularity and availability, Mr. Taft would have succeeded in a race for the nomination. However, if Taft shall be elected, he is likely to make a good president, honest in purpose, persistent in effort, successful in a large share of Sidelights of the Convention. The name of Taft by Representative Burton passed almost without notice. One Ohio delegate made a feeble flicker with a flag, and said "Hello!" There were a few handclaps from the galleries, but in the South Carolina delegation a little girl, handsomely garbed in a light blue dress, was held aloft by T.L. Grant of that state. She waved a small national flag with each hand and caused an outburst of cheers. Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, brother of the secretary, mounted the step ladder leading to the stage the better to see the surging, yelling crowds of delegates as they passed in review. During the demonstration following his brother's nomination, he waved a flag at them and the beaming smile on his face plainly told his pleasure. C. B. McCoy, who nominated Senator Foraker, declared he is not too radical to be ungafe, nor too conservative to be progressive.” Hot words emphasized with menacing gestures passed between ex-Governor Herrick of Ohio and Governor Hanly as the latter descended the steps from the platform to take his seat after his interrupted speech. On being notified of his nomination, Mr. Taft said: “Words do not find themselves at a time like I do not deny that I am very happy. Mr. Taft was in his office at the war department when the telegram from the convention arrived. President Roosevelt was playing tennis with Assistant Secretary Bacon of the State Department when Secretary Loed took him the news of the nomination of Mr. Taft. Secretary Taft’s resignation as cabinet officer was received by President Roosevelt Friday to take effect July 1st. John Hays Hammond definitely withdrew from the race for vice president Thursday. A large pair of trousers made from the wool of an angora goat especially for William H. Taft, were carried through the hall by the Texas delegation. They were of generous proportion and bore a sign which read “Aspants the hart  California, George A. Knight; Colorado, Charles Cavender; Connecticut, Charles: F. Brooker; Delaware, T. Coleman Du- Pont; Florida, James N. Coombs; Georgia, Blank; Idaho, William E. Borah; Illinois, Frank O. Lowden; Indiana, Harry S. New; Iowa, Ernest E. Hart; Kansas, David W. Mulvane; Kentucky, Blank; Louisiana, John F. Hill; Maryland, William P. Jackson; Massachusetts, W. Murray Crane; Michigan, Jochn W. Blodgett; Minnesota, Frank B. Kellogg; Mississippi, L. B. Moseley; Missouri, Charles Nagel; Montana, Thomas C. Marshall; Nebraska, P. L. Flanigan; New Hampshire, Fred Estabrook; New Jersey, Franklin Murphy; New York, William L. Ward; North Carolina, Edward C. Duncan; North Dakota, James Kennedy; Ohio, A. I. Vorys; Pennsylvania, Boles Penrose; Rhode Island, Charles R. Brayton; South Carolina, John G. Capers; South Dakota, Thomas Thompson; Tennessee, Blank; Texas, Cecil A. Lyon; Utah, C. E. Loose; Vermont, James Broek; Virginia, Alvah H. Martin; Washington, Robert L. McConnick; West Virginia, N. B. Scott; Wyoming, George E. Paxton; Alaska, L. P. Shackelford; Arizona, W. S. Sturgis; District of Columbia, Sidney Bieber; Hawaii, A. G. M. Robertson; New Mexico, son of Jerome Jones of the Journal of Atlanta, Ga, introduced a resolution at the session of the Georgia Federation of Labor in session, praising President Roosevelt for his stand in the passage of the employers’ liability act and for what he has done for the union organization in general. One man was killed and many are reported to have been injured by an explosion that blew up the DuPont Powder company’s neutralizing plant at Louviers, twenty miles south of Denver. Several persons are also reported missing. M. F. Bramley of Cleveland, Ohio, who is the president of the Cleveland Trinidad Paving company, has pleaded guilty to three of seven indictments against him charging bribery of former members of the board of public service, in connection with the East Broad street paving contract, and was fined $500 on each, or a total of $1,165, including costs, which was promptly paid. Thomas Hagen of Hage, a marine stationed at League Island navy yard, was killed by a blow over the heart in a six-round bout with “Johnny” Hagen, a local pugilist, on board the battleship Mississippi. James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States, addressed 500 members of the graduating class of the University of Wisconsin. His subject was, “University Recollections in After Life.” The Russian duma firmly reasserted its rights in governmental financial matters recently and passed a vote of disapproval in the issuance by M. Kokovso, minister of finance, of an international loan of $83,000,000 last January without legislative sanction. One American and three foreigners are dead and one American and five foreigners injured as the result of an explosion at the Ellsworth coal mine No. 1, near Pittsburg, Pa. The accident, it is said, was caused by a foreigner. Entering the mine with a lighted torch, complete returns of the nomination of the candidate for United States senator from Oregon give H. M. Cake, republican, 70,899, and George Chamberlain, democrat, 52,421. The anti-Japanese boycott is still being strongly maintained. The government has prohibited meetings at restaurants called for the purpose of discussing the question of self-government and similar objects. Spirit-driven and believing that death is only an earthly manifestation of the entrance into the real world of spirits, Mrs. Alida Pittman, suffering under the delusion that she had received a message from the spirit world to kill herself, drank a quantity of carbolic acid with fatal effect at Washington, D.C. Two thousand officers and delegates of the International Association of Sunday Schools in session at Louisville, Ky., elected John Stites of Louisville, Ky., president, succeeding J.J. McClaren of Toronto, Ont. An enrollment increase of a million scholars was reported. Despite the preventive measures taken by the authorities, wild disorder and rioting is threatened in connection with the lockout of 1,060 men by the Milano Paper company of Fabrian, Ohio. They complain that the demands of their employees were exaggerated. Gilbert Wadsworth Marnard, well known to the Masonic fraternity of Chicago and the United States, died at his residence in Chicago, Ill., after a lingering illness of several months. Heart disease was the cause of his death. An injunction has been granted restraining the police from interfering with betting at Sheepshead Bay. John W. Riddle, the American am bassador to Russia, who entered a hospital at St. Petersburg. “with a threatened attack of pneumonia, has been pronounced by his physician to be convalescent, . Claiming that the National Glass company of Pittsburg, Pa, had de faulted in the payment of interest on 600,000 worth of bonds, the Union Trust company of Pitisburg has made a demand .on the United States court for the property of the concern, un der foreclosure proceedings. Washington. , The following transfers and prome ‘tions in the positions of seeretaries in the diplomatic corps have been an nounced at the state department: John W. Garrett of Maryland, second secretary of the embassy at Berlin, to Rome as first secretary of the eme bassy—a promotion. R. S. Hitt of Il nois, secretary at Rome, to Beriin, and Joseph G. Drew of Massachusetts, third secretary at St. Petersburg, te Berlin, THREE SUCGESSFUL FLIGHTS. Made by Latest American Flying Ma. chine—lnventor Sees Experiments. Hammondsport, N. 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Cures and tones up weakened liver and bowels. Makes rich, red blood. Goodfellow young and old. Sold by druggists everywhere. 50 LAMAR, TAYLOR & RILEY DRUG CO. -1} Do S Macon, Georgia cE “T s( Woman and Business TRIAL AT, TR By Robert Brodnax Glenn, Governor of South Carolina North Carolina. ADVISE every man who would be successful to listen to his wife’s counsel in business affairs. The woman who is really a man’s helpmeet is the one who is able to advise him on every serious problem that confronts him. But no woman can be a real companion who must spend all her time as cook and housekeeper. She ought to know about business and what is going on in the world. It is unreasonable of any man to expect his wife to meet his needs as a real companion if he does not provide the means for her to become so. A wife should have some leisure to study and develop herself along intellectual lines. A man who holds the opposite idea lowers the standard for wifehood and womanhood. And every girl and woman in the country should have a strict and thorough business education. No matter how fortunate a girl’s immediate circumstances, she should be given a complete business training. Let them be trained to be first-class stenographers, bank cashiers, professional nurses, bookkeepers—anything they. In the midst of talent for. But let their equipment be complete—as a man’s is. It is a dreadful mistake to leave a girl without any definite training whereby she may earn a livelihood in case of necessity. I believe the reason many women go into wrong paths in life is simply because they are helpless when thrown suddenly on their own resources. A knowledge of business is not likely to spoil any woman’s chances of winning a good husband. It would, on the contrary, increase her chances, in my opinion.—From The Home Magazine. The Philippines are a bunch of trouble gathered upon the western horizon of civilization. They are bounded on the west by hoodooism and smugglers, on the north by rocks and destruction, on the east by typhoons and monsoon and earthquakes. The climate is a deceptive combination of changes well adapted to raising cane, the soil is very fertile and large crops of insurrectos and treachery are produced. The inhabitants are very industrious; their chief occupations are rich building and making bolos. Their houses are made chiefly of bamboo and landscape. Filipino marriages are very impressive, especially the clause wherein the wife is given the privilege of doing as much work as her husband. Band desires. The chief amusements are cockfighting and stealing; the principal diets of fried rice, boiled rice, stewed rice, and rice. The animal of burden is the carabao and should a hundred mile journey be undertaken with this animal, the driver would die of old age before reaching his destination. EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR. By J. Hamilton AYERS, M. D. 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