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HADLEY BEST Os
OARK HORSES,
SAYSLEWIS
Taft Wants to Quit—T. R. to
Head New Party—Hughes
Afraid to “Come In.”
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
CHICAGO, June
21. —If you must
bet on a dark
horse, bet on Had
ley. The conven
tion has furnished
a deal of pointless
innocuous disor
der which, begin
ning nowhere over
nothing in partic
ular, formed no
serious finish. The procet cmt, • -
thus far resembled somewhat a deg
chasing its tail in that there was much
apparent motion with little real prog
ress.
The big thing is the word from
Washington that King- William's limbs
are weary; the great Taft is growing
politically tired. Ever since the New
Jersey primaries Taft has had not alone
enough, but too much. He told Tawney
and McKinley in Washington to find
some name to take the place of his own
—Lincoln. Hughes, Fairbanks —the
name of any conservative would do;
but some name they must get.
They explained the difficulty which
would surely attend upon any attempt
to transfer to another the Taft dele
gates. It was hard as it stood to hold
them for him, Taft.
Taft Now Urges Hughes.
Were they to open the cage door to
shift them to Hughes or one of the
others, full 100 would escape to Roose
velt. The last thing said to Taft by
McKinley and Tawney as they left for
Chicago was that they must and would
use his name as long as it was neces
sary to hold his strength together.
Now that Root is in the chair and
the certainty of a November Republi
can defeat is more surely outlined than
ever against the skies of the party,
Taft has renewed his declaration that
he has gone as far as he will.
Taft urges Hughes >is a most likely
man. Hughes is hanging back. He
doesn’t like November’s outlook any
better than does Taft.
Barnes has been dealing with Hughes
and insisting that he make the race.
Barnes —very foolishly—believes that
Hughes would stiffen the New York
party line. What happens to Hughes
and the party in the land at large does
not greatly bother Barnes. His excite
ment based on his valuable boss-ship is
surely confined within the frontiers of
the state.
No Desire to Be- Martyr.
With the reluctant Hughes, however,
the case is different. He is deeply con
cerned for Hughes, He has now. in his
supreme judgeship gotten more than
was coming to him, more than even in
his di earns he expected. He can nos
find-it in his heart to give that judge
ship up. It is in vain that Barnes talks
—per wire-r-of his (Hughes’) party
duty. Martyrdom in no wise appeals to
Hughes. The stake and curling flames
have for him no attractions. He is for
clinging closer to that judgeship, which
he has found even as the shadow of a
great rock in the weary land.
: Barnes and the others—among the
latter Deneen, who is working overtime
t<> keep the Roosevelt mon on the Illi
nois delegation from assisting Johnson,
of California, and Flinn, of Pennsyl
vania. in a Roosevelt bolt—insists that
should worst come to worst, even with
out that hang-back jurist's consent,
they will send Hughes to the front.
Several New York votes will be cast
for Hughes on the initial ballot by' way
of experiment and to feel -out the tem
per of the convention. Barnes and De
neen believe that by listening intently
to the cheers —if there are any—of the
delegates they can come by some half
notion of how an announced candidacy
of Hughes would be received.
It is curious to reflect that Taft, who
put Hughes on the supreme bench to
get him out of his (Taft's) nomina
tional way. is now frantically seeking
to coax him from the bench to run in
his place. Such is the irony of political
events in their last unfeldment.
Fairbanks Willing, But—
( . Fairbanks is willing to take the nom
ination. but the nomination isn’t will
ing to take Fairbanks. Fairbanks fig
ures that though he be defeated at the
polls he would be in line for the 1916
nomination. Four years is a long siiot
and a limb in .the way, but hit or miss
he is ready to try it.
There is a scanty chance, however, of
Fairbanks being selected. The dele
gates almost without exception turn
the cold shoulder at any and every
mention of the name.
Lai'ldlette might have stood a
chance. But to have such he must
have had the solid Roosevelt backing.
The Conservatives, the Barneses and
Murray Cranes have never had any po
litical use for LaFollette. Ho was
nothing if not a radical, and for him to
so much as think of being the conven
tion's nominee included the thought of
a Roosevelt sifpport.
Roosevelt Anger Increases.
Meanwhile the anger of Roosevelt
flames high. He is all for a. bolt, all
for nailing his glove to the gates of
the convention and holding here and
now what one of the. colored delegates
with a nice taste in nomenclature —
spoke of as a "rumpus convention."
'♦ It is to be fancied that, had Roose
velt had his way the walkout would
have occurred on the back of Root's
elevation to the gave!. He had given
notice that he, Roosevelt, would regard
himself as bound by no convention ac
tion not founded on the votes of full
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• Today's Program for •
• G* 0> P< Convention •
• •
• CHICAGO, June 21.—Official •
• program for today’s session of the •
• Republican national convention, •
• as arranged by the national com- •
• mitl.ee: •
• Ila. m.. convention reconvenes. •
• Report of committee on creden- •
• tials. •
• Adoption of rules and order of •
• business. •
• Adoption of platform. •
• Nomination for president. •
• Nomination for vice president. •
• Program Likely To Be Carried Out. •
• Partial report of credentials •
® committee. •
• Discussion and vote on contests, •
• state by state and district by dis- •
• trict. •
• •
540 delegates whose seats had not been
contested. Root's claims to the chair
manship owned no such broad founda
tion. If those contested delegates were
a steal, Root’s chairmanship was a
steal. The convention was but as so
much stolen goods of politics.
Roosevelt, upon the terms he had
laid down, could have ordered a bolt
when Root first rapped for order. John
son, of California, who has been for
war, favored that plan; Flynn, of Penn
sylvania, was as hot of heart as John
son, while such stormy petrels as He
ne.y would hear of nothing else.
Turning the Other Cheek.
But Borah and Hadley were of quiet
er feather; so. too, was Dixon. They
insisted that a bolt to be effective
must have a moral backing, it was
worth while to stay in the convention
to the end that as much injustice as
possible be done them. Having been
slapped upon the one cheek in the
election of Root, it was good politics
to turn the other cheek and receive
a second slap in the confirmation of
the bogus delegates in their stolen
seats.
Thus argued the Hadleys and the
Borahs, and while Roosevelt heard
them with impatience, not to say se
cret wrath, he was obliged to heed
them in his housekeeping.
Roosevelt Will Be Candidate.
Roosevelt will go before the people
for the presidency. He will go either
as the regular candidate of the Re
publicans or as the candidate of a
boltin" convention of Republicans, or
as the Moses of a new party which he
will call the National party. In sober
truth, Roosevelt rather prefers the lat
ter idea. He would take a Democrat
on with him for vice president in that
case just to show there was no hard
feeling, and throw himself upon the
people.
Hadley, they say, is preening his
feathers for a possible nomination of
the compromise variety. He thinks—
according to report—that his choice
may- cortie when the Roosevelts, Tafts,
LaFollettes, Cumminses, Hugheses and
Fairbankses —to say nothing of Bev
eridge of the hopeful face—have been
serapheaped.
Convention Likely
To Last Till Tuesday
CHICAGO, June 21. —The Republican
national convention n<ay last into next
week. That this is likely was revealed
today by the admission of Colonel Har
ry S. New, chairman of the committee
on arrangements, that he has notified
Stuart Spalding, manager of the Coli
seum, that the national committee will
exercise its option on the building for
all of next week.
“Why will the convention need the
Coliseum for so long a time?" Colonel
New was asked.
“Because, as we figure is now, the
convention may not adjourn before
Tuesday afternoon." was the reply.
"Our contract requires us to leave the
building as we found it, and it will
take about two days to do that part or
the work. So you see we will need
most of next week, if not all Os it."
Colonel New added that the delays
that have occurred will probably make
an adjournment today or tomorrow
out of the question.
J'HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. JUNE 21, 1912.
'TIL*
Governor Hiram Johnson
Taft Again Says
He Will Not Quit
CHICAGO. June 21.—President Taft
will not withdraw from the race for
the nomination and there will be no
compromise candidate with his con
sent.
The president asserted this in a talk
he had from Washington over the long
distance phone early today with Con
gressman McKinley, his campaign man
ager.
The president desired that this idea
be communicated tv the delegates and
the people, but without the statement
that it came directly from himself.
One of his most powerful supporters
on the national committee, however,
thought that it might be better to let
it be known that this was the atti
tude of the president himself, and thus
set at rest the reports that he is tired
of the fight and that he desires to re
tire in favor of some man —perhaps
Cummins or Hadley—who might be
able to make a better appeal to the pro
gressive wing of the Republican party.
Plan to Oust
T. R. Committeemen
CHICAGO. June 21.—A plan to oust
Roosevelt members of the Republican
national committee has been formed.
Under the provisions of a rule that will
be presented when the long deferred
permanent organization of the conven
tion at last gets under way, national
committeemen who bolt the party nom
inee may be ousted. The national
committee itself is to be judge and jury
and is to have power to fill its own va
cancies. This is the answer to Roose
velt’s denunciation of the national
committee and his demand that it be
done away with hereafter.
The rule that will be offered provides
that ordinary vacancies on the national
committee may be filled as at present
by the central committee of the state.
The new power given the committee is
to oust members who do not support
the candidate nominated at the na
tional convention.
The committee itself may appoint the
men to fill these places. This gives
the state affected no voice whatever in
the selection of a national committee
man.
The rule was outlined when it was
asserted by a number of the committee
members who have favored Roosevelt
that they would support no other can
didate nominated here.
Another rule intended to strengthen
the power of the committee is one that
provides that election of national com
mitteemen under the primary laws of a
state shall be considered only a nomi
nation and that the state delegation of
any such state at the national conven
tion shall elect the committeemen.
This rule resulted from the demand
of R. B. Howell, of Nebraska, elected
committeeman at the state primaries,
for a seat on the committee before the
delegate contests started.
A rule to be placed before the con
vention by the minority provides for
the reduction of delegates from the
Southern states and the increase of
representatives in the big Republican
states. Under the plan proposed the
national convention would be made up
on the basis of one delegate for each
10,000 Republican votes at the preced
ing presidential election.
The plan for this efiange is an old
one arid has been brought up at a num
ber of conventions. The South has al
ways succeeded in getting enough trad
ing strength to defeat it.
LaFollette Has
New Party Already
CHICAGO, June 21. —LaFollette men
already have organized a new party,
according to Professor Charles McCar
thy, librarian at the Wisconsin State
university. There has been no name
given to the party. Its organization
has not been perfected, further than
agreeing on a general progressive pro
gram.
if the Roosevelt men want to join in
tile new party, all right, says Professor
McCarthy.
LaFollette Men
See Good Chance
CHICAGO, June 21.—LaFollette's
star is again in the ascendency, ac
cording to his Wisconsin boosters.
A secret meeting was held at the
LaFollette quarters in the Grand Pa
cific hotel early today. The entire Wis
consin contingent and most of the
North Dakota delegation were pres
ent. Two hundred and fifty Taft and
Roosevelt delegates were represented
by a committee to be favorable to unit
ing on LaFollette as a compromise car.
didate. The influence of these apd the
36 LaFollette delegates, they said,
would swing many more delegates at
present, non-committal.
The committee stated that these Tafi
and Roosevelt men were not eager to
make a break for LaFollette on the
first ballot, but after that, they thought,
it would be LaFollette quick and cer
tain.
With this announcement plans were
set on foot further to advance the can
didacy of the Wisconsin progressive.
This involved the appointments of
committees consisting of supporters not
on the delegatir>Ts to provide tor tiie
“whooping up" process. They got busy
at once.
Mrs. LaFollette. wife of the senatot
and his campaign assistant, paused at
the LaFollette quarters this morning
on her way from Washington, D. C„
to be at the bedside of her father, se
riously ill at his home in Baraboo,
Wis.
TRAVELER GETS SIO.OO
DAMAGES FOR TAKING
SMALLPOX ON TRAIN
MACON, GA., June 21. —Merritt
Birdsong, a young Macon man, secured
a verdict of $lO against the Southern
railway in the city court as damages
for having caught a case of smallpox
by contact with a person suffering with
that malady on board a Southern train.
He sued for $5,000.
WOHLWENDER. SLADE AND
SWIFT RUN IN MUSCOGEE
COLUMBUS, GA.. June 21.—Repre
sentatives Ed Wohlwender and J. J.
Slade have announced as candidates to
succeed themselves in the lower house
of the Georgia general assembly from
Muscogee county.
Muscogee county having been given
another representative under the new
apportionment, H. H. Swift, a young
attorney of this city, has announced
as a candidate for that position. No
op|H»sltix>n has arisen tu these candi
dates so far.
Francis J. Heney.
SURPLUS OF HATRED AT
CHICAGO CONVENTION,
SAYS ELBERT HUBBARD
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
A
CHICAGO, June
21.—William J.
Bryan has a place
in what he calls
the "peace zone"
among the report
ers. His seat ad
joins the space
sacred to the del
egates. During a
lull in the con
vention I asked
him how he liked it.
“Splendid, splendid!” was the reply.
"I’m enjoying it, but it is too bad they
have to tell the truth about each oth
er," and even the dozen delegates who
heard the remark laughed.
David Harum once remarked that a
reasonable number of fleas bn a dog
was a good thing. The argument was
that it kept the canine from intro
spection and thereby was he prevented
from mentally dwelling on the fact of
his unhappy pedigree.
Colonel Harum did not explain how
many fleas were a reasonable number.
There is no doubt but that a reason
able amount of hate for the wrong, or
that which we think is wrong, is rea
sonable and right.
When Hate Becomes a Crime.
But certainly there comes a point
where the law' of diminishing returns
begins to act. And beyond this, hate
continued, becomes a weakness, then a
fault, next a blunder and finally a
crime.
There is a sizzling surplus of hate in
the atmosphere of the Coliseum. It is
a kid-gloved crowd, all right, and be
fore action begins you might suppose
that we were about to hear Tetrazzini
sing.
Alas and alack, we are to hear in
definite harangue.
Following the lead of his illustrious
leader, Heney has exhausted the bill
ingsgate calendar, and then its syno
nyms.
The good old words theft, thieverj,
brigandage, holdup, handpicked tools,
have been used in running the gamut
of hate. Up and down, backward and
forward, transposed, over and over
again, the forms of insult were ban
died, tossed, flung and put into the
faces of the so-called tainted delegates
who sat just below the gatling fire of
oratory.
The steam roller is not intended to
squelch oratory. Oratory is a harm
less drainage tube for the disappointed.
Heney in Fighting Trim.
The chairman allowed one hand to
toy playfully with the electric tiller of
the steam roller and he looked off into
space in a tired way when the fire
works first began, and the Hon. Francis
J. Heney agitated the other.
Heney was using fighting language,
and Heney is a fighting man. He has
shot and he has been shot, and now he
was using the language that often pre
cedes bloodshed.
The lie is the first blow. Heney flung
the lie and danced it a two-step. He
set It to music and yodled it.
It was rery plain that if Heney had
had his way not only would the deci
sion have been recalled, but the chair
man as well, but a solid line of police
were circling Heney, and back of him
stood Sergeant-at-Arms Stone, and all
the time Chairman Root calmly looked
off Into space in a tired way. He could
have suppressed Heney by simply
touching an electric bell.
Not creating quite enough excite
ment, Mr. Heney began to center his
>hot on individuals.
Invitation to Stevenson.
Stevenson, of Colorado, was down in
front of him.
“The difference between you and Abe
Reuf," said Heney. shaking his trigger
linger at Stevenson "is that Abe Reuf
is in the penitentiary and you should
be.”
Then Mr. Heney explained that it
was he who placed Abe Reuf in the
penitentiary, which was an intimation
that Mr. Stevenson would yet go the
same route, on Mr. Heney’s initiative.
The audience guftaw-ed, then hissed
and groaned in disappointment. Heney
folded his arms and took the attitude
of perfect blissful peace.
He grinned, and the grin sat upon his
face like a plaster of paris cast of a
Cheshire cat. Such grins are not be
coming. There is no fluidity of spirit
behind them. The grin did not token
the smile of content, of peace and good
will. It was the very antithesis. It re
flected the spirit of hate incarnate.
The audience was one vast roar of
disapproval. Heney stood with folded
arms and the geologic grin. However,
he at last appealed to the chair for
order.
rhe chairman took one hand off the
steering gear long enough to motion
Sergeant-at-Arms Stone.
Chair’s Subtle Rebuke.
The sergeant-at-arms moved forward
to the edge of the platform and gent out
the message, clear, shrill, sharp and
distinct by megaphone, as follows:
"The chair orders me to say that the
speaker must be given a RESPECT
FUL hearing.”
It was a rebuke to the speaker so
subtle that he certainly never saw it,
although it changed the wave of disap
proval to a ripple of laughter.
The chairman’s order, being inter
preted, was that a man making a dis
respectful speech should be given a
respectful hearing.
It showed how perfectly under con
trol the Old Guard has this conven
tion.
Happily, this scene occurred among
people descended from the Norsemen
and Teutonic tribes and not from the
Oriental and Latin races; otherwise,
this city of Chicago would be devas
tated by a mob and the lamp posts
would be doing double duty.
This convention Is full of hatred.
Emerson says: “We are the thing we
hate, and every epithet that we apply
to another fits ourselves best.”
The Republican party is rent and
torn in tatters by this spirit of hate.
Hadley Ashamed of His Company.
Hadley is a commanding figure, and
if dark horses had been on exhibition
in the ring he would have been ac
counted a thoroughbred.
The Missouri hen and the Missouri
mule do not compose the total assets of
the state that demands visual demon
stration. Missouri’s best crop is its
men and women.
Hadley is a fine type of man. But it
is apparent to some that lie is slightly
ashamed of the company that he is just,
now in.
The man who best represents the
Rooseveltian spirit in the convention is
Francis J. Heney.
The mental attitude of these men is
the same. They hate so thoroughly and
well that they are permeated by it full
to tIA point of saturation with the
ptomaines of contempt and the virus of
violence.
I hir <l* ie-distilled quintessence of
hate has snattered and torn the Repub
lican party to tatters.
Get enough hate difl used through the
nation and the United States of Amer
ica would live only in the history of
things that were.
And on the ruits of a republic, a
dictatorship would rear its turreted
head and its loopholes would look out
at a land drenched witli the blood of
brothels. When the professional con
queror conquers, red ruin is hammer
ing at the gates.
And afar rn the horizon A buzzard
soars .-.nd sills, and sails and soars,
coming nearer, nearer.
Hate means dis .faction, disintegra
tion, dissipation, d feat and death.
T. R. WOULD HEAD
TRIRD PARTY
TKT
Colonel Says He Would Accept
Such a Nomination if He
Is Wanted.
CHICAGO, June 21.—Supplementing
his early statement, in which he de
clared he was in the fight to stay, Theo
dore Roosevelt last evening issued a
lengthy statement outlining his posi
tion. and stating that if the purged
convention desires to nominate him
he will accept, or If it is unpurged and
part of his friends choose to with
draw- and nominate him as an inde
pendent candidate for president he will
accept and fight to the last, win or
lose, before the people of all parties in
all sections of the United States.
After outlining the “fraud" in the
| seating of delegates, etc., the colonel
concludes:
“Unfortunately in our political life
the unscrupulous man wfio commits
wrongs such as these can usually count
on having some respectable men sup
porting him and other respectable men
opposing him, but who cease their op
position at the point when It would be
come really effective.
“In this convention, the unscrupu
lous men who are the leaders have al
ready received support from the for
mer class vs respectable ~nen; and
they count on seeing representatives
of the latter class, who have hitherto
voted against them for fear to take the
decisive step of sundering connection
with the fraudulent convention itself.
“I decline any longer to be bound
by any action it may take. I decline
to regard as binding any nomination
it may make. I do not regard success
ful fraud and deliberate theft as con
stituting a title to party regularity or
claim to the support of any honest
man of any party.
“I hope that the honestly elected ma
jority will at once insist upon imme
diate purging of the roll in its entire
ty and not piece meal, by the conven
tion.
Would Run Independently.
If this purge is not accomplished
I hope the honestly elected delegates
will decline all further connection with
a convention whose action is now de
termined and has hitherto been de
termined, by a majority which is made
a majority only by the action of the
fraudulent delegates whom the con
vention has refused to strike from the
rolls. If the leaders of the honestly
elected majority disagree with me in
this matter and wish for any cause tg
defer for the moment this action, then
I most earnestly hope that at least
they will Insist upon voting on the
cases of these fraudulent delegates en
bloc and not separately.
"We can not afford to pardon a thief
on condition he surrenders half the
stolen goods.
"If the honestly elected majority of
the. convention choose to proceed to
business and to nominate me as the
candidate of the real Republican party,
I shall accept. If some among them
fear to take such a stand, and the re
mainder choose to inaugurate move
ment to nominate me for the presi
dency on a progressive platform and
in such event the general feeling
among progressives favors by being
nominated. I shall accept. In either
case I shall make my appeal to every
honest citizen in the nation, and I
shall fight the campaign through, win
or lose, even if I do not get a single
electoral vote.
No Promises of Reward,
“I do not wish a single man to sup
port me from any personal feeling for
me. I have nothing to offer any manj
any man who supports me will do so
without hope of gain and at the risk
of personal loss and discomfort. But
if, having this in view, those fervent
in this great fight for the rule for the
people and for social and industrial jus
tice, which has now also become a
clear-cut fight for honesty against dis
honesty, fraud and theft, desire me to
lead the fight, I will do so.
"There can be no cause for which it
is better worth while to fight, none in
which it is of less consequence whet
happens to the individual himself, pro
vided only that he valiantly does hie
duty in the forward movement.
"I shall make my appeal to all hon
est men. East and West, North and
South, and will abide by the result
whatever the result may be.
(Signed)
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
BANDITS ROUTED IN
ARKANSAS TOWN; 1
KILLED, 2 CAPTURED
MAMMOTH SPRING, ARK.. June 21.
Ope man was killed and two were cap
tured by a sheriff’s posse when the
three, masked, attempted to rob the
Citizens bank of Mammoth Spring yes
terday. All, of the men resided near
this city.
Later in the afternoon Lee Burrow, a
relative of Otto Burrow, one of the men
arrested, was brought to town with a
serious wound in his abdomen. Ho
said that Dr. Jones, father of Ben
Jones, the dead robber, and Howard
Sears, a neighbor, shot him because
they thought he had informed the of
ficers of the proposed robbery. Dr.
Jones and Sears were arrested. Bur
row probably will die.
Judge J. W. Meek and John Cun
ningham were slightly wounded by
stray bullets.
Sheriff M C. Caruthers had been
forewarned that the robbery was to be
attempted and with three deputies was
concealed in a back room when the
men entered _
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