Georgia Historic Newspapers

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; vol. xi.
TAFT. HOLDING FAST
TO SHAM-ROLLER.
IIOESMW
With 350 of the Roosevelt
Delegates Declining to Vote,
Votes on First
Ballot
(By associatee rress.)
CONVENTION HALL. June 22. —
With nearly 350 of the Roosevelt
delegates declining to vote and has
tening away at adjournment time, to
tender to Colonel Theodor- Roose
velt the nomination of a new party,
the fifteenth Republican national
convention at the end of a long and
tumultuous session tonight renomi
nated William Howard Taft, of Ohio,
for president, and James Schoolcraft
Sherman, of New York, for vice
president.
TAFT GETS 561 VOTES.
President Taft received 561 of the
1.078 votes in the convention, or 21
more than a majority.
The decision of the Roosevelt peo
ple, under direction of their leader,
to refrain from voting, left no other
candidate near the president. The
announcement of the Taft victory
was greeted with cheering from his
adherents'and groans and hisses
from the opposition.
Whed ft became absolutely certain
early- today that Mr. Taft would be
nominated 'without great difficulty,
the leaders in control of the conven
tion decided to give ulm as a running
mate companion on the ticket In
1868.' :
AU others dropped from the race
and Mr; Sherman was the only can
didate regularly placed before the
convention. A motion from New
Hampshire to make the nomination
by acclamation was declared out of
order. There were many scattering
votes on the roll call.
The convention amid much con
fusion then adjourned sine die.
NO TEDDY WALK-OUT.
At no time was there an indica
tion of a walkout of Roosvelt dele
gatee. They expressed their revolt
by silence
In the confusion just before ad
journment a resolution was adopt
ed giving the national committee pow
er to declare vacant the seat of a man
on the committee refusing to support
the regular nominee of 1812-
Tn the cleeing moments of the conven
tion. a resolution was passed under ths
gavel, giving the national committee the
power to fill all vacancies and empow
ering the committee to declare vacant
the seat of any members who "refuse to
support the nominees of this conven
tion."
Former Representative Hemenway, of
Indiana, introduced the resolution.
Such of the delegates as had not left
the hail crowded oiosely about the plat
/ form while the resolutions, announce- <
meats and customary - routine of the ;
closing hour was gone through with.
BAND PLAYS "PRAISE GOD.”
At 10:20 Delegate Estabrook, of New
Hampshire, moved that I the convention
adjourn with delay, and the motion
was adopted. The delegates filed out in
absolute silence. As the last of the del
egates left the hall, the band playd,
"Praise God, from Whom All Blessings
Flow."
VOTE BY STATES.
At 8:33 p. m. the call of the states
and the voting began.
Alabama votel Taft. 32; not voting. 2.
Arizona voted Taft 8.
Arkansas voted 17 for Taft, 1 not vot
ing.
Cabfernta's went 2 for Taft. 24 not
voting.
Colorado voted 12 solid for Taft, and
Connecticut 14 for Taft.
Delaware voted 8 for Taft and Flori
da gave Taft 12.
Georgia went into the Taft column
solid* with 28 votea
Idaho voted 7 for Senator Cummins
and 1 for Taft.
ILLINOIS FOR TEDDY.
When Illinois was called. Gov. De
neen announced'that many of the dele
gates felt tnat under the Illinois pri
mary law they would be bound to fol
low their Instructions and vote for Col.
Roose-elt. The roll of the delegation
was called
The result in Illinois was: Taft. 2;
Roosevelt, 52; not voting. 2; absent, 2.
Indiana voted: Taft, 20; Roosevelt.
2; not voting. 7.
lowa voted Taft 18; Cummins 10.
The eighteen Roosevelt delegates
from Kansas refused to vote.
Taft received 2.
Kentucky voted Taft 22; Roosevelt, 2.
Louisiana voted 20 for Taft.
Maines 12 refused to vote.
A roll call of the Maryland dele
gation gave Taft 1, Roosevelt 9, not
voting 6. absent 1.
When Massachusetts was reached a
roll call was demanded As the Roose
velt men recorded themselves, present
and refused to vote. Chairman Root or
dered that their alternates be called in
their stead. Thia ruling broke the storm.
WOMEN ARE BITTEN
TRYING TO SAVE DOG
<Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DUBLIN. Ga. June 24.—Saturday aft
ernoon. while out walking in Stubbs
park. Miss Julia Ernest and Miss Fran
'ces McGeeken. of thia city, were attack
ed by a mad dog and badly bitten. A
pet dog of Miss McGeeken had followed
them, and the dog with rabies seeing
him went for him. The woman in try
ing to rescue her pet, not aware of the
dog's being mad. was attacked by him.
In trying to keep the dog from biting
her in the face, holding him off. she was
dreadfully bitten on the arm.
Miss Ernest, in trying to assist Mtss
McGeeken in fighting the dog off. was
badly bitten In the side.
They left Sunday for Atlanta, where
they went to take the Pasteur treat
ment. Nothing has ever happened here
which caused greater regret, as both
|young ladles are prominent here and
have a large host of friends who are
deeply Interested, and trust they may
soon recover.
i The dog was killed later, but had bit
ten several other dogs
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HAVE WON VICTORY.
50 UnjEMES
iSays Opponents Waged Cam
paign to Seize Republican
Machine as Instrument for
Own Reckless Ambition
(By AM«ciat*l Perna.)
WASHINGTON June 22.-President Taft
tonight made the following statement:
•'A national convention of one of the
great parties is ordinarily Important only
as a preliminary to a national campaign
for the election of a president. The
Chicago convention just ended is much
more than this and is in Itself the end
of a pre-convention campaign, presenting
a crisis more threatening and issues more
important than those of the election cam
paiggn which is to follow between the
‘ two great national parties.
‘The question here at stake was wheth
er the republican party was to change
its attitude as the choice of the con
servator of the nation of consitutlonal re
presentative government and was to
weaken the constitutional guarantees of
life, liberty and property and all other
rights declared sacred in the ■bill of
rights, by abandoning the principles of
the absolute independence of the jud
iciary, essential to the maintenance of
those rights.
RECKLESS AMBITION.
'The campaign carried on to seize the
republican party and make it the in
strument of reckless ambition and the
unsettling of the fundamental principles
of our government was so sudden and un
expected that time was not given clarly
to show to the people and the party the
dangers which confronted them.
“It was sought to break the wise and
valuable tradition against giving more
than two terms to any one man in the
presidency and the danger from its
breach could not be measured. The im
portance of the great victory which has
been achieved cannot be overestimated.
All over this country patriotic people
tonight are breathing more freely that
a most serious menace to our republic
, an institutions has been averted.
"It is not necessary tonight to speak
of the result in November or of the
issues which will arise between the
I Republican and Democratic parties in
' the presidential campaign to follow. It
will be time enough to do that after
I the action of the Baltimore convention.
’ It is enough now to say that whatever
i may happen in November, a great vlc
! tory for the Republican party and the
j United States has already been won.
The party remains as a great, pow
erful organization for carrying out its
patriotic principles as am agency of
real progress in the development of the
nation along the constitutional lines
upon which it was constructed and has
ever been maintained, and its future
(opportunity for usefulness is as great
as its achievements in the past."
President Taft declared tonight he
was much in favor of having his sec
retary. Charles D. Hilles, for chairman
of the Republican national committee.
He expressed a high appreciation <n
Mr. Hilles' work in the pre-convention
campaign. When asked if he wpuld
take the stump this fall the president
replied he considered It likely that he
would. He was plainly elated at his
victory when the complete returns be
came known.
Sergeant Gumb Drowns ■
(By Associated Press.)
CHARLESTON, 8. C., June 24.—De
tails reached this city Sunday of the
drowning Saturday night in the Sulli
van's island surf of Sergt. Harry W.
Gumb, of Lowell. Mass. Gumb got
caught in a whirlpool in the rocks. His
young wife, who was watching nearby
with her little child, started into the
water to rescue him, but could do noth
ing. His body will be shipped home. He
was attached to the army post at Fort
Moultria
ROOSEVELT. CRYING
FRAUD. THROWS HAT
IN NEW WY RING
Accepting Nomination by Pro
gressives, Colonel Says Time
Has Come for New Public
and Private Morality
(By-
CHICAGO, June' 22.—1 n accepting the
nomination tonight at the formation of
the new party, Theodore Roosevelt
hurled his hat into a new ring, in a
characteristic and ringing speech. He
said:
Gentlemen: “I thank you for your
nomination, apd in you I recog
nize the lawfully elected delegates
to the Republican convention, who
represent the overwhelming majority of
the voters who took part in the republic
an primaries prior to the convention and
who represent the wish of the majority
of the lawfully elected members of the
convention. I accept the nomination sub
ject to but one condition.
“This has now become a contest, which
cannot be settled merely along the old
party lines. The principles that are at
stake are as broad and as deep as the
foundations of our democracy itselK
They are in no sense sectional. They
should appeal to all honest citizens, east
and west, north and south; they should
appeal to all right thinking men, whether
republicans or democrats, without regard
to their previous party affiliations."
TIME FOR NEW PARTY.
"I feel that the time has come when
not only all men who believe in pro
gressive principles, but all men who be
lieve in those elementary maxims of
public and private morality, which must
underly all forms of successful free gov
ernment, should join in one moveiftent.
Therefore I ask you to go to your several
homes, to find out the sentiment of the
people at home, and then again to come
together, I suggest by mass convention,
to nominate for the presidency a progres
sive candidate on a progressive plat
form, a candidate, and a platform that
will enable us to appeal to northerner
and southerner, easterner and westerner,
republican and democrat alike, in the
name of our common American citizen
ship. If you wish to make the fight, I
will make it even if only one state should
support me. The only condition I im
pose is that you shall feel entirely free
to substitute any-other man, and tn such
case I will give him my heartiest sup
port.
"Wherever, in any state, the republic
an party is true to the principles of its
founders and is genuinely the party of
justice and of progress, I expect to see
it come bodily into the new movement,
for the convention that has just set in
this city is in no proper sense of the
word a republican convention at all.
PURPOSE OF BOSSES.
"It does not represent the masses of the
republican party. It has served the pur
pose only of a group of sinister politi
cal bosses, many of whom have used the
party merely as an adjunct to money
making, either for themselves or for the
great crooked financial interests which
they serve.
"The bosses who stole enough delegates
to enable them to dominate -this conven
tion, have no kinship of soul or spirit
with the men who started the republican
party on its career as an agent of liberty
and justice. You, my friends, are the
heirs in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln
when he refused longer to te mound by
shackles of the past and faced the new
issues in the new spirit that the time
demanded.
"But we are more fortunate in one re
spect than our predecessors, for we who
now stand for the progressive cause, the
progressive movement, have done for
ever with all sectionalism, and we make
our appeal equally to the sons of the man
who fought under Grant and to the
sons of the men who fought under Lee,
for the cause we champion is as empha
tically the cause of the south as it is the
cause of the north.
"THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.”
"I am in this fight for certain princi
ples and the first and most important of
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1912.
THOUSANDS CHEER
15 PROGRESSIVES
- MME ROOSEVELT
Men Fling Hats in Air and
Women Toss Fans and
Gloves as Colonel Appears
at Meeting
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 2 2.-7-Former
President* Theodore Roosevelt was
nominated for president on an inde
pendent ticket tonight, •in the dying
hours of the Republican national
convention in which he had met de
feat.
Followers of Colonel Roosevelt
gathered in Orchestra hall, less than
a mile from the coliseum, and pledg
ed their support to the former pres
ident.
In accepting the nomination Colo
nel Roosevelt appealed to the people
of all sections, regardless of party as
filiations, to stand with the founders
of the new party, ope of whose car
dinal principles he saiu was to be
"thou shalt not steal.”
The informal nomination of Colo
nel Roosevelt, wa ssald to be chiefly
to effect a temporary organization.
Beginning tomorrow, when a call is
to be Issued for alate conventions, the
work of organization will be pushed
rapidly stateTjyil|ate. Ai n later time,
probably earlyirf A’Cg., it is intended
that a national Aoßvention shall be
held. CdWmel in accepting,
the nomination sa:The did so on the
understanding ’hfct -be would be will
ing to step asideiult should be the
desire of the*neis party when organ
ized to select standard-bearer.
koosevElJ DOMINATED.
The speech dominating Colonel
Roosevelt wan Bade by Comptroller
Wni/ of New York, who
was to have the colonel s
name to the convention.
Dean Wm. Draper of the Uni
versity of Penna/Ivtnia Law school,
who was to make one of the second
ing speeches, delivered the address
which he had prepared for the Repub
lican convention, . ’ K
Representatives cjf 32 state* composed
the notification coffinritfee, which in
formed -Colonel Rbosevelt of his nomi
nation and, in a sense, stood as a spon
sor for the movement.
The committee consisted of Comp
troller W. R. Prendergast, of New
York; Meyer Liwsner, of California;
former Congressman Richmond Pearson,
of North Carolina; Frank Knox, of
Michigan; Matthew Jlale, of Massachu
setts; A. R. Garford, of Ohio: David
Browning, of Kentaeky; Everard Bierer,
3t., of Htah; WaltW> Thompson, of Ver
mont; Judge Hundlet, of Ala
bama; Judge Ben J. |N. Lindsey, of Col
orado; Andrew Rah*, of Minnesota;
Judge Stevens, of Iowa; Judge Lowder,
of North Dakota; William Allen White,
of Kansas John C. Greenway, of Ari
zona; ex-Gov. John Franklin Fort, of
New Jersey; Col. E. C. Carrington,
Maryland; Pearl Wight, of Louisiana;
Lorenzo Dowe, of Washington; Walter
Clyde Jones, of Illinois, and Frank
Frantz, of Oklahoma.
Big Bee Buzzing In
Bryan’s Headquarters
(By Asaociated Press.)
BALTIMORE, June 24.—The headquar
ters of William J. Brysn swarmed all
day with visiting delegates and friends
who came to advise with him over the
situation. Several Ohio delegates, led
by William H. Reinhart, of Sandusky,
visited Mr. Bryan.
“I don’t want to embarrass you, Mr.
Bryan,” said Mr. Reinhart, “but we
want you for president.”
“I have something more important
right now,” replied Mr. Bryan. “I want
you for the first round for temporary
chairman. I am not talking about any
thing else.”
Mr, Reinhart said he wan elected as
an independent progressive delegate.
TWO RAILROADS CLASH
OVER RIGHT OF TRACK
Southern Railway and Gaines
ville and Northwestern Will
Have Legal Battle
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GAINESVILLE. Ga., June 24.—About
4 o’clock yesterday morning a force,
under orders from the Southern railway,
proceeded to tear up a crossing, the
frog us put down for the Gainesville
and Northwestern railroad to cross the
Southern spur track that runs out to
the Pacolet mills at New Holland. The
rails were bent In every direction and,
torn up so that it could not be put bac£
is pla:e.
' The Gainesville and Northwestern
people were properly notified when the
Southern crews started to tearing up
the track, and their counsel was noti
fied, and immediately warrants were
sw’orn out and the men landed in the
county jail, all of whom made bond.
The Gainesville and Northwestern then
set about to put the torn up track back
in place, and succeeded, and in the
meantime secured an injunction from
the judge restraining the Southern from
again interfering with the track.
All yesterday afternoon excitement
was running high, as local counsel for
the Southern stated that the Gainesville
and Northwestern track, or frog, would
again be torn out last night regardless
of the injunction as granted, and the
sheriff and a number of deputies were
on hand, and trouble was expected.
The president of the Gainesville and
Northwestern railroad was at the First
Methodist church last night, where he
made a stirring speech for home mis
sions. stating that he had been unable
to attend the day services.
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Cranford Drowns
TAMPA, Fla., June, 24.—Joseph Cran
ford, a sailor of the revenue gutter For- j
ward, was drowned at St. Petersburg
while bathing yesterday afternoon. He
was attacked by cramps. Hundreds of
bathers watched efforts of men who at
tempted to rescue him, ■
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LAST CRY OF FRAUD.
SENT BY ROOSEVELT.
READ TOCONVENTIDN
Ex-President Sends Statement
Asking His Delegates to
Take No - Part in Chicago
Nomination
■ . ■ - ■ . . n
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, June 22.—After seating all
contested Taft delegates except those
from Texas, the convention came to or
der again at 2:12 p. m. and took up the
Texas cases.
The credentials committee report on
Texas followed the report of 'the na
tinoal committee, fevorable to Taft, and
was adopted, district by district, without
roll call. The only delegates given
Rooseevlt were in the Third and Fif
teenth Texas uistricts, both of which
the national committee had originally
awarded him.
It was generally understood that
with the completion of the organiza
tion, the Roosevelt people would de
clare their position of non-participa
tion in further procedings rs the con
vention. ,
The report of the committee on per
manent organization, recommending
that the temporary list of officers head
ed by Senator Root, be made perma
nent, was adopted.
Senator Root came forward amid
deafening noise of cheers, whistling,
boing and other signs of approval' and
disapproval.
The demonstration lasted several min
utes, Mr. Root standing, smiling, watt
ing for the noise to subside.
When at last it became quiet, Mr.
Root made a brief speech of thanks.
He introduced Henry J. Allen, of Kan
sas, to make a statement.
“NO PHYSICAL BOLT." _
Henry J. Alien’s speech was a decla
ration that the Roosevelt people re
pudiated this convention and its work,
and without a physical bolt, appealed
to the people.
Allen began by reading the statement
of Mr. Roosevelt.
Alien's first mention of Roosevelt’s
name started a tremendous cheering in
which all the Roosevelt delegations par
ticipated, with scores of people in the
galleries. The Taft delegates sat still,
watching the rest of the crowd, but tak
ing no part in the demonstration. There
were large sections of the gallery, too,
where the people were sitting motion
less.
Allen said the steam roller had ex
ceeded the speed limit in the California
case. “Since then." said he, “we have
asked for no roll call. ’ The Roosevelt
men, he said, declined to share the
responsibility of a convention which had
ignored popular majorities against Taft
in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New
Jersey, South Dakota, North Dakota,
Minnesota, Maryland, Nebraska, Oregon,
Kansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia and
North Carolina.
Allen declared that Roosevelt, upon
his retirement from the White House,
left an overwhelming Republican major
ity, a record on which Taft was elect
ed, and a progressive platform. He
pointed to the Democratic gains made
since.
"We will not participate with you In
scuttling the ship," said Mr. Allen. “We
do not bolt. We have fought you here
five days for a square deal. We shall
sit in protest and the people who sent
us here shall judge us.”
ROOSEVELT’S STATEMENT.
Colonel Roosevelt’s address read by Al
len, was as follows:
“A clear majority of the delegates hon
estly elected to this convention were
chosen by the people to nominate me.
Under the direction, and with the en
couragement of Mr. Taft, the majority
of the national committee, by the so
called 'steam roller’ methods and with
scandalous disregard of every principle
of elementary honesty and decency, stole
SO or 90 delegates, putting on the tem
porary roll call a sufficient number of
fraudulent delegates to defeat the legal
ly expressed will of the people, and
to substitute a dishonest for' an honest
majority.
LAST CRY OF FRAUD.
“The convention has now declined to
purge the roll of the fraudulent delegates
(.Continued on Page 8, Col. 4.)
miYLEHDEBSIN
SECRET CONFERENCE
TO PHNT FIGHT
Bryan’s Flat-footed Declara
tion Caused National Com
mittee to Adjourn Suddenly
Without Naming Parker
(By Aoooisted Freis.)
BALTIMORE?* June 24.—Frlendz of
William J. Bryan served notice on the
national committee just before a brief
recess this afternoon that if the rec
ommendation by the sub-committee of
Judge Alton B. Parker for temporary
chairman of the convention 'is -sus
tained they will nominate Mr. Bryan
on the convention floor to oppose
Parkfer for the honor.
J. Bruce Kremer, committeeman, from
Montana, made the declaration of the
intention of the progressives.'
SPEECHES FOR
After Judge Parker had been placed
m nomination before the commltee,
several speeches were mad® for and
against- his selection. No other nomi
nations had been made when the recess
was ordered at 2 o’clock. It was agreed
that after the recess a vote would be
taken on a motion to sustain the sub
committee in its recommendation Qf
Judge Parker for temporary chairman.
It was after this agreement that Com
mitteeman Kremer announced that the
Bryan Democrats would defy the com
mitee if Mr. Parker’s name is ratified,
and declared that Mr. Bryan would
himself lead the fight as a candidate for
the chairmanship.
SECRET CONFERENCE.
Mr. Kremer's announcement resulted
in secret conference among the party
leaders, who have persistently said there
would be no compromise on the chair
manship situation.
Word reached the convention hall that
the Kentucky delegates met and voted
overwhelmingly to sustain the selection
of Parker as temporary chairman. This
action was in spite of a protest by Sen
ator-elect Ollie James, of Kentucky, one
of Bryan’s supporters.
TRYING COMPROMISE
The Democratic national committee at
2:15 this afternoon appointed a commit
tee of two. Chairman Mack and Nation
al Committeeman P. L. Hall, of Ne
braska, to confer with William J. Bryan
and Alton B. Parker and their leaders,
with the aim of preventing a fight on
the floor of the convention over the se
lection of a temporary chairman. The
committee adjourned until 7 p. m.
The Democratic national committee,
soon after meeting today, took up the
matter of a temporary chairman for
the convention/ The selection of Alton
B. Parker for this position by the sub
committee of the national committee was
opposed by former Gov. Alva Adams, na
tional committeeman from Colorado.
Mr. Adams argued at some length
against the appointment of Mr. Parker.
Mr. Bryan, true to his announcement,
did not appear before the committee to
oppose the selection of Judge Parker as
temporary - chairman.
“Judge Parker will be indorsed for
temporary chairman by at least 40
members of the national committee,"
said Roger C. Sullivan, of Illinois, as
he entered the meeting room w’ith
Thomas Taggart, of Indiana.
“Judge Parker will be the temporary
chairman. It makes no difference who
opposes him.” / - ».
Mr. Bryan's request to fight the Park
er selection before the committee fol
lowed a conference
leaders. The Nebraskan was emphatic
in proclaiming the approaching fight in
the convention. When he declared that
he would be a candidate for temporary
chairman himself if the progressives
could agree on no one else, he made
the assertion with positiveness.
“I will be in the fight when the time
comes,” Mr. Bryan asserted, “and in
it to a finish. I am trying to find a
man to be temporary chairman who
will be satisfactory to all the progres
sives.”
After Adams spoke, Committeeman
Williams, of Mississippi, and Senator
Newlands, of Nevada, spoke in opposi-
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STATES OPPOSING
WILSON IND CUIRK
MAY MDLOCK
Under Two-thirds Rule 385
Delegates Can Block Nomi
nation and Hold Veto Power
in Convention
BY RALPH SMITH.
BALTIMORE, June 24,-New York, In
diana, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland and
possibly Illinois, are believed to furniah
a nucleus that will make the nomination
of either Woodrow Wilson or Champ
Clark impossible. Exclusive of Illinois,
the states enumerated have 188 votes in
the convention and with Illinois the to
tal is increased to 246 votes.
Under the two-thirds rule, it Is within
the power of 385 delegates to make a
nomination impossible. With the nucleus
furnished by New York. Indiana,
Virginia, Maryland and Illinois, it is con?
tended that it will be a comparatively
easy matter to form a combination that
will hold the veto power on all efforts
at nominating. •
The. recognition of this possibility has
given renewed impetus to the "dark
horse” talk in Baltimore, and accord
ingly elated the friends of Mayor Gay
nor, Senator Kern and other receptive
candidates.
New York delegates already in Balti
more Insist that Gaynor is their first
and only choice for the nomination,
and that under no circumstances will
they support either Wilson or Clark.
They might possibly acept Harmon of
Underwood, but as at present advised
they do not believe it possible that either
of these candidates will come within
striking distance of the nomination.
Wlwe Indiana is instructed for Gov*
ernor Marshall, a favorite son, the
Hoosier delegates are controlled by Tom
Taggart, who is a side partner of Boss
Murphy, of Tammany. Marshall is out
of the question as a presidential possi
bility, and Indiana's vote for him will
be complimentary—nothing more. He will
be eliminated after the first or second
ballot 1
HOW DEADLOCK COMES.
The Georgia delegates are unalterably
opposed to Wilson, and they frankly ad
mit that Clark is out of the question, in
view of his record on pensions. They
insist that Underwood is their only
choice, but in private they admit that
they might possibly be induced to accept
Harmon as a compromise. They must
recognize that Harmon’s nomination is
impossible- /
While Woodrow Wilson's managers
claim that Virginia will support him
for the nomination, it is known that
the men who dominate Virginia politics
and the members of the delegation Will
never accept Wilson. Virginia will give
him a complimentary vote, and that's
all.
The situation with the Maryland del
egation is similar to that with Virginia
The men who control the Democratic pol
itics of Maryland are against anything
progressive, and the delegation Is in
structed for Clark, and the bosses at
heart are opposed to the speaker. Il
is safely counted as a state that wib
help to deadlock the convention.
Illinois is a Clark state on paper, bu»
its delegates are Influenced largely by
tne likes and dislikes of Rodger Bull!
van, the national committeeman. The
delegation is vastly more interested ft#
the internal row between Sullivan anC
Hearst than it is in the presidential
nomination. If Sullivan wins, as M
seems he will, Illinois will follow Nev?
York in precipitating a deadlock. Th-j
logic of the situation points a deadlock,
notwithstanding the claims of the can
didates and the developments to date*’
and in the event of a deadlock New
York. Indiana, Georgia, Virginia and ' ?
Maryland will name the next Demo
cratic candidate.
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Gompers Found Guilty
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 24.—Samuel Gom
pers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell. ,
the labor leaders, were today held ffuilt)
of contempt of court by the supreme
court of the District of Columbia, la
connection with court's injunction in ths
Bucks stove and range boycott cast '
They will attempt to appeal again to tbs
supreme court of the United States
which reversed their former conviction.’ I
DALTON DAUGHTERS
HAVE FLAG EXERCISES
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.) j 1
DALTON, Ga.. June 24.—The Gov. Johr
Milledge chapter, daughters of ths
American Revolution, fittingly observed
Flag day at the home of Mrs. C. M
I Hollingsworth, on North Thornton ava
nue, Friday afternoon.
The home was decorated by scores of j
American flags, the patriotic colors be
ing in evidence on all hands, and an
Interesting program was given. Mrs. Hol
lingsworth made an excellent talk about
>the fiag of the nation, giving a brief his
tory of its adoption at the hands of con- -
gress, and Miss Willie White responded
to a toast on the flag, her words being
happily appropriate to the occasion.
TOBACCO MEN ENGAGE
IN THREE-CORNERED DUEL
(By A-Bocla'.ed Preu.)
MAYFIELD. Ky„ June 24.—After Ru
fus Billington had mortally wounded Al
vin Wheeler, a tobacco planter of Veals
burg, a few miles from here today,
Wheeler's son shot Billington. Wheeler
died a few minutes after he had been
shot, but Billington, despite his wounds,
was jailed.
Wheeler and Billington had been at
odds since Wheeler attempted to check
the liquor traffic in this part of tha
state.
Dougherty Court Adjourns
(Special Dispatch to The Journal )
ALBANY, June 24.—Judge Frank Park
adjourned Dougherty superior court last
night until Monday mprnlng, when th®
Jim Morris murder case will be taken' ‘
up. Morris killed John McNeill, son of
W. A. McNeill, of Waycross, and broth*
er of W. D. McNeill, of Macon. The lat
ter will probably be here to assist in the
prosecution. Self-defense is the plea of
Morris in justification for his deed. Judge
Park yesterday dismissed all the trial ju
rors who served last week, and drew a
new - panel of 60 for this week. Sheriff
C. C. Barbre and Deputy Sheriff Fort
Tarver are busy today serving summons i
to the new Jurors.
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