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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 (.gr) Here Are the Real Leaders of the Colonel's Presidential Contest THREE ROOSEVELT CHAMPIONS IN CHICAGO FIGHT MMF/ Hah** ~ ft wli jfl IB lH * •<4 HL ■ w -4 r ‘ £ 2-w / • I wBTw I VBSi ...F W/ A ail&w V dlJ—ss? O »»Mr / z * *ll l* limothy L. Woodrufi. /V>l / k Ilf IL • 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 _ 5