The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1912, Page 1

ROOT LOOKS A WINNER — AS dh CHAIRMAN WEATHDR—Showers probable to-n| PRICE ONE CENT. JEROME QUERIES THAW AT REARING INTO HIS SANITY Slayer’s Attorneys Suddenly Shift Burden to State in Fight for Freedom, JEROME TO CALL WIFE. Shearn, in Opposing Letter, Declares Hartridge “Sold Out” His Client. (Bpectal to The 1 Wort.) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 18.—For & brief period this afternoon Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, wae on the witness stand in the fight he is making to be released from the tMat- teawan Asylum. He Was called by former Distriet-Attorney Jerome, con- ducting the case for the State, to show that a letter te ifford W. Hartridge, former counsel for Thaw, wagein Thaw's handwriting, This had been diaputed | | by Clarence J. Shearn, counsel for Thaw. Thaw moved to the stand in a most dignities ner, He showed no trace of nervousness. “I show you this letter," said Jerome, Task you ff it is In your handwrit- | It is” said Thaw, afier gazing at the paper long and adjusting his glasses several times. To whom was {t written?” ‘Uhviously, to one of my counsel," said Thaw. Mr, Jerome objected to the word ob- viously. Pressed for a more specific answer, Thaw said that to the best of his recol- lection the letter, wilitten on coarse pas per, was for Hartridge, Was {it meant for publication?" Mr. Shearn. said Tha didn’t recollect w matled to Hartridge or was di himself. NOTES FOUND IN TOMBS AFTRR THAW LEFT. “Did you not, while you were in the asked who added that he her the letter was vered by Tombs,” asked Jerome, “write many not which were simply the rough drafts of letters you afterwards wrote Steers Forces by Direct Phone From | opinions regarding the reports he had Covrriant. 1012, by The Press Pub! (The New York World). “NEW “YORK, TUESDAY, ‘JUNE ROOSEVELT AMAT sl FOR RUSH 10 CONVENTION Hotel Room, With Auto Held for Hurry Call. BY LINDSAY DENISON. (Gtaf Correspondent of The Bvening | World.) would not take T, R. six minutes to get to the platform. Meanwhile the caucusing of State COL. ROOSEVELT’S HBADQUA | delegations In the interest of a8 anll- Taft control of the temporary organiza- TERS, CONGREAS HOTEL, CHICAGO, | tion went on in mystery. June 18—It was twenty minutes past] of these noon to-day, about the time the con-|had often in the last few hours put vention really got started, when Mr.| delegates pledged to vote for Mr. Taft Roorevelt, surrounded by his guards,|!n the position of pledging themselves dashed out of his consultation room|to Vote against Mr. Taft in the pre- through a hall full of people and pushel | Mminary proceedings, was not yet made his way to the stairs to his living apart-| ‘lear, ments above. ‘The halls leading to the! apartment doors were then closed. v The object unusual proceedings, whica It hag been a puzzle to know who | Worked out the present campaign that iT. R. is carrying forward, Pollticlans «| lawyers have spoken of it as “hav- the feel Root is heart and sow with Mr. and, therefore, this 1s tmposstble. t ! recailed that four years ago, Was another Taft steam Root was one of the men built tt with hiv keen mind. Mr. direct Wire from the Coliseum to T. R's ear ts in the third of th of rooms. He planned to remain there) yy) until the message might come that his); appearance on the convention platform |), sus Needed to carry to success the} progra.nme as it has been arranged. Until then his direct control of pro- ceedings by telephone was deemed sui analyzed the machine amd told clent, | Tieodore Roosevelt woat its weaknesses |MAKES NO COMMENTS UPON | were, how it could move, be stalled or BATTLE'S SWAY. be ditched; what Its dangers were. Col, Roosevelt at 2 o'clock had the di- rs @ second wien wi | Root rect wire switched to his downstairs ne: Passe Poe rooms and returned to then, There ae | Ss hy At is nothing to be had from him om his! | ae ovelt this time, And the hint comes from one jose to him that he is us recelved eeanccouavensceld: sauuenavteeede Meantime the Roorevelt people who! PESO CAO Nee could not get tickete—and there are| "# 'ts weakneaues to make it go wrong t Jer break it down altogether. dreds of consoled themaely hundreds of them—consoled themscives | Sooke CORDON OF POLICE AT with loud and explosive oratory in the} Florentine room headquarters, Soreta L'S HEADQUARTERS. Col. Roosevelt, after he finished he Chicago police had a vague idea breakfast at half past 9 o'clock, hea | that the strong a fight ‘em, etg! fa series of hurried and nervous con-| teen tribe of West Virginians, the night howling tamed Oklahomans, sultations with his aides, separately 3, " ' tempt to break in on T. f., and apart. Senator Borah, Chairman Tr acne mien ta tharteart Flinn, Frank Heney and Gov. Johns a caAbn ae cttamhe of Callfornia were with him almost con- garhee the Wall in tinuously before the convention opened. and even at the en- Frank Munsey, G Stubbs, > the back ele ‘3, ord! Allen White an@ Judge Hen to move more quickly than 1s al- had been In and out, bringing a Ate” the Vorawihic’ RROuIGariiie: thiog mass of men and women in the corridors, the public elevators und the lobbies. rying messages and opinions. were interrupted, dashing and twisting through the crowd, they repeated again and again Col, Roosevelt's statement re- garding hie intention not to go to th convention when he went into his con- sultation room: “It 1s unlikely; It 1s not) ., decided. Nobody has seriously sug: | gested it.” AUTO PANTS AT CURB AWAIT- lake-cooled breeze kept the ding out stiffly from thelr rning and released what an unbearable stuffiness ther of yesterday continue: ynel showed when he watke ce from breakfast that the yut? And were not some of these notes changed alr had given him new ginge found after you were taken from the ING HURRY CALL. tor his figiit Tombs to Matteawan? Yet an automodilepanted in Mich-| > ip wa aa eh “1 don't think that this was found] {san avenue under his windows. The | ws had not after I left,” suid Thaw, chauffeur was never thirty steps aw: When did you write itt from it. After the inner circle men “In the fall of 1996, had nearly all one te the Coliseum ‘ ‘ome kept T y Ol nina o| the car still waited, 5 eo -hac a nve rete ae sin Mieeoaa tice The Master Strategist sat within easy | DOr Bie Bee : back of Bis aise su As he acanned over the documents and| Teaching datence of a direct wire, if t's Jaw, He acamed to spelled out some words he was very| (at moment arrived waleh everybody | watening mot much for the oppos!~ cali, “While he ae Gh the efand 21 fae ialned ADOUt eo much, the moment! tans attack Gul for the hess moment VAY. row. Wax. precibitaled tatwean | Mee: \eomeboay atarie something,” 10lto let hiaewn offense flash out. a Jerome aud Shearn, Shearn had ate) seize’ tempted to answer for Thaw and ' Jerome said that if he wished to testity BODY Sbearn might go on the stand and teil WOMAN § of the whereabouts of Susan Merrill, the minsing witness. Jerome sald that Shearn might also tell why Roger O'Mara, Thaw's bodyguard, was not here to-day, ee ey NSE aseballScoresTo-Day iny charges to make against me," beat make them like a man and » held responsible, Don't NATIONAL LEAGUE. wardly Inainuations,” \ It now of Thaw if one] Authorities eee to Deter-| AT NEW YORK. Of the papers i Was written to @ ETD vp Mrs. Wilcox, “to whose house he went + 4 * Tragedy - | with Evelyn Nesbit, or to Ella Wheeler | mine Whether Tragedy Is GIANTS— Wilcox, the writer?” Sy am “Why doce Mr. Jerome ask this ques: Murder or Suicide. 000000 tion?” queried Thaw of his attorney. an AT BROOKLYN, “Undowtedly the letter was to Mrs wore ST, LOUIS— Wilcox, the writer ‘ SCRANTON, Pa, June —An'teations >" "9 Q | 9 g oe Mr, Shearn, counsel for Thaw, sud-!o¢ a murder have been discovered )» rape . thety | BROOKLYN— denly finished his side to-day with the lene guthorities of Wayne County In thelr yet a examination of Dr, Leak, This was 4] investigation of the death of Mra, Sophie 1 - surprise to Jerome, who was not pre-|perman of New York, whose cramped Lerner pared. He filled in the day by reading Marae 6 Ne in @ half-filled ratn- At PHILADELPHIA, from the testimony ken at the murder] parrel on the farm of Charles Lackner, CHICAGO— trials, The burden Is now up to the] near Rquinunk. | 000001 - State to prove Thaw Insane. Coroner P. B. Peterson was summoned | PHILADELPHIA— ft was announced that Mrs, Harry |to Equinunk to-day, for Justice of ths 010000 nel Thaw will be called to the stand to- e Cordman of that place had spent a ‘ow by me ly vo days in a futile effort to de- Tl ga Leena mine whether the case is one of aule| AT BOSTON. TICKET Red Ant cide. The body was found Sanday night | CIN! NATI— Bert Catt tay tinea, uth Americas as4jon the return of the Lackner family 10100 — a ear eat ae from a day's outing. It is understood | Booty, ee tne Ww oa the body was not mutilated. N— , ay Haida Ore, Hermap same $2 Wayne County 00300 , of Elihu Root's methods; | © Michigan avenue side of} * ICONVENTION AT CHICAGO IN BULLETINS’ i} CONVENTION EALL, CHICAGO, Hag aed 19.91 P. M.—Call of Conven- by Secretary. “ese 2 r. ‘Epianlignt explosion set fire to ome of the decorations, After smoldering a few moments it was ex- tinguished by « fireman with his fingers. Wo excitement. 1 ?. M—adley of Missouri rises to question of information. ‘Takes platform. Great cheering. 12.97 PF. M.—Wateon of Indiana fol- lows to platform. Barnes, New York, rises to point of order. 19.48 PP, M.—Radiey asks if a tem- porary roll has been prepared. 19.30 FP. M—" point sus- tained. Chairman Rosewater give Madley twenty minutes, 12.50 P, M.—Hadley says any can. idate named by this couvention un- fairly will have tainted candidacy. (Zond cheers.) 12.52 P, M.—adley closes amid pro- longed cheers. DN ii Li seta eMtlvt 18, 1912. 20 ‘PAG WKATHER—Showers provable to-night or Wednesday, ES PRICE ‘ONE CENT. “Liar,” Freely Shouted Among Other Epithets by the Speakers as the Fight Proceeds for Selection of Temporary Chairman. FIRST ATTACK BY T. R. PROVES TO BE A FIZZLE. | 19.63 P. M.—Gov. Fort, New Jersey, \sonows defending Madiey motion. 1 P. M—"Let's determine this qi | stom mow—af mot, 1t aight be too late,” | said Gov. Fort. 101 7. M.—Fort conc cheers. ea amid son follows Fert on the other side, but yields ten minutes to Representative Sereno Payue of Mew York. 110 FP. M.—Payne proceeds amid great confusion; coastantly interrupted by shouts of opposition. 1.20. M—! jepresentative Wat- son of Indiana follows Payn Great cheering. 1.21 F, M.—Watso tue Fa. t4onal Cummittee—“Some one must make up the temporary roll of the convention.” 1,96 ¥. M.—Watson mentions Elihu Root's name. Cheers and hi 1.80 P, M.—Rosewater again rules out of order Madley'’s motion to amend the temporary roll ts name of Elihu ay Temporary Chairman, 140 P. M.—Cochems of Wisconsin nominated Gov. McGovern, 1.45 FP. M.—Hedges quotes compli- mentary tribute of Roosevelt to Root, causing great amusement. 1.60 P, M. dley follows Hedges to second McGovern’s nomination. Loud cheers mingled. 1,58 P, M,—J. B. Wood, colored dele- wate-at-large from Kentuczy, seconds Root. 2 P, M,—Flinn of Pittsburgh seconds MoGovern. 2.05 P, M.—Groner of Virginia to Mational Com- seconding McGovern hostility and pronounced con- fusion. 2.20 P. M.—Heney says men who helped make tp this temporary roll difer from Abe Ruef “only in that Ruef last woek was in the peniten- tary” while they were making up this roll, Impossible for Honey to proceed because of 2.25 P, M.i Bradley said Kentucky will never get so low as to sccept moral nd from Francis J. Keney. | Loud cheers and gros: 3.00 P, M.—Houser says Wisconsin and La Follette do uot present any candidate for Temvorary Chairman; says McGovern's candidacy not repre- |gontative of La Follette, Mouser's an- no ement as La Follette’s manager sates great excitement, 3.10 P, M.—Cochens says no man could vote for Root and return to Wis- consin, 3.20 P, M.—Roll call be; 3.25 F, M.—Trammel, bama, voted for MoGovern aiid cbeers. 3.30 P, M.—Vote on temporary chair. man: Alabama, 24 votes; Root, 23; MoGovern, 2. 3.35 P, M—Firet woman delegate, Mrs, Florence ©, Porter, California, for MoGovern and gets a big Isabelia Blaney gets @ like was held at Quarantine the mination of a ta from a child who died at ea June i0| of a disease with symptoms siiuilar to that of Aslatic cholera result of the examination will not be knowa uptil §9- heh alo v 1.05 P, M.—Bx-Mepresentative wat-| |Voting Shows No Defection From the Forces Claimed by Taft Managers | Before the Convention Started. | ee BY MARTIN GREEN. (tat Correspondent of The Bvening World.) CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO, June 18.—The Republican convention is now balloting on the election of a temporary chairman, with Elihu Root and Gov, McGovern of Wisconsin as the opposing candidates, The indications are that Root will be selected. The Taft figures are holding without change. Republican National Convention, Gov. Hadley of Missouri sought to} have the Roosevelt contesting delegates substituted in the temporary roll! jcall for those seated by the National Committee, but he was ruled out! of order by Chairman Rosewater, This was accomplished after a short display of oratorical fireworks. The fight over the temporary Chairmanship had been reserved for the supreme test of the day, No Republican National Convention in years has opened so boister- | ously as that of 1912, From the moment the assemblage was given life as a deliberate body strife intervened—oratorical strife, but none the} less bitter. From the start the galleries were noisy and impertinent interruptions were frequent, Some ot the speakers were halted for intervals by hoot- ing and hissing. At times the galleries took the proceedings out of the hands of the convention. FIREWORKS AT THE START. The convention opened with the advertised fireworks right at} the start, Before the proceedings were allowed to get underway in orderly fashion Goy, Hadley of Missouri, Roosevelt's lieutenant, invaded the platform for the purpose of offering a substitute list of delegates for the temporary roll furnished by the National Committee, Watson of Indiana raised a point of order that the convention was not as yet organized, but Mr. Hadley went right along and made his motion to the huge delight of the galleries, The chair decided the point of order well taken, but announced that arguments would be permitted on the question brought up by Gov. Hadley. Twenty minute periods were apportioned to each side and so that great Taft-Roosevelt battle opened, In compliance with custom, Chairman Rosewater of the National Committee, arose from his chair at noon and smote his desk with a| gavel. The sections reserved for spectators were tilled at that hour, but many of the delegates had not arrived and the aisles were clogged with josiling men, From the press stands there appeared to be a great deal of confusion in the delegates’ section and an unusually large number of policemen were pulling and hauling at men wearing badges | of delegates. The confusion was so pronounced that the opening of the proceedings was necessarily delayed. While the delegates were milling around, argang of La Follette willing workers invaded the hall carrying a freshly painted transparency, One of the faces of the square pro- claimed that La Follette is the original progressive with the accent on the original, Another side of the transparency carried this verse: “We Care Not tor the Taffy’s Smile or Teddy's Toothsome Grin. “We're for LaFollette Once, La Follette Twice, La Follette Till We Win.” CONVENTION CALLED TO ORDER. Chairman Rosewater obtained order at \fellow reporter, After the prayer the call Sit down; sit down,” @ the convention was read. ' athe people Hs tat the gallery, who were , A UPROAR I IN CONVENTION WITHOUT A PARALLEL IN POLITICAL HISTORY The Roosevelt forces failed in their first plan of attack in the) 12,20 o'clock and oratori- | ‘}eally announced that a flash light photograph would be taken, Our) William Jennings Bryan, who has a seat in our row, | ‘| but away down front faced the camera unflinchingly. Elihu Root, the Man in the Gap,’ Root of Trouble at Convention. PATA — UNSRKWOO B ANOUNLERWEED anxious for the proceedings to begin. W. W. (“Pudge”) Heflelijnger of Minneapolis, the famous former Yale football guard, led the attack on the aisle crowds, He was acting as an nt sergeant-at-arms. Meantime Rosewater took an occa- sional whack on the table with his gavel. Alternates sat in the places of several regular delegates and in a number of instances it was said they were of a diferent faith from the = regulars. This was a factor considered by the rival leaders, , A significant arrangement was the cutting off of the usual access © to the platform from the tloor of vavention hall, Several assistant sergeant-at-arms were stationed on the steps. Senator Dixon was busy making a last sounding of the Roosevelt forces while the sergeants-at-arms sought to clear the aisles. He was aided by Governors Deneen of Illinois and Hadley of Missouri, RIVAL CRIES FROM CROWDS. Then a series of shrill whistles rang through the hall and scattered delegations began to yell: “Teddy, Teddy.” From the other side of the hall came a harsh shrill yell of “Oh, you Bill Taft.” A running fire of yelling marked the effort to secure order, but it gradually faded out as the police cleared the way. It was difficult to obtain even a semblance of order, “Heffelfinger, stop them coming up that aisle,” called out Col, Stone. “1'll do it,” shouted the former Yale guard, throwing himself at the head of the incoming stream. | The moment the call was read Gov. Hadley of Missouri, the Roosevelt floor leader, was) phis feet: Mr, Chairman,” he at. “The Chair recognizes 4 jadley of Missouri,” said Chairman Rosewater. . “Mr. Chairman, 1 rise te The Governor was beckot, amid applause. | James E. Watson of Indiana, Taft floor leader, followed him. | BARNES MAKES POINT OF ORDER. | In the meantime William Barnes jr. of New York was on his feet. “| make a point of order,” he shouted, but was not recognized, Gov, Hadley then stated his question which involved the substitution of a roll of delegates prepared by the Roosevelt forces for the temporary roll prepared by the National Committee, “| rise to inquire whether the National Committee has framed for this convention a proper temporary roll,” said Hadley. James E. Watson, Taft floor leader, interrupted, saying: “Mr. Chairman, | make the point of order that nothing is in onded | before this convention until it nas been organized.” Watson’s point was well taken. Hadley said he asked for informs. ‘fon only, He mgyed, that the femporary roll | he owns) a ee uestion of information,” said Hadley. | to the stage and made ‘his way there