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RICHMONB
PA
ABIUM
AND SUN-TELEGRAM.
VOL. XXXIII. NO. 121.
CONVENT ON
SURELY
ALLIES FACE OPEN SURRENDER UNLESS ORATORY OF A
THIRD-TERM LEAGUER CAN BE MADE TO APPEAL
TO DELEGATES' EMOTIONS AND THROW ROOSEVELT
THE NOMINATION.
ALL THE DELEGATIONS HAVE ARRIVED
Chicago Teems With Great Politicians and Notables on
The Eve of Wonderful Convention Delegations spend
Afternoon Organizing and Electing Chairmen of Neces
sary Committees.
DOLLIVER DECLARES HE
Iowa Senator Gives a Friend Authority to Withdraw His
Name If It Is Presented at the Convention as That of
A Candidate for the Vice Presidency. Governor Mur
phy Is a Possibility.
BULLETIN.
Chicago, June 15. The report that
Taft told friends that he intended to
have Luke Wright, a Tennessee demo
crat, as his successor, threw the south
ern office-holders into a panic and
threats are said to have been made to
stampede to Roosevelt. The stampede
for Roosevelt movement, ' originally
started by the allies, was the topic of
today and met with popular accord
among western delegates.
.Chicago, June 15. Unless some silver-tongued
orator sways the conven
tion by means of laudatory praise of
Roosevelt, and thereby starts an irre
sistible stampede for a renomination
vt the President for another term,
;which many delegates of the "Ally"
camp predict would sweep the conven
tion like wild fire, the ticket will be
"Taft and ." However, Joseph
Keallng, of Indianapolis, this morning
said to a Hearst News Service writ
er, "Taft probably has enough votes
to nominate him, if they stick. It will
be several days before a vote will be
taken, however, and many things may
happen in that time."
When asked what might happen,
Keallng was dumb. On the other hand
many who confess they believe a
Stampede will be attempted, say they
believe as firmly that such a stam
pede will surely fail.
Vice-Presidential Booms.
The active vice-presidential booms
Are for Governor Franklin Murphy, of
Mew Jersey, which is a very lively af
fair, aa his boomers claim to have four
hundred delegates already pledged;
for Governor Guild, of Massachusetts,
which is full of rigor; and for the
John Hays Hammond boom, the latter
being less seriously considered.
Among the passive vice-presidential
possibilities, Fairbanks, Hughes, Cor
telyou and George A. Knight, of Cali
fornia, stand a chance of filling the
blank above alluded to.
The final touches are being put on
the program for tomorrow. All the
delegations have arrived and caucuses
ere being held to choose various men
for honorary positions.
CONVENTION OPENS TOMORROW.
12,000 People Will Be on Hand at the
Great Republican Gathering.
Chicago. 111., June 13. The National
Republican Convention to nominate a
candidate for the first office of the
land, will open at the Coliseum to
morrow noon. About 12,XX) persons
vill witness it and it is now predicted
that before the big event is over, one
of the most remarkable gatherings of
its .kind In the history of the republi
can party will have been held. Ex
actly at noon, Harry S. New, of In
tllanapolis, chairman of the Republi
can National Committee, will start the
wheels n motion. It is expected that
from then on until Saturday evening
there will be nothing but excitement
in the big building.
When the last speech has been made,
the last hurrah given and the last tired
spectator and delegates have filed out
of the structure, three great questions
will have been settled. These are:
Who shall be the republican nominee
for president: what provisions shall be
Jn the platform upon which this man
will run for office, and who will be his
running mate.
Some say the first question has al
ready been answered. There are a
great many people today who believe
absolutely that Secretary of War Wil
liam Howard Taft, will be the nominee
for the office by acclamation. They
believe ho will poll 705 votes on first
ballot, which will probably be taken
Thursday afternoon or Friday morn
ing. Many of a more conservative
kind, declare that if Mr. Taft is not
named on the first ballot, the conven
tion will be the scene of a historic
MOVING
T
TAFT
WOULD REFUSE HONOR
fight. These declare that if he fails
on the first ballot his chances will di
minish upon each succeeding one, and
some have gone ko far as to say that in
event of failure on the first ballot Mr.
Taft has absolutely no chance of win
ning. From other sources have come
declarations that although the Taft
boomers claim everything for him, six
favorite sons, known as the "allied"'
candidates, will have their names pre
sented to the convention and by some
scheme or plan of action which they
have concocted, they will swamp Taft
and cause the nomination to go to a
darker horse than the secretary.
In still other quarters is found sup
port for the declaration that President
Roosevelt's name will be among those
polling votes on the first ballot: that
he will draw enough votes to prevent
Taft from getting it on the initial tal
ly, and that the second ballot will
bring a stampede to the president on
the wings of some high-flown oratory
by a third-term leaguer, picketed in the
hall for that very purpose-to watch
for the proper moment when the emo
tions of the delegates can be played up
on and swayed to President Roosevelt.
Almost anybody will admit that any
one of these possibilities may become
real. It seems to be a foolish predic
tion in the face of the present situa
tion of the republican party to declare
absolutely and finally that Mr. Taft
will win on the first, second or third
ballot. There are seven candidates
for president and there have been sev
en names presented as possibilities for
second place. Men who are out for
lirst place are the following: William
Howard Taft, of Ohio; Charles Warren
Fairbanks, of Indiana; Joseph G. Can
non, of Illinois; Charles E. Hughes, of
New York; Philander C. Knox, of
Pennsylvania; Joseph B. Foraker, of
Ohio; Robert M. Lafollette, of Wiscon
sin. Although Senator Dolliver, of
Iowa, has officially declined an offer of
his name as candidate for vice presi
dent, it is today practically assured
that his name will be presented as a
leader of seven vice presidential can
didates. Here is the list: Jonathan P.
Dolliver, of Iowa: George B. Cortelyou,
of New York; Charles Warren Fair
banks, of Indiana; Franklin Murphy,
of New Jersey; Curtis Guild of MaBssa
chusetts; James Sherman, of New
of New Jersey; Curtis Guild of Massa
chusetts. in
After Chairman New has made a
short speech to those assembled he will
introduce the Rt. Rev. H. J. Mul
doon, a Catholic biship, who will deliv
er the invocation. Following this,
Fred W. Upham, chairman of the com
mittee on arrangements for the con
vention, will deliver to Mr. New a gav
el made from wood taken from old Fort
Dearborn. The next step will be the
recognition of Elmer Dover, of the Na
tional committee, that he may read the
official call for the convention. At
this point things will begin to get real
interesting. Senator Julius Caesar
Burrows of Michigan, will then be in
troduced by Chairman New as tempora
ry chairman of the convention. He
will deliver the "keynote" speech of
the ltXKS campaign."
POURING IN RAPIDLY.
Delegates and Visitors Flock to Chi
cago on Every Train.
Chicago, June 15. From all points of
the comnass and also from all depots
today came delegates and alternates,
marching clubs, governors, distinguish
ed guests and staff correspondents. It
looked as if everybody who was not
tied down was pouring into Chicago.
They came from private cars and pub
lic trains. They brought brass
bands and loud badges with them.
They came from Hawaii. Alaska. Por
to Rico, the Philippines and other re
mote parts arid before noon an ordina
ry traveling man got no more atten
tion around a first class hotel than the
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Victorious Taft Legionaries on the Field of Great Battle,
Senator Foraker's Stanch Champion and a Friend of Cannon
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FRANCHISE OF
TRACTION LINE
TO BE PASSED ON
City Council Tonight Will Rati
fy the Work of Local Busi
ness Men as That Body Is
Well Pleased.
NEW MEAT INSPECTION
ORDINANCE COMES UP.
Very Probable City Attorney
Study Will Submit Measure
Which Can Be Termed Con
stitutional. At the council meeting this evening
the franchise agreement signed ssver
al days ago by the officials of the
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern
traction company and the Richmond
board of public works, will be submit
ted for ratification. There appears to
be no doubt that the franchise will be
ratified as none of the councilmen
have expressed any opposition to it.
In fact nearly all of the councilmen
are greatly pleased that local business
men have succeeded, where the board
of public works failed, in securing
such a satisfactory agreement from
the T. H. I. & E. company.
In Dayton, the city government is
making an effort to force the Dayton
& Western, which is a part of the T.
H. I. & E. to accept a franchise
which provides for issuance of trans
fers from traction cars to street cars
and vice versa, but the company abso
lutely refuses to do this. This was
one of the demands made by the lo
cal city government on the T. H. I. &
E. and the only one that the company
absolutely refused to comply with.
On the other hand the company
agreed to a section in the agreement
which provided for the issuance of
transfers from one city line to anoth
er. This arrangement has been in ef
fect here for years but under none of
the franchises held by the company
was it compelled to issue transfers.
It is also probable that at the coun
cil meeting this evening, an amended
meat inspection ordinance will be in
troduced. City Attorney T. J. Study
has prepared a new meat inspection
ordinance but he has not stated bow
It will differ from the old ordinance.
It will be remembered that a few
months ago C. B. Hunt, a Main street
grocer, was arrested for a violation
of this ordinance, selling uninspected
meat purchased from farmers, and
that he successfully fought the ordin
ance in the city court. The case was
appealed by the city to the circuit
court and last week . City Attorney
Study made a motion to have the ap
peal dismissed.
It is understood that the new meat
inspection ordinance will, like the old
one, provide for government inspec
tion of slaughtering establishments,
but will permit farmers who do not
make a regular business of selling
their meat products to sell their sur
plus meat in this city.
It is stated that one of the reasons
why the price of beef In this city has
gone up so high, is because farmers
in this locality could not find a mar
ket for their meat In this city under
the terms of the meat inspection or-
Unano.
RICHMOND, IXD., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1908.
TAFT-ROOSEVELT
PLATFORM WILL GO
THROUGH AS FMS
Not Thought That Document
In Custody of Wade Ellis
. Will Be Changed Materially,
If at All.
RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE
MEETS ON TUESDAY.
At That Time Various Planks
Now Being Agitated Will Be
Taken Up and Considered
By It.
Chicago, 111., June l."5. It was an
nounced with authority yesterday there
would be no further changes in the
tentative platform, now in the safe
guarding of Wade Ellis of Ohio, until
it is handed over to the tender mercies
of the committee on resolutions this
afternoon. When the committee gets
hold of it, however, it has the entire
right to do anything it wants to with
it. It can throw the document in the
waste basket if it wishes to.
But nobody expects it to do anything
of the kind. In fact; ft Is" Maimed and
not seriously denied that when the
committee gets through with it the al
terations will not be serious enough to
cause comment. The idea held by most
of the . informed people is it will go
through largely in its present shape
and what difference there may be be-tweenf-the
committee report and the
tentative draft furnished the commit
tee will be largely minor and more of
wording than of substance.
It is this which has led everybody
who has any particular thing he wants
to get into the platform, as well as
those who are anxious to keep some
things out, to seek Mr. Ellis and try to
get the draft fixed up so it will include
or exclude the things they do or do not
want. They would have that much
better start before the committee if
they could do it.
But inasmuch as Mr. Ellis came here
as the special messenger of President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft. carrying
with him only the expression of their
wishes as to the platform all outsid
ers will have to make their appeals to
the committee.
Taft Men at the Helm.
The committee will be essentially a
Taft committee and by more than what
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THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA Fair Monday night; Tues
day partly cloudy and warmer;
light north winds, becoming var
iable. .
OHIO Fair Monday night, cooler In
east portion; Tuesday fair; light
49 f rssh northwest to north winds.
NEGROES
SWEAR
VENGEANCE ON
-MEN OF RACE
Colored People of Chicago Ad
vocate Kuklux Klan to Deal
Properly With Supporters
Of Taft.
VIOLENCE HINTED AT
IN MONSTER MEETING.
Speaker Says That Chicago
Negroes Deal Severely
With Colored Men From the
South.
Chicago, 111., June 15. Comedy,
which, has played a strong part in ev
ery previous meeting held by the dis
gruntled southern delegates who were
unseated by the national committee,
was banished from the council of war
in the Bethel African Methodist
church Sunday afternoon.
Orators who during last week
shouted themselves hoarse in denun
ciation of the administration and its
plans, exhausting the store of exple
tives for hurling against what they
call "tyranny" and oppression." turned
upon those of their own kind whom
they found in the opposing camp.
Whether the unveiled threats that
were roared with more than a figura
tive gnashing of ivory teeth were in
tended merely as "rousers," or wheth
er actual violence against the "trait
ors" was planned, was more than the
audience could determine.
The impression created was that the
negroes who have remained faithful
to the administration will be subject
ed to some form of mob attack unless
they remain inactive during the con
vention. Dr. Cress Sounds War Cry.
The hysterical outburst was started
by Dr. Henry C. Cress, a Chicago phy
sician, and while its spirit wag carried
along by those who followed him, it
was he who shouted the war cry of
black man against black man.
After branding the negro office hold
ers in the southern delegations as
"the bread brigade," and declaring
that none of them had influence with
the race as a whole, he shouted:
"We must mark those men"
"They are marked." cried some one
in the audience.
"They are? Good," the speaker re
plied. "The men who betray their
race must pay the penaltiy with their
lives. We must organize. We must
have a Ku Klux KlanT
Howls of approval answered him.
"We are looking for men. If we
call you. will you answer? he asked.
" If we call you at midnight will yon
come?"
"Yes, I will! I wilir came scattered
replies.
"If we call yon morning, noon or
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SPLENDOR MARKED
THIRD REGIMENT
IAL EVENT
Knights of Pythias from Many
Cities Attend Grand Regi
ment Review and Services
at Rushville.
THREE WAYNE COUNTY
COMPANIES IN LINE.
Those of This City, Hagers
town and Cambridge City
Represented Brig. Gen. Is
Pleased With Work.
Rushville, Ind., June 13. Military
splendor marked the exercises at Rush
County Fair grounds Sunday afternoon
of the Third Regiment. Indiana Uni
form Rank Knights of Pythias, and
associated subordinate lodges In mem
ory of their departed brethren.
A long parade in which some fH
uniformed men and tvtO members of
Ivy Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of this
city, and other lodges participated, the
column being formed in two divisions,
the first of which was headed by the
Rushville Concert Band, and the sec
ond by the Connersvllle band, preced
ed the memorial exercises. The prln
cipal features were the inspection of
the uniform rank by Brig. Gen. Mer
rill E. Wilson of Indianapolis and
the memorial address by F. J. Duntcn
of Lagrange, supreme representative
and past grand chancellor of Indiana.
Pythianism. said the speaker, is not
a religion, it is a life. The paramount
Pythian principle is love to God
lgh love to Man.
x'oward the close of his remarks. Mr.
Dunten quoted from a poem written by
Frank B. Stutts of Aurora, at one time
a candidate for the republican nomina
tion for lieutenant governor. The po
em summarizes Pythian principles and
is in part a follows:
"Out of the old worlds legions, out of
the tales of Greece,
Out of the dreams of Jason, as he
sought for the fable Fleece:
From the murmuring waves of Jordan
and wind swept Palectlne.
From every high-arched transept and
every rock-hewn shrine;
From the aged groves of Britain, with
their altars and their fires.
From all the wide world's history and
and all that it inspires.
It has gathered the strands of duty,
and in its loyal quest.
Has woven this princely standard
which It sets up in the West.
It builds for unseen ages, it builds for
the pregnant years;
It builds for a coming morning devoid
of recreant fears;
It builds for the world and Its prog
ress, for every tribe and clan.
For. the gracious peace of the cross of
Christ and the brotherhood of
man."
Attended by Thousands.
Thousands attended the exercises,
special cars being run between the city
and the fair grounds by the Indianapo
lis & Cincinnati Traction company.
Pjthlans from all over the state were
present and most of the cubordinate
lodges In the eastern part of Indiana
were represented. The forenoon was
MEMOR
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SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.
BUT LITTLE
SUPPORT FOR
C. W.
ndlana Workers Laboring
Among Delegates in Chica
go, Seem to Have Given Up
Hope of Nomination.
URGING HIM FOR
VICE PRESIDENT-
Notwithstanding the Activity
Of Taft Workers Along This
Line, Kealing and Others
Are Objecting.
.4
Chicago, If!.. June After forag.
ing all day on the hunting grounds of
the enemy, the scouts commissioned
for important service by the mangers
of the Fairbanks presidential boom.
returned empty handed last night to
their own reservation. They had
nothing of an encouraging nature to re
port. The best the most optimistic
bad to offer was that they had found a
sullen resentment against the Big
Stick method of President Roosevelt In
attempting to bring about the nomina
tion of his favorite candidate. Secreta
ry Taft.
It was admitted behind the closed
doors of the Fairbanks reservation
that the scouts bad failed to bring
home the tidings they . desired, but
some satisfaction was derived from the
reports that a bitter feeling Is abroad
in the land against a one-man policy
of running the convention. Hope of
winning first place has not been aban
doned entirely by the vice president's
managers, although they realize they
haven't more than one chance la a
thousand of winning. .
Like a man playing a long shot they
are sticking to the belief that when all
the delegates arrive they will share
their views and resent the well-defined
administration program here and up
set It. Then may come the only oppor
tunity they think exists to nominate
their entry for first place.
" Working In Squads.
The Indiana republican worker are
being drafted as scouts as rapidly as
they arrive. They are working In
squads of twos and threes under the
direction of George Dinwiddle, of
Frankfort, a life long friend of the vice
president and vice chairman of the
state committee of Indiana. Dinwid
dle said tonight that the information
brought to headquarters indicates that
many delegates are in a sullen mood
over the Taft program, and If some
good leaders can be obtained a fight
could be made on the floor of the con
vention that would play havoc with
the carefully laid plans to nominate
Taft.
His statement was merely an echo
however, of what the allies have been
giving out for several days, but It dis
closed the outline of a plan to have
some powerful speakers take the Ini
tiative on the floor against Taft and to
drill it Into the delegates that they are
being led around by the nose and that
a machine-dominated ' convention
means the ruin of the party In the com
ing campaign. '
"Big Chief" Joe Keallng, of the
Fairbanks Indiana machine, who has
managed the vice president's boom,
repeated last night that the vice pres
ident's name will be presented.
"This fight for president is not ov
er yet," he declared. "We do not -Intend
to quit, and we believe there Is a
chance for Mr. Fairbanks to be nomin
ated." Efforts to learn what strength the
vice president will have outside of 30
instructed delegates In Indiana and
two in Kentucky were balked. It was
rnmored that his managers have been
assured of some votes from Missis
sippi. Georgia and Alabama. Dinwid
dle stated that delegates from Califor
nia and other western states lean to
ward the vice president and would
come to him In preference to Taft If
they could be shown that he bad
show to winning.
8a y Taft is Weak.
The plan pursued by the Fairbanks
scouts was to show the delegates that
Taf is a weak candidate; that he can
not carry Indiana and other states
that are necessary to. the success of
the ticket. They were very ctlve
during the day among the federal
office-holding delegates from the
southern states. It was represented to
this class that the chances of Taft's
winning are not bright and that the
defeat of the ticket means the loss of
their Jobs. Just how far they have
succeeded with this line of attack was
not known tonight by the vice presi
dent's managers, but they are keeping
it op as a last resort. The ground
is taken by Keallng and his asso
ciates that it is more creditable to die
fighting for the position they have co
veted so long than to quit at the elev
enth hoar and attempt to land second
place. This view explains the opposi
tion of Kealing. Colonel George B.
Lock wood and other Fairbanks man
agers to the strong movement of the
rank and file of the Indiana workers
here to start a boom for him for the
vice presidency.
The latter's managers' are trying to
sit on the lid. as ft were, lone enough
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FAIRBANKS
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