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CONVICTED OF
. A CONSPIRACY
The Government Wins Its Case
Against Alleged Timber Grab
bers at Duluth.
Head Cruiser of Lumber Concern
Guilty of Frauds Under Tim
ber and Stone Act.
Thousands of Acres Filed Upon by
Fictitious SettlersOther Ac
tions to Be Tried.
Special to The Journal. '
Duluth. Minn.. Dec. 11.A case in
volving the fraudulent acquisition of
3.700 acres of land under the timber
and stone act came to an end here
yesterday afternoon by a verdict of
"guilty" returned against Svend Ole
son. The charge was conspiracy.
Oleson was head cruiser for.the. big
lumbering firm of Swallow & Hopkins.
It is charged that with the con
nivance of the members of the firm-he
organized parties of fictitious set
tlers, took them to valuable tracts
of standing timber on Basswood lake,
north of Tower, and later induced
them to file upon twenty-four adjoin
ing claims, these being later turned
over in a most perfunctory manner to
the firm which employed Oleson.
The case was bitterly fought by the
defense, which was represented by a
large array of the most prominent at
torneys in Duluth and St. Paul. The
government was represented by Al J.
Smith, assistant district attorney, who
has been preparing for this trial for
many months. He had a hard fight,
but his persistence won out. The
penalty is from $1,000 to $10,000 fine
or imprisonment upon a correspond
ing basis.
There are other indictments yet to
be tried based upon the operations of
this firm, but the evidence in all is
practically the same under which Ole
son's conviction was secured.
G00DN0W MAKES
AN EXPLANATION
Tells How the Report That He Wasthree
to Answer Charges
Originated.
Declares That a Newspaper Corre
spondent, with Whom He Had
Trouble, Started It.
From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
.. Washington. -- - ,"-
Washington. Dec. 11.John Good
now was at the. state department late
yesterday awl was told that charges
had been filed against him. 'Gbbdnow
saye that in all - probability-none will
come and that the newspaper stories
about charges were. the. work, of a man
named Curtis, with whom "he had
trouble when the Ballentine case was
on trial in the consular court at
Shanghai.
Curtis was at one time librarian of
the, United States supreme *ourt in
Washington, according to Goodnow,
and drifted to the orient, settling in
Shanghai. When the Ballentine case, j
involving the question whether a man
could be extradited by consular of
ficers from Shanghai to Manila, came
up. Curtis "butted in" after Ballen
tine had consented to return to Manila,
and insisted upon a trial. H e made a
poor presentation of the case, and
Mrs. Ballentine. the wife of the ac -
cused man, hired some one else to de
fend her husband. Goodnow decided
that Ballentine should be extradited
after hearing the arguments.
Curtis, who was present when the
decision was rendered, began to blus
ter and was ordered from the court.
Curtis had his revenge, however. H e
had a commission from a Hearst
newspaper and threatened Goodnow
with all sorts of things. Charges of
the high-handed way in which Good
now ran his court in Shanghai were
made in an article written by Curtis in j
the San Francisco Examiner, and he j opposed to any such action at this time States., They have good qualities, altho
also wrote persons in authority here,
including several congressmen, mak
ing practically the same charges. An
extract from one of these letters was
telegraphed to The Journal
last. Tuesday. The above is Good
now's explanation of affairs. H e
says the charges don't amount to the
snap of one's fingers, and that there
is no consular officer in the east who
hasn't had charges made against him
by adventurous Americans who are
sore at them for one reason or an -
other. In some instances the same
.man appears as plaintiff so often that
the department doesn't pay any at
tention to his communications.
Goodnow discussed to-day, with the
legal officers of the state department,
his authority to order extraditions,
there being no law governing these
cases, and in a general way he was
upheld.' It cannot be learned that the
state department regards the Curtis
charges as being serious. Goodnow is
still-in good standing at the depart
ment, and officials there speak in-the
highest terms of his work and general
record.
Bill Introduced to Provide for Making
Homestead Entries.
From the Journal- Bureau, Colorado Building:.
Washington. '
Washington. ' Dec. 11.Representative f
Marshall to-day introduced a bill for tho I ment of the engagement of Robert Goelet,
secession of tho Devils 1-akc Indian reser- j brother of the Duchess of Roxburghe, to
ration. It provides for opening to set- j Miss Elsie Whelen,. the Philadelphia beau-
tlement and entry under' the homestead j ty, says a private letter to Newport, will
be made as soon as the "J. Ogden Goelet"
matter is cleared up.
At Newport last, season Robert Goelet
and Miss Whelen were so much together
and he showed her such marked atten
tion that their engagement was several
times reported.
law by proclamation of the president.
Settlers are to pay ?3.50 per acre for the
land in installments $1 to be paid the
first year and 50 cents per acre each year
thereafter. The bill also provides for the
payment of $50,000 to the Indians for sec
tions JC and 36. which are to be patented
to the state. Under this provision the
slate Will get iand which Will net $150,000
when sold under the state laws.
Another provision is that the bill shall
become lav: immediately upon its passage
and approval by the president, thus doini?
away with the necessity of securing thy j Hew, York Sun Special Service
consent of the Indians. i Trinidad. Col.. Dee. 11
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PREPARED FOR
WAR IN PANAMA
Marines Ordered to Colon as a Pre-
. cautionary MeasureAdvices
Are Pacific.
Representative Government to Be In
augurated on the IsthmusCo
lombians Getting Apathetic.
$-
I Elections in Columbia.
. Bogota. Dec. 11.The presi
j dential elections have passed off
quietly thruout Colombia. Gen-
[ erals Reyes and Gonzales Valen
j cia are considered as leaders in
the contest. It will be some days
before the result can be an -
| nounced.
$
OPPOSITION TO REYES
Fears that H e Will Acquiesce
Panatnan Independence.
New York Sun Special Service.
Galveston. Texas, Dec. 11.A pri
vate cable received from a Colombian
official says:
Jealousies and a fear that General Reyes
will be. won over by the United States have
prompted other Colombian army officers
to urge the recovery of Panama by force
o f arnl
who were willing to sacrifice their all to ' production in countries other than tho,
Pr-eserve the republic a month ago are ! states or she might, use it to pave the way
growing indifferent and some even are in- j for a trade alliance between the English-
clined to side with Panama. Plans have, speaking people. Such an alliance would
Vee perfecting to land troops on the Atra- } mean a world-wide dominion of the
i to river and hotheaded leaders have lish-speaking peoples! We may live to see
stirred up a sentiment in favor of this. two great world empires, the Russian and
{ propoBe d
Had a Bad Night and the Operation
Was Only Partially
Successful.
Special to The Journal.
New York, Dec. 11.Senator Clark
is reported very much worse to-day.
After the operation of yesterday, the
senator rallied, but during the night
was restless, and his temperature
went up. ! sent from the United States.
Dr. Curtis, after an examination of i "Last year." he says, . "we raised
the wound to-day. decided that it must sixty million bushels of. wheat, and
be reopened at once. Curtis was in
Clark's apartments several hours and
no definite statement of the patient's
condition could be obtained. How
ever, there is believed to be cause for
serious anxiety.
' W. W. Jermane.
CASS LAKE RESERVATION
ANOTHER GOELET ALLIANCE
Robert Goelet's Engagement to a Phila
delphia Beauty Likely to Be
Announced.
Newport. R. I.. Dec. 11.The announce-
, STRIKERS ARE ARMING
Further Conflicts with Guards May Occur
- at Any Time.
W. Jermane. j and'-Sicilian strikers are in town buying' g{ep over you people when'"we"want' to
' I revolvers and ammunition, and threaten- I
WILL CONTEST BEQUEST TO HAEVAED. ling further assaults. Conflicts between j.,,-
Rnston. I)f" 11.(Jordnn MoKny of Xpuport. I the strikers and camp guards may oecur _ " . : ' ' /
R. !.. boqiiPHthod scvr-nl millions to Harvard I
AMMift. Hlfi-Hntuiind willb"ip , fi],,,) | n th
cmiiiti iuioit M'sten'av. .\*rtl" S. i p n rcldn i uf e
liTUiusluio Int-.'uus to coutesl it. Lie
Sffoikw
THE ZOLLYEREIN
AND RECIPROCITY
Canadian Minister of Trade and Com
merce Says One May Lead
to the Other.
Predicts the Rise of Two World
EmpiresThe Russian and
English Speaking. , ,
--$ George Poster Declares Canada Will
Soon Supply British Empire .
with Wheat. /
4
Washington, Dec. 11.Preparations
are being made by the war and navy
departments to meet the possibility
of hostile demonstrations by Colom
bia against Panama. Orders were is
sued yesterday for the training ship
Prairie, which has 250 marines on
board, to proceed from Guantanamo,
Cuba, to Colon, and these orders were
followed by others to the command
ant of the marine corps to assemble
another battalion of marines as quick
ly as possible.
According to the- Colombian repre
sentatives here, none of the telegrams
received by them indicates that Col
ombia contemplates any hostile move
ment. They assert that, on the con
trary, dispatches received to-day from
Bogota are of a "pacific" nature and
are, therefore, inclined to believe that
the final instructions of General
Reyes, the Colombian special envoy
here to make no movement against
the isthmus until further instruction
from him had been obeyed by the Col
ombian troops of which he was thcv
actually and is now nominally the
commander-in-chief.
GUNBOATS TO MAINTAIN PEACE
Panamans Assured of Co-operation of
United States Forces.
Panama, Dec. 11.Preparations are
being made by the junta to call a con
vention and to proceed with the elec
tion of members of the house of rep
resentatives, etc. Efforts are being
made to hold the convention Feb . 3,
months after the declaration of
the independence of Panama. . Fed
ej'ico Boyd, on his return from the
United States, resumed his place on
the junta, Senor Espinoza, temporarily
appointed in his stead, retiring. Sev
eral of the Pariaman scouting par
ties have gone to watch the move
ments of the Colombians.
A Panaman gunboat and a United
States gunboat have proceeded to
gether to David, near the western end
of the Isthmus of Panama, for the pur
pose of giving the people of that dis
trict evidence of the fact that the
United States forces areco-operatihg
with those of Panama in maintaining
peace on the isthmus.
Toronto, Ont., Dec. 11.in a speech
to the Young Liberal club, Sir Rich
ard Cartwright, minister of trade and
commerce in the dominion govern
ment, said:
"I think Chamberlain "means more than
his critics give him credit for. He sees
the extraordinary power the selfish policy
of the United States has placed in Great
Britain's hands. Three courses are open
in
Thes'e
officers do not
GeneraKl Reyes hono r and loyalty to hi
country, but fear he is being influenced to
delay decisive action until too late.
The Bogota government is doing every
thing in its power to prevent a conflict
until official advices have been received
from the commissioners at Washington
tiiat their mission i hopeless. While
dreading United States interference and
protection for Panama, Colombia will,
without, question attempt to force p return
of the rebellious isthmus.
The long delay is working against Co
lombia with her own people, and many
questions
campaign, but I do not think it i the English-speaking.
wi U be carried out. The government is! "I would guard against -th e United
and is discouraging the scheme.
SENATilLABK
A VERY SICK MAN
BRITAIN'S BREAD BASKET
George Foster Says That I s to
Canada's Destiny.
more than one hundred million bush
els of grain. We have how undei
cultivation three million" acres of
wheat land and still have one hundred
million acres, just as good, which will
be grain producing land in the near
future. No Country in the world will
take the. place of Canada as a food
producer. This is due to the richness
of her soil and the climate.
United States Is Narrow-Minded. .\
"We Canadians think -th e United
States in all its relations with us has
been a very insistent nation. Your
people are the best.in the .world, but
we do not look upon your government
as the broadest-minded in the world.
"We import from the yhj ted 'States
a large number .of agricultural prod
ucts but from us the United States im
ports very little..- In manufactured
goods our tariff runs about 28 per cent
while that of the United States is
about 45 . per cent. Th e disparity
seems too great. ?3$f TQu won't = let us
in on a fair tariff , we'll have to. raise
the tariff against you.
"We think our country, is just as
good as the United States. There was
a feeling of disappointment among us
concerning the Alaskan award.. but
that is passing away.. You see the
United States stretches-''
Many Italian
11 am time The double funeral of Vol-' * , - - -,-
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Jfefi
.Ji
^ h o
VA,lf
nitlo Monday night, passed without trou- I ,, in Ooto'.^ la*t by the legislative\ouncli
f the Mor o provinces .
l4,
,ed a t g.a_J Mjnili -WyJor wr. I.-oiard V-Zood ,
CAMPAIGN FOR
IflNISf BUTTONS
' -I 1 I,)" ' I
ChicagrUnionists WiU Refuse to Pay
, Car- Pare to Mn Not Wear-
^v ing Them. -
f
This Provoked Yesterday's Riot and
" Ettrther Serious Trouble
- /*&' Is Expected. , *
New York Sun Special'Bervice.
Chicago, Dec. 11.At the close of
a day marked by a more violent out
break, against non-union employes of
the diicago Citr-H&ilway than at any
time sinqfc the strike ended, the Chi
cago Federation" of Labor issued a
call last Tjight to #i e mnons of the city
as follows:
"Resolved, That the Chicago Fed
eration o Labor hereby recommend
to all union men'of the city of Chi
cago to ride only on cars where the
conductor, and motorman wear union
buttons, thus showing to the employ
ers class^that we- not only wear the
A Pleasing Picture by John Charlton, the Optimistic Canadian Artist.
*-
to-Great Britain. She can use her power] union button but patronize its wear- rell, 1911 Fourth avenue S. an ele
to force reciprocity on the states she x-an I
use it to stimulate emigration and food
they have sometimes descended to sharp
j practices. Long and often I have advo
i cated a friendly alliance between Great
j Britain, Canada and the United States and
j that is why I advocated reciprocity with
j the United States, and I desire the Brit
I ish zollverein as a step in that direction."
From Tho Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington. 1 r :v -:
Washington, Dec. 11.The Univer
sity of Wisconsin alumni of this city
had a reunion last night in honor of
Charles R.' VanHise, the newly elected
president of that institution. At the
business session which preceded the
feast Senator Spooner was elected
president of the association.
:.-., Fra nk McNulty, formerly of Sioux
City, Iowa, and now of Nome, Alaska,
is here for a short visit.
Dr. John C. Greenfield of Avon has
been recommended for appointment
as pension examiner surgeon at Tyn -
dall. S. D., vice Dr. H. B. Scofield, re -
signed.
B e
v
New York, Dec. 11.George E. Fos
ter, formerly finance minister of Can
ada, who has just returned from Eng
land, where he has been making
speeches in favor of a preferential
tariff and assisting in the campaign of
former Colonial Secretary Joseph
Chamberlain, declares that within five
years the Dominion will be able to
j supply Kngland with the wheat now
- The. fololwing fourth class post
masters were to-day appointed:
.Iowa-Metz, Jasper county, Peter
H. Farley, vice J. H. Clement, re -
moved Otho. Webster, county, Darwin
Green, vice Mary A. Fortney, resigned.
South Dakota Artas, Campbell
county, Earl T. Atha, vice Frederick
W. Boettcher, resigned.
WisconsinPeet, Burnett county
Annette, Chare, vice Id a M. Nichols,'
resigned.
At to-day's meeting of the house
committee on irrigation arrangements
were made for a joint .meeting of the
senate and house committees on irri
gation to hear F . H. Newell, chief of
the reclamation service, explain the
progress pf the work of his serrvice j
from the passage of the law to dat^.
It is expected a stenographic report 6i
the hearing will be made and printed
for the use of members.
Fire in the basement of Senator Al
lison's house last night did slight dam
age. _:The- senator put out the fire
himself =before the fire department ar
rived.-
Unexpected opposition developed to
day.aj the meeting of the independent
tobacco -manufacturers against the
Tawney-Otjen bill prohibiting the re
itsv,e
| across our front door. We
' proclaimed in Morolnna an BJiti-Srlaverj 1H'~
carcass
demptlori of tags, wrappers aiid bands.
!
get
got to
out to sea-that is if vou will let
i^^v^i^'-ii^1^
HAD DEBRALLS
^ TWO OFFICES?
Incident Which Indicates That * He
Had a Second Office in the
, Globe Building*w
Elevator Man in Globe Building
/ Thought He Recognized Him
as a Tenant There.
If He Had Then the Question Is,
Had He Still Another
Alias?
RECIPROCITY.
MMMetMHeteMweMieiMit4HMteMetMMei*MteMMfMtflMe
e rs."
The resolution was sent to every | ehiployed in the Globe building, was
trades union in Chicago, 454 in'num-j riding with him.
her, and is expected to cause trouble. . A man came into the elevator and
It may result in the refusal of union! was delivered at the fifth floor of the
Eng-conductors,ywhicr
men to pa thei fares to non-union
h yesterday led to a
serious rio,t
WASHINGTON NOTES
Wisconsin Alumni 3IeetsSenator
Spooner Elected President. 1-
Did J. J. Carlisle or J. J. Debialls
operate two sets of offices in differ
ent buildings during the early part of
October? This is the question
prompted by the experience of two
elevator operators the second week of
that month.
Edwin Brenna, elevator operator in
the'Bank of Minneapolis building, was
at work one day when Irving F . Far-
vator operator, who was at that time
Bank of Minneapolis building.
"Why that man has an office in the
Globe building," said Farrell.
"Does he?" responded Branna.
"His name is Debralls and he just went
into the offices he has opened in this
building."
L. L. Dodge, agent for the Globe
building, says that he does not re
member renting any offices to Car
lisle, Debralls or anybody else in the
"academy of occult science" business,
but Miss Rehmanklau, who acted as
office girl for Debralls in the Bank of
Minneapolis building, says that upon
two occasions Debralls said that he
had'either opened offices in the Globe
building or was about to. This raises
the question whether the man had still
another alias.
It is stated by the West hotel people
that the only time anj" one called for
J. J. Carlisle or. sought to go to his
room was whjpn he advertised for a
bulldog and a dog owner-responded
to it. H e apparently had no com
panion and no chum and only such'
acquaintances as he-picked up in the
hotel.
CRIMES INNUMERABLE
Absconding Embezzler and Bigamist
y'Pound Guilty of Murder. ]
Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 11 A verdict
of manslaughter in the first degree
was found yesterday against Charles
A. Thohi,- confidential. mail with the
Radcliff-Watland Carriage . company
of Sioux City, Iowa, who' absconded
two. years ajgo with'ft. large sum of the
firm's 'money, closer ting his wife and
child. He-came here and's6on mar
ried again, deserted .again, married
again, and-was arrested, charged with
embezzlement, desertion and bigamy.
While in jail here last May a re
volver was smuggled to him by a
woman..-With \i hich be killed his
jailer, J. J,. EJmerson. and escaped.
He was shot'by the dead jailer's wife,
and found suffering from the wound a.
week later. -. .. ..."
GRAND VIZIER COMING
Persian Pay Us a Notable .."Is to
/ : ..- -'. . Visit."-', ..:.
^ _ _ San* Francisco 11:^General
Rural free delivery will be. estab
lished, commencing Jan . 15, as fol-.
lows: MinnesotaHardwick, Rock
county, length of route 26 miles, popu
lation -330. houses 106 Reading,
Nobles county, length of route 25%
mile, population 503. houses 101. At
Fisher. Minn.. Edward Diectrich and
Oscar Olson were appointed substi
tutes to fill vacancies."
W. W. Jermane.
SK.VC.rtSt
A &-
IMta
f ^
saa
gnished "visitor and ha .instructed
..them to see to his saf^tv while here I
and en route to Washington.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
IS OU T .FOR ROOSEVELT
NO OPPOSITION
TO ROOSEVELT
Walter Wellman Says He Will Be
Nominated Without Even
- a Contest. :
Declares, However, That His Election
Is Another and Very Dif
ferent Matter.
And Adds That Many Republicans
^ Are Only Luke Warm Toward
the President.
New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, Dec. 11.Walter Wellman
in a Washington special to the Rec
ord-Herald says:
President Roosevelt will be nomi
nated for a second term without oppo
sition at the republican national con
vention to be held in Chicago in June
next. This is almost the unanimous
opinion of almost all the national com
mitteemen who are now assembling
here for the annual meeting of the
committee to be held to-day. It may
fairly be said that among the members
of the committee there is no dissent
whatever from the foregoing proposi
tion, so far as public utterances go.
Privately, a small number of com
mitteemen think they see obstacles in
the way, such as the fierce and per
sistent enmity to Mr. Roosevelt of the
great corporations in New Tork, the
unsatisfactory political conditions now
prevailing in the empire state and the
possibility that the president may not
be able to gain the electoral vote of
that great commonwealth.
But these private whisperings cut
only a small figure in comparison with
the outspoken and enthusiastic expres
sions of a great majority of the mem
bers of the committee who have been
interviewed by members of the press.
Praise for President Roosevelt and
predictions that he is to be not only
renominated, but re-elected, are heard
from so many lips that one expression
sounds almost like every other. Re -
cent occurrences have served to stir
the friends of the president to speak
out, and: there is no mistaking the
volume or the sincerity of the expres
sions in his favor.
As to the probable and almost cer
tain nomination of the president, vir
tually without opposition, a neutral
observer and chronicler like your cor
respondent may give his assent. Such
a result: is bespoken by all ^jhe signs
ol the times. His election ftf- another
story:a story which will have to be
fSjfttjpntlnued into many chapter^ of close
*T6tudy. The admirers o&the president,
are naturally optimistic and thley
be right but men like the writer,
haye no party' affiliations and no fa
vorites, -whose only anxiety
the public with ti'ue inwardness of all Important ^-*Vor-lr, Ho w
our political and public activities, may
well reserve their judgment as to the
outcome of- the campaign for many
long months. .
SHEVLIN'S ABSENCE
IM. MARTELLS' FATE
SUMMING U P B Y THE ATTOR-
- NFAS IX THE MURDER TRIAL.
AT GRAND FORKS.
Special to The Journal.
Grand Forks, N. D.. Dec. 11.Be-
fore the sun goes down the fate of I
William Martell will be in the hands
of the twelve good men and true who
for five days have been listening to.
the evidence. The case has been a
remarkable one in many particulars,
chief of which is that the evidence
of the state and defense harmonizes,
the. theory $,lone being at variance.
All the evidence is purely circumstan
tial, there having been no eye wit
nesses to the struggle.
The assistant, state's attorney, Skul
ason, began his address to the jury
yesterday afternoon and closed at!,__v,pre
10:30 this morning. John Serlie then
opened for the defense and finished
this afternoon. He made a: powerful
plea for the defendant, not in working
| on the sympathies of the jury.men, but
! in presenting the facts as brought out
j by the witnesses and in the light that
j he viewed" them. He dwelt on the evi-
! dence given by Mr. and Mrs. Parsorfo
and Miss Dow, whieh dovetailed with
the story Ibid by Martell on the stand..
"The strong point made was that
these witnesses all testified that they
ha'd heard -ttyo blow's struck. Nally
evidently received but one and the
defense contends thit .Martell. must
have received- the other. States At
torney Wineman made the closing ad
dress for the state and Judge Fisk
charged the jury late in the after-
noon.' . . * . \
. , ....-. . ".
c -K-ahn. PersianDec. minister to Wash -
ington, is expected here in a few days
with a party of friferras to await the
coming of the grand-vizier of .the Shah
of Persia, who. with "his suite, is bn
Jiis way from the orient and is due
here on Dec'21. The government has
already advised the local secret service
agents of the coming of thc t -distin-
Ma-.iiUliovoinor Tnft. it has lrn dfille
nill onliiiue lo act in hi ofJVi.ii (M|IJ.1( until
alter nis arrival in Wttshlngtou.
- "lS',~.M"!rf:jC
LFIVE O'CLOCK.
ENTHUSIASTIC
FOB PRESIDENT
Talk Wherever Members of the Com
mittee Met Was All for
Roosevelt.
Senator Mark Hanna "Stands Pat"
by His Declaration of Staunch
Friendship. .
The Convention Undoubtedly Witfi
Go to Chicago, Tho Decision
Is Not Yet Made. : 1
C From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, Dec. ll.-^Only Roose
velt's name is heard in the cor
ridors of the Arlington hotel to -
day, where the republican national
committee is meeting. Th e sudden,
onslaught of the Cincinnati Commer
cial Tribune apparently has failea in.
its purpose. The national committee,
whatever may be true of other party
leaders, is practically unanimous in
sounding Roosevelt's praises and say
ing he must be the nominee next year.
Ail members from western states
say he is the only choice of their
people and will poll thousands of
democratic votes in addition to the
solid vote of the republicans. If
Senator Han na at any time recently
has been privy to plans which have
been under way to stampede the na -
tional committee against Roosevelt
and secure from its members an ex
pression that the desirability of his
nomination was somewhat question
able, there is to-day nothing to indi
cate that fact. He is "standing pat, "
apparently, on his original official
declaration for Roosevelt, and has au -
thorized Harry C. New of Indianapo
lis, member of the national commit
tee from that state, to speak for him
as expressing the beiief that Roose
velt will and should be nominated by
acclamation.
The national committeemen come
direct from the people to Washing
ton and are not impregnated with the
anti-Roosevelt poison w^hich has been
so freely injected into the minds of
many republican members of both
houses of congress.
Roosevelt's friends hope that their
unequivocal stand will iuie the
Roosevelt opposition perhaps for good,
altho this is almost too much to hope
for. T~he feeling .here is much less
tense since the national committee has
taken such ,a,strong stand in favor
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Friendl y Toward Roosevelt.
From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington
Washington, Dec. 11.The fact that
T. H. Shevlin, Minnesota member of
the republican national committee,
has given Chairman Han na his proxy
for to-day's meeting, indicates that
Shevlin's dislike for the president has
not disappeared. It is well known
that Shevlin has never been consult
ed about Minnesota appointments, and
that his recommendations have been
ignored. The president is also said
to have failed to join with him in
certain matters which Shevlin wanted
to g-et thru the interior department
regarding timber operations in the
northwest.
Whenever Shevlin comes to Wash
ington he calls on the president, and
occasionally he has been asked to
stay to lunch, but there has never
been anything more than the formal
courtesies which such occasions de
mand. Shevlin has never felt that
he was close to Roosevelt, and yet
republican sentiment in Minnesota is
so strong for the president that he
did not want to attend the meeting
of the national committee where a
test of strength seemed, for a time,
likely to come between the Roosevelt
and anti-Roosevelt forces, for in such
an emergency unless he stood by the
president he would be severely
criticized. This is the explanation of
fered in Washington for Shevlin's
failure to be on hand to-day.
W. W. Jermane.
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Washington, Dec. 11.The republi
can national committee began its in
itial meeting preparatory to the presi
dential campaign of 1904 at the Ar
lington hotel at noon to-day. The
i committee, which was called to order
by Chairman M. A. Hanna, represented
every state and territory, either by the
regular :,member or proxy, except
Hawaii.
The principal business to be trans
acted is the selection of the time and
place for holding the next republi
can national convention. Neither was
discussed at to-day's meeting.
When Senator Hanna called the
meeting to order he was greeted with
a round of applause. H e expressed
briefly his thanks to the committee
for the work in the campaign of 1900.
Perry S. Heath, the secretary, read
a call of the meeting, stating its pur
pose. ' Both Chicago and St. Louis,
rival cities for the convention, are
maintaining headquarters in the hotel.
The time and place will be taken up
to-morrow when the various city dele
gations will be given an opportunity
to be heard.
Chairman Hanna, in outling the
program of the committee's session,
said that the committee would go in
a body to. the White House at 2 o'clock
"to pay our respects to the President
of the United States." This, he said,
would close the proceedings for the
day.
To-morrow the session will begin at
10 o'clock, when time will be given to
the committees representing cities de
siring the convention to present their
claims.
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NO CHANCE FOR ST. LOUS
Both' National Conventions Probably
Will Go to Chicago.
From' The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington. ' .-"
Washington. Dec. 11.Members of
the house committee on. industrial arts
and expositions. have advised the St.
Louis delegation^ere in the interest
of that city not -to urge -their claims
for the national convention.too strong
ly as Chicago is certain to be selected.
President Francis realizes there is no
chance for St. Louis, and say.s that
the delegation came to Washington
because local business men demanded
it. They concur in the proposition that
St. Louis has all she .can do next
year to handle the regular e/.position
crowds.
What, will happen as to the repub
lican convention will a#so happen to
the democratic. St. Louis will get
neither, and Chicago likely will get
both. The latest bulletin issued by
the exposition management discusses
hotel ,facilities for. next yesir 'saying
that, a maximum ,of 75,000 people' a.
i day can .be cared for. One national
vention would bring together that
m&ny 0 ple to say nothing, of the
%,hKi'rt ntton**,-,** i* regular , expbsitlo n attendance . St .
Louis lias booked already 240 national
conventions for next year, or an aver
age of nine each- week during the life
of the exposition. The politicians
don't want to get tangled up v, ith
these crowds. .'. .'". - -
-W. W. Jermane.
STATE CONVENTION CALLED1
Iowa Prohibitionists Select Boone as'Place
and May 24 as Date.
Special to The Journal.-
Des Moines, Iowa. De 11.The pro
hibition state central committee, in ses
sion here, decided to hold the state con
vention at Boone on May 2*. The reports
show $35.fl00 raised for Iowa's portion of
I the national campaign fund. Negotiations
J are pending for the ale of the Iowa
I Commonwealth, the official prohibition or
gan, to Chaiiman VV. D. K.iwell of Ames.
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