Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 121, 15 June 1908 — Page 1

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ALLIES FACE OPEN SURRENDER UNLESS ORATORY OF A THIRD-TERM LEAGUER CAN BE MADE TO APPEAL TO DELEGATES' EMOTIONS AND THROW ROOSEVELT THE NOMINATION.

ALL THE DELEGATIONS HAVE ARRIVED

Chicago Teems With Great Politicians and Notables on The Eve of Wonderful Convention Delegations spend Afternoon Organizing and Electing Chairmen of Necessary Committees.

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Iowa Senator Gives a Friend Authority to Withdraw His Name If It Is Presented at the Convention as That of A Candidate for the Vice Presidency. Governor Murphy Is a Possibility.

BULLETIN. Chicago, June 15. The report that Taft told friends that he intended to have Luke Wright, a Tennessee democrat, as his successor, threw the southern office-holders into a panic and threats are said to have been made to stampede to Roosevelt. The stampede for Roosevelt movement, ' originally started by the allies, was the topic of today and met with popular accord among western delegates. .Chicago, June 15. Unless some silver-tongued orator sways the convention by means of laudatory praise of Roosevelt, and thereby starts an irresistible stampede for a renomination vt the President for another term, ;which many delegates of the "Ally" camp predict would sweep the convention like wild fire, the ticket will be "Taft and ." However, Joseph Keallng, of Indianapolis, this morning said to a Hearst News Service writer, "Taft probably has enough votes to nominate him, if they stick. It will be several days before a vote will be taken, however, and many things may happen in that time." When asked what might happen, Keallng was dumb. On the other hand many who confess they believe a Stampede will be attempted, say they believe as firmly that such a stampede will surely fail. Vice-Presidential Booms. The active vice-presidential booms Are for Governor Franklin Murphy, of Mew Jersey, which is a very lively affair, aa his boomers claim to have four hundred delegates already pledged; for Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, which is full of rigor; and for the John Hays Hammond boom, the latter being less seriously considered. Among the passive vice-presidential possibilities, Fairbanks, Hughes, Cortelyou and George A. Knight, of California, stand a chance of filling the blank above alluded to. The final touches are being put on the program for tomorrow. All the delegations have arrived and caucuses ere being held to choose various men for honorary positions. CONVENTION OPENS TOMORROW. 12,000 People Will Be on Hand at the Great Republican Gathering. Chicago. 111., June 13. The National Republican Convention to nominate a candidate for the first office of the land, will open at the Coliseum tomorrow noon. About 12,XX) persons vill witness it and it is now predicted that before the big event is over, one of the most remarkable gatherings of its .kind In the history of the republican party will have been held. Exactly at noon, Harry S. New, of Intllanapolis, chairman of the Republican National Committee, will start the wheels n motion. It is expected that from then on until Saturday evening there will be nothing but excitement in the big building. When the last speech has been made, the last hurrah given and the last tired spectator and delegates have filed out of the structure, three great questions will have been settled. These are: Who shall be the republican nominee for president: what provisions shall be Jn the platform upon which this man will run for office, and who will be his running mate. Some say the first question has already been answered. There are a great many people today who believe absolutely that Secretary of War William Howard Taft, will be the nominee for the office by acclamation. They believe ho will poll 705 votes on first ballot, which will probably be taken Thursday afternoon or Friday morning. Many of a more conservative kind, declare that if Mr. Taft is not named on the first ballot, the convention will be the scene of a historic

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T TAFT WOULD REFUSE HONOR fight. These declare that if he fails on the first ballot his chances will diminish upon each succeeding one, and some have gone ko far as to say that in event of failure on the first ballot Mr. Taft has absolutely no chance of winning. From other sources have come declarations that although the Taft boomers claim everything for him, six favorite sons, known as the "allied"' candidates, will have their names presented to the convention and by some scheme or plan of action which they have concocted, they will swamp Taft and cause the nomination to go to a darker horse than the secretary. In still other quarters is found support for the declaration that President Roosevelt's name will be among those polling votes on the first ballot: that he will draw enough votes to prevent Taft from getting it on the initial tally, and that the second ballot will bring a stampede to the president on the wings of some high-flown oratory by a third-term leaguer, picketed in the hall for that very purpose-to watch for the proper moment when the emotions of the delegates can be played upon and swayed to President Roosevelt. Almost anybody will admit that any one of these possibilities may become real. It seems to be a foolish prediction in the face of the present situation of the republican party to declare absolutely and finally that Mr. Taft will win on the first, second or third ballot. There are seven candidates for president and there have been sev en names presented as possibilities for second place. Men who are out for lirst place are the following: William Howard Taft, of Ohio; Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana; Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois; Charles E. Hughes, of New York; Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania; Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio; Robert M. Lafollette, of Wisconsin. Although Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, has officially declined an offer of his name as candidate for vice president, it is today practically assured that his name will be presented as a leader of seven vice presidential candidates. Here is the list: Jonathan P. Dolliver, of Iowa: George B. Cortelyou, of New York; Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana; Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey; Curtis Guild of MaBssachusetts; James Sherman, of New of New Jersey; Curtis Guild of Massachusetts. in After Chairman New has made a short speech to those assembled he will introduce the Rt. Rev. H. J. Muldoon, a Catholic biship, who will deliver the invocation. Following this, Fred W. Upham, chairman of the committee on arrangements for the convention, will deliver to Mr. New a gavel made from wood taken from old Fort Dearborn. The next step will be the recognition of Elmer Dover, of the National committee, that he may read the official call for the convention. At this point things will begin to get real interesting. Senator Julius Caesar Burrows of Michigan, will then be introduced by Chairman New as temporary chairman of the convention. He will deliver the "keynote" speech of the ltXKS campaign." POURING IN RAPIDLY. Delegates and Visitors Flock to Chicago on Every Train. Chicago, June 15. From all points of the comnass and also from all depots today came delegates and alternates, marching clubs, governors, distinguished guests and staff correspondents. It looked as if everybody who was not tied down was pouring into Chicago. They came from private cars and public trains. They brought brass bands and loud badges with them. They came from Hawaii. Alaska. Porto Rico, the Philippines and other remote parts arid before noon an ordina ry traveling man got no more attention around a first class hotel than the (.Continued on Page Two.)

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FRANCHISE OF TRACTION LINE TO BE PASSED ON City Council Tonight Will Ratify the Work of Local Business Men as That Body Is Well Pleased. NEW MEAT INSPECTION ORDINANCE COMES UP. Very Probable City Attorney Study Will Submit Measure Which Can Be Termed Constitutional. At the council meeting this evening the franchise agreement signed ssveral days ago by the officials of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern traction company and the Richmond board of public works, will be submitted for ratification. There appears to be no doubt that the franchise will be ratified as none of the councilmen have expressed any opposition to it. In fact nearly all of the councilmen are greatly pleased that local business men have succeeded, where the board of public works failed, in securing such a satisfactory agreement from the T. H. I. & E. company. In Dayton, the city government is making an effort to force the Dayton & Western, which is a part of the T. H. I. & E. to accept a franchise which provides for issuance of transfers from traction cars to street cars and vice versa, but the company absolutely refuses to do this. This was one of the demands made by the local city government on the T. H. I. & E. and the only one that the company absolutely refused to comply with. On the other hand the company agreed to a section in the agreement which provided for the issuance of transfers from one city line to another. This arrangement has been in effect here for years but under none of the franchises held by the company was it compelled to issue transfers. It is also probable that at the council meeting this evening, an amended meat inspection ordinance will be introduced. City Attorney T. J. Study has prepared a new meat inspection ordinance but he has not stated bow It will differ from the old ordinance. It will be remembered that a few months ago C. B. Hunt, a Main street grocer, was arrested for a violation of this ordinance, selling uninspected meat purchased from farmers, and that he successfully fought the ordinance in the city court. The case was appealed by the city to the circuit court and last week . City Attorney Study made a motion to have the appeal dismissed. It is understood that the new meat inspection ordinance will, like the old one, provide for government inspection of slaughtering establishments, but will permit farmers who do not make a regular business of selling their meat products to sell their surplus meat in this city. It is stated that one of the reasons why the price of beef In this city has gone up so high, is because farmers in this locality could not find a market for their meat In this city under the terms of the meat inspection orUnano.

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TAFT-ROOSEVELT PLATFORM WILL GO THROUGH AS FMS Not Thought That Document In Custody of Wade Ellis . Will Be Changed Materially, If at All. RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE MEETS ON TUESDAY. At That Time Various Planks Now Being Agitated Will Be Taken Up and Considered By It. Chicago, 111., June l."5. It was announced with authority yesterday there would be no further changes in the tentative platform, now in the safeguarding of Wade Ellis of Ohio, until it is handed over to the tender mercies of the committee on resolutions this afternoon. When the committee gets hold of it, however, it has the entire right to do anything it wants to with it. It can throw the document in the waste basket if it wishes to. But nobody expects it to do anything of the kind. In fact; ft Is" Maimed and not seriously denied that when the committee gets through with it the alterations will not be serious enough to cause comment. The idea held by most of the . informed people is it will go through largely in its present shape and what difference there may be be-tweenf-the committee report and the tentative draft furnished the committee will be largely minor and more of wording than of substance. It is this which has led everybody who has any particular thing he wants to get into the platform, as well as those who are anxious to keep some things out, to seek Mr. Ellis and try to get the draft fixed up so it will include or exclude the things they do or do not want. They would have that much better start before the committee if they could do it. But inasmuch as Mr. Ellis came here as the special messenger of President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft. carrying with him only the expression of their wishes as to the platform all outsiders will have to make their appeals to the committee. Taft Men at the Helm. The committee will be essentially a Taft committee and by more than what (Continued on Page Two.) THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Monday night; Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer; light north winds, becoming variable. . OHIO Fair Monday night, cooler In east portion; Tuesday fair; light 49 f rssh northwest to north winds.

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VENGEANCE ON -MEN OF RACE Colored People of Chicago Advocate Kuklux Klan to Deal Properly With Supporters Of Taft. VIOLENCE HINTED AT IN MONSTER MEETING. Speaker Says That Chicago Negroes Deal Severely With Colored Men From the South. Chicago, 111., June 15. Comedy, which, has played a strong part in every previous meeting held by the disgruntled southern delegates who were unseated by the national committee, was banished from the council of war in the Bethel African Methodist church Sunday afternoon. Orators who during last week shouted themselves hoarse in denunciation of the administration and its plans, exhausting the store of expletives for hurling against what they call "tyranny" and oppression." turned upon those of their own kind whom they found in the opposing camp. Whether the unveiled threats that were roared with more than a figurative gnashing of ivory teeth were intended merely as "rousers," or whether actual violence against the "traitors" was planned, was more than the audience could determine. The impression created was that the negroes who have remained faithful to the administration will be subjected to some form of mob attack unless they remain inactive during the convention. Dr. Cress Sounds War Cry. The hysterical outburst was started by Dr. Henry C. Cress, a Chicago physician, and while its spirit wag carried along by those who followed him, it was he who shouted the war cry of black man against black man. After branding the negro office holders in the southern delegations as "the bread brigade," and declaring that none of them had influence with the race as a whole, he shouted: "We must mark those men" "They are marked." cried some one in the audience. "They are? Good," the speaker replied. "The men who betray their race must pay the penaltiy with their lives. We must organize. We must have a Ku Klux KlanT Howls of approval answered him. "We are looking for men. If we call you. will you answer? he asked. " If we call you at midnight will yon come?" "Yes, I will! I wilir came scattered replies. "If we call yon morning, noon or (.Continued on Page SevenJ

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IAL EVENT Knights of Pythias from Many Cities Attend Grand Regiment Review and Services at Rushville. THREE WAYNE COUNTY COMPANIES IN LINE. Those of This City, Hagers town and Cambridge City Represented Brig. Gen. Is Pleased With Work. Rushville, Ind., June 13. Military splendor marked the exercises at Rush County Fair grounds Sunday afternoon of the Third Regiment. Indiana Uni form Rank Knights of Pythias, and associated subordinate lodges In mem ory of their departed brethren. A long parade in which some fH uniformed men and tvtO members of Ivy Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of this city, and other lodges participated, the column being formed in two divisions, the first of which was headed by the Rushville Concert Band, and the sec ond by the Connersvllle band, preced ed the memorial exercises. The prln cipal features were the inspection of the uniform rank by Brig. Gen. Mer rill E. Wilson of Indianapolis and the memorial address by F. J. Duntcn of Lagrange, supreme representative and past grand chancellor of Indiana. Pythianism. said the speaker, is not a religion, it is a life. The paramount Pythian principle is love to God lgh love to Man. x'oward the close of his remarks. Mr. Dunten quoted from a poem written by Frank B. Stutts of Aurora, at one time a candidate for the republican nomina tion for lieutenant governor. The po em summarizes Pythian principles and is in part a follows: "Out of the old worlds legions, out of the tales of Greece, Out of the dreams of Jason, as he sought for the fable Fleece: From the murmuring waves of Jordan and wind swept Palectlne. From every high-arched transept and every rock-hewn shrine; From the aged groves of Britain, with their altars and their fires. From all the wide world's history and and all that it inspires. It has gathered the strands of duty, and in its loyal quest. Has woven this princely standard which It sets up in the West. It builds for unseen ages, it builds for the pregnant years; It builds for a coming morning devoid of recreant fears; It builds for the world and Its prog ress, for every tribe and clan. For. the gracious peace of the cross of Christ and the brotherhood of man." Attended by Thousands. Thousands attended the exercises, special cars being run between the city and the fair grounds by the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction company. Pjthlans from all over the state were present and most of the cubordinate lodges In the eastern part of Indiana were represented. The forenoon was

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BUT LITTLE SUPPORT FOR C. W. ndlana Workers Laboring Among Delegates in Chicago, Seem to Have Given Up Hope of Nomination. URGING HIM FOR VICE PRESIDENTNotwithstanding the Activity Of Taft Workers Along This Line, Kealing and Others Are Objecting. .4 Chicago, If!.. June After forag. ing all day on the hunting grounds of the enemy, the scouts commissioned for important service by the mangers of the Fairbanks presidential boom. returned empty handed last night to their own reservation. They had nothing of an encouraging nature to re port. The best the most optimistic bad to offer was that they had found a sullen resentment against the Big Stick method of President Roosevelt In attempting to bring about the nomination of his favorite candidate. Secreta ry Taft. It was admitted behind the closed doors of the Fairbanks reservation that the scouts bad failed to bring home the tidings they . desired, but some satisfaction was derived from the reports that a bitter feeling Is abroad in the land against a one-man policy of running the convention. Hope of winning first place has not been abandoned entirely by the vice president's managers, although they realize they haven't more than one chance la a thousand of winning. . Like a man playing a long shot they are sticking to the belief that when all the delegates arrive they will share their views and resent the well-defined administration program here and upset It. Then may come the only oppor tunity they think exists to nominate their entry for first place. " Working In Squads. The Indiana republican worker are being drafted as scouts as rapidly as they arrive. They are working In squads of twos and threes under the direction of George Dinwiddle, of Frankfort, a life long friend of the vice president and vice chairman of the state committee of Indiana. Dinwid dle said tonight that the information brought to headquarters indicates that many delegates are in a sullen mood over the Taft program, and If some good leaders can be obtained a fight could be made on the floor of the convention that would play havoc with the carefully laid plans to nominate Taft. His statement was merely an echo however, of what the allies have been giving out for several days, but It disclosed the outline of a plan to have some powerful speakers take the Initiative on the floor against Taft and to drill it Into the delegates that they are being led around by the nose and that a machine-dominated ' convention means the ruin of the party In the com ing campaign. ' "Big Chief" Joe Keallng, of the Fairbanks Indiana machine, who has managed the vice president's boom, repeated last night that the vice president's name will be presented. "This fight for president is not over yet," he declared. "We do not -Intend to quit, and we believe there Is a chance for Mr. Fairbanks to be nominated." Efforts to learn what strength the vice president will have outside of 30 instructed delegates In Indiana and two in Kentucky were balked. It was rnmored that his managers have been assured of some votes from Mississippi. Georgia and Alabama. Dinwiddle stated that delegates from California and other western states lean toward the vice president and would come to him In preference to Taft If they could be shown that he bad show to winning. 8a y Taft is Weak. The plan pursued by the Fairbanks scouts was to show the delegates that Taf is a weak candidate; that he cannot carry Indiana and other states that are necessary to. the success of the ticket. They were very ctlve during the day among the federal office-holding delegates from the southern states. It was represented to this class that the chances of Taft's winning are not bright and that the defeat of the ticket means the loss of their Jobs. Just how far they have succeeded with this line of attack was not known tonight by the vice president's managers, but they are keeping it op as a last resort. The ground is taken by Keallng and his associates that it is more creditable to die fighting for the position they have coveted so long than to quit at the eleventh hoar and attempt to land second place. This view explains the opposition of Kealing. Colonel George B. Lock wood and other Fairbanks managers to the strong movement of the rank and file of the Indiana workers here to start a boom for him for the vice presidency. The latter's managers' are trying to sit on the lid. as ft were, lone enough

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