The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 24, 1912, Page 1

e Kepublican Party Poisoned to Death by Privilege” 4 ‘The republican party, born in glory 56 years ago, died from poison administered by privilege at Chi- ; fe last week. © The nomination of Taft and Sherman and the adoption of a reactionary platform, written by the tad and conscienceless bosses, is a fitting climax to the latterday record of perfidy and dishonor of this political organization. "Now that the smoke of battle, which somewhat obscured the vi ion during the wild days of the conven- hat cleared away, this tremendous naked fact stands out in bold relief. in absolute and utter defiance of the effortts of those men in the party who would have saved it by making it respond in at least some measure to the progressive sp J by the corrupt bosses showed that its grip on the party vitals is not to be loosened. ; ablest and craftiest tool, Barnes of New York, Penrose of Pennsylvania, Crane of its, Guggenheim of Colorado, Bradley of Kentucky—these men and others of like type have put stamp of approval on Taft and presented him to the country as the republican candidate on a plat- corrupt busines reactiona momement nearly inconceivable that any of these men cannot see that it is ‘organization to survive after this dose of pois on. a score of years ago. be grandstand yester- Came o'er the pl HWM LEADING TFIGHT ON i OSSES Be Candidate for ‘ Chairman Talk of His ial Candidacy ‘Press Leased Wire) dune 24.—If the Bs cannot agree on any for the. temporary whip of the democratic ne In opposition to ther, Wm. J. Bryan wil! ‘ thelr candidate. y In a state- thls rooms in the - Béyan said that would be de- ives, but not get to- the use of . He also jhe was satisfied that the pare trying to split | Parker, there is yo : We will ac ‘and we wit give and it will be to a b for Parker Plainly angered and ernest 4when he All morning told , that the conserva. jhad Yined wp many of | for Parker, and > Claiming 700 votes ‘Were forced among th | a4, the floor ” Maw open break between the @ Champ Clark and Pryan Was the general opin Majority of the democrat here, The Murphy-Tag combination, which !s ‘ah oe The conservative com! jammed the achd features whe took ear VOL. 14. of the times, privilege as y than any party has had the temerity to be sponsor for since Bryan vitalized the pro- impossible for even such a wonderful The overwhelming defeat of Taft and the permanent elimination from public life of the whole foul brood that poisoned their party in order to force his nomination is as certain as that the election will occur next November. tures that have so long been hidden. tween progress and reaction— in favor of reaction and dollars, that i For the mass of the people of t day night, remains to be seen. sweeping the country. ie Seattle SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1912. TO K EP HARRY THAW IN HIS ASYLUM | | | (My Unites Press Leased Wire) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Jane By every artifice that could pow jalbly suggest. iteelf to the mind of a clever’ woman, Evelyn Nesbit haw ts fighting to keep her former hustiand, Harry Thaw, in the t san asylam. Whatever m abe gnee felt for Thaw have turned to hate, an attitude probably induced by Thaw's moth jer, who persuaded her son to throw Evelyn over It's bad enough,” said the di vorced wife of Harry Thaw, “that Thaw hid behind my skirts in’ two dirty trials.” She protested vigorously at the insanity hearing against being ques th by counsel. “You don't need © go into details now, and you know It,” she said. “You can't get ne to anew All she would say was that on a former occasion she had testified that “Thaw was sane enough, ex- White.” ee $100,000 SUIT FOR DAMAGES (t::<: CHICAGO, Jane 24.—The case of | jeased Heunting, charging Clarence 8. | yirg. 2. C. Funk, general manager of the ternational Harvester Co, alienating the affections wife, Mrs. Josephine Hennin demanding $100,000, was called to day. before Judge Schlosser On motion of Funk's counsel court ordered that the be limited to the proof of when Funk and Mrs alleged to have been to Henning in his complaint n In her was with Funk 24. cept on the question of Stantord |!" La i testimony over the natances for today Henning were ed. med of justice five dates and places where his wife ficers made mistakes, and th E COMMONER” EVELYN IS TRYING DOGK COLLAPSES DEATH LIST MAY BE 40 Tragedy at resort near Buffalo ~Ghouls steal jewels from vic tims’ bodies. (By Vaitea Press Leased Wire) BUFFALO, June 24.—With fit. teen bodies recovered, all of which have been identified and ten known to be missing and probably drowned, it is feared thie afternoon that the total loss of life in the col- lapse of the dock at Eagle Park, Grand Island, last night may reach forty. Five bodies were recovered during the early morning. Ten more were taken from the water between 9 and 10 o'clock today. They were found floating about among the piles of the dock. The water at the point where the deck collapned is ten feet deep, bat the current rushes by ata rate of nine miles an hour and some bodies may have been carried over the faile. Boats sre patrol the riv. or between Eagle Park and Chip pews, Ont, in the hope of recover ing bodies still in the water, “HUNGER STRIKE” OF WOMEN A ‘GO’ Press Leased Wire) “ June %4—The “hu ger strike” conducted by the suf- fragets in Holloway prison wax suc: Ceestul today when both Mra, Em maline Pankhurst and Mra. Pethick Lawrence we rivate hoapitals. Poretbie feed- x attempted by the prison offt- cials proved an utter failure.’ The women fought with ai thelr might against ft, and, though weakened ill from five days Of fasting. weded in repellitig all efforts to food down their throats. Soon after Mra the doctors advised that Lawrence must be released life was to be saved. also, it bh 103 CASES Prosecuting Attorney Plere the sighed this morning as he looked number of cages booked and Judge Gordon groan One bundred and three are to appear before the dixpesner and explain how the of-| du pect was far trom pleasing. MAY B STANDS ONE CENT ON THAINS AND Ew The mask has at last been torn away, revealing to the gaze of every man who will see the hideous fea- The republican party has finally been forced to declare itself as be- 8 between men and dollars. the end of the republican party. country are no longer the slaves of party names and emblems that E A CANDIDATE Overshadowing the quartet of presidential candidates, overshadowing the Wall st. bosses, overshadowing the regular party leaders, the “commoner” from Nebraska is the big figure and the growing issue at Baltimore today. Bryan is starting right in to fight by opposing the selection of Alton B. Parker as tempo- rary chairman. Parker is being sustained by all the party bosses, from King Ryan to the pre- cistet-leader delegate. If necessary, Bryan will become a candidate for the chairmanship himself. Sentiment in favor of Bryan for the presidential nomination has grown fast over Sunday, as a result of the division of the republican party, the nomination of Taft by the regulars, and the nomination of “the colonel” by the “rebels.” The democratic convention opens tomorrow at noon. free-for-all fight, with no candidate anywhere near the nomination post. come a candidate. It looks like another NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PARTY YOUR NEW PARTY (DEA 1S BULLY, COLONEL, | HOPE YOU PROVE BIG EN JOR NOUGH FOR | } jeased and placed | Pankburst was re-| aeeketeeke and Tuesday; * Temper * * = ane *® Pair tonight & fight westerly winds. & ature at noon, 69. THE COMPLETING PLANS FOR NEW PARTY’S CONVENTION IN AUGUST prow | bs figuring om its vote SERRE EERE RE HEH = a (By United Press Leased Wire) those states where he has eceived And its declaration having boldly been made they once were. They have at last seen and grasped the great truth that political parties are merely means to an end—that end being social and economic justice. Whether the immediate future hope of the nation lies in the democratic party, which faces its crisis at Baltimore this week, or in the national progressive party, which was born at Orchestra hall, Chicago, Satur- 4 Certain it is that the same evil influence which did the republican party to death at Chicago last week will attempt the same thing with the democratic party at Baltimore this week. If they succeed, in spite of the heroic efforts to save it which are being made by William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson, noth- ing short of a catacylsm can prevent a third party, made up of the progressives of the two old parties, from LABOR LEADERS. FOUND GUILTY Today he would not deny that he might be-; “OF CONTEMPT Gompers, Mitchell and Morri- son found guilty in case grow- ing out of St. Louis labor war. (By United Press Leased Wire) | WASHINGTON, June 24.—Samuel | Gompers, president of the A. F. of |b was sentenced to one year in jail for contempt of court by Justice | Daniel Thew Wright of the District lof Columbia supreme court today. Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation, was sentenced to six | months in jail for the eame offense. Both gave notice of appeal and were released on $5,000 bail, Mitchell Also Guilty. Jobn Mitchell, also found guilty of contempt In the proceedings growing from the publication in the | Federationist of the name of the | Buck Stove and Range company of St. Louis, in an “unfair lst,” was |not present tn court, and his :en- | tence was éeferred. “Because these respondents havo shown themselves ready to repeat the seditions of the past, the penal- thes in these cases ought to be in proportion to the gravity of the of- | fenses,” declared Justice Wright in hie sion. right declared that Eugene V. Debs" sentence of six monthe for | contempt of court was not sufficient and the offense of the least of these men (Morrison) was more malicious | than that of Debs. Long Decision. Three of Wright's colleagues jon the bench with him while he read [his decision, which was very loug. | Although the justice skipped many pages, his reading consumed nearly two hours As the decision of guilty was read, Gompers and Morrison wero ordered to stand and face the court. | They did so, very pale, and thea | Wright sentenced them | This was the second time Justice | Wright had imposed identical sen- tences upon Gompers and Morrison for the same offense. The@rst sen- jtences were set aside by the si preme court and the case remanded for a second trial. In his decision Wright said that the Federation of Labor “designed. |ly suppressed the truth in its fight | with the Buck company and pub- lished false statements about the The justice declared the and “we don’t patronize” lists are synonymous of a “boycolt.” MAN FALLS _ FROM ROOF CHICAGO, June 24-—Plans for|the endosement the progressive mass convention, to | Primaries. be held probably, in Chicago during| These states have already chosen h " | presidential electors and Roosevelt the fire week in August, ware made wii! go into these states and_cant-| ‘ jon of conferences | paign for their electors—the nomi between Col. Roosevelt and the com-|nees being men committed to his mittee of seven authorized at Sun-| Candidacy and he believes, prepared : to yote for him in the electoral day's meeting. college. from the roof by means of wires, Although no announcement of the |" Roos, é on . : membership of the committee had| , Roosevelt left for Oyster Bay this| when the wires gave way, hurling been made, Col. Roosevelt went. to| *fternoon him to the alley, 80 feet below. Sup-| Work at once, calling to his assist-} ance Gov, Hiram Johnson of Call-| fornia, who was authorized to name the committee and who will be its} chairman, Jas. R. Garfield of Ohio, Judge Ben Lindsey of Colorado, ©. | T. Taylor, state treasurer of Ten nessee; H. L. Anderson of Florida, Richmond Pearson of North Caro-| lina, Oscar Hundley of Alabama Gov, W. R. Stubbs of Kansas, | Lowder of North Dakota, George |Record of New Jersey, Chas Merriam of Illinois, Gifford Pinchot and others In the cali for the mass conven: of presidential] J. R. Ringer, 3652 Othello st. a lineman in the employ of the city lighting department, fell from the roof of the Washington Shoe Co.'s building, Jackson and Occidental, this morning, and sustained a brok- en leg and an injured spine. He was working on the alley side of the building in a chair swung ship . ALT to have a healthy brain. gprs ogee ‘They gave him a cell and a celbmate. They gave him a striped | On & plateau overlooking the bay, at the south end of MoNeils| | Tier eave jit a cot da inate Ja a counterfelter island, a dozen men are working in a field of hay. All, with one exceP| “every morning No. 2163 and his. ceilmate rise at 6:00, Beds are tion, wear striped trousers, denim shirts and heavy brogans. The €x-|made and the cell cleaned, and there is stil time for No. 2163 to. 90 ° rie rifle. He—the guard—|through a series of calisthenice—a proceedings which dr: ui | vosamtae one Fema =” Houpearerenheaee . | comment from the counterfeiter—before breakfast-time, at 7:1 T turning the day. It was cut the other day, but not raked.| ‘Then the day's work, broken only by the lunch hour at noon, - And now the sun is shining and the air is sweetly|per at 5:15 and cells at 5 45. From then until 9 the prisoners may It must be turned and dried.| read and smoke and talk. This fs the toutine. without enthusiasm,| | The counterfeiter is an educated and intelligent man. He and No. 2169 are the library's best patrons. The counterfelter goes in for works on philosophy, while No. 2163 prefere lighter reading—no ind mag azines. When not reading, they have hot arguments on conservation, the revision of the tariff downward, the socialistic tendency of the times, our monetary system, and so en, Every Friday afternoon is givensup to baseball. It Is the weekly half-holiday. There are four teams @t the penitentiary. No. 2163 is a 6 and enth tic rooter. When the manager of the Circuit the- ‘at Tacoma out of the goodness of his heart, brought a moving pic- ture show to the island, No. 2163 had a seat in the front row. ‘The social activities of such a place are necessarily limited, but, such as they are, No, 2163 takes an active part, He is a model prison er, says Warden 0. P. Halligan. “But ,then,” he adds, “he ts an intelligent man, gent a prisoner is, the better he behaves, It pays. worth five days in every month.” “My best worker,” says the guard of the farm squad. Is it policy, then? Is No. 2163 merely being politic when he turns the hay, whistling softly? When he submits cheerfully to discipline? When he roots boyishly for the team which is playing for the honor of his cell-block ? Or is another, and better, explanation the true one? The man who was “Hillman” dealt in land. He turned land into gold. But in all his dealings in land he did not know gravel from clay, gand from loam, It is good to believe that he has learned his Hi watched the green things grow. He has seen the miracle of the planted seed. It is good to believe that he has learned that the co-ordination of earth and air and rain and sun is not enough. For Mother Earth but the help of man to pour her riches—greater than gold—into the lap of the world. Postpone Action ‘t¥0 hours’ session, the Bie national committee t Pertponed until 7 o'clock ‘tion on the report of udae A ee _ A wub-commit ‘elnding, airman Mack Moth, friend of Inde Parks o Committeeman —$1n/) et 8ppointed to confer and Parker during 7 | Then it rained. redolent of hay new-mown, wet and warm. The convicts work sluggishly, methodically, like automatons. They work because they must : | One alone seems to find pleasure in the task. No, 2163 is a man of medium height, but strongly made; and, although he has been Uncle » With the idea of .¢.|Sam's prisoner but a short while, already his face and neck and hands ise if poswitie (are tanned. He whistles softly as he turns the hay, the sun's rays men on ety ..|slinting on the tines of his fork | Eee moremiticn de. Each twist of the fork is expertly done. The hay, moist and mat Be the Parts torcen ey ted, is tossed and scattered, and the sun is drying the wet earth at the jo votes | roots of the stubble. | gpa fo satity |" ‘One can only guess at the workings of the mind of 2168. threat to force the | be turns the hay, Tomorrow he will hoe long rows of potatoes. ce the | otter tomorrow, perhaps, he will pick strawberries. It is but a few weeks ago that No, 2163 was deprived of his liberty. In the outside world he was known as “C. D. Hillman.” As Hillman he dealt largely in land. He had the brains of a Napoleon. He planned and executed his big coups in land. He bought thousands and thou- | sands of acres, sold them, and bought more thousands. But, though he dealt in land, he did not know clay from gravel, loam from sand. He speculated in land, but he did not know what land was for , | By and by this real estate Napoleon met his Waterloo. Uncle Sam | | was the Wellington of the occasion. “Hillman” used Uncle Sam's mails | to defraud. And, to employ a current phrase, “You can't monkey with | Uncle Sam's mails.” So “Hillman Reducing the Cost of Living by Reading Advertisements Readers of the Star know by actual experience that it pays in dollars and cents to read the store announce- ments. Not all realize, however, that by answering the adver- tisements of the stores they are indirectly helping the tion, it is to be made plain, say|[™ Store to sell goods more cheaply. members of the committee, that the Experience teaches the merchant that he can count Teen ie dance ates a dioeah a certain strong response to certain merchandise at wide open and support invited from lly attractive prices, so he is often induced to buy men like La Foltette, Bryan and in large lots and at reduced figures. This merchant knows Wilson. The nomination, the Roose-/@ that he can turn such goods quickly by proper advertising. cate eceied uy, Soe poomracctve By holding themselves responsive tg such sales read sentiment of the nation ers of advertisements encourage the merchant to take ad Roosevelt rei vantage of such opportunities. The merchant does his part by putting the merchan out at reduced prices, In this way advertising re that he will gladly step Support another candidate if duces the high cost of living to the consumer and the cost of merchandising to the advertiser convention decides that the fight OVER 40,000 PAID COPIES DAILY. Today | Day in the convention. | Mile afternoon is talked of ‘dark horse,’ 4 support the other candidates are at the possibility, iy that he will be Convention as a Presidential nom-| * Pateyvacia ation 9 to 6 to oppose B. Parker for the tem- The more intelli Good behavior is in lis: ‘hainmansh went to McNetls island for two and a half years, and dise r ip of the conven- | becam 216%, He asked for outdoor work, and he was put on the | oye) Rational committee | “farm squad,” which works the prison'’s 100 acres. It is characteristic Hon of ihe sub-\of the man who was “Hillman” that he should ask for outdoor work. the neraneements and a) He hav always made physical perfection a fetish. In his early days he nee ot the cox |was a wrestier and an all-around athlete, During hie meteoric career by Bryan he kept himeclt always physically fit, One must have a healthy body can be ade more strongly under other leadership. Regardless of action to be taken at the mass convention, it is learned, Col. Roosevelt regards him self as already the candidate of vention