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THE FORUM Hon. Charles S. Deneen. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie, facing slightly to the right. The background is a solid black color. There are no other discernible details or text.]] Peoria, Ill. Peoria is the second city in the state, an old city, situated on the Illinois river. Peoria seems to have a very fine set of people, both white and colored. The colored people are not as active in business as they should be and yet we have three doctors there, two churches and a population of about 3,000. Our old friend G. Wade O'Bee is now located in Peoria engaged in the undertaking business. Mr. O'Bee is an adroit business man, courteous, affable and thrifty and we feel assured of his success. The celebration of the Emancipation was a very creditable as well as enjoyable affair; the parade was nicely carried out. At the Central Park was speaking and music by Peoria's colored band—excellent music. David Smith, editor of the Dispatch, was master of ceremonies. Mayor O'Conner made the welcome address, a very touching and heartfelt speech. In part, in substance, he said— "Peoria with her 85,000 law abiding citizens, extend to you a hearty welcome, the people of Peoria welcome you within her gates, we are a people who believe that every man should have a jury trial, and we do not believe that a race should be made to suffer on the account of a crime committed by one of its members. He was applauded approvingly. The base ball game was won by Peoria. Call at the Gem Pantatorium, 729 S. Adams St., for cleaning, dyeing and preening. E. Williams, the fine and swift worker. "Be ye doers and not sayers only." will wait on you Walter King, a former Springfield young man, has a good position with a tailoring establishment. For undertaking business, call on O Bee, 603 Franklin street. DECLARES DIVIDENDS One of the most encouraging reports of any enterprise among colored people in this city, is that of the colored Loan Association which was begun the 18th of last September. This enterprise was launched under trying or deals, but through the skill and steadfastness of the officers, succeeded. When dividends were declared last Wednesday, every man who had taken out $10 in shares, drew 100 per cent, or $20 on the investment. The capital stock of this enterprise is $20,000. Now let every colored person take out one, two or three shares one share is worth $5. Beyond all probability, at the end of next year, we will be able to declare 130 per cent. Everyone should investigate this enterprise and let us come together and make a bank out of this enterprise. All colored business men and women are cordially invited and requested to meet at the law office of Royall & Williams, 11th and Washington streets, Tuesday evening, of next week, for the purpose of completing reorganization of the Colored Mem's Business League. Don't miss it. A WORD OF ADVICE AND COMFORT Special credit must be given our trial judge' the Hon. James A. Creighton and Messrs. Hatch and Wines, for the vigorous and earnest manner in which they are impartially conducting the cases—while we are all startled too, at this age, to find it so hard to find white men who are willing as jurors, to do their sworn duty and to do right, we will not despair, but ever look forward to the dawn when the politics and principles proclaimed by Lincoln shall obtain. We hope yet that justice will be done Raymer and all the rest. We believe even yet that it will be done. We advise you to be calm and rest your case and let us look forward to the day when every saloon will be closed and Springfield will be born again. UNDESIRABLES Any set of men who would sit on a jury and listen to the law, the explanations by the prosecution and the instructions of the court, as did the men in the Raymer crase, and then return a verdict of not guilty, are worse than Raymer, they are dangerous, being opposed to organized government and should be cited for contempt of court and driven from the county. They don't represent the whole people, but that of the haymer type. Old papers for sale at 3951 S. 6th street. Loper's restaurant has opened for business. E. B. Smith was in Chicago a few days this week on business Delightful services will be held at the Lutheran church tomorrow. John H. Davis, night dispatcher at the post office, is on the sick list. O. V. Royall and C. S. Gibbs have associated together in the law business You will have to take off your hat to Peoria, she has a goodly number of pretty girls. Messrs. Benj H. Lucas and J. M Mosby were in Jackson ville this week on business of the U. B F. Lodge. Mrs. Hallie Williams arrived from Richmond, Ind., this week and is the guest of her mother on S. College St. Remember the Inner Circle will expect you to attend their reception, Thursday evening. Oct at Masonic hall. A literary organization which is much needed, will be organized soon, to meet and render programs and debates, weekly at the Lutheran church. Issuance of call next week. ```markdown ``` RAYMER FOUND NOT GUILTY. Abraham Raymer, whom the state had proved to be guilty of the murder of W. K. Donagan, was acquitted by a jury of twelve men last Wednesday evening—a jury who had sworn to go by the law and the evidence. Judge Creighton ruled that any person who was in the mob is guilty of murder, yet the jury says not guilty—and yet the people claim that the cause of mob violence is the fact that too many criminals escape and that the law is too slow. What a farce! Raymer has several more charges against him—one other for murder. If Sangamon county cannot find men brave enough and true enough too, when they swear a thing to go by it we are degenerating and the law is a farce, and the jury system a travesty. But we shall not despair and look to see justice done every guilty man. The State Fair opened yesterday. Miss Retta Davis a pleasant trip to Peoria. The campaign has opened and all will be busy for several weeks. Colored men; stay in Spring= field and next spring let us all join the Local Option Crusade and fight to better the city. A special invitation is extended to all the colored ministers urging them to be present at the Law and and Order League meeting. Major Duncan thinks Indianpolis is overflowing with the most beautiful girls extant. Now what will the Nashville Globe say about its "brand?" Assistant State's Attorney Wines is made of the proper stuff we are sorry he is not to be continued in office—hope Mortimer wfll keep him assistant. J. E. Thompson returned a few days ago from Columbus, Ohio, and several eastern cities where he visited for several days also Quincy Ill., and Lagrange, Mo. He will soon have his store re-opened. And even yet don't be discouraged for the right is sure to win. All the blood spilled at Yorktown, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Richmond, shall not have been in vain. Before one jot or title of His word fails, heaven and earth, they pass away—so bouyant. Rev. T. Price preached a very able sermon Sunday morning, text found in Isaiah 6:1. He higdly commended the editor of The Forum for the courageous stand he had taken and spoke in praise of the colored lawyers and urged the congregation to patronize all colored businesses as the times surely demands us a race to co-operate with and help each other. « THE FORUM, —<—<——$— A weekly magazine paper devoted @ the interests of the whole people. es Entered as seoond-class matter, Feb- @uary bal 1904, at the postoffice at pprinetec id, Ill., under the Act of ingress ef March 3, 1879. QOGERS GDARBOUR «=~ ~~ Proprietors One Feit One Month ........ 6. ec cece cence ee LEO Oe GOODY oi ccee csc sresscccissscs BO Oe eee GFFICE: 305 1-2 6; Stath St. Phone Malu 998 ana THE FORUM'S STAFF. B. L. Rogers, Editor and Manager. Will H. arbour, Associate Editor ead Secretary. — Sem Paesedci Onaerecter jompson Bros., - Hranch Office. Gomann The Printer ~ - 105; 80. 6th 8 EDITORIAL . a Saturday, Sep', 26, 908. | REPUBLICAN STATE 'TICKEDL, GOVERNOR Chas. S. Deneen U. 8. SENATOR Albert J. Hopkins LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR John G. Oglesby SECRETARY OF STATE James A. Rose STATE AUDITOR James S. McCullough CLERK SUPREME COURT J. McCan Davis Colored people remember; ‘He that is not for me is against me,’ The wages of sin is death, Every man should have pay for what he does, Find the way to Sunday school and the library—never mind the saloons, Task no man to surrender one single right, yet I will ask all men to be law-abiding citizens and geaotlemen. Send your boy and your girl to school, but do not neglect that necessary home instruc ion, for if you do the schooling is in vain. Undesirab'e people have been de ported—it is right— get ready also, ye that labor and are heavy laden, and let's deport, or help the respectable white people de. port. the undesirable officials, from top to bottom, next Spring. and in the county year after pext —‘‘Whosvever committeth a sin is the servant of sin.” In selecting candidates for ofilce, we ask the colored people to watch Tne Forum, we are not to endorse any save worthy men and ask to support the men only, whom the colored meno k,, and pay no attention to others—the time has come for meditated actions. Be law-abiding. be constant, be tolerant only with the right. Pay no attention to anonymous threats, they are from cowards, If you arein the right are not you on the side with law and God? Remember Patrick Henry remember Caesar: Cowards die many times before their death, but the valiaut only taste death once, Wanted every colored man woman and child to read The Forum. We are going to give you a good paper-—the colored people are going to succeed here | Springtleld—do not be dismay. ed for ‘God moves in a myster- ious way, His worders to per. form.”? BEWARE OF THE FATE. Let us,as Americans, be not so ignorant as to continually kin. die and rekindle the flames o: race prejudice. How can a na. tion be a power when its in arms against itself? Can this govern. ment hope to keep the friendship of its Negro composite, justice to them dedied? Suppose there comes a great war against this nation, England, Germany and France as the enemy do you suppose the Negro would rise up voluntarily against Engiand or France—countries that know of no such atrocities that go on here? Nay. Does not America know history? Has any country of antiquity reaped but that which it had sown? Who runs may read. Listen to Druid— Rome shall perish write that word {n the blood that she has spilt; Perish hopeless and abhored, Deep in ruin as in guilt. What did the poet also say of Greece? “Tis Greece, but living Greece no more,”’ | You must remember that even (Cataline had his limit. And it is written that the plowman will overtake the reaper, THE MEANING OF NEGRO, Every high school scholar knows that the word Negro has only the significance as the word Italian, Indian, Jew, Caucasian, etc, It designates a certain race of people, not individuals. The white papers, when referring to a person of the colored race gen erally refer to them as the ‘‘Ne. gro” so and so. For instance, The Nogro Joe James, just as thous: everybody who cares to doesnot know that Joe James is am“mover of the Negro race. It ‘must be to impugn or to slur, be cause the same reporter never aed, the Jew Raymer who is al. leged to have killed the aged Ne. gro, Donagan, etc. If, Mr, Reg ister, Mr. Journal and Record, jyou can give any other reason |why ‘Negro’ is used parenthet ‘ically, alune, save to prejudice | the people against him for his | deeds, the read-rs of The Forum jand your papers, wiil be glad to |hear them, 1f the white race be superior, that superiority should \be self assertive, and not need to _ be flaunted in the people's face. | We will appreciate a reply | from these journals or consider a | failure to reply as being equiva. ‘lent to their being guilty as |charged in the indictment, and il will be the sworn duty of The | Forum to pass sentence on the | three defendant papers. Negro co operative enterprises should be launched as soon and as exiensive as possible. Don't walt to hear what the public thinks before you express your opin- ion. Say what you think if you believe you are right. TUCKER’S PLACE. Board and Lodging House, First class accommodations Regular meals at regular meal hours. 206 North 14 St. New Telepnone, 1478.. ; FP TUCKER, Proprietor. If you’re in doubt let us he. & lead trump to you? fs The i ah ly “Imperial,, \, ee, is alwaysthe proper hat-- \ } he never alike two seasons Mt Sia a : : 7, Nf a together--except in price BY wae ---$3.00. 529 North Side Square Capi apital Laundry. Does Good Work, Quick Work and Prompt in Delivery. We solicit your patronaga, and make courtesy, good treatment to all Ovr Motto Don’t forget we patronize the Forum for your, patronage. Gero. BouMAN, Prop, 723 E. Washington street. | Both Telephones: 207 THE FORUM Is row the Leading Colored Paper inthe City dd da Has the largest and best circulation. \¢z Goes among indtential people For Fine Commercial Work HAMANN *.. Printer Boa 305 SOUTH SIXTH ST. Phone 998 OUR ADVERTISING RATES, For display matter one time, 1b¢e the inch; over one time, 10c, 6 months or one year, special prices made. Reading matter, one time, 7c the line; seven words to the line; over one time 5c; for long articles oF church advertising, some reduction. For clubs, socials, ect., when mat- ter contains over 75 words and under 200, send 50 cents if you desire it pub lished in full. MANAGER, Political integrity is the road but thieves reap what is sown, Do You Want A Home? Do you want a home in the great Southwest—in beautiful Oklahoma? In a town populated by intelligent, self-reliant colored people, where all lines of business, professions, and your local government, will be in your own hands; where your chance for development and growth, financially, politically, socially and intellectually will be limited only by your own ability? Take a trip to Red Bird and see for yourself that all our statements are true. Buy a lot and start with the town. You will want to be a lot owner after you see this country and consider the possibilities of Red Bird. SIZE OF LOTS: The size of the lots are from 25 to 50 feet wide, and from 130 to 185 feet long, according to location, as shown by the map. PRICE OF LOTS: The prices of the lots range from $50.00 up, acco by the price list on the amended plat of Red Bld. No agent has authority to change any ten contract. No application will be accepted where the pr less than that printed on the amended plat of the Company. Purchasers of any of these lots from the Red should send their deeds to J. W. Ruble, Register homa, to be recorded; the recording fee will be $ Horace Greeley's advice, given years ago, is a man, and grow up with the country." from $50.00 up, according to location, as shown in plat of Red Bird. Exchange any term of the application and and where the price of the lot is stated to be bounded plat of the townsite furnished by the 伙从 the Red Bird Investment Company Ruble, Register of Deeds, Wagoner, Okla- ming fee will be $1.00 for each deed. years ago, is yet good: "Go west, young- ry." TITLE. at-edge and absolutely perfect. Warranty Bird Investment Company for this property. The office of the United States Recorder for Indian Territory, and can be found of rec- ages: Record Book 32, at page 80; Record Book 88, at page 121. LOCATION. A. Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, which is & Texas Railroad, twenty-one miles north- valley of the Arkansas and Verdigris rivers. Territe location in the beautiful state of Ok- to Red Bird. The prices of the lots range from $50.00 up, according to location, as shown by the price list on the amended plat of Red Bird. No agent has authority to change any term of the application and contract. No application will be accepted where the price of the lot is stated to be less than that printed on the amended plat of the townsite furnished by the Company. Purchasers of any of these lots from the Red Bird Investment Company should send their deeds to J. W. Ruble, Register of Deeds, Wagoner, Oklahoma, to be recorded; the recording fee will be $1.00 for each deed. Horace Greeley's advice, given years ago, is yet good: "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country." TITLE. The title to these lots is gilt-edge and abe Deeds were given to the Red Bird Investment and the deeds were recorded in the office of the Western District, at Wagoner, Indian Territor ord in the following books and pages: Record Book 32, at page 79; Record Book 34, at page 49 and Record Book 48, at page 121. LOCATION. Red Bird is on the Missouri, Kansas & O operated by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad west of Muskogee, in the fertile valley of the Art There can not be found a more fertile location in lahoma than the country tributary to Red Bird. The title to these lots is gilt-edge and absolutely perfect. Warranty Deeds were given to the Red Bird Investment Company for this property, and the deeds were recorded in the office of the United States Recorder for the Western District, at Wagoner, Indian Territory, and can be found of record in the following books and pages: Record Book 32, at page 79; Record Book 32, at page 80; Record Book 44, at page 49 and Record Book 48, at page 121. LOCATION. Red Bird is on the Missouri, Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, which is operated by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, twenty-one miles northwest of Muskogee, in the fertile valley of the Arkansas and Verdigris rivers. There can not be found a more fertile location in the beautiful state of Oklahoma than the country tributary to Red Bird. For further particulars, call on or address BENJAMIN H. BELLAMY, 219 North 15th Street, Springfield, Ill. BRUCE-SURLES PIANO CO. ▲ Consistent Christian with No Spot Upon His Record of Private Conduct and Public Service. To dispose of questions which should not be asked as speedily as possible let BENJAMIN H. BELLAMY, 219 North 15th Street, Springfield, III. A Consistent Christian with No Spot Upon His Record of Private Conduct and Public Service. To dispose of questions which should not be asked as speedily as possible let us say that Mr. Taft is a member of the Unitarian church. That was the church of his parents, and he has never separated himself from it. His wife, however, is an Episcopalian, and he worships more often beside her in her church. The Big Piano and Organ Dealers 309.311 South 6th St. Announce These are the facts, which are utterly and absolutely unimportant. The matter of a man's religion has no rightful place in consideration of his fitness for the presidency. The constitution of the nation, ordained and established "to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," expressly places the very suggestion of such thought outside the pale of patriotism. A BIG Clearance Sale of New and Second Hand Pianos Matushex Upright Ebony Case $ 75.00 No words can be clearer than these from our country's fundamental law, "No religious test ever shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." Fine Mahogany Case Piano Former Price $300 now The numerous queries about Mr. Taft's religious belief shows simply the extent to which his enemies have gone to rouse some prejudice against him. Since there was no spot upon his whole clean record of private conduct and public service to which they could point to Taft's detriment they displayed their willingness to descend to any depth of petty, cowardly, contemptible attack that might do him harm. Philadelphia North American. Square Pianos 5.00,10.00,15.00 20.00 and up. Second Hand Organs 2.00, 3.00, 5.00,10.00,15.00 and up. The opportunity has arrived to buy a Piano or Organ at your own price. Easy payments. Mrs: Lottie Brewington.Crit tendon. is in the city, visiting her parents. Call Early Remember the place Opposite Post Office E. W. Wheeler, who has been at South Bend, Ind; for several weeks, has arrived home. The Advance Citizen has moved to Jacksonville. Call at this office for type-writing, short hand and general stenographic work. 305 $ \frac{1}{2} $ So. 6th St. Old phone 998. The Inner Circle Club would like to have you attend their reception, Thursday, Oct 1. If you desire special write-ups of social or church affairs, with all details, no condensation, etc., see the manager, as there will be some charges. --- Start with Red Bird. $125.00 Subscribe for the Forum TITLE. Last Democratic Administration Gave Splendid Illustration of Inefficiency. TANNER ON THE SITUATION How He Arraigned Transactions of Altgeld Board of Trustees. Told of the Story of the Rise and Fall of the Peoria Asylum for Incurable Insane in Speech in 1898. Springfield, Sept. 22.—In the foundation of the Illinois Asylum for Incurable Insane at Bartonville, now known as the General Hospital for Insane, the last Democratic administration gave a splendid illustration of inefficiency. An investigation of the management of the board of trustees for the asylum aroused the anger of Governor Tanner whenever it was referred to, as he regarded it one of the grossest pieces of negligence and ignorance of which he ever had heard. In discussing the Peoria situation at Golconda, Sept. 15, 1898, Governor Tanner said: "The transactions of the Altgeld board of trustees of the Peoria Asylum for the Incurable Insane is one of the most lurid chapters in the long story of dishonesty, incompetency and reckless expenditure of public money that characterizes that administration. The story of the rise and fall of the Peoria insane asylum is unique; there is nothing like it in the history of Illinois. The line of action is so crooked that the eye wearies in following it. So far as the records snow every important act of the board is illegal; their methods were unprecedented and contrary to law, and in their transactions they had the help of all the machinery in the state. Debts Left in Wake. "The trustees, limited by law to the expenditure of $83,000 for specific purposes, spent $80,623.86, and left a debt of $10,823.66. Said board of trustees organized by electing one of their own number treasurer, an act clearly contrary to the statute, and he was not required to give bond. "The board's first work was the selection of a site. What sites were offered, and what inducements governed the selection of the site at Peoria is not known. The trustees left no record of their proceeding. The site cost $13,500, but the bill for the land is not receipted and today the trustees hold no deed to the property. Officials All Knew It. "The treasury being bankrupt, the trustees were instructed to borrow what money they needed wherever they could find it. Dec. 11, 1895, they made a requisition on the state treasury of $25,000, which, upon being approved by the governor, they used as collateral for a loan of $25,000 from the Commercial National bank of Peoria. This loan was paid by the treasury July 15, 1896. The amount was drawn against the appropriation for a site and charged to that appropriation, although they were entitled to draw against it only the cost of the site, $13,500. But this was merely an incident. All forms and regulations for drawing appropriations from the state treasury were disregarded by the asylum trustees, the auditor, the governor, and the state board of charities. The entire machinery of the state appears to have been accessory to the job in Peoria. "Upon four so-called estimates the $65,000 appropriated for the Peorla asylum was drawn from the treasury and all of them were made by the trustees and accepted by the board of charities in violation of the statute. No vouchers for the payment of money or trustees' orders are on file. Trustees Kept No Record. "No trustees' record is in existence. The only record of the receipt and expenditures of the asylum's funds turned over to the new trustees, or found by them, is in a little book written in President Finley's hand, all apparently written at the same time and probably in one hour. It does not pretend to be a treasurer's report; it does not pretend to be the president's report; it is not an account of any corporation or individual; it gives no intimation of who received or paid out funds. When the book was finally received by the new board of trustees it was handed around and commented upon, as the ink was scarcely dry, showing that it had all been written at the same time and was not to exceed one day old. "No quarterly report of the treasurer to the state board of charities, as required by law, was ever made, although the trustees held office eighteen months. History in Little Book. "The law required them to report on or before Sept. 1, 1896, giving a detailed statement of expenditures to July 1, 1896, which report should have been sent to the governor and laid before the legislature. No such report was ever made. The legislature and the people will never officially know any more about the institution under Altgeld than is contained in President Finley's book of ten pages. "When the Republican trustees came in and called on their predecessors for an accountning, President Finley turned over the record. It consisted of a handful of bills and statements, all of which could be carried in a coat pocket and one account book, showing the receipts and disbursements of the board from Dec. 12, 1895, to March 26, 1897. No journal, ledger, bank book, cancelled check, building contract nor deed for the real estate accompanied the record. President Was Busy Man. "President Finley is a very busy man, besides being a political manager. He is manager of the Peoria Street railroad and director in the National bank. Being neither secretary nor treasurer of the asylum, I suppose he assumed he was not responsible for the fact that there was no record of the board's proceedings eighteen months after its organization, and so when the present administration demanded an accounting he was probably compelled, in the absence of his colleagues, to sit down and manufacture a cash book out of the bills that had accumulated. "The debit items in President Finley's book show that the board received $83,100, and the credit items show that they expended $80,623.86. "Bills to the amount of $43,000 were receipted. None of the bills was approved by the board of trustees. One bill for $3,700, paid to the trustees for expenses and 'services' was approved by Governor Altgeld, but it was not receipted. Trustees Not To Be Paid. "The law does not contemplate that the trustees of state institutions shall receive any pay for their services, but Trustee Alexander received for 'services and expenses' $1,425.00. Trustee McAndrew received for his 'services and expenses' $1,500.00, and President Finley received for his 'services and expenses' $2,300.00. In addition to their services and expenses they also disposed of $544.66 of the state's money in hotel bills, and $325.00 in livery hire. As a total the three trustees received for expenses and services, hotel bill and carriage hire $6,094.66 for eighteen months' service, or an average of $2,031.55 each. "The total loans were $35,000. paid by the treasury July 15, 1896, the interest at 6 per cent being $273.95. There was expended on buildings, roads and grading $49,420.98. There remained due to Contractor Mallov when the Republican board took charge $10,823.66, which has been paid. This makes the cost of the building $54,919.26, not including amounts paid to engineers, architects and superintendents. Tears Building Down. "I considered it my imperative duty to tear down the structure and abandon the site of this building, and so instructed the trustees. Sixty thousand dollars is a conservative estimate of the loss at Peoria through dishonesty and ignorance on the part of the trustees. From an aesthetic point of view the destruction of the Peoria building was to be lamented, for it reduced by one the number of Governor Altgeld's monuments in Illinois." For Rutledge street every 15 minutes from 6:07 a.m. until 11:32 p.m. GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN WHO DESIRE AN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. Many of the young men who have finished the course in agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute are command- ing salaries ranging from $50 to $100 per month. The graduates of this department of the school are success- fully employed as instructors, or as managers of important agricultural operations, The school has an agri- cultural faculty of twenty instructors; men who have received. their training In the best agricultural schools of the country. Young colored men and women who desire to take courses in practical and scientific agriculture are now offered the best. opportunity to pursue such courses in one of the largest and best equipped schools for practical and scientific agriculture to be found in the South. The following courses are offered: Dairying, three (3) years’ course. Dairy husbandry, two (2) years’ course. Swine raising, two (2) years’ course. Beef raising, three (3) years’ course. Slaughtering, two (2) years’ course. Fruit raising, two (2) years’ course. General farming, two (2) years’ course. Truck gardening, two (2) years’ course, Care and management of cattle and stock, two (2) years’ course. Poultry raising, two (2) years’ course. In addition there is a special post graduate couyse of one or two years provided for graduates of high schools and colleges. We are especially anx- jous to have a large number of agri- cultural students who heve finished high schoo! or college courses. Any young man who is ambitious enough to finish any of’ the courses above men- tioned can readily secure immediate employment at good salaries. Opportunities are now open to 500 young men and women who may wish to take any of the above courses of instruction. The cost of board is $6.50 per month, No charge for instruction. For further information, address: ‘ BOOKER 'T. WASHINGTON, Principal. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. <3 Don’t Forcet I am now doing a general Real Estate —AND— Loan Business Property in all parts of the City offered for the very Lowest Prices aud best Trerms Loans mide on Property or Anything of Value. 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Monroe St, Springfield, Ill, TIME TABLE OF THE SPRINGFIELD CONSOLIDATED RAILWAY CO. oe ee . oe y Be , ee See . poe _ s ‘ 3 ee Lo ee ee. ot = me ee 4 a [Ss ee a : Be ae PS, v4 Pee. u , Seok Segoe es oe : iio t eRe x i. eS , La < a . 2: 2a, eal bad te MA eerste. 55 UCR eee : oe Se Ree, oe Eien: Bees eae wr Po ae P rie eo i SR ORAS comemeeein 45 oc ee eee y Bs “nies Se ra ae aga Cars leave Fifth and Monroe streets as follows: For North Fifth street every 10 min- utes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:20 p. m. Owl cars at 11:40 p.m, 12:07 and 12:30 a, m. For South Fifth street every 10 minutes from 6:05 a. m. until 11:25 p. m. Owl cars at 11:45 p. m., 12:07 and 12:30 a. m. Fer South Second street every 12 minutes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:24 p.m. Owl cars at 1148 p. m., 12:00 midnight and 12:24 a, m. | For North Seventh street every 12 minutes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:24 ‘yp. m, Owl cars at 11:48 p. m. an? 12:24 a. m. For Spring and East Carpenter street every 12 minutes from 6:08 a. m until 11:20 p. m. Owl cars at 11:44 p. m., 12:08 and 12:30 a. m. For Scuth Grand avenue every 15 ‘minutes from 6:22 a. m. until 11:22 p.m Jwl ears at 11:45 p, m., 12:07 and 1..30 a. m. | For Lawrence avenue every 12 min- ‘utes from 6:00 a. m. until 11.86 p, m Owl cars at midnight and 12:30 a. Ror East Capitol avenue every 12 minu‘es from 6:12 a. m. until 11:26 p.m. Owl cars at midnight aad 12:36 a.m. re /« For North Ninth street every 12 minutes from 6:30 a, m. until 11:24 p.m. For West Washingtcn street every 15 minutes frem 6:00 a. m, until 11:16 p.m. Owl cars a t11:45 p. m, aad 12:07 a.m. For Geverner s'rect everv 15 min- utes from 6:07 a. m. until 11:82 p.m. Owl cars at 12:30 a. m. | Fer Sowh,Kighth street every 15 ‘minutes from 6:00 a, m. until 11:30 p. m, Owl cars at 11.37 and 11:82 p. m., and 12:30 ard 12:62 a, m. Cars leave Fifth and Washington: Fer South Eleventh street every 15 minutes from 6:07 a. m. unt}-11:52 |p. m. Owl cars at 12:22 and 12:52 la. m. JAMES S. M’CULLOUGH, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR STATE AUDITOR. James S. McCullough of Urbana, the Republican nominee for auditor of public accounts, was born near Mercersburg, Pa., and moved to Urbana with his father in 1854. In 1862 he enlisted in Company G, Seventy-sixth Hlinvis infantry, and participated in the battles of Vicksburg, Jackson, Benton, Jack- son Cross Roads, Vaughn's Station, the Meridian campaign, Fort Blakely, and others of importance. Mr. McCullough lost his left arm in the assault on Fort Blakely April 9, 1865. In 1868 he entered the county clerk’s office as a deputy and served for five years. He then was elected county clerk and served continuously from 1873 until 1896, when he resigned to “accept the nomination for auditor of public accounts. He was renominated by acelama- tion in 1900 and again in 1904, His nomination for a fourth term was secured in the primaries August 8. Many Foot Troubles May be relieved and corrected by wearing mv Spectal Shoe preperly con- structed to give support to the weaken- ed part and eventually restore same to its normal condition. Tt matters not whether flat, deformed or tender feet— broken down arches—or lame—m) system of Plaster Party Masts, the exact duplicate of your own feet rec tify these misfortuzes and permi walking as others do. Physicians ad surgeons are invite: to inspect my system of sho- building TMustrated Beoklet for te to Pay Pr stage. ee fi. oe ee Lg : oS eee eee me ) Cee ee eS pecs a ee ae Been Lae Lo a ey : ee - Ss Ce Oe > ee i Bee se * ie pene eee RE a ei ee MARTIN LARSON Expert Shoe Special'st. 54 Fifth Avenue, near Randclph St Chicago, HL. ILLINOIS TRACTION SYSTEM. Bast Bound for Decatur, Clinton and at intermediate points. *5:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m 5:00 p.m @:00 a.m, #12:00 noon, #6200 pam 7:00 am. 1:00 p.m TO pom $8:00 a.m. #2200 p.m. 72800 PD $:00 acm, = 3:80 p.m. 2009 pom #19:00 a.m, 44:00 pom 271-00 pom Springfield & Northeastern Traction Co Psorthbound. Southbound Southbound for Carlinville, Gillespie. Staunton, Litehfield. Edwardsville, Grin- ite City and St. Louis es:00am F9:00.am = ¢1:00 pm £4:00 pm 46:00am #10:00am #2:09 pm 98:20 pm 86:20am °10:20am 2:2 pm +7:00 pm 47:00am $11:00am — F828N pm 3X00 pm A800 am 442:00 noon #4:00 pin 9:00 pm | }5:00 pm °11:25 pm *11:30 pm | eLoeal cars. 41 imited cars. stopping ‘at towns only. *Secper. §Limited cars, ‘making all stops. Daily except Sunday. | Corrected May 4, 1908, Cars leave Springfield for Lincoln 45, 7. 9 and 11a. m.; 1, & 5, 7% 9 an¢ up. m. “asa. 'm., dally except Sunday. JAMES A. ROSE, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. DUST DIRT SMOKE CINDERS James A. Rose, the Republican nominee for secretary of state, was born in Golconda, Il., October 13, 1850. He received his education in the common schools of the state and at the Illinois Normal university, Normal. He began teaching in the public schools before reaching his majority, was elected superintendent of schools of Pope county in 1873, and state's attorney in 1881 During Gov. Fifer’s administration he served as trustee of the Pentiac re- formatory and commissioner of the Chester penitentiary. He was elected secretary of state in 1896, re-elected in 1900 and again in 1904. He was nom- inated for a fourth term in the primaries August 8, 1908, by a plurality of 110,083, or a majority of 8,675 over his four competitors. Dr. S.A. WARE, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, OFFICE:—627% East Adams street. HOURS: 10 a. m. to 12 m. 2p. m. to 4 p. m. 7p. m. to 9% Calls promptly made, But while we would be better Christians than our oppressors, we will not be cowards. We want to let the world know that we are opposed to the punishment that is being inflicted upon us as a people. We want to say with emphasis that we will not surrender one iota of our manhood, no matter how many lynching parties are pulled off, no matter if our enemies, like Hercules, stand in defiance over us, for he is not defeated whose spirit is unconquered. The shadow of retribution is hanging over the American nation; the Red Sea is just ahead.—The Leader, Alabama. Miss Monica Harris of Normal, will be the guest of Miss Venie Smith during fair week. Renick Vires was a visitor in Peoria last Tuesday. Synopsis of Illinois Game Law. You may hunt and kill qual only from November 10th to December 20, of each year. You must not kill any prairie chicken or grouse for a period of four years from the first day of July 1907 or any wild turkey, pheasant or partridge for a period of six years from July 1, 1907. You must not net, trap or ensnare quail, prairie chicken, pheasants or partridges at any time or under any circumstances, unless authorized to do so by the State Game Commissioner. You may kill wookcocks and mourning doves only from August 1st to November 30th, of each year. You may kill grey, red fox or black squirrels from July 1st to November 15th of each year. You may kill all kinds of snipe and plover from September 1st to May 1st of each year. You may kill wild geese, ducks, brant, coots, rail or other water fowl from September 1st to April 15th of each year. You must not kill wild geese, ducks, brant, coots, rail or other water fowl after sundown or before sunrise of each succeeding day. You must not kill wild geese, ducks, brant, coots, rail or other water fowl from any steamboat, sailboat, electric or gasoline launch, or from any sinkboat, box or sneakboat, or artificial blind in the open waters of this State. You must not kill wild geese, ducks, brant, quail, pheasants, partridges, prairie chickens, grouse or squirrel for market or commercial purposes. You must not sell, buy or have in possession for the purpose of selling, or transport for the purpose of sale, any wild geese, ducks, brant, quail, prairie chickens, grouse or squirrels that have been killed in the State of Illinois. You must not at any time kill more than twenty wild ducks, geese brant, coots, rail or other water fowl, or more than fifteen quail or other game birds in one day. You must not kill, catch or have in possession, living or dead, any wild bird or part of bird other than a game bird, except English sparrow, crow, crow black-bird or chicken hawk, and you must not purchase or expose such birds for sale. You must not destroy or remove from their nests the eggs of any prairie chicken, grouse, quail, wild turkey, pheasant, partridge, duck, goose, brant or song bird. You may kill for commercial purpose and transport for sale or market all kinds of snipe, plover, mourning doves and rabbits. You must not offer for sale or transport for the purpose of selling any snipe or plover or mourning dove after the expiration of five days next succeeding the first day of the closed season; nor can you sell the same during the first two days of the open season. Inhabitants of this State may receive game coming from other states where it is lawful to kill and ship out of such states, and expose and sell on the market such game between the first day of October and the first day of February of the following year. MAGAZINE READERS SUNSET MAGAZINE beautifully illustrated, good stories and articles about California and all the Far West. $1.50 a year CAMERA CRAFT devoted each month to the art- tistic reproduction of the best work of amateur and professional photographers. $1.00 a year ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS a book of 75 pages, containing 120 colored photographs of picturesque spots in California and Oregon. $0.75 Total . . . $3.25 All for . . . $1.50 Address all orders to SUNSET MAGAZINE Flood Building San Francisco All hunter's licenses, whether resident or non-resident, expire on the first day of June of each year You must not use or attempt to use the license of another person or in any manner make any change in any license for the purpose of tran ferring the same, under the penalty of prosecution for forgery. Owners of farm lands, their children or tenants, may hunt and kill game on their own farms during the open season when it is lawful to kill game, without procuring a hunter's license, but they must not hunt beyond the lines of their own farms without a hunter's license. The State Game Commissioner, his wardens or deputies, may hunt, ensnare or entrap game birds and animals and transport them to sections of the State where a scarcity of these game birds or animals exists for the purpose propagating and restocking said sections of the State. You must procure a license before hunting rabbits but they may be killed and sold in any number and in all states of the year. You must not at any time use a ferret for the purpose of hunting, capturing or killing any game, animals or rabbits. The title to and ownership of all song birds, game birds, and animals protected under the game law is declared to be in the State. JOHN A WHEELER, State Game Commission r SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. June 1, 1908. World Is Ready for Reduction. It will probably be but a short time after the convention between this country and England goes into effect, until the dream of a universal 2-cent letter postage, championed by the Republican party, will be realized. Australia, New Zealand and Egypt have already called for the 2-cent rate. The Emperor of Germany has said that if England establishes a 2-cent postage rate with the United States, he will have Germany do the same. France, Italy, South Africa, Japan, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Sweden would need little more than an invitation to follow suit. A 2-cent postal rate would bind all the South American republics and the United States still more closely together into a peaceful, reciprocal, progressive, civilization, which would mean a more rapid development of both American continents and a new application of the Monroe doctrine. With these countries agreed, on the object desired, the continent of Europe alone would then be wholly outside this comprehensive postal union, and then the continental powers would not long stand aloof from it. It has remained for the United States to take the initiative in a move to reap the great glory of being the pioneers of a world wide 2-cent postage. Millions of our citizens will feel almost as grateful for this beneficent act as millions of slaves did, when the Republican party broke the shackles that bound them to perpetual physical services. BOUTELL ON BRYAN Is His "Shall the People Rule?" Simply "a Local Issue?" Congressman Henry Sherman Boutell of Chicago, commenting on Mr. Bryan's speech in Iowa, says: Mr. Bryan's question, "Shall the people rule?" implies that somewhere in this country the people do not rule. The only States where the people do not rule are the States that are expected to give overwhelming majorities for the Democratic ticket. Perhaps Mr. Bryan thinks that his question is purely "a local issue." If he is sincere, I challenge him to make a speech in Vicksburg, Miss., on "Government by the People." Let him repeat one of his famous anti-imperialist speeches, simply changing three words, substituting "Mississippi" for "Philippines" and "black brothers" for "brown brothers." Let him suggest that we have as chairman of his meeting John Sharp Williams, leader of the Democrats in Congress, and as vice-chairmen the other members of the Congressional delegation from Mississippi. And after he has made his speech in Vicksburg, if he shall have escaped the rule of the people in that community, I dare Mr. Bryan to repeat his oration on popular government in Charleston, S. C., with Senator Tillman as chairman of his meeting. Mr. Bryan's sentiments have a purely geographical sincerity. His epigrams and startling conundrums are especially designed to meet local demands. Of this nature are all his views on tariff and taxation. Mr. Bryan's proposition that every time a trust is formed a tariff schedule should be repealed, and every time a trust is dissolved a new duty should be added, is too funny even for comic opera. If on March 4 next Mr. Bryan should become President, with a Democratic Congress in both houses, and should actually place upon the statute books the financial and economic vagaries delivered by him in his speech of last Friday, it would plunge the nation into bankruptcy and bring on industrial chaos. If he should begin by repealing the duty on sugar to punish the sugar trust, he would upset the national finances by losing $60,000,000 a year in revenues, and would stir up a revolution in Louisiana, Utah, Colorado and Michigan. Then, if he should repeal the duty on cotton goods, because some hustling manufacturers of New England or the Carolinas were dumping goods in China in rivalry with England and Germany, he would divert other millions from the treasury and invite still further industrial ruin. But, of course, Mr. Bryan would do none of these things, any more than he will invade the solid South and summon the cohorts of Democracy to the defence of the Constitution with the battle cry "Shall the People Rule?" Mr. Bryan simply does not mean what he says. What he utters with Chadbandian unction in the North he repudiates with Pecksnifflan duplicity in the South. Business Men Honest. The business men of our community as a whole are honest and their methods are sound. The President has never said otherwise. Indeed, it is chiefly in the interest of the great body of honest business men that he has made his fight for lawful business methods.—Hon. Wm. H. Taft, to Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, Boston, Mass. Gratitude to McKinley The highest claim of William McKinley for the gratitude of his countrymen is that, in spite of the abuse and contumely that was heaped upon his head for this policy, he placed our country in the forefront of nations as a civilizer and uplifter of unfortunate peoples.—How. Wm. M. Taft, at Cleveland, Ohio. Subscribe for the Form BRYAN'S POLICIES DESTRUCTIVE Mr. Taft Compares Republican and Democratic Platforms. (From Mr. Taft's Speech of Acceptance.) The chief difference between the Republican and the Democratic platforms is the difference which has heretofore been seen between the policies of Mr. Roosevelt and those which have been advocated by the Democratic candidate, Mr Bryan. Mr. Roosevelt's policies have been progressive and regulative; Mr. Bryan's destructive. Mr. Roosevelt has favored regulation of the business in which evils have grown up so as to stamp out the evils and permit the business to continue. The tendency of Mr. Bryan's proposals has generally been destructive of the business with respect to which he is demanding reform. Mr. Roosevelt would compel the trusts to conduct their business in a lawful manner and secure the benefits of their operation and the maintenance of the prosperity of the country of which they are an important part; while Mr. Bryan would extirpate and destroy the entire business in order to stamp out the evils which they have practiced. ENEMY OF TARIFF. Labor World Sees Danger in Bryan Plan of Tariff for Revenue Only. (From the Labor World.) Workingmen and producers generally should not delude themselves with the belief that, if Mr. Bryan shall be elected President, his plans for revision of the tariff will present no menace to the country. Mr. Bryan is the professed enemy of the tariff system. He would impose duties, if at all, for revenue purposes only. On articles competing with what he chooses to call trust-made goods he would have no duty at all. Any apparent deficit in import duties arising from revised schedules he estimates would be more than made up by increased imports. Of course, his hope is to strike at the great protection States, which happen to be Republican in politics, like Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, etc. It does not seem to matter to him that every dollar's worth of foreign goods in the competitive class coming into the United States on a revenue or free trade basis necessarily by so much reduces the demand for home goods, thus displacing just that much American labor. What he wants to do is to rebuke and avenge himself upon protected manufacturers who do not agree woth him in politics and who will have none of him at the polls, says an exchange. But while Mr. Bryan is gunning for protected industries and Republican States, once his proposed tariff law should be in force it would fall alike upon all sections of the country, the only differences between one State and another being in the degree of hardship imposed. We hear of workingmen saying that this time they intend to vote for Mr. Bryan, because for the past ten months we have had hard times. But what good will that do? How is a tariff for revenue, ignoring the protection idea altogether, going to open the shops and mills? How will the election of Senators by direct vote start the wheels of industry? Or the publication of campaign contributions? Or the further harassment of the railroads? Or the reorganization of the House, so that the Speaker may be powerless? Why open this country now to the markets of the world when we have not sufficient demand to consume what we ourselves manufacture? Under Republican rule we have just had ten years of unparalleled prosperity. Under Democratic administrations we have never had prosperity for any period, long or short. The True Circle's big event is to take place on Governor's day. Thursday evening, Oct. 1, at Masonic hall. MORTUARY. Died Tuesday. September 15, at 12 50 p.m. at the residence of his grandparent, Mrs. Hannah Bell, Otis Bell, after a short illness. The funeral occurred Thursday morning at the residence on N. 2d street, Rev. Price officiating. The funeral was largely attended. The deceased is survived by his wife, three children, one sister, grandmother and many relatives and friends The interment was made in Oak Ridge cemetery. We extend our condolence to the sorrowing family. NOW FOR THE FUTURE Well, a lesson has been learned—a very costly lesson! 'It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.' Our recent unfortunate affair has disclosed some startling things; many persons whom the better element of law abiding colored people took to be "true blue," were or are only the imitation, and the real men are known, i. e., many of them. Those that we know were not true to the right, make a cross mark opposite their names and to them that were right, mark them o. k. Give this latter class your money in business, your vote in politics and your prayers in religion. But be slow to anger and swift in mercy. Be sure you are right however—for remember the law and the prophets—of course, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is not taught in the Scripture. Nevertheless it is written: "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap; and, what ye measure unto others the same shall be unto you measured." THE LEADER If the Leader will give as logical and convincing reasons why it is for Bryan and Stevenson as The Forum can as to why it is for Taft, Deneen and the g. o. p. there will be some hope of winning colored votes to his side. The Forum had a choice other than Taft for nomination but Taft is, and was the next best thing. What inducement can the Leader give its readers to join him? If the Republicans have been negligent and evasive have not the democrats been more so? What has Bryan and Stevenson offered as a remedy to the allegedills to which the Leader refers? None. To merely be against the Republicans, who have done a wrong either by commission or omission in favor of the democrats, who have, and are, doing a greater wrong by commission and omission, is absurd in the superlative degree. We ask any reasonable rational minded person, which party does he believe will serve the best interest of the people and if you believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the democratic party is the better, you do yourself and the state an injustice by not supporting that party, and vice versa. The Forum believes the Republican party is the pillar of the nation—the foundation of government of the people for the people and by the people. BLOOMINGTON, ILL. John Scrivner leaves soon for Dakota, on future prospects. He contemplates buying land there—he is one of the oldest janitors in Bloomington and is highly spected. CONFESS OR DENY. Mr. Bryan says he recognized in 1896 that there were people who feared his election would be injurious to the country. Their fears grew out of the fact that his paramount issue was the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. They believed free silver would make cheap silver the measure of value, that the purchasing power of wages would be decreased, and that bank deposits and other credits would be scaled down one-half in value. Mr. Bryan argued then that those fears were ill founded. I he of the same opinion now? He says the money question has been taken out of politics by "unexpected discoveries of gold." That does not answer the query whether the men who in 1906 saw in his election on free silver platform an injury to the country were justified in their belief. Is Mr. Bryan willing to admit that his monetary policy if put in operation in 1907 would have been fraught with disastrous consequences to the country? I he were to confess that his election in 1896 would have been a public calamity he would stand before the people now as a man who had the honesty to admit that he was on one occasion frightfully in the wrong. But if Mr. Bryan shall insist that he was in the right in 1896 and that the popular fear he speaks of was unwarranted, it will be manifest that he is still as ignorant regarding the money question as he was then or that truth is not in him.—Chicago Tribune. Yea—and too, ask him about those other intermediate issues from 1897 to 1906—don't ask him about his present issues, wait awhile—1912 is ample time. Mrs. Sarah Harris returned Sunday night from Atlantic City, New Jersey, where she attended a quadrennial session of the H. H. of Ruth and Odd Fellows. She reports a delightful time spent. If you miss the entertainment to be given by the Inner Circle at the Masonic Hall, Thursday evening, Oct. 1, you will miss a rare treat. Can't Disaffect the Farmers. The failure of Bryan's desperate attempts to curry favor with the farmers is illustrated by the manner in which he was received at Crookston, Minn. According to Congressman Halver Stevenson the event went off as follows: "Bryan's speech at Crookston was a great disappointment. He actually lost ground there for Democracy. Thousands of people were there to hear him, and waited till ten o'clock in the evening before he appeared. The address was a narrow appeal to farmers, a harangue, trying to prejudice them against Republicanism. It didn't take at all. Only once was there the slightest symptom of applause. He spoke to a silent, disappointed audience." Campaign of Education. In the great battle of 1833 the Republican party again stood for the maintenance of the integrity of the nation. The 1833 was against eds produced by a great industrial depression and against the most sophistical arguments. The Republican party maintained a campaign of education among the wage-earners and the farmers, which ultimately led to the complete defeat of this second financial heresy which has threatened the integrity of our business structure.—Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Kansas City, Mo. LABOR LEGISLATION Republican States Have Been Liberal in Legislation for Labor. Democratic States Have Done Little to Make Labor Conditions Better Within Their Bounds. It is a fact that every important step for the benefit of American labor has been taken either by a Republican Congress and administration, or by the Legislature of a Republican State, of course with the consent, and sometimes by the advice, of the State executive. Democratic Congresses have been notably negligent in this respect, and Democratic States have either done nothing to make labor conditions better within their bounds, or have slowly and reluctantly followed at a distance in the trail of Republican reforms. State Legislation. The States have control of labor legislation within their respective bounds, federal authority being confined, so far as labor is concerned, to the District of Columbia and the territories, federal reservations and federal public works. The story of labor legislation shows that nearly all labor reforms originated in Republican States, and at the present day the Republicans are far ahead of the Democrats in the enactment and enforcement of laws for the welfare of men and women and children who work for a living. Twenty-six out of thirty Republican States have labor bureaus, and only seven out of sixteen Democratic States have similar bureaus, without which labor laws are often dead letters. Twenty-three Republican States have factory inspectors to see to the enforcement of the factory laws. Only six Democratic States have factory inspection services. Fifteen States-thirteen Republican and two Democratic-have free employment agencies. Eighteen States have laws on their statute books prohibiting labor on government works or public contracts for more than eight hours a day. Of these States sixteen are Republican and two Democratic. Four Republican States and one Democratic State have laws declaring eight hours to be a legal working day in the absence of a contract. Twenty-seven States prohibit the employment of children under fourteen years of age in factories. Of these twenty-three are Republican and four are Democratic States. Laws limiting the hours of the employment of children in factories or stores have been enacted in twenty-four Republican and thirteen Democratic States. Eighteen Republican and ten Democratic States prohibit night work by children. Twelve Republican and three Democratic States prohibit the employment of children in operating dangerous machinery or cleaning machinery in motion. Fifteen Republican and six Democratic States limit the hours of labor of women. It should be noted that twelve of the Republican States which limit women's hours of labor have factory inspectors to see that the law is obeyed, while only three of the Democratic States make such provision. In twenty-three Republican and ten Democratic States employers are required by law to provide seats for female workers. Twelve States have enacted legislation intended to effect the extinction of the sweatshop system, with its degrading and revolting accessories. Of these twelve States ten are Republican and two Democratic. Seventeen Republican and five Democratic States have laws requiring the payment of wages weekly or fortnightly, or, in some instances, prohibiting a longer period than one month between pay days. Trade Union Labels. Fourteen Republican States and only one Democratic State—Nevada—have laws in force prohibiting employers from discharging persons on account of membership in labor organizations, or from compelling persons to agree not 305 1/2 So. 6th St. Old phone 998 to become members of labor organizations as a condition of securing employment or continuing in their employ. Forty States have passed laws allowing trade unions to adopt labels or trademarks to be used to designate products of the labor of their members, and prohibiting the counterfeiting of the use of such labels, or trade-marks by unauthorized persons. Of these States twenty-eight are Republican and twelve are Democratic. The foregoing presents for consideration by intelligent, patriotic labor substantial facts and figures taken from the statute books of the several States. No platitude can upset them. They prove the records of the Republican party and of the Democracy on the labor issue, and they must convince every reasonable reader that the Republican party has not only brought American labor up to its present honorable standard, but that labor can look only to the Republican party for assurance of protection and prosperity in the future. Would Restrain Unlawful Trusts. Mr. Bryan asks me what I would do with the trusts. I answer that I would restrain unlawful trusts with all the efficiency of injunctive process and would punish with all the severity of criminal prosecution every attempt on the part of aggregated capital to suppress competition.—Hon. Win. H. Taft, at Columbus, Ohio. TROUBLE FOR DEMOCRATJ. They Find That the Delivery of the Labor Vote to the Democracy is Not Easy. The Democrats are having trouble in their state headquarters organizing a bureau which they expect to deliver the labor vote of Illinois to them. A fight has been started between the members of the American Federation of Labor and the railroad brotherhoods, the latter having a membership of 110,000 in Illinois. When the railroad men's bureau of the national campaign committee was organized, P. J. Culkin, an engineer on the Illinois Central, and an organizer in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, was placed in charge of the work. Last week the managers superseded him by placing in charge of the work A. A. Allen, advertising manager for the Union Labor Advocate, an official publication of the Chicago Federation of Labor, with offices in the same suite. The railroad bureau was combined with the general labor bureau, and Culkin refused to serve under the dictation of Allen. This was a bad start, but the state of the situation made it worse. Last week Charles Boesenstein, chairman of the Democratic state central committee, hired two members of the railroad brotherhood connected with the Illinois Central railroad to take charge of the Stevenson Railroad Men's club. The organization work was begun by these men, and offices were opened in the Sherman house. Now comes more dickering on the part of the Democratic managers with the Federation officials, resulting in the appointment of John B. Lennon, of Bloomington, treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, as head of the combined railroad and general bureau. Mr. Lennon is a personal friend of Adlai Stevenson. Mr. Boeschenstein was warned by the railroad men that they would not work under the supervision of the Federation officials, not for personal reasons, but because the railroad men never affiliated with the Federation men in matters political. Mr. Boeschenstein saw fit to go ahead with his plan, and the railroad men "went out on strike." Now they threaten to organize the railroad men in Illinois, and the plain inference is that the Bryan-Stevenson ticket will be hurt thereby. Aged Woman Missing. Mrs. Mary Ann McGuire, aged seventy years, left the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Hurst, at Omaha, on Aug. 30, and constant search since that time has failed to reveal her whereabouts. Have Your Fall Suit Made of All Wool Fabrics, Now on Hand at The Capital City Pantatorium. 109 South Fourth Street French, Dry and Steam Cleaning. Goods Called for and Delivered. 'Phones: Old, 535; New, 99 J. W. SLAUGHTER, Proprietor. Society and Local ANNOUNCEMENTS. S. T. Jones is a candidate for circuit clerk of Sangamon county on the Republican ticket. Bud Wilson has returned to the city and is employed at the Harry Taylor laundry. Mrs. Anna Atkinson has returned from a pleasant visit to Chicago. She was the guest of Mrs. F. L. Barnett. Mr. Grady of Evansville. Ind., is in the city, the guest of relatives. Fred Williams of Chathrm. was in the city Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Lewis has returned from Pittsfield. James C. Adams, of Attorney General Stead's office, is in Chicago, being called there on the account of the death of his baby. Rev, Jas. H Doswell must be especially praised for the stand he took and is taking, in advising and assisting the perturbed minded people. He has gone to the front in every crisis that has come upon us. He was the first person to call on Joe James and give spiritual advice and assistance, two months ago, the daily papers statement to the effect that a white lady last Sunday, was the first to interview James, being erroneous. Rev. S. C. Manuel was absent from his post of duty at Union church last Sunday, being away attending the National Baptist Convention at Lexington, Ky. All the colored people who want to, come on back here, get a job and save your money. You will meet your friends at the Inner Circle reception to be given at the Masonic Hall Thurs day evening, Oct. 1. Arthur Johnson, after a two months' visit with relatives, has returned to the city. Miss Gertrude Williams is clerk at the law office of Royall & Williams. Carl Fant and wife have returned to the city. Mr. Fant is employed at the Illinois hotel. The soldier boys returned home last Sunday after a ten days camp work at Ft Benjamin Harrison, Ind., where they made a good record. You are cordially invited to attend the reception to be given in honor of the visitors to the fair. Thursday, Oct. 1. A [Name] --- OUR PLACE IS THE BEST Barbershop In Town. Shaves, haircut, champoon and Massages. Try Our Place. Quick and good services rendered. 821 E. Washington St. GRADY & WEBSTER, Propt's. CHAS. S. GIBBS Attorney and Counsellor at Law. NOTARY PUBLIC. Office 2231 S. 5th St. Rear of White Dental Parlors. NOTICE. The Colored Citizens' Law and Order League will meet Sunday, September 27, at 4 o'clock sharp in the Masonic Temple on 8n street bttween Washington and Jefferson. Each and every member is requested to be present, also all respectable, law-abiding citizens are cordially invited to come and join us. Rev. J. H. Doswell, Pres. E. L. Rogers Secy. I. C. Crittendon and wife are in the city. Pure Drugs Where do you buy your drugs? If you patronize CLARKSON'S MODERN DRUG STORE We are sure to please you We carry everything to be found in a first class, up to-date Drug Store. Phone for Drugs in a hurry 213 S. 6th --- 1 NOTICE. M. H. H. DR. FRANK Wa Hoo R. FRANK FLEURY a Hoo Ton DR. FRANK FLEURY's Wa Hoo Tonic SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS Also at 300-302 Neal & B Resta 728 E. Washington S Now one of th To our new quarter cial invitation at 300-302 E. Monroe S eal & Brown Restaurant . Washington St. in new quar w one of the best in o ur new quarters, we extend special invitation to the public. Neal & Brown's Restaurant 728 E. Washington St. in new quarters. Now one of the best in city To our new quarters, we extend a special invitation to the public. OUR MOTTO: To give the best mices and the best attention to patr Regular Meals a specialty. 21 meals by ticket. $300. We are prepared to serve for NEAL & BROW give the best meal; the best meals and the best and most courte ntion to patrons. Regular Meals a specialty. Short orders s meals by ticket. $300. Out of city trade soli are prepared to serve for banquets and socials or MEAL & BROWN, Proprietre CLUB NO To give the best meal; the bestservices and the best and most courteous attention to patrons. Regular Meals a specialty. Short orders served 21 meals by ticket. $300. Out of city trade solicited. We are prepared to serve for banquets and socials on request. NEAL & BROWN, Proprietresses. REISCH BREWER YCO City Brewery Their Bottle Beer is Fine Bock's Special Can't be Beat Try it! TRY DR. COLLIN'S "ABYSSINIA" It will grow your hair straight and stop it from falling out. It grow mire and will grow yours. Mrs. R. W. Jackson 1912 E. Kansas St. Agent. Mrs. Belle Bailey has returned after a pleasant visit in Paris, Missouri. Mrs. Emma Craddock was in Peoria, Tuesday. --- TRY Telephone: (Bell) 337. Dr. James E. Henderson Dr. James E. Henderson Office: 107 $ \frac{1}{2} $ W. Side Square, HOURS: {9 to 11 a.m. 3 to 5 p.m. 7 to 8 p.m.} Diseases and Ailments of Women, a Specialty. FLEURY's o Tonic E. Monroe Street Brown's urant St. in new quarters. e best in city rs, we extend a spe- to the public. meal; the bestserv- and most courteous rons. Short orders served Out of city trade solicited. banquets and socials on request. N. Proprietresses. CLUB NOTES. --- The Woman's Club held their regular monthly me ti g at the residence of the president, Mrs. J C. McClain. Monday afternoon September 21. There were present a good attenance of the members. The delegates will leave for Bloomington to attend the state Federation, on thd5th of October. The club has done excellent work this year and will have a good report for the state meeting. The ladies on committee which appealed to the several churches in behalf of the Charitable Institutions reported as follows: Union Baptist Church.....$ 3.21 Pleasant Grove Baptist.....1.26 Zion Baptist.....1.35 St. John A. M. E.....2.25 St. Paul A. M. E.....2 15 The club adjourned to meet the second Tuesday in October and will report of National and State work.—Club reporter. Northwestern University Medical School, Class of '83 SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS