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Historical Society. State House. THE FORUM SPRINGFIED, ULL.. Law and Order League Meets Last Sunday, despite the in- element weather, a goodly number of the members of the Law and Order League met at the Masonic hall. Much important business was transacted. The League correcte the erroneous rumors afloat, to the effect that the League was, is, or would be, opposed to colored men conducting saloons—the idea being absurd. On the contrary, the League will endorse desirable colored men who shall not object to agree to run his business under certain prescribed regulations, laid down by the League. The progress of the League is very good. Watch papers for next meeting. There are 94 members of the League. Dennis Douglas Re-elected. Mr. Dennis Douglas, 648 West Calhoun street, was re elected at the recent session of the Wood river Baptist Association as the treasurer of that body. He has made a good holder and a safe one of the funds, and was overwhelmingly chosen, thus attesting the truth of his fitness. Mr. Douglas is one of our substantial men and the honor or duty conferred is a just one. MRS. ATKINSON GETS PENSION. Mrs. Anna Atkinson of 1718 E. Washington street, has just received a check for a snug little sum from from the Chicago branch of the United States Pension Department at Washington. The pension comes to her as a direct heritage from her late husband, Cyrus Atkinson, who was a sailor in the U. S Navy during the war of the rebellion. The government is to be commended. Mrs. Atkinson is worthy and the monthly allowance will do much toward alleviating any necessity that might confront her in her declining years. Mrs. Atkinson recently returned from Chicago, to look after this business which has terminat ed so profitably in her favor. WOULD.BE TROUBLE BREEDER ARRESTED. A disturber of the public peace last week in front of Loper's restaurant remarked, using an oath, that he had helped put Loper out of business once and he would do so again. Loper hearing him ran out and dared the culprit to even breathe aloud, calling to Fred Long to arrest him before he (Loper) sprinkled the streets with his brains. Fred Long arrested him. VO. 5, NO. 30 "Be ve doers and not sayers only." SPRINGFIELD AND HER COLORED PEOPLE. Many colored people get discouraged and desire to go to strange and new fields to begin again. I say don't go anywhere. You have labored here, worked hard and bought property, now Springfield is becoming a city; her streets a e being paved, your property has advanced, you have become a fixture here, your children and your lodges, are here, yea, your kin are here, dead, lying yonder side of Lincoln, moldering in the grave, waiting for the final sound of the trumpet; your churches are here—brave soldiers who died, for the perpetuity of the nation, lie silent, in Oak Ridge. Let us, the posterity of so noble sires, never retreat. Leave, never, but tell others to come. We helped to make this nation. Are you more cowardly than Crispus Attucks? Shall the blood the sable sows shed at Fus Wagner, Pillow and Santiago, be in vain? Nay. And I ask for is right. Is that too little or too much? I am not worth much, and I would rather see peace than even an ignorant thief be molested, but I will tolerate only justice. I would rather be in Oak Ridge with only a board at the head of my grave, with these words inscribed, than to sacrifice what my foreparents and Lincoln died for: "Here lies a man who died for right, May his survivors obtain it." Will Make Law Practice a Specialty Attorney A. M. Williams, who became well known by his works here in the real estate business and in the establishment and promotion of various enterprises, is going after the law business in a like manner from henceforward. As a business man, he has been very successful and has been a benefactor to the business colored people of this city. His tenacious proclivities are worthy of emulation. His real estate and financial deals have been phenomenal. It is safe to predict that in the law business he will be equally as successful. The fact that he is to give special attention to the law business will not lessen his interest in the real estate and other enterprises in which he is connected. Mr. Williams was admitted to the bar one year ago last June and has conducted many cases involving legal talent and ability. He is an eloquent speaker and makes an able delivery to the jury, as was shown in the James trial. The daily press commenting on his argument as eloquent and logical. His office is in the Williams building. 1024 E. Washington St. where he shall be glad to have you call. Hon. Charles S. Deneon. LABOR DAY AT LINCOLN Information reaches this office to the effect that several of the hoodlums from Springfield went to the Labor Day celebration at Lincoln September 7, and attempted to start a disturbance with colored people there but were handled by the officers with out pains and placed in jail. Our papers did not get that information and we beg to apologize for being so late informing the public. The Forum may be slow, but the whole truth will be told if we have to write a book. Miss Mary Cosby of Peoria, visited Miss Retta Davis, this week. Frank Rudolpn, Jr. and Mr. Kennedy of Lincoln, were visitors to the fair this week. Mrs, M. Cummings and children of Decatur, are visiting their parents and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Nelson of W. Cunedy Street. What! Does Wm. R Hearst call himself a member of the "common people's union?" How did Haskell, away out there in Oklahoma, get all tangled in Wall street? Hon. Charles Don't wait to hear what the public thinks before you express your opinion. Say what you think if you believe you are right. Call at this office for type-writing. short hand and general stenographic work. 3051/2 So. 6th St. Old phone 998. At the next regular meeting night of the True Reformers, which is Thursday night of next week, let every member be out 7.30 o'clock. We must learn to expedite our business and we must be out to the meetings. Everybody come prepared to pay up and let us get in shape. E. L. Rogers, W. Secy. Miss Desdemonia Lee who has been in Chicago for several months, is the guest of her father, Mr. Edward Lee. James Ryder is in the city. Green & Lewis, hairdressing establishment, made a good showing at the fair. Claud Pemberton has returned to the city. Mr C B. Hosmer, representative of Tuskegee Institute, is in the city, with headquarters at Mrs. Mary Rollins, 1127 East Mason street. Mrs Clark-Thompson has returned to the city. James Finch of Peoria is in the city. Frank Carbellion of Carlinville is on duty as special policeman at the State Fair Grounds. A. M. Williams was in Paris. Mo. last Monday, on legal business. Les S. Deneen. St. Augustine's Mission 1420 South Grand Ave., East Services every Sunday. Sunday School, 4 p. m.; Divine services. 7:40 m. All are invited. Conducted Lev. You may give news matter money you have for the Forum of Miss Daisy Donaldson; also all kinds of typewriting; orders for colored papers. THE FORUM A weekly magazine paper devoted the interests of the whole people. Entered as second-class matter, February 24, 1904, at the postoffice at Springfield, Ill., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. BOGERS & BARBOUR Proprietors One Year.....$1.50 One Month.....15c Per Copy.....5c OFFICE: 305 1-2 6: Sixth St. Phone Main 998 THE FORUM'S STAFF. B. L. Rogers, Editor and Manager. Will H. arbour, Associate Editor and Secretary. Thompson Bros., Branch Office. Somers The Printer 3051 So. 6th St. EDITORIAL Saturday, Oct. 3, 1908. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET GOVERNOR Chas. S. Deneen U. S. 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 THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE RACES. Some weeks ago we referred to Mr. Ray Stannard Baker's conclusions as to the race question. We promised at that time to consider later a very significant paragraph to which we then briefly referred. In attempting to set our faces to the light and keep us trudging toward the true goal. Mr. Baker says: "Down at the bottom—it will seem trite, but it is eternally true—the cause of the race 'problem' and most other social problems is simply lack of understanding and sympathy between man and man. And the remedy is equally simple—a gradual substitution of understanding and sympathy for blind repulsion and hatred. Democracy, after all, is not equality, for there is no equality between men, but sympathy." In arguing this proposition he adds: As a fundamental proposition, then, it will be found that the solution of the Negro problem lies in treating the Negro more as a human being, we must judge him, not by his color, or by any other outward symbol, but upon his worth as a man. Nothing that fails of that full honesty and fairness of judgment in the smallest particular will suffice. We disgrace and injure ourselves more than we do the Negro when we are not willing to admit virtue or learning or power in another human being because his face happens to be yellow or black. "Of the soundness of this fundamental standard of judgment there can be no doubt: the difficulty lies in applying it practically to society as it is to-day. In the suggestions which I offer here I am trying to do two things: outline the present program and keep open a clear view to the future goal.'—Southwestern Christian Advocate. COL. HENRY WATTERSON AND THE NEGRO VOTE. O no, says Col. Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal, one of the ablest and most logical as well as cunning editors of the nation, I do not ask you to ask for the Negro vote of the South, he is practically out of politics, but make some inducements, (he does not say what kind of inducements) but offer some kind, for the colored vote, Mr. Bryan, in the North, where the Negro vote is potent, you see if you can divide the Negro vote there is hope for your winning. All we want is to win once more and we can afford to let the republicans take the blamed old government, after we have it for four more years, and again rehabilitate it. In fact, we do not want it but four years, because when we get through with it, it will need overhauling. Promise the Northern Negro everything—hush! hush!! you do not have to fulfill the promise, you fool—don't talk so loud. Col. Watterson reminds one of the Irish story. Two Irishmen were out in a storm, according to the legend, and had sat down under a b goak tree, the lightning was flashing with increased rapidity; the rain was pouring down and the thunder was terrific. One said to the other: What shall we do? Pat spoke up in a whisper Lord, save us until we kin git home and I'll give you a great big chew of terbacco. Mike said: Where you goin' to git it, Pat? Pat said: Hush, I just foolin' him. Your attention is especially called to an article in this issue of The Forum, from the pen of a young local clergyman, and should be read by every parent or prospective parent in Spring field, and specifically, colored parent. It is one of the finest and most profitable piece of advice we have ever before read. It is a gem. Would that every colored paper over the land could reproduce it and the white papers also. I say here now, that he speaks a fundamental truth; he gives the remedy for every evil in the land. Suppose this advice be heeded, what a marvel! What reformation there will be. Some will heed. Read it all ye who have children and you who have none also. Talk about the article and you who do not take the paper, come and get a copy and read it. If you are not able to buy a paper, we will give you a copy,—[Ed] In having printing done, colored people, remember not to go to the shop at 4th and Adams, one of the men who run that place was on the jury that acquitted Raymer of the Donagan murder. Have you read the news? Why the democrats, through Adlia Stevenson, have invited old Hoke Smith to speak here in Springfield and yet the Negroes of Chicago are organizing Stevenson clubs. Are the Negroes full fledged fools? Or have the democrats got them hypnotized completely? Hoke Smith is worse than Tillman, for Tillman has played out and Hokus jest begun. TUCKER'S PLACE. Board and Lodging House. 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WE WANT AGENTS for that GREAT BOOK "POINTING THE WAY," By Sutton E. Griggs. This is the ripest work of this well known author. The book will certainly sell, for in a beautiful, charming, forceful manner, it points outs the way for THE SOLVING of the much discussed race question. It takes equally well with white and colored people. Ask any one who has read it and he will tell you it is simply great. Splendid commissions given agents. Send $1.00 for a complete book and full outfit. Price of book $1.00. By mail $1.10. TENNESSEE --- --- E. L. Rogers, Editor-in-Chief and Business Mgr. Will H. Barbour, Asst. Editor. MISS DAISY DONALDSON, Proof Reader and Stenographer. Office Clerk, Bookkeeper Mrs. E. L. White, Contributo. H. A. Donegon, Lincoln. MISS BLANCHE HOAGLAND, Bloomington Agent and Correspondent. Address matter for the paper to The Forum, 305½ So. Sixth St. Matters of business or information to E. L. Rogers, Mgr. ANNOUNCEMENTS. State and National offices.....$10.00 County offices ..... 5.00 Mayor of Springfield ..... 5.00 Regular write-ups, 10 cents per line. Ten-line notice one time. THE ORION PUB., CO. NASHVILLE. TENNE Capitol City Lodge, No. 12, K. of P. meets every second and fourth Monday night of each month in Masonic hall on North Eighth street. Special meetings made known by K. of R. & S.. SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES. St. Paul, 622 E. Mason St., Rev. T. Price, pastor. Union, 12th & Mason Sts., Rev. C. S. Manuel, pastor. Evangelical Lutheran Holy Trinity, 15th St., between Washington and Jefferson Sts., Rev. Jas. H. Doswell, pastor. Pleasant Grove, 18th and Cass, Rev. Bloodworth, pastor. St. John, 14th and Mason Sts., Rev. J. Bundy, pastor. New Hope, 8th and Miller, Rev. M. C. Elzey, Pastor. Grace M. E., 14th and Brown Sts., Rev. J. M. Smalley, Pastor. Sunday School at all the churches; the public invited to attend. Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. We will run the cards, announcing the place and meeting nights of all Lodges, for 25c per month. "Oh, Douglas! Thou hast passed be yond the shore, But still thy voice is ringing o'er the gale— Thou'st taught thy race how high her hope may soar, And bid them seek the heights, nor faint nor fall." Paul Laurence Dunbar on Fred Douglass. Call at Thompson's, 815 East Wash ington st for colored papers. Call at this office for type-writing, short hand and general stenographic work. 305 $ \frac{1}{2} $ So. 6th St. Old phone 998. 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. Don't wait to hear what the public thinks before you express your opinion. Say what you think if you believe you are right. The Eureka Comb It is an assured fact that there is now on the market, A COMB, Scientifically Made of Hardened and Highly Polished Metals. 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BAUMANN Baumann Bros.... Prescription Druggists. (Deutsche Apotheke) Corner 7th and Washington Sts Both Phones 654 Your Patronage solicited $1.50 to East St. Louis every Saturday and Sunday ILLINOIS TRACTION SYSTEM You may give news matter or money you have for the Forum to Miss Daisy Donaldson; also all kinds of typewriting; orders for colored papers. St. Augustine's Mission. 1420 South Grand Ave., East. Services every Sunday. Sunday School 4 p. m.; Divine services, 7:45 p. m All are invited. Conducted by Rev STEVENSON'S RECORD It is Being Closely Scanned by the Trade Unionists of the State of Illinois. TREATMENT OF MINE WORKERS Fought Organization of Union in His Mine Until 1899. Futile Attempt to Organize Stevenson's Miners When He Was a Candidate for Vice President in 1892. Springfield, Sept. 29.—Illinois trades unionists have been scanning the record of Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic candidate for governor, on his treatment of mine workers in the mines of the McLean County Coal company, at Bloomington. They have discovered that he has been a persistent opponent of organized labor ever since the organization of the company in 1888. He fought the organization of the union in his mine until in 1899, when, by joint agreement with all the other operators in the state, the miners compelled him to submit to the organization of his employees. Mr. Stevenson's attitude toward the miners was shown by the extent to which he and the other members of his company went in refusing to treat with them. They even ordered the representatives of the mine workers off their premises and declined to listen to any offers or requests they had to make. Biography is Misleading. In the biography of Mr. Stevenson, in "Prominent Democrats of Illinois," a history of the Democratic party in this state, published by the Democrat Publishing company of Chicago in 1899, the following statement is made: "Besides his legal business, Mr. Stevenson is interested in a number of business enterprises and manages a large coal mining industry near Bloomington. It is a notable fact that there has never been a strike at the mine." In the official report made to the state bureau of labor in 1888 by James Freer, of Peoria, then inspector for the Third inspection district, comprising many other counties than that of McLean, there appears under the head of "Strikes" the following language: "There have been only two strikes in this district during the last year. The first was by the miners employed by the McLean County Coal company at Bloomington. The company having discharged a few of their employees for taking a leading part in forming a union, the miners as a body came out on a strike to have those who had been discharged reinstated. After a three weeks parley, the company having succeeded in getting other miners, the old miners returned to work." Mr. Stevenson was then and is now president of the McLean County Coal company. Failed Again in 1892. In 1892, when Mr. Stevenson was a candidate for vice president, another effort was made to organize his men. M. D. Ratchford, of Massillon, Ohio, was employed at that time as an organizer for the National Union of Miners. He and others visited Bloomington for the purpose of conferring with Mr. Stevenson's employees with the view of having them join the union. These representatives of organized labor were denied an interview with the officials of the company and In fact were not allowed anywhere on the company's premises. Again the effort of the miners organize was defeated. Last Mine Organized. No further attempt to get the cooperation of the miners employed by Mr. Stevenson was made until the fall of 1897. As a result of the suspension of mining in Illinois and other states, an agreement between the operators and miners was reached. In consequence of this agreement every coal mine practically in Illinois became unionized except the mine owned and operated by Mr. Stevenson and his fellow stockhokkers. For two years following that settlement of the mining difficulties the company, of which Mr. Stevenson is the head, protested and refused to become a party thereto. It was only through necessity finally that Mr. Stevenson and his coal company agreed to the unionization of his mine. The mine workers had become so strong that it was impossible for the company to operate without their aid. Interested in Peabody, Too. The attitude of other operators, who are interested in Mr. Stevenson's candidacy, is receiving consideration by trades unionists too. Mr. Frank Peabody, head of the Peabody Coal company, with mines in several counties of the state, is Mr. Stevenson's financial backer and campaign manager. Mr. Peabody's sympathies, like those of Mr. Stevenson, naturally are with the coal operators, and miners believe that if Mr. Stevenson should become governor he would especially protect the coal operators from such legislation as the miners might demand. Mr. Peabody has no use as a coal operator for Governor Deneen. His attitude to the present governor is based not alone on the mining legislation which the governor approved, but goes back to the activity of Mr. Deneen as state's attorney of Cook county. While acting in that capacity Mr. Deneen, in the interests of the consumers of Cook county, had many coal companies indicted for conspiring unreasonably to increase the price of coal. All the indicted coal companies pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $500 each. Since then they have devoted their spare time to denouncing Deneen. A statement of Mr. Peabody, which was made recently, has aroused the wrath of the mine workers. He said that as a coal operator whenever it suits his purpose to do so he proposes to destroy the organization of the mine workers in this state. RAILWAY MEN FOR DENEEN "Movement for the Re-Election of One of Best Governors"-Employes Form Club. Railway employees throughout the state are being organized into a Railway Employes' Deneen club. The club has established headquarters at the Grand Pacific hotel and is pursuing the endless chain card system. Letters are sent to railroad men informing them that "this movement in the interest of the re-election of one of Illinois' best governors was inspired by the fact that unscrupulous and unjust attacks have been and are being made against his present administration." A postal card is enclosed with the request that it be signed, and with the names of friends, be forwarded to headquarters in order that they may be communicated with. President Burt McAllister says thousands of cards are being received from railroad men announcing their intention to vote for Governor Deneen. Mr. McAllister says he believes that eighty per cent of the railway men are for Deneen and will vote for him November 3rd. COCKRAN ON TAFT. There is a remarkable unanimity of opinion of Judge Taft in all parties and in all sections. Men pay tribute to his remarkable ability even where party politics may exert such an influence as to demand the espousing of the rival presidential candidate's cause. As an illustration W. Bourke Cockran in an interview at Boston the other day said: "Yes, I shall support Bryan; he is the best candidate the Democrats could put up. Taft, however, is the greatest and best qualified nominee ever offered in any republic in the world. He is a greater man than Roosevelt, and when surrounded by the same environments that made Roosevelt great will prove a bigger man. Taft is a wonderful administrator, the greatest the country has ever seen, a wonderful worker." 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 commanding salaries ranging from $50 to $100 per month. The graduates of this department of the school are successfully employed as instructors, or as managers of important agricultural operations. The school has an agricultural faculty of twenty instructors; men who have received their training in the best agricultural schools of the country. 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 course of one or two years provided for graduates of high schools and colleges. We are especially anxious to have a large number of agricultural students who have finished high school or college courses. Any young man who is ambitious enough to finish any of the courses above mentioned 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 DON'T FORGET I am now doing a general Real Estate —AND— Loan Business Property in all parts of the City offered for the very Lowest Prices and best TERMS. Loans made on Property or Anything of Value. Strictly Confidential Ladies Business solicited PHONES: Office 2322 Res. 1768R2 A. Morris Williams, Williams' Bldg. 11th & Washington DR. C. H. JONES Contractor and Builder—Real Estate Rentals Loans and Insurance. Business Letters. Deeds. Wills and Mortgages drawn. All businesses confidential. Office: 116 south 7th street Old Telephone. Res., 2595 r 3. 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Southbound for Carlinville, Gillespie, Staunton, Litchfield, Edwardsville, Gran- ite City and St. Louis. °5:00 am †9:00 am †1:00 pm †6:00 pm °6:20 am †10:20 am †2:00 pm †6:20 pm °7:00 am †11:00 am †3:00 pm †7:00 pm °8:00 am †12:00 noon †4:00 pm †9:00 pm †5:00 pm †11:25 pm *11:30 pm °Local cars. †Limited cars. stopping at towns only. *Sleeper. §Limited cars, making all stops. †Daily except Sunday. Corrected May 4, 1908. Cars leave Springfield for Lincoln ‡5, 7, 9 and 11 a. m.: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 p. m. ‡5 a. m., daily except Sunday. NO DUST DIRT SMOKE CINDER Dr. S. A. WARE, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. OFFICE:—627½ East Adams street HOURS: 10 a. m. to 12 m. 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. 7 p. m. to 9. Calls promptly made. IS NOW A REPUBLICAN Judge William Prentiss of Chicago Has Deserted the Democratic Party. SUPPORTS TAFT AND DENEEN His Change of Convictions Made Known in a Letter. Tells Archie M. Augustine Why He Cannot Support Bryan-What He Says of the State Situation. Judge William Prentiss, of Chicago, a life-long Democrat and ardent Bryan partisan, has turned his back on his old leader and joined the Republican party. He declares that he will support William H. Taft for president and Charles S. Deneen for governor. Judge Prentiss made known his change of convictions in a letter to his cousin, Archie M. Augustine, of Normal, who had written him for an opinion of the candidacy of Bryan and Stevenson. In giving his reasons for his change, Judge Prentiss said: "Bryan claims that he is the man to continue and extend Roosevelt's work, claiming much of it as suggestions of his own. Less than three months ago I preferred Bryan as Roosevelt's successor. He was my partisan, in whom I then had full confidence, but my faith in Bryan is a relic. Bryan, not the ideal Bryan of the past, but the real Bryan of today, surrounded by the Macks, Murphys, McGraws, Taggarts, Sullivans and Joe Baileys, et al., the present day Democratic party at the best could be but a dismal failure. Prentiss Quotes Bryan. "Four years ago at St. Louis, Bryan said of the Illinois state convention: 'The evidence shows that no band of train robbers ever planned a raid upon a train more deliberately or with less conscience than they did.' This elque of men was the same Hopkins-Sullivan gang with whom, I am forced to admit, Mr. Bryan is now harmonizing so nicely. Two years later in July, 1906, Mr. Bryan wrote Judge O. P. Thompson, insisting upon Roger C. Sullivan's elimination from the national committee. He spoke of his fraudulent selection by the 'train robber' convention and his corporation connections, and further said: 'Mr. Sullivan's presence upon the national committee contradicts all we can say in the party's behalf.'" Judge Prentiss says in his letter that because of Bryan's surrender to Sullivan on the grounds of expediency and because he was surrounded at present by the obnoxious element of Democracy which had opposed him in the past, he does not find himself able to support Mr. Bryan for the presidency. The State Situation. Turning to the state situation Judge Prentiss informs Mr. Augustine that the same elements in Illinois that have opposed Mr. Bryan in the past are now supporting Adlai Stevenson for governor. Consequently he urges that no Democrat who has opposed Roger Sullivan and his followers should now aid or assist them in any way in obtaining control of the state of Illinois by the election of Stevenson. "As to the governorship," said Judge Prentiss, "I have long known Adlai Stevenson and have most friendly feelings for him personally, but I shall vote to re-elect Governor Deneen. Behind the Stevenson candidacy are the most foxy and unscrupulous politicians in the state—both Democrats (so-called) and Republicans (so-called)." STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES No body of citizens is so well acquainted with the high qualifications and honest and unselfish labors of the present state board of charities, and especially of its distinguished president, Dr. Frank Billings, as the physicians, who naturally resent any effort to return the institutions to the spoils system of the recent past. While the capacity of the board of charities is almost entirely advisory, and it has few executive rights or ad- ministrative functions, even appointed for the purpose of conducting an impartial and non-partisan investigation of the conditions at the various state institutions for the purpose of making recommendations for the improvement of management, medical supervision, methods of care and treatment, buildings and equipment. The high esteem in which our present state board of charities is held by the physicians is shown by the unanimous vote of approval by the house of delegates, representing over 5,000 members, at the last annual meeting in Pecera. The attitude of Governor Deneer toward the recommendations of the board of charities and toward the state institutions, as well as the work of the board, was approved. The majority of the state institutions are semi-medical, and require medical supervision. Therefore, the ultimate solution of the questions arising in connection with them must largely be made by the medical profession, and in no campaign has this fact been made more prominent.—Illinois Medical Journal. In the case of Bryan it is a question not of what he would do for the people, but of what he would do to the people. "A STATESMAN WITH A CONSCIENCE." Description of the Republican Presidential Candidate by Senator Borah of Idaho. (From Senator Borah's Boston Speech.) "Now, it seems to be conceded by friend and free that few men have been nominated for the presidency whose experience, whose training and whose sound and wholesome fashion of grasping and dealing with public questions were equal to those of William H. Taft. "He is not a crusader, he is a statesman with conscience. He has won his present position through a cheerful, unhesitating and undeviating devotion to duty, through actually achieving things on the open field of action, through an intelligent conception of the strength and worth of our great government with its checks and balances; and the strength and capacity of our citizenship with its loyalty and its patriotism. "No man ever had a deeper regard for the fundamental principles and precepts upon which this government is founded, and no one ever had a firmer conviction that the constitution is a sufficient chart by which to measure all rights and obligations and to gauge all the demands and all the aspirations and restrain and control all the recklessness of this indomitable race of ours. Trained in the law, eleven years on the bench, he explored well the sources of jurisprudence and carried away from his work an everlasting devotion to order and justice. "Under all circumstances and under all emergencies, he has proved himself a brave, clean-minded, self-poised and courageous statesman. No man can put his finger upon a little or cowardly act, an incompetent or questionable piece of public service—no stain upon his private life, no shadow upon his public career. And standing now in the full fierce light which beats upon a throne, with eager eyes scrutinizing every act of a long and arduous public career, no doubt arises as to his experience and ability, no challenge comes to his fine sense of duty or his patriotism." I believe our strong party with its great principles is only in its infancy. Our glory as a nation has but just begun. There are mighty problems yet to be solved, grave questions to be answered, complex issues to be wrought out, but I believe we can trust the Grand Old Party and its leaders to care for the entire future of our Nation and of our people as it has cared for them so well in the past.—Hon. James S. Sherman. In Des Moines Mr. Bryan talked free trade, in Indianapolis sailed into corporations, and in Topeka proclaimed the necessity of the guarantee of bank deposits. Mr. Bryan is geographically adjustable at a moment's notice, and never dismayed when one of his paramount issues blows up.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Call at this office for type-writing, short hand and general stenographic work. 305½ So. 6th St. Old phone 998. Do You Want A Home? Excellent opportunity for young men. 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 Bid No agent has authority to change any te 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 home, 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 ended plat of the townsite furnished by the pass from the Red Bird Investment Company Ruble, Register of Deeds, Wagoner, Oklah- lag fee will be $1.00 for each deed. years ago, is yet good: "Go west, young- ly." TITLE. at-edge and absolutely perfect. Warranty rd 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 33, at page 121. LOCATION. Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, which is & Texas Railroad, twenty-one miles north- alley of the Arkansas and Verdigris rivers. Portile 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 Territorial in the following books and pages: Record Book 32, at page 79; Record Book 33, 44, at page 49 and Record Book 48, at page 121. LOCATION. Red Bird is on the Missouri, Kansas & Ore operated by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad west of Muskogee, in the fertile valley of the Ark 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 north-west 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. BENJAMIN H. BELLAMY, 219 North 15th Street, Springfield, III what stands out, and who career is one of profession, business or politics, the same thing is true." In introducing Mr. Taft at Toledo, Ohio, Bishop Samuel Fallows indorsed him unreservedly, and in the course of his remarks said: Mr. Aaron A. Ferris, a prominent Cincinnati lawyer, who has known Judge Taft for thirty years, said: "I can aver, without fear of successful contradiction, that no man ever came before the American people for the highest honor in their gift so thoroughly prepared to meet its weighty responsibilities as Mr. Taft. He is ripe in the knowledge of jurisprudence and clear and firm in judicial decisions. He has won, as an executive officer in our Oriental possessions, the plaudits of his countrymen and of admiring nations. He has satisfactorily settled in those islands of the sea some of the most delicate and difficult subjects, involving deep-seated racial and religious questions, ever brought up for adjudication. * * * He is deeply religious without a trace of bigotry, fearing God and working righteousness, as did the two Adamses and Abraham Lincoln." "I have never had occasion to ask Judge Taft what his creed was in matters religious. I know that, when in Cincinnati, he has been quite regular in attendance at Christ Episcopal church, of which members of his family are communicants, and of which I am a vestryman. I know very well that no one in trouble or distress ever appealed to him without receiving a patient hearing and prompt and material aid, when in his power to give it. If a man's character is to be gauged by what he does, and not by mere profession; if leading a clean and upright life is to be a guide, and doing righteous deeds is to be counted, then I am confident that his neighbors and fellow-citizens who have lived with him and know him well, without regard to creed, color or party association, would say that Taft has lived and acted in every station as a Christian gentleman." Taft's Idea of Character. In my effort to discover the qualities which led one to describe Mr. Taft as "the highest type of Christian gentleman" I learn that the candidate himself, within a month, has defined just what importance he attached to Christian character in the building of a successful career. The question had been put to him to develop his personal views, and writing in response the Republican candidate said: Democratic Inconsistency. The Democratic leaders have been for years making loud declarations against corporations and trusts and railroads and have, nevertheless, instituted no legislative steps in all this time for the purpose of restraining abuses. They are now indignant that the Republican party, in carrying out the promises of its own platform, is putting into practice the principles which they, with a superb self-complacency, claim are really covered by a Democratic patent.—Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Greensboro, North Carolina. "Your question suggests two others which must be answered in answering this: First, what is a Christian character, and, second, what is a successful career? First, I consider a Christian character that of one who holds as his ideal a compliance with the two commandments given by Jesus Christ, and who earnestly strives to live up to that ideal. Second, I should define a successful career to be that career which brings more_real happiness to those who happen to be within the operation of the influence of the person whose character is in question. In spite of the general comfort, there have been made manifest by signs not to be misunderstood, a quickening of the public conscience and a demand for the remedy of abuses, the outgrowth of this prosperity, and for a higher standard of business integrity. Every lover of his country should have a feeling of pride and exaltation in this evidence that our society is still sound at the core.—Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Columbus, Ohio. "Coming now to answer your inquiry, I should say that a Christian character in the building of a successful career is its most important part. The longer one lives the more convinced he must become that every other incident and element of a career loses importance in comparison, and that when a man's life work is done the 13 Start with Red Bird. Mishop Fallows' Tribute. What an Old Friend Says. Democratic Inconsistency. TITLE. Society Is Sound. HIGHEST TYPE OF CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN Churchmen Who Know Judge Taft Render Him This Sincere Tribute. The Attitude of the Republican Candidate Towards Religion and a Life Which Shows Adherence to the Best Ethics and Morals. "Because he is the highest type of the Christian gentleman." This is the way in which I heard the pastor of a Methodist church in southern Illinois end an argument with a layman on the train coming to Cincinnati from St. Louis, writes a staff correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The layman, paying due respect to the cloth of his opponent, was trying to convince him that he should not support Mr. Taft for the presidency, and instead should vote for his Democratic opponent. The churchman defended the principles of the Republican party, and, as indicated, defended the man for whom he said he expected to vote, from his personal standpoint of a churchman, "because he is the highest type of a Christian gentleman." Bishop J. C. Hartzell of the Methodist Episcopal Church, discussing the religious beliefs of Bryan and Taft, after calling on the latter, said: "Which of these men I shall vote for will not be decided by their religious beliefs, but what they are as men, and by the principles and policies they stand for in the administration of the government. I believe that in acting upon this view, as an American citizen, I am in harmony with the spirit and purpose of the founders of our republic, who put into the constitution that there should be 'no religious test as to qualifications to any office or public trust under the United States.' My conviction is that the future safety of the nation depends very largely upon our people heeding that constitutional prohibition. Our nation owes much in moral character, statesmanship, literature, art and religion to those who have not been in strict harmony with some of the dogmas of the church. The days of the inquisition are past." Remembering that Mrs. Taft is a Presbyterian, but that Miss Helen Taft was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in Washington last winter at the same time that Miss Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of the President, was confirmed, I wondered as to Mr. Taft's church association. When I made the inquiry here I was answered through the columns of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, the great Methodist publication, just as it had given answer to hundreds of inquiries from its Mehodist subscribers. It said: Man of Broad Sympathies. "Mrs. Taft and children are Episcopalians, and the Secretary frequently accompanies them to St. John's Church, where, also, he has a pew. While Mr. Roosevelt goes to the German Reformed Church, his wife and family, who are Episcopalians, attend historic St. John's Church, where they sit only one or two pews removed from Mrs. Taft and her children. Secretary Taft spends his vacation at Murray Bay, Canada, where there is a Union Church, attended by the summer colonists of all denominations. The Secretary of War is one of the trustees of this summer colony church, where people of many faiths gather for worship." This Methodist testimony indicated to me the broad and liberal view of Mr. Taft in religious matters. In looking through the file of this same publication—the Western Christian Advocate—I found a discussion of both nominees, in the course of which it was asserted: "The sympathies of both Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan are very broad, and they worship easily and naturally with any Christian denomination. Whichever man is elected, the country will have, therefore, a President of clean life, lofty principles and Christian convic- tions. On the same afternoon, when Bishop Hartzell called, Rev. James G. Robinson, pastor of the Eaker Street African Methodist Church of Dayton. Ohio, called at the headquarters in company with W. H. Jones, one of the leading colored lawyers of the same city. Mr. Jones was proud of the fact that he is president of the Colored Taft Club, the first one to be incorporated in the United States, and Rev. Mr. Robinson admitted that he is president of the Board of Directors of the same club. As he left Mr. Taft's office I asked him for his view of the candidate, both from his standpoint as a churchman and as a leader of his race. "I believe," he said, "Judge Taft will be elected by a safe and comfortable majority, not simply because he is a Republican, nor am I speaking because I am a Republican. But Judge Taft represents all of the ideals of the true Christian statesman." As to the attitude of his own race, Rev. Mr. Robinson said: "We can not afford to line up with the Democratic party, which has been antagonistic to our interests always, and against the party headed by such wise and Christian statesmen as is Judge Taft. He is a man whom we know in Ohio is desirous that all men, without regard to WOULD WIELD HIS AX Stevenson Would Keep Up His Record if Elected Governor of Illinois. ALTGELD FORCES BEHIND HIM Last Democratic Administration Reviewed by Tanner. Voters Should Give It Careful Attention in View of the Aspirations of "General" Stevenson for Governorship. Springfield, Ill., Sept. 29.—"General" Stevenson, the Democratic candidate for governor, said in his speech at the Peoria convention that the state charitable institutions should be on a nonpartisan basis "wholly disconnected from partisan politics." In previous speeches he said that all appointments should be "non-partisan." By the time he made his Peoria speech he had changed his mind and said that "judicious appointments" should be made This statement was in line with "General" Stevenson's past record. When assistant postmaster general during President Cleveland's first term, "General" Stevenson became famous for the use of the political ax. He removed 48,000 Republican postmasters. When he was nominated for the vice presidency in 1900 the Democrat who placed him in nomination said that one great thing in "General" Stevenson's favor was that he could always tell the difference between a Democrat and a Republican. Represents Same Old Forces. "General" Stevenson has the active support for governor of many of the men who were connected with the administration of Governor Altgeld, the last Democratic governor in Illinois. Foremost in the ranks of his leaders are Roger Sullivan, national committeeman from Illinois, and John P. Hopkins, who, with Mr. Sullivan, has ruled Democratic politics in Illinois for years. Then there are George Brennan, F. B. Peabody, S. D. Griffin, John F. O'Malley, "Bennic" Mitchell and Representative John J. McLaughlin. Mr. McLaughlin is the representative who, as a member of the investigating committee, preceded his visit to the various institutions by sending a letter to the superintendent informing him that he was interested in a brick and cement company and would be glad to have a contract with that institution. He never failed to call attention to the fact that he was a member of the committee, and that they would soon investigate the institution from which he was seeking a contract. Colonel Bryan laments the "discrimination that has been going on against the farmer" in electing so few tillers of the soil to Congress and the Senate. What troubles him chiefly, however, is the discrimination which the whole American nation exercises against a certain farmer of Lincoln, Neb., in declining to elect him to the White House.—New York Tribune. Public stenogra phy. Public stenogra phy. Done at This Office. short-hand. typewriting and amanuensis work. Business letters, accounts itemized, Essays, speeches or Sermons written on machine. Give us a Trial. The FORUM. 305 S 6 MISS DALEY DONALDSON, Stenographer. Old Phone, 998. Springfield Illinois 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. 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. Yon 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 son 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. 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 forgettery. 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 sea- 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 ownersnip 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 Commissioner. SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. June 1, 1908. TAFT'S INJUNCTIONS I ask that every responsible and fair-minded labor leader, every responsible and fair-minded member of a labor organization, read these (Taft's) injunctions for himself. If he will do so, instead of condemning them he will heartily approve of them and will recognize this further astonishing fact that the principles laid down by Judge Taft in these very injunctions, which laboring people are asked to condemn, are themselves the very principles which are now embodied in the laws or practices of every responsible labor organization. The principles which he therein so wisely and fearlessly laid down serve as a charter of liberty for all of us, for wage workers, for employers, or the general public; for they rest on the principles of fair dealing for all, of even-handed justice for all. They mark the judge who rendered them as standing for the rights of the whole people; as far as daylight is from darkness, so far is such a judge from the time-server, the truckler to the mob, or the cringing tool of great, corrupt and corrupt corporations.—President Roosevelt. The Dunbar Is the place where all colored papers and magazines can be had. Call at 815, 813 E. Washington, or 306 1/2 S. 6th. I purpose, step by step, to create a regular news store, handling all colored literature, books, etc., also the big Sunday dailies, and leading white magazines. Telephone 998. E. L. Rogers, Manager. DETAILS OF THE POSTAL SAVINGS PLAN Prompt Performance of Republican Platform Promise Is Certain. Postal Savings Banks Will Form Save and Convenient System for Accumulating Savings. A bill providing for the establishment of postal savings banks was favorably reported by the United States Senate Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads during the recent session of Congress, and is reasonably certain to be enacted into law during the coming session, thus adding prompt performance to the promise of the Republican national platform relative to this form of strengthening our national system of finance. The bill reported provides for the establishment of postal savings depositories for depositing savings at interest with the security of the Government for the repayment thereof and designates the money-order post-offices and such others as the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, from time to time designate as savings depositories to receive deposits from the public and to account and dispose of the same according to the terms of the act. The depositories are to be kept open for the transaction of business every day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, during the usual post-office business hours of the town and localities where the respective depositories are located, and during such additional hours as the Postmaster-General may designate. Accounts may be opened by any person of the age of 10 years, and a married woman may open an account free from interference by her husband. A trustee may open an account for another person. No person can open more than one saving account except when acting as trustee for another person. A depositor's pass book will be delivered to each depositor in which the name and other memoranda necessary for identification will be entered, and entry of all deposits shall be made. One dollar or a larger amount in multiples of 10 cents will be necessary to open an account, but deposits of 10 cents or multiples thereof will be received after an account is opened. Upon receiving a deposit the postmaster is required to enter the same in the pass book of the depositor and immediately notify the Postmaster-General of the amount of the deposit and the name of the depositor. The Postmaster-General, upon receipt of such notice, is required to send an acknowledgment thereof to the depositor, which acknowledgment shall constitute conclusive evidence of the making of such deposit. Interest Allowed on Deposits. Interest is allowed at the rate of 2 per cent per annum, computed annually, on the average deposit during each quarter of the year. One thousand dollars is the maximum deposit allowed to the credit of any one account, and interest will not be paid on any amount to the credit of an account in excess of $500. Pass books must be forwarded to the Postmaster-General on the anniversary of the making of the first deposit for verification, posting, and credit of interest due. Withdrawals may be made under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Postmaster-General. Deposits are exempt from seizure under any legal process against the depositor and they are also exempt from taxation by the United States or any state. The name fo a depositor or the amount to his or her credit may not be disclosed unless by order of the Postmaster-General. Postal savings funds are to be deposited by the Postmaster-General in national banks located as near as may be in the neighborhood where such deposits were received at a rate of interest not less than $2 \frac{1}{4}$ per cent per annum. If deposits can not be made in national banks at the specified rate of interest, the Postmaster-General may with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General invest the same in State, Territorial county, or municipal bonds before the November election. From Jan. 21, 1896, to April 1st, of the same year, the trustees paid interest on $50,000 to carry the appropriation of from $11,962.86 on Jan. 21 to $31,897.99 on April 1. Receipts from the state treasury April 23 and 30 gave the ordinary fund a cash balance, but the state continued to pay interest on $25,000 for the next sixty-six days. On May 1 the ordinary fund had a balance in the bank of $35,822.67, but the state was paying interest on $25,000. In the ordinary expense fund the state used on an average of $15,916.56 for 142 days, and the interest on the same at six per cent was $371.53. However, the trustees paid $1,270.85 for the use of the money. The trustees of the Central Hospital for the Jusane borrowed between Sept. 30,1897,and March 31,1896,$101,819.39, paying $1,380.19 interest for it at the rate of six per cent. As at the other institutions the reports give no information of the loan and the bill for interest due was not presented until after the November election. what money the hospital required to carry it cannot be determined for no table of daily balances could be drawn from the treasurer's report. He kept his accounts and made his reports by voucher number only, and never by the date of payment. This emission of dates in his reports, like borrowing money without the authority of the general assembly, was declared to be a violation of law. Continuing his discussion of the expert handling of finances in the institution during the Democratic administration, Governor Tanner said: Tanner Gave the Record. In reviewing the Altgeld Democratic administration, which extended from January, 1893, to January, 1897, Governor John i. Tanner, who succeeded Governor Altgeld, went into the situation thoroughly. In view of the fact that "General" Stevenson is now pleading for "non-partisan" management of institution affairs, the voters should recall the record of the last Democratic administration. In a speech delivered Sept. 15, 1898, at Golomda, Governor Tanner reviewed the transactions of that administration in the charitable institutions. "In order that we may judge fairly of the business methods of his administration," said Governor Tanner, "I feel it my duty to give you the result of my examination of the records of that administration, so far, at least, as its transactions appear of record. To do this it becomes necessary to go somewhat into detail." Governor Fanner first referred to the three institutions at Jacksonville. He called attention to the fact that the trustees for the Illinois School for the Blind received their full quarterly appropriation July 19, 1895, and were notified from Springfield that they would receive no more money until April, 1896, when the tax levy of 1895 would begin to come in. Between Sept. 26, 1895, and March 23, 1896, the institution borrowed $43,478.96, paying $1,674.43 interest at the rate of six per cent. In this, as in most other institutions, the secretary or clerk made no record of the transaction. No intimation of the loan was left on the account books or in the trustees' reports. The bill for interest was withheld until Nov. 28, 1896, seven months after the principal had been paid and Governor Al gold had been defeated for renomination. The bill for interest when presented read for "Interest on overdrafts." A table of daily balance drawn from the institution treasurer's reports shows that the interest at six per cent on the money actually used should have been $223.82, whereas the interest actually paid was $1,037.43. On Oct. 19, 1895, the institution had a balance in the bank in the ordinary fund of $8,700.96. On that date they borrowed or "overdrew" $13,000 and placed it to the credit of the institution. This amount, $13,000, laid in the bank seventy-four days, earning $160.58 for the bankers and before the state drew a dollar of it. The last of it was not drawn until 164 days after it was borrowed. For seventy-four days the state paid interest on $13,000 when it had from $4,000 to $8,000 to its credit in the bank. On July 21, 1896, the trustees again borrowed or "overdrew" $13,000, which laid in the bank untouched until the day before it was repaid from the state treasury, when $585.32 was used for one day. It had earned $153.82 interest. Interest Paid After Election. The Illinois School for the Deaf and Dumb received its quarterly appropriation of $25,000 for ordinary expenses July 19, 1895, and drew no more from the state treasury until April, 1896. In the meantime the trustees borrowed $86,216.19, paying $2,209.19 interest at the rate of six per cent. The accounts and reports bear no record of the loan. The bill for interest was not presented until Nov. 30, 1896, so that no record of the payment became public LUTHERAN CLERGYMAN ENDOR SES FORUM'S EDITORIALS— GIVES NEEDED ADMONI. : TION, Mr, Epiror: #rom time to time I have no ticed in your paper some very valuable articles addressed to my people, both young and old, such that if they were carefully read, inwardly digested and heeded would be of great benefit to all of us asa race. Hspecially to | have iu view at this writing some of the good advice given tv the peo. ple concerning their deportment on the streets aud in pubiie places. It is a lameutabie truth, that cannot be demed, that the couduct of many of our young men and women on the puolic streets and other places is a dis grace to themselves and the race at large, The question is often asked: Why do vhe colored people act so? Various are the answers, But let us get down to the fun damental causes. We wili first start with the parents and ask them the question; Have you done your duty as God commands you in regard to the rearing of your children in HOME, CHURCH and STATE? Have you taught your echisaren diligently @from ther — early youth, the great importance of home and obedience to ther pa. rents? Have you taught your little ones how to pray to their kind heavenly Father night after nigut? Have you cailed your family together day after day and read to them from G d's word which is profitable for doc trine, for reproof. for correction and for instruction in righteous ness? Have you, as ptrenis, the representatives of God unto your children, set such an eximple in @ moral and also Cnrisiian life, that your children cia and may safely follow yours? Have you made the home the sweet haven of bliss, comfort and parental ad vice that it should be for your children? Have you, as pirents, respected your own homes. anu taugot your chiidrea to do th: same? These are some of the ques. tions that each aud every perent should ask him or herseif con sclentiousiy, Rememoer tou good respectable and law-aoiding citizens sre made at home, at in tire side, not after they are growo men and women but in vneir youth, the beginning must necessarily be made, Thisisa sacred duty to be performed by the parents, God requires it of them. Home shoud be ‘he first instructor of the children, Path- ers, come not home, drank, cur. sing and Svearing in the pres ence of your little cnildren, Movhers, be not faithless wives to your husbanus and d.shovest mothers to your childreu. If you do such things. dou't you kuow your little cnildren will follow yourwoworthy example Sit aot at your fire- sides, be- lying, betraying, slandering and defaming your fellowman in the presence of your children, for they will conclude that they have a right todo the same, Be model ptrenis and you will reap the benetit by secing your sous and daugnters grow up tu be com. Bie ashe ee ee ge ea re ete ee ee eee bringing your children up as God has commanded you? When your little vues are old enough, do you always see that they go to Suuday school and church where they are brought under the influence of God's word? Do you as parents. concern your selves about the soul salvation of your children? Do you ever stop to consider that there is but one thing needful for your chil dren as well as for yourselves? How hard you labor and toil to give your children the best edu ;cation possible, education is good to begin life, to continue life. aa to end life honorably, but remember that, if the one thing needful is neglcted, ali the edu cation that you may give your children will be of no value t them in the world to come. Se how early in life you start your little chilaren out to secure an education. From eight to ten years your child must s udy in cessantly in order tu prepare him or herself. Tue child canner Start too soon, But the majority of parents believe that they Should not incumber ther ehii drei: with going to Sunday s_ hool They argue that when the chil- dren get oid enough then they can go to any Sunday scho-l o: chureh they choose, But the saddest of allis that they think they are doing the right part by the children by allowing them to run up and down the streets every Suuday, in company wi : all kinds of evil companions, in stead of compelling them io go to divine serviee and Sunday school, In passing through the streets on Sunday, [see so many chil dren that should be helping till up the Sunday schools, playing and frolicing all over the city. They are allowed to do justas they please. G») to churen if they want to, or stay away. As< the children or their parents why are they not in Sunday school, aud invariably the only answer is, that their clothes and shoes are not fit. They consider such, a good, plausible excuse. Ah, but see the difference when a show comes to town or avy other great excitement, Kvery father, mother and child is dres. sed to equal the occasion. When the children are large enongh, they are, as a rule, al lowed by their paren's to go i every kind of ball or dance an other such things. The par-ut- often to go so far as to say— ' “It wont do to be too strict with the children, they are young yet,” They go and come just at will. In short, in tany a home, th children take the place of the parents, and the pareuts allow themselves to be pur in the pi ice of their children. O, how many a father and motner there be Wao claim to love their child «n >0 much that they fail to correet them, for fear of hurting their feeling, ete. O, such willful negligence to. day, on the part of many parents Be ecg ye cuag eee Continued on page 8, fe 0 <5 gaia ~ eS Ei ee — » p oe ee = ee . te ce | b> a ‘ be oe... Secs >... SS eee eB ee as a oo ee A ee eee Sa Bint Ra bo eae pe eS a a . Pa Oe o a Ee Br Be ra rete NG ks ee 4 3 A 3 oe ee oe ; os er! eee ee ee CHARLES. S. DENEEN, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. Charles S. Deneen, the Republican nominee for governor, was born May 4, 1863, in Edwardsville, Madison county. He was brought up in Lebanon, St Clair county, being a deccendant of one of the oldest families in the state |He was educated in the public schools of Lebanon and at McKendree Colleze, trom which he graduated in 1882. He complcied the McKendiece law course in 1885. Later he attended the Union College of Law, now the Northwestern ‘aw School in Chicago. He taught school for three terms in the country schools of Newton, Jas: iper county, and Godfrey, Madison county. In 1$S8% be secured a position in the vening schools in Chicago, and for four years taazht at Polk and Halsted 'streets. Im 1892 Mr. Deneen was elected a member of the Mlinois legislature. In 1895 he was elected attorney for the san.iaiy d’strict board, resigning rom the office on being. nominated for state’s a corney of Cook county in 1896. He was elected state’s attorney in 1896 and acan in 1900, at the latues election receiving a majority over his opponent 10.000 greater than President McKinley received over Bryan. In 1904 Mr. Deneen was nominated for go« ernor and elected by a majority of 300,149, receiving 2.384 more votes int @ state than President Roosevelt. He was renom.na ed for governor at 14 yeu bhcas primaries August 8, 1908. Mr. Deneen was married to Miss Bina Maloney of Mt. Carroll, Carroll jcounty, May 10, 1891. They have four children: one son, Charles Ashley, and three daughters, Dorothy, Frances and !''na —_—&. j To, HE 3 | aka WHIT ce y Z: em Wovse, | om Eg OD PEE, yf Saray, [UHI HEN Sanita y z ees CARLA ing a EL TMD <) | rat mi 1 a LW PPTIT] RON IT ITTITHlill iY | ? oN tp hh VIL Le Ls een 4 "een i aN ~ OAS) PK - Ze NEY RECORY RO Ee) A o S. Zw HD SGX ES) eZ & ue Sey, <7 | @ 6 \ TENN A) a Oe SSS SSSR fA, Saas | = ANY Zxy a a ee Z , af . midi Ng eA LED P Ye Tayeon ~ One {s running on his Record; the other is running away from hi pannawnea. tae CULE PUR not burden the with any additional deficiency If I am elected President, I shal! urge upon Congress, with every hope of success, that a law be passed reqnix- ing a filing in a Federal office of a statement of the contributions received by committees and candidates in elee- tions fer men s of Congress and in such other elections as are consiiin ti nally within the control of Congress. - 1 Hom, Win, H. Taft's speech ac: eepting Presidential nomination ee WHAT TAFT WILL DO. Tlore is a positive declaration by Williaa TL. ‘Patt which shoult revssure the friends of President Roosevelt : “If elected 1 propose to devot all the ability tit is in me to t! constrnetive of suggest to Congress the means by which the Roosevelt policies shall clinched.” a en aca i 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. I ANNOUNCEMENTS. S. T. Jones is a candidate for circuit clerk of Sangamon county on the Republican ticket. the gambling dens; filling the jai's and other institutions for criminals. The young women are crowding the places of prostitution. How often do the parents, when they see their children going the way of destruction, ask in seeming amazement, "Why did my child turn out that way? I cannot account for it" (To be continued ) Attorney O. V. Royall has located with Attorney C S. Gibbs on S. 5th St., over Loper's. Rear office room. Roy Smith is all smiles this week--guess why? Many are contemplating visiting the Illinois Annual Conference at Bloomington, Sunday. For sale: nice large newspapers, good for wrapping goods or to place under carpets. 100 papers 10c. Apply to Forum office 3051 S 6th St., in the rear. NOTICE-All members of Eureka Temple No.21. Daughters of Elks, are requested to meet at their hall Thursday afternoon, Oct. 8, at 230. Retta Davis, Dr. Ruler, Mamie Hagen, Secy. Mrs. Mary Minnard returned a few days ago from Chicago, be ing accompanied by Mrs. Cooper who will be her guest for a few weeks. A. W. Grace, a popular barber of Decatur, was in the city this week visiting the fair Chas. Fant has returned to the city. Earl Person of Mt. Vernon, is in the city the guest of s brother, Geo. Persons, 1107 E. Jefferson St. And sure enough, Eugene Rice is back. Rev. C. H. Jones has moved his office from 117 S. 7th street, to his residence, 126 N. 14th St. H. Tucker is somewhat indisposed this week. Tucker & Co., is the name of a new coal business. Let every colored person who orders coal by the ton order from Horace Tucker—$2 00 per ton Rev. T. L. Smith and son, J. L. Smith of Quincy, were in the city this week. Attorney O. V. Royall was in Alton this week on business. [Name] and Local A OUR PLACE IS THE BEST Barbershop In Town. Shaves, haircut, champoon and Messages. Try Our Place. Quick and good services render ed. 821 E. Washington St. GRADY & WEBSTER, Propt's. CHAS. S. GIBBS Attorney and Counsellor at Law. NOTARY PUBLIC. Office 223½ S. 5th St. Rear of White Dental Parlors. Egg Lump | Phone Old1461 Coal Nut Office 706 East Washington St. Pea C. A. Ellis. 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 M. B. DR. FRANK Wa Hoo R. FRANK FLEURY's a Hoo Tonic DR. FRANK FLEURY's Wa HooTonic SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS Also at 300-302 E Neal & B Resta 728 E. Washington S Now one of the To our new quarter cial invitation at 300-302 E. Monroe Street al & Brown's Restaurant . Washington St. in new quarters. w one of the best in city ur new quarters, we extend a spe- cial 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. $3 00. We are prepared to serve for b NEAL & BROWN give the best meal; the bestserv- tors and the best and most courteous attention to patrons. Regular Meals a specialty. Short orders served meals by ticket. $300. Out of city trade solicited. are prepared to serve for banquets and socials on request. MEAL & BROWN. Proprietresses. 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 grew mine and will grow yours. Mrs. R. W. Jackson 1912 E. Kansas St. Agent. Alexander's Magazine for September, caps the climax. It should be read by every colored person in the city. Mrs. J. E. Smith, formerly of 416 E. Madison street, is now residing in Kansas City. --- TRY Northwestern University Medical School, Class of '83 Telephone: (Bell) 337. Dr. James E. Henderson Office: 107 $ \frac{1}{2} $ W. Side Square, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS Diseases and Ailments of Women, a Specialty. Sale Fall Opening Mrs. Clark-Thompson has just returned from Chicago where she purchased the latest fall styles which will begin Thursday, Oct. 8, '08 The latest Parisienne designs will be displayed and as an originator and creator of headgear, Mrs. Thompson reigns supreme. Her ability as a demonstrtor needs no introduction. She asks that girls and women see her stock before selecting their fall hats. Persons who are desirous of learning millinery and are willing to work are solicited. 1419 E. Adams St. See the exquisite Autumn Creations Miss Mitchell of Louisiana, Missouri, is making her abode at 71312 E. Washington St. Mrs. J. T. Wynns who has been spending the summer in Kentucky, returned last week.