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This store is the home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes, Dunlap hats, Nettleton shoes, Cluett shirts. e e e ) hpsoampess SAMPLINERS... }ODo As They e« Advertise... . W A S SST AP A e . e g S S INP bk A 9 \ - FRIDAY'S SPECIALS A BIG SNAP. A 12-oz. glass jar Orange 15¢ A 12-oz. glass jar Apricot 15¢ Marmalade; reg. 23¢; CMarmalade; reg. 25¢; A 16-oz. glass jar Orange; Two jars for $1 Jell-O BAILEY'S CASH STORE Junction 207-208 of Odd Fellows Building IN STARTLING SPEECH TODAY PRESIDENT TAFT, HIS BROTHER AND WICKERSHAM ATTACKED (Continued from page one.) To my fellow citizens: I am well aware that the offense of lese majesty has been fully recognized here by insurgents and regulars alike on the other side of this chamber, and I have been adjudged guilty of it, but I propose to again render myself liable to the same charge. In the early days of the republic, the old rule prevailed that a man in public life must be above suspicion; the rule now is that you must not suspect." The annals of congress he said would be searched in vain to find another message by a president advising against a congressional investigation. And similar facts. Going into the details of tariff legislation, Mr. Rainey declared that the sugar trust had employed the methods of the “Standard Oil Monopoly,” in attempting to centralize the production of sugar far beyond the boundaries of the United States. By manipulating legislation, he said they had crushed the Spreckels Co., and possessed themselves of the sugar supply of Hawaii. All the time, he said, the trust was contributing to the Republican campaign fund, and when deemed advisable, it gave to the Democratic party. Cuban annexation or independence, he said, depended upon the interests of the trust in exploiting the raw sugar of that island. When the purposes of the trust could be served best by the annexation of Cuba, he declared a revolution would be started in that island. The free admission of 300,000 tons of Philippine sugar, he insisted, was but a move to help swell the coffers of the sugar monopoly. Coming down to the building of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refinery in Philadelphia in 1903 by Adolph Seagal he showed how that concern, created to be sold to the sugar trust, had by a process of lending money for its completion drifted into the control of the trust. Being sued by the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Co., he said, it became necessary for the trust to engage additional counsel, and they turned to the firm of Strong and Cadwalader, “one of those important New York City legal firms to which great corporations appeal for aid when they propose to violate the laws of the land or when they have violated the laws of the land." Citing the names of this firm as including those of George W. Wickersham and Henry W. Taft he again gave the list of the firm after President Taft's inauguration when Mr. Wickersham had become attorney general and Henry W. Taft had been moved up from fourth to second place in the list of members. When the case of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Co., against the trust came up on March 20, 1908, in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, Wickersham, now a judge, was on the bench. The Ross Hardware & Supply Co. Sam weavers. HARDWARE for HARD WEAR. Some say the same - some say different. THE GRAND JUNCTION DAILY SENTINEL THE BANK ROBBERS GOT OVER $10,000 [BY Associated Press.] - SPRING CITY, TENN., APRIL 11. —ROBBERS BLEW OPEN THE VAULT OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT THIS PLACE EARLY TODAY AND ESCAPED WITH MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. BLOODHOUNDS HAVE BEEN PLACED ON THEIR TRAIL. Rio Grande Train WAS WRECKED TODAY [Special to The Sentinel.] Pueblo, Colo., April 14. — The Denver & Rio Grande Alamosa flyer was wrecked this morning about 3:30 o'clock at a point near La Veta. Two sleepers left the track and one rolled over in the ditch. One man was badly hurt while all of the other passengers were badly shaken up. A broken rail is said to have caused the trouble. H. W. Kluge, the well-known Palisade business man, was in town today. He has just returned from a very extended visit in California for the benefit of his health. He returns home much improved. Dr. Charles Cash today received word from Leon McReynolds, the popular actor, to the effect that he would be back in Grand Junction for a short visit, in a week or two. His many friends will be pleased to hear of his return. District of New York the name of Henry W. Taft he said appeared as counsel for the sugar trust. “This situation,” he said, “discloses the fact that in the hour of their greatest stress the managers of this most infamous of all corporations were as resourceful as ever. Matters had been so arranged that a sugar trust lawyer became attorney general of the United States, and the brother of the president of the United States became openly one of the attorneys for the sugar trust.” He was aware, he said, that the attorney general had had read into the Congressional Record a statement denying that he had been an attorney for the sugar trust. “It may be that the attorney general was not consulted in this suit, and it may be that he did not render any service in connection with it,” said Mr. Rainey. “But the attorney general has not yet stated how the enormous fee the firm of Strong and Cadwalader received was divided. Did the attorney general refuse to accept any portion of it? The country would like to know. He neglected in his letter to state that the partner to whom he refers, the member of the firm of Strong and Cadwalader who was active in the defense of the American Sugar Refining company in these cases, was the brother of the president of the United States. I submit that the attorney general ought not to seek to avoid even an inactive connection with this infamous trust by throwing the entire burden and disgrace of such connection upon the brother of the president of the United States. But he continued on June 27, 1909, the attorney general wrote to John S. Wise, United States district attorney for the Southern District of New York, a letter which Mr. Ruland thought should go into the Congressional Record, although already published elsewhere. In this letter Mr. This text is a work in progress. Wickersham suggested to Mr. Wise, in respect to the sugar fraud cases, that "a strong effort will be made to persuade the president to interfere in some way to prevent the indictments." "I respectfully contend," concluded Mr. Rainey, "that the republican majority in this House can not afford to longer delay a congressional investigation; and the millionaire malefactors who control the sugar trust and who are responsible for the perpetration of these gigantic frauds ought to be held up to the contempt of the country. In Pittsburgh they have learned how to reach the men higher up. They simply propose immunity to the men whose conviction is not important but who are only tools in the hands of the principal malefactors. And as a result, minor city officials were a few days ago turning by scores in Pittsburgh to the office of the prosecuting attorney and filing their stories, implicating the real criminals. And the time may not be far distant when men who pass in Pittsburgh as respectable citizens will pay the penalty to which their criminal conduct has rendered them liable. The attorney general of the United States, however, commences his investigation and ends with the unimportant officials and $18-a-week checkers, and the real persons guilty of the most colossal fraud in the history of our government are permitted to go about without punishment, without exposure, still posing as honest men, still willing and still able to contribute to the campaign funds of the republican party. ARNOLD S. HALL 530 PHONE OOF J. FRANZ OFFICES 263 DRY GOODS RENTAL ESTATE JEWELRY WATCH REPAIRING ALL WORK GUARANTEED. We are placing before the people this week some of the greatest bargains ever offered. Every item new and stylish; made of the very best of materials, and put together by the best of tailors. DON'T LET THIS OPPORTUNITY PASS. Another line of Hats in beautiful materials. New Elastic Belts, in black and straws; trimmed with the newest of colors; good values at 25¢. On ribbon, flowers, etc. These are certainly values. Special price. YA - Seven percent. Handsomer line of white lawns, in our assortment are beautiful lingerie and other materials; nicely trimmed with embroidery. Just the thing for summer wear. Values and styles, silk pongees; in fact, any kind up to $1.50. Sale price of skirts that are on the market. This means a money-saving to you. WHITE DRESSES - $5 WOOL SUITS $18. Shop at "Where Fashion Reigns"... Ladies' Bazaar. NO COMPETITIVE BIDS ASKED FOR Home Loan, $960 and $100 to furnish bonds. It will be remembered that at the sale, the usual tactics of bond houses, whose business it is to buy the bonds as cheaply as possible, consequently making as much profit as possible, were followed. Representatives of the various Denver houses, whom the commission seems to have so much confidence in, came to Grand Junction upon the day of the sale and used every possible influence to shut out bidders from outside the state. When they learned that bids were in from outside the state, they immediately got into telephone communication with their houses in Denver and began to revise their plans and bids. At 8 o'clock on the evening of the opening of the bids, the office of the school district was full of bidders. The representatives of three Denver houses came before the railing and begged and pleaded with the school board to reject all sealed bids, and throw the matter open to competitive bidding at auction. The board was advised, having advertised for bids, that they could not legally do this, and would not have done it in any event, because it was clearly apparent that there was an agreement between the bond-buying firms to get the bonds for less than they were worth. Finally, after a great deal of hesitation, they completed their bids, and James H. Causey & Company paid $1,394.50 premium, also accrued interest to date of delivery, cost of printing the bonds and the cost of their attorney's opinion, for a 5 percent bond of School District No. 1. This demonstrated most clearly the benefits of competitive bidding. It is only necessary to point to the examples set by the United States government, the city of New York, the city of Chicago, and all the great civic organizations, whose business calls upon them frequently to issue bonds, for support of the necessity of submitting same to bids. If Mr. Talbert's judgment is so good in the case of the city, why was his bid so far under others in the issue of school bonds last May? If Mr. Pudley is an expert on bonds, where was he or his institution last May when the school bonds were offered? If the city commission was so anxious to get the highest price possible, why was it that, ten days before the contract was consummated, Mr. Wright promised Mr. Sidlo of James N. Wright & Company, a bond house of Denver, a map showing the districts in which sewers were to be built and the paving to be done, and some necessary information from which they could make a bid, and then, without furnishing this information, turned around and completed the deal with Sweet & Company? The Sentinel is advised that there is a difference in the market value between the sewer and paving bonds and school-district bonds, but it is also advised that school-district bonds go to one market and the former bonds go to another. The bonds which have just been contracted for with Sweet & Company go to banks, trust companies, and insurance companies in the west as short-term obligations, while the school-district bonds go to estates and eastern institutions for long-term investments. The Sentinel contends that these bonds (and remember that the city has contracted with Sweet & Company for the sale of every bond it will issue during the next year for sewer and paving purposes, aggregating $175,000, according to present plans) if they had been advertised in a Denver paper would have been bought at par by Denver institutions who seek this class of investments. We are informed that Mr. Bucklin gives as a reason for this deal, that the bonds were not salable unless they were prepared by the attorneys for the bond house. Such was not the case with School District No. 1, who had their bonds prepared under the advice of their own attorneys. If Mr. Bucklin feels incompetent to take charge of the deals in bond issues on behalf of the city, we think there are other attorneys in Grand Junction who are competent, or the city can employ its attorneys who do the work for the bond houses. We ask an expression from the commission as to why it was necessary to pledge the credit of the entire city for the purpose of selling Sewer and paving-district bonds by special contract prepared by Sweet & Company’s attorneys, without the vote of the people; and if the commission and Mr. Bucklin think that the people of this city are getting a square deal on such a proposition in view of the cry made in favor of the charter that the charter was necessary to prevent star-chamber proceedings. NOTICE FOR BIDS. I will receive bids for construction and excavation for the current extension to the Kannah Creek High Line ditch at 309 Main Street until May 7, 1910. We reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Plans and specifications can be seen at the secretary's office. LAURENT EX. DITCH Frank J. Land Grand Junction people 100 Connell & Lowe for style and satisfaction in all kinds of footwear —_—_— Phone Junction 193 market, 537 Main Street— for poultry, oysters, fish, etc. —_—————— Plano moving a specialty Rarton & Terrill BUFF ORPINGTONS. Having secured two fine cockerels from the east, I will furnish eggs for hatchings at reasonable prices. Order early. L. R. Thompson, Eagle, Colo B. are known to be the best on the market today. After riding these high-clay varieties, you will be just as enthusiastic about them as we are. PLANET JR. ORCHARDS, TURKEYS are zaining fast, have only a few left. SHORT-TURN FARM TRUCKS AND ORCHARD TRUCKS—a car of these just arrived. 3-inch Studebaker Wagon reduced to $105. 