The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1916, Page 1

qe'T'S MAIN 600 The Seattle Star LAST EDITION: HEREAFTER, WHEN YOU WANT TO CALL UP IT’S RAINING AGAIN IN CHICAGO, AND THS THE STAR, ASK FOR MAIN 600. OUR OLD NUMBER SEATTLE DELEGATES ARE FEELING RIGHT AT MAIN 9400, HAS GONE INTO THE DISCARD UNDER HOME. WEATHERMAN SALISBURY REPORTS THE TELEPHONE COMPANY'S PLAN TO SIMPLIFY THUS TODAY: | “UNSETTLED AND OCOCASIONEING bbs; NOMBIME In Cem BouTthen DHeTRICT THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS al a i a alg COOLER Fae i i ! Nomination Near in Moose Meeting; Delegates Wild | * By H. L. Rennick jYent nominations until tonight at Eten ter : least AUDITORIUM, | CHI- Raymond Robins went ahead CAGO, June &—As the [with committee reports immedi progressive national con- ately after the invocation by Rev.| vention was read 0 con- Wm. Chalmers Covert of the First dy to con- | Bresbyterian church of Chicago vene today, determined to nominate Theodore Roose- velt before 5 p. m., Geo. } Garfield Urges Deliberation | Cheering greeted the announce | ment that Robins had been re W.. Perkins, conservative ete bE aol aggr ened ~~ leader, prevailed upon ——_ ot ee John M. Parker of Louisi- ana, radical leader, to post- pone the nomination until James R. Garfield said the reso- lutions committee had) worked all) night and all day but was not yet $ : ready to report. | tomorrow, if possible to |" “Gartield chose the opportunity to control the delegates. |speak for another chance to con-| Parker was to make a speech | ciliate the republicans. from the platform asking the dele-| He moved the appointment of al gates to delay action. Parker was committee of progressives to con- slated to have made the nominating fer with the republicans. Speech late today. Delegate Hooted Down “I believe we still have a chance, Pinchot then arose. mo nominate Roosevelt at the Colt- | “We can have nothing whatever seum,” said Perkins to Parker. [to lose by acting with steady “I doubt {t,” said Parker in re-| strength on this matter,” he sald turn, | so one tn this convention doubts “If you nominate him now you| What this meeting intends to do./ M kill all chances of Roosevelt | Responsibility rests upon us. 1) republicans succeeding in the Coli bone a second Mr. Garfield's * motto} Paltord Plachot, Wn. Allen| . Murdock leaped to his feet, but | White, prom J. ‘Allen, Clarence 2 1 Roreoes st Oklahoma, ..was field of Ohio, were in an earnest |“! think I know the waco gre nd Sroup debating with Parker. joeerentes. ne | that if this convention will take a i blpeer ga that the delegates | cooond thought ft will support this Wm. Allen White of Kansas motion. The delegates have noth- ing to lose.” Tushed up to Parker and said: |" Stone showed signs of msking “Don't change; go to it. la long nd was hooted Parker apparently then changed | gown 3 ' speech his mind. | Demands Early Report “All right, I will go to ft.” he! fenry Allen of Kansas, the most said. “I will make the nominating|-aaical of the leaders, Was next speech at 5 p. m.” | recognized and was cheered to the Gov. Johnson of California plead-| echo. ed with Parker to hold off until| “Fellow progressives, I feel like | Wemorrew. }a boy standing in a powder maga. “I want to nominate Roosevelt | zine with a lot of matches around,” just as soon as you do,” Johnson | he said. “The republicans told us said, “but I don’t want to give these|we could have anything except pussyfooters a chance to say that/ Roosevelt.” because we did this thing we| The crowd laughed and cheered ruined Roosevelt's opportunity at| Allen moved that the proposed the Coliseum.” conference committee must report “Will you tell the delegates that,”| back to this convention not later asked Parker. than § p. m. “Yes, I'll take the chance,” re-| William Finn of Pennsylvania plied Johnson. was the next speaker. “Then you'll be taking a chance,” Murdock Defiant Parker said, “but I'll back you up.| Victor Murdock came to the plat- rkins deserves our support as|form and was cheered louder than Jong as we can give It consistently.” | ny of his predecessors Sfter a sharp fight led by Vincent} “For the last four years I have of Colorado, for an amendment to| deen ‘n this fight,” he shouted. I change the progressive party rules|#m for harmony, but I want a Iit-| aimed to permit nominations prior|tie of this harmony to run both to the report of the resolutions com-| W473. Shall we get on our knees to 1 mittee, the Perkins element on the|the old crowd?) | committee won and the rules re| |NO," shouted iL” Murdock ined unchanged. Then vote your will,” Murdoc as erled. This is regarded as enhancing the | possibility that Perkins will be gust of cheering. able to hold down the lid on the | oun OT rive want Roosevelt,” Mur- rampant western moosers and pre! aock cried, “The way to get him BE IN LINE SATURDAY | Roosevelt!” Bediam Breaks Loose Preparedne: headquarters are being swamped Thursday The delegates went Into a wild Why should we wait upon the} republican leaders?” demanded | Murdock. “If you want Teddy, | take it from me, you must nom! |nate him before the day !s over.” | Bedlam broke loose again. The gavel pounded like « trip hammer. ‘The delegates in the aisles were |I WAS BUT TELLING THE TRUTH. The banners waved and Robins hammered his gavel The ser geant-at-arms tried to stop a pos sible stampede and succeeded after | |two minutes by marchers’ applications. The forces in line Saturday may reach the 50,000 mark. More than 30,000 men have bi been assigned to the different divisions. The recruiting of the women Is going on full swing, with more than 11,000 names al- ready registered, ordered to take their seats as Mur dock left the platform amid the din. | | Message From T. R. | | Irvin Kirkwood, publisher of the | Kansas City Star, appeared on the | stage with a communication from | Sagamore Hill Robins vainly leure order Secretary Davis attempted to se began reading Arthur P. $. Hyde, U. 8. A.|the paper and the delegates quiet: | al of the parade, spent | eq down ® onfering with his leu-| 1 was Roosevelt's telegram re ver detailed plans. sponding to Wm. P. Jackson's tn-| issue a general order | vyitation asking Roosevelt to speak , telling all marchers when | before the republican convention. ere to be in line. The po-| A stillness came over the crowd on of the floats will also be des-|ag Davia read the reply. Roose yelt's reference to German-Amert a Wesley I. Jones, who} cans brought the delegates to their has been Meted with the peacers, | feet | f wrote the parade committee Thurs —— - | ' | would ve pleased to vartict SKAGWAY GOES DRY the parade if it were pos | to be there,” he #aid,|. JUNEAU, June §.—Juneau, Doug | enteen hundred Knights of {laa City and Haines went wet yes: | Columbu march with simply |terday by big majorities at the local | patriotie Amerte accord-|option elections. Skagway, once t etter sent to headquar-|one of the wildest portions of Alas lka, went dry by a majority of 4( known that at any minute he The statement sald: would throw his {dol overboard and “After seven days of the take somebody else | All the newspaper men know| fiercest of fighting, the garrl- | this son of Fort Vaux was abso | If any of them should print it| lutely exhausted and could not | he would denounce them as record-| pruvent the occupation of the breaking liars. ruined fort by the Germans. And yet he would know and ev) ‘The French hold positions on lerynody else on the inside would| ¢he outskirts of the fort and know that they were telling the| the trenches on the swells to | truth | the right and left.” Some of the superheated Called the key to Verdun, the boomers have been making | fort is one of the works in a circle capital by yelling for the old /apout four miles from the shell ticket, Roosevelt and Falr [scarred city. Beyond It are the banks, saying that Fairbanks | forts Thiaumont, Souville, Tavenes would accept the second place. [and gaint Mihlel This, of course, tends to knock Fort Vaux is on @ hill 300 feet the Fairbanks boom cold. No high, with sharply ificlined slopes VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., THURS DOUBLE-CROSSERS | BUSY AT CHICAGO —Says Russell By Chas. Edward Russell HICAGO, ILI JUNE &—AT THE SIGN OF THE DOUBLE CROSS! A PROMINENT PROGRESSIVE LEADER SAYS THAT IF THE REGULAR REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SHOULD NOMINATE HUGHES, THE PROGRESS- | IVES WOULD ACCEPT HIM. | HE DIDN’T SAY THIS FOR PUBLICATION AND HE DIDN’T SAY IT TO’A REPORTER. HE SAID IT| TO AN AMBASSADOR OF THE OLD GUARD SENT TO NEGOTIATE ABOUT POSSIBLE TERMS OF} PEACE | But if I should give the name of the progressive leader who said this he would instantly deny that he ever said it, eg thought of saying it. ; He would deny that the progressives under any circum- stances could) would or should tolerate the name of Hughes. He woulfl say these things with solemn imprecations and) loud noise as if he himself believed in his denial. | And he would denounce me seven ways as a liar and low person, and all the other politicians that knew he said that thing would also deny it and denounce me, because I) should be transgressing the good old rules of the game and giving the inside of the outside things. AND YET ALL OF THEM WOULD KNOW THAT VAUX OCCUPIED — "BY THE GERMANS. PARIS, June 8—The French war office, In Its official state- ment today, admitted the oc- cupation of Fort Vaux, on the east bank of the Meuse, by the Germans. Conventions like this pleasantly {Mustrate the fact that rolitics has its own code of m is, and ite “hoc signo vinces” Is the double cross There is a man here who is in charge of one of the big and actual booms—no cold storage boomlet, but the real thing—and he doesn't care any more for the success of the man he {s booming than he/ cares for Pharaoh's nephew. He talks—for publication—with fire and spirit about the superior virtues of his man, talks more than anybody else, and has a hair-trigger tongue, and it is perfectly well body stops to bother with an alleged candidate for pre (Continued on page 6) | APPOINTS RECEIVER PRACTICALLY FIREPROOF ar.| ao | tificial sandstone has been made in| Judge Tallman appointed Henry |' the Philippines from beach sand|Schulter recetver for the Drexel and volcanic tufa cafe, 519 Third ave., Thursday DAY, JUNE 8, 1916, At the Chicago Conventions With Art Young ” SEN. FALL TO PUT UP BY PERRY ARNOLD United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 8.—No sun In the heavens Iliumined soaked Chicago today. No aun of political ascend- ancy arose to chase away clouds ef doubt and apprehen- sion. It wae etill raining. Every downtown bar demon- ed the popularity of the of preparedness. But no presidential candidate had been picked nor even tent atively decided upon by the re- publican national convention. Definit Information that Roosevelt's name would be placed In nomination before the republicans came today with news that Sen, Fall of New Mexico would do the trick to- morrow, when the convention takes up nominating speeches Surface indications conti-"# to show Hughes leading as the n.ost likely candidate but there was an evident slump {n the Hughes boom and it was apparent favorite sons were coming in for consideration that had not been accorded them earlier, Try to Make Hughes Talk The old guard leaders feel they cannot afford to nominate Hughes and then have him refuse to accept, in event of Roosevelt accepting the progressive laurel The most desperate attempts have been made during the last 24 hours to pry something out of Hughes as to whether he would “tay put” if nominated It is known two confidential en voys of the republican leaders, one a very close personal friend of the justice, who consented to attempt the task, have reported thetr utter failure here in Chicago during the last 24 hours. Urge Get-Together Plan Asa result of the deadlock, many new plans were being pushed for ward—some of them containing ideas which were regarded as ridic ulous 48 hours ago. Some of the d ates who were hearing from home were beginning to look more favorably on a get-to gether plan with the progressives. SUFFRAGISTS HISS rain- CHICAGO, June 8.—Opponents of suffrage yesterday were their equal rights sister after a hearing granted them by the republican platform committee Antis” urged the committee not tc consider a suffrage plank at thie time. woman hissed b. NEWS STANDS, be OGRESSIVES DEMAND |, COLONEL OFFERS TO GO TO CHICAGO IF INVITED © TRAINS AND ONE CENT GRIFFITHS OFFERS TO _ RESIGN BY ABE HURWITZ CHICAGO, June § A little tem- pest In a teapot blew over in few | minutes this morning at a caucus chee, Mrs. Spokane attempted to get a recon | sideration of the election of Austin Griffiths as national committeeman. Mrs. Flanning and Ludington were not In the city when election was held. Griffiths tendered his resignation, and after several speeches in which feeling between Spokane and Seat tle delegations quickly disappeared, Coffin moved that Griffiths’ resigna- tion be not accepted His motion carried unanimously | The name of State Chairman | Slater had been suggested to take Griffiths place, but harmony now prevails. he republican delegates from | Washington seem to be quite as | much at sea as over. | Chairman Lund of Spokane this morning declared that Roosevelt is Planning and Coffin of Telegraphs Long Appeal for Unity — to Republicans By Perry Arnold OLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 8.—The repub- lican national convention marked time today awaiting its platform framers’ report. In the marking time process, the dele gates were treated to a session of oratory b: such old-time wheelhorses as Chauncey Mw. | DePew and Uncle Joe Cannon, with Sen | Wm. E. Borah, of the newer day, thrown in for good measure, | If the plans of the G. O. P. leaders go thru as per the | schedule on which they were arranging things in the early afternoon, the session beginning at 4 p. m., to which hour the convention recessed, will be a two-hour discussion of the | platform | It was first reported all over the hall that a scheme was being fathered by a number of the Old Guard to continue the session thru the afternoon and evening until a candidate was nominated Chairman Harding, however, gave it as his,opinion that there would be no nominating speeches until tomorrow morning. 4 Roosevelt's Announcement Does Not Get Rise Out of G. O. P. Leaders Col. Roosevelt’s announcement that he would journey to Chicago if the republican convention invited him to do so, did not get a rise out of the republicans. The big leaders read the statement with unconee; interest, iit none made any comment. From all outward appearances the convention was no nearer its choice of a nominee today than yesterday. There was, however, a very noticeable increase in pep among the delegates, in the number of persons in the gal- leries, and in the spontaneity of the cheering. Sen. Fall's statement that he will place Roosevelt’s name in nomination has brought to the “Old Guard” the ear of a possible stampede for the colonel Roosevelt’s message from Oyster Bay today, in response to the invitation sent him by Delegate Wm. B. Jackson of Maryland to come to Chicago and address the convention, isn’t adding to their restfulness. Colonel Says He’ll Go to Chicago If Convention Will Invite Him pohhid ome oa progressive dele Gov. Whitman, Hughes’ backer, only smiled at the | 4 ¢ ; Delegates Ludington of Wenat-|Colonel’s statement. “Col. Roosevelt is always interesting and a leading Amer ican,” Harding said, “but the chairman has no authority to invite and recognize him as a speaker except on order of the convention.” “There is no move to invite him,” commented Secretary Reynolds of the national committee. Roosevelt's telegraphed message said: “In answer to your telegram, I can only say that the mat- ter lies with the republican convention, and that if the con- vention desires me to address it, I shall be glad to do‘so. gs earnestly hope that the republicans and pro- gressives assembled at Chicago will keep steadily in mind the gravity of this crisis, not only for America, but for the world, and the need that their action, in dignity, foresight and patriot- ism, shall rise level to the crisis. “I hope that the aim will not merely be to nominate a }man who can be elected next November, but a man of such power, character, steadfast conviction and proved ability that if elected he will again place this nation where it belongs. jexpected here, altho it is pgpsist ently dented 4 | He seemed to indicate Roose Declares President Has Rendered | velt's personal appearance here| Nation an Evil Service would have tremendous effect |What Was It ithe Duke |Proposed? Fred Brinsmade was too mad to tell it to his sister. He left it to Cardigan Cardigan had been rather suspicious of the duke from the first, tho his royal nibs had been extremely courteous and affable. It was Cardigan, then, who furnished the auto- matic for the ladies. This all happened on “The Isle of Oblivion.” You can’t find it on the map, but the famous nov elist, John Reed Scott, tells you about it in “The Duke of Oblivion,” begin ning in The Star next Monday “President Wilson, however amiable his intentions, has rendered to this people the most evil service that can be ren- |dered to a great democracy by its chosen leader | “He has dulled the national conscience and relaxed the papring of lofty, national motives, by teaching our people to | | accept high-sounding words as the offset and atonement for 4 shabby deeds and to use words which mean nothing in order to draw all meaning from those which have a meaning. “The differences that have divided, not merely republi- cans and progressives, but good Americans of all shades of political beliefs, from one another in the past, sink into noth- Jing when compared with the issues now demanding decision for these issues are vital to the national life. “They are the issues of a unified Americanism jnational preparedness Sooner or Later, if We’re Not Prepared, We Must Yield to Alien Conqueror “If we are not thoroly prepared, if we have not developed a strength which respects the rights of others but which is also ready to enforce others’ respects for their own rights, then sooner or later we shall have to submit to the will of an alien conqueror | “These questions are not in the realm of abstract thought. and of They must be taken out of the world of cloudy promise and gue phrasing into the world of performance and fact. torm before va “They are today in concrete and \fellows for your decision.” “For you your two years, the face of {pa itself to ward off the dunger, ) promise, no excuse, now made by those responsible for this on is entitled to considera- (Continued on page 6) in | |awful world cataclysm, this nation| | |has stood supine und helpless and inactic has not in the smallest degree pre. a “PLATFORMS, AND OTHER NEWS OF CHICAGO CONVENTIONS ON PAGE 7