The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 5, 1912, Page 1

Wilson of New Jersey, nominated for president by the by William Jennings people i Bryan, the people's great leader. 2 defiance of Wall st., on a Howard Taft, nominated for president by Wall st. in defiance of the people, on a platform writ- of pri vilege. are the alternatives between which the voters of this nation will be called upon to choose when to the polls ‘of the the issue. next November. strife and turmoil of the conventions at Chicago and Baltimore have been born the candi- WALL ST.'S victory at Chicago was as clean cut as was the PEOPLE'S victory at h the people, represented by the progressives, were read out of the republican party, WALL ST., represented by Ryan, Belmont and Murphy, was read out of ¢ democratic Chicago the Wall st. candidate was nominated and the Wall st. platform adopted, not only with- THE PEO! pa aks eigreceh. man's Little Wiltic, with vigor landing, Awd mow be takes bis meals w etandion. VERSAL OF DAMAGE VERD “A PROGRESSIVE IS A MAN presn Leased Wire) July 5.—Mr- poted Coloredo feform leader, who bere with intestior! nee , Was put un Bat 10 o'clock this Be 7 was per Huntington assisted by Dr. of this city and Dr. of Chicago. Leased Wire) “plain score of prostra- toll of the heat in The mercury 9 this after. HOPLANE TURNS T ZARMY AVIATORS KILLE oo ied Presa 4 Wire) un Reg. Sosy 5.—Two were sacrificed to the aviation today. Captain Othe Grenadier Major Wilson killed while flying ‘Mroplane near Stone- a M the side planes became the aeroplane turned, | turtle. but against the protest and in defiance of every progressive delegat d infl . At PLE’S CANDIDATE was nominated and the people's Sresheten ‘ahond, as only need to spaak VOL. 14 NO. 10 WHO KEEPS UP PROCESSION” Here are some of Candidate Woodrow Wilson's view on pro- gressiviem: “A president of the United States is not now tolerated if he fotiows, If ne tistena to, smal! groups of men. He is pected to heed the unspoken voice of the at mass of the people, be their servant and their leader.” “When you speak of repre- sentative government and the peo, do you include your self? Are you willing to step with the people? Are you will- irg to put your shoulder againet theira? Are you willing that the throb of their hearts should be fe through your jacket? Because by that test you will know whether you are an American or not an Ameri- can.” “A man will diemise an em- p! if he overdrives a deli- cate machine. Yet he will not dismiss a superintendent if he puts an intolerable strain upon the muscles, nerves and spirit of the workman.” “What will disturb this nation _ | tor “t tell you, men have forgot- ten the history of America who have f to progress and to fight for principles.” more convention fought it out. ee eee oe] RR BRYAN’S HOME-COMING LINCOLN, Neb., July 6—William Jennings Bryan's home-coming from Baltimore today was more than a greet- ing—it was an ovation. Welcomed at the railroad station by a band and a thousand neighbors, the Commoner was escorted in an automible to the business district where he spoke to an audience that filled the street from curb to curb. For a half hour or more the distinguished Nebraskan discussed the Baltimore convention, predicting the tri- umphant election of Gov. Wilson in November. Princeton, N. J. while the Balti- eae eee = eT] § PROPOSES NATIONWID PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY PLAN my ied Press Leased Wire) as an antidote for “boss rule” si politics, The measure seeks to WASHINGTON, July B—A me oid conflict with t ution tion-wide presidential primary plan by requiring that the state legi was proposed to the house today we must adopt its provisions as i‘ N wa state laws, and that the plan is Representative Norris of Nebras . | null uniess ratified by 20 states. jconvention on the fourth Monday in held on the first Tuesday in lin election years, and a national conveitnon on the fourth Monday tn | June. At the primaries the voters will be called on to express a first and Both men were jarred from) second choice for president, and to their seats and fell 40 feet, being) choose delegates instantly killed | If it appears tha one candidate Captain Lorraine was one of the] has a majority in the convention by best known of the British army! reason of his victories in the states, aviators. He had made numerous) that candidate becomes the choice flights throughout the country #04) of his party without action by the was recently detailed as {nstructor) convention. If not, the convention at the army aviation field on Sal) selects one, names a vice president isbury plain and adopts a platform. The aeroplane in which he was killed was a Nieuport monoplane.! NORRI 'URTLE; miss stories on “cold Take Your stance If you want to advertise and don’t know Place your copy, you call in a representative of Hand then you call andthe Pt what do you hear? ach of these papers can help you. tive that gives you Paper's ability to do this, gets your order. Sant can't say merely that Medium on the Coas Circulation, distribution, pulling power and cost. Customers credit { f advertise to them, present interesting, meaty Our business, your service, your goods. ‘They in the Homes of Seattle is Worth 10 Papers Outside of Seattle. STAR is THE HOME PAPER OF SEATTLE VER 40,000 PAID COPIES DAILY. being page. CHICAGO, July An argu ment over the newspaper strike |here resulted today in probable fata] wounds upon John Moran, & lformer newspaper employe, who, | since he strike began, has been | working aaa bartender, The police |were informed that Moran and | John Gould, a strikebreaker, became ‘involved in a quarrel, and that | Gould shot Moran twice. leek RRHRKARRR KE Own Case 5 5. in representatives from the You hear some very good And the the most information regard- his paper is the greatest ad- t. He must give you FACTS And or equally good sense. % $25,000 IN OLD SATCHEL TRACY, Cal., July 5.-—-Care- lessly kicking an old, dingy guit case from the failroad tracks near here, John Rath- jen accidentally burst it open and saw jewelry worth $25, 000, It hadPbeen dropped from a train and the owner was no- tified, | Pe ee ee ee ee eel | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Woodrow Wilson on golf links at}? May} PLINS. FO (Dy United rreas Leased Wire) OYSTER BAY, July 5.—That the democratic platform, adopted | 8 | tion” only that It cannot be én forced, was the position taken by Col. Roosevelt today. The « ovenks dent expressed the opinion that Gov, | Wilson was a free trader, and then naid: . Either the democrats will, jelected, have to plunge the | try into ruin by means of free jor continue the present tariff « }tem and wink at their platform }larations and say they were ada * campaign perposes ont: Roosevelt expressed the opinion: lalso that both the repubiiedne an democrats have takin the Wrong po sition on the trust question, * “Roth of these platforms call. the rigid enforcement of the antl trast law and both are wrong.” be waid “Com int Regulation.” t was the first and only dent that ever rigidly enforced antitrust jaw. Yet 1 know that the trusts have come to stay and the only remedy is competent regu- lation.” Roosevelt positively denied that he had offered the vice presidency of the new progressive ticket to udge Ren Lindsey of Denver “Last night it was Heney that they had me picking out as my running mate,” he said, “today it is Lindsey. 1 want to say that I have not offered the vice presidency to any one. If the convention nom- inates me for the presidency, it tw not Hkely that it will ask anyone’ views as to whom it will nominate as my running mate.” INTERURBAN | CARS COLLID (hy United Presa Leased Wire) TULSA, Okla., July 6.-—-One more name was ad to the list of vie» tims of the collision on the Tulsa Sand Springs interurban line today wh Mre. W. A. Snow of Ault, Col, died of her Injuries Three others were killed out right, two of the dead being women. | Eighteen persons were seriounly | injured, and they were removed to la hospital and a score of others re- ° cute and bruises The occurred on a steep grade} Hiast night when a light car of} lwooden construction got beyond lcontrol of the motorman and crash- led into a heavy stee! car ahead NEW YORK, July J. wm today resigned as vice president of the Great Northern Raflway com pany, and W. 8. Clough was an nounced as his auecessor. No rea son was assigned for the retire- ment of Hill, but it was sald at his office that he Intended to spend the next few months in travel e wreck i} « REPRE EEE EYES WEATHER FORECAST *| Generally fair tonight and ® Saturda light westerly * winds. pmperature at noon, *! 67. * * Pewee PCP Pee Lee eS THE LEASED FAULT seeeeee Wb encom Landlord—-How do you ke" the house? Humtter—One room's too Landlord—Which {s that? Hunter—The room for improve- ment. big. DICT B without the ass GATE AND INFLUENCE. ance, BUT AGAINST THE PROTEST AND IN DEFIANCE OF EVERY WALL ST. DELE- AT CHICAGO, TAFT BARED HIS CHEST AND INVITED WALL ST. TO BRAND HIM WITH THE ILLAR MARK. AT BALTIMORE, WILSON AND BRYAN RECEIVED THE BRANDING IRON FROM WALL ST. AND HURLED IT INTO THE GUTTER. words “repub ican” and “democrat” mean less today than ever before in the history of either party. Before the election in November, they ought to mean nothing. Every voter in thi country who believes in a overnment of privileges tions, ought to vote for Taft. The issue is as clean cut as a cameo; the result, in the opinion of The Seattle Star, is as certain as that the election will be held. BUT HE’S IN G timore wae for “public consump] J if » ONE CENT 2% THAIN AND HOM WILFURD IS FINEST BABY, The Seattle Star. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1912 NEW* STANDS Be RAVE DANGER This In Wilfurd Charles, Snapped Today by Star Photographer BY FRED L. BOALT 4 Wilfurd Charies Groppenbacher is In grave danger. He doesn’t know it, but he is. He has a fond father, a doting mother, adoring retatives—and a silver cup, The cup is inscribed. ia the Finest Baby. They gave him the cup at Leschi Park yesterday at the Fourth of July pienle of the. Church of Our Lady of Good Help. There were nearly 309 babies at the show—all excellent babies, Each was, in the opinion of its parents, without doubt the finest baby | A dogtor came along and looked ‘em over, And when he came Wilfurd Charles, he poked him in the ribs with a scientific digit, and, noted his heart action, and his pulse, and bis temperaure, and his fingers and toes, and bis tum-tum and his toofie-pes And when he got through he said “This Is a Perfect Baby.” I take It that the doctor doesn't know much abont babies the examination of Wilferd Charles very much as if Wilfurd Charles was a prize pigsie. There are “points” about Wilfurd Charles which th scientific gents are al It says he have stated that Wilfurd Physically All Right and the funny curl of Wilfurd glow of him, and the solemn, laugh woman came along—a stylishly a If unhany pomeranian with a about the pomeranian, and she keof cheated mother-love knows a fine baby when he sees bable But when he saw Wilfurd Prize—a big silver cup, gold-lined crimination, it would be hard to ers said they couldn't, for the life baby. is in grave danger. What tl ger is may not be clear to moat sure to miss, He meant, of course, that Wilfurd Charles was she “points” he missed were the dimples in Wilfard Charles’ legs, Charles’ toes, the chubby cheeks of him, and the ruddy, pinky ing eyes of him, and the crowning glary of his curly red hair. gowned woman, with a pretty face and unhappy eyes. And she carried slobbery red tongue. And when she saw Wilfurd Cha he forgot all loaked hungrily at Wilfurd Charles and sai; “Oh!” And all the was in the cry. hen came Mayor Cotterill, who ‘one.. He was the judge. He was perplexed, there were so many fine Charles hie perplexity vanished. Wiifurd Charles got the Grand And bis father and mother said that; for sound judgment and dis- beat Mayor Cottert!l Certain other fathers and moth of them, understand what Mayor Cotterill saw in that Groppenbacher ' Charles d the reader. I once kne' wa baby who was as bountifully favored as is Wilfurd Charles. Fond father, doting moth er, adoring relatives, sound consti tution, happy home—he had ‘em all And that baby won a cup at a baby show. It was his undoing You must not blame the baby, It wasn't his fault that he was taught cute with which to amuse and astound visitors. It wasn't his fault that he was shoved forward on every possible occasion to per form. He spok very cur ningly And by and by he reached awkward age, and his first teeth came out, and a new baby brother got all the attention, and nobody wanted to see him show off. e was snubbed and negiected, and the neighbors said nasty things about him. Called him a “brat.” And he couldn't understand it. It hurt his feelings. But he was stubborn and proud, and tried to compel ration, So folks said he was “spoiled.” There is no suffering in life so bitter as the suffering of spoiled children at the awkward age. My fears for Wilfurd Charles may groundless, He is not a “pre baby, In the disagreeable He is not a smart ecky # a big, chunky, healthy by who, 19 months, pounds. He isn’t a or a sullen baby, or tricks be ocious’ sense normal at weighs nervous baby ranky baby And | may add, in closing that Wilfurd Charles’ fingers and toes are well worth studying. ROB POKER CLUB|20) | Three }armed and masked robbers enter ed the South lated poker club, here early and robbed Keepers and guests o $800, No trace |the men | THEY DON'T TARRY LONG SAN FRANCISCO, July 5 1 club, an incorpor today Citifeller—Say, old man, can yor |recommend me some |that you've ever had | Subbubs—Sure I can working for Hundreds. EFORE HANFORD CASE REVERSED BY , ’ country who believes in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, irrespective of his past political affiliations, ought to vote for Woodrow Wilson. Every voter in the by Wall st. for dollars, irrespective of his past affilia- hamlet Or thie t Are you shy on deportment?! Your ine out hate Throwgh and = oworryt ‘Wh EDITION PROBE WORD “ANY” SUBJECT OF SPIRITED QUESTIONS Tacoma Attorney, Witness for Hanford, Replies in Congressional Probe—Hanford Investigation May Be Finished Next Week. Much time was spent this morning in the congressional prot the impeachment charges against sebae Cc. H. Hanford in pale questions concerning the Eli Melovich case. Judge Hanford is accused, jin that case, of having set aside a $12,000 verdict for the loss of an | arm against the Stone-Web: corporation, giving as his grounds that pact age eee th ¢ had used the little word ny” errone- ¥ in his instruction: vee lg %, and that the verdict was five times too large, | While the Melovich case was not directly under investigation today, | #everal pertinent inquiries in reference to it were made by Congress: man MeCoy and Chairman Graham during the examination of Charles O. Bates, a Tacoma attorney called by the defense, who offered the statement that Judge Hanford had a “correct attitude in damage suits.” What would you say of the attitude of a judge who would say, After @ jury under his directions brings in a verdict of $12,000, and j where there is no question as to the injury and thi jit, that the verdict is five times too much?” oe ee BATES’ ANSWER | Hates attempted to give several general answers, but finally said jhe didn't think It was five times too much, and that-the judge's atth j tude in such a cate would not be right McCoy then followed this up with hypothetical questions concern- ing the attitude of a judge who himself unearths a ground for setting aside a verdict and ordering a new trial, Bates admitted that if, om the whole, the instructions are correct, a new trial ought not to be ordered. He, however, insisted that courts in Washington have been in the practice of reducing verdicts or ordering new trials, and that the supreme court had done so even where the question of excessive dam- ages was not raised. Bates said he knew of cases. where..courtelor= dered new trials in damage suits for other reasons than were urged by the attorneys in their arguments. “Did you ever know of a court ordering a new trial, Own motion, in favor of the plaintiff?” MeCoy asked. gotepied | Hates replied that he did not. Hetis that Erickson remarked that he told the committee that in the su-| thought Judge Hanford was drunk, |preme court case which he men land that Ward then sald that he tioned, Former Chief Justice Gor | didn't think so, that —he thought | don, who was mixed up in the no-|Judge Hanford merely had a pe torfous affair which resulted in| cullar habit of closing his eyes and | Judge Root resigning from the su-| looking drowsy | preme court bench, was one of the Another Contradiction. lattorneys for the G Northern The other contradiction occurred Bates testified t he had an/ when Former United States District acquaintance with Judge Hanford | Attorney Todd told the committee for many years, that he saw him in that Judge Hanford would drink } court public meetings, at the | cocktails mostly at the Rainier Rainier club, and once came down club, and that ‘only occasionally from Tacoma on the sa would he see him take a bottle of urban car with him He beer. House Manager Coffee had ) habit of th the admi-| has been found of good cook | Washington .. his head but thought It was not in The judge anding his & testified PY s only a habit toxication, he gaid ruled clearly, notwith ‘owsy appearance said he saw the ju take a drink on oceasions, Bates ented both the plaintiffs and damage suits, he was some rep efendants id to the money to clier in right of attorneys to ad- | Vance ts in order to bring suits Rates maintaining in | his testimony that there was noth ing improper in that, and chat it | was not barratry Contradictory Evidence. Judge Hanford was not in court room this morning Contradictions of testimony given Councilman Oliver T. Erickson jand House Manager Coffey of the | Rainier club featured. the session today | John J. Ward nied that he had observed | Hanford drunk on the cars al {he had seen him in an drowsy condition. Erickson had | the by a contractor, de Judge Councilman testified that Ward remarked to him on € sion What do you think of a man like that on the bench? Erickson re plied in answer to this, he told the committe that he didn’t think | Judge Hanford would stay long on the bench at the rate he was going. Ward's explanation of that incident oe ARE CHICAGO, July 5.—The Tribu on the result of America’s “sane Fi Dead, 20—By fireworks 5, fireai pistols 1, runvvay t Injured, 648—By fireworks $16, der 98, torpedoes 48, bomb pistols 4 Fire 1988, $76,526, Previous records show in 1909, 215. Dead t over the country, the Tribune pub with the Fourth of four years ago | Cities— Boston .. Chicago Cincinnatt . Cleveland .. | Harrisburg, F Kansas City . | Los Angeles . Milwaukee .. New York Philadelphia St. Louis .. a, The tabulated list of dead and having “sane Fourth” ordinances, discussion | KILLED ON SANEST FOURTH (By United Press Leased Wire.) To show the result of the passage testified to the very reverse. Todd said he never saw the judge under the influence of liquor, though he, too, had frequently ob- served the peculiar mannerisms of the judge on the bench, which might indicate to one who didn't know him, a state of sleepiness or intoxication, perha but that the judge always ruled clearly. Charles 7. Hutson, assistant under Todd, testified along the same lines. Form of Relaxation Several more witnesses are still to be called to testify against Judge Hanford on the ges of drunk- The defense also plans to |call a number of witnesses to testi- fy that Judge Hanford, through great family affliction, worry, age, and overwork, merely formed a habit of closing his eyes, nodding his head as though in sleep, and | rwise giving an inattentive ap- “pearance simply as a form of “re- jlaxation,” but that he always paid strict attention to what was going on in court and was not under the enness , | slightest influence of liquor at any time. This, together with hte commit- tee’s work in reviewing a number of Judge Hanford’s decision, in which the impeachment complaint charges jhe showed unfitness for the bench, will consume several days more, so |that the probe will probably not be | concluded until the latter part of imext week, ne to ‘ourth” rms 6, cannon 1, gunpowder 6, toy ay gives the following table firearms 84, cannon 47, gunpow- 7, bomb canes 7, runaways 20. n country, 1911, 57; in 1910, 131; of “sane Fourth” ordinances lishes this comparison of this year n several } e citi 1912 Dead. Inju 0 -1908—— Dead, Injured. 61 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 i} ll 156 17 0 injured by cities includes only cities