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THE TWO CANDIDATES AND HOW THE CONVENTION LOOKS
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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. " The big convention as it appears in session. President William H. Taft.
COLONEL LOSES
OPENING CLASH
Plan of Bringing Protest on
Temporary Roll Cali Fails
Under Chair’s Ruling.
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the decision, so mat Hie final war plans
of the Roosevelt faction could h<- made. .
It directly tnti rested the fighting Mis
souri goviTii r. lie h•« '.wen named
floor kadet >f the Roosevelt men in '
their convention hall fights.
According to the plans, it. was Had
ley who was to bring the matter to an
lssu<.
When Chclrman Rosewater railed the
convention ti <rder, aecaidfng to the
Roosevelt program, Hadley was to
place P<-r>.'(t< r W Ilium E. Borah of I
Idaho in nomination for temporary
chairman. When the roll call began
the Roosevelt mert planned to chal
lenge the vote of Alabama because two
Taft men had been seated in the Ninth
Alabama district aftci the Roosevelt
faction asserted they had elected dele
gates favorable to the colonel.
Plan Shuts Off
Fiery Speeches.
It was over the challenge of tills vote
that the parliament ar> tight was
planned. The Roosevelt men decided
tn move for the substitution of the roll '
as made up by them, which seated the -
contested delegates from Alabama and
the others thrown out by the national f
committee.
As chairman of the national commit
tee, Rosewater held he occupied the
same position as the ch rk of the house <
of representatives, who mounts the ros- (
train to • all the house to order on its
initial session. He 'asserted that as •
such a presiding officer he had no au
thority other than the authority to i
hear the nominations for temporary 1
chairman and tn order the roll call.
I wnw expected that the Roosevelt I
men would appeal from the decision of •'
the chair. No lebatr Rosewater held. *
could bo allowed. This was to shut off 1
Roosevelt leaders f .-m lion speei heb. f
asserting that of the d< ’• .te> seat
ed by the commits • for Taft repre
sented “absolute theft.” I‘ was nn
these votes that the control <.f the con
vention rested
These were the votes that the Ronse- ‘
vei( people had publicly classified as
“absolute thefts.” and up m which thex ’
based their charges - f fraud on th.
part of the rationa: < i !
the direction of f'olono! R ■ "<< \-lt his i
followers insisted tl t th* • ■ y :
should be counted Th* v ic dud* th- : <
votes from Oklahoma Ala I
bama. Texas. Kent ch\. Washington.'
Indiana, Michigan. Arkansas and Ten ;
nepseo.
Two Conventions in
Same Hall in Prospect
While the Ro«s..v.for > th- 1
morning • lalnied that th> y had • nmish I
votes tn dominate tin ■ • xn I’l
was significant that then ; 'ans w. i <
laid for action mid. • t! ■ m-npi: u.
that the Taft fiction nmi',. ■■■ t> i '
action with a print a fa, >• n» .
Senator Borah, under ■ c. >.. il
M'heme. was to be i- . ■ r. n mu. j
Hon by Governor IJ.ullcx. of Mis--.
Then It war on the hooks t ■ i
to get into action ami r. th-
Roosevelt faction as the t m- lb mo i
can convention.
This would leave the Holts mt i r th.
seat of two convention . xit iu ■
chairmen claiming autlm’itx ■( I •
same time ami two sets of de. gates. ;
badly intel mixed, insisting u|." ,
right to rule. It was the g. n> ra! f ■
of the Taft element that th' lb ■ .It ,
men would attempt to for,, th.- Taft - |
Ites to depart in such hast- and if. ;
order as might be expected t ■ attei
the riotous breaking up of a vast .
fsembkige.
That was the situation from which
the leaders expected danger.
It was further insured In Colon
Roosevelt's ord> rs to his tleutenanU .
this morning to force the fighting
WINDOW BOXES FILLED.
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.,
Call Main 1130
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COLLEGIANS HEAR
CALL OF HARVEST
Georgia Boys, Freed of Studies,
Hurry to the Great Kansas
Wheat Fields.
The lure of the wheat fields and the
golden grain is calling the college boys
from the campus to the plains. Per
haps it isn’t so much the golden grain
as lite golden coin which makes tin
rah-rah boy put on his old clothes and
hurry toward the Northwest, but any
way he is going, by hundreds and thou
sands, and he will come back for the
fall term with pockets full of cash and
feeling tit and fine for the football field.
Guy .Jones, of the University of
Georgia, son of a prominent farmer of
Gwinnett county, left this week for the
Northwest and the wheat fields. Sev
eral oth" s had preceded him. .Jones is
a student of the agricultural depart
ment, and he will gain not only coin,
but experience in his summer's work.
The great fields of the West need
harvesters nt this season. Labor is
scarce and unreliable. For several yea: s
the $3 ami $4 a day anil excellent fare
offered harvesters has drawn students
from Harvard and Yale and Princeton
and all the great schools, and now the
lure of the fields has reached even
down to Georgia. They begin their
work in Kansas, and ns fast as the
grain is harvested they move onward
and northward, working as they go.
Th. \ w ill find a whole summer's work
in this way. harvesting their last wheat
In far Saskali hew an, Canada. Just In
time t<> conn’ back to college with funds
!<> pax theii way through another year.
“Force the Fighting,”
1\ R.’s Orders.
CHICAGO June IS. Colonel Theo-
J.. R . .... xelt todix ordered hf« lieu
tenants t■ fm ■ thr fighting The ex
s'.'-'nt was In .in aggressive moot
when he went ov. r the plan of battle
with hl- lieutenants
1 ' mtgh he directed rite movements
■f h' b’igaile ■ f delegates from the
c ng. th.r.. wore reports that he
w .. .i personally appear at the Coll
' eum and lead the bat tie
■no | | , ..ft w is up short I) aft -
■' o’ k He had a cold shower
alb ind had bis breakfast served in
I • • • • t‘ lx after e itinjJ lie was In
i "o''' ren. with leaders of hts earn
>• •' it" ’ Borah. Governor Hnrt
-1 'ex c, x i rr, >’■ .lolinson and Governor
s .: 'bs fe| rtcil and received their or-
i S. etet '-x Harper called at the coin
I t. ■ .• with a huge stack of mail
I in : t. eginm,. that had come during
I the night.
1. mg before there was any chance of
■ 'he ■ . ■■ • ■ |,|Hsident putting in an ap
I" a at w ■ i-r" his dax quartet s and
■patgn he i 1.in.11 let s are locate,!.
,i..w. s began to gather By 9 o'clock
was io poss||.|,. t , mox. freily there
MRS J. N GANTT DIES
M ARIETTA <; X .lune IS. Mrs. .!
I N I, <ntl. I.f tin . Itx, dll ■! late y. Ster
d.ix -.ft. no ir .ifte: ,m illness of sev
era! mmt i- S is su'.vfvd bx he'
hifbat ■ I N ■ . mtt: .w on. Edw ird
G-rantt. J.oti: .if Mari ’ta 1-,..| mother.
Mt- Teri.".. f Smyrna, and several
sisteis.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. JUNE 18. 1912.
SIDELIGHTS ON G. O. P. POWWOW
CHICAGO, .Tune 18.—“ Remember the
eighth commandment, 'Thou shalt not
steal.' ’’ This slogan was adopted today
by the Roosevelt followers.
Timmons Carnarvon, of London, rep
resentative of an English magazine,
who found It impossible to secure ac
commodations at either of the big lake
front hotels, announced his intention
today of erecting a tent on the lake
front.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mrs.
James F. D. Lanier, of New York, had
the first shock of a busy week when
they arrived at the Blackstone and
found the corridors thronged with men
and women of social prominence from
all over the who were patient
ly waiting for information as to where
they might be able to sleep at night.
Luckily, the reservations for the Van
derbilt party were made as far back aS
January, and a signed and sealed con
tract duly executed on the spot assured
them of apartments for the balance of
the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft, of Cin
cinnati, were among the enthusiasts to
be caught in a big scrimmage at the
Congress after the Tift meeting last
night, when elevators were blocked for
an hour and women found it practi
cally impossible to regain their apart
ments on the upper floors except by
the stairways, those also being neatly
impassable.
The faces of the Tafts were mirrors
of the enjoyment they felt in the tre
mendous noise made by the Taft men,
Nebraska Delegates
Censure Rosewater
CHICAGO, June 18 -Victor Rosewa
ter, es Nebraska, chairman of the na
tional Republican committee, was se
verely arr ilgned by the entire Nebras
ka delegation late yesterday. He was
condemned and repudiated in strong
resolutions for his alleged misrepre
sentation of the wishes of the Republi
can party of Nebraska. They were
signed by the entire Nebraska delega
tion. Mr. Rosewater was temjKtrary
chairman and at the meetitfg. R. B.
Howell, an Otnaha attorney, was elect
ed to succeed him.
STATE OFFICIALS AND
EDUCATORS GOING TO
GOOD ROADS MEETING
AI'GILSTA, GA, June IS. —Judge
F. Ex,, president of the Good Hoads
association of Georgia, has announced
tlie program for the annual conven
tion of the organization to be held in
Athens June 24 and 25. The associa
tion is composed of county road com
missioners.
til lresses w ill be delivered by Chan
cellor David C. Harrow, of the l univer
sity of Georgia; President K. G.
Matheson, of the Georgia School of
Technology: Professors Strong utd
Koch, of the unlvorsitt : Prof T I'
Branch, of Georgia Tech; L. \V. Page,
diroetor nt roads of the t'nited States:
Joseph F. Grax. stat" railroad com
missioner; T. E. P itterson, state prison
commissioner; S. W. McCallle. stare
geologist; ''hairman Harry Hodgson,
of the CI irk. coiintx commissioners:
R T Dttßose. representative from
Clarki . Archibald Blackshear, repre
sentative from Richmond, and J. H.
Merrill representative from Thomas.
The convention will discuss the
movi inent to create a state liichwa;
commission and a resolution will be
passed reiinesting the railroad com
mission of Georgia to allow railroads
to haul road material and road ma
, liinery at reduced rates.
FRENCH SEAMEN CALLED
TO STRIKE TOMORROW
PARIS. Juni' IS. A national mari
time strike throughout Frame In sym
pathy with the seamen's strike at
Havre will go into effect tomorrow, ac
cording to M. Bataille, a laborite, to
day. M. BatHille said that the strike
order had been sent to all ports and
that dockers and transport xxorkers w ill
join in the walkout, alltaille is affili
ated with the seamen's federation.
HOT WEATHER ORiNK
Horsford'.-, Acid Phosphate
A teaspoenful added tn ;< glass of cold
wa'er with sugar, is wonderfully refre.-b-
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and Mrs. Taft clapped her hands en
thusiastically, though' when she was
asked to express her feelings in words:
she smiling objected.
Mrs. N'eholas Longworth was per
haps the most favored among hundreds
of women who fought to reach their
quarters in the Congress hotel during
the worst of the crush. Mrs. Long-
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| • Program for G + O + P + •
• Convention Opening •
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• CHICAGO. June 18.—Today's »
• convention program: a
• • I<> a. nt. —Convention hall a
• opened. a
• 10:30 to 12—Band concert. »
• Noon—Call to order by V ictor e
i • Rosewater. o
• Invocation by Rex-. Jas. f. Cal- *
o laghan. a
• Presentation of gavel by l-'rcd o
| • VV. L'pham. o
• Reading of official call for con- •
» vention by Secretary William •
i a Hayxvard, of national committee. ®
I • Presentation of Elihu Root for •
■ • temporary chairman. a
i ® Election, of temporary chair- ®
• man. a
• Keynote address by temporary •
• chairman. a
• Election of other temporary of- • !
• fleers. n
a Roti call of states for naming a
• credentials and other committees, oj
® Adjournment. a j
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Prepared to Name
Gaynor at Baltimore
NEW TURK. June 18.—Officers of
th. Democratic Association of Nxxv
York for Gaynor for president have
gone to Baltimore to further their can
didate’s inter, sts. Canviss of all dele
gates to the Democrat!,' convention is
under w ay. aiming at the mayor's nom
ination. The movement leaflets said
their support of Mayo’ Gaynor was un
authorized by and unknown to him.
J. R. SMITH CHIEF
OF CAMPAIGN FOR
BESSIE TIFT FUND
If J. R. Sm’th. of Smith & Higgins,
proves as good a "money-getter" as he
is .1 "votx'-Jander.” the success of the
campaign for Bessie Tift college's en
dowment fund is assured.
Mr. Smith, who led "Little Jo""
Brown to victory in two gubernatorial
campaigns, was chosen chairman of the
Atlanta co-operative campaign com
mittee at a luncheon at the Aragon, and
says he is going to take off his coat
and laise enough < ash in Atlanta to
make up the S3iW,OOO the college needs
More than half 'hat amount was raised
bet'ire the campaign was brought to
Atlanta.
Field workers for the college will be
gin active solicitation among Atlanta
Baptists today and the encouragement
given by the pastors and leading lay
men Indicates easy sailing
I worth was bound for the presidential
I suite at the Congress just as a big Taft
jubilation on the main floor broke out
: and rushed for cooler quarters, jam
i ruing the corridors so that even the
; Wrongest men were in trouble to keep
trom being swept along in the crush.
I Just then a Taft mm covered with
I banners and badg. s, who had been one
of the most vociferous Taftites in the
big meeting, i ecognized Mrs. Long
worth. "Make way for Mrs. Long
xvorth," he shouted, and the mob of
struggling men fell apart as though by
magic. Mrs. Longworth bowed herae-
I know lodgement of the courtesy dis
flaxed by hrr strenuous father’s oppo
nents, smiling to right and left as she
. r red through the cotdon of uncov
re;l enemies to the throne.
’ Lorrle McLain, of Glasgow, who is
tot a man. but very much of a eharm
mg young woman, whose fond pater
installed her with her maid in quar
ters at the Congress two days ago. con
fesses a dilemma. The pater McLain is
a town councillor of Glasgow and an
cnthus'iastic believer in American in
stitutions. He came here especially to
attend the convention and promised to
show Miss Lorrie all the sights, but de
spite the promise has failed Jo appear
more than a minute at a time since his
arrival. “I never saw papa in such a
stow," said Miss Lorrie today. “He
just runs all over the place like a shot
tabbit, enjoying himself hugely. I've no
doubt, but leaving me to guess how the
convention eiowd looks, because he is
my only chaperon except my maid, who
is so terribly alarmed, poor old soul,
that I can get her downstairs to save
me.”
Taft, Confident,
At Ball Game Today
WASHINGTON, June 18.—A small
army of linemen late yesterday stretch
ed wires into the president's private
office, connecting it directly with the
convention hail in Chicago.
White house visitors reported the
president appeared absolutely confident
of the outcome of the convention, and
the news supplemented by the an
nouncement that the chief executive
has invited Secretary Knox to attend
the Washington-Philadelphia baseball
game this aft< moon as his guest.
RUWRGONG
ATBALTIMORE
Convention Hall Ready, Offi
cers in Place, and Leaders
on the Ground.
BALTIMORE June 18.—Chairman
Norman 'E. Mack, of the Democratic
national cummittee, has opened his of
fice in the convention hall. With
Chairman Mack wore' Thomas Taggart,
of Indiana: Edwin O Wood, of Michi
gan: Dr. John Conghlln, of Massachu
setts. and Secretary I'rey Woodson,
who made a final inspection of the big
hall.
The telegraph companies have open
ed their wires in the big building and
the first message was sent over the
lines by Chairman Mack.
The headquarters of all the presiden
tial candidates have been augmented.
\\ . I'. Clifiop. xx ho has charge, of the
Clark campaign, has arrived in town,
and is hard at work. Former Con
gressman Gordon, x\ In. has had charge
"f the Harmon Washington bureau,
has reached the city, and Lieutenant
Governor Nichols, of Ohio, xvas ex
pected to join the Harmon force this
afternoon. Colonel Tom" Pence. Wil
son's man. is also in town.
Secretary Woodson has received no
tice of two more contests. One cam"
from Rhode I-land. It Is not known
whether this is a protest against al!
eight of the delegates or against just
one. The other contest Is from South
Dakota, win re both the Clark and Wil
son men are fighting.
T flavor fancy food deliciously use
SAFER’S PURE FLAVORING EX
TRACTS. Vanilla. Lemon, etc Thir
teen highest awards and medals.
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MARBLE OFFICES
Throngs Praise Handsome New
Quarters in Candler Building.
Unique Innovations.
The officers of the Central Bank and
Trust Company began business in their
handsome quarters in the Candler
building today. The moving of the of
fice desks and books to the marble-,
lined courtlike foyer was accomplished
in record time and crowds came to see
the splendidly appointed offices in op
eration.
The hundreds of thousands of dollars
in mdney did not have to be transferred
from the old quarters in the Dakota
hotel building across the way, because
the currency has always reposed in the
great vaults just beneath the new
qua rters.
The bank's officers were kept ex
tremely busy all day demonstrating to
interested throngs of customers the
new electric dumbwaiter by which
$500,000 can be whisked from the vaults
to the cashier's window in ten seconds
by the pressing of an electric button.
Man;, other innovations and decora
tions greeted the spectators and they
were particularly fervid in their praise
of President Asa G. Candler's marble
office and the new plan by which all the
officers ar? seated in the very center ol
the office for the greater accessibility
and convenience of clients.
TYPO HEAD TO SEEK
LEGISLATIVE PROBE
OF STATE PRINTING
Luther Still, president, of the Atlanta
Typographical union, says that he will
take Ills fight for a thorough investiga
tion of the state’s printing to the leg
islature and ask for a special legis
lative probe.
Mr. Still, who submitted a statement
to the state printing commission charg
ing that the acts of 1912 and house and
senate Journals of 1912 had been pad
ded? by the Byrd Printing Company and
not printed according to contract, is
not at all satisfied with the report filed
with the governor by Frank Cohen,
hired by the printing commission to
make an investigation. Cohen reported
he found no padding in the work.
"There xvas padding done on the
state', printing last year." said Mr.
Still. "1 can prove this. I am going
to ask the legislature to make a com
plete investigation."
RECORD JUNE SNOW
FALLS IN COLORADO;
BIG DAMAGE DONE
DENVER. COLO.. June 18.—One of
the heaviest June snow storms in the
history of the state has been raging
since early yesterday in the mountain
regions, doing much damage to trees,
shrubbery, telephone and telegraph
wires and interfering with railway
traffic.
The snow is melting rapidly and
great apprehension is felt, as every
river and creek already is at the flood
stage.
The heaviest fall xvas at Brecken
ridge. where the precipitation fa>m
midnight to neon amounted to 24
inches
GREAT SQUADS OF
POLICE ON GUARD
>
Emergency Hospital Arranged
in Convention, Annex and
Ambulances Are Ready.
CHICAGO, June IS.—The Republican
national committee early today had the
convention hall at the Coliseum placed
under a heavy police guard to prevent
the laying of the foundation for a riot.
Five hundred picked policemen, under
the command of Assistant Chief
Schuettler, deployed at the building at
daybri ak and so careful were they that
no “ruff r.ders" should be packed into
the ai'caa 'hat even early newspaper
work rs were refused entrance to the
press section,
This last word In precaution came
aft r u night of nervous excitement, in
which there came to the national com
mittee and to the Taft element the
tidings that the Roosevelt program tfrr
the day was to demand that 78 of their
contested seats be accredited by the
corventior., just as (hough no steani
roller had p. ssed their way, or that the
“ruff riders” would seize the reins of
th? convention and, by force, run it to
suit themselves.
The Taft pecple believed this news.
They passed a night of feverish fear,
and when day came they were early at
work to make sure that the strong-arm
program thus outlined did not even
tuate.
Mayor Answers
Appeals for Protection.
The martial array that guarded the
convention hall, about which the crowds
had already commenced to gather be
fore the breakfast hour was over, was
the result of an earnest plea made to
Mayor Harrison by the Republican or
ganization. The possibility of riot, and
even of bloodshed, was placed before
the chief executive of Chicago so
stioiigly that he readily consented to
place the organized and armed power
of the city behind the duly accredited
organization of the Republican party.
With the full realization that they
had one of the most difficult proposi
tions of police duty ever placed before
them, the higher officers gave orders
to their men to use xvhatever force xxjas
necessary to stop trouble the moment
it showed.
The police contingent came with
arms swinlng loose and ready. Aside
from the 500 men in uniform, 100 po
licemen in plain clothing came troop
ing to the scene of the big political
fight. A mounted section from the po
lice cavalry capered along in front of
the building to aid in clearing the
streets. To meet this unusual demand
on the police power, men were drafted
from all of the city stations, and they
were picked men, selected for their
known coolness and ability to do duty
in the face of cyclonic conditions. In
addition, strong reserve forces were
held at neighboring stations ready to
be rushed to the Coliseum in the au
tomobiles and police patrols the nw
ment the police call sounded.
Hospital and
Ambulances Ready.
As aids to Assistant Chief Schuettler
came t’aptain D'Brien. Drillmaster
John Baudler and Lieutenants Dar
row. McCann, Burns, Westbrook and
Cronin. Os the four sections into
which the guard was divided, one sec
tion was assigned to keep peace among
delegates and the spectators immedl
ately surrounding the delegates' space
Reminding the delegates that the
wages of combat is liniment and ban
dag i, an emergency hospital was es
tablished In the Coliseum annex and
ambulance service was provided for
the speedy rushing of any fray victims
to the nearest hospitals. Seriously the
early precautions seemed more to have
been made for a battle than for a peace
gathering of men coming together on
an important state mission.
BALTIMORE, MD., AND
A t RETURN
Account Democratic National
Convention—tickets will be sold
June 20 to 24. $21.35 from At
lanta. Proportionately low rates
L r X I ?T, T . other 8 tat ions—SEA
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