The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 22, 1912, Page 1

Pillic Burke talks on beovtute Sut worwn im Stan Todou The Seattle Star SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER HOME EDITION ILL NOMINATE TAFT TONIGHT William Howard Taft tonight will be renominated for president of the United States. The Roosevelt-| pledged delegates, constituting nearly one-half of the convention, will sit in their seats, silent but not “bolt- ing.” Vice President Sherman may very probably be renominated. A platform making some concessions to the progressives, but turning down the recall of judges and the presidential preference primary, will be ca ~ gg ev heeharagh es national republican yr rn will adjourn, and thousands of tired men will) COMPLETED AND e a break for their homes, in every section of this nation. ‘| CONVENTION CLOSED Star Circle For the kiddies, on page 4 to- day, is better than ever, The youngsters will enjoy it. That Beauty by Miss Billie Burke is on ee 3 in The Star today. Don't miss reading it. Lae. Ss VOL, 14. NO. 97, 1912 eae )SEVELT WILL BE NOMINATED BY _ PROGRESSIVE PARTY, TICKET WILL BE That is this evening’s program at Chicago, and late this afternoon there was every indication that i | would be rushed through without a single hitch. But the end of the convention means that Roosevelt “h: {just begun to fight.” Today his new party, “the national progressive party,” is being formed, and the prob- ers Anxious to See Taft Nominated | ability i Id Will Be Cleared for Progressive Op- tion, “the Colonel” Ticket, Headed by the Colonel—the Program. (By United Press Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, June 22—Following a meeting with 80 Roosevelt delegates at the Congress hotel this afternoon, Colonel fesued the following statement dear tuajority of the delegates hon were chosen by the lected to this con minate me for president the direction the encou ent of Mr. Taft, the of the national steamroller’ meth ‘eith disregard of ev 2 elem t stote 80, or 90 egates g on t number of will of the peor feat the a dishonest for an bon purge the roll of those there the defunct national commit ted was made a majority only be who themselves sat as E “The convention has and the majority ‘included the fr @m one another's cases these fraudulent votes had not thus been cast and counted would have been purged of their presence Thin a makes the convention, in ne proper sense, any longer a repuly representing the real republican party 1 hope the | men elected te vote on any matter before the convention. jeaee any delegate from his honorable figation to vote for me if ail, but under the present co: sons, | hope he will not ” delegates Jegates who were unseated by the national com- ‘met with Roosevelt today were several who wore a But stil! for Roosevelt.” 14 Washington delegates who were not seated were loudly ‘ae oen the conference room, Roesevelt shook them. Tt would not be wise to make them public im advance.” The inet day | the Coliseum con ger Ring’ with the following addressing a crowd in front of the Congress hotel, Col. Roosevelt at 11 o'clock last night said: ‘My hat is still in the ring, only it Is a bigger ring.” This utterance was understood to refer to bis In- ndidacy. The one thing s of the Roosevelt fol new party. For two days Roosevelt has in reality not before the Coliseum conven. as a candidate. He has been nounced candidate of the pro- ve party. “National Progressive” Party” This morning a big sign was hung the Roosevelt headquarters in Ce hotel announcing Roosevelt the candidate of the National Progerssive” party. Two other features of the Roosevelt pro- gram for nominating day were first, that no Roosevelt progressive will be a candidate or accept a nom ination for the vice presidency on [the Taft ticket, and, second, that no that he will not accept | Roosevelt progressive vote or take ia which the so-called | any part in the convention. roll has any part The final mysterious order In the Col. Roosevelt is stil! Roosevelt program was “Be ready the people for the to act on orders from the leaders and will continue his|and to act together.’ Mm from today to November. | “Where You Go, | Go” ? of the situation was| Addressing a secret meeting of tbe United Press by the | Roosevelt delegates last night, Col at Strategiat at the close | Roosevelt made this uttera SRMRts Kecret mecting of the| “Where you go, | go. If you go @ the Roosevelt forces.| out, | go with you. | am always of the program,” he | willing to take pot luck with my be left for develop me: Mriends. , § MEETING TONIGHT TO IZE ROOSEVELT PARTY Leased Wire) 22.—It was ru & mass meeting of followers will be ar. had feto a Taft majority Ro man recognizing this to accept a nom of @ conven in the Roosevelt, before comm! by the credentials Will serve notice on the be |fort to enlist as much popular sup- port as possible for the national progressive party by obtaining sik- natures of voters. The pledge The plan was to hold a| ., tan Roosevelt followers, | "xy ae “We dedicate ourselves to pro- la Chicago at the Coliseum | gy, sive principles as advocated Be thant of the con-|and maintained by Theodore Roose- this mass meeting | yeilt, the next president of the Unit- and other tem- geet Mts Setionas gro:|°" ee Redes, will be chosen PROBE COMMITTEE COMING of Missouri called on WASHINGTON, June 22— foday. When he left} Chairman Graham of Iilinois ¥4s surrounded by| and Representative McCoy of i" and asked about| New York, members of the spe- : toward the new party.| cial committee to investigate the impeachment charges against Federal Judge C. H. Hanford of Western Washing- ton, are on their way to Seat tle today. The hearings will begin about July 1. Representative Higgins of Connecticut, the third member of the commit- tee, will probably join his cof leagues at Chicago, where he is mene In the convention all join any party the fepublican party is are Ti ing to make them " said Senator Dixon, the Roosevelt Foom today, written today and mad Nelson McDowell, a mass | socialist. William J. Bryan te covering the Chicago convention as a ni that gave him th viewed the colonel and Roosevelt may lock horns this y Plucky Phone Girl Fights a Masher| MISS DOROTHY WATSON June 22.—| all over the room m Gying to get Har over his head and putomeling him with LOS ANGELES, © After smashing her ‘al, handbag her fists, despite the interfer of an outsider, ly and procured a co! turbance against E. who, she say streets. When he trifle battered, time and his case one day. appeared Miss Dorothy Wat- ; t- son appeared In court here recen r; aint of dis Simpson, insulted her on the mn Ww in court, Simpson asked for was continued | fl.” te noonevelt, will be cir-| Ver the country in an ef-! attending the republican con- “STICK TO’EM, TEDDY.” GO, June 22 Stowd had gathe red on k to 'em, Tedd we'll stick to ’em, €Xpected today that $0 for a céuple of days Adjourns, conferring wit to support the “nationa " sho ~—Colo: today when he came to his conference room. nel Roosevelt smiled broadly A the 11th floor. uted a man ” replied the colonel Col. Roosevelt will remain in after the republican conven- h the men on whom he will 1 progressive party.” fair ran: “I had just come of |watch at the telephone office an ment, Simpson |me as I came out and insulted me I spurned him and he attacked me, kened my eye and hit me ot the side of the head. I didn’t see anyone to pri me, #o 1 protected myself. handbag broke at the first whac Jand I started in with my fists ltaxteab chauffeur seized me Simpson got away. I chase a an hin le rested.” s Mins Watson's version of the af. | stepped into the doorway to adjust wi approac’ hed | and found out where be went. Then Di Jied an officer and had him ar- first nomination In 1896. After Roosevelt's arrival part of his day's work. Here r for the presidency. — CHARGED (By United Pre aned Wire) LOS ANGELES, June 22-— | Charges in open court that Clarence 8. Darrow, being tried on a charge lof jury bribery, was using hypno- tism on state witnesses were made by District Attorney John D. F; lericks this morning. John R. Hai jrington was on the stand under cross-examination by Earl Rogers for the defense, when Fredericks suddenly jumped to his feet and made his sensational charges. Yells and whoops of laughter fille t court room, Bailiffe vainly) | pounded for order | “That's the most childish state ment I ever heard in a court in my |ilfe,” gasped Darrow when he could speak It was ng@foke to the district at torney. He faced the howling spec |tators with flushed face and shouted |the accusation. ‘ “1 want your honor Darrow to keep his seat,’ 1"Make him sit still, He inatruet he y is walking YEARS IN “Judge, | am very thankful that a you have given me this chance and J will make good. | am very thank- Lawrence Dye, or “Curly” as he is known to his friends, hi {quivering with emotion, thanked 4 | Judge Ronald this morning when he) ae given a sentence of five to ten years in the reggrmatory. © was \charged with ret degree assault, » He pleaded guilty to the charge of njentering the grocery store of Chas. R. Kruger, 1306 Sixth av., and otect| wounding both the proprietor and My |his 18-year-old son, Carl, a week ago i| Tuesday night in an attempted rob- hart 2 could have preferred a rob- charge against him,” said ty Prosecuting Attorney Cald- |, “but that would have meant a penitentiary sentence. He is only | mn | be DARROW HYPNOTIZED WITNESS that, either before the delegates leave Chicago or soon after the holding of the democratic conven. | will be nominated to lead the new party. Four leading tickets will be in the national field-+democratic, republican, national progressive, and | Taft, Roosevelt, Debs will be three candida tés. The democrat is still a big question mark. Remarkable Picture of Big Men in Unique Situation rm eycae te Just as he covered the historic democratic convention to battle for supremac: armenctae ‘s eye and put a spell on have the turmotl, Rogers yelled: i tell you the real reason why rrington don’t look either Mr. } ow or myself in the eye. Ho's j|aieid. He dare not. For two days Ti# been trying to catch his shifty ca but he won't look at me.” KILLED BY FALL ®, W. THORPE, 722 Maynard av., wat killed, and Andrew Gustavson of same address badly bruised this njOrning when a scaffold, on which oe were painting fell to the “The two men were painting a house at 28th and Madison. They were on a swinging scaffold, fas- u to the roof with hooks, when hook on Thorpe's end broke, wing them to the ground, 9 dis- tines of twenty feet Thorpe was instantly killed. The §ai) knocked Gustavson unconscious, and he was taken to the city hos- Bt cal “CURLY” DYE TO SPEND 5 REFORMATORY thought he ought to be given another chance. So we pre fetred the assault charge, which a: lows a reformatory sentence.” "What made you do it?” asked Judge Ronald, turning to “Curly.” “1 don't know, judge,” answered Dye in a@ tear-filled yolce. He spoke in jerky sentences, “I don’t know myself. I worked all my life \L worked hard since I was a boy, I didn’t get in trouble for long | time. 1 don't even know this morn |ing why I did it, I worked always lexeept when I was in the hospital in Everett.” At ney Fitzpatrick intereeded |for Dye, saying fhat he was appar ently under the influence of a drug on the night of the crime. He spoke of Dye’s wife, their magried life of five years, and pleaded for a reform atory sentence, 28, and we in his party, Reporter Bryan inter- It is all the more striking in view of the fact that Bryan Man Is Vanity HELEN WARE “Just which emotion do you be- Neve the most powerful around which to build a play?” was asked of Helen Ware, starring in “The Price.” ANITY; MAN'S vanity to be sure,” she answered. “Who that has ever seen @ peacock or a tur- key gobbler on dress parade can doubt it? When a woman fails to understand that men are perambu lating vanities she is gone; when she does understand it, the world is hers, "It is the vanity of men that has always made them so cruel to women who have made mistakes: the man who marries @ woman with @ past is afraid, not of her, but of what the other men will say. That's vanity. They call it honof on the stage; but the fact that it is vanity pautifully brought out in ‘Trial Marriage, P COCO Ey - WEATHER FORECAST *® Fair tonight and Sunday; ® light westerly winds, Temper» ® ature at noon, 56. * * . * * * * ee a ee ee ee |the exception of the =| tification, [Strongest Emotion of President Will Be Renominated, With Progressive Half of Convention ton Contest. “Non-Parti May Be Running Mate Again—Last of W. ipating’’ — Sherman shing< BULLETIN. : | Gov. Johnson has walked out of the republican conventioi as he “does not care to see a c perpetrated.” Rte on dasst FS co SEU CHICAGO, pe —That Pre id nt Taft would be re. |nominated, hie running mate se- |lected, following the adoption of a | compromise platform in which con cessions would be made to the pro- | gressives, Hiean convention would adjourn by | midnight tonight was the opinion jof nearly every party leader, when the convention was called te order by Chairman Root at 10:44 this morning. Nerves have been frazzied by the ordeal and everybody longs to make the break for home. The Rev. John Wesley Hill of New York was the chaplain of the day. Hill has been very active in campaigning for Taft and the Penpsylvania delegates bed when be was announced, but ail stood reverently during the opening prayer. When he prayed tnat the country should be spared from “restlessness jand disturbance,” however, there jwas a titter from the New York delegation, and, as he conclude: someone in the Pennsylvania di gation whistled “Toot, toot,” and a laugh went up. The credentials committee report- ed immediately in favor of seating the Taft delegates at large from Missiarippi. There was a minority report, but the majority declara tion was adopted by a viva voce vote. The Washington seating the Taft read amid silence. state report delegates, was This was, with fourth Cali fornia, the most bitterly fought con test before the committee. Before |the report was read Chairman Root asked that consideration be to the reading clerk. Delegate P. N. Howard of Jack son, Miss, arose and shouted “| rise to a point of order. | claim that the steam rolier is ex ceeding the speed tim: A wild cheer went up from the Roosevelt men, but it was only a mild zephyr to the roar that spread over the hall when Root ruled “The point is well taken. In jus- 1 would given There was no interruption when the majority and minority reports SUMMARY OF THE G The following is a summary of the platform submitted to the Chi-| cago convention today by the ma Jority of the platform committee: “Name of first great party leader, Abrabam Lincoln, should inspire in present state of public affairs, broad statesmanship and tolerant spirit towards men “Will strive in the nation, and also in the several states, to enact the necessary statutes to safeguard the public health, to limit effective- ly the labor of women and children, to protect wage earners engaged In dangerous occupations, to enact comprehensive and generous com- pensation laws in place of the pres- ent wasteful and unjust system of employers’ Hability. “In dealing With these questions, it is important that the rights of every individual to the freest posst- ble development of his own powers and resources, and to the control of his own justly acquired property, shall not be interfered with or de- stroyed. Phe republican party reaffirms intention to uphold at all times the authority and integrity of the courts, An orderly method is pro- * | commi ind that the 15th repub-| continuation of the outrage being on Washington were id th vention was regular. The minority report fiatly catled the attempt to seat the Taft del ates a “steal, pure and simple, land “designed to rob the people off read. Th the Taft com | their rights.” Washington Case The minority report in the Was ington case was read by J. J guild yan of Obio. He said that the Roosevelt forces always had a cleag majority in the state convention, and the Taft contest was characters ized as 2 “trumped up" one. Wheat the time came for the votes, the delegates began singing “Johw Brown's body.” Hugh T. Halbert of Minnesota) argued in favor of the minority rev port. He declared that the Roosevelt men had decided only on the merits of the case im every, instance. He criticised the rules of the committee on credentials and inisisted that the people of Washe ington would be “robbed of their rights” If the Roosevelt delegates, were not Halbert appealed directly to the New York delegates to vote to seaff the Roosevelt delegates Delegate Dovell of Washingtom jtook issue with Halbert. He hardly, started to talk when former Gov. |Fort challenged his right to spealg as his seat was one of those undes consideration. Root held that be! had no right to vote, but had the, ght to present his case and reply, |to the charges of the minority. | Dovell repeated his arguments off, jiast Tuesday, that the Roosevelt convention was a “bolting rump oute | fit, There was no demand for a rec ord roll call and by a viva voce | vote the Taft delegates from Washe lington were seated. No Minority Patform Report. | Decision was reached shortly jafter noon by the Roosevelt sap- porters that they would not have any minority report presented ta fe convention on the platform. Gov. Hadley announced that the |committee had made a number o concessions to the progressives It_was definitely statec that the La Foilette followers will make @ fight for a progressive platform im the form of a minority report. G. 0. P. PLATFORM {vided under our system of governs ment by which the people may amend the constituttonal provisions which underlie the government. “Since the responsibility of thé judiciary is so great, the standards jof judicial action must be always and everywhere above suspicion jand reproach. While we regard the recall of judges as unnecessary and unwise, we favor such action a9 may be necessary to simplify t process by which any judge who is found to be derelict in his duty may, be removed trom office.” | CAPTAIN OF OPIUM SHIP FINED SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.—H, B. Morton, master of the Mongolia, has been fined $1,100 because his ship has brought opium to this port. 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