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Newspaper Page Text2 Republican Convention Finally Turns Into a Great Organization Devoted to Merry-Makina 1 DELEGATES SING AND JOKE WHILE STEAM ROLLER MOVES ON ITS WAY COLONEL’S MT IN RING FOHffl, HE ASSERTS 3 lans for Formation of New Party Go On—Denver to Get Convention. Continued From Pag* On*. farce. t!>*> aughed and hooted.. only Io drop into the chorus'. "Nearer. My God, to Thee ” The loud California statesmen start ed the hymn Just as they had started the hooting and the musical voice.*- from th* plantation state of Mississippi made the great old hymn resound. Th* tune changed. Militant leaders swung into "Marching Through Geor gia " Chairman Root stopped th* singing for Hugh T. Halbert, of Minnesota, to speak for th* minority report Mr. Hal bert said. "Before presenting a statement >f the case of th* state of Washington I am requested to make a statement Tito minority; members of the committee on credentials believed that the committee was a court of final Jurisdiction and they did not present objections to many' of the contests "There were contests in eleven coun ties. With the determination of a sin gle contest from a single county in Washington for Roosevelt he would hay * had a majority, a primary elec tion was held and ft resulted in 6.9(10 votes being cast. "Os those voter SOP were cast for Taft and 6.400 for Roosevelt. (Cheers; > "It has seemed to the minority that this question is one of right and wrong That It la a great moral ‘ ‘ Party Can t Stand Defeat With Dishonor.” "Th* Republican party can stand de feat to honor, but the Republican parly can not stand defeat with dishonor." "They are rolling tile roller."’ sang the delegates in happy chorus and Wil liam T Dovell. of Washington, took tit. platform "1 understand, ' interjected ex-Gxn ernor Fort, of New’ Jersey, "that this delegate’s seat Is in question ” " The gentleman is on* of those whose seat is contested.” ruled the chair, "and . he has no right to vote, but I don’t I think that it precludes him from speak ing .Mr Dovell .-aid tha. the Roosevelt people had disregarded the party call and come together without authority. They had no right, he said, to come be fore the convention and ask that their delegate# be seated, because they had thrown party law to the winds Dovell read from the minutes of the state convention of Washington to es tablish the party call and the party law. He charg'd that tn the stale primary lie judges wee selected by one man and the *flicer» were selected by one man The same primary chose the Democratic delegatt s. he said and add ed. And et me 'ell you, gentlemen, when those delegates elected al that unlawful primary arrived al the Demo cratic state convention they were not allowed to ait." "IVe rambled, we rambled, we am bled. al! ground.” sang the delegates m th* vote was called Enginect Root pulled the throttle *f the steam roller, she rolled ahead one length and Washington had been added io the Taft list. Until the Washington *a-ses were reached "the roller” moved "it!', regulaiitj More Raillery From T R Men Mississippi was quick..' settled and Taft delegates seated in the Fourth No'th Carolina th" Thilo Oklahoma and the Second Tenuc.-sidistricts The report of the committee on the First district of Washington, seating the Taft list, went through in three minutes behind tin lelcgates ,t larg Three hundred I.al'ollettc supporters marched to the Coliseum carrying ban ners and signs. crying for th* Wiscon sin senator. Ditto, the Second district. chile "Merrily We Roll Along" echoed from the Rooaevc It dec-gat ■ Th* secretars cad • find that the delegates placed upon th tempo rary roll by t’i< national . .>mndtte< wore duly ‘‘The ayes have it," shout' < .< mn - gate, before Chairman Root put th* question. In one long ami slug „ h.-i * opposition voted "No," am! i>• t ; p. . to more raillery us the Third dislii ; was thrown Into the furnace fm st*<i roller fuel It took gavel work from <’h;'iiima! Root to get Older enough to s' a * . question. A delegate produced a tin whist I. "Toot, toot,” went the whistle. Everybody roared and the tningi. • houts came: “Call the next case.” “Give him 30 days." The tin whistle tooted again to the intense merriment of the deb gates Then the Roosevelt delegates began cheering William J Bryan, who sat in the press stand. ’’Bryan. Bryan,” they called to regis- UNCLE TRUSTY! I ' 3. T T ZfftFPvftVKSM It A '. 4’ ...y ' I't, Mconventiou :: j W' ’ - ,PTstS<! I’ZrwZ' l i - , TH/er-- I :■ Yf " - I X The Convention is a restful, quiet plaee! It is really a great pleasure Io wateh an or- 'f £ derly. dignitied gathering of free American citizens eousultiug in such a calm, luinnonitnik 4- V manner! It makes me think of a row between rival tongs in Chinatown! Oh, Politics. Poli- ?* y lies, what a gink thou art! As Goldsmith says in ‘T'he Iteaerted Village’— t iX “ ‘How do thy potions with insidious joy IT Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy!’ ” ’ X IT . | ter their disapproval of things in gen eral. "Toot, toot," again sounded the whis tle Al 11 .‘ill o'clock a Roosevelt demon stration started, the cheering being led by a man in the Indiana delegation. The t'alifornia delegation rose to its feet yelling: W< want Teddy . we want Teddy." Alice Roosevelt Longworth rose in her place in the gallery mid waved her hat as the demonstration started At the end of the (list minute the applause was deafening Vietoi llusi water walked iiy the Texas delegation They grabbed him about the neck and pulled him among them (or a friendly and noisy demon stration. "We want Teddy." lagan the chorus that started at once. We got Teddy." New .lerseey started the row Standing in their chairs, they began waving Hags and chanting the battle ■ \ of the third party. Instantlj- i 'allforniii popped to the front to join the noise Massachusetts ihlpped In with "Roosevelt IK. Roose velt 1«. Roosevelt 18." Then the anwweitng calls of West Virginia and Pennsylvania earn.- to swell the noise that had been in prog ress three minutes. A signal came fro , t U( . stand for the . band to piny. As it did the little tin ' whistle again resounded Its tantallzlrg and mirth-provoking wheez< Indiana got up to Join the fun, and It was the apparent purpose of the Roose velt folk to make the scene one >f farce and comedy. West V irginia delegates climbed into their chairs and began singing the "We want Teddj" song, amid catcalls, whistles and hum of voices The dele gates did not notice thut Miss. Clo .la eobswn was singing in the bandstand. As her clear notes came floating over the great crowd the tumult ceased and , men on tie floor and the women in the gallery were silent w uile Moonlight Ray" -oot'md the ruffled delegates . Will'll sic eased singing a yipidng , | round o' applause forced an encore, t'lveij dcicgati in the mse stood up and kept tin p< a< e m tributi to the , dual powei of woman utui of song , "And ti e band played Annie I.an- | n." to say nothing of IHxie," while a man burg a harper <>v ■■ tin- rear buh'otiy bearing the words: 1 W al Ito,S Rd of .. I' ..rose „ a i '.uni I ''ey ire all iiggl " gallon of criminals ir .o-uuer.oilng undei the ban in i of Republicanism. f There eami ,i r cr froil I i. . rowd ' and the ba mil l w : iiio :t ly j.i.ir.l 1 away by hostile hands i The sei g'-ants-at arms at poh> r ejected from the hill the men .:■> . swung th< bannci <-,> delirntiy bilo'v n I!!’, \ I L.W'I’A '.'l’.OKfil A.\ AM) M-iW S. SA II KDA Y. -Il'M- 22. 1912. the fa<i' of <'hairman Root, who, white with rage, sat and watched the pro ceeding. \ delay in the proceeding- was due to tile fact that a big tight was ex pected over the Texas contests and un usual preparations were made to meet it. It was reported that a roll call would lie demanded and with 30 Taft votes shut oft the Roosevelt peopig ex pected to make a last big showing. The Minnesota delegates went into conference while the convention was waiting for the credentials committee to report. They considered a plan to refuse to vote on the nominations. It was virtually decided to adopt the plan. V lest vote on one of the coming con tests was discussed. The vote was to find out how many of tt'.e Roosevelt delegates would i fuse to vote on the coll calls after the permanent roll had been adopted. Inning the long wait of the i’oxas ici'uit to <■ me in Mis I'.lnter 1 Ila ris. of fienver. was overcome by the cX'.'itement that had attended the ses sion She was sitting in the gallery with her husband and her brother, Walter T. Wrenn, when she suddenly I sped to her feet A delegate cited: ■'More oil fol the steam roller." Mr- Ila is was much affected. "Roosevelt is our candidate." sue i led. Il i« robbery ” There wa- a seelie near the woman. Iler husband ‘l’d li mm i * ti<|rntoi’> d to calm her. finally they bore her from th" gallery Tip- convention was called to order at I "a p m. and the report on the I'lfih Virginia dis': lit was r a.l seating both of the Taft delegates The majority repo't declared the Roosevelt delegates Io have been absolutely without merit. "('hoc, ehoo. toot." went the fulls. I’he motion to adopt the report ,\ speedily carl I' d nml <’hairman R iot said: ' I would like to say "Toot, toot," went the tin whistle o r the crowd. Mi Root otitinui’U that i'. of the contests had beer finished by (he com mittees on er> di lilial.-, but that there we ; . a number of ease' T>. t the committee In w hich no forma! contests | had bei n made T. R. Shows Record Os Barnes and Root CHICAGO. Jun ’ vk»n< R m>sv- \tlt i<»da\ uiithoiizfd th* Hion of Ihe following st Ueinent headed ROOT. EARNES AND GRAFT THE BOSS VERSUS THE PEOPLE. BOSS BARNES From the unanimous report of the special committee of the Now York • •••*»»**** *-*-*--»-*—*» —* * * • state senate appointed to investigate ths city and county of Albany. " ’The most conspicuous beneficiary of graft, public extravagance and raid ing of the municipal treasury, we find from tlie evidence to be Mr. William Barnes, Jr. himself, as the owner of the majority of the stock of Journal company. He is the president of this company and the chairman of its executive committee. "'We shall not repeat in detail the uiu mil adicted facts brought out be fore us to the effect tliat the contract for printing the proceedings of the common council of the city of Albany was the result of a scheme 'whereby the. successful bidder was assured of getting additional work in violation of law. and fixed bis bid lower than any outside pi Inter could do the work for; tlie work was padded to an incredi ble extent merely to increase the cost of tlie job and tlie value of the con tract thus obtained; that Mr. Barnes concern, the Journal company, without having any plant to do the work with, uevertheless gm in violation of law. orders for duplicate copies of tile work done by the public bidder, and farmed out these orders to that bidder who paid Mr Barnes' concern 25 per cent on the job; that on' the work obtained at public bidding, the successful bid der paid Mr. Barnes' concern 15 per cent, that these payments were made to Mr. Barnes' company because, to use the language of a witness who knew tlie (acts. Mr Barnes dictated w h le the pl inting goes and Tlie Argus gives up to The Journal in order to obtain the printing. How much money 'l'm Journal company received from these sources did not appear, but it did appear before us that Mr. Harness , ompmy bad obtain'd unlawfully from Hie state tile sum of $ l.:.5 |, 4.5t> and from the county of Albany the sum of sl,- a. on the pretext of furnishing work which Ids concern bad not done.’ "ROOT. "Once a corgoiation jackal always a corporation jackal. Roosevelt knows ! that is true. He made the discovery in experimenting with Elihu Root. T'.liliu Riot was the man who. ac cording t ■ VViUiutn Whitm y. could t< II a rich man how to evade the law safely. Any lawyer, said Mr Whitney, in tell nu what I must not do Root is the one man who can tell me what I call do and how. "Root is the man whom Thomas Ry in set to work to carry out this pl. "is in th" L'tullable. What tnos I im ■ ill" investigation showed. Root I- the min to w bom Thomas I . Ryan ref' "d wlvn In said a> one who would speak of his hunting dog or his valet: " I instructed Rod to do so and "Root is tii* Tuan whom Theodore Roosevelt look out of the jackal law yer' office wlwrc he belonged, to pul him in the service of the United States, where li<- was out of place. A big na tion does not need legal jackal:-. A big thief do's need them. "Part of Root’s business in the set vices of corporations was to get hold of Theodore Roosevelt, ‘ami deliver him.’ If hr could. He got hold of Theo dore Roosevelt. He cone meed Roosevelt that lie. Root, was the one grand brilliant man. Thunks to Roosevelt he became secre tary of war ami secretary of state. As secretary of state he became very uaq i to his employer the corporations Lils was proved iny negotiationß with Belgium, w hich gav’e Uongo interests to Thomas. I’. Ry in and his friends, and In negotiations with Rus.-itl. very valu able to the Steel trust, the oil trust and o thers. Third Party Men and Roosevelt Confer t’Hli’AGO. June 22.—A< tive steps to ward tin formation of a progressive party, with Theodore Roosevelt as its standard hearer, were taken today. Colonel Roosevelt vent into confer ence shortly after 8 o’clock with repre sentatives of nearly all the states, and upon the results of that conference will depend the program that will be imme diately followed with reference to the organization of a movement for which a convention will b? held during the first week in August in Denver. James R. Garfield, who was a mem ber of what was known as the "ten nis cabinet" during the last Roosevelt administration, said this morning as he went into the conference of Roosevelt supporters in the Florentine room at the Congress hotel: "Mr. Roosevelt’s name will not go be fore the convention today. The plan for his nomination by the third party will be made at the conference to which 1 am now going. It is possible that the nomination may be made in Chicago tonight, but 1 am inclined to the view that it will be deferred until August, and that Denver will be selected as the place for its making." Pendergast ‘‘Didn't Know.” Just as he left the hotel this morn ing, William A. Pendergast, who was selected to nominate Roosevelt, in re sponse to a question, said lie did not know whether the colonel would go be fore the convention. There is much difference of opinion among the colonel's followers as to the character of the movement. Many of the more earnest Roosevelt workers in sist that the new party should be formed merely, to meet emergency situations, and tiiat it is not. wise to attempt to make it other than a corrective force. It is assured that the meeting of the new party men will be held in Chicago before the delegates and politicians leave for their homes. The present plan is to hold this meeting at Orches tra hall, or in the Roosevelt headquar ters some time tonight. The persons present at the confer ence represent everything progressive from the Roosevelt steering committee for the six New England states to the ultra-radical representatives of the Pacific coast delegations. They are spurred by the statement made by Colonel Roosevelt to a large gathering that besieged his window at an early hour. when, he poked his head from the window and said: “My friend, my hat is in the ring and it will be in the ring for good and forever.” Thi£ utterance was today used as the keynote for the new party men. They insisted, without dissent, that the chief essential of getting together was to have the colonel make a race for presi dent. Among the regular Republican poli ticians unusual concern was attached to the part the Eastern representatives are to play in the new movement. From the Massachusetts delegations four of the delegates at large and one district delegate will stick with the new party. They are led by Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard, the leader of the New Eng land faction. Besides himself. George W Coleman. James P. Maginess and Al vin G. Weeks from the list of delegates at large for Massachusetts are going to the Roosevelt camp. Dr. Frederick P. Glazier, of Hudson. Mass., a district delegate, is the fifth men.ber of the representative list who takes a place behind the colonel. The proportion of live out of 36 Massachusetts delegates is said to be a fair indication of rela tive strt ngth of the party factions in M a -achus' 11.- Th* othe: New Eng land states will have more or less part in the movetitent, with the predicted possibility of throwing this iron-bout.d Republic. tn stronghold into the Demo cratic column along with the solid South iii the coming election. Oklahoma Behind T R "Dy namite Ed" Perry , of I'L ahoma, wants to nomin.i* Roosevelt for th* presideney either tonignt or early to me low morning, immediately after the Taft venting'nt in the convention ad journs. "Dur delegation of sixteen men,” said Perry today, "will remain throughout FOR THAT TIRED FEELING Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate Excellent for Hie relief of that tired feeling due to Summer heat, overwork er Insomnia ••• KODAK FINISHING At Jno I. Moor' w Sons' and all acce«- soii-s for tot Kodak. .Vlall orders re • »iv, tuompt attention. 13 Not t h Bn-ad street. for Roosevelt. No one else goes. And we’ll go back to Oklahoma and carry the state for him.” E. F. Herriff, of Apache. Okla., vice chairman of the delegation, stood by and indorsed Perry in each statement. Two members of the Oklahoma dele gation will go down to Baltimore and there mingle with the progressive Dem ocrats. They claim to have assurances from Oklahoma Democrats that they' will join in the tiiird party movement. Probably Perry and Herriff will be the two men to go to Baltimore. The backbone of the new movement is. of course, (he California and Okla homa delegations. Texas is to join strongly with the two Western states in the list and reports from Missouri. Minnesota, Oregon. Kansas, Nebraska and Washington give assurances to the colonel of a marked party defection in those states to his movement. There is at present no strong drift from Illinois. Ohio, Indiana or Ken tucky and lowa, having large ambitions of her own, Is playing extremely close until the definite program is outlined. Minnesota's progressive Republicans are for Roosevelt on a third party tick et. according to W. A. Eaton, of Du luth. Senator Moses Clapp is not talk ing on the subject. Hugh T. Halbert, of St. Paul, is with the Rough Rider, ‘‘Wasn't Started Soon Enough.” “We've had But one complaint." said Mr. Eaton. "The third party move ment was not started soon enough to suit us. We’ve wanted Roosevelt on a progressive platform as the progressive candidate from the beginning. While I can speak only' for myself, 1 am satis fied that this sentiment is unanimous.” The actual work of preparing for the convention at Denver is to be done largely under the direction of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver, who is lead ing the Colorado contingent into the new camp. The judge is enthusiasti cally for the Roosevelt movement and he is today doing much preliminary work looking to the general meeting which is to come in his town. He assured the men who came today to confer that Colorado would go for the colonel, regardless of Democratic action at Baltimore, and great faith is pinned to him by his fellows. The regular Republican leaders are waiting before they make any public estimates of the new deal. It is known to all of the followers of Penrose. Barnes and Crane that their chiefs view the situation with grave concern “I am not going to be a member of any third party, and there are a whole lot of Colonel Roosevelt’s supporters who feel the same way about it. They will not follow him in any such effort. They are Republicans.” This was the statement made today by Governor Hadley, of Missouri as he rushed from the presidential suite at the Congress hotel, where a confer ence was oi. "If there Is to be a new party organized it will be without my aid or consent." The governor would not give the reasons for his hurried departure from the Roosevelt meeting. It was abvious to everybody that he was in a tower ing rage when lie left the room. It was supposed that some proposition had been put forward with which he was out of sympathy— oossibly the third party id< a. —_. | /k There are lots of things JsR nee d painting now— 'aP things that you yourself can 4 paint, so the cost is very small—just for the paint. And, anyway, every nor mal man, woman or child CHnfirlpn/'P likes to wield a paint brush VUfHlUtrnCt for a while, at least in Vnuy once 8 year ’ 111 I UUI So get a can of Carriage _ . . Gloss Paint and go over the UpflClSn porch chairs, the lawn swings and the benches. There’s There ie wonderful sat- I ?™ Wnd of paint that’s made Istaction in having confi- g for SUCH purposes—R dence in people and thing-. ■ paint that dries hard and fidence in us for over for- I does not blistei in the hot * ty years—because we have I SUn after a, rain. given them satisfaction. 9 Q p t ran r You may need glasses— ■ mai can 01 paint tO- for close work, for dis- ■ day. tant vision, rest glasses. 8 opticians will make a "ca?e- r I Georgia Paint & Glass Co. ful examination of your | 35-37 LUCKIE STREET ey c"om n e d in e^°t U a lk it over. 1 Branch-54 N. Broad. A. K. Hawkes Co. OPTICIANS WHITEHALL Quality Our Watchword W Although our prions for scien tific PAINLESS dentistry are ex tremely low, the quality of our i work is the very highest. Best equipment, finest materials, most skillful dentists. | SET <>E TEETH. BRIDLE WORK $4 00 HOLD CROWNS. and *.’» tip ATLANTA DENTAL PARLORS 1 DR C. A. CONSTANTINE. Prop, and .Wcr. • ” Corner Peachtree and Decatur ; Entrance 19C, Peachtree Street. I Wild Scene at Credentials Meeting • CHICAGO. June 22. Though defeat ed in every contest which they had cat t ied to the credentials committee, the Roosevelt forces renewed their battle when the committee went to work today on the Texas cases. There remained to be decided today contests involving 30 delegates n Texas, two delegates, in Virginia an I possibly two in Missouri. Os the 30 * Texas delegates the national commit tee had given four to Roosevelt and 2'j to Taft. Chairman Devine addressed the com mittee and denounced as "gutter work" a statement issued by the Roosevelt , members denouncing the Taftites’ ac tions. H<- declared the statement which war given to the morning newspapers was “as dastardly a piece of falsification as was ever concocted.” Chairman Devim announced that the majority would is sue a reply. Lie Repeatedly Passed. Devine declared that any one who asserted (hat the majority report of tip credentials committee had been pre pared in advance was a "willful and deliberate Hat.” R. R. McCormick, of Illinois, who gave out the statement, rose to repl.' Devine surrendered the gavel and threatened a personal attack on Mc- Cormick. He sat down. Committeeman St. Clair, of Idaho. f said he did not believe the committee had been crooked, but when he made a ’ “fraud” reference to Arizona, Commit teeman Morrison, of that state, cried: "You are a liar. You can’t say we have fraud out there. You lie!” Order was finally restored without bloodshed, but there was another out break when Halbert, of Minnesota, said Devin* was an impartial chairman, Esterbrook, of New Jersey, asked > Halbert if he intended to support Taft if nominated. Halbert replied that he would not tell you. “He is going to bolt.” shouted Ester brook. There was a sharp exchange between the Taft and Roosevelt men, Involving Blum, of Georgia; Summers, of Vit- ) glnia: Mondell, of Wyoming, and Lib bey, of Maine. Chairman Devine then appointed the following men upon a committee to make a reply to the McCormick stat' - ment: J. A. Heinenway, of Indiana: O. M. Landstrum, of Montana; M. F. McFarlne, of Florida; F. A. Esterbrook, of New Jersey; G. A. Malby, of New York. The 26 Taft district delegates from ( Texas were seated by the credentials committee. After a long struggle, the Taft' delegates at large in Texas were seated by the committee by a vote of 27 to 16. This ended the contests FAREWELL TO PASTOR. AUGUSTA, GA.. June 22. A farewell service next Tuesday evening will be ten dered Rev. George E. Giiille. pastor of * the Greene Street Presbyterian church. . who will leave July 1 for Chicago to hr come an instructor in the Mood.' Bible in stitute.