Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 36, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 June 1912 — Page 6

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The Republican Convention

bring on prolonged debating. The per

manent chairman of the committee on permanent organization is named, applauded and taken to the platform with dne ceremony. He makes a

speech. A roll call is necessary on

the report of the committee on platform. A plank that looks good to some states is liable to receive the disapproval of others. The permanent

chairman. announces the second recess.

When the convention reassembles

the platform is taken up for adoption if it already has not been adopted, and nominations are in order. It is

quite the fashion at national conventions to toss around numerous "favorite son" bouquets. Nobody expects the

first ballot will amount to anything.

The second may settle matters, or there may be interminable balloting before a choice is made. But when it is, whether it has taken long and weary hours or has been accomplished in jigtlme, the convention hall trembles on its foundations and the roof threatens to cave in because of the noise of cheering, stamping and hammering and the crash of the band. Then comes the selection of the candidate for vice president. It is attended with the same proceedings a lot of time wasted in complimentary balloting and all that as have marked the selection of the candidate for president When the second place victor is announced there is another mighty din. That ends it.

TALKS ON BASEBALL

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By I. M. A. FAN

grounder down to Third Baseman Zimmerman, who stepped on the bag and threw home to complete the doubleArcher, who was receiving, caught the ball, touched the plate and with visions of a triple threw to first. Archer, of course, should have touched the man going home, ns the out at third did away with the oree. However, all's' well that ends well. The base umpire-

All players are not jealous of Ty Cobb. One never hears of them saying anything detrimental to the great Tyrus, though he causes most of them a great deal of trouble during the season. But what is true of Cobb is not so with Joe Jackson. That worthy made himself decidedly unpopular hist

fall when he went aroun the chuit

befrin- for base hits in order that he J had motioned the man out at

third!

mijrht win the automobile. A catcher

on the Nationals told this story. "You can't help but admire Cobb, because he asks no favors, but makes his game a success by his wonderful ability. Not so with .Jackson. Ho was around last fall begging catchers to tell him what was coming so that he could get base hits, and he had an average of .400 at the time. It will take Jackson several years and a lot of good conduct to live that down. Ball players,, like other hu

mans, like fair play.

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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

Camera Raised by a Rocket Takes Picture and Parachutes to Earth. Aerial photography is, of course, by no means new. For a number of years experts have been working with special instruments strapped to the breasts of carrier pigeons. An extraordinary" device, however, has lately been adopted for taking the camera into the air. It is really a combination nf n-imM-ii and rocket. The rocket

I 1 V J-1 v...-.-.-.-. imps off and carries the camera with it.

I At the f-limax of the flight the shutter

nnfnTTiiitJonlh' snans. and, buoyed up

. by a parachute frill which has in the ' meantime expanded, the camera gen- " tly descends.

The thing has been developed in ierlin, and .iust at present it is all the rage there for people to have birdseye views of themselves taken. The only difference between an aerial camera and an ordinary one is the shutter.

i There are many ways oi unitu" i that the shutter shall open at approxi- . . . . ii l- A

mately the right minute, tnougu, uj. course, the photographer always has to face a considerable chance that he may not get the precise subject he wants. One method is to have a clock attachment that works the shutter after a calculated interval. A time fuse has also been used.

Among other freak cameras there is

one shaped something like a watcn,

while another, shaped like a cannon,

takes button photographs. Possibly

'I never had anythin

This from Paddy Flaherty, who has been in and out of the major leagues

for a decade and who at one lime was rated among the first class southpaws, seems almost incredible. L'nblushingly Pat made the statement: "On the lots I found that my curves only hurt my arm. Many youngsters fail because they keep trying the dinky curve. Control is the best thing a man can have, and this I worked to devel op. Rarely did I use a curve ball in the National league. There are pitchers today in the big show who make

ouvvo lmll nitchinir a minor leatnre ol

their work'

when Zimmerman touched the suck;-. but, Eyeing both Archer and the umpirebehind the bat had slipped up on thedecision, he immediately changed and called the man at third safe. Very few noticed the freaky play. Even McGhtw slipped up, and if I'd beeu in there umpiring bases that day I suppose I'd have got my foot in it for not changing my decision so as to prdtcet my colleague calling halls and strikes." . r.i... t The Chicago Americans nrc well sup plied with good first basemen. Zieder, who has been holding down the position, is a good one, while in Jacques Founder, the French Canadian, the

Sox have one of the most promising in the ieague. During the spring training

Camp

aign of Taft and Roose

velt Has Been Full of FireworksHow the Presidential and Vice Presidential Nominees Will Be Selected at the Coming Convention.

admission it was a sort of Jonah, ras ammunition for Taft.

An rticl on the Democratic convention will b published next week. By FRANCIS LYNCH. IT'S all over but the shouting. The delegates to the KeplibUcau national Convention in Chicago ,Tnne IS have been selected, and President William Howard Taft and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt have taken their final fling at each other.

Tfc last primaries were those in

South. Dakota June 4, and the last

stete convention was in Ohio June o. . Now there's nothing to do but wait and see what happens. This "dark horse" business has become a fixture of the tool bag of politcal exigency. There have been s'gns and well authenticated rumors that the unexpected was due to happen in

the Chicago Coliseum. The fight of 1912 for the Republican presidential nomination will be recorded in history as without parallel in one respect. Never before has a former president of the United States who has served two terms been pitted against an executive seeking renomination. The severance of friendly relation.' between Taft and Roosevelt was not of recent date. The colonel did a lot: toward getting Taft iu the race in 190S. but his enthusiasm was not of the enduring variety. In fact, it lasted a very short time. Then it became . apparent that a genuine break had developed between the president and tbe only living ex-president. Still, coming events were unanticipated. The colonel had said that having served two terms he was satusticd to remain a private citizen. Then came the Roosevelt boom, brought to a head by

the call upon the colonel by seven governors to become a candidate for nom-

tiinHon for a third term. Well, the

colonel did, laying the burden of re

sponslbility for his change of mi ml upon the said hoyou governors. "My

hiifs In the rinsr. lnk said.

Immediately there was a great nullalmtoo. Prudent Tafi? frfwids said

that the man from Oyster Bay had

commuted ntt oitene amounting in ef

feet to political treason so far as pnrty

was conc-prited. The colonel spent

much time hi reiterating his amended

opinion regarding third terms. Ue alrdy has had his own troubles over thtit Columbus speech. Ky his own

THE LOVE OF A FIGn 1

As the contest warmed up. likewise the two heading gladiators, the great American public, keen to sense and to enjoy a good fight, began to take real interest. The president and the colonel began business without serious blows. " Like a couple of pugilists they sparred with each other, watching out for a promising opening. This kind of

sport soon palled on the colonel, ami j

he commonced letting out steam. The strenuous colonel began to annoy the urbane Taft, and the growing uncertainty of the outcome in the contest for the nomination began to annoy them both. - ; v And then biff, bang! something happened. It was late in April when -President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt opened up on each other good and strong. -The president, speaking in Springfield. Mass.. dropped the famous Taft smile, and as his face Hushed with anger he

declared that his back was against the wall and 'that if there was a spark of manhood in him he could do nothing but tight. The colonel's criticisms had stung him to the quick. From then on neither the president nor the colonel hesitated in engaging in further personalities, and they both have kept at it hammer and tongs.

thev cave him a clean victory in the the larsrest thiug in cameras is the

primaries, which meant twenty-six del- talanta camera, constructed for use egates to Chicago. When La Follette on aer0planes. It looks like a minia-

ot North Dakota his courage chmbeü tlirft navai rUn, is aimed anü nieu like

a notch, and he went on with his cam- n r;fl( bfls a rauge of fourteen miles

paign. and works with an extremely rapid

Anions the members of the national chlljfm. Germany has bought a num

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the public are Victor Rosewater of Omaha, Neb., acting chairman of the committee, who is a newspaper man, lecturer and author as well as a politician: Franklin Murphy, former gover-

aeroplane fleetLondon Standard.

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Frank Schulte, the Chicago

c1mvoym- nnfl ehamnion home run

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hitter, has never made a hit oil big J'-u

Walsh of the White Sox. Schulte nns faced Walsh in three Cubs-Sox series.

"Give that big coal miner a canteen of soup to moisten the ball with and he could pitch a week without getting tired." says Schulte, "lie puts a little

more on the ball every time he pitches.

The "dry spitter'' is the very latest thing in the big league benders, and Rube Evans, the New York Giants' southpaw recruit from Dallas, Tex., is the inventor. Evans throws .the "dry spitter" in exactly the same manner that the regular spitball is delivered except that he does not moisten it It takes a peculiar wabbling motion and jumps just as it gets to the batter. Instead of breaking into a right handed batter, as in the case of the spitball, it takes an outward and upward jump that is very puzzling. MeGraw says he will try to teach it to Rube Marquard.

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Production of Natural Gas. Natural gas produced in the Tinted RfrntPs now amounts to over 500,000,-

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nor of New Jersey, warm personal 000)ooO feet annually.

friend of President Tair and wno, it has been understood, would be consid

ered by the president as a strong run

ning mate (urphy got seventy-seven votes for the vice presidential nomination in Chicago in 190S; Frederic Wil

liam Uphara of Chicago, vice chairman

of the national committee of arrange

inents in 1904. chairman of the same

committee in 100S and assistant treas

urer of the first Taft campaign in the

west; Arthur Isaiah Vorys of Colum

bus. O.. lawyer and a party leader in cfm.v

the l-sucueye öiaie, aim i-iarry o. xew

of Indianapolis, who was chairman of

the Republican national committee in

1007.

"T sat in the grand stand and saw a

peach of a 'bone' one day in New York when recuperating from my blood poisoning attack," says Ralph Krary, for a brief period last season a major league umpire. "Chicago was in the field, and New York had the bases full,', added Ralph. "Merkle, at bat, slammed a

Fournier,

the Big French First Baseman.

Canadian

trip pounded the leather with surj prising skill and played a brilliant! game at the sack. Fournier was born in a lumber camj twenty-one years ago, is a six footer1, and weighs 190 pounds. In 1900 Fournier played in Portland, Ore. Then lid went to Sacramento, and last year hd started with the Moose Jaw team im . the Western Canadian league. .

The Height of the Ridiculous

Hard Work. Mr. Wright Is your husband busy now? Mrs. Penman Oh, very busy .

Mr. Wright uai i w'om1 PnVmnn-Hft's at WOl'k Oh

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Mr Wright writing u muiv, Mrs. Penman-Oh, no: he wrote it a month "ago. He's trying to sell it how. Yonkers Statesman.

FORM OF PROCEDURE

The national committee sits before the party's standard bearer is picked

No More Questions Asked. Fond Relative-What will you do

OTHER BOOMS Long before the campaign got in full

swing there were a whole lot of presidential booms, but when Colonel Roose

velt said in so many words that he was in the race for a third term and

would meet all comers, one by one,

most of the early aspirants were plac

ed in the discard. Senator Robert M.

La Follette of Wisconsin hung on grimly, however, and Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa continued to evince a certain amount of interest. Yet it narrowed down to a struggle between Taft and Roosevelt. Of course now and then a thought was given to the possibility that the "dark horse." Justice Charles Evans Hughes, might loom up suddenly as a compromise candidate -for party unity, but the fact that the jurist declared be

fore the campaign really started that

he was not a candidate for the nomina

tion eliminated mm irom tue serious

consideration of the great bulk of the

people.

Even though La Follette was con

to nass unon the Qualifications of dle- when you grow up

nates. The temporary roll of the con- .lohimy I s'pose I shall be at an invention is made un bv this body, which formation desk. Folks are always ask-

places on the roll the names of the delegates elected in accordance with the

party convention call and on the basis of the delegates' credentials. Of the fifty-three members of the national committee forty,certainly thirty-eight, are Taft men. Prior to the convention the national committee has full say in the situation. It drafts the procedure of the first session, the choice of permanent chairman and frequently makes up the entire program. Its chairman calls the convention to order, usually about noon. The secretary reads the convention cail, the roll call follows, and then the chairman of the national committee announces the man it offers as temporary chairman. Trouble orer the

election of a temporary chairman is unusual. The chairman appoints a committee to escort the temporary chairman to the platform, the band plays, the delegation from the temporary chairman's state gives him an ovation, and then he has to make a

speech. ' The speech over with, resolu

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ing me such rooi quusuuua. .cn Sun.

A Farfetched Joke.

thwting n sideshow, ro to spenk. when ! t ions are offered and committees ap

pointed, inrludmg a committee mi resolutions, which has to do with tho drafting of the platform; a committee on credentials or contested seats nnd a committee on permanent organization. These are the .most important of the committees. Then the temporary chairman aunounces an adjournment until the next day. The committees report at the second session. The report of the committee on contested scats hi likely to

contrasted to the big fight between Taft and Knos-veh, his efforts wort' not puny. The Wisconsin senalor can laji.M-t a good deal of tire into his speeches, and his forte was to argue that neither Taft nor Uoosevelt was the best man for the big Job. but that If rhc people would give him a chance he would till the bill to batter general satisfaction. His constituents in Wisconsin evidently thought he was right, and, pride in the home state to boot,

A Sixteen Hour Day.

"No man ought to be asked to work more than eight hours a day," said the reformer. "Look here," replied Farmer Gorntossel, "of course you're entitled to your opinion, but you mustn't come around us farmers in the busy season with a proposition to make ev-

ery aaj a naii hujiuuj. uiiamiiöivu Star.

A Monster of Cruelty. ; Mrs. Knaggs' Mother Does Henrtf beat you? , Mrs. Knaggs Worse than that. B had a cold and couldn't speak for three weeks, and when I learned the sign! language he'd turn off the lights aa soon as he came in the house. Chicago News.

A Curtain Call.

No Tips to Pay. "Were you not scared when the, masked highwayman came through tho sleeping car and demanded your money)

at tho point of a revolver "Scared.' So; I thought it was a mighty good joke on the porter." Buffalo Express.

"Did Jones produce his new play last night?" "He did." "And did the audience call him before the curtain in the last act?" "They did and demanded their mon-

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A New Business.

Caller Here's a funny thing for your paper. I've walked in with it several weary miles. Editor There's such a thing as carrying a joke too far. Trials of the Rich. "We heiresses have many rivals for our hands." -Yes." replied Miss Cayenne, "you must feel as if the pathway of life were tilled with pocketbook suatchers." Washington Star.

The Value of Advertising. New Merchant How big an ad. would you advise? Advertising Man That depends on how many tons of n.-,ofnmarc vrmr Rtorß flOOl' WÜ1 SUS"

tain. You wouldn't want 'em to break j

through into the cellar, or course. Puck.

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"1 have made a lot of money

year by aeroplane nights." "1 didn't know you were an aviator. "I am not. I am an undertaker."

The Most Important Part. "If madam will pardon me, this suit does not match her complexion as well as the other." "The suit Is all right. I want it ro match a bull pup."-Wash-Ingfon Herald; , ,

Diplomacy. "How did Bluffer so easily win Miss Goldbag's heart?" "He sent her rwenty-Uvo roses on her thirüeth birthday." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Professional Strikers. "Strange as it may seem, there U one class whose employers not only respect but a Wo' desire to strike." "Good gracious: Who can they be?" "Baseball batters." Baltimore American.

Did He Remind Hr? "Oh. mother. I just broke a window with my ball!" "Very well. Tommy. I'm busy just now. but if you'll remind mo later I'll punish you'Lli'e.

Results Obtained. CSlbbs My wife explored my pocket lastniht. Dlbbs How did she come out? Gibbs-As an explorer should. Sh acquired enough material for a lecture. -Boston Transcript