Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 21, 1912, Page 1

ROSEVELT DELEEATES CONGLUDE NOT 10 BOLT CONVENTION Decide in Caucus to Re 2 Take No Part " Delegates Are Excluded P WILL THEN HOLD CON 2 S Will Then Make Contention That Every Action of the Regular Convention is Illegal Because Accomplished by “Fraud- ulent Votes”—Roosevelt Leaders Consider That This Course Will Not Constitute a “Bolt”—Another Plan is to Call Another Convention a Few Weeks Later—Rules Committee Propose to Committee—Committee on Platform Struggling Over Tariff Issue—Convention in Session But Five Minutes Yesterday Because Credentials. Committee Was Not Ready to Report on the 72 Contests. Chicago, Jume 20.—Col. Roosevelt tonight indicated that un. @er certain conditions he might with éraw from the republican party take the iead in mew party. ¥ the peopie want a progressive party, I'll be in it,” he said, Will Net Bolt Convention. Some of the colonei's supporters urg. @4 thoir associates tonight to precipi tate the crisis in the republican nation al conveation at the earliest oppor tumity tomorrow. it cotmseis finally prevailed and it was | ot ¥ plain that he would not support any determined there should be no bolt | ompromise candidate nominated by from the regular convention. It was ) the plan of the Roosevelt delegates to- night to make their last stand on the report of the oredentiais committee. 1 the 78 delegates claimed by them to be frendulent are seated, the Rooseveit in the convention foroes will remain mmtll the end, but will not vote. May Call New Convention Later. Tt is fhefr plan then to proceed to the nomination of the coionel in the for Ootisenm and claim regularity i, Colanel Roosevelt has not definitely latter part thes plan. lle is consldering the s“hw of delaving action for Aev- eral weeks and then to summon an eammitted bimseil to the entirely new convention. This would pot be heid upiil after the democrats Bad acted in Baltimore. Ne Neminations Before Saturday. The national convention itself mark- #8 time today, waiting for the com- mittee on credentials to complete its consideration of the contested dele- ' e e | Roosevelt leaders 18 an abrupt c e hont. fomniee Pians, to work | from the ‘ponition which was taken o the convention when It meets at ' PY Coionel Roosevelt and his closest ol agherents vesterday, but they denied 2" was predicted tonight that tho |ONIgRL that it was an admission of : of the onvention | Weakness om their part or that thelr B et bn ecird watil Toe T Aion | decision nol to bolt was because they W A wide latitude of debate is Lo could not obtain the support of a suffi- be allowed tomorrow. Wiling to Make Independent Fight, Colonel Roosevelt said : genu- endent fight for the presidency if |ine’ republican convention without e was convinced there was a PoPular | having it said that we bolted. Fyers demand for him. |action of the convention which is ao. “T shail have to see if there is a complished by fraudulent votes is i :,:‘,;. ar demand for me to run” helegal. The action of the fraudulently | L | ele He added that the situation was such | t would be | a kaleidoscopic one that $mpossible for him to outline what he Ggnize it, as we shall every other act would do. It might take some time, | of the conventlon. We will remain in he said, to ascertain the sentiment of | our geats and proceed with the nomi- the people, and learn whether tion of what he termed a party Ready to Run if He Didn't Carry a etin’s Circu Theodore to the formation of a More conservative cmphatically tenight that he would make the inde- there | nation o was a reasonable basis for the forma- progressive main in Convention But to in It if Contested VENTION OF THEIR OWN Depose Bolters From National Won't Support Compromise Candidate, ‘Colonel Roosevelt explained that the action of the caucus did not mean that any delegates would bolt, but they reserved the right to take what course they proferred as to leaving the con- vention. Roosevelt leaders said it was the unanimous decision of their men that they would not quit the hall. They will remain in their seats while the Taft programme is carried through, i they sald, and when the convention is over will' continue to hold their seats and proceed to effect their own organ- ization. Colonel Roosevelt made the convention as at present constitut- ed. He declined to make any state- ment in regard to Governor Hadley or any pther individual, confining himselr to an explanation of his general posi- tion. “Any man nominated by this conven- tion as now composed,” he reiterated, “will not be tolerated by the Roose- veit delegates.” No definite statement could be ob- tained from the Roosevelt leaders as to the number of delegates they be- lieved would support this programme. They expressed confidence that there would be no serfous defections. A Decided Change of Programme. It was. explained that one of the chief reasone of the Rooseveit dele- gates for declding not to withdraw from the convention was the action taken today by the rules committec, which would enable the natfonal com mittee to fill the seats thus vacated by | the selection of other delegat The plan of action adopted t clent mumber of delegates. Regarded as Shrewd Move, is the shrewdest move we have | said one of the Roosevelt lead- | “It will neable us ta hold “Th mad. ers, ed chairman in declaring the con- vention finally adjourned will therefore be illagal and we shall decline to rec- Vhonest people of the entire nation. ROOSEVELT DECLARES Chicago, June 20.—Theodore Roose- velt, before his political advisers and a personally selected number of dele- gales instructed for him, late this aft- ernoon read a statement of his posi- tion in the republican nomination fight and left it to them to decide what vosition they would take in the strug- gle. Mr. Roosevelt called before him two delegates from each of the states which has supported him, and the leaders in his campaign, After outiining his po- sition, declaring that he would con- tinue his fight on principles, he had outlined from the beginning, the col- onel left the room and the delegates and leaders sat down to deliberate what should be done, Roosevelt’s Statement. Following is the statement ,in part, issued by Mr. Roosevelt: “The time has come when I feel that 1 must make certain statements, not merely to the honestly elected members of the republican national convention, but to the rank and file of the republican party and to the went into this fight for certain grea principles. At the moment I can only serve this principle by continuing to bear the personal responsibility which their advocacy has brought to me. On behalf of these principles I made my appeal straight to the peopie themselves. I went before them, I made my argument in full, and every move I made was in the open, with- out concealment of any kind. The opposition to me was extraordinarily bitter, for T was opposed by the prac- tically solid phalanx of the big econ- scienceless political bosses, with back of them the practically solid phalanx of the big, conscienceless beneficiaries of special privilege in every form, ang, of course, the many big newspapers which are controlled by or in the in- terest of the bomses and special privi- lege. Beat Taft Two to One in Primaries. “Nevertheless, in the appeal to the people, I won, In many of the repub- lican states and of the democratic statos where there is a large and real Tepubiican party, primaries vf different kinds were held, and substantial ex- Dression of the will of the people was obtained. In these primary states, some three million voters, the and file of the republican party, their votes; I beat Mr. Taft considera- bly over two to one. In these states I obtained about six delegates to Mr. Taft's one. Nearly three-fourths of my delegates came from these primar: states where the people had a chan to express themselves. Mr. Taft: strength as indicated by the two roll calls already taken, consisted chiefly (aside from his 90 stolen delegates), of the mearly solid delegations from the territories and from the southern states in which there is no real h | publican party—South Carolina, Geor. gla, Florida, 3labama, Arkansas, M sissippl, Louisana—and of northern states like New York, where the peo- ple had no chance to express them- selves at primgries, and where the del- egates were picked by the bosses. Cheating People Out of Victory. “In spite of these odds against me I obtained a clear majority of all the delegates elected to the convention. In my campagin I again and again stated that if the people decided against me I would have nothing to say; but thai if they decided for me, and the poli- ticians then robbed me of the victory, Theodore Roosevelt, after { having s gates who are entitled to seats who have been excluded.” After Colonel Roosevelt had atsed the 78 Roosevelt dele- | and | | st ally discussed the tense situs ate. the afternoon, he had a: ng his c: Or ¢ Colonel Roosevell's associ- [Governor Stubbs of Kans: Governor ates who talked with him today said | Stubbs and Colonel Roosevelt con- that he had declared his willingness | ferred for some time. When the gov- s run fo fent if any considerable | ernor d left the conference room, numb > ielegates wished him to, | he, to nnounced that “there will be f e did not carry a single elec- | no boit district in the country. The col- | Kansas Won't Bolt, Says Stubbs. | le 1o count on the support of the | “This talk of a bolt is foolish,” said ¢ republicans in. the west. | Governor Stubbe. “Colonel Rooseveit 2 states, and {nat he would expect |never talked about a bolt.” | derive conmiderable strensth feom | 18 there a differentiation” the go he democrats He would not express ernor was asked. “between a holt and a pinion how soon af the ad- [ Split in the party journment of (e present convention| ' That Is a question which the col- the oew paric aould be formed should should_answer himself.” said the ouh decieion ha reached Whether eTTOT T have talked to Mr. Roose 1t wéuld be held in Chicags or olge- | VeIt many timee during the last few | xhers and whether it would he de. |98V% and 1 have just talked with him 2:ed until after the demoeratic con. |DOW. Neser has he mentioned the sub vention were points upon which no in- [Ject of a bolt. Of course, férmation could he obtatned from those in the confidence of the former pres! dent. The opinion was expressed by some of his supporters that the oui- come a! Baltimore would have a con- | ring upen the situation. Dbeen much talk of the Roosevelt forces belting and that has affected the dei- egations. It has affected my state. Can Be No Compromiss Candidate. “But T want to say that the dele- on from my state has decided tha | | B vided on Question of Bolting. L ot /bgls "xhis sonyention | £ : o = | “When did the Kansas delegation oSolonel Roosevell sald there had been | take this action?"’ the governor was ome difference of opinion ameng his | wejeq. | supporiers ax fto the advisabllity of |"l.yhs Kansas delegation voted todar polting. The [Jejegation. e #aid, | that it would not hoit,” sald Governer . « éfr tnstructio Stubbs, “This delegation and all the shoule tin in the convention until | iper Roosevel: delegations will r i mination was made. Oth- | maiy i this convention until the nom- er delega fing sgme of ination s made, 1 believe, | rom 4, were avor of What about a compromise candi- | @ N nee. | date The agreement flually areived at | “uphere can be no compromise candl- s reached at @ caucus in which | guie go far as we are concermed.” the w vo lepreseadatives from each | governor replied, gates e well as those siates from | Won't Permit Presidensy to Be Stolen. % i t candidates for| Afier the late aternsen conference scate i ention have been |in the Florentine room of the Congres: exclud hotel, where ine Roosevelt siate del- Reosevelt Caucus Adepts Resolution. _ | together, this formal statement was s passed unarimously a|issued from Campaign Manager Dix- & n introduced by Henry Allen |ow's headquarters; . “Fhe Roosevelt n of Kansas said Colonel Roose- | delbgates at the meeting in the Flor- ¥ explaining the situatien. “This | entine reem this afternoon decided thar resoluiion is to the effect that the re- b E ing determined by theft and if the fraudulently ui by the natlenal | dentials docs not remevg from the commit e, 1m\wn’ dclegutes [ 7oll of Weleputos the mames fraudn. | would decline thsbe bovnd by jany |jently glaced thereon Wy the national | o uf the canvention. commitiee, the Boosevelt farces will A wecond reselution was passed | refus, to be bound by the actlen of Loter, stipulating that the vendien are ent were no! I it 78 tled were seated, and if they wea Javent wn and et participate in L ma ‘puMu:. an party weuid not submit to the nomination for president - vention declined to seat the delogates Roovsevelt delegates would take part in the den- ates to which we 4 they would remain in The text nflt...mlun-u was iumlr-fl and campaien leaders counselled they will not permit the title to the presidency of the United States to be stolen, “If the actisn of the eqnw the report of the commit dion on on ere- the convention,” FIVE MINUTE SESSION, Convention Awaiting Report of the Cradentials Committes, Ohiongo, June - 30.—Five minuten I would not silently and tamely acqui- HE IS WILLING TO RUN INDEPENDENTLY. Will Accept Nomination on a Progressive Platform if There is Sentiment For it Among Progressive Members of the Party. egates; the last being a vote on a straight moral issue, the result of which, in my judgment, ought to ren- der it impossible for any man longer to take part in the proceedings of the convention as mow constituted. Tho majority in each case was slightly over fifty. In each case, therefore, if it had not been for the hitherto success- ful rascality which placed these fraud. ulent delegates on the roll and permit- ted them to vote, the cause of de- cency would have won; Mr. McGovern would have been elected in place of Mr, Root, Governor Deneen’s motion would have prevalied, ond the republi- can national convention would now have been exercising in good faith the high, honorable and vitally important functions of honestly representing the wishes, the judgment and the interest of the plain people who make up the mass of the republican party. Instead it now represents nothing but success- ful political fraud perpetrated in the interest of political and financial priv- ilege. Root’s Ruling a Denial of Justice and Fair Play. *1 understand that Mr. Root has an- nounced that no one of the stolen delegates will be allowed to vote on his own case, but that all will be al- lowed to vote on one another's case. Such a riling is a sheer denial of jus- tice and fair play. This case bears no analogy to ordinary cases, where contesting delegates have no connec- tion with one another and where there is no general conspiracy, which must be decided as a whole, “All these ninety fraudulent dele- gates were seated at the same time by the votes of the same national committsemen, to serve the same pur- pose, The credentials committee ap- pointed to try their cases include three of their own number from the states of Washington, Arizona and Texas, whero the delegations were gtolen en masse. The committee seelcted as its chairman the ~Guggenheim delegates from Colorado, who had already, as national committeeman, assisted in in- itlating the very friends upen which he is now to sit in judgment, “Such ere the facts about the na- tional committee as now constituted. I decliné any longer to be bound by any action it may take. I decline to regard as binding any nomination it may make, I do not regard successfu! fraud and delfberate political theft as constitutiong a title to party regular- ity, or a claim to the support of any | honest man of any party. “I hope that the honestly elected majority will at once Insist upon the immediate purging of the roll in its entirety and not plecemeal by the con- vention, If this purging is not accom- plished, T hope the honestly elected delegates will decline all further con- nection with a convention whose action is now determined, and has hitherto been determined, by a majority which is made a majority only by the actign of the fraudulent delegates whom the convention has refused to strike from the rolls. ‘Wllling to Run on Progressive Plat- form. “If the honestly elected majority of he convention choose to proceed with usiness and to nominate me &s candl- e of the real republican party I shall accept. If to take such a choose to some among them fear stand and the remainder inaugurate a movement .to pri nominate me for the sidency Won't Regard Nomination as Binding | committee that the work would not be { | " Cabled Paragraphs U, 8. S. NEBRASKA AT CUBA. Catmanera, Cuba, June 20.—The United States battleship Nebraska ar- rived here vestprday afternoon and relieved_the Minnesota, which 1s leav- ing on Monday. GENERAL WOODFORD ILL. London, June 20.—Gen, Stewart L. ‘Woodford, at one time lieutenant gov- ernor of New York, and formerly U. S. minister to Spain, is lving serfously i in an inn near Oxford, where he was stricken. Mrs, Woodford is with him, YALE MAN LOSES MEMORY. London, June 20.—Luther Maynard Jones, former law partner of the late Wiillam C. Whitney and the first sec- retary of the Yale alumni association, was found today in Streatham infirm- ary after a disappearance of three years due to loss of memory caused by abscesses on the brain. CHINESE TROOPS MUTINY, Peking, June 20.—The Chinese troops stationed in Mukden mutinfed last evening, according to despatches from that city. Many natives were victims of their ferocity and hundreds of houses were destroyed by roving bands of mutineers, while the jewelers’ stores were first looted and then burned. the general impression that Colonel Roosevelt would come to the conven- tion and make a speech; also thero was considerable reason to assume from the morning newspapers that to- day would bring to pass the much dis- cussed Dbattle between the factions, perhaps a bolt of the Roosevelt ad- herents; possibly an attempt to hold a rival conventicn, simultaneously on the floor of the same hall. There had been a tremendous addition to, almost a doubling of the police force on duty at the hall, and in the morning Chief of Policc John McWeeny had taken personal command at the Coliseum, To the person uninformed as to the swift- ly-changing developments of the day the promise of excitement was ex- ceptionally alluring. Convention Officials Apprehensive. The crowd which waited for the storm to cease was good humored but it was a situation full of possibilities, and the convention officials were tak- ing no chances. Assistant Chief Schuettler was loath to turn the people out into the storm. For a good deal more than half an hour a police guard surrounded the platform ang the convention officers kept their places on the stags, while the great crowd velled itself tired. At last the rain began to slacken, and the police “got busy” at once; gently, but grimly edging the people out. By that time they were ready to go. Credentials Committes In Session All Night. | In the Coliseum annex the creden tials con ‘nittee was hearing the firsf | of the contests. It was word from the finished in time for any session to- day brought about the quick adjourn- | ment. Whether business will proceed tomorrow when the conventlon is call- ed to order at 11 a. m. will depend chiefly upon whether the expected all- night session of the credentials com- mittee completed the work of pre- paring the roll of the convention, “We Want Bob” Yell La Follette Men. Senator Root smilingly bowed his acknowledgment | when the crowd greeted with applause his appearance on the rostum at a fow minutes after four. No sooner had he called the conventfon to order than Taft floor leader Watson was again recognized to move an adjournment, until 11 o'clock tomorrow to allow the creden- tials committeo to complete its labors. The motion prevailed without objec tion and the crowd, disappointed, but §00d natured, began filing out, A Roosevelt enthusiast In the gal lery set up the cry “We want Teddy as the crowd moved toward the exits. The cry was taken up among the col- onel's supporters on the floor. Taft followers then started an opposition | different men had called upon her and | hearing. demonstration, g heavy downpour out- side stopping the exodus. Not to be outdone the Wisconsin delegation en- tered the competition with the cry “We want Bob.” The din was terrific. | as a w esce, It was already evident that my | prog e on a progressive platform,| New Jersey Yelis for “Tedd | opponents, with Mr. Taft's encourage- | and if in such event the general feel.| On the floor the demonstration was | ment, intended to beat me by foul|ing among ressives favors my be- | led by the New Jersey delegation. | if they could not do so by fair | ing nom ball accept. In eith- | Some one there made an immediate | ns. : GE e T | make my appeal to|response to the gallery man. “We | The crucial, but not the only step|every honest citizen In this nation; | Want Teddy,” they responded in cho- | in the concerted, and hitherto succe and 1 shall fight the campaign |TuS, at the same time lifting high | ful, effort, to cheat the people out of | through, win or lose, even if I do not | above their heads a picture of their the victory they had fairly won, was|get a single electoral vote. T do not | candidate. In a minute the Roo taken up by the now defunct national | wish a sing'e man to support me fron: | Men throughout the hall were athrill | sommitiee, which, without one show of | any personal fecling for me, I have | With enthusiacm and 300 or 400 men | Justification and with cynical contempt | nothing to offer any man; any man | 3Mong the delegates were shouting | of the most ordinary rules of decency, | who supporis me will do o withen: | for the ex-president, while the enthu- | in making u temporary roll call| the hope of gain and at the risk of | Siast In the gallery, led the general | unsea elected Roose- | personal loss and discomfort. But if, | demonstration, using his hat as a ba- velt delegas tituted for thein | having this in view, thosd fervent in | tON: | ninety Taft delegates, who in the con- | this great fight for the rule of the peo- | New Jersey added to the enthusiasm | ventlon repreacnted mothing whatever | ple and for social and industrial fus. | PY_Tepeating the state cry but successful fraud. tice. which has now also become a| Rah. rah, rah. who are we? “We Successful Rascality. glear eut fight for honesty against dis- | 27¢ the et b 1 was clearly entitled t | Ponesty, fraud and theft, desire me| A% T it . e o all these | to lead ‘the Aght. T will dn we give # ‘straight ninety delegates: all the ninety pos- | can be no causs for whick There were many interruptions but Bessed, for instance, clearer title thanlworth while to Aght. Hors Lo all e received good naturediy N ork city, and as fo seventy of | tg the . iadioie: cirakat 1| Taft delegate as he passed throush those of any ofher delegates in the |in the formarg. o1 “Dead?’ He's the liveliest corpse | ention e . i vou ever saw” was the reply from a Mr. Root was elected and Governor | sast and waer moith ok L | Roosevelt champion, | Deneen's motion for partially cleans- | gladly abide the o ',,"’?‘] south, “TWhen are you going to bolt?” ask- 1hS the roll of fraud was defeated, by | result may be. = © (Sigmedy . | 0 2Rother Taft man. e vote of these ninety fraudulent dei- | “THEO - » “Never if you purge the roll,” was THEODORE ROOSEVELT." |, Nevet = = — Crowd Happy but Restless. ‘was the entire duration of the two | moniu ¥ 3 E = i anh % = Spubl 2 almo o of vesterday, | was unable there was no hours betwasn. Tae et eoos Of f0ur | It had scarcely a definite cause, though | abatement of the rival demon Fened ot mior Tt T e trw immediate occasion was the ef- | tions. After 15 minutes of this fuss the second, ome minute, » | fort of & man in the west lery to | Sergeant-at-arms St announced The featire ot T ute: | session was | STI0E. the grest o uni. | through a megaphone that the lghts he . SACeturs:of tiecd sess as | son with ¢ it Ted would be turned out i five minutes the prayer of the Very Rev. Walter | It storray e . T S b £y the praveriot Tus Very) | It started all right, but almost tmme- | Jeers greeted the announcement. Thera b Hompuh B | dlately th a Follette was no movement toward the door st ey e umming enthusi as the rain seemed to be falling hard- plause which followed Ths | DgHtion turmoil, with the result that | er than ever. Oceaslonally the nolse | prayer deffered from that offered ng | Lo less than & minute there was [ Would die out, for a moment, only to the opening sesalon on Tussday, when | Drasantiy o oo it cheos of nolse. | be renewed whom nome one would men- Father Callagha Herad &trlotly: 1o | ooty ip of men in the sonth | tion the name of one of candidates. bl ru.»f.{'f.'; 2 I:l”"!”;'r(l‘ “‘»\mm gallery, back of the plafform, braught | The five minutes expired and the ritual; iikewise from the fnvocation | e man i gkaPhones into play with | lights continued 1o gleam brightly erday by Rabbi Stolz, which was | A sweepi il Assistant Chlef of Police Schuettler oloriess and general in iis terms, { A smushing rainsiorm was in pro- | declined to make the crowd move out Dean Sumner doels qults aitermwitn | E7C52. outside, the people simply | While the downpour was so heavy, the sensutional factional conflict pres- ent in the minds of every person in the enormous euditorium in whose be- half he spoke ,and prayed that there should be granted to the members of the econvention “self restraint, ceel judgment and all wisdem, that their deliberation may inure te the natienal eivic righteousness, industrial peace and soefal justice” The entire gath- cring, both on the fleor and pladform tand in the galler stood during Dean Sumper’s invecation, and us he closed, broke inte quite general hand | clapping, The alicruesn session was remark- able not sq much for the fact ti Jasted & bit legs than ene minute, for the exiraevdinary conditions w ensued updm its adjeurnment. A Chaos of Noise. Atwmast with the fall of Chairman Koel's gavel thore broke out a pande- stood where they were each for his taste, Twenty Police on Platform, Under eover of the racket, and at first unnaticed by the erowd, there be- 8an to gather on the platform a Body and shouted, of big policemen; first one, then & other, then three; till in a féw minutes there were ragged along the edge and ut the hack of the platform some twenly blue clad guardians of e pouce. They were nnder pursonal son for this conspicuaus show of fores. Police Guard Beuble ne of the reasens for the il crowd whieh had gathered lteday ense was \ curved | i command of Assistant Chief Schuett ler. Then it began to Lo notived that | | Chairman Reot, Secretury Gleasen, Servea -iarms Siewe and his as | sistunt, Colonel 17 had never | | left the platform at And the | crowd hegan to understand the vea- | Stending on the speakers platform, | the chief overlooked the crowd, | “Speech, speech” yelled some one in | the back of the hall, The chief dis- | creetly retired frem the rostum, | No ene could have made & speeeh to | (hat crowd, Everybody appeared te De in happy frame of mind, but rest- | Jess, | Police Guard on Platform. Comparative quiet had been restored | 85 minutes after the demonstration | startcd. Assurance frem the pelice that the rain bad aboted gave the en thusiasts semething else to think abeut and they meved sut slowly. It was se large that all of the con- ventien officers remained in their | places on the platform as long as there was a crowd in the comvention hall. A pelice guard also oceupied the plaiferm. It was easilv appavent {hal lation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Bribed Girls in The Thaw Case OVER 200 INDUCED BY MONEY NOT TO TESTIFY, HIS FORMER LANDLADY Mrs. Susan Merrill, Gives Sensational Testimony at Hearing—Mrs. Thaw Gives Further Evidence. White Plains, N, Y, June 20—A surprise in the Harry K. Thaw hear- ing was sprung by the state today. In the midst of testimony by Evelvn Thaw contributing to the siate’s con- tention that the slayerof Stanford White is still insane, Willlam T. Jerome, the leading attorney for the state, sudden- ly called to the witness stand Mrs. Susan Merrill to tell of Thaw's life when he roomed at houses which she kept In the theatrical district of New York. Had Been Hiding In New Jersey. It was intimated by the state that the witness had been sent to New Jer- sey on money supplied by tho Thaw interests trying to keep her out of the court's jurisdiction but she was found and produced today. Clarence .J Shearn, attorney for Thaw! endeavor- ed to discredit the woman's testimony | by referring to the fact that she was committed - for perjury when Mr. Jerome was district attorney of New York. The pending indictment was dismissed after she had testificd for the state against Thaw at his trials. Mr. Shearn’s attitude was that th perjury charge had been held as Whip to make her testify Whipped Girls In His Room. Mrs. Merrill made a very unwilling witness in contrast to her previofis ap pearances. She had been kept in hid- ing in an ante-room at the courthouse thls morning and when the state do- cided to produce her she screa loudly that those who crowded the courtroom upstairs could hear her. Her hysteria caused a delay of iwenty | minutes before she could a to the stand, still protesting that sne could not testify against Thav. admitted that Thaw roomed a: her houses under an asummed name and | that he had many girl callers. She admitted that on three occasions le had whipped girls there. An unex pected feature of her testimony came when a letter which she wrote Thaw at Mattewan last January introduced. She said tn it that asked if she was te teetify at the | | Girls Bribed Not to Testify. “Be smart,” she advised Th the letter. “A man with miilions working against you. He wants to keep you there because he is a Iriend of Stanford White's. Under pressure of Thaw's attorney, the witness said that she thought the millionalre’s name was “Colon W in | I Clay She testifled that during Thaw's trial | thousands of dollars had been pluced I her hands by one of Thaw's coun- | sel to pay more than two hundred | irls so they would not testify aguinst | him. She said she paid one girl §7,000 and another $3,000 The witness lost control of horseif | several times and became hysierical. | Thaw's Proposal of Suicids. | killed his wife, Condensed Telegrams Kodiak, the Scens of the Recent vol- canic dlsturbances, is still deaf to wire- less messages. Theodore Roosevelt Has Declined to join the New York men's league for woman sufirage, Asa R. Dilts, the Oldest Contractor and builder in’ New Jersey, died sud- denly at Raritan at the age of 89 years, J. Pierpont Morgan and Sir Thomwas Lipton were suests at a dinner given by Major Jameson* Eustace in Lon- don. Ernest J. Gooby, 9 Years Old, was struck and killed by an automobile at New Britain yesterday driven by M. H. Pease. The Vermont Demacratic Convention nominated Harlan S. Howe of St Johnsbury for governor without oppo- sition. The Pope Has Sent an encyclical to Latin America exhorting government co-operation in Improving conditions of the Indians. The Curb Brokers' Association has again warned members against betting on the convention, threatening suspen- sions for violations. Profits of Chicago Downtown Hotels for the first three days of the conven- tion are said to be the largest since the world's fair in 1898, The Queen of Holland has bought the smallest pony in the Olympia horse show in London. The pony is five years old and 30 inches high. Mrs. Mary McCarren, deserted and evicted from her home ' at Brooklyn, slept for two nights with her five chil- dren on the chill Coney Island beach. Chester 8. Jordan, the Actor, will be sentenced in the superior court in East Cambridge today for the murder of his wife, Hannorah, at Somerville, M Levi L. Tower, known throughout the country as the “Dean of the - tionary Trade,” died at his home in Newton, Mase., after an illness of a few weeks,"aged 85. Representative Martin W. Littleton has prepared a resolution calling for a congressional investigation of the charges of bribery at the republican national convention In the Big Railroad Wreck on Sun- day in Sweden a daughter of the late Auguste Strindberg, novelist and dra- matist, was killed, although her hus- band escaped unhurt. George Netala, Porter in a hoarding house at New York, sentenced to the workhouse for five months and 29 days for cruelty to animals in having burned five rats to death in a trap. On the Streot at High River, Alberta, yesterday, Caliste Bertrand hot and using otzun; RBer- trand was placed under arrest. The couple werc married two months ago. Mary Steele Harvey, a worker with Mra. Thaw testif husband made a pr hotel in New Yorlk both commit suicide. tafls all planned, he said to engage a room at the drink polson. in Wald, 1d He had even fixed the hour. She, of course, refused | She testified further that Thaw had | complained to her that the food given | kim while in the Tombs was poisoned. | He also complained that he could nc eat the potatoes they gave him at | Mattewan beca here were lrge | lumps of saltpeter in them l Mrs. Thaw May Resume Today. | Evelyn 1 testimony was in- | terrupted yhen it was lcarned that | Mrs. Susan Merrill ,who rented apart- | ments in New York to Thaw, was in | the building. She had been sought for | days by the state. | it is probable that Mrs. Thaw will | be placed in the stand again tomor- | row. | | meet any situation that might arise One hour after adjornment the crowd | practically had been dispersed. The | excitement had subsided and those who | had looked for a serious disturbance went their way disappointed. DISCIPLINE OF BOLTERS. [ Rule to Dapose Them from the Na- | tional Committae. | dictory changes made today in the rules governing the mational commit tee by the rules committes of the con vention I'he Roosevelt members of the com- od and manner und st b In e adopted. Bolters to Be Deposed. steam roller er I The committee then is empowered Lo name his successer, In the past the succes- | sorship was dietated by the state cen- tral committee of the state affected, | The rules committee, however, held that this would give to a oppoFiuNity to name to the ve man holding precisely the same views as the member deposed, Therefere it was decided that the pewer of M[ pointment should he delegated solély | fe the commitice its | | PREPARING THE PLATFORM. | Taritf Beclaration a Troublesome Bone | of Contention._ Chicago, Ju —Wh 16 o'clock | tenight the working sub-commitiee of the platform commiitee hegan what it | was hoped would be its final sitting | prepar to presenting i o report the full commitiee, it had agreed ten the Baltimore federated charities, re- ceived her commission as policewoman. a regulation badge and was sworn in as « member of the depart- ment. By a Rollcall Vote of 208 to 149 the New Hampshire constitutional conven- tion yesterday rejected a proposed amendment o the constitution grant- ing votes for women in New Hamp- shire, The Captain of the Steamer liford, which has just reached Hamburg from Galveston, reports having found the bodies of thres Titanics victims miles from the spot where the liner An Aps and a Woman hoarded an Oxford street car in London. The ape wore coat and trousers. He sat on the woman's lap. Then he bit a woman passenger and in the turmoll escaped with his woman companion. Governor Aram J. Pothier of Rhode Isiand was one of the recipients of honorary degrees at the commen: ment exercises of Holy Cross college vesterday, the deg of doctor of laws having been conferred upon him President Taft Pardoned Franklin P, Mays on the ground that government prosecutors had purs imprope methods in oblaining his conviction. This is the second pardon by the presi- dent in the Mitchell-Hermann Oregon land frauds. Secretary of the Navy George Von L. Meyer, who returned to his summer home at Hamilton, Mass., from Wash- ington a few days ago, threatensd with typhoid fever, was reported yesterday to be convalescing, with danger from the fover over A Michigan Judge Signed a Deores o parating “Hughie” Can nan from vife, but- Cannon, who songs, died a few hours hefore in In a Faud Battle hetween the Sharp and Waltron famllies at Sperrv's ranch near Sherman, Tex. vesterday after noon, four persons were killed and two wounded. Before she was slain, Miss Georgla Sharp killed one man and another man and his wife. The Returns of the First Trial of the hon xaminations Tale s o0l show a nditions in L. This is fnterpreted « success of the honor system and except those relating to the tariff and finances e prin b contest of the day was i i declaration and deait h the definition of (he measure of d refterated the contention of 1908 proteetion should be equiva- to the differcnce between the cost of production in the United States and abpoad, while another undertook to substitute for this declaration that the protection should be sufficient to main- taim the standard of living prevailing among the luboring people of the United States Will Enderse Tariff Board, The second suggestion was present. d by Senator Lippitt of Rhode Island, who urged the great difficulty of aguers taining the esmet cost of productt abroad, u fact which, lie said, render (e phrass meaningle Ilie substl- roposed by him was aitaeked by abers of Uhe sub-eommittce on the ground that it might be construed inte a surrender of the pesition taken four vears ago. The point of difference oe- Ccupied miuch attention*snd while the : i polite | ness on balh sides. T these in ceatrel were prepared te | lalively upon all the umporiant planks | sWll open when the night seesi o qque on bes Population Judge Parker For Chairman BRYAN VOTED DOWN AT COM- MITTEE MEETING, FIGHT IN CONVENTION pe 1A National Committeemen Expect Bryan to Stir Up Fuss at Baltimore—Tam« many Boss Urges Selection of Parker Baltimore, June 20—Former Judge Alton B, Parker of New York was selected today as the temporary chalrman of the democratic national convention by the wTangement Com= mittee, The choice wus made againet the protest of William J. Eryan, whose friends on the committes t the names of four other candidates for the honor. Eight of the sixtesn votes of the committee went to the New York Jjurist, while Representative Henry of Texas recelved thres votes, Senator-elect Ollis James of Kentucky three votes, Senator Kern of Indians one vote, and Senator O'Gorman of New York one vota. As the campalgn managers of thoss seeking the presidential nomination were playing for position with respeet to the nomination, the vots in opposi- tlon to Judge Parker was in conse- quence split up. Fight Expeoted on Floor of Conventien With Judge Pariwr the commities chose Urey Woodson of Kentucky as temporary secretary and John I Mar- tin of Missour! as temporary sergeaot at arms. The selection of the arrange- ment committes i8 in no sense fmal, and must be passed wpon next Mom- day at & full meeting of the national committee. Report had it tonight that a_telegram had been despaiched io Chicago to William J. Bryan asking that he come at once to Baltimore. Several national committeemen sald after -today's meeting that they ex- pected that a fight by Mr. Bryan aad his friends would be made on the floor of the convention against Judge Parker's selection. Clark and Wilson Pregressive. The commities was in session for nearly three hours. Before the meet- ing the Parker forces announced opem- ly that they had the votes to elect and said that if Mr. Bryan desired 1o ralse any isste it would be better to settls the question now than later. Leaders of the movements to nominate Speaker Champ Clark and Governor Wilson de- cifod that since an issue was raised on the question of progressivism as agamnst the so-called conservatism they would come out for progressivism and put forward candidates against Judge Parker, Tammany for Parker. Meanwhile Charles F. Murpl:. lead. er of Tammany Hall, sent word by John A, Mason, secretary of the demeos cratic committee of New York, that the Néw York delegation was anxious to have Judge Parker chosen. as be had proved himself to he ioyal to the democracy in all its campaigns When the committee wenl inio Ses ston there was a general discussion over the proposition to adjourn the question of the temporary chatrman- ship until tomorrow, and then came the first lineup of the day, with elght votes agatnst the adjournment and seven votes for it, the Parker adher~ ents opposing any delay The nomination of candidates for temporary chairman was then taken up, and National Chairman Mack pro= posed the name of Judge Parker. Parker's Nomination Not Made Unanimous. Joseph H. Daniels, national teeman of North Carolina, piaced resentative Henry of Texas in nomi- nation, and National Committeeman Hall placed Senator-elect James of Kentucky in nomination. Seoator Kern of Indiana was brought forward by National Committeeman fl-d-rh. while Senator O'Gorman of New York was placed tn nomination by Jobm T. McGraw of West Virginia. The vote gave Judge Parker a plurality, and there was some discussion wi the election should be made unantmous or not, but a resolation to make it inant« mous was not submitted, and after the other temporary officers were chosen the committee adjourned. Other bumi- ness of the convention will be takes up tgmorrow. gan. On other polnls on the tariff there was little difference of opiniom. All agreed in condemuing the course of the democratic house of representa~ tives in gtving no heed to the findings of the tariff board In the attempted tarift legislation of the present com~ gress and in not providing for the pos« tinuance of ita existence. Whils the phrasoology had not besn determimed upon at the close of the afiernoon site ting, It was certain that there weeld be a declaration for (% conthuation of the board and for tariff lngiaiution only along the lines of e recommen ations. Some of the rec urged the specification of ‘“revision downward,” whila others heid to the idea, that it would ba sufficient to rec~ ommend adherence to the board's sug. gestions, leaving the Inference thet there would be reductions where indi~ cated. The dications were favorable to. the former poth Opposes Judicial Recall. The maintenance of the inviolabitity of courts of justice s premsed and thers 18 an expliclt declaration egainet the recall of judges and of jufielal decisons as contrary ailke o the con- stitwtion and the public weitage. Tha referents to arbitration of il justicta~ ble controversies in recommended, bug the provision is not dealt upon. Other recommendations ars the pee tention by the government of the own« emwhip of the nainral resources of (he country, the enectment of & worcmen's ensation Jaw, the protaetion children against oppression by angle child_labor leglslation, and the mafes guarding of the Hublic health by prape er legislation, state and ngttonal OBITUARY. Gon. Edward 8. Bragg. Fond du Lac, Wik, June 20~Gen, Efll B, g, commander of the ous Iron brigade during the war, died this = sfiernoan, Bragg Lad been 11 feeblo Lealch for muwnder of years He was 55 yeurs ol last Webruary, He served sespral tarme I8 congresy us v demoorat from Wise aonsin, After lis retirement nm Seaguies he representad the Unil Btates in diplamatic positions in Mexls @6, Cuba and Ohina. General Bragg sained fame in the nutianal wention of 1984, when, ?fil:nnlom-r ox) the S hos