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Died. Joseph Wingate Folk, 53, former Governor of Missouri, of cerebral hemorrhage, in Manhattan. His aggressive record as Governor made him a candidate for the Demo-cratic nomination for the Presidency in 1912, but he withdrew in favor of the late Champ Clark...
...neighbors sometimes agree; four neighbors, very rarely. In 1911 the Liberals were in power in Canada, and W. S. Fielding, Minister of Finance in Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Ministry, negotiated a reciprocity tariff agreement with Secretary Knox of the Taft Administration. Champ Clark swung the Democrats of the House of Representatives for reciprocity. Thereby three neighbors came into agreement: the Republicans (U. S.), the Democrats (U. S.) and the Liberals (Canada). The Conservatives (Canada) were the fourth neighbor. They overturned the pudding-and the Laurier Cabinet-in a special election. At the end of twelve years' political vicissitudes...
During the second week of the champ, active firing of the 3-inch batteries began on the large range attached to the cantonment, the first year students making up the gun crews, while the advanced students computed the necessary date and conducted the problems. The first problems were simple and designed to bring out the fundamental principles of artillery work, but as time went on, the range practice became more difficult and complicated, ending with a barrage, in which 48 guns (two regiments) participated. Brigadier General Lassiter, commander of Camp Knox, stated that this barrage was as accurately fired...
...candidates listed on the ballot slips are as follows: Republican. Democrat. N. M. Butler. N. D. Baker. Calvin Coolidge. W. J. Bryan. A. B. Cummins. Champ Clark. W. G. Harding. J. M. Cox. C. E. Hughes. Josephus Daniels. Herbert Hoover. E. I. Edwards. H. W. Johnson. J. W. Gerard. F. O. Lowden. G. M. Hitchcock. J. J. Pershing. T. R. Marshall. Miles Poindexter. W. G. McAdoo. W. H. Taft. A. M. Palmer. Leonard Wood. Woodrow Wilson...
...publication of the will of the Canadian gentleman who bequeathed a legcy to his politically unsympathetic brother on conditions that the later should once a year shout from his front porch the words, "Hurrah for Sir Wilfred Laurier and Reciprocity!", recalls the days of a decade ago when Champ Clark suggested that Reciprocity would be merely the first step in the annexation of Canada to the United States...