The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1912, Page 2

\ present indications work ont, there wil! net be enough plain cloties and unt- formed cops in the city of Chicago to “Reep the peace inviolate utter the Col- @Bei Pounds into the arena Pafuential Roosevelt leaders frankly Amit they aro looking for trouble, Or- Gemized disturbance nas been enlisted as eom. The plans include noise and vio- Bamen, With wiUimate holding of a con+ testing Convention tn the Coliseum, gheuld the Colonel fail of the nomina~ dion in the deliberations of the regular Dody. ORGANIZED TO BALLYHOO TF. Rh. TO NOMINATION. ‘Where they came from no man can @@l outside of certain branches of the Boosevel, iesdquarters, but tho city ts populated with husky young men pearance indicates they are Pany « quartette or glee clud and die tetbute in the crowds mimeographed oop- refrain of whioh te it Ps H ‘Want ready there have been fist fights in lobbies of the hotels between Roose- and ant!-Roosevelt arguere, Those to Roosevelt do not appear > jamored of Taft, but Republicans who 4o not like it, and there is an obviously well campaign to squelch such cit- Without ceremony. It is the design Roosevelt boomers to make this i | a Pu tin cvery public place there ie but talk of Roosevelt of the Roosevelt chances eolemnly assert they have never @ well organized scheme to candidate into euccegs. of the Roosevelt managers to the visit of the Colonel believing it to be premature, but unity in the Roose- i if @ factor in forwarding the Roosevelt | STEAM ROLLER GIVES TAFT THE TEAS DELEGATES Roosevelt's Men Bowled Out Without Even the Form- ality of a Roll Call. T. R. MEN DENOUNCED, Accused by the President's Supporters of All Sorts of Political “Brigandage.” CHICAGO, June &.—When the Re Dublican Netional Committees met at BARNES OF NEW YORK, BUSY BEE AT (Sketched in Chicago by Maurice Ketten for The Evening World.) ¥ 0.16 A. M, to-day it ignered the demand of the Roosevelt men that the Texes contest be taken up at ence It eegas the day by considering the contest tm volving the Virginia delegates-at-large, The contests remaining to be heard when the proceedings opened were: ‘Texas, 00; Virginia, 0; Washingven, 4; District of Columbia, 2; North Oaroli- na, 1, ‘The ispues in the three big cases were Clear out as between adherents of te President and Col. Roosevelt. In the Texas contests, Cecil Lyon, National Committeeman of the State, claimed “regularity” for hie Roosevelt organt- sation, but no more strongly than did Hi. F. MoGregor, leader of the Taft or- In Virginia the issue, as raised by Roosevelt contestants, was that the Tett tes were elected in halle where were not allowed and E BE ! 2 | i i { F q a F 3 ft outfit will open general headquarters the blare ang circum- befitting the occasion. An invi- extended to biicans of the United expect to eupport the nom!- Rey of this convention,” _ GOLONEL’S MEN WILL CLAIM mae SHARE OF “GLoRy.” - Among the speakers scheduled to shed on this occasion are the Hon, Charlies K. Fairbanks of indiana, who May be remembered by some as one Vice-President of the United 3 the Hon. John Wesley Hil) of New York, the Hon. John Hays Ham- mond, the Hon, William Barnes jr. of Now York, and gentlemen trom Ka Oity, Nevada and Texas. The reception committee tnciudes a @tatesman of distinction from every @tate in the Union and each of the Pending upon this reception to cra fe speak, the Roosevelt meeting Monday night. rT) of ‘Territories. The Taft managers are de- | a that many local Republican leaders were thus virtually disfranchised, Washington's question was whether the Taft poeple so manipulated the State Committees es to obtain contre! Of the convestion which sent the dele- @ates-at-large to Chicago. Similar ques- tions were involved in the District con- tests from the Puget Sound state. BARNES HEADQUARTERS Col. Lyon dominated the State eonven- TROUALE oF THE DAY BEQING Cee reas greument for the Roosevelt contestants + Bryan conclud ele J.) He Aeolian at contests of ‘att ‘The contest fp Polit ated Meney, holding the South Dakota prozy Gelegates to the State convention hed large was the firet calied. Col. tm the comauties, started te ask a ques- he Hoone- nounced that he y ton. Some ove objected. | volt forees controlled the State conven- Delieved that “Under the rules,” ea!d Chairmen|tiun oy » gvou majority, ne said. tte there wae no contest Rosewater, “questions eanmet be asked| presented records to show that 309 out velt delegates-at-large. {€ there ts objection.” of %49 counties were represented and Printed brief for the Taft “But questions have always been per-| thet 179 of these were for Roosevelt. deen filed within the preec: mitted.” sald Heney. “Mr. Tatt’s all right, gentlemen,” sald daye before the National “The gentleman from Gouth Dakota| Col. Lyon. ‘He just picked a bad man Met ; that in consequence the | Ie Heammateeees Fetch the COMMUL| to run bis campaign in Texas.” committee had not been formal contest existed for the the cight delegates-at-large. Geeretary Hayward said he hed sets of credentials from Texas.” “The chairman can only go on the ad- vice of the secretary,” eaid Chairman Rosewater. “Ho says a contest exists and it must be called.” A crisis was precipitated when Mr. Mulvane of Kansas moved to pace Texas and take up Virginia, becauee ‘Texas apparently was “not ready. “I protest inst such action,’ y."" “two Lyon. “We re “But you decline to go on with the ‘first contest,” said Mulvane. owe don’t recognine that a relies existe as to these tre-at-| 7, retorted Lyon. ove Against the protest of Committeemaa Capers of South Carolina, that “yoo can't run over us this way,” the com- mittee voted to take up the Virginia contests and to pase the Texas contest temporarily. CONVENTION VOTES TO TAKE UP VIRGINIA FIGHT, Tt was understood that Col. Lyon and the Roosevelt members of the committee would raise against virtually all of the ‘Texas contests the same point made in the cage of the delegates-at-arge, name- ly, that no contests ¢: Devause the Taft delegates had not complied with the committee rules. When the Virginia contests were catied another diMoulty arowe, Only the Taft Golegates-at-large appeared. The ser- feant-at-arms could not find the Roose- Velt delegates, Committeoman Kellowg announced that Roosevelt delegates had to be heard after cases, up Washington," eatd fen: The Virginia delegations Aled out of the room, and a call war sent for the Washington contestants, again to call the Texal | Went out once more for | Kations, and the committee began sideration of the contest over the emit | tea-atelarge from that State | the records of the secretary showed | that the Roosevelt delegation, headed | by Cec!l Lyon, had first flied ite creden- But—and here is a big but—the Roose> Velt boomers were not asleep when this fell proposition of the Taft cainp be- 2 public property, The word went there must be @ representation of common people in the gathering the accompaniment of this crusade ( the benefit of the plain populace hereinbefore mentioned were orderd to Put Taft butions on their coats for the en and inject themselves into the From which it would ap- Dear is ‘Taft demonstration to- t is mot to be entirely a one-sided was disc . Roosevelt meeting on Mon counsel, it is said, prevaile M4 the current writing 1 uf Roosevelt town, and tt that the Ro be permeated entir rnal eat of 2 awake agaln as hie did you did, Col. "t the ca ‘Btermiey. one Be _atimy Boarders 1s learning to play the | eke.’ ‘ numbers of the husky young men | tal jaded by H. Fr. M the contas- ante. | | Colonel Lyon again declared the Taft | delegation had not m | test, because {ts briefs and arguments | had not been filed until yeaterday. “I again instet that no contest exists,” he maid The chairman overruled the point and Frederick ©. Bryan, one of the con- test attorney: the argument “Col. Lyoi Republican party in Texas," declared Mr. Br: “He is the Repudlioan Committee and rune things absolutely, Under the system maintained by Col. Lyon each county is given one vote in the State Conven- ton and an additional vote for each 600 voters in the county, As a result {180 Western counties, which cast about three thousand votes, have a voice in the convention wholly diepro- portionate to that of Dallas, which lone casts that many votes.” The real sentiment in Texas, de- clared Mr, Bryan, waa for Taft. There would have been @ large majority in the State Convention but for Col, on'® “political brigandage” and roller” methods, by which vo were disfran- (me county carried by President Taft this year, eald Mr. Bryan, cast more & legal con- | At the close of the argument the dght Conmnitteeman Lyon conducted the| Texae delegates-at-large credited areumemt for the Roosevelt contestants.|to Taft. A motion to seat the Roose- oe ow oe Iremse wore seates ty iby viva voce vote, Senator meade @ au! ite motion to weat the Roosevelt ates and asked fo! roll call, but could get only elghteen members to support him two short of the necessary twenty. The Borah mo- tion wan then defeated and Commit- teeman Mulvane’s motion to seat the ‘Taft delogates wan carried without re- quest for @ roll call, ‘The Taft delegates-at-large acated DY the committe: H. F. MoGregor, W. C. Avorille, C, kK, MoDowell, 7, F Luts, 3. B. Bigin, W. H. Love, W. M. McDonald and G. W. Burroughs. The ‘Taft delegates from the Firet and Sec- ond Texas Districts were credited to ‘Taft F. N. Hopkins and J. 1%. Jackson, Roosevelt delegates in the Third ‘Texan District wi seated. The Taft People offered iittle or no evidence to Aleprove the Roomevelt clainie of reru- larity. “This fairness makes no impression on me, nor will it on ths country,” eaid ‘Committeeman Capers, a Roosevelt ad- herent. ‘The Fourth Texas District, next called, Boreh CHICA mates against Roosevelt men. decided in favor of the Taft men. The Fifth District went the same way. ——— FIVE INCORPORATE PITTSBURGH, Pe, June 18—Lat- ters patent for the name of “The Roosevelt Party for Allegheny Coun- ty" were taken out {n Common Pleas Court here to-day in bebalf of five ‘voters, This guarantees that this county at Teast will have @ Roosevelt party re- pov WILL TAKE FRAUD CHARGE TO BALTIMORE CONVENTION. Rhode Islander Defeated at Demo- cratic Primary to Fight—Cre- dentials Not Signed. PROVIDENCE, R. L, June W—The Gelegates from Rhode Island to the Democratic National Convention will go to Baltimore with their credentials un- signed by the chairman end secretary of the Democratic Committee. Chairman Frank E. Fitssimmone end Becretary Peter J. Gaskin announced today that they would refuse to sign the credentials because of charges of fraud in the Democratic State primary made by Congressman George E. O’Bhauncessy. ‘The Congressman was a candidate at the primary for member of the Demo- cratic National Committee from this Btate, but National Committeeman George M. Groene was re-elected. O'Bhauncessy asked vied Rg sgrtions @emands for ny Committee to investigat al Decision on “ile content wae followed that a terge number of persons whose by | acene of disorder outside the com-| names were checked as having voted mittee room, where the wild cheering |for his opponent did not go near the of several hundred Taft adherents Polling places. The committes refused fmingled with hooting and groans by the | to do this and appointed a special com- Roosevelt supporters, mittee of three to certify to the election The two Taft delegates from the First | certificates of the delegates chogen at Texas istrict were seated by o unani-|the primary. The Congressman states mous vote that he will bring the matter before the The Taft delegates-at-large from National Committes. were velt delegates-at-large was defeated, BULLETINS OF THE WAR FROM COLONEL After a Triumph of Strategy at the Start, Hurries to the Scene of Conflict, Determined to Overcome Every Vile Plot. (Prem The Bvening World's Special War Correspondent.) LEAVING GRAND CENTRAL STATION, NEW YORK, June 14.—The advance has opened with a marvellous triumph of strategy. Roosevelt | the Colonet's stateroom. ALL BIG GENERALS SLUMBER ON EVE OF BATTLE! UTICA, June 15.—The Colonel has gone to ded. °S TRAIN. | srits astesr! PoRTER VERIFIES IT! SE, June 15.—The Colonel is still asleep. This report is ver!- fied by a colored porte who was persuaded to put his ear to the keyhole of REASSURING REPORT FROM ROCHESTER! ROCHESTDR, June 15.—Same sounds, TAPS FOR WAR CORRESPONDENTS! DUNKIRK, June 15.—He seems to have turrned over, “Rally "Round the Hat, Boys, Rally Once Again,” is off and “Hot Time in the Old Town At the moment of leaving, it is 5.30 P.M. It is too late for the Photog: | To-Night” is on. Taps for war correapondents now sounding, raphers to make good pictures. It is too late for any articles in the evening Bewspapers. It is too early for any demonstration in the morning news: papers. the dark. Somebody blundered. But never mind, Never love hope until to-morrow. THE COLONSL CONSULTS WITH HIS STAFF! YONKDRS, June 14.—All well here. The Colonel is in consultation with Gen. W. B. Howland, Go?, Regis H. Post, AldedeOamp Frank Harper and Cadet Theodore Douglas Robinson. . FIRST ATTACK OF THE ENEMY FAILS! of the reactionary forces has failed. amail boys. Scouts have come back and reported that they were unable to learn that the name of either boy was Barnes or Wootruff, “But,” said Cadet Robinson, “this is Bill Ward's district.” Thero was @ great silence, The train started nolselessly. A velvet: | footed messenger hurried to the side of Cadet Robinson and asked him to; step back to the Colonel's headquarters in the second car, There are rumors that he is being told that a young politician can too much, PLOT PINKED AT POUGHKEEPSIE! POUGHKBEPSIE, June 14.—The train has been held up forty minutes. There are those who believe that a predatory railroad corporation is trying |to make us late in Chicago, thereby missing the magnificent demonstration which we have arranged for ourselves on our arrival there! Fiends! We shall foil them yet. For instance, we might move on | Chicago in aeroplanes trom Elkhartt, Ind., thus beating the train! | SPECIAL EXTRA! NOTHING TO SAY! what he has to say about the action of the National Committee in exe cuting his delegates in Oklahoma and Tennessee, This was his answer: “I know nothing of the facts. I never discuss anything of which I know nothing, I have, therefore, nothing which 1 wish to say.” 42 IN THE CROWD AT ALBANY—COUNT ’EM! ALBANY, June 14.—A multitude of forty-two grown persons and three messenger boys gathered at the door of the Colonel's car here, He did not anewer their demande for a speech. A photographer set off a Sasblight. Cheers! There is a rumor from Tarrytown that John D. Rockefeller was seen at the gate of his country home in the neighborhood of the boys who rolled COLONEL ANSWERS CALL TO BREAKFAST. ASHTABULA, June 16.—As Col. Roosevelt's train rolled into Ashta- Therefore the Colonel has shown mesteriy self-restraint and bis in-| bula, half an hour late, at 7.45 o'clock A. M., Eastern time, to-day your herent modesty by getting into the Grand Central Station by way of an in-| correspondent made a survey of the corridor of the car Courland, All the lined plane from Lexington avenue to the lowest level, taking an elevator | boots which had been before the staterooms last night were still in place, to the upper level, walking the whole length of the station and coming dowa| vt a few moments later the dining car attached at Ashtabula bumped to opposite the very door of the car in which the staterooms of his party are| the whole invading expedition the welcome news of breakfast, and in a reserved. Stupid work! There was a chance for flashlights down here in| %cant quarter of an hour the Colonel, with the fire of battle in his eye and defiance on his jaws, strode in to breakfast, his ¢lbows swinging and an explosive challenge in every word he uttered. It is raining. INTO SUNSHINE AGAIN AT CLEVELAND. CUBVELAND, June 15.—It was raining at Ashtabula, but the morn- ing is clear and sparkling. The country people have not learned what is going on and are showing little interest in the passing of the Colonel to the battle ground. An exception was in the Dunkirk yards last night when a person so PHILLIPBE MANOR, June 14.—What may have been the first vile plot | enthusiastic that he couldn't walk straight rambled up and down the long train shouting: “Teddy, come out; Come on out here and shake hands, 4 stone was rolled on the track ahead of the train near here by two! Teddy. If I knew where you was eleeping I would bust your window in and make you come out.” A constable led him away lamenting after a few minutes. There was no excitement in the train shed here except among m senger boys and newspaper men. ISSUES NEW PROCLAMATION OF WAR. TOLEDO, June 15.—Just before arriving here somebody in the head- quarters car discovered an item in a Cleveland paper which created great excitement. All !nformation was sternly refused, but the Colonel sum- moned Lieut. Samuel A, Williams, attached to the party as chief of tele- graphic communication, and handed him several despatches to be sent to the front, with strict orders as to thelr secrecy, The indications that Col. Roosevelt's arrival in QOhicago wil) be greete2 enthustastically grow greater as the moments fly, Soon after leaving Sandusky it was announced headquarters was to be transferred from the second car from the engine to the very Inst car, which HUDBOM, 3 a Bat hes\ task ‘gia “the Cigia has an observation platform and is suited to speechmaking. A lost oppor- , June 14,.—A war correspond just asl ie Colone) tunity at Elyria is understood to have caused the change. After diplo- matic advances, the holder of a si room in the observation car agreed | to give it up in order that such mistakes might be avoided for the rest of the day. Col. Roosevelt here gave out the following proclamation: | “My object in going to Chicago is perfectly simple. The action of the National Committee has unfortunately made it evident that, in this fight between the plain people and the public men, who should ‘ve thelr servants and who attempt to be their masters, there is a concerted effort being made by professional politicians and the in- torests for which they etand deliberately to rob the people of the victory the people have fairly won, When such was the case I did {that stone on the track, Mr. Harper is now lokoing over the card cata- | logue to find out whether Standard Oil is a “good trust” or a “bad trust.” WAR COUNCIL STILL BAFFLED! SCHENECTADY, June 14.—There seems to be no evidence that Stand: ard Oil has come across, votes than ail the one hundred or more | “rotten bevough” counties with which Joba D. te under deep suspicion, not feel at liberty to refuse to come to the place where the real fight was being waged.” LOOKING OUT FOR TAFT SPY. OAK HARBOR, 0,, June 15,—There are rumors of the presence of a Taft apy on the train, If caught and epund guilty he will be ast a~e get of at the ment oto. sodwwyiiad 6 ae eee gee mae We the comeittcs presented anather contest of Taft dele | It was A“ ROOSEVELT PARTY.” |v: NOTEVENAWRECK KEEP BABY“ “CINSTOPCOLONEL SKIN CLEAR ‘ONWAYToCHCAGD Train Hits Big F vulder, But} Mercy! Does T. R. Care for That? | | TARRYTOWN, N. ¥., June 15—The Lake Shore Limited, on which Roosevelt was a passenger, escaped ‘wreck at 6.90 last night by inches. Had the %0-pound boulder rolled down the bank by three boys gone six inches further nothing could have stopped engine from jumping the track and caus- ing, perhaps of the worst disasters year, Ab it was, the fender and brake shoes of the engine were knocked off and the engine picked up the huge boulier and drove tt 800 feet agninst a telephone pole. The engineer slammed on the brakes end brought the train to & etop within s few hundred feet. . ’ Aa Durvied examination showed the Alifetimeof disfigurement and suffes engine was badly damaged, but waa ing often results from the neglect, i able to proceed to Poughkeepsie. The infancyorchildhood, of simple skin af Passengers on the train were not in- fections. In the prevention and treat SOAP — rel ft f the Chi- | formed of their narrow escape, and Col. ri ry Sogo Convention. bee ia crear Roosevelt did not leave the train. New ment of minor eruptions and in thi The petition was med by Attorney | York Central detectives were immedi- Promotion of permanent kin end het George Weil in behalf of five voters: ; ately ee! own, for it was sus- SF Mcconnell, J.P. Heckman, Prank | pected some one tried to wreck the train. éalth, Cuticura Soap and Cuticurs A. Carison, Wilitam Hellman and tective Carrigan, at nine thirty, Ointment are absolutely unrivaled. George Neemes. rounded up three boys, Albert “Pollock and Joseph Rickie, aged cight, and Rudolph Polla, aged nine. Each boy tried to blame the other. They said they dug under the stone and sent it down the bank to see It roll. They said it wae all done in fun. The detective believes they told the truth. The boyr were arraigned before Justice Arm- strong this morning and severely rep- fimanded. Owing to their youth they were allowed to go. peated ae HUMOROUS SIDE OF ROW THAT IS Ointment sold th: he of each mailed or} “Quticars,” Dept. OR, Berea eure Soap ick. Liberal cample ») ON IN CAICAGO. i OMICAGO, Sune 16.—Politics in golt- Ss ing terms resulted when Senator W. Fy Murray Crane met Frank L. Gainos, golf champion of Nebraska, in the hotel lobby. “You're making some great drives tn the national committee,” suggested Gaines. “But we're not ‘putting’ over,” replied Crane. anything Francie Heney has his throat swathel in bandages and his coat collar turned up high, because Of recent vocal exer- tions, a ““M’ throat ie just a little calling so many hareh na Heney. from sald While Frederick Nathan of New York is here “lottbying” for a woman's suf- {rage plank, his wife, President of the New York Consumers’ League, is boost- ing the pure food propaganda, For the first time since the conven- where the crowds @re the thickest. tors who arrived early saw a brown-helmeted peace oM- cer in the centre of a crowd, The po- Neeman, being the only person in the joeby who would listen to all sides without arguing. was very popular. Representative Barthold of Missouri, foremost peace advocate in the Hou President of the International Pei Congress and prominently mentioned | for the Noble Peace Prise, to-day said: “McHarg and T. R. are exciting a| revolution—nothing less. I wonder if| things which are possible in South) Africa are pos in the United States. ‘We must save the Government and, if necessary, fight.’ The spectacie o! men frantically trying to flag @ pag in the Congress lobby who was calling for ‘Mr. Smith,” led a curious delegate to inquire how many Smiths were registered, "Nine- teen—and @ dozen more coming to-day,” sald the clerk, eaually na ¢ single Alamons + Cares Bi te BSS to J i ft Scheel. Seed eAiite aet At formative advertisoment MUST BE SEE ORR pO Sekbes CHARLES A. KEENE ] so Importer of Diamonds Broadway, New York The loudest voice in the convention hall will be that of E. L. Lam formerly reading clerk for the United States House of Representatives, and chosen as paliamentarian for the con- vention. Asher Hinds of Maine, who was to have acted at tye convention, {e iM. Lampson has a record in the House of alx hours solld reading, with- out even cracking his voice. ‘There are all sorts of hats “in the ring” het it that which covers Col, Jonn R. Baldwin, a Roosevelt boomer from Baltimore, is the biggest sombrero in town. Baldwin had it made to order. It is an immense black affair, in beautiful con- trast to the fawn colored top piece of Gov. Stubbs of Kani Stubb's hat was originally white, Sev- | era! daya in Chicago have effected a | | wriCutlt he TAs |_ ‘TRY IT on Stesks and Chops. | DELICIOUS on A Fine S. Ds CARPET. 4.4, ¥, viluums | CLEANING 363 West 54th 8i, | Bi 4 q