Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 199, 25 June 1912 — Page 1

MOM) PAULAJDIIJM 'A i i AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 199. RICH3IOXD, IXD., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. f 1 Group of Democratic War Chiefs at Baltimore THIS COUNTY IS A HOTBED BRYAN LOSES BATTLE TODAY HEARST AND BRYAN LEAD ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT 4 it i Of POLITICS PARKER FOR THE CHAIRMAN

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("Whatever Agreement This Trio Can Reach, the Convention Cannot Do Anything but Ratify It.

rMcLEAN PROMOTING BIG HEARST BOOM Blyrhe Hears of a Plan to Switch the Clark Delegates to the Editor. Mr. Taggart Slipped Up. BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE. ftCopyright: 1912: By Sam'l G. Blythe ; BALTIMORE. June 25 "Please, sir, I buy a ticket to the aviation meet for the benefit of the fresh air fund," pleaded a fair young thing In the lob by of the Belvedere. "Really, my dear young lady," replied the Democratic National committeeman to whom she made her plea, "really, I would like to oblige you, but j we don't need the tickets. We are all up in the air as it is." Now, that, of its kind, was a passable joke for a politician. Also it contained a germ of truth. The leaders, I the managers, the managed, the insiders, the outsiders, and all of those ! present In this city spent most of Monfday in the air, and not many of them bad alighted when the last band had (played "Maryland, My Maryland" for the last time, which was reasonably late in the evening. Offer Fight for Harmony. ; The proposition seems to be that j harmony in the Democratic ranks is a most desirable commodity at this juncture, and that nobody present is la-'erse to wading through seas of blood !to get it. Inasmuch as the Democrats .ere Urmly convinced they are starting something here that will be enthusiastically ratified at' the polls next November, even the most acrimonious I of them is opposed to doing, anything ;tbat will interfere with the predicted trnd desired results. . ; They do not . want to flght, these (Democrats, except to obtain the inestimable blessing of a peace that shall i be continuous enough to tide them loer until March 4, next, when it may Dt shattered in the rush for places on the pay roll. ' They are certain they will win. They see visions of patronage ahead of them. They have begun to pick out their jobs. It is all over, except the mere detail jof registering here, at the convention, the will of the people by the selection after due deliberation of the person who shall inhabit the white bouse after Mr." Taft gets through with Jt, and the mere further detail of passing 1hat man along to the people, who will Klo the triumphant rest at the polls. Any Democrat who breathed the fear that the nominee of this convention will not be elected immediately had (his license taken away and was fined for smoking in the street. Any doubt is regarded as treason, and high treason int. that, when you consider the Democrats have not had a president since Cleveland went out in 1897. Victory, they will tell you. Is pre paring to perch on their banners, and In order that victory may easily find the correct perching place, they have erected banners on every rampart Bal timore boasts and have provided a few Additional ramparts themselves, There were rumors of war early in (the day war to the hit of whatever sort of a knife Mr. Bryan brought along and not a few of the Democrats vere for it. and the ensuing carnage Ion the broad patriotic ground that the sooner the warriors are killed off the sooner the devotee of the gentle art of peace will have an opportunity to lad hesitating delegates to one side find show them how urgent it is to lie calm and consecutive in the present (contingency j Rumors of Many Sorts. ; There were rumors of various other ftcti'ds. These principally concerned Rne getting together of opposing leaders and the mapping out of plana of procedure that 6hall give no Democrat lesuse, for complaint and shall urge "them to the polls on election day with (Continued on Fag E'.ght) Progressives

THE GREAT MAJORIT T 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 CF THE GREAT MASS OF THE 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) TONIGHT, (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.

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This photograph of four of the most powerful Democratic leaders in the country was taken as they were riding around Baltimore, where the Dsmocratic Convention is in session now. From left to right: Tom Taggart, who Is said to control the Democratic vote of Indiana; Roger Sullivan, who Is credited with the same power in Illinois; Norman E. Mack, of New York, chairman of the National Committee, and Colonel John T. McGraw, Democratic leader in West Virginia.

URGES NEGROES TO BACK THEC0L0NEL S. E. Griggs, Colored Author, Says Roosevelt Stands for Square Deal. - (National. Nwa?As8octatfcny !,ir?:'" CHICAGO. June 25. Sutton E. Griggs, negro author and educator of Nashville, Tennessee, in an address last night before the Baptist Young People's Union congress at Providence Baptist church, urged the people of his race to support Theadore Roosevelt in his fight for Progressive principles. "If the young negroes of this country should believe in anything," the speaker said, "it should be in the square deal. Theodore Roosevelt typifies the square deal in the political affairs of this country. "The negroes are free citizens today as the result of or product of a change in political affairs. At the beginning of the civil war neither the Democratic party nor the big party was ideal in its attitude toward slavery and the Republican party with Abraham Lincoln as president proved the salvation of the race. The negroes of today therefore should be the last to oppose the breaking away from" established customs or to say that they should stick to the old Republican party merely because of its name. "The battle that was before the country in civil war times, is before the people of this country now in a new guise. These negroes were held in bondage then by masters, but the great mass of the American people, white and black, are now under the bondage of political masters and seekers after special privilege." LAKE AND PARK COMPANY'S PLANS The Lake and Park company have given plans and specifications for a dam for the lake to be made north of town to a hydraulic engineer, Mr. John Miller, of New Castle. Mr. Miller will have them ready to submit for bids within a week or ten days. Sandusky and Walker, of Cincinnati are the landscape architects who will be employed to lay out the grounds and this will be started immediately, according to a statement of the company. Meet Tonight

WAYNE COUNTY IS "ROAD CRAZY" NOW

30 Per Cent of Stock, Surplus Funds and Undivided Profits Unassessed. riomxie "county gone "road mad?" County officials are asking this question daily and its is answered in the affirmative. Petitions for improvements have literally swamped tne toard of county commissioners during the past four or five months. Farmers from every nook and corner of the county are demanding that the commissioners grant their petitions for the construction of macadam roadways. Following la a list of proposed improvements: Ernest Cox road, on the boundary line of Wayne and Randolph counties. Richmond and Newport turnpike, running north on Tenth street through Spring Grove. The Oliver ScanUand road, in Green township. National road east. Easthaven avenue. Commons road. West Fifth street and Williamsburg ! pike. Two roads in Jackson township, running through Main street of Dublin, Cambridge City and East Germantown. Road through Centertoiwnship, running through the main street of Centervilie. Liberty pike. The commissioners from Wayne and Randolph counties will hold it joint meeting in this city, June 29, to decide upon the improvement of the Ernest Cox road. The report of the Richmond and Newport turnpike has been filed and the matter is pending with th com missioners, viewers nave oeen ap-i pointed for the proposed improvement of the Oliver Scantland road." The petition for the improvement of the National road, east, is in the bands of the commissioners. The contract for the Kasthaven avenue improvement has I been let. The petition of Richard Sedgwick and others for the improvement of the Commons road, or North M'est Eighth street, has also been presented to the board. Viewers are working on the report on the West Fifth street and Williamsburg pike improvement. Petitions are being circulated m Jackson and Center township for proposed improvements With one exception, it Is believed there will be ivcry little opposition to the proposed i improvements. In Center township. It is said, a remonstrance is being drawn ui, protesting against an improvement. All of these improvements, if made, will be under the three-mile road law. The township in which the improvement is made, will be forced to pay for the improvement, by general taxation. The "better road3, mania 1b caused. It is believed, by the fact that a large number of farmers are owners of automobiles. Good roads are conducive to speed, and aid materially in keeplnf a machine 1n good repair.

ODD FELLOWS T0X HAVE jlGMEETING Over a Thousand Will Attend County Meeting at Centervilie, Saturday. .... w. -... Accompanied by the Richmond City Band about 400 members of the I. O. O. F. lodges of this city, will go to Centervilie next Saturday to attend the annual county meeting of the order. Two special interurbans will be run before noon and two immediately after noon to Centervilie from this city by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern traction company. In all, it is expected that more than 1,000 Odd Fellows will attend the meeting. John L. Rupe, of this city, will . deliver the address of welcome, the response to be made by F. L. Torrence, district deputy grand master. W. H. Leedy, grand secretary, will also deliver an address in the morning. Addresses .will be made in the afternoon by Kate R. Nichols, president of the Assembly, and by J. L. Harmon, grand master of Indiana. A parade in the afternoon at 1:30 o'clock will be one of the interesting features of the affair. Lawrence Handley, of this city has been selected marshal. TO HONOR VETERANS Plans for Erecting a Memorial Are Discussed. The Sons of Veterans, in session last night, passed a resolution asking that on next Decoration Day the 'city fire bells sound a call, and that all in hearing of the bells stand uncovered for five minutes, as a token of respect for the dead heroes of the Civil war. j A Wayne county memorial for the i heroes sent from this county to fight the bloody battles of the Sixties Is i proposed by Women's Relief Corps of this city, which sent a committee to confer with the Sons of Veterans at their meeting last night. The Sons o? Veterans were decidedly in favor of I such a plan and the commander was authorized to appoint a committee to j act with the committee from the W. R. C. in securing such a monument. It is planned to canvass the city and county to secure funds for the mem- ! orlal. Each squad will be in charge of a captain. The kind of memorial and its cost is not known. The Women's Relief Corps will meet Thursday afternoon at the G. A. Rrooms at the court house, and at this time make further plans for the campaign to secure donations. "LAST DAYS OF POMPEII" TO BE GIVEN Tne Payne Fireworks Display com j - Pany has been awarded the contract to give a spectacular exhibition. The Destruction of Pompeii," on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of August which win be staged in the baseball park.

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Been So Stirred Over Any- j thing as by Wreck of the; Republican Party. CENTRAL BODY MAY GO TO NEW PARTY Big Majority Of Committee . Are Progressives and in Sympathy with New Political Movement.

I square deal who have been in the ReRichmond and Wayne county are in I publican party. It would merely have

the throes of political travail and third ; party talk can be heard everywhere. Tonieht the local branch of the Pro-! eressive nartv will be born at the I . , ... j . t Pythian Temple, and thousands of Re-, j publican voters in the county will nock i to the banners of the new political organization. It will secure many re-1 before the Democratic convention nominates a president at Baltimore. Should that convention nominate a standpatter it is an assured fact that there will be wholesale desertions from the Democratic party In this county. There is excellent evidence that the Wayne County Republican Central committee will gravely consider going over to the Progressive party, thus giving the new party an excellent organization right at the start. The big majority of the committee are Roosevelt men and progressives and are in close harmony with the bulk of the Republican voters in the county. The committee's Indorsement of the Progressive party would practically eliminate the Republican party as a factor in county politics. Candidates Are Busy. Candidates for various county offices on the Republican ticket, which was elected at the primaries last February, have betn holding conferences to map out a course of acUon to pursue to meet the exigency brought

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partyi-ai me unicago convention, just wnai action inese. candidates wm tane nas not Deen announced publicly uut a report is being circulated today that the candidates will still remain on the Republican ticket to which they are nominated by hundreds of Republicans who are now going over to the Progressive party, and will also ask their indorsement by the new party. Wayne county Progressives were among the first in the state to start me movement ior tne organization or a third party, but they have not been alone in this work. The movement is general throughout the state as indicated by the following dispatches: Movement In State. CRAWFORDSVILLE "I will stand with the new party." This statement by William Endlcott of this place and a Roosevelt delegate to the Republican national convention from the Ninth District, announced his determination to sever his connection with the Re-1 publican party and Join with the Roosevelt movement. "There will be a meeting of the Roosevelt men of the Ninth District in a few days,' said Mr. Endicott, "at a time and place to be fixed by J. W. Whickar of Attica, chairman of the District Roosevelt organization. At that meeting our future course will be determined. All of the Roosevelt men from the districts at the convention decided to remain with Roosevelt to the end. "As for myself, I expect nothing out of politics. A man can do much better by attending to his own business than by trying to make a living out of politics. But I shall do what I can to make the new movement a success." LAFAYETTE Glen K. Stimson, editor of the Lafayette Courier; Russell K. Bed good, state representative; D. P. Flanagan. Edgar Randolph, Charles E. Thompson, Thomas Bauer and fifty other Roosevelt Republicans sent a mirisage to Albert J. Beveridge saying they will not recognize the Taft convention. They deplore the action of the road roller at Chicago. ANDERSON Clayte Sells, Roosevelt chairman in the Eighth District, says he will visit every county in his district for the purpose of organizingg the national progressive party. He says thousands are ready to join the j new party. Sells attended the Chicago convention and said he was ready to repudiate the Republican party for defranding seventy-two delegates out of their seats in the convention. PETERSBURG Fearing defeat 0y Democrats, the stand pattern and progressives of the Republican party have decided to put but one ticket in the field In Pike connty this falL THE WEATHER STATE Fair in extreme southern portion. LOCAL. Fair tonight and Wednesday; not much change In temparatiif.

Young Men

The party of memories has been wrecked. The new party, the party of expectations, social Justice, is here. The wrecking was not done at Chicago. The oldtime managers merely finished the job in the convention. The real destruction was achieved when President Taft went over to the dlscredited Aldrlch-Cannon organization ana anowea us raemoers to control nis administration. The Chicago outcome was fortunate. There was no possibility of harmoniz ing the representatives of special priv ilege and the representatives of the been crying peace, peace, when there 1 no peace. The fact that Taft's nomination was Procured by the theft of seventy-odd delegates and through the patronage . . o bribery of two hundred from Southern sUtes that never ca8t a Republican electoral vote, is a fitting climax to the special privilege regime, but it is of furnished the Impetus for the formation of the new Progressive party. The new party is to be a party not of memories, but of expectations. It is to be the party of men with a future, not of men with a past. For years the politicians of the two old parties have been living on traditions. The Democratic organization has been appealing in the name of Jefferson and Jackson. The Republican has been harking back to the saving of the Union and the freeing of the slaves. But new issues have arisen. Men cannot forever sit moping around a grave. The new generation is facing front. The young men are in the saddle. Yesterday does not concern them; tomorrow is their day. They do not ask "Who was your grandfather, and what did he do?"- but, "Who are you, and can you make good?" No ambitious young man of the West is going to tie himself up to an organi zation that is commanded by the beat en bosses, by Crane and Penrose, who jTawney. beaten In Minnesota; by j Watson and Hemenway. beaten in In dlana, and by Aid rich and Cannon and Hale and Lorimer. The new party is going to be pre-eminently a young men's party, with the vigor and the enthusiasm and the ideals of the young men, who have caught the fighting spirit In the cause of social justice and human rights of the young men's leader Theodore j Roosevelt Young men of both the old parties are going to take possession of the new organization. It has been long apparent that the progressive Democrats and the progressive Republicans belonged in the same ranks. The old parties have been cut in two by the emergency of new issues. The old party names have ceased to be significant. The old party divisions have become artificial and unnatural. The new Progressive party was bound to come. The stolen convention roll at Chicago has brought it. Now there is a chance to get things done, to get rid of the agents of special privilege who have been controlling the organization in both parties. and to smash ahead with the new Pro - gresslve party with no traitors in the camp. These are great days to be alive. W. R. Nelson In The Kansas City Times. E WILL END DURING JULY Health Officers Consider Rescinding the Dog Muzzling Order. The dog muzzling orders, now in force in the county and city, may be withdrawn the last of July if no more cases or rabies develop before that time. Dr. T. H. Davis, city health officer, said today that he believed the people would be amply protected from rabi dogs if no more cases of hydrophobia developed within thirty days. ! and Dr. King, county health officer. while not committing himself to any ; definite date, stated that as soon as ! the situation seemed to be under coni trol, he would rescind his order in the county. Asked if this would occur by the last of July, he gave it as his opinion that this would probably be the date of the expiration of the order if no new cases developed. It has been several weeks since the dog muzzling order was made. In that time a number of people have been arraigned In police court on charges of violating the ordinance and several have been fined. The health officers say that people generally seem disposed to obey this ordinance, and that few dogs are seen on the streets of the city or in the county without being mnzsled.

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COMMONER PLEADS

FOR ELECTION OF And Kern Offers a Compromise List to Select Temporary' Chairman From, but It Was Rejected. BRYAN THEN NAMED TO OPPOSE PARKER Bryan's Defeat Today Forecasts Complete Control of the Situation by Standpat Element. (Bulletin) BALTIMORE. JUNE 25. THE UNOFFICIAL COUNT OF THE VOTE ON THE TEMPORARY CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION GAVE TO PARKER 578 AND BRYAN 5094. FOLLOWING THE BALLOT A MOTION TO MAKE THE ELECTION OF JUDGE PARKER WAS MADE AND CARRIED AMID GREAT CONFUSION: PARKER WAS THEN ESCORTED TO THE CHAIR. A MOTION WAS MADE TO ADJOURN THE CONVENTION UNTIL EIGHT O'CLOCK TONIGHT AND WAS CARRIED. THE ELECTION OF PARKER POINTS TO THE FACT THAT THE CONSERVATIVE ELEMENT OF THE, PARTY WILL CONTROL THE CONVENTION. BALTIMORE. June 25. An hour before the Democratic national convention opened today delegate and visitors began filing into the hall. The ' great building filled " alowly- as a steady shower of an hour held the crowds back.. The front of the building was thronged with thousands forming in line to enter. The streets were filled with people of every description. The general color scheme within the Fifth Regiment armory was yellow and black, crowned with the national tri-color. Conspicuous on the walla were portraits of Andrew Jackson. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other prominent men. National Chairman Mack began to. rap for order at 12:15. It was announced however, that over two hundred delegates were struggling in the thousands outside endeavoring to gain entrance to the hall. It waa 12:25 before Cardinal Gibbons pronounced the invocation. The first ripple of handclapping was accorded to the Cardinal when he entered the hall, while Bryan ! took his seat silence. on the stage amid Parkar and Karn. At 12:43 the name of Alton B. Parker was placed In nomination for temporary chairman by National Chairman Mack, who announced that the 1 nomination waa made by instruction of the national committee. A great outburst of applause greeted Judge Parker's name. William Jennings Bryan immediately arose and waved his hands for order. At 12:50 Bryan began hia speech nominating 8enator Kern of Indiana for temporary chairman. When he first mentioned Kern there waa another outburst of cheering, fully equalling that accorded Parker. Men stood on chairs, waved handkerchiefs and threw their hats into the air. ShouUng themselves hoarse they acclaimed the man who came to start the fight. The band outclassed as m noise making institution the howling delegates and spectators. Bryan, in nominating Xern, said: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of this convention: I arise to place la nomination for the office of temporary chairman of the convention the name of Hon. John Worth Kern, of Indiana. "In thus dissenting from the lodgment of our national committee, as expressed in its recommendation I recognize that the burden of proof ia on me to overthrow the assumption that th committee can say that it represents the. wishes of the convention, and of tLe party, and of the nation. I call attention to the fact that the rules I rovided for and recommended to this convention are not final. Bryan Shows Credential. "I remind yon of this fact, that this convention has the right to accept or reject, la conclusive proof that the presumption of the convention is higher than the presumption of the national committee. If any of yon ask for my credentials: if any of yon inquire why I am a mere delegate to UHs convention from one of the states; and ask yon to accept this name in face of the name they presented I beg to tell yon. If it need be told, that ia previous campaigns I have, been a champion of the Democrat ie party and principles (Continued on Page Two)

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