"Charles H. Percy, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator, will participate in two Fourth of July celebrations on Monday, one in Chicago and the other in Carmi, Ill., where he will speak following an appearance by his November opponent. Percy’s…
The Democratic Committee of Arrangements for the celebration of the 93rd anniversary of American Independence, under the lead of the distinguished gentleman from Alcatraz, have gotten themselves in a confounded snarl, the Republicans are laughing…
"Mr. Editor:—It was my intention never again to write on political subjects, but the spirit moveth me and I must speak. There has been much talk about the Brannan Guards not appearing on the Fourth of July, and one of your correspondents even goes so…
"This Veracious Copperhead sheet says “that Mr. Wentworth opposed assigning the colored people a place in the Fourth of July procession.” We don’t believe a word of it. Mr. Wentworth is too well known, and his political principles too well…
"Mr. Bryan had much to say of 'imperialism', on 'Emperor' and the abolition of the Fourth of July. Yet he was the first to inaugurate and maintain a supreme dictatorship over an American political organization.
If the 15 to 1 proposition is not…
"It [ill.], but nevertheless, significant that the Republican National Convention held this week in Chicago should follow so closely on the heels of the 176th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.