Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 198, 24 June 1912 — Page 1

PAIXABIXJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 198. RICHMOND, IND., 3IONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. , BRYAN TO BE Democratic Leader is Dead THE PROTEST THIRD PARTY IS LAUNCHED BRYAN IS TO CARRY FIGHT ON THE FLOOR THE BODIES OF SIXTEEN WERE FOUND1 IN FOR ATTACKS IS L

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iThe Conservative Element of i Democracy, Led by Parker f Will Try to Put Soft Pedal : on Nebraskan.

(FIGHT IS SIMILAR TO CHICAGO SCRAP And the Commoner Stands . in Grave Peril of the Steam Roller. He Is Standing , Against Field. BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE. i Copyright: 1912: By Sam'l G. Blythe : BALTIMORE, MD June 24. The first order of business at the Democratic national convention will be a determined attempt to put the sett pedal on William Jennings Bryan. To that end, a coterie of handy silences has been selected, and is working earnestly with the arriving members of the national committee. The plot 1b to take Mr. Bryan in hand ai the earliest possible moment and do what can be done toward eliminating him as a dictator, which position, it is (claimed by many, he has assumed, or, to be more explicit, he is endeavi oring to retain. The fact is, Mr. Bryan is still the greatest individual force in the Democratic party, and the further fact is . that he knows it full well. Hence, with no desire to become a secondary force, and with no intention of relinquish either position or perrequisites, he has protested against the selection of Judge Alton B.' Parker a3 jtemporory chairman of the convention.-which meets Tuesday. The situation has many resemiblances to the situation in Chicago ijust before the convention met there. Mr. Roosevelt, who also had dictatorship visions, protested against the selection of Senator Elihu Root as tem'porary chairman. Like Republican Fight. The first fight in that convention was on Root, but in that fight Roose' velt and his men made their greatest j mistake. They'went to -. Chicago debouncing the so-called theft of many delegates by the national committee land claiming they would not abide by lany affirmative decision made by a ; convention containing those delegates. jThen, after losing, they abide by several decisions. Roosevelt's great j strength was to tie up the organization of that convention or to bolt ! right at the start He could have taken lout his delegates and claimed to be as much the regular Republican party as J the Taft men could be, for he was Just as regular as Taft while the convention was unorganized. However, as soon as Root was named and the convention was . organized Taft became the regular Republican and Roosevelt was outside the breastworks. Now at Baltimore, Mr. Bryan intends to fight Judge Parker. He proteats violently against the selection of ( Continued on Page Ten.) I One of Thousands - BY CARL BERNHARDT. f It was after midnight. The progressive members of the credentials committee had just refused to sit longer with the reactionaries and countenance the theft of delegates. , Col. Rooseevlt appeared just outside his quarters in the Congress. "I am through," began the Colonel. "Oh, don't say that!" 7, It was a man bent with years -N addressed Theodore Roosevelt. i coat lapel was a Grand Army 1 Tears streamed down his . , i B through the work remains with you," continued the Colonel. Tlere followed the statement of his repudiation of that convention as tie true one. The. next afternoon, while the bulletins were pouring into the loosevelt headquarters, there was request made by the announcer for any one to express himself. " Upon the table arose the selfI same veteran of the forme night. i am irom Illinois. 1 am a Republican. I took part in the formation of the Republican party. As a boy I attended the Lincoln-Dou-las debate. I am here to repudiate the action of what they tell me is the Republican" party. The selfsame issue of the years that called tto being the Republican party is at stake. This nation can not exist half slave and half free. We have bad our Buchanan.. . I shall start out at this minute to form a league of the members of the Grand Army to ' part in the preservation of Y nation for the second time. I a f Rep ublican they shall not l soy party from me. ' he crowd cheered. At that moment Theodore Roosevelt went down the corridor. The soldier took off his hat aud laid it on his brt&at. When the crowd turned ag&iu to hear, the man had disappeared. " He was merely one of thousands.

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THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE OF WAYNE COUNTY, IRRESPECTIVE OF PARTY, BELIEVE THAT THE PLATFORM AND NOMINATIONS OF THE CHICAGO CONVENTION WERE CONTROLLED BY FRAUD AND THEFT AND DO NOT EXPRESS THE OPINIONS AND DESIRES OF THE GREAT MASS OF THE PLAIN PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY AND THAT THE TIME HAS NOW COME FOR THE FORMATION OF A THIRD PARTY IN ORDER THAT THE PROGRESSIVE SENTIMENT OF THE COUNTRY MAY BE 'ADEQUATELY REPRESENTED. IT IS IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME THAT PUBLIC OPINION ON THIS SUBJECT SHOULD FIND EXPRESSION, AND WAYNE COUNTY OUGHT TO LEAD. THOSE WHO CONCUR IN THIS OPINION ARE INVITED TO MEET AT THE PYTHIAN TEMPLE (LOWER ROOM) TOMORROW, TUESDAY EVENING AT EIGHT O'CLOCK, FOR THE PURPOSE OF APPOINTING A COMMITTEE TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR A MASS MEETING OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY AT AN EARLY DAY.

A SPRINTING CALF CAUSESCOMMOTION Little Fellow, a Small Negro, Hanging to Its Tail, Dashes Down Main St. A calf not over three feet high, frantic by the noises of the city and the absence of his mother, created a mild reign of terror on Main street late Saturday afternoon. The little animal was in a drove of cattle enroute to execution, and on South Sixth street it decided to run amuck. It made a bee-line for Main street, pursued by a little colored boy, about the same size of the calf. The youngster by a desperate spring, caught j hold of the calf's tail, and the calf and boy shot into a crowded store, l Seventh and Main streets, like a "bolt from an arrow. Wild excitement ensued until pursued and pursuer gained the street again and headed east on Main street. The spectacle of the sprinting calf dragging the little negro convulsed the crowds on the street but their chuckles became screams of laughter when the calf ran under a sedate farm horse, attached to a buggy in which sat two large countrywomen. The horse resented the liberties taken by the calf, and with a well directed kick landed the little animal under the wagon, to the consternation of its two corpulent occupants, who hurriedly disembarked. Mr. Calf realized that the position he occupied was a perilous one and crawled from under the buggy and started in the general direction of the Bayer bakery, pursued by the little negro. On the sidewalk in front of the bakery the crowd stopped the mad career of the calf, which was petted and caressed while a rope was being placed about its neck by the trhiniphant little colored fellow. RIDE ON SIDEWALKS AND ARE ARRESTED Blaine Clark, arrested for riding on the sidewalk on North Third street near the C. & O. freight depot, where he was employed, explained in police ccurt this morning that he was in a j hurry to get home for dinner and uninI tentionally rode over about twenty J feet of sidewalk. He was arrested Frijday by officer Westenberg who stated I the man rode about 70 feet on the sidei w elk. Clark's hearing was postponed ana he may be tried, m the morning. A man named Chrisman, arrested on the same charge v at practically the sfiue place was not arraigned this morning. He had been notified to appear but failed to do so. His case was cntinut-d. The two arrests wre th if suit of many c-omplaibts to the police U.at the sidewalks in the north end !-frc being used promiscuously for : , . . . 1 V .. I, : 1 : .

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Movement BADLY BEATEN "WAS r YOUNG VIRGINIAN "Tables Turned" on Him in Police Court. Fined $1.00 and" Grover Quissenberry, aged twenty, bis right eye swollen shut and badly blackened, his mouth bruised and a large gash in his head, appeared as prosecuting witness in police court this morning against Herbert Wickett and Clayton Williams, charged with aFault and battery on Quissenberry. However, he failed to secure their conviction and was himself fined $1 and costs for drunk. Quissenberry, according to statements of witnesses, was in a North F street saloon Saturday afternoon, intoxicated and looking for a fight. He is said to have attacked Wickett with a pair of knucks and to have drawn a gun. Wicket knocked the lad down and then smashed him another blow in the face while he lay unconscious. Quissenberry claimed the pair of men robbed him of $1.45 while he was unconscious but his claims were not substantiated. Quissenberry stated he was told to lave the saloon after an altercation there, and did so and that as he left (Wickett and Williams jumped out on j him at the back door and one of them j hit him with a rock, afterwards robjbmg him. The men claimed, and witlieeses corroborated their story, that i Quissenberry left the saloon, came back and called Wickett a vile name, reaching for his gun in his hip pocket. Wickett then assaulted the boy. All three men were arrested by Officer Bundy, Wickett threatened to kill Quissenberry when they were locked up so- the men and the boy were separated. Quissenberry is said to have told a crowd of men In the saloon that he was from Virginia, .-nd that "down there they make the niggers jump over fences when they meet them on the load." He drew a gun and showed how fast he could work it for th benefit of his audience. He said he and his brothers were "regular devils," it was arserted. The Quissenberry brothers bad trouble at Boston, Ind., last October, indulging in a cutting scrape. They were drunk at the time and paid fines fo rthe offense. Quissenberry's case, and other police court cases were heard before special Judge Perry J. Freeman this morning, the mayor being ill. STEEN TO ATTEND SHERIFFS' MEETING Sheriff Albert Steen is planning to attend the national convention of county sheriffs, which is to be held at St. Paul, July 15. 16 and 17. A number of important topics, touching upon the work and duties of sheriffs will " be brought up and discussed.

News of the Nomination of Taft Was Received Silently and with Much Anger by Local Citizens.

WAYNE CANDIDATES ARE VERY ANXIOUS Conference of Those on the County Ticket Reported. Bandanna "Battle Flag" in Evidence Here. If the situation in Richmond and Wayne county can be taken as a criterion it will be useless for the Messrs. Taft and Sherman to waste time and energy in making a campaign for reelection this coming fall. The theft of the Republican national conventon by the discredited leaders of the Taft faction has, to state facts mildly, enraged the big majority of Republican voters in the city and county and they are about as amiable today as a dog in fly time. Saturday night, all of Sunday and today the telephones of the Palladium have been ringing in chorus. Boiled down the bulk of the questions asked over the phones can be summarized as follows : "Was Taft nominated? Well when is the third party to be organized?" Some of the exclamations snapped cut over the wires and by those who personally called at the Palladium office for information, when they were informed that Taft was nominated cannot, be printed owing to the strict ri les of the post office department. An Angry Merchant. A well known merchant angrily strode into the Palladium office this morning and asked where he could obtain a large lithograph of Rooseytit..X am goingto put it in ny. window and keep it there until after the election," he said. A well known professional man, a Democrat, stated to a Palladium reporter as his eyes snapped, "They're going to use the steam roller at Baltimore and the same gang that operated the one at Chicago will be its crew," he said. "The quicker they organize the Progressive party the better satisfied I'll be." A woman called up late Saturday night. "Is it true they nominated Taft?" she asked. "It is," she was told. "Oh, durn it," she exclaimed, bang ing down the receiver. The Palladium extras Saturday night were the first to tell the crowds on the fctreets of the nominations of Taft and Sherman. They were eagerly purchased and silently read. There was no enthusiasm shown, but hundreds of Republican voters grimly bade farewell to the party under whose banners they had fought for years. And the partings were in anger, not in sorrow. Candidates Nervous. It was reported today that in a short lime there will be a conference of Republican candidates on the county ticket to determine what course they shall pursue as a result of the split in the party. The county ticket carries with it the congressional nominee and some candidates are gravely afraid this burden will be too heavy to carry. A. E. Smith, chairman of the local Roosevelt committee, was the first man to appear today with the bandan na handkerchief which has been adopted as the sign of protest against the "clouded convention." The reason for this is explained by the following Chicago dispatch, which &mith carries around with him: - The bandanna .handkerchief was cdopted as the "Roosevelt battle flag." Most of the delegates wore flannel bthdannas tied around their arms and ethers were distributed by the hundreds to the crowd. The bandanna, it was explained, stands for the plain people who ordinarily use them. "We're all plain people here and this is a movement of the plain people," said one of the delegates. Colonel Roosevelt gave his sanction to the "battle flag" by appearing last night with one in his hand, which he waved to the crowd on the street. His daughter, Mrs. Longwortn, wore a flaming bandanna on her hat. Everywhere Smith wejot this morning there was a hasty exit to the furnishing shops to get the Roosevelt battle flag. One man was seen running down th street with five under his arm. i CLARENCE M'MAHAN ACCEPTS POSITION Clarence McMahan of this city, form- i erly connected with the local automat-! Ic telephone company, left this morn1 Ing for Los Angeles where he has accepted a position as repairman and expert operator for the exchange of that city. I xi s Angeles has the largest -! automatic telephone exchange in the j ; country, having a system of 45,000 phones. .

Organization Went on Apace

Today with the Drawing Up of Tickets in a Half Dozen States. JOHNSON TO TAKE CHARGE OF PLANS Ex-president Roosevelt Has Impressed on Followers that the Movement Is Not "Sorehead" One. (National Xews Association) MUSKOGEE, Okla., June 24 Telephone messages from various counties in the Third Oklahoma district say that the Republicans will probably not place county tickets in the field since the nomination of Taft. The Third district was overwhelmingly for Col. Roo8evlt. CHICAGO, June 24 Organization of Col. Roosevelt's third party went on apace today with the drawing up of a ticket in half a dozen states and the pledging of leaders to stick with the former president "to the finish." Crowds and enthusiasm were marked around the Colonel's headquarters in the Congress hotel. Declarations by Governor Deneen and Governor Hadley, the latter one of the Colonel's original seven, that each would stick to the regular party, led the Roosevelt progressive party organizers to determine to put independent nominees for governor in the field in these two states. In California, Kansas, West Virginia and other states it was believed that Roosevelt's strength was such that the regular ticket could be thrown into the Progressive party column. At the conference the former president impressed upon his followers the point that the new. party was not td be the vehicle for "soreheads," but to represent a genuine progressive movement. Watching Baltimore. The. ex-president assured hia backers that thenew party had a distinct fight of its own. He alluded to tne situation in the Democratic party and impressed upon his leaders that the Progressive party may expect a strong alignment from the Democratic ranks if the Baltimore 'convention fails to respond to the progressive call of the country. While he is not banking on what may come out of Baltimore, he is alert to the keen advantage he would derive if the Democrats fail to put up a progressive to run against the reactionary Taft. Roosevelt is promised the support of many influential, progressive Democrats so it was said at his rooms if the Baltimore convention picks a retrogressive for its candidate. The Roosevelt campaign is to be managed by Governor Hiram Johnson, of California. Besides the governor, whose strength In the far west was the impelling motive for putting him at the helm, will be seven other progressives. Among them will be Francis J. Heney, of San Francisco, and Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Democrat, of Denver. Governor Stubbs, of Kansas, who has plunged into the "bull moose" party with a whoop, will be another to help guide the new political ship. While the remainder of the governing council has not been picked, it is rumored that Governor Glasscock, of West Virginia; Senator Cummins, of Iowa, and Governor Bass of New Hampshire, will be in the list "The new party," said Col. Roosevelt in talking today, "is Intended to take a distinct place in the affairs of the ! country. I do not want it a party of progressive Republicans alone; it must ! take in all men who feel that the pro gressive principles are to be carried out." WORKS BOARD HELD A MEETING TODAY The board of works this morning adopted a resolution for a cement alley from North Eighth to Ninth, and from B to C streets. The contractors in charge of the erection of the new church at South Fifth and C streets will be notified by the police department to vacate all of the street but one half. They are now occupying about two-thirds of the street with their building materials. The board decided one-half the street would be sufficient space for the men to store their materials on. - A petition asking for the closing of an alley running from F to T street between North Seventeenth street and an alley running west, was beard. The same petition prays for the opening for the use of the public of the west half of North Seventeenth street between an alley and North G street. This ground will be dedicated to the city. The board did not take final action in this matter, but decided to personally investigate. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair and continwed warm.

Commoner Will Be Candidate Against Parker for Temporary Chairman if This Is Necessary.

INDIANA WILL AID THE PARKER FORCE Democratic National Committee Begins Sessions Today to Hearc the Seventyeight Contests. BY CARL MOTE. BALTIMORE. June 24 Baltimore is ablaze today with mellowed sunshine, lithographs of candidates, flags, bunting and badges. Life-sized pictures of Governor Marshall adorn the Belvedere hotel both inside and out. Indiana's headquarters are the most elaborate in thecity. The Indianapolis delegation will oc cupy the largest part of the hotel, with a roof garden of spacious dimensions leading off directly from the parlors. Nearly one hundred Hoosiers had already arrived at noon, and the two sections of the Marshall special were scheduled to arrive this afternoon. Upon the arrival of the Indiana delegates they will elect members of various committees at a caucus. Senator Kern is slated for the committee on resolutions, while Senator Sbively will be chairman of the delegation. Thos. Taggart was a busy man looking after the personal comfort of the Hoosler visitors, and they are well supplied with special privileges and special badges. Interested in Fuss. The Bryan-Parke embroglio is interesting the Indiana politicians. Prediction was made by one of the state officials that Indiana will stand by Parker on the theory that the temporary chairmanship, of the convention is none of Bryan's business. Although Taggart had announced that he would not be a candidate for national committeeman, and as an agreement had been made to elect Lincoln Dixon, one of Taggart's lieutenants, said this morning that Taggart would be re-elected in spite of previous arrangeemnts to the contrary. Among the early arrivals today were Charles B. Beck and George Gobel, of Richmond. (National News Association) BALTIMORE, June 24 Tom Taggart ,of Indiana, and Roger Sullivan, of Illinois, positively stated this morning that Judge Alton B. Parker was sure of 40 out of the 53 votes of the national committee for temporary chairman. With this prospect admitted on all sides, the opposition to Parker, headed by William Jennings Bryan, planned to carry the fight to the convention floor. Bryan himself admitted that he would become a candidate for temporary chairman if such a move became necessary to defeat Parker. A canvass of the prominent delegates already on the ground, indicated a large probability that Parker's election would fail of ratification in the convention. "Wilson on first ballot" talk mas by far the loudest today. The , national committee went into session at 12:15 to decide seventy-eight delegate contests. None of these came from Indiana. Illinois had twenty-eight involved. The contests were: District of Columbia, 6 votes; Illinois, 28 votes; Pennsylvania, 2 rotes; Porto Rico, Texas, 4; Rhode Island. 3; South Dakota. 1; Vermont, 8; Philippines, 6; and Alaska 6 votes. William J. Bryan decided Just before the committee met that he would not appear before the national committee to make his fight against Parker as temporary chairman. Friends of Bryan declared that the steam roller had been brought from Chicago, and it was decided to wait, until the convention meets before beginning the fight. The announcement of Bryan that he himself would become a candidate for temporary chairman was the principal sensation of the day. A mosterr demonstration for Champ Clark, of Missouri, for the Democratic presidential nomination, has been arranged by his supporters here. The demonstration will take the form of a parade in which full 10,000 people are expected to be in line. The parade will wind up at the convention hall a short time before the convention is called to order. DELEGATE EXPLAINS VOTE FOR GILLETTE National News Association) CHICAGO, June 24. R. R McCormlek of the Illinois delegation at the Republican convention explained today that when he cast the lone ballot for Howard Gillette, a Chicago banker, for vice-president that he did it fur friendship. ' ' He's a friend of mine." he said. " I told him if Taft was nominated. I'd j vote for him for vice-president"

Many More Believed to Have Drowned When the Dock at Eagle Park on the Niagara Collapsed.

MANY ARE CARRIED OVER GREAT FALLS' Many of the Victims of the Tragedy Were Women and Children. Rescuers Still Drag the River. (National New Association) BUFFALO. N. Y, June 24. Sixteen bodies have been recovered up to noon today from the Niagara river below Eagle Park where a dock collapsed Sunday evening. All those missing are believed t l.ve perished. Scores of police and volunteer rescue workers dragged Nibftara Rirer today for victims of the collapse of the xcurviun dock of Egle park last night. Of the five bodies recovered up to S:S0 o'clock this morn- ' inr four were women and the fifth a cine year old girl. , Police worked all night with grappling hooks and nets. They fear that the swift current has carried many txidies over Niagara Falls and that they will never be found. All the bod ies taken from the rirer hare been identified and claimed. The disaster come at the end of a day's outing of court Amherst number, 232. Order of 1 "ores t era. The steamboat Henry Koerbtr had just warped Into the dock which was crowded while 4Corea of ethers were crowding upon tjM staging. Captain Fox of tha steamer; called out to the people to move slowly but the crush continued. Just as the gang . plank was throws out and thole upon the edge of the pier began moving on the vessel the crash came. The planking held fast to the Umbers on both sides of the dock leaving a sort of chute or pocket Into which the frenzied stream of men. womeji and chlldreh poured. ' " V. : 3 MILLION DOLLARS SPENT AT CHICAGO; t . (National Xewa Association) CHICAGO. June 24. Three millloa' dollars is the amount that is estimated to have been spent by the convention delegates and visitors during the great gathering of politicians during the ten-day period In which they had. possession of the city. Hotel managers unite in the belief that it was the greatest money spending throng since the world's fair. G. O. P. PLATFORM IN A NUTSHELL Renews allegiance to principles of Republican party. Favors limiting hours of labor of women and children and protection of wage earners in dangerous occupations. Upholds the authority and Integrity of the Courts. Favors new antitrust legislation that will make monopolies criminal. Reaffirms belief in protective tariff, but promises reduction In some import duties. Praises Tariff Soard. Condemns Democratic tariff bill of Sixty-second Congress as dangerous to business. Favors scientific Inquiry into high cost of living and promises to remove abuses that may exist. Favors revision of banking system to prevent panics and need of better currency facilities for movements of crops in the West and South. Urges agricultural creditisocletlcs to loan money to farmers. Wants an extension of the Civil Service law. Wants laws to prevent contributions to nomination and election ef President, Vice President. Senators, and Representatives In Congress. Favors treaty with Russia and other countries to prevent discrimination against American cKizcns. Favors the parcels post. Promises conservation of i national resources. Believes in maintenance of adequate navy and a revival' of the merchant marine. Believes that Federal Government should assume part control of Mississippi River and help prevent flood disasters. Favors reclamation of arid lands and the improvement of rivers and harbors. , . Pledges new laws for relief of evils of undesirable Immigration. Favora ample equipment for life saving on ships. Calls on publfe to condemn and punish lynching and to strengthen respect for law.