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WILLIAM J. BRYAN'S NEW YORK SPEECH.

William J. Bryan returned from his journey around the world Aug. 29, 1906, and on the evening of Aug. 30 delivered a speech in Madison Square Garden, New York, giving his political views in detail. Among other things he advocated the ownership of railroad trunk lines by the federal government and of the local lines by the several state governments; the placing on the free list of articles controlled by trusts, the surrender of the Philippines, the passing of an income-tax law and the election of United States senators by the people. His remarks on the railroad question were as follows:

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"I have already reached the conclusion that railroads partake so much of the nature of monopoly that they must ultimately become public property and be managed by public officials in the interest of the whole community, in accordance with the well-defined theory that public ownership is necessary where competition is impossible. I do not know that the country is ready for this change. I do not know that a majority of my own party favor it, but I believe that an increasing number of the members of all parties see in public ownership the sure remedy for discrimination between persons and politics and for the extortionate rates for the carrying of freight and passengers. Believing, however, that the operation of all the railroads by the federal government would result in a centralization which would all but obliterate state lines, I prefer to see only the trunk lines operated by the federal government and the local lines by the several state governments.

"Some have opposed this dual ownership as impracticable, but investigation in Europe has convinced me that it is entirely practicable. Nearly all the railroads of Germany are owned by the several states, the empire not even owning the trunk lines, and yet the interstate. traffic is in nowise obstructed. In traveling from Constantinople to Vienna one passes through Turkey, Bulgaria,

Servia, Hungary and a part of Austria without a change of cars, and yet each country owns and operates its own roads and different languages are spoken on the different divisions of the line. Sweden and Norway each owns its railroads, but they have no trouble about interstate traffic, although their political relations are somewhat strained.

The ownership and operation of the local lines by the several state governments is not only feasible, but it suits itself to the conditions existing in the various states.

"As to the right of the governments, federal and state, to own and operate railroads there can be no doubt. If we can deepen the water in the lakes and build connecting canals in order to cheapen railroad transportation during half of the year, we can build a railroad and cheapen rates the whole year; if we can spend several hundred millions on the Panama canal to lower transcontinental rates, we can build a railroad from New York to San Francisco to lower both transcontinental and local rates. The United States mail is increasing so rapidly that we shall soon be able to pay the interest on the cost of trunk lines out of the money which we now pay to railroads for carrying through mails.

"If any of you question the propriety of my mentioning this subject, I beg to remind you that the president could not have secured the passage of the rate bill had he not appealed to the fear of the more radical remedy of government ownership, and nothing will so restrain the railroad magnates from attempting to capture the interstate-commerce commission as the same fear. The high-handed manner in which they have violated law and ignored authority, together with the corruption discovered in high places, has done more to create sentiment in favor of public ownership than all the speeches and arguments of the opponents of private ownership."

THE HAYWOOD MURDER TRIAL IN IDAHO.

Frank Steunenberg, former governor of Idaho, was killed by a bomb as he was entering the gateway of his home in Caldwell. Idaho, on the night of Dec. 30. 1905. He had been prominent in suppressing disorders caused by a strike of miners in the Coeur d'Alene district, and had made many enemies, particularly through calling in troops and proclaiming martial law. This brought him into conflict with the Western Federation of Miners, and many threats against his life were made. It was not, however, until about six years after the strike troubles were ended and after he had returned to private life that he was killed. The first man arrested for the crime was Harry Orchard, a former member of the federation and a miner, and then Stephen Adams, a companion, was caught. James McPartland, a Pinkerton detective, who had been instrumental many years before in breaking up the Molly Maguire gang in Pennsylvania, secured a confession from Orchard, and on the strength of this the officials of Idaho and Colorado caused the arrest in Denver, Col., on the night of Feb. 19, 1906. of Charles H. Moyer, William D. Haywood and Charles H. Pettibone, president, secretary and executive committeeman, respectively, of the Western Federation of Miners. Requisition papers had already been granted and the men were placed on a special train and taken

to Boise, Idaho, to await trial. A great outery was raised against the method of their arrest and removal from Colorado and various labor organizations throughout the country raised funds for their defense. President Roosevelt early in 1907 added to the excitement by describing the defendants as "'un desirable citizens, it being claimed that he was thereby prejudicing the case.

The cases against the accused men were separated and that against William D. Haywood was first tried. The selection of a jury was begun before Judge Fremont Wood May 9, 1907. Senator William E. Borah and State's Attorney James H. Hawley appeared for the prosecution and E. F. Richardson of Denver and Clarence Darrow of Chicago represented the defense. The jury was completed June 3; the state's case was closed June 27; the defense closed July 12, and the state's rebuttal ended July 19. The case was given to the jury July 27 and July 28 the jury returned a veridet of not guilty. The chief witness for the prosecution was Harry Orchard, who claimed that the officers of the Western Federation of Miners paid him to kill Steunenberg and to commit many other crimes in Colorado and Idaho in connection with the labor troubles in those states. Haywood was liberated as soon as the verdict was returned and Moyer was admitted to bail.

ANTI-EUROPEAN RIOTS IN INDIA.

As the result of inflammatory speeches made by native orators and of articles in the native press serious anti-European riots took place at Lahore, Rawalpindi and other places in the Punjab and in Bengal early in May. 1307. Considerable property was destroyed, but no lives were lost. authorities took energetic measures to quell the revolt, transporting the leaders to other provinces and increasing the military forces in the disturbed

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districts. The fact that just fifty years had elapsed since the great mutiny of 1857 led to some apprehension that a general uprising of the natives had been planned. The agitators aimed at self-government for the native states and eventual independence, but the riots were anti-Christian as well as anti-European. The most prominent leader in the movement was Lala Lajpat Rai, a prominent lawyer of the Punjab.

ELECTION CALENDAR.

GENERAL STATE ELECTIONS. Alabama-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 8, 1910. Arkansas-Biennially; first Monday in September. Next election Sept. 7, 1908.

California-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 8, 1910.

Colorado-Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Connecticut-State officers, except attorney-general, biennially; attorney-general quadrennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

Delaware-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

Florida-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

Georgia-Biennially; first Monday in October. Next election Oct. 5, 1908.

Idaho Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Illinois-Governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor and attorney-general every fourth year. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. State treasurer biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Indiana-Governor, every fourth year. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Other state officers bienn.aliy. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Iowa-Governor, lieutenant-governor,

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ent of instruction, one justice of the Supreme court and one railroad commissioner bien ialy. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Other state officers biennially in the alternate years. Next election Nov. 2, 1909. Kansas-Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Louisiana-Every fourth year; third Tuesday in April. Next election April 21, 1908. Maine-Biennially; second Monday in September. Next election Sept. 14, 1908.

Maryland-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 7, 1911.

Massachusetts-Annually. Next election Nov. 3,

1908.

Michigan-Biennially, Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Mississippi-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 7, 1911. Missouri-Principal state officers every fourth year. Next election of governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer and attorney-general Nov. 3, 1908.

Montana-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

Nebraska-Biennially.

Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Nevada-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 8, 1910.

New Hampshire-Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

New Jersey-Governor every third year, other officers appointed. Next election Nov. 8, 1910. New York-Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1903. North Carolina-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

North Dakota-Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

Ohio-Governor, lieutenant-governor, state treasurer and attorney-general biennially. Next election Nov. 2. 1909. Secretary of state and dairy and food commissioner biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Auditor every fourth year. Next election Nov. 7, 1911.

Oklahoma-Every four years; next election in 1910. Oregon-Every fourth year: first Monday in June. Next election June 6, 1910.

Pennsylvania-Governor, lieutenant-governor and secretary of internal affairs every fourth year. Next election Nov. 8, 1910. State treasurer biennially. Next election Nov. 2, 1909. Other officials appointed.

Rhode Island-Annually. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

South Carolina-Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

South Dakota-Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

Tennessee-Biennially.

Next election Nov. 3. 1908. Texas-Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Utah-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 3,

1908.

Vermont-Biennially; first Tuesday in September. Next election Sept. 1, 1908.

Virginia-Every fourth year. Next election Nov. 2, 1909.

Washington-Every fourth year. Next election
Nov. 3. 1908.

West Virginia-Every fourth year. Next election
Nov. 3, 1908.
Wisconsin-Biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.
Wyoming-Every fourth year. Next election Nov.
8, 1910.

CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY AND ILLINOIS. FIRST TUESDAY IN APRIL. Aldermen in Chicago (one from each ward) annually. Next election April 7, 1908. Mayor quadrennially, treasurer and city clerk biennially. Next election of mayor in 1911; of treasurer and city clerk in 1909.

Town officers, officers in cities containing one or more towns and officers in villages whose boundaries coincide with the boundaries of a town annually. Next election April 7, 1908.

THIRD TUESDAY IN APRIL.

Officers of cities organized under the general law (except such as contain within their limits one or more townships) annually. Next election April 21, 1903. Officers of villages organized under the general law (except where territorial limits coincide with the territorial limits of a township) annually. Next election April 21, 1908.

FIRST MONDAY IN JUNE. Judges of the Circuit court. (fourteen in Cook county) every sixth year, counting from 1873. Next election in 1909.

Judges of the Supreme court of the state, 5th district, every ninth year, counting from 1873 (next election in 1909); from the 4th district every ninth year, counting from 1876 (next election in 1909); from the 1st, 2d, 3d, 6th and 7th districts every ninth year, counting from 1879. Next election in 1915.

One judge of the Superior court of Cook county every sixth year, counting from 1903. Next eletion 1909.

FIRST TUESDAY AFTER FIRST MONDAY IN
NOVEMBER.

Presidential electors, governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor, attorney-general, state senators in even-numbered districts, members of the state board of equalization, clerk of the Superior court and recorder of deeds in Cook county, clerks of the Circuit courts, state's attorneys, county surveyors and county coroners every fourth year, counting from 1872. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

State treasurer, representatives in congress, representatives in the general assembly and three trustees of the University of Illinois every second year, counting from 1872. Next election Nov. 3, 1908.

Clerk of the state Supreme court every sixth year, counting from 1902. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Clerks of the Appellate courts every sixth year, counting from 1878. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Superintendent of public instruction, state senators in odd-numbered districts, clerk of the Criminal court in Cook county, county clerks, county judges, county treasurers, county superintendents of schools and sheriffs every fourth year, counting from 1874. Next election Nov. 8, 1910.

President and fifteen members of the Cook county board biennially. Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Five members of the board of assessors in Cook county every second year as terms (six years) expire. Two will be elected Nov. 3, 1908, one in 1910 and two in 1912.

Three members of the board of review in Cook county every second year as terms (six years) expire. One will be elected Nov. 3, 1908, one in 1910 and one in 1912.

Eleven judges of the Superior court of Cook county as terms (six years) expire. One will be elected in 1907, one in 1909, six in 1910 and four in 1911.

Nine sanitary district trustees in Cook county as

terms expire. Three are elected every other Next election Nov. 3, 1908. Next presiyear. dent to be elected in 1910. Twenty-seven judges, one chief justice, one clerk

and one bailiff of the Municipal court as terms expire. Nine judges will be elected Nov. 3, 1908. nine in 1910 and nine in 1912. The next chief justice will be elected in 1912.

NATIONAL NOMINATING CONVENTIONS SINCE 1880.

Place and date of each and names of nominees for president and vice-president in the order named: 1880-Democratic: Cincinnati, O.. June 22-24;

Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English. Republican: Chicago, Ill., June 2-8; James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.

Greenback: Chicago, Ill., June 9-11; James B. Weaver and B. J. Chambers.

Prohibition: Cleveland, O., June 17; Neal Dow and A. M. Thompson.

1884-Democratic: Chicago, Ill., July 8-11; Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks.

Republican: Chicago, Ill., June 3-6; James G.
Blaine and John A. Logan.

Greenback: Indianapolis, Ind., May 28-29; Ben-
jamin F. Butler and Alanson M. West.
American Prohibition: Chicago, Ill., June 19;
Samuel C. Pomeroy and John A. Conant.
National Prohibition: Pittsburg, Pa., July 23;
John P. St. John and William Daniel.
Anti-Monopoly: Chicago, Ill., May 14; Benja-
min F. Butler and Alanson M. West.
Equal Rights: San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 20;
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood and Mrs. Marietta L.

Stow. 1888-Democratic: St. Louis, Mo., June 5; Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman.

Republican: Chicago, Ill.. June 19; Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton.

Prohibition: Indianapolis, Ind., May 20; Clinton B. Fisk and John A. Brocks.

Union Labor: Cincinnati, O., May 15; Alson J.
Streeter and Samuel Evans.

United Labor: Cincinnati, O.. May 15; Robert
H. Cowdrey and W. H. T. Wak field.
American: Washington, D. C., Aug. 14; James
L. Curtis and James R. Greer.

Equal Rights: Des Moines, Iowa, May 15; Mrs.
Belva A. Lockwood and Alfred H. Love.
1892-Democratic: Chicago, Ill., June 21; Grover
Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson.

Republican: Minneapolis, Minn., June 7-10; Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid. Prohibition: Cincinnati, O., June 29; John Bidwell and J. B. Cranfill.

National People's: Omaha, Neb., July 2-5; James B. Weaver and James G. Field. Socialist-Labor: New York, N. Y., Aug. 28; Simon Wing and Charles H. Matchett. 1896-Democratic.. Chicago, Ill., July 7; William J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall.

Republican: St. Louis, Mo.. June 16; William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart.

People's Party: St. Louis, Mo., July 22; Wil-
liam J. Bryan and Thomas E. Watson.
Silver Party: St. Louis, Mo., July 22; William
J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall.

National Democratic: Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 2; John M. Palmer and Simon B. Buckner. Prohibition: Pittsburg, Pa., May 27; Joshua Levering and Hale Johnson.

National Party: Pittsburg, Pa., May 28; Charles
E. Bentley and James H. Southgate.
Socialist-Labor: New York, N. Y.. July 6;
Charles H. Matchett and Matthew Maguire.
1900-Democratic: Kansas City, Mo., July 4-6;
William J. Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson.
Republican: Philadelphia, Pa., June 19-21; Wil-
liam McKinley and Theodore Rooosevelt.
People's Party: Sioux Falls, S. D., May 9-10;
William J. Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson.
People's Party (Middle-of-the-Road): Cincinnati,
O., May 9-10; Wharton Barker and Ignatius
Donnelly.

Silver Republican: Kansas City, Mo., July 4-6;
William J. Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson.
Prohibition: Chicago, Ill., June 27-28; John G.
Woolley and Heniy B. Metcalf.
Socialist-Labor: New York, N. Y., June 2-8;
Joseph P. Malloney and Valentine Remmel.
Social Democratic Party of the United States:
Rochester, N. Y., Jan 27; Job Harriman and
Max S. Hayes

Social Democratic Party of America: Indianapolis, Ind., March 6; Eugene V. Debs and Job Harriman.

Union Reform: Baltimore, Md., Sept. 3; Seth
W. Ellis and Samuel T. Nicholson.
1904-Democratic: St. Louis, Mo., July 6-9; Alton
B. Parker and Henry G. Davis.

Republican: Chicago, Ill., June 21-23; Theodore
Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks.
People's party: Springfield, Ill.. July 4-6;
Thomas E. Watson and Thomas H. Tibbles.
Prohibition: Indianapolis, Ind., June 29-July 1;
Silas C. Swallow and George W. Carroll.
Socialist-Labor: New York, N. Y., July 3-9;
Charles H. Corregan and William W. Cox.
Socialist-Democratic Party of America: Chicago,
Ill., May 1-6; Eugene V. Debs and Benjamin
Hanford.

Continental: Chicago, Ill., Aug. 31; Charles H. Howard and George H. Shibley. (Nominees declined and Austin Holcomb and A. King were substituted by the national committee.)

INLAND WATERWAYS COMMISSION.

Appointed by President Roosevelt March 16, 1907. Theodore E. Burton, chairman; Francis G. Newlands, William Warner, John H. Bankhead, Alexander Mackenzie, J. W. McGee, F. H. Newell, Gifford Pinchot, Herbert Knox Smith.

In a letter addressed to the members of the commission President Roosevelt declares that the time has come for merging local projects and uses of the inland waters in a comprehensive plan designed for the benefit of the entire country. The railroads, he asserts, are no longer able to move the crops and manufactures rapidly enough to secure the prompt transaction of the business of the nation, and there appears to be but one complete remedy-the development of a complementary system of transportation by water. The president's letter continues:

"The present congestion affects chiefly the people of the Mississippi valley, and they demand relief. When the congestion of which they complain

is relieved the whole nation will share the good results.

"Any plan for utilizing our inland waterways should consider floods and their control by forests and other means; the protection of bottomlands from injury by overflows and uplands from loss by soil wash; the physics of sediment-charged waters and the physical or other ways of purifying them; the construction of dams and locks, not only to facilitate navigation but to control the character and movement of the waters, and should look to the full use and control of our running waters and the complete artificialization of our waterways for the benefit of our people as a whole.

"It is not possible properly to frame so large a plan as this for the control of our rivers without taking account of the orderly development of other natural resources. Therefore, I ask that the inlandwaterways commission shall consider the relations of the streams to the use of all the great permanent natural resources and their conservation for the making and maintenance of prosperous homes."

NATIONAL PLATFORMS OF 1904.

Following are summaries of the principal fea tures of the national party platforms adopted in 1904. The full texts will be found in The Daily News Almanac and Year-Book for 1905, beginning on page 126.

REPUBLICAN.-The platform advocates the principle of protection and reciprocity, the maintenance of the gold standard, the encouragement of the merchant marine, the upbuilding of the navy, the exclusion of Chinese labor, honest enforcement of the civil-service law, liberal administration of the pension laws, arbitration, the protection of American citizens abroad, the reduction of representation in congress and the electoral college of states in which the elective franchise is unconstitutionally limited, and the control of combinations of capital and labor. The declaration in regard to protection is: "We insist upon the maintenance of the principles of protection and therefore rates of duty should be readjusted only when conditions have so changed that the public interest demands their alteration. But this work cannot be safely committed to any other hands than those of the republican party."

DEMOCRATIC.-The enactment of laws giving labor and capital impartially their just rights, trial by jury for indirect contempt, liberal appropriations for the improvement of waterways, reductions in the expenditures of the government, honesty in the public service and the preservation of the "open door" for commerce in the orient are favored. The platform declares against imperialism and the retention of the Philippines, denounces protection as a robbery of the many for the enrichment of the few, and favors the revision and general reduction of the tariff by the friends of the masses and for the common weal and not by the friends of its abuses. Trusts and combinations are denounced as a menace to beneficial competition and rebates and discriminations by transportation companies are declared to be the most potent agency in promoting and strengthening unlawful conspiracies against trade. Demands of the platform include: Election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people; the admission to statehood of Oklahoma, Indian Territory. Arizona and New Mexico; the extermination of polygamy; the defeat of.the ship-subsidy bill; the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine; the reduction of the army and army expenditures; the enforcement of the civil-service laws, and the defeat of the attempt to revive race prejudices.

SOCIALIST.-The platform pledges the party to work and vote for shortened days of labor and increased wages; for the insurance of workers against sickness, accident and lack of employment; for pensions for aged and exhausted workers; for public ownership of the means of transportation, communication and exchange; for the graduated taxation of incomes, inheritances and of franchise and land values; for equal suffrage of men and women; for the prevention of the use of military against labor in the settlement of strikes; for the free administration of justice; for the initiative, referendum and proportional representation, and for the recall of officers by their constituents. These things, it is declared, are but a preparation of the workers to seize the whole powers of government in order that they may thereby lay hold of the whole system of industry and thus come into their rightful inheritance.

PROHIBITIONIST.-The platform pledges the party, whenever given the power by the suffrage of the people, to the enactment and enforcement of laws prohibiting and abolishing the manufacture. importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages and favors a rigid application of the principles of justice to all combinations of capital and labor, international arbitration, reform of divorce laws, the final extirpation of polygamy and the overthrow of the system of illegal sanction of the social evil.

POPULIST.-It is demanded that all money shall be issued by the government in such quantities as shall maintain a stability in prices, every dollar to be a full legal tender; that postal banks be established; that the right of labor to organize shall not be interfered with; that laws be passed to abolish child labor and suppress convict labor and sweatshops, and that the government shall own the railroads and telegraph and telephone systems. The eight-hour day is favored and legal provision under which the people may exercise the initiative, referendum and proportional representation and direct vote for all public officers with right to recall are urged.

SOCIALIST-LABOR.-The platform urges that a summary end be put to the existing class conflict by placing the land and all the means of production, transportation and distribution into the hands of the people as a collective body and substituting the co-operative commonwealth for the present planless production, industrial war and social disorder.

PLATFORM UTTERANCES IN 1907.

But few state conventions were held in 1907, and some of the platforms adopted at these confined themselves chiedy to local issues. Massachusetts republicans reaffirmed their belief in the principles of protection to American industries and American labor, but they also commended for adoption by the next national republican convention a resolution calling the congress to meet in special session to determine upon amendments to the present tariff law or the enactment of a new measure to meet changed conditions, to remove duties needless either for revenues or protection and make such modifications as experience may have shown to be necessary. The re-establishment of the American merchant marine was also urged.

The Whitney faction democratic convention in Massachusetts advocated reciprocity and condemned the Dingley tariff.

Nebraska democrats adopted a platform approving the laws prohibiting passes and rebates; opposing the centralization idea, and urging the revision of the tariff immediately and the imposition of an income tax. On the trust question it said: "A private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable. We therefore favor the vigorous enforcement of the criminal laws against trusts and trust magnates, and demand the enactment of such additional legislation as may be necessary to make it impossible for a private monopoly to exist in the United States.

The Nebraska republican platform favored the enactment of a federal law and if necessary an amendment to the federal constitution which will forbid the federal courts from issuing writs of injunction against state officers charged by law with the enforcement of state statutes.

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1908.

Presidential electors will be voted for in each state of the union Nov. 3, 1908. The electors so chosen will subsequently meet in their respective states, cast their ballots for president and also for vice-president of the United States, make lists of the persons voted for, with the number of votes cast for each, sign and certify the lists and then transmit them, sealed, to the president

of the senate in Washington. The president of the senate, in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, opens all the certificates, the votes are then counted and the result declared. If no candidate for president has a majority, then the house of representatives elects one of the three having the largest number of electoral votes, each state casting one vote. The

same is done in the case of the vice-president except that one of the two candidates having the largest number of electoral votes is chosen.

The total number of electoral votes in 1908 being 483, the winning candidate must have 242.

In the republican state conventions held in 1907 the policies of President Roosevelt were indorsed and similar action was taken by a number of legislatures controlled by republicans. Democratic conventions generally indorsed the policies of Wil

liam J. Bryan, and it was generally assumed that he would be the candidate of the democratic party in 1908 for president. Republican leaders urged for the presidency either by state conventions or political organizations included William H. Taft. Charles W. Fairbanks, Charles E. Hughes, Elihu Root, Joseph G. Cannon, Albert B. Cummins, Philander C. Knox, George P. Wetmore and Robert M. LaFollette.

CHIEF POLITICAL EVENTS OF 1907.

Jan. 7-George B. Cortelyou announced his retirement as chairman of the republican national committee; Harry S. New acting chairman. Jan. 15-United States senators elected as follows: Harry A. Richardson, rep., Delaware; W. M. Crane, rep., Massachusetts; W. P. Frye, rep., Maine; Joseph M. Dixon, rep., Montana; Norris Brown, rep., Nebraska; Simon Guggenheim, rep., Colorado; William E. Borah, rep., Idaho.

Jan. 16-United States senators elected: Henry E. Burnham, rep., New Hampshire; William A. Smith, rep., Michigan. Jan. 22-United States senators elected: Robert L. Taylor, dem., Tennessee; Frederick W. Mulkley, rep., and Jonathan Bourne, Jr., rep., Oregen; Benjamin R. Tillman, dem.. South Carolina; Jonathan P. Dolliver, rep., Iowa; Edmund W. Pettus, dem., and John T. Morgan, dem., Alabama.

Jan. 23-United States senators elected: Stephen B. Elkins, rep., West Virginia; Joseph W. Bailey, dem., Texas; Shelby M. Cullom, rep.. Illinois; Robert J. Gamble, rep., South Dakota; Knute Nelson, rep., Minnesota; F. M. Simmons, dem., North Carolina; Francis E. Warren, rep., Wyoming; Charles Curtis, rep., Kansas. Jan. 30-Jeff Davis, dem., elected United States senator in Arkansas.

Feb. 5-Frank O. Briggs, rep., elected United States senator in New Jersey.

Feb. 3-United States Senator John C. Spooner resigned.

March 5-Regis H. Post appointed governor of Porto Rico.

April 1-Minor state officials elected in Michigan; republicans successful.

April 2-Fred A. Busse elected mayor of Chicago. April 2-D. E. Cornell, rep., elected mayor of Kansas City, Mo.

April 9-Minnesota house of representatives passed resolution recommending nomination of President. Roosevelt to succeed himself.

April 10-President Roosevelt's administration indorsed by Connecticut house of representatives. April 13-Call for national convention of the United Christian party issued. April 18-George Curry, dem., appointed governor of New Mexico.

April 23-Rhode Island legislature adjourned without electing a successor to United States Senator Wetmore.

May 7-Barry Mahool, dem., elected mayor of Baltimore.

May 8-Chairman Brown of Ohio republican state central committee declared for William H. Taft for president and W. B. Foraker for senator. May 17-Isaac Stephenson, rep., elected United States senator in Wisconsin.

May 27-Michigan state senate passed resolution asking that President Roosevelt be elected for a second elective term.

June 5-Persons in classified civil service prohibited by President Roosevelt from taking an active part in politics. June 6-Pennsylvania republican state convention held; John O. Sheatz nominated for treasurer and Philander C. Knox indorsed for president. June 17-John H. Bankhead, dem.. appointed United States senator by governor of Alabama to succeed John T. Morgan, deceased. (Formally elected by legislature July 16.)

June 19-Democratic convention held in Oklahoma; Charles N. Haskell nominated for governor. June 19-Republican state convention held in Kentucky; A. E. Wilson nominated for governor. June 26-Walter F. Frear, rep., appointed governor for Hawaii,

June 27-Pennsylvania state democratic convention held; John G. Harmon nominated for treas

urer.

July 9-A. O. Bacon elected United States senator by Georgia legislature.

July 12-Announcement made of Robert M. LaFollette's candidacy for president of the United States.

July 16-Dr. Edward R. Taylor elected mayor of San Francisco by board of supervisors.

July 30-Prohibition bill passed by Georgia legislature.

July 30-Members of first Philippine assembly elected; nationalists win.

Aug. 1-Oklahoma republican convention held; Frank Frantz nominated for governor.

Aug. 2-Mississippi primary elections held; John Sharp Williams nominated for United States senator and Edmond F. Noel for governor.

Aug. 8-Maryland state democratic convention held; Austin 0. Crothers nominated for governor. Aug. 8-California primary election law sustained by state Supreme court.

Aug. 14-Maryland republican state convention held; George R. Gaither nominated for governor. Aug. 19-Speech made by William H. Taft at Columbus, O., on relations of the government to railroads and industrial corporations.

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Aug. 20-Policy of the government toward lawbreakers defined by President Roosevelt speech at Provincetown, Mass. Aug. 22-Race question dealt with in speech by Secretary Taft at Lexington, Ky.

Aug. 24-Secretary Taft in speech in Oklahoma attacked the proposed state constitution.

Sept. 17-Election held in Oklahoma; democratic state ticket elected, constitution indorsed and state-wide prohibition adopted.

Sept. 17-Special charter election held in Chicago; charter defeated.

Sept. 17-New Jersey democratic state convention held; Frank S. Katzenbach nominated for gov

ernor.

Sept. 19-New Jersey republican state convention held; J. Franklin Fort nominated for governor. Sept. 24-State platform conventions held by republicans, democrats and populists in Nebraska. Sept. 27-William R. Hearst and friends decided to for national party out of Independence league.

Oct. 5-Republican and democratic state conventions held in Massachusetts. Curtis Guild, Jr., renominated for governor by republicans; demo cratic convention split, one faction nominating Henry M. Whitney and the other Charles W. Bartlett for governor.

Oct. 8-Rhode Island democratic state convention held; James H. Higgins nominated for governor. Oct. 10-Rhode Island republican convention held; Frederick H. Jackson nominated for governor. Nov. 5-State elections held in Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Mississippi. (For results see election returns.)

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