Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1916, Page 1

Thousands of Omaha families read The Bee exclusively. If you want their trade advertise in The Bee. VOL. XLV.—NO. :303. HUGHES AFFORDS COMMON GROUND FOR ALL TO MEET) Delegates to Republican Convention Regard Him Candidate on Whom They Can Build Up Party Harmony. NO MORE THIRD TICKET TALK | Bull Let Republicans Take Lead. NEBRASKA HAS OPPORTUNITY BY VICTOR ROSEWATER. Chicago, June 5-—(Special Tele gram.)—While the full of ru- mors, claims, counter claims and pre- air is tended ultimatums, the confusion is more on the It surface than beneath it that all the delegates are now here, hut their m is fair to say nearly activity has been in attending delega- tion meetings and visiting from one headquarters to another, What im- presses all of them, and | have talked with many, from all parts of the coun- | try, is the outstanding fact that |1u Hughes movement offers the :wmnr-!l ground for them to meet, and that while under different circumstances various “favorite sons” would make splendid men for the White House, they are subordinated in the popular mind or unavailable to assure party harmony. It is noticeable, too, that the harmony talk is growing strong- er and more general as the convention lay approaches Third Ticket Talk Vanishes. he disposition of the bull moosers to hold back and let the republicans ake the lead reflects this trend, and he suggestion of another third party ticket has practically vanished, The national committee of the progres- sives constitutes really the whole or- ganization and has itself put all its authority in steering committee whose makeup is of the harmonizing ather than the antagonizing type. Incidentally let it be observed that a the bull moose national committee has certified the -temporary roll of their convention, corresponding ex- actly 'to the action of the republican colmmittee in making up the tempo- rary roll—something that used to be | jenounced as rank usurpation of the -ights of the delegates themselves as against any and all self-empowered committees. Perhaps the absence of contest and unseemly scramble for seats in the bull moose convention ielps to explain the easy sailing on what might be a troubled sea. Ure May Vote for Ford. When it comes to estimates on the presidential balloting all the con- vention calculators place Hughes far in the lead. More than that they all figure accessions to the Hughes column as soon as the favorite sons pass the complimentary vote stage In every table Nebraska has been put down on the first ballot as sixteen Cummins, but speaking this morning to Mr, Ure, one of the two lelegates representing our Omaha listricg in which Ford led the popu ar vote, | discovered that he is seri- yusly inclined to believe it his duty o vote for Ford and if that idea holds with his colleague Nebraska will first rall call as fourteen for for too, answer Cummins and two for Ford, How long the vote would be so recorded vill depend on developments. Both Minnesota and Montana, which have milar preferential primary instruc- tions for Cummins, come ahead of Nebraska in the list, and should they at any time break, it would become a question wpether Nebraska's obliga tion would not also be fully dis arged and the delegates be free to ste their real choice Nebraska May Be Unit ) i the Chicago evening Howard irige as leag like The Weather . i ™ L\ \ S v vy ¥ el Moosers Standing Back to | OMAHA, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, WILLIAM S. KENYON. Ring Lardner Makes First Dash Into Chicago Political Arena BY RING A. LARDNER, over, meaning the, convention ]nvc ; < . and the banquet at St. Louis Chicago, June (Special Tele So 1 found out by inquiries that gram.)—I usually write stuff on the (he convention didn't start until sporting page, but along last May or | Wednesday and I would find the news Monday and Tuesday at the Congress hotel that was named after congress, lut not the congress that's been down Washington, D. C., recently be cause you would not name a hotel after that unless you was pretty sore it the rooms and board April I received a letter from a news paper in Quakertown, where there is a Quaker girl, and this letter said they would slip me sosand-so if 1 would | sover the republican and democratic conventions. So I took the detter in to the hoss because the letter offered me the a flat offer of some money, and he So 1 showed up at ays yesterday afternoon and the first W |,” ,‘1,,,“, it?”" he says thing that happened after I got in “Well,” [ says, “I would |,,\P to do | the lobby was a whole ln on axcuun! of lhe money, cians and saxophone players came in ahead of a parade and the parade was all yelling something and I could not make out what it was, | “Yes,” he says, “but are you work- | ing for a Quakertown newspaper or | | are you working for us?” “Nits!” Either way you flatter Boosters for Something. me. I says. | But they all had Indiana banners Well” he says, “if you report this |4 \nat “they yelled Sounded some- convention for anybody, we would rather have you do it for us that pays your salary for doing nothing. If you| finally make up your mind to work thing like Wabash, but I didn't be- lieve they would be boasting about a thing like that, so I went up closer it is (ml) just .uul fair that you wotk |and listened and found out it was for us. Fairbanks that they were yelling, “All right,” I says, on account of | They were just boosters for soap or loyalty. scales, one of the two. But I forgot Thought He'd Try It. to say that before I went to the Con- But lately 1 got thinking about it |gress hotel 1 got a shave and all and thought may be this will be a|cleaned up and when I got there and whole lot of work and something 1|saw the delegates [ realized where I don't know nothing about and if I|had make a msitake and had become can duck it and play golf every p.m. a conspicuous figure. and just keep up the wake of the news | 1 knocked several delegates down column in the sporting page that's and got across the lobby to the desk easy as a pie to write so much the and asked them where the ne better. So the day of the parade of | paper men were located at, beca the people that would a whole lot!had not seen one soul that acted m\r rather walk around the loop than he knew me or wanted to fight, I went to the managing editor Where are the newspaper men?” "m«! says [ asked the clerk . “Say,” I says, “this was a kind of a I'ry room 1606,” he said joke about me reporting the conven So I tried four or five times to get ll(‘n * in the nearest elevator and was told “Yes,” he says, “I thought so, too, | was too big and finally one of the but the higher ups says you was to | clevator men let me get in and we do it, and that settled it went up near the top and I says “Yes,” I says, “but T don't know In the Wrong Hotel. absolutely nothing concerning poli Where is 16062 T asked him b : Not in this buildin answered “Listen,” he says "lv-‘l\uu‘i‘-u Its in t the "Hu; 3 write sometl about foot ball H ething about it snd when I & for 1606 1 got s dat } Aot a 1 anc a dang g and A A A K A iced ing and ba and games and | | 0 Auct B : 1 30 ¢ hat | tq 1 f A d them 1 y and . me 1 Fairly Cornered ko ? . \ . \ ’ Thousand Amateurs Give Series of Shakespeare Plays at St. Louis lot of musi- | candidate GROWING HUGHES STRENGTH AMAZES BIG CRIEF Managlng the CummmslBoom s “VE H]R HUGHES 18 TAKING FORM OF GENUINE BOOM - Sentiment for Nomination of the Justice Grows with the Arrival of Each State Dele- gation | THEY BRING ORDERS FROM HOME Men Back in Trenches, Who Do the Voting, Believe Hughes Man Who Can Bring Harmony, ROOSEVELT STENGTH WANING Chicago, 111, June 5.—Hughes sen timent .oday swept over the republic ans assembled here for their national convention and amazed the leaders by its apparent strength Without and stoptaneity any authorized headquar- ters .r recognized spokesmen dele gated to speak in behalf of the jus tice, the republicans considered the growth of the Hughes movement into a full-fledged boom within the last twenty-four hours a force to be reck oned with when the convention as semhbles Wednesday Frank H. Hitchcock, who has heen leading the unorganized Hughes movement, issued his first formal claim today, contending that the fa- vorite sons combined would have a strength® of only 345 votes—not enough for a majority—and predicted that Justice Hughes will get more all the and ballot votes on the first ballot than other favorite sons combined that his nomination on an early is inevitable. Won't Get Roosevelt leaders, the selves the Two Hundred. till fighting for colonel's nomination, find them confronted with a situation are convinced was over-estimats ed in the=tolonel's favor and the re- publican leaders attached to the old guard predict that the colonel's ulti mate strength in the balloting will be less than 200 Yotes. One potent element in the repub lican nomination toward which all the | leaders were looking with some ap ..,,,N( \|;n()nu~|u|\ was scttled by the deci sion of the progressive national com- mittee not to nominate a presidential until Saturday and to ap point a committee to confer with the republicans. The apparent elimination of Colo- nel Roosevelt as a possible nomince has encouraged boomers for some of the other candidates, Many of them profess to believe they will be the beneficiaries of the waning Roose- velt strength, and that an effort now will be made to concentrate on a plan to eliminate Hughes, Chief among these is the candidacy of Senator Weeks of Massachusetts. He is on the ground and as fast as delegates arrive all those who are willing are taken to the Weeks headquarters, During the day the Weeks supporters increased their estimates from time to time of the probable first ballot strength of their candidate until they were claiming more than 300 on the first balbot Although abandonment of any plan to get a pre-convention statement | from Justice Hughes has been an nounced, delegates nevertheless in quire for some authoritative statc ment of his political views and his stand on important issues. Leaders interested in Hughes let it be known today that Governor Whit man in his nominating speech will make a statement o ing Justice Hughes' political views and his rec- Ask About Views ord on important jdsue Among those opposed to Justice Hughes, a report was circulated to day that he had gained the disfavor of labor through the reme rt's decision in Danbu Hatters' case in January 5 vest ot the ¢ deve e de the pa Ating A ed | Just H « ( gt . \ Hoe t of l.h\ | vhicago onvention | Fou vade his Vietor Rosewater fin I Dee dgar C. Snyde: Was y Correspondent 1916— TWELVE PAGES. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. On Trains, at Hot News Stands, et SINGLE THE WEATHER Unsettled COPY TWO - CENTS. BRITONS NOW CALL [T A BIG VICTORY They Say German Fleet So Weak- ened It Cannot Attempt Another Raid Into Baltic SUNKEN WARSHIPS IDENTIFIED atest report of the .u\'m alty on the vattle of last week, t press public are de their atten » computing the losses of the two navies and the cffect the engage ment is likely to have on future naval The British cighteen Ger warfare estimate of n ships lost, as com with by the pared fourten British, is ac cepted majority, and the result s now claimed as the a complete victory for British fleet So far as the German denial of the British claim concerned, it is pointed out that the Germans did not admit the loss of the cruiser Elbing until the arrival of some survivors from it in Holland, and this is cited as that the Germans con losses until forced by cir to reveal them. This is possible, it is argued, by the | fact that the British losses occurred - daylight and arc known to the Germans, while the German losses took place in twilight or after dark Should the British estimate of the confirmation ceal their umstances { made German losses prove correct, naval | writers say it will be many a long lay before the German ileet shows itself again in the North Sea, and even should the estimate prove ex cessive the damage done to the Ger nan battle cruisers will put an end to raids on English coasts. After the Doggerbank battle the [erfflinger md Moltke were five months in dock, and believed it is that the German ships of this class engaged in last week's battle were cven more se verely damaged I'he Derflinger and its sister ship, the Lutzow, are believed to be the battle cruisers which the British have included in the list of supposed Ger man losses, while another battle cruiser, the Seydlitz, is reported from a/neutral source to have been seen on fhursday morning badly damaged and being pursued by British warships Another advantage claimed from the outcome of the battle is that it relieves the pressure on the Russian army wing in Courland to which the German fleet was giving valuable sup port. It is already reported from Co- penhagen that German cruisers have been withdrawn from the Courland coast, while German destroyers haye not been seen for a week in the southern Baltic Sunken Dreadnoughts Identified, British officers of the fleet which | participated in the Jutland battle and ILLINOIS' FAVORITE SON AT CHI- CAGO CONVENTION i | e Fy S ENCR TN VISITING AD MEN SEEING THE SIGHTS Put in a Busy Day Learning of the Vast Resources of Omaha and Why It is Great, START OVER STATE TUESTAY LAWRENC | CAPTURE RUSSIANS WIN GREAT VICTORY OVER LONG LINE . Czar's Hosts Triumplt on Battle Front Extending from Pripet Marshes to Roumanian Frontier 13,000 PRISONERS French Report Repulse of Series of Violent Assaults in Sector East of Meuse, TEUTON RAIDS IN THE VOSGES Petrograd, June 5-—(Via London.) Russian forces have won great suc- cesses along the front from the Pripet Marshes to the Roumanian frontier, U | according to an official announcement issued here today. It is stated the | Russians took 13,000 prisoners. June 5.—~With undiminished the Germans continued their night along the Ver- dun front east of the Meuse. The war report of this says these assaults were unsuccessful, The Germans attacked French po- sitions in the region of Vaux and damloup, Between the fort and the village of Damloup the German of- fensive was particularly severe, The French are still in possession of Fort Vaux In the vic'nity of Douaumont there was heavy artillery fighting. Unsuccessful German raids undertaken in the Vosges I'he text of the statement says: ‘On the left bank of the .\feusc Paris, violence attacks last office afternoon were . | there has been an intermittent bom- From staid old Boston, from dear | lold New York and from peaceful Philadelphia, thirty advertising men, | | tenelle have returned here identify two of | | the big German battle cruisers sunk | as the Hindenburg and the Lutzow The Lutzow, a battle cruiser of 26, 000 tons, was completed in 1915. [t | was armed with ‘eight twelve-inch, | twelve six-inch and twelve twenty four-pounder guns and equipped with five torpedo tubes. Its armor belt was about thirteen inches in thick ness amidship, It was 689 feet long, ninety-five feet heam and drew twen- ty-seven and a half feet. It was of | the latest and most powerful battle cruiser type I'he Hindenburg is not listed in the latest naval records, It has been re ported, however, that it was a battle- ship of the largest and most pow erful dreadnought type, launched in the fall of 1915, Nebraska Clan Reaches Chicago Chicago, t:en delegates, in vice presidential boom for former Senator Burkett. Fourteen are structed for Senator Cummins president and two Henry Ford of Michigan. The second choice of the delegation is said be twelve for Hughes and four for Roosevelt George von L. Meyer held numer ous conferences t in the Roose velt headquarters id he found marked evelt sen ska's six today, brought June Nebrs a in for for increase wvhich set nnings dent headquarters of the The first nt Sunday Bry made the re illiam J paper an, as a new imnds f al candic cadquarters he aske ould not e L representing that many big agencies | of those big citie have come to Omaha Yesterday they saw the sights of oub fair city Ihey mpared Washington street and Broadway and Market street with Farnam I'hey observed, With more or less amaze- ment, the skyscrapers, the stock yards, the jobbing house canons, the beautiful residence districts, the smooth boulevards, the public build ings, all the wonders of the metropolis of Nebraska The party arrived in Omaha at 7:30 a. m, and were met by a committee and taken in automobiles to the Fon hotel, where breakfast way and the stains of travel re- served moved, Guests of Publishers. | The thirty are the guests of alxtun\ | Nebraska |:uh||shfrs who, since they | could not take Nebraska back to the advertising men's offices, hit upon the happy idea of bringing the advertis- ing men to Nebraska and showing them the marvels of the state, its fer- | tile farms, its prosperous people, its rich banks, its great manufacturing | plants, its annual farm production of hundreds of millions of dollars, and 50 on After spending the day here the party, augmented by forty or fifty leading business men and several ex- perts on Nebraska facts and figures, will leave Omaha on a spendid special train to tour Nebraska for the rest of the week I'he ad men spent a fine day here [hey started out from the Fontenelle otel in a fleet of automobiles and took a run to the South Side, where the stock yards and packing houses were given the “once over.” Everett Buckingham, general manager, did the | honors there and showed the eastern ers the second biggest tivestock mar- ket in the world Visit Grain Exchange. After that the route led to the Omaha Grain exchange, where the 1ne building was inspected and the grain men extended the glad hand of welcome Ihen they were ted through I'he Bee's offices and mechanical plant, and those of the Twentieth ; At the Ance the Bran I tore made a Mort speech, giving a few facts about th crcantile establis t, af Hayden Brothers and I progra 1 af these . . ! ity ( Women’s Party Advised to Devote Its Energies to Franchise Fight {losses, | choice bardment, East of the river artillery fighting has continued with extreme violence in the region of Thiaumont and Dumont. The Germans con- tinued their attacks upon our posi- tions and Vaux and” Damloup last night. To the northwest of Fort Vaux on the slopes of the Fumin wood repeated German advances were checked by our fire. The as- sauts between the fort and the vil- lage of Damloup also were broken, “There was ferocious fighting be« tween the garrison of Vaux fort and the detachment of the enemy ate Irvupllnpf to penetrate this position. Although the enemy used flaming liquids, our troops prevented them from making any progress. “In the Vosges an attack by the enemy at a point west of Carspach resulted in their becoming possessed of three trenches. Shortly after we delivered a counter attack and drove | the Germans from alll positions they occupied,” French Attacks Repulsed. Berlin, June 5.--(Wirgless to Sa; ville, )—hepnlcd attacks by masses of French infantry against German positions on the Verdui front east of the Meuse broke dow.. with heavy the war officc announced to« day. Republicans of ndiana Move on Chicago in Force Indianapolis, June S5.—Indiana re- publicans several hundred strong moved on to Chicago today to sup- port Charles W. Fairbanks, Indiana's for the presidential nomina- ticn “Boost Fairbanks; knock nobody,” was their slogan I'wo special trains, one starting from Evansville and the other from Indianapolis, carried about 800 Fair- banks men to Chicago. Mr, Fairbanks will remain at his home here during the convention Suffragists Claim They Carried lowa Des Moines, June 5~When the polls closed tonight, indications were that an unusually heavy vote had been cast in the state-wdie primary. I'he closest contest in years is pre« dicted in the republican race for the governorship. Both Allen and Coss son supporters claimed the state for heir respective candidates, but Hard« ng and Kuehnle adherents equally vere er There was a growing el at the governorship might go the republican convention, swwhich meet in Des Moines in July Officer f the lowa Equal Suffrage laimed tonight that their ted i y for the nt. They said they expected great trength to develope in A ates | tate officers on the Atic 1 ad no opposition 1280 MORE PAID Want - Ads for the week ended 6.3, than same week, year ago. For 14tk conas veek Hee WantAda have shown an ins AA more than W PALD ADS he same period Yeur Tvious. Arve al v The Bee Want A columoe