The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1915, Page 14

————— WILSON CANPAEN nomination at the St, Louis Convention next June is regarded as already as- sured, and all the discussion is upon his chances of election. His trip to Columbus, 0., to-day and his speech there, though non-political in character; his half promises to ac- cept various invitations for speeches in other cities; his entertaining of the Democratic National Committes; all toese are regarded as opening the Na- tional campaign of next year. Next Tuesday the Republicans come to Washington for a meeting of their national committee to choose a time and place for their national conven- tion. It seems practically assured that Chicago will get it and that the date will be June 20, @ week after the Democrats meet. Thie reversal of dates is in keeping with the precedent that the party In power holds its con- vention first. There is noticeable already an ex- traordinary degree of confidence among Republican Congressmen and politicians. They are boldly claiming the next House of Representatives will have a big Republican majority. if only they could centre upon @ can- eee for the Presidency they would ually confident about capturing the yhite House, The Old Guard, headed by Uncie Joo Cannon and his millionaire frien: William B, McKinley, both return to Congress from Minola, bave begua already celebrating in advance ths expected return to power, McKinley gave an open house reception to ail Kepublicans in Congress two nights ago just to start the whooping up. ‘The high tariff men and the pro- tected industry boomers are getting on the ground and the National Com- mittee meeting will bring in an ex. uberent crowd with the slogan, FOR 1916 ALREADY | WELL UNDER WAY Renomination Assured, Politi- cians Admit, Though They Differ as to Outlook. ISSUES YET TO COME. Congress Expected to Develop Them During the “Pre- paredness” Session. By Samuel M. Williams. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Political @vents of the past woek, though trivial tn importance, are regarded in the capital as tantamoun: to an an- Rouncement of President Wilson's candidacy for renomination, despite bere oe the declaration of the last Democratic | “Claim ever: ai Blatorm ‘acuinet x second term. In| fica ae Wnty gta Administration circles and among! dicate that Justice Hughes is the Yeading politicians tho President's! most favored Republican candidate for President, but mention of hin name Is always coupled with an "If he would take In States that have favored sons pandidates, such as Burton, of Ohio; Fairbanks, of Indi- ane; Weeks, of Massachusetts; Sher- Illinois, and Borah, of Idaho, Flughes {a listed as the popular second choice. ‘The most debated political question of the moment fn Washington ts whether President Wilson is holding his popularity with the country, particularly in the Middle West, or in losing ground e answers are equally positive on both sides, Two prominent New Yorkers, ono a Con- greasman and the other a State Sen- ator, both just returned from tong business trips through the Central Weat, stood aide by side to-day in a hotel lobby and gave contradictory testimony an to what they had heard and observed about the President, The preliminary campaign will be fought on the floor of Gongress. Pre- paredness as @ party issue has been get asiae by the agreement of the Republicans to support a national programme, although they may di*- fer from the President over details. If there is any backing up on pre. paredness it will be by the Bryan men in the Democratic ranks, The Republicans will complain only if the President's programme does not go one. @ paramount party ismes arine out of Government finances, Re publicans are preparing to make the tariff their princtpai point of contest and follow it with opposition to the proposed increase in internal taxes to raise the additional revenue required for military and naval appropriations, Another party issue will arise over the ship purchase proposition. The President demands Government own- ership of a merchant marine. The Republicans will stand for private ownership assisted by some form of Government subsidy. There will be defections from both parties over this question, but probably of about equal helnumbers on each side, so the net result will be unchanged, Aunt Jemima Dolls Aunt Jemima’s whole family dressed in bright. colors. Aunt Jemima, Uncle Mose, Diana and Wade Davis. Read the offer below loves the ‘Leads in Advertising! Leads in Circulation! | Lines of Advertising Printed in New York According to the Ogtober sworn statements made | J Morning Papers During the First Steues Goveromest by tie Mewopolten Nore vi Ten Months of 1915 ing Newspapers, WORLD maintains its » Ee tx Meteend Dade customary, leadership, ri =Men’s Sack Suits we have, fo ‘partment ? | New York WORLD 8,695,479 lines World's Lead || New York WORLD.. 391,158 Neriteteaa | FF ar New York Times... 7,874,420 lines 821,059 lines || New York American . 349,345 41,813 | FF Were £38, 535, » New York American 7,105,597 lines 1,589,882 lines || New York Times. ... 318,274 72,884] (4 New York Herald . . 6,665,990 lines 2,029,489 lines || New York Herald,... 98,651 292,507 | fi » New York Sun..... 3,053,579 lines 5,641,900 lines New York Press..... 110,869 280,289 “New York Tribune . 2,632,739 lines 6,062,740 lines || New York Tribune... 82,674 308,484 New York Press... 1,713,560 lines 6,981,919 lines READERS! fiasco usdirtas tak Fi New York Sun. ..... } Sells OVER :90,000 Copies More in New York Cly Every Weekday Morning Than Any Other Newspaper Ss SS SS SS SSS EE ESS 71,749 319,409 together’ RESULTS] TROOPS ON GUAR IN POWDER CITY SWEPT BY FIRE But the Place, Now in Ruins, Has Quieted Down After a Night of Terror. 10,000 ARE HOMELESS. Tents on Way to Give Them Shelter—Plans for Rebuild- ing Hopewell Under Way. PPTERSBURG, Va., Dec. 10.—Hope- well, the war boom town, which war wiped out by fire after a spectacular rine within six months, was quiet to day. Reports sent by Major Bowles. commanding the militia in charge of the ruins and fire devasted town thir afternoon, indicate that order is being preserved. The militia commander de- nied stories of killings by his troops. Several companies of the Nationa Guard are maintaining strict watch t prevent looting, but have not had t shoot, Bowles reported. The lynching of a negro, reported by refugees arriving here, was alse denied by Bowles. Petersburg resi dents, however, insist they saw a negro being dragged by a rope about his neck toward a grove near the city. Another engro was shot by an Italian, but not fatally. A falling wall crushed one man. The Petersburg saloons were per- mitted to reopen to-day after having heen closed since yesterday afternoon, Hopewell, so-called wizard city, was already rising from its ashes to-day. In the desolated area brick struc- ture@ will rise in many blocks where frame buildings, mostly of flimsy con- struction, stood hitherto. This was as- serted by those who have undertaken the task of erecting a new town on the site of the old one. Conserve'tve estimates to-day acces the total loss at $1,200,000, tory is told that when the fire was first discovered in the Greek restaurant, persons in the nelghbor- hood began firing revolvers in the air hoping to bring Hopewell’s only fire fighting apparatus the more quickly to the scene, but the depart- ment failed to recognize the signal in time to check the flames, The @p- paratus, a motor driven chemical engine wagon, had only arrived from the factory the night before. Tents are being sent by the State military authorities to care for the 10,000 homeless persons and sheds have been bullt In which they can prepare their food, WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Chief Bie- laski of the Department of Justice Bureau of Investigation to-day in- structed his agent at Norfolk to pro- ceed to Hopewell, Va, and make a thorough Investigation of yesterday's disastrous fire. A report within a few days 1s expected. Federal agents imvestigating fires in powder plants and munitions works have failed to find @ basis for Gov- ernmental prosecution, and officials doubted if the Hopewell investigation would reveal anything upon whico the Federal Government could take action, PENNSYLVANIA WRECK CUTS OFF N. Y. TRAINS Traffic Between This City and Phil- adelphia Heid Up for Hours When Freight Cars Block Tracks, PHILADELPHIA, Deco, 10,—A seri- ous freight wreck on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad at Andalusia, sixteen miles east of Philadelphia, early to- day tied up all traffic on the New York Division and morning trains from Philadelphia to New York were cancelled. Through trains were run over other divisions to Trenton, N. J. wrecked at 1.35 A. M, and a west- road, A smashed, An east-bound freight train was bound freight ran into It, scattering wreckage over all the tracks of the brakeman and a fireman were injured, Twenty-two cars were JSTHE EVENING WORLD, | FRIDAY, DECEMBER BER 10, | CITY HOLDS UP PLAN FOR LADIES’ RESTAURANT Think $37,000 Eating Quarters in Municipal Building Too Costly. Is It up to the taxpayers, already burdened with @ $212,000,000 budget, to spend $87,344 for “furnishing a restaurant, including napkins, glase- ware, rugs, window draperies and a few other trifles,” for the female city employees in the Municipal Building? ‘This question puzzled the Board of Estimate to-day. A resolution pro- viding for an elaborate ladies’ dining room at the base of the Municipal Tower was tabled for one week. Last year the sinking fund assigned the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth floors of the Municipal Buliding for restaurant purposes, despite the fact that the otly is paying many hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for of- fice rent because the Municipal Bulld- ing, Hke the Tower of Babel, seams destined never to be finished. The contention of Borough President Mathewson of the Bronx, who suc- ceeded in holding up the apropriation tor the restaurant, was that posterity sbould not be compeled to pay for the -estaurant, A census showed that the average cost of lunch for a female city em- ployee is 23 cents. About 353 of the indies have signed a paper agree- ng to eat in the Municipal Bulld- ng restaurant. They will form a club and pay $2 a year dues, a EX-MANAGER ENDS LIFE. Yormer Empleye of Liebeler Found in His Room, Albert E. Lehman, who was for several years @ manager for Liebeler & Company, theatrical producers, and who has been unemployed since they went out of business a year ago, shot and killed himself in his room in the Hotel Princeton, at No. 116 West Forty- Afth Street, this morning. Lehman had lived in the hotel for about ten years and although he had not boen good heulth recently he always ‘walkod out early in the morning. 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