Letters describe the Winfield Scott Schley controversy, 1901; Judge Alton B. Parker, a Democratic candidate; the town of Esopus, New York; William Jennings Bryan's tour, 1908; the Democratic State Convention in Rochester, New York; the fire and subsequent deaths of factory workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York, 1911; the Chicago Republican Convention and the Baltimore Democratic Convention (including impressions of Baltimore), 1912.