Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1920, Page 1

The Cater Daily Cribun WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Wednes- day, frost in northwest portion tonight. VOLUME IV CASPER, wYo., TUESDAY, JULY 6, 190. MASONS WELD ‘NEW LINK IN CHAIN BINDING ORDER TO ROMANTIC WEST :: - ALFRED J. MOKLER OF CASPER—Who conceived the idea of Sunday's successful celebration at Independence Rock and who drew from. his, ting of historical. information for an address emphasizing ‘the: significanée of ‘the occasion. SIGNIFICANCE. OF MEMORIAL IS REVIEWED) A. J. Mokler Reveals, Historical Facts of First Lodge Reviewing the historical — signifi- cance of the:event which gave birth to Sunday’s memorial at Independ- ence Rock, the Hon. Alfred J. Mok- ler, who conceived the idea of this year’s occasion, delivered the follow- ing illuminating address: It is especially fitting that we should gather here on one of God’s! temples this Fourth of July to! commemorate the anniversary of ; the first communication of a body of Master Masons held in what is} now the great state of Wyoming. Fif- ty-elght years ago today, upon, this rock, some twenty men who had proved themselves Master Masons held a com- munication upon the spot where we} are now assembled, and Independence! lodge, No. 1, Ancient, Free and Accept-! ed Masons, was opened in.due® form, upon the Entered Apprentice, Fellow- craft and Master Mason degrees. After the lodge was called from la- bor to refreshments the brethren in-| dulged in remii ces, and the tiler) Business success paralleled his politi-| gave a history of his Masonic life cal achievements and thru his own ef-| from 1821 to 1862, and then refresh- forts Cox has amassed a foftune. Mr. (Continued on Page 7) ' (Continued ‘on Page. Twa:) Gov. ames M. Cox je James Middleton Cox wat three times governor of Ohio—an ‘honor enjoyed by only one-other Ohioan, Rutherford B. | Hayes, Born on a farm, educated in:the put: Ue schools, a printer's @evil, a school teacher, @ newspaper reporter, a pri | vate secretary to @ congressman, owner,| ‘manager and proprietor of two news-| |papers, member of congress for three) years and three times governor of his| state ‘- his record te date, |them to stake their property, j their very lives upon the issue, 1 Historical Scene of 58 Years Ago Is Repeated Here Sunday, July 4, 1920, was a red letter day in the history of! Wyoming Masonry. It marked by! memorial services the 58th anni-| versary of the first vention ever held in what it now} the grand juristiction of Wyoming. The historyso? that first lodge meeting is_now a familiar story not only to} embers of the order everywhere but also to. the general public. Th the memorial services the idea was to celebrate in nearly as possible, eight years ago. CWarles H. Townsend was the renee of ceremonies throughout the day and presided at the anniversary lodge ashe ing. Of these rites the. public is not informed. They were held on the same spot whereon Independence lodge No. 1 fonvened with a reproduction of the “lodge hall" and a re-enactment of the same ceremonies all taken from a rec- ord of the event made by a brother Mason at_the time. i ed upon Past Master Alfred J. Mokler, jthe originator of the idea of the me- morial. Mr. Mokler’s remarks are found elsewhere in this issue. During the lodge meeting all ave- nues of approach to the iodge hall w: guarded by marshals of the order. These ceremonies begun promptly at 1 o'clock and it was 2:30 when the pub- lic assembled at the north end of the} rock to hear the oration of William A. Riner, J. G. W., and witness the {unveiling of the tablet set in the solid} rock, by Grand Master Arthur K.-Lee. Mr. Riner's address was a- beautiful and eloquent word’ painting, fitting in every respect to become a part of the} history of Independence Rock. It is given in full in an adjacent column. : Grand Master Lee in dedicating the tablet, paid a patriotic tribute to the! republic on its natal day and a glow-| ing acknowledgment to Masonry on| the anniversary of Wyoming's first lodge meeting. Mr. Lee’s address fol- lows: “We arg gathered here to celebrate two natal days—the first is the birth- day of our country. One hundred forty- four years ago there was founded a new idea in government—a _ govern- ment of freedom, for, by and of the people. It was this idea, this thought and this desire which caused our Ma- sonic forefathers to write the Declara- tion of Independence, which caus their a led them through eight long years of unremitting war and bloodshed and fi- nally it was this idea which brought them at length to a glorious victory. “Nearly a century and a half have passed and the government founded up- until we find it toddy the great con- trolling factor in the world's progress —young as the life of a nation goes but great and powerful among the, countries of the world, and its citi- zens still ready to give their lives that liberty may not perish. Friends, we are today fellow citizens of the great- (Continued on Page 9.) TRAIL BLAZERS HONORED IN RAISING MONUMENTS ON HISTORIC SITES HERE | Story of Caspar Collins Is Retold at Ur nveil- ing of Marker West of City; Ceremony at Rock Is Impressive The p pages of history were rolled back in Casper’s formal celebra- tions of the Fourth of July, Sunday and Monday and with bared heads} and reverent attention the sons and daughters of today paid tribut® to the pioneers of yesterday, who in their indomitable march across! the continent carved out the broad highway of the Oregon trail whose) deep hollow is still visible across the Wyoming plains, although it more, than 50 years since it was sup- planted by the railroad as a means of travel. Between 600 and 700 people, 200 of them Master Masons journeyed to In-} dependence Rock, 55 miles southeast on the Sweetwater, Sunday, others traveled to the same spot on Sat- urday night and camped out, that they might take part in the July 4th cere- monies there. Where in 1862, ox carts and prairie schooners dotted the plain about the gigantic mass of granite, the most mod- ern of motor cars with improvised tent |shelters, showed the march of progress. It was the same yesterday when some two hundred people assembled at the point where the old Oregon trail, crosses pendence (Continued on Page 2) ljasonic con-| } in form, the proceedings of that first lode | canvention on Independence Rock fifty-| Past Grand Master| Afterthé lodge had suspended labor | dn. due, form tne master~ “of | ceremonies Congratulated the brethren? | “| | | which} on this ‘idea has crown ‘and developed | and a few) ‘Convention Swings to Ohio Governor as Palmer Releases Delegates and Forces of | Me. Crumble; Tumultuous Scene| Marks by. Nogged, Uphill Battle Ig CHOICE OF MATE FOR | COX NEXT | Convention Awaits Nominee (By Associated Press.) Saturday’s Circulation 4.224 SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.—James M. Cox, three times gov- ernor of Ohio, was nominated for the presidency early this | morning by the Democratic national convention in the break-up | — of one of the most prolonged deadlocks in the history of nation- | NUMBER 228 al parties. It took forty-four ballots to make the choice and it/ was not till the fortieth, when Attorney General Palmer with-| iia | drew from the race, that the long suc-| Word of sion of roll ¢ ed defin- any trend. In the over of eee | * tegataee Gos east Before Selecting MeAdoo, his a P id t rly in the nge wus never lost. With the| Vice Presiden choice made, the convention adjourned | to noon today to namie a candidate for| the vice pre Should it be de- |clded to & ‘ond place on the} BULLETIN. | tic ®,east, Frank . Roose of the navyy s to be th favor-| SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.— ite. apes Roosevelt of New Supporters of Cox won th ‘ t0| York and former secretary of the nomination by pe battering t McAdoo and Palm , many |the navy, was nominated as ist tes throughout a long series of Vice president on the Demo- | |shiftings and rallies which left now one| cratic ticket by acclamation of and then another of the candidates in|the entire convention. Mr. ! the lead. IR It had ret | | on the ot the| Roosevelt had no opposition. { Ohio governor w: He! The convention adjourned H soon passed Palmer, howeve: id_on/ fine die at 3:30 o’clock, follow- | |the twelfth ballot went ahead of Mc-!ing one of the most strenuous Adoo. 2 : | ‘Then hego-; a see-sawing between the | S°S8ions in the history of the Cox and McAdoo totals which at ‘the| party. | end of the thirty-ninth roll call at mid | night found the two virtually the same. (By Associated Press.) | On the forty-second ballot the acces-| SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.— i sion » of most of th mer strength Senator Walsh of Montana, i to Cox put him well ahead and after b ki od. ld | |that great and little state delegations| became known today, woul | |went into the Cox column in HToced- |nominate Gov. Stewart of Mon- | jsion. On the forty-third “Cox got ltana for the vice presidency. | n jority for the first time and on the | Speeches are limited sto\ ten orty-fourth he was plung toward the iz | minut | Others mentioned are: Jaraes Hamil- |ton Lewis, Secretary of Agriculture Meredith, Mag. Gen, Tyson of Tennes- the | BEC \©) ‘To give the convention managers op- portunity to hear from Go’ | his choice for vice president, required "two-thirds majority when orado changed its yote to him and de his nomination obvious. It wa made unanimous on the motion of Sam ACSIMILE OF BRONZE TABLET LEFT IN INDEPENDENCE ROCK—To yy qrilon Of Kansas, Jeader of | | perpetuate memorial services conducted Sunda; the Masonic Lodge. July 4, under the auspices of {STAMPEDE TO COX RELEASES TUMUL! At the end of no attempt to get the convention under furious strug- Wav promptly. of It us arranged first to routine convention some gle, the convention stampeded to Cox, | dispo: |fung aside its rul nd made’ his| bt having to do with the national AL iS nomination unanimous with a roaring|Committee and the next convention be- shout. A terrific uproar followed. The| fore proceeding to the vice presidential whole mass of delegates threw them-| Nominee. elves into a final wild demonstration, | ——— NO REGULAR SLA’ BEFORE Sony ENTIOD PICTURED BY RIRER IN SPEECH thanany orgies of noise, that sedint, In the midst of the din, of the order upon the entire sucecos n Robinson succeeded in restor-! : mee lated Press.) e jof the anniversary celebration and call- es of order to get an ad-| | SAN Fi , July 6.—No slate {Journment until noon so Cox's wishes} for the v Tod ppeared las to a teammate could be learned. B.| Might. ‘The nomination apparently H. Moore of Youngstown, Ohio, nationai| open to the floor of the Democratic c \Indeperidence Rock a Reminder of Yester-|commteman from hey state and ‘won Franklin.” Roosey Tae ee or Ce sald was made without | Joseph E, Davies of Wisconsin and Gov. days That Furnish Inspiration for | promine Atay gad MOE aritiel Var Btae rt of MONE RE wats The struggle was exceeded in voting pocnnone lauretion in Democratic annals only b; e for noon was de for which not ion called Crowning Events of Today by congratulations, the fight at Baltimore ip 1912, which : . n N | Woodrow~ Wilson his first nomi-| ?0dy had time early this morning, when ion on the .46th ballot. |the convention negra loucned “The Old Trail to an Empire,” was the subject of the Hon. William A. | The forty-third roll call began in a| Riner’s inspiring address before the assemblage which celebrated the Masonic | '!0t of noise that made the poll audible) | only as sirges of sound passed away| |to let the figures reach the clerks. al \ always fraucht with the) tle by little the drift to the Cox umns continued gaining aarti | “Get into the wagon,”’ roared a man in| th gallery and Cox rooters took it up.| Yotes for other candidat than Cox} McAdoo brought yells to “Come out and “Wake up!” BRYAN BURIES INTEREST WITH DRYS’ DEFEAT Memorial at Independence Rock on Sunday. It follows in full: | The spread of civilization to a new land deepest interest. It is the establishment of a milestone for humanity. | The means whereby this is accomplished, oftimes is memoralized in song and story. From childhood we have heard of the Mayflower and}, LLanetellfy's $s verses about “the Old Colony days in Plymouth, the land) °f of the grims.”” The prose of Hawthorne has woven into our lives) M’ADOO EFFORTS AT the spell of that “rock bound coast. ADJOURNMENT FAIL, Who, then, shall be the poet who shall| | Finally after a new move (By Associated Press.) sing to us of the gaining for, our r Adoo supporters to adjourn in SAN FRANCISCO, July 6. Ty ‘tion a realm more than four time: | dese rt to stave off defeat was/ heart is in th with our cause and llarger than all the six New Englan roared down, the forty-fourth ballot]I must pause until it comes back to state Who shall delight our chi began. {Alabama swung solid to Cox.|me,” said William J. Bryan today in dren’s children with the romantic his “TW W ND State by state that had stuck for Me-| giving his reason for not making any tory of the Old Oregon Trail? It is a Adoo followed suit. ‘The tide set in.| extended statement on the work of the history worthy to minister to the tmag-| There was no stopping it. The con:| Democratic national convention. ination and {idealism of the best youth! vention had its mind set to nominate; “My views of the convention's action our nation shall ever produce. The hoe-! y {on that ballot. Up and up mounted|in reference to the indorsement of pro- |roism of days to come which they will = the Cox total. As it passed the 700| hibition are known. I regard it as a need must grow out of the heroism of ——_ jmark, with the necessa two-thirds | serious mistake—it opened the door to the days that have been. The incen- (By Associated Press) just ahead, the tumult was increased|the nomination of a wet candidate. I tive to do and dare noble deeds tomor-| WILLIAMSON, W. Va., July 5,—| until the last votes were heard only|need not repeat here what I have said row will spring mightily. from the | One man was killed and three wound-| vaguely on the platform, ‘Pennsylva-| before in regard to the evasion of other aroused memory of such yest battle late y Roder-| nia went ove nd the Colorado chair-| issues.” Let me tell you, therefore, brictly he miners formed a union or-|man leaped to his chair to change the} He said he had no selection in mind | this old northwest trail which } jon and, according to| vote of his state. Half a dozen other] for vice president. Asked if he would oned ever toward the setting sun, end] stories. her holding a meeting in| chairmen were waving for recognition|have anything to do with the third the land of promise which lay heyond.| the open Sund: afternoon When|to make similar announcement. Sam| party movement which begins with a | There is no single name or date or they were fired upon from the brush|B, Amidon of Kansas, McAdoo chief, convention in Chicago on July 10, or ‘event that we can select and say: “Here |on the mountain side. ny miners|then moved that the rules be suspend- Would indorse its candidate, he replied: begins the history of the road to Ore-| Who were armed sought cover, it is as-[ed and the nomination made unani-| ‘Individual voters have about fou igon.” In the main it was a natural)Serted, and returned the fire. It is|/mous. Chairman Robinson put the|™months to consider the claims of the | highway following the easy grades of as to who was the attacking} question, The answer roared back| candidates. I shall use part of that Ale. water=courses., ‘The fords of the’! The place was quiet today. (Continued on Page Six.) four months considering the question.” rivers, the passes through the moun-; tains; the quickest and easiest paths betwee —these | by deer, jot the wild, water holes on desert stretches were first found and traveled! elk, buffalo and other creatures} The paths made by them} WILSON CONGRATULATES COX, M’ADOO ‘RELIEVED’ were worn deeper by the moccasined feet of Indians. Next came the fur trappers and traders, the r forerun- 6 ners of civilization. After them ap- 5 peared missionaries and the adventur- lous vanguard of homesecekes Forts Laramie and Bridger sprang up along the road and many another post whose . tion. name is historic. . His employes carried him on their Thus the tryi! grew and became a|COnNgratulatory Messages Pour into Dary-|snouaers to the tront omes where Mes. | highway as easy to follow coun-| 4 g all paiity ara try road. Along it surged for years . | streamed from the es of both. The tho advance tis of a'natons' migne| £0; Mother Prophesied Cox Would Be | ivwietpy ct tne cxiva eaiton of Cox's | paper was handed him. After Cox had rested a few hours at home, he went alone to the cemetery land prayed at his mother’s grave. | The governor's mother was at a New |Year's reception given by President |Civeland in the White House in 1895. DAYTON, Ohio, July 6.—“Please accept my congratulations and She said to Cleveland then: Men of all classes forsook |their customary vocations and joined} |the hegira to the new western lands, |forgetful or careless of the pathless i distances, ‘the unavoidable | hardships, |! jand the inevitable perils of the wilder-| ness. With good luck the journey] could be made in four months and with {ing host. President, Governor Tells Story (By United Press) bad luck six months hardly sufficed. I have @ son who will be here where eidca hace wee atciherh a Women| cordial best wishes,” President Wilson today wired Gov. James M.|,../ tre now some day.” }sickened, died pnd were buried but the/Cox, Democratic candidate for president._ A torrent of congratulay) The sovernor told the story for the great procegsion hastened ‘ever w tory messages is arriving first time today. ward. 1 ys The Oregor Trail started at Inde- | (By United Pr 88) Cox was at his newspaper office when he received word of his jnomination. He had been close to the press wire thruout the conven-| HUNTIN' ly «Continued on Page 6) Missouri, and for forty-one} (Continued on page Hight)