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V?L LXXII...N0 23,959.
To-day and to-morrow, (rnrrallr fair;
lltht variable wind?
NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 21,
PROGRESSIVE
But Not Radical
1912.-SIXTEEN PAGES.
PRTPF 0\T P?TVT In City of N>w Vnrk.Jer?e.vCllv?ndHohokwi.
A 1UVU v/^1j V^XL^l X EL.*f.HHERK TWO CENTS.
ASSERTS HUGHES
WOULD NOI RUN
Rabbi Wise, After Personal In?
terview with Justice, Says
He Would Reject Presi?
dential Nomination.
DECISION IS IRREVOCABLE
Judiciary Should Not Be Dragged
Into Politics?This the Real
Reason Why Jurist Would
Refuse to Stand if
Named.
Lake Placid, N. T., June 20.?Basing
what be has to say upon a personal in?
terview be had with Justice Charles E.
Hughes, of the United States Supreme
Court. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of N?w
York. * ho is a close personal friend of
the Justue and whose summer camp
here is near the Hughes camp, to-day
issued a signed statement setting forth
the real reasons, he says, why Justice
Hughes cannot allow his name to be con?
sidered by the Republican convention at
Chicago The statement follows:
I have just come from a visit to Jus?
tice Hughes at Camp Abenaki, Lake
Placid, and deem it of importance to set
forth the reason?, as I understand them,
which hare led him to refuse to permit
his name to be considered in connection
with the nomination for President at
the convention of the Republican party
in Chicago.
Of these reasons it may be said that
they rrove his own position to be unas
?ailabie and at the i-ame time serv? to
explain why Justice hughes has within
less than a decade of public service at?
tained to a unique place in the respect
and confidence of the American people.
It appears to one who is not unac?
quainted with men and motives that
Justice Hughes has succeeded in doing
the extraordinary thing of viewing the
whole question in an impersonal and de?
tached way. He seems to have nekeJ
and. to his own satisfaction, to have an
?wered one question: "Is it right that I
should permit my name to be used?"
His answer has been "No." and as far
as another may judge that answer ha?
been reached without regret and repin?
ing. "This "No'- la the reasoned and
unalterable decision of an unbending
conscience, a decision as honoring to
him as has been every hour of his note?
worthy public career.
Would Refuse Nomination.
The decision is not to be recalled If
: extraordinary circumstances arise or un
' foreseen contingencies come to pass.
But it will be reaffirmed us final and
Irrevocable even In the event of the Chi
, cago convention now assembled nomi
: Bating Justice Hughes for the Presi?
dency. It la no little thing to say, but I i
i may say that he would decline the nom?
ination if tendered him. Why? The
Supreme Court must not be dragged ;nto |
, politics. A Judge of the Supreme Court
'? should not be available, though he be
nominally eligible for elective office.
The moment he assumes the judicial
office he ceases to be a partisan, and
knows, or should know, no partisan
obligation. The moment he accepts a
party nomination one or more things
happen, and happen expllcably.
First, a political party may undertake
to capitalise the Judicial decisions of Its
candidate, than which nothing could be
more deeply violatlve of the spirit of the
Judicial Institution. His decisions would,
moreover, become subject to the parti?
san and passionate review of partisan
. strife. Worst of all. it is not inconceiv?
able that If men are to step from the
bench to elective office, decisions may
ultimately be rendered with a view to
the contingency of such public and nec
eisarily partisan review
Such a situation would be certain to
lessen the Independence of the Judiciary,
as it would inevitably impair the na?
tion's confidence In the unswerving In?
tegrity of the courts. Of what real and
rermanent value were the decisions of
a J'idge to-dav who on the morrow may
choose, or be chosen, to Bue for the
favor and suffrage of the electorate?
Shows Personal Ambition.
More Important than the outcome of
the present political contest, however
large it looms at the present, is the
perpetuating of the organic institutions
of sovereignty of the republic. One such
institution, co-ordinate with the execu?
tive and legiElatlve. Is the Judicial. The
people rightly believe in the. integrity
and Incorruptibility of the Supreme
bench. The Justices of the Supremo
Court of the United States are privi?
leged by virtue of the:r offke to render
??ervice of the highest order to the na?
tion The performance of that service
and the maintenance of the dignity of
that office depend in largest part upon
the will of the members of that court to
Huffer no personal ambition for electivo
office, however great their gifts, and
though their fitness be In every ^ther re
ipcct beyond question, to Influence their
Judgment or to affect the attitude of the
nation to the Supreme Court, as a
tribunal, ^hlch, without personal aim?
and above private ambitions, seeks to
Interpret the law upon the basis of the
Constitution of the United States.
In all of this I have studiously re- j
fralned from exact quotation of Justice I
Hughea's word*, though perhaps It lia? j
been risible to reproduce his thought
u'th measurable accuracy. As we part?
ed 1 turned to him and asked the final
question:
'T)o you not conceive that an extraor- |
fllnery crisis might make it your duty
to accept the nomination for President
? order to render a great public ser?
vir? -<??
t'nh'-sitating and unequivocal was the
anrwer:
'I hope that, as a Justice of the Su
Jreme Court. I am rendering public ser?
vice and may continue to do so for some
veers but the Supreme Court must not
r* dragged Into politics, and no man ?s
?k essential to his country's wellbelng
*?* Is the unstained Integrity of the
co.irts."
The answer was the measure of the
rriar. ^ho-ijrh he declined to be con
"5(red for the Presidency by the Repub?
lican party, Justice Hughes remains a
! fret cf the republic.
STEPHEN S. WISE.
DANIELS T0_CUjnC?u:r BATHS
?fttioaaJ Democratic Oommittee
BUUI rails in Baltimore Tub.
BfJttsjMrtJ, June 20.? Joeephus Daniels,
Bat: i ro.Tmitteeman from North
Carolina, who calls himself a "country
Jdltor." hails from Raleigh, in that state.
?r. Darielfl is going around to-day with
*" thfet! fa barefoot boy walking
over a loose i Inder pile, and all became
?? *aa tco keen :n 'making use of these
city ?Athti . Itieg," as he csp'air.ei
1*. bliregJt
Mr Dai? ? ?? r pied in the bathtub this
.ruck his ribs a severe
2?W oa 'he i?ge of the tub. A doctor
*'k'rn he failed made an examination,
fe.">d told him that he had a narrow ea
fape frcm I rea king two cf his ribe. His
?id? is rrulred and painful, und the
?rain forces him to walk ctlngerly.
"I reckon I'll lugt have to cut out these
?ty luxuries," 'he said to-nlgbt, as be
gianced toward the bathtub.
H?EST Clll [DI?IOH
5 A. M.
The Inside Facts
About the Present
War of the Gangs
There Will Appear in
Next Sunday's Tribune
an article which will not
only inform you about
New York's evil bands of
ruffians known as gangs?
their make-up and their
methods?but will reveal
facts about recent inter?
necine strife among them
that have never before
been made public.
THREE BURNED ID DEA1D
AFTER CRASH OF AUTOS
Four Other Men Are Injured,
One of Them the Father of
Fred Stone, Actor.
TOURING CAR HITS RUNABOUT
Four Pinned Under Larger Ma?
chine Near Hempstead, Long
Island, and Roasted by
Blazing Gasolene.
Hempstead, Long Island. June 20 (Spe?
cial).?Three men were killed, another
seriously hurt and three otherB escaped
with minor Injuries, when a big touring
car with five men in It crashed Into a
light runabout in which the father and
a brother of Fred Stone, the actor, were
driving on the Hicksvllle rlke about
noon to-day The touring enr leaped In
the air, turned a somersault and came
down thirty feet away, pinning four of
dupants beneath !t one man was
burned to death, and the others were
fatally roasted by burning gasolene. The |
li?ht car was ?mashed to flinders, and
the elder Stone was seriously injured.
The man burned alive was Albert
Baumgart, a chauffeur for Thomas Cal
lister. a wagon and carriage builder.
The other dead men wer? Alfred Main?
land and Frank Vandewater. This
morning Baumgart picked up Benjamin
Molineaux, of Queens, Intending to go for
I Mollneaux'B car. which broke,down about
five miles east of here last night. Alfred
Mainland. Frank Vandewater and Dr.
Bay McCombs, a dentist, all of Hernp
stead, decided to go along for the ride.
Mainland was driving, but Vandewater
said Just before he died that Baumgart
took the wheel when they got out of
town.
Paul Stone, the actor's twenty-one
I year-old brother, had driven his father,
Louis P. Stone, up from their home at
. Freeport, and was turning from the
! Hicksvllle road into Fulton avenue when
the Calllster car came rushing down
upon him.
The touring car slammed the runabout
into a ditch, and the elder Stone, who
is sixty-five years old, was dashed
against a tree. His son stood up in the
machine as it plunged and leaped out,
comparatively uninjured, but his nerves
were shattered and he had to be taken
to a hospital later.
At the moment he recovered himself
Paul Stone rushed to the touring car,
which was on fire. Vandewater lay
screaming beneath it, his clothing caught
in the gear The other men were still.
Finally eome of Vandewater's clothing
burned away and he wrenched himself
free and came staggering out in the
road Just as Alfred Berg, a giant in
stature, leaped a fence and helped young
Stone lift the big car from its victims.
Baumgart had been burned to a crisp.
Vandewater, Molineaux and Mainland
were v.ollnigh unrecognizable. They
were rushed to Nassau Hospital, whero
Mainland and Vandewater died later.
Molineaux. it was said last night, 1b
expected to die Dr. McCombs jumped
clear and got off with a broken collar?
bone. He is in Hempstead Sanat ?rlum.
While Stone and Berg were lifting the
car, the elder Stone dragged himself to
the roadside and gave directions, al?
though he was in terrible pain. When
ambulanct purgeons f>rrived they found
his right leg and three ribs had been
fractured. He and his son are both In
Nassau Hospital
FOUR SLAIN IN TEXAS FEUD
Girl Takes Dead Father's Gun?
Kills One, Wounds Two.
Sherman. Tex., June 2o.?In a flght
which was the culmination of a feud be?
tween the Sharp and Waldrop families
at Sperry's ranch, near here, this after?
noon four persons were killed and two
wounded. Before she was slain Miss
Georgia Sharp killed one man and
wounded another man and his wife.
The fight began when the Sharp fam?
ily, consisting of Miss Georgia Sharp, her
father. L. \V. Sharp, and her brother
Walter, passed the home of the Wal
drops. Apparently both sides began
firing simultaneously.
Henry Waldrop killed Walter Sharp
and his father. As they fell Miss Geor
berp s<dz*d her father's smoking
magazine rifle and took up the attack.
She killed R?ssel Waldrop and then shot
his rarents. Prone on the ground.
Henry Waldrop returned the fire and
shot Miss Sharp. She died almost in?
stantly
GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER
Mr per ras? ftf I ??.iss-mopp?*,! boitl?*,
THAT THIRD CUP OF COFFEE
ITXCLE SAM -Thro.lore. I guess you don't need another one._^
TAFT LEADERS SAY NO
COMPROMISE CANDIDATE.
Chicago, Jun< ?William Barnes,
Jr., New Y' rk ? .?? rma
night made public the following stute
m< nt
There was a veetmq of tb*. chair?
men of all the Taft delegations from
the various states in Barnes's rooms
this evening and representatives of
those states where the Taft delegates
are in a minority. It was unanimous?
ly agreed th*t tlle line shall remain
intact for the renomination of Mr.
Taf? .ind that no suggestion of com?
promise wcuH be entertained.
It was made clear that the delegates
repreeented by these chairmen of del?
egations are thoroughly alive to the
meaning of the battle which has been
fought out and won in this conven?
tion?that th^s r.overnment is a self
controlled democracy, that process
can be made only through orderly
procedure and that the constitutional
rights of each citizen shall be pre?
served.
LAST NATIONAL COMMITTEE
No Such Body After This Year, |
Says Roosevelt. j
Chicago. June 20. After this
there will be no national committee,"
said Colonel Roosevelt In a speech to
his delegates to-night.
"AM states will have preferential pri?
marte! ?nd the people win decide whom
they want for their candidate," ho
added.
COLONEL REPORTED LEAVING
Rumor That He Would Start j
Home To-day Is Denied.
Chicago, June 'J<>.? a report that Colo?
nel Rooeevelt would leave for New York
to-morrow was passed about to-night
among the crowds which thronged the
corridorB, but his secretary said there
was no foundation for it.
The colonel did not leave his hotel dur?
ing the day.
TO PUT DOWN CIGARETTES
Mayor at Last Elected in West
Va. Who Will Enforce Law.
i Telegraph to Th.- Trit.un. ;
Sforgantown, W. Ya, June 20.?To I
have, sell or give away a Cigarette In
Paraona, W. Va., hereafter will be *
misdemeanor. Three men successively
were elected Mayor of the town anl
each refused to serre when he realized
the task imposed on him by the cigarette
ordinance pegged by the council.
The Rev. T. K. Hickell then was elect?
ed. He accepted the office without hesi?
tation, and has announced that he will
rigidly enforce the law framed to stamp
out the cigarette habit there.
KILLED IN WRECK OF AUTOS
Machine of Mrs. Reginald Ron?
alds in Crash at Erie.
Erle. Penn.. June M, in an automomle
collision to-night John MacDonald, twenty
six years old. was killed; Harrison Reel,
thirty-five years old. son of r M. Reed, a
millionaire, was fatally injured, nnd two
young women. Miss Mary Galloway itnd
Miss Hlanehc Dawley, were seriously hurt.
The ac^pp-nt occurred within a mile ,,f
Dead Man's Curve, where Mr. and Mis
T. A. fcnider, of Hnclnnatl, were killed
on Monday when their automobile was
struck by a train
Reed was driving the machine at high
speed. It Is said, when he attempted to
pa?? the machine of Mrs Thora Strong;
Ronalds, daughter of Charles H. Strong,
millionaire capitalist, and wife of Reginald
Ronalds, of New York
The huhs of the two cars struck, Reed's
car, caught In the streetcar track, over
| turning.
ROOSEVELT READY TO
! TAKE ANY NOMINATE
Invites His Followers to Bolt and Name Him
the Convention Roll Is Not " Purged/*
NOT SURE THEY WANT TO LEAVI
Third Term Candidate Finds Apathy in Bolt Markei
and Is Trying to Find How Many Supporters
He Can Carry Out of the Republican Party.
COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S STAND
ON TAKING ANY NOMINATION
Chicago, June 20.?Colonel Roosevelt's position <>n taking any
nomination for the Presidency was made clear to-day in a formal
? tement, in winch he said :
If the honestly elected majority of the
convention choose to proceed with business
and to nominate me as the candidate of the
real* Republican party, I shall accept.
If some among them fear to take such
a stand, and the remainder choose to in?
augurate a movement to nominate me tor
the Presidency as a Progressive on a Pro?
gressive plattorm, and if in such event the
general feeling among Progressives favors
my being nominated, I shall accept.
[By ? Ft*rt CmmpWilH of fts Tribune ]
Chicago, June 20.?Theodore RooseveU
told a mucus of RooMVOlt delegntes this
afternoon that if he could not get a
nomination from the regular Republican
convenue? he was willing his delegatos
Ihould bolt the convention If the roll la
not "purged of the seventy-eight stolen
delegates."
But the Knosevelt delegates are won?
dering whether they want to bolt. Some
few nre sure they do; a great many more
are sure they don't, and the majority
are undecided. A great and all pervad?
ing sense of what a bolt means In the
way of time, money and effort. If they,
are to be anything Other than ridiculous I
figures In their state campaigns, let
ahne the third party performance. !s
just coming to them. The prospect Of
leaving party lines, even to support Colo?
nel Roosevelt, doesn't look half as at?
tractive as it did some miles further
away. It's entirely too close for com
f. rt. ,
Thinks Third Party Wanted.
Despite this doubting attitude of some
of his followers, Colonel Roosevelt de?
clared to-night he believed there was a
considerable demand for a third party
nil over the country, and he knew there
was in the West.
"If the people want a Progressive
party I'll be in it." he said.
The colonel also indicated more clearly
than any of his managers hnd been will?
ing to the plan of the Roosevelt men
fur the rest of the convention.
This plan was to occupy their seats
right through, but to take no part in
the convention until such time as It
might adjourn. Then, if it had not
thrown out the delegates Roosevelt con?
tested, the Roosevelt men would hold an?
other convention, which they would call
the regular Republican convention, rais?
ing the claim that there had beer, no
regular adjounnment. They might then
nominate Colonel Roosevelt, and he
would have a claim to call himself the
regular Republican nominee.
Colonel Roosevelt has not definitely
committed himself to the latter part of
this plan. He is considering the ad?
visability of delaying action for several
weeks, and then to summon an entirely
new convention. This would not be held
until after the Democrats have acted In
Baltimore.
Looks for Popular Demand.
The colonel said emphatically that he
would make the Independent fight for the
Presidency if he was convinced there
was a popular demand for him.
"I shall have to see if there is a
popular demand for me to run." he aaid.
He added that the situation was such
a kaleidoscopic one that It would be im?
possible for him to outline what he
< onti-nuod ob third peg?, third column.
COLONEL AND BOLT
BOTH BADLY BEATEN
Taft Still the Strongest Candidate, Compromise
Talk Mostly Coming from Defeated
Roosevelt Followers.
WORK MAY END EARLY SUNDAY
Third Term Candidate Much Depressed, as Are His
Backers?Committee on Resolutions Worried Over
Platform?Bolt, if Ever Coming, Will Be on
California Contest Vote.
[By a Staff CorrifiporxJent of The Tribune.]
Chicago, June 20.?Theodore Roosevelt is "beaten to a frazzle," ta
use Colonel Roosevelt's own picturesque vernacular.
William Howard Taft is still the strongest candidate for the nom?
ination to succeed himself. There is much talk of compromise, but it
all comes from the Roosevelt crowd, who now, as always, adhere to
their slogan, "Anything to beat Taft."
A general conference of the Taft managers was held to-night, at
which a programme for the sessions of the convention was discussed.
It was determined to get to work promptly to-morrow on the report
of the credentials committee. There is no prospect that a complete
report will be ready when the convention is called to order, but the
committee will present a partial report, which the convention will take
up immediately. The committee will then resume consideration of
contests and report piecemeal to the convention.
MAY END EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.
The plan of the Taft managers is to hold day and night sessions
and press the work so that nominations can be reached! Saturday and
the convention be brought to a close in the late hours of Saturday night
or early Sunday morning. There is talk of not hurrying matters, and
of prolonging the session until Monday or Tuesday of next week. This
apparently does not meet with favor among the men who are really
in control, nor does it please the great mass of delegates, who are now
anxious to get home.
The Vice-Presidential nomination is still very much in the air, but
it may not be a bad guess to pick Herbert S. Hadley, the ambitious
Governor of Missouri. Of course, Governer Hadley is not flirting with
both sides, but he has made it very plain that he and his delegates have
no intention of bolting, whatever may be the orders of the colonel.
The "Roosevelt bolt" is not doing very well. In fact, it is a sickly
little thing, and seems to be in need of much careful nursing. Up to
a late hour to-day the colonel had succeeded in inducing only 114 of
his three hundred-odd supporters to sign a statement pledging them to
bolt the national convention and "found" the New Nationalist party.
THE COLONEL IS MUCH DEPRESSED.
The colonel is much depressed. So are Gifford Pinchot, and "Jim
mie" Garfield, and Medill McCormick and others of the noble band of
little statesmen who are supporting the colonel. There is one dyed
in-the-wool insurgent, however, who is for a bolt first, last and all
the time. That is Francis J. Heney. The colonel would value Francis's
support more if he had not seen fit to run for office the last time on
the Democratic ticket.
Senator Borah says frankly that Colonel Roosevelt is beaten and
i that he, himself, believes the strongest ticket which could be named
would be Hughes and Hadley. He also believes that Cummins and
Hadley would make a strong ticket, although they do come from ad?
joining states, and he would not actually mind a ticket composed of
Borah and Hadley?if his country needed him?but under no other con?
ditions. Of course, with "the great Progressive" out of the running,
there is no knowing what the country may need. It is admittedly in a
. bad way, according to some few Progressives.
However, Senator Borah need hardly worry, because there is that}
monumental patriot, Herbert S. Hadley, who would consent to head<
the Republican ticket in a pinch. In fact, he called the delegation from
his state together to-day to find out just what its sentiment regarding
the Presidential nomination was, and was sorely pained to learn that
the sixteen Taft men were determined to remain Taft men until the<encL,
William Barnes, jr., is generally credited with believing that Jus?
tice Hi-ghes would make a pretty good candidate; that he rrjght; caifjr
New York, and, being relegated to the national instead pi the -state,
held of politics, would not interfere with the boss-ship oi$?Lr. Barnes.,
Bdt Mr. Barnes throws cold water on any such suggestion. He insists*
tnat t!:is is no time to consider any compromise candidate, and thaw
the first thing to be achieved is the permanent organization o? thej
nation.il convention. g
WISCONSIN AIDS CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE. W
The committee on credentials gives promise of confirming*ar\?
every particular the decisions of the Republican National Committee.]
! Word was received to-day from Senator La Follette that he had made,,
careful examination of the evidence, and that he had found the decisions
of the national committee just and proper. Accordingly, the Wisconsin^
member of the credentials committee has been voting with the Taft
majority, while the Wisconsin delegation has decided to support its
1 member of the credentials committee on every rollcall That means
thftt when the roll of the convention is called on the contest in the 9th
District of Alabama, the Taft vote in the convention will be augmented
by at least the twenty-six votes of Wisconsin, and probably by ten
more from North Dakota, all of which will tend greatly to strengthen
Mr. Taft's position before the convention.
Incidentally, moreover, the decision of the Wisconsin Senator and
the votes of his supporters will serve to make more obvious, even to
the Progressives, the baselessness of the charges of Mr. Roosevelt and
his political managers.
The committee on credentials has not been working very hard
during the day, but to-night it got down to business, and it expects
to complete its task before noon to-morrow. It is showing every dis?
position to give the Roosevelt men all the time they want to argue
their cases. It is believed this is the wisest possible course, especially
as the more the Roosevelt people argue the more obvious they make
the flimsy character of their contests.
The committee on resolutions is having troubles of its own. The
committee does not altogether like the first draft of the Taft platform,
and is determined to make some material revisions. However, it it
confronted by the fact that its chairman is ex-Vice-President Fair?
banks and that he was the author of the first draft. Now there is
nothing of the pride of parentage about the ex-Vice-President, but he
doesn't like, nevertheless, to see the child of his brain absolutely muti?
lated. One member of the committee says that the committee will not
end its labors until Saturday, but perhaps that is a pessimistic view.
PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY MADE.
The programme for to-morrow is to bring in the report of the com?
mittee on credentials. The first motion will be to confirm the finding
of the committee that the Taft delegates from the 9th Alabama are