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THE KICIDIOXD PALLADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1908.
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM
AND SUN-TELEGRAM.
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Office North 9th and A Street.
chist, but was assassinated by his po
litical enemies, in a time of great ex
citement. The crime was well-planned;
the man who sped the bullet into
Goebel"s brain was never captured.
Only tlfe weakest circumstantial evi
dence against Powers and Howard
was to be had, but they were found
guilty by the Jury and were sentenc
ed. The vindication of Powers and How
ard clears the name of Kentucky from
a black stain. The time for unjust
persecution on political grounds
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REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE.
Governor
JAMES E. WATSON.
Lieutenant Governor
FREMONT C. GOODWINE.
Secretary of State
FRED A. SIMS.
Auditor of State
JOHN C. BILLHEIMER.
Treasurer of State
OSCAR HADLEY.
i Attorney Genera
JAMES BINGHAM.
State Superintendent
' LAWRENCE McTURNAN.
Stata Statistician
J. L. PEETZ.
a-Judge of Supreme Court
QTJINCY A. MYERS.
Jndge- of Appellate Court i
DAVID MYERS.
a Reporter of Supreme Court
GEORGE W. SELF.
j DISTRICT.
Congress
WILLIAM O. BARNARD.
COUNTY.
vJolnt Representative
ALONZO M. GARDNER.
-Representative
1 WALTER S. RATLIFF.
Circuit Judge
HENRY C. FOXl
Prosecuting Attorney
CHAS L. LADD.
Treasurer
ALBERT ALBERTSON.
Sheriff
LINUS P. MEREDITH.
Coroner1
DR. A. L. BRAMKAMP.
Surveyor
ROBERT A. HOWARD.
Recorder
WILL J. ROBBINS.
t Commissioner Eastern DIat.
HOMER FARLOW.
Commissioner Middle Dist.
BARNEY H. LINDERMAN.
-Commissioner Western Dist.
ROBERT N. BEESON.
WAYNE TOWNSHIP.
' Trustee
JAMES H. HOWARTH.
Assessor
CHARLES E. POTTER.
MIND NOT THE "PRATTLE.
j Lashed to the mast by their pledges,
yet hearing upon all sides the grilling
( of the Ohio candidate by the dissatis
fied and disgruntled allies, the Taft
delegates already In Chicago and those
peedlng to the Windy-City to attend
tie convention must i race three more
days of unfair criticism and attempt
J ed disruption of the party organization.
' The field candidates, growing peevish
t because of the immense wave of popu
t larity that seems to be sweeping Taft
toward the nomination, are resorting
to almost any means to accomplish
their purpose. Never before has such
a method been used to bring a candi
date into. dfsfavorf and to induce his
followers to break fath with him, as has
been brought to bear in the fight
Against Taft. The negro question;
the matter of contested seats, practic-
ally all of which contests were decided
, la favor of Taft; the fact that tne
; White House is urging Taft's nomina-
i
' ition and the sanctioning of the Ohio
xnan by Wall Street; all of these are
' toeing used as argument to swing the
I domination to any one of the allies.
Talt'8 followers are apparently un
J ! jnoved bj- the commotion about them.
: Relying upon the platform proposed
. by the big War Secretary, they, are
holding their own and Intend to give
; their candidate a support unbiased by
the Btreet-corner shouting of his oppo
nents.
FEARLESS GOVERNOR'S ACT.
Apparently fearless in the discharge
of the duties imposed upon him by
his oath of office. Governor Willson,
of Kentucky, has sit-I the official
pardon freeing Caleb vers and Jim
Howard, the two men who have been
four times tried and thrice convicted
on uncertain testimony, of complicity
In the murder of the late Gov. Goebel.
The action will call forth expression
of cemmendation from over the en
tire country.
Back of the famous Goebel case is
a story of political treachery and in
trlgue that has not its eaual in the
badly-governed small states of the old
world. Goebel was not killed by.
j prank or a rabid treet-hawklng anar-
STORY IS NOT NEW.
Again there comes froni interior
Europe, dispatches telling cj the mas
sacre by armed Russians of defense
less Jews, the usual story of the re
fusal of the police to interfere follow
ing. Such lawlessness and inhuman
persecution within the borders of a
Christian country, is hard to believe
in this day and age, yet the tale Is
not a new one.
The harrowing details recount a
story as terrible as those of the In
dian raids in our own country, a cen
tury ago. rine red man was a savage
barbarian whose instinct was to kill,
The Russian is a member of an or
ganized government, belongs to the
white or Ayrian race and believes in
Christianity. The comparison should
shame the Muscovites into immediate
and drastic action.
MAYBE IT IS ALL
SOUR GRAPES.
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JOSEPH B. FORAKER.
Senator Foraker, of Ohio, Is a bit
ter opponent of the candidacy of Sect
retary Taft. '
STEAMSHIPS HAVE
Latest to Be Installed
Dentists' Office.
Is a
Nw York, June 13. The competi
tion among steamship companies for
novelties on board new steamships, by
which tho impressionable passengers
may bo captured, has led to all sorts of
IrovaM n thft transatlantic. HnPra
launched in tho past few years.
It remained, however, for the Prin-,
cipe Di Udino of the LJoyd Sabaudo (
Fast Italian Mail Line, to include a
dentist's office among her attractions. '
TRAINED FALCONS
AS WAR
Russia Has Been Experiment
ing With Birds.
St Petersburg, June 13. Trained
falcons to carry dispatches in time of
war have been tested in the Russian
army. Their speed is lour times as
great as that of carrier pigeons.
EXTERIOR VIEW
II
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-THE-COMVT-NTTICNr HALL
SPAC. ONT MAJNTFLOOre
Much Strife Marked the Birth
of Great Political Conventions
In the Early History of the Country Political Parties Had Prac
tically No Organization, But by a System of Evolution
Great Changes Have Been Wrought.
The national conventions of the two
great parties, which will be held this
month and In July next, are the six
teenth for the republicans and the
twenty-first for the democrats since
the date each party assumed the name.
by which it is now known. Previous
to that time, or the convention of 1S32,
there was a general mixing of parti
sans whose candidates v.-ere selected
in various ways, but the earliest con
vention might be said V date from
February, 25, 1804, when the first reg
ular caucus of members of congress
was held to select a candidate for
I president.
i From 1780, the year of the first se
lection of a president of the United
States, until 1XY2, there were no popu
lar conventions held as now underta
ken, and from 17W) until 1S40 there
were no regularly '"planked" platforms
constructed.
In 17S1 General Washington's eleva
tion to the office of Presiaent consist
ed simply of an agreement between the
presidential electors appointed by
those states which had ratified the
constitution. Ten states only sent
electors to the college, Rhode Island,
North Carolina and New York not vot
ing. The first attempt at party organiza
tion dates from 1792, when the Feder
alists and Democratic-Republicans
formed their ranks. As both parties
then differed only in a few minor de
tails they easily agreed upon the same
presidential candidate, Washington.
Political strife, though mild in its
I : i v.
later years, began in !
i:ui"PnJU vwiu
1706. Washington's refusal to accept
the third term compelled, the Federal-
ists Democratic-Republicans to
piace candidates in the field, the gen-
tlemen being selected by a popular
vote, somewhat on the order of a reg
ular election.
Favorites Had to Hustle.
The Democratic-Republicans showed
in this election the first semblance of
political maneuvering and were suc
cessful. These same conditions con
tinued throughout the following polit
ical years until 1824, when another ef
fort was made to re viva the congres
sional caucus system. The move
ment, however, seemed to lack suffi
cient stamina among the idividual
members and progressed only as far as
the adoption of resolution- commend
ing the favorites. The favorites were
left to hustle for themselves to se
cure the nomination.
In 1S12 the Democratic-Republican
party dropped the compound name and
became known as the Republican par-
OF HALL IN WHICH CONVENTION WILL BE HELD.
ST-OWI NO- ROSTTSUM, tTTH PEESS SEATS ONJ EACH ICG.
VACANT IM PICTURE. WILL DE OCCUPIED BV DELE-jATS
AND ALTER.NATy-
y. This continued until 1S24, when
the two parties, the Republicans and
Federalists, became more or less bro
ken up, and in IS-'S emerged aa the
Democratic party and the National Re
publican party. This marked the be
ginning of the well-defined politcal
lines that have since been given voice
in the platforms adopted by each par
ty in the national conventions. For
the first time the two parties selected
their, nominees for president and vice
president by regularly organized con
ventions in the summer of 1S'52. The
Democratic party also adopted the two
thirds rule, which is the rule now in
force in each convention for the selec
tion of candidates, but neither in 1S;!2
nor in 18.'!f did the two parties make
any effort to adopt what is now re
garded as a platform, although in
the National Republican party publish
ed the views of its members on the
conduction of the affairs of the Gov
ernment. Adopted Two Thirds Rule.
In 1S36 the National Republican
party became partially disrupted by
different views within its ranks. Aft
er the split the larger portion chose
the name of "Whig," which clung to
the party throughout each convention
until 1856.
The two thirds rule was adopted .by
the Whig party in 1846 in their con
vention of that year. This convention
was the beginning for the great strug
gle for nomination. Factions having
sprung up in the parry the nomina
tions of William II. Harrison and
John Tyler for Tresident and Vice
President respectively were not ac
complished until the third day of the
convention
The first organization of a National
Committee occurred in 1S4S at the
Democratic National Convention.
Eight years later the Whigs became
the Republican party and elected
their regular National Committee at
the convention of that year.
The convention of both parties and
the smaller miscellaneous parties
which occasionally sprang into exist
ence between 1848 and 1S76 were
comparatively mild, the candidates be
ing well backed at the beginning. In
1SS0 the Republicans encountered a
scattering vote and it was not until
the thirty-sixth ballot that they final
ly decided on James A. Gartield as
the nominee. On the ballot for Vice
President Mr. Arthur received the
nomination at the first attempt.
Outcome Was Unexpected.
At the Republican Convention at
Chicago in 1SS4 it required the fourth
ballot to elect James G. Blaine as the
1
All TtlHT HUtftWD
nominee. As the counting of the bal
lots progressed there was considerable
excitement noticed among the com
mittee, the outcome being rather unex
pected. When the Secretary rose and
shouted the five-hundred mark, near
ly the necessary number, the .dele
gates and spectators did not wait for
the completion of the announcement,
but burst into applause, which lasted
a good quarter hour. Mr. Blaine, how
ever, received the 541 votes neces
sary, and General Logan was solidly
backed for Vice President by all the
states except New York.
The Democratic Convention of that
year nominated Cleveland and Hen
dricks on the second ballot. This was
the first convention at which dele
gates of the territories and the Dis
trict of Columbia were permitted to
vote.
In 1883 the Democrats nominated
Mr. Cleveland by acclamation. The
Republicans again encountered scat
tering votes until the sixth ballot,
when Mr. Blaine sent his dispatch
from Edinburg, Scotland, dated June
25, 1888, in which he said: "I think I
have a right to ask my friends to re
spect my wishes and refrain from
voting for me. Please make this
public." Nearly the solid body that
persisted in voting for Mr. Blaine
shifted to Benjamin Harrison on the
eighth ballot and effected his nomina
tion.
In JS92 the conventions of both
parties nominated their candidates on
the first ballot.
Gold and Silver Questions.
The 1896 conventions of both par
ties will go down in history as taking
a decided stand on the gold and sil
ver questions. Some of the Western
States objected to the anti-silver
plank In the Republican platform,
and three of the delegates from Utah
became so wrought up as to leave the
convention. The late Senator Arthur
Brown, leader of the delegation, at
once announced that Utah had not
bolted; three alternates, he said, had
been put in their places.
In the Democratic convention there
was a fierce conflict before the silver
plank was finally adopted. The con
test began when two delegations,
gold and silver, from the states of the
middle and Western sections asked to j
be seated. The silver delegates from i
most of those states were seated,
among them being the Nebraska dele
gation headed by William J. Bryan.
The discussion of the silver ques
tion became a heated one during the
progress of the convention, but after
Mr. Bryan's notable free silver speech
which generated and started an over
whelming wave of enthusiasm, the
platform of 16 to 1 was adopted. Ex
Governor Roswell P. Flower, chair
man of the New York delegation, rose
at the call of the first ballot, and said:
"In view of the platform adopted by
this convention, and of Its proceed
ings and actions, I am instructed by
the delegates from the state of New
York to say that we decline further
to participate in the selection of
candidates for President and Vice
President, and therefore we decline to
vote."
Mr. Bryan and Mr. Sewall were fin
ally nominated on the fifth ballot.
With Little Opposition.
Mr. Bryan was nominated with
scarcely any opposition in the Demo
cratic convention of 1900. In this
convention there was a reaffirmation
of the ell ver question and IS to 1 by
a close Tote, the minority being in
favor of a more conservative expres
sion for the silver standard.
The attempt to place the name of
David B. Hill, of New York, in nomi
nation for Vice President was the
only exciting episode in this conven
tion. A stampede led by the New York
delegation caused the great crowd to
shout wildly for Hill, but Mr. Hill re
plied in a rather strong speech with
the announcement that he could not
accept the nomination. In spite of
this Messrs. Murphy. Croker and Gra
dy, of the New York delegation, sug
gested to Mr. Hill that his name would
materially strengthen the party In the
East, but their arguments were with
out avail.
The Republican convention, of the
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CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS.
Fairbanks' name will be presented to the convention in Chicago by
Governor Frank Hanly. He will be given the complimentary vote of his
state on the first ballot, Indiana men in Chicago state.
same year nominated Mr. McKlnley on
the first ballot, but the nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt for vice president
required some political maneuvering
that again illustrated the already well
known generalship of the late Mat
thew S. Quay, of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Roosevelt's selection as the
nominee for vice president was not as
sured until the second night of the
convention. Until that time the late
Mark Hanna. chairman of the Repub
lican National Committee, favored the
nomination of the then Secretary of
the navy, John D. Long, of Massachu
setts.
The combination to bring Mr. Roose
velt's nomination about was composed
of Messrs. Quay, Piatt and Payne, and
at the second day's session, Mr. Quay
sprang the scheme by introducing an
amendment to the rules providing that
the representation of each state in the
future national conventions should
consist only of four delegates at large
and one additional delegate for each
10.000 votes cast for the national elec
tors in the preceding Presidential dec
tion. The effect of the amendment
was at once obvious to the Southern
delegates, who did not favor Mr.
Roosevelt for vice president. They
strongly opposed it and finally Repre
sentative S. E. Mudd of Maryland,
moved and secured consent that the
consideration of the amendment be
postponed for one day.
Effected a Stampede.
This was exactly what was desired.
During his time the Southern dele
gates were allowed to discover that
there was an opportunity to beat the
adoption of the amendment They
sought the combination leaders at
once, and after hasty consultations
made the agreement that resulted in
the stampede for Theodore Roosevelt.
The following day Mr. Quay withdrew
the proposed amendment in such a
graceful way that the Southern dele
gates, considering it a concession to
INDIANA'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO BE HEARD IN CHICAGO
- v m - j - -
GOVERNOR F RANK HANLY.
Hanly for the past several weeks, has been working hard on the speech
in which he hopes to arouse so much enthusiasm that the convention will
turn Its favorable attention towards I ndlaca's "favorite son," Charles War
ren Fairbanks. Hanly is an orator o f power and is expected to stir the
thousands of enthusiastic Tepublicans who will be in attendance at the
nominating session. - . - -.
them, rose en masse and cheered wild
ly.
Each four years the number of del
egates to the national conventions it
on the Increase. The lowest number
of delegates to select a nominee for
president was 3o. in 17s:. and the
greatest T'J. in 11 H. The greatest
number of ballots taken in any con
vention was ;, in 1SS-). In the early
stage of national conventions the vari
ous parties seemed pretty well decided
upon their candidates before the con
ventions convened, but Jn late year
the number of names submitted on the
first few ballots became greater and
reached as high as 1 1 in the year of
1SSS.
The Middle States cities have been
the favorite places of conventions dur
ing the past years, Chicago being the
city most used.
A political convention ts of '.en the
scene of great generalship among pol
iticians. Each state sends a certain
amount of delegates to the convention,
based on the number of voters, and
sometimes instructed to vote for a cer
tain favorite man. At the beglnnlnj
of balloting there may be any num
ber of names written on the ballots.
Some of the smaller oies may with
draw, others are made to prevent the
use of their names, and it is in such
cases that the maneuvering takes
place. Any candidate receiving a two
thirds vote of the enthe number of
delegates receives the nomination.
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spiteful. I thought she was paying
you a compliment.
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Nell Why, didn't she tell yoo yon
were looking quite yourself again?
Belle She said my "old Eelf," with
the accenLon the adiective.
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