Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 122, 16 June 1908 — Page 1
THE BICHMOOT P AIX ABIUM
AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 123. RICII3IOXD, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 1G, 191)8. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. GREAT CONVENTION FINANCIAL CONDITION H00SIERD0M WELL THE PEERLESS LEADER IS INTERESTED IN NOMINATION OF CITY IS FACES POLITICAL REPRESENTED AT BIG CONVENTION City Controller Shows Statis Of Finances.
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OPENED AT NOON
HUMILIATION
ItWELVE THOUSAND DELEGATES AND VISITORS FILL COLISEUM AT CHICAGO TO OVERFLOWING WHEN NATIONAL CHAIRMAN NEW RAPS WITH GAVEL AND CALLS MEETING TO ORDER.
EVERY DELEGATE IN
Wot a Man Chosen by Republican Party to Represent But Was Present When Secretary Dover Commenced to Read the Official Call for the Convention.
ROOSEVELT OPPOSES NOMINATION OF FAIRBANKS
fiumor Circulated Among Delegates After Seating Had Taken Place to the Effect That President Desires Some Other Man Than Fairbanks as Running Mate for Taft.
The opening speech of Senator Julius Caesar Burrows, of Michigan, will be found in full on page 4 of this issue. Chicago, June Ifi. Thousands of (delegates and visitors from all parts of the world and still thousands more of politicians, spectators and hangerson today wended their way from all jiflrts of Chicago to the "Center of the "Universe" at least for a few days: The republican national convention hall, at the Coliseum. Honrs before the doors were scheduled to open the crowd was on hand, but the rush could not be avoided because it began too early. Handling the Crowds. Great preparations had been made 4o handle the crowds. Dozens of policemen were on hand to care for it. Sergeant-at-arms Stone, of the national committee, was within the building attending to the last detail of arrangements and was prepared to throw the doors open at 11 o'clock, one hour before the convention met. The city has been dressed In red, white and blue bunting and flags. Wabash avenue is Jike a triumphal parade ground from the loop district to the Coliseum, at sixteenth street. Within the convention hall the fcene is equally beautiful and stirring. The upper supports of the building fairly groan under folds of bunting flnd flags of every nation on the globe. From the center of the hall seats are banked up to the very roof. The seating capacity has been arranged for between 11.000 and 12.000 people and every inch within the structure has been taken up by a chair. Any place where that article of furniture could be placed was filled. While spectators and out-of-town visitors were making ready to march to the Coliseum, state delegations "were getting ready for their work. Delegates had to be requested to appear early at headquarters. It was arranged that each delegation would march from their headquarters to the Coliseum. Many of the state delegations came to Chicago supplied with bands and many devices for making noise. Those fortunate enough to be able to make- noise wanted all the people in Chicago to Shear it and see for whom they intended casting their ballots. One of the busiest men in the city during the early hours was Frank H. Hitchcock. Secretary Taft's representative in Chicago. He held long telephone talks with his chief at Washington, making arrangements for the first day of the convention. Beginning tomorrow the convention will convene at 10 o'clock each morning and probably adjourn at noon. The afternoon session will open at 1 o'clock and there is no telling when adjournments in the evening will bo taken. Preparations are being made by the men chosen on the various committees to hold their organization meetings this afternoon. The credentials committee is considered most important as it has 2.13 contests to decide. Not until this committee makes its report before the convention can the nominations begin. This committee will probably bunch the contests as much as possible so as not to keep the convention over this week. The resolutions committee will also meet following adjournment of the convention In the afternoon. The committee on rules and order of business and the committee on permanent organization will also hold their meetings toward evening. The resolutions committee, with Senator A. J. Hopkins at the head, will take up the platform. From the present outlook it is believed that the Taft people will have a large majority on the credentials committee, as they did on the national committee inasmuch as the credentials committee is to pass on contests decided by the national committee and a similar result is looked for. Even at that a minority report Is expected. When this report reaches the .convention the fireworks will begin.
HIS SEAT ON TIME
The "allies" expect to get a foothold on the minority report and use it as a basis for its fight against Taft. The Taft people are for Harry M. Dough erty as chairman of tho committee The selection of this official means a warm battle early today. Senator Fulton has loomed up as a possible occupant of this important position as chairman of the committee. The credentials committee will meet night and day until its work is done, but it is not believed its report will be ready until at least Friday. Tafts' Get Stares. The center of interest from a social standpoint today at the Coliseum was section sixty-three in center east gal lery the Taft box. The section was turned over to Charles P. Taft. broth er of the secretary of war, for his friends and relatives. Every eye sought one woman who had a seat in j that section Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, daughter of President Roosevelt. She had one of the prominent seats with her husband, being here to see how her father's program of naming his own successor is to progress. Another person who attracted attention was Robert Taft, son of the war secretary, who arrived in Chicago today. Mrs. Mark A. Hanna, widow of the former party leader was also among the guests in the box. Convention Cheers Band. At 10:30, when the musical program began, the hall was well filled with distinguished guests and visitors and state delegations. One by one the latter began pouring in with their badges of different size and color adding to the brilliancy of handsomely dressed women and the hall decorations. The first burst of applause came when the ruffle drums, in Dixie time, preceeded the Georgia delegation with mingling rebel yells and the band struck up "Star Spangled Banner," bringing out tremendous cheers. There were about twenty thousand in the hall when the convention was called to order. Tiie seats alloted to the. Indiana delegation are exactly midway of the great hall, east and west and are also immediately in front of the chairman's table. On the front row of the Indiana seat sit Governor Hanly. Senator Beveridge, Senator Hemenway, Charles Bookwalter, mayor of Indianapolis. Charles Campbell of Shelbyville and Rudolph G. Leeds of Richmond. Roosevelt Rumor Starts. When the convention opened at 12:15, cheers and waving handkerchiefs greeted Chairman of the Republican Convention Harry S. New, as he stepped to the edge of the speaker's platform, raised his hand and declared the convention open for the nomination of candidates for president and vice president of the United. States and to draft a platform and outline the work of the party for the next four years, the noise of the busy convex tion, chamber, with its 12,000 dele gates and visitors, had subsided onlv enough for the exercises to progress when a rumor spread from delegate to aeiegate that caused the wildest ev. citement. It was to the effect that r resident Roosevelt had signified a desire that the convention refuse to nominate Charles W. Fairbanks for vice presidential candidate. Up to tnis time it has been pretty generally Deneved that Secretary of War W. H. Taft and Mr. Fairbanks would be the respective candidates for president ana vice president. New Accepts Gavel. When Chairman New was nresenrp with the gavel he said the hour has arrived for representative republicans to meet in their national convention at the end of almost twelve years of me most brilliant administration in the history of the world. There are those present in this audience who participated in the party's first convention. The accomplishment of that party within so brief a space as the life of men yet living is almost beyond belief. We here assert our pride in what has been done, to approve the achievements of the past and more I Continued on Page Seven..-
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WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Bryan will certainly be the democratic candidate for president and is therefore greatly interested in the convention which will name his opponent on the republican ticket.
PLATFORM FIGHT TO CENTER UPON FIVE BIG POINTS Public Announcement of Proposed Text Brings Forth Squabbles Among Party Leaders. CANNON AGAINST ANY CONCESSION TO LABOR. Anti-Injunction Plank, Favored By Taft and Roosevelt, Meets With Stubborn Opposition. The fight over the platform centers on these five planks: Tariff Revision. Anti-injunction (Labor). Railroad Rates. Currency. Trusts. Chicago, June 16. The exact text of the proposed Republican platform for the campaign next fall has at last been made public, but includes nothing of a startling nature with the exception of the anti-injunction plank, which the allies claim will have a disastrous effect upon the Taft boom. Cannon, Lodge and others stand squarely against the proposed concession to labor but Taft remains firm and in a message to Chicago last night, the Secretary said that under no circumstances would he consent to its elimination. Cannon came to Chicago to work against any such plank in the platform and is remonstrating in no mild terms. He has announced that he will (Continued on Page Seven.) THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair, warmer Tuesday night; Wednesday showers; light to fresh east to southeast winds. OHIO Fair, slightly warmer Tuesday .night; Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer, with showers by night In west portion; light t frssh northeast to east winds.
RATIFICATION OF FRANCHISE BY THE COUNCIL WITHHELD
City Council Postponed Action On Agreement Until Thursday That It May Be Considered Longer. OBJECTIONS REGISTERED TO ROUTE PROPOSED. Almost Assured That Injunction Proceedings Will Follow If Freight Line Is Built On 23rd Street. The franchise agreement recently entered into by the officials of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern traction company and the board of public works, representing the city of Richmond, was brought before council last evening for ratification, but no action on the matter was taken and council adjourned to meet Thursday evening, at which time the franchise will be considered. The reason why no action was taken last evening, was because City Attorney Study informed the councilmen that the franchise agreement was a contract and that it had been signed by representatives of both parties to the contract. He stated that if any amendments"to the franchise were desired by council, these amendments could 'not be made unless they were perfectly satisfactory to the other party to the contract, the T. H. I. & E. He suggested that if action on the franchise was postponed until Thursday evening, it was probable that the traction company would have representatives present. The city has a verbal agreement with the traction company that if the agreement is ratified, the company will pay all costs of litigation. These costs do not include the fees of the associate counsel employed by the city when the traction case was heard In the federal court. v On the recommendation of the board. Councilman Ieuker Introduced
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He May Not Get the Vice Presidency Unless He Speaks Up in Time, It Is Now Declared.
HAS NO SHOW AT. ALL FOR THE PRESIDENCY. Taft Has That Neatly Tucked Away Much to the Chagrin Of Indianian Will Speak Wednesday. (Special Correspondence) Indianapolis. June As was forecast by the Palladium, it has come to a show-down and the vice presidential nomination has been put up to Chas. W. Fairbanks. A long distance conversation with an Indiana delegate who is on the ground at Chicago, brought out the definite assertion, yesterday afternoon, that the tall Indianian has had the matter put up to him and that he is now wrestling with it. It is stated that he will give a positive answer not later than Wednesday morning. It is a rather uncomfortable hole that the vice president finds himself in. He has no chance for the presidential nomination, as it is conceded that Taft has the honor sewed up and laid away in his bureau of political history. The allies are urging the whole list of "field" candidates to stand firm at least, a good stiff bluff is being put up in that direction. Fairbanks knows full well that it is the vice presidency or nothing. If he waits too long he will be caught in a squeeze that will put him out of the running, if he consents to stand for the honor he may be beaten anyway, and there appears to he nothing in view but the strongest kind of risk of experiencing political humiliation. It may be put down as certain that Fairbanks will never consent to the use of his name unless it can be proved to him that he ! will be nominated. At least, there must be a strong measure of certainty about it, for he does not intend to stand before the country as a sweepstakes candidate who was out for anything in sight, taking what was left after the Taftie cleaned the platter. The vice president has been consulting with prominent republicans who will not leave for Chicago until Tuesday night, and it may be asserted that he considers the situation as presenting the. most puzzling problems of his career as a politician. Don't Know Why They Go. The Marion club boosters will get away tonight. They really don't know why they are going, and It is a common sight to see members of the club laughing over the predicament they are in. Not till the club members, some four or five hundred strong reach Chicago, will they know what they are expected to boost Fairbanks for the presidency or Fairbanks for the vice-presidency. Nobody is inclined to back out, however, as the big show will be there and they want to witness the nomination of a presidential candidate. The club members insist that the program will be carried out that Fairbanks will be placed in nomination for the presidency, that Governor Hanly will be starred in his great nominating speech, that the boosters from Indiana will shout themselves hoarse, and that then Taft will be nominated. These things out of the way, the boosters will get their instructions and whop 'er up for Fairbanks for second place, it being the opinion here that he will agree, at the last moment, to the use of his name. He desires first to know, beyond all question, what the JTaft voting strength really is. There still exists that same faint hope that something will happen to break the Taft combination, but once convinced that it would be futile longer to hold out. he will go out for second place. It (Continued on Page Two.)
Officers of the Convention
Chicago, June 16. Temporary officers of the republican national convention at Chicago: Temporary chairman Senator J. C. Burrows, Michigan. General secretary John R. Malloy. Columbus, O. Chief assistant secretary Lafayette B. Gleason. New York. Sergeant-at-arms William F. Stone, Baltimore. Parliamentarian Asher C. Hinds, Washington. D. C. 1 Official reporter M. W. Blumenberg. Washington. D. C Chief of doorkeepers Stephen R. Mason, Baltimore. Chaplains Bishop P. J. Muldoon. Chicago; the Rev. William O. Waters, Chicago; the Rev. Tobias Schanfarber, Chicago; the Rev. John Wesley Hill, New York; the Rev. Lorenzo D. Case. Chicago. Assistant secretaries Charles Brooks Smith. Parkersburgr. V. Va.; Ernest Walker Smith. Hartford, Conn.; Philip M. Heofele. St. Louis; M. J. Tobin, Vinton, la.; Charles 1L Harger, Abilene, Kas.; Allen Hollis, Concorn. N. H. Reading clerks Thomas W. Williamson. Edwardsville, HI.; Albert Berg, Beaudette, Minn.; George A. Wilson, Des Moines, Ia--W. J. Seltz, West Liberty. Ky. Tally clerks Roy M. Watklns, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Clyde W. "c Miller, Osage City, Kas.; Frank R. Bentley, Baraboo. Wis.; W. A. Steele. Van Buren. Ark. Messenger to the chairman Empsirdell Stone, Indianapolis. Messenger to the secretary John H. Jackson, Cincinnati.
The following shows, the financial condition of the City of Richmond up to the first of the month, the report being submitted to council last evening by City Controller Webster Parry: Total receipts ?:;i,."vs.:
Disbursements .. .. .v ... Excess of receipts Balance in sinking fund ... Amount in special-fund .... Cash in improvement fund i.7J.:;2 ll.41.-l.S7 ll.Sli7.77 GRANTED A DIVORCE. Grace Snider was granted a divorce from Otto Snider in the Wayne cir cuit court today. She alleged a ban donment and failure to provide. DANGER OF LOSING T INSPECTION IS NOW PASSED Council Passes Amendment To Old Meat Inspection Ordinance Making It Valid in All Respects. ST0LLE DOES NOT LIKE GOVERNMENT INSPECTION Applies to Government to Be Relieved of Inspection, But It Is Not Probable He Will Be Successful. Last evening council, on suspension of the rules, adopted, an amendment to the meat inspection ordinance, which provides In section 1 that meat butchered in this city cannot be sold here unless first inspected according to the terms of the federal meat In spection act. with the exception of meat butchered by farmers not regularly engaged in the butchering and sale of meat. When the vote was first taken to pass the amendment under suspension of the rules, the motion was lt because Councilman Bartel voted in the negative. He fear ed that butchers In neighboring towns like Fountain City, where the slaughtering was not done under government inspection, would take advantage of this amendment. "Take for instance a butcher in Fountain City. He might send some of his meat to Richmond by farmers and dispose of it," said Mr. Bartel. Bartel Appeased. Toward the close of the council meeting, City Attorney Study stated that it was necessary to adopt the ordinance in its amended, form without further delay and that he was sure .Mr. tiartel would consent to a recon sideration of the motion to pass the amendment under suspension of the rules. "Mr. Bartel remarked that Mr Study mist be a mind reader, then he said that he might consent to the adoption of the amendment providing that it was made perfectly plain to him. He then brought up again the point about the possibility of county butchers entering into a conspiracy with the farmers to sell their meat in menmona. ivir. carters tears were finally calmed and the amendment was adopted. Stolle Bucking. The necessity of adopting the or dinance la3t evening was clearly brought out by Mr. Study and Dr. Bond, city health officer. Mr. Study stated that the Richmond Abattoir company was the only local slaughter ing establishment doing interstate (Continued on Page Two.)
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Demas S. Coe, Special Cor
respondent to Palladium, Writes on Situation in Chicago Just Now. FAIRBANKS COHORTS ARE NOT TOO ENTHUSIASTIC. Sadly Realized by the Delegates That Indiana's "Favorite Son" Has Not a Chance. (By D. S. Coe.y Chicago. June 1'. Hoosiers are here galore. There are some who are putting on the frills of fashion, staying at the Annex; others a trifle down the scale are finding ample accommodations at tome of the hotels where prices don't range- from f 15 a day upward, yet are plenty high at 7..r, and still others who have found quarters that only pry them loose from a $2 bill each day. Then there are others who appear to have found no quarters and from the wrinkles in their clothes might have been using the benches In Lincoln park or on the lake front to rest their weary bones. But anyway, Hoosierdom Is on the map, so far as being represented at the Republican National convention Is concerned and excepting, of course, the Illinois patriots who are here always. Indiana t.t&nds first in the number of visitors sent. Parade Dirty Streets. Chicago had hardly awakened this morning when the parades of new in coming delegations began. From every railroad station In the city the pro cessions of shouting men, headed by bands, great and small, wended their way over the roughest and dirtiest streets in the world, to the Auditorium Annex. Indianapolis sent one of the big delegations today, and while every mother's son In the long line wore a Fairbanks badge, there was doubt expressed by onlookers as to the sincerity of the outward symbols. "Nothing to It." In all this preliminary stew men who certainly out to know whereof they speak, say there has been nothing to It from thex start and when they use the phrase "nothing: to It," they have reference to Indiana's chance to land In the presidential race. Of course everybody has conceded Taft's nomination for several days, yet newspapers of a certain class have endeav ored to lead their readers to believe that the favorite son of Indiana had been shoved out of it by means that were not elegant If they were even le gitimate.
Allies Blame Roosevelt. Just where the line of division comes between legitimate and illegitimate politics in the preliminary skirmishing to a convention such as this, Is not apparent, yet the chorts of the antis are still crying that every candidate save Mr. Taft received a brutal deal from Roosevelt, While, the managers of the "antis" are crying "foul," the Hoosler contingent is loudest in its protests. The Fairbanks boomers taw the end days ago, but they are dying hard they are trying to avoid the funeral anyway. No "Foul" Means Used. Fairbanks's friends among the Indiana visitors are numerous, but on the quiet most of them will admit that the real cause of his apparent overwhelming defeat for the presidential nomination is due to the sentiment of the voters throughout the country and not to any "foul" means of the administration forces behind Taft. . Everybody here, who has an Insight Into things political recognizes that Indiana is one of the States most needed to swing the presidential chair for either party. The big men of the republican party east and west, understand this thoroughly. It Is pointed out, therefore, that these men would not be taking part in an effort to nominate Taft did they not believe sincerely that he is favored by a large part of the voting population of Indiana a well as all other so-called pivotal states. So the hue and cry being raised in the Indiana Fairbanks camp that the state will find Itself enrolled in the democratic column next fall If Taft is nominated does not appeal strongly to the men who are doing things at this convention. Thayer Has Big Job. Ed. P. Thayer, of Greenfield, one of the stalwarts of the Sixth congressional district, and a very popular man. is coming in for his share of attention during the preliminary workings. Col. Thayer is first assistant to Sergeant-at-arms William F. Stone. CoL Thayer has seen service in the army, being a Spanish-American veteran, but be said Sunday night that no routine or special duty of soldier life was as wearying to mortal man as making an honest effort to get a national convention started out in good order. Upon Col. Thayer falls the ardous task of overseeing the seating (.Continued en Page Three.).