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Famous Woman Writer Is Disappointed Because Colonel Roosevelt Doesn't Appear in Hall
NELLIE BLY’S STORY OF A DAY AT THE CONVENTION
She Thinks the Ex-Pres
ident Could Have Had
the Nomination Just
by Asking the Con
vention to Give It to
Him.
CHICAGO, June 22.—Here is Nel
lie Bly's own story of wliat she
saw arid heard at yesterday’s ses
sion of the big Republican conven
tion :
By NELLIE BLY.
It was going to happen. It was
something impossible to define. It
was in the air. It was thrilling. It
was sensational. It bad never oc
curred before. It may Have been
bloodshed or only a surprise* No
body knows what it was. Nobody
asked Still everybody went about
whispering warningly to everybody
else, ‘.lust wait till tomorrow.”
Christinas' morning never found
earlier risers or more interroga
tion-laden minds. Everybody want
ed to get to the Coliseum first, with
the result that crowds packed the
afreets for hours before the doors
opened.
x There was no late arrivals. and
, n lien the doors opened the people
began to gush in just as waters
gush out of opening gates,
and in the briefest time this flood
of people (Hied every inch of space.
Sitting ami standing, in that vast
hall.
It was a friendly crowd—it did
riot matter whether you knew any
one or not. you just talked to them
when the occasion arose. It was
neither flirtatious nor bold—just
natural as one would converse with
one’s intimates.
"We missed you yesterday when
you went away." said one man who
sat somewhere in our section. "We
needed you here to root for Teddy.”
“Thank you." and 1 remembered I
bad to leave early. I answered:
“Bui I Hin ready to root all day
todai' for Teddy."
“Good; we’ll talk to you through
your hat." he laughed.
1 had previously asked some men
hack of me if my hat was in their
way. They protested it was not
and one gallantly said:
“T like that bat and 1 like it where
it is—keep it there." So I did.
NOT FLIRTATIOUS,
PRUDISH OR PRIM.
.lust here I want to say Lnever
saw a finer assemblage of men.
• Their behavior is royally perfect.
They arc not flirtatious or bold,
prudish or print or fresh, conceit
ed or cringing, offish or familiar
they are natural. Some towns and
many conventions are given to
drunkenness, but 1 have not seen a
drunken man since I came to ( hi
cago. Brooklyn carries the prize
as a "drunk" town. Drunkenness
is so much the habit in Brooklyn
that they laid the streets out zig
zag so the drunks could, wobble
home.
Back to the day when the mys
terious it was to happen, a minis
tei stepped forward to pray.
Whether all the people had not got
seated yet or whether they had
noticed what I said about them
the first day, T can’t tell, but al
most everybody stood up while the
minister in a few brief words told
God to show us how to run the
convention his day.
Perhaps God heard and obeyed,
for Mr. Root pounded on the table
with his little hammer and the,
meeting was announced adjourned
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon
That’s what happened. Nobody
wanted to go. Groups formed. Ar
guments and visits were made.
BRYAN MAKES VOTES
FOR MISTER BRYAN.
Bryan sat in his little reporter’s
chair on the edge of the balcony
and made votes for Bryan. An end
less file of men went by and each
one said, with slight variation, the
same thing: "I’m from Kansas,
colonel, and if Roosevelt is not
nominated 111 vote tor you. I m
from California. Mr. Bryan, and if
the? don’t nominate Roosevelt I’ll
vote for you"—every one repeated
ft until it sounded like some mode
of salutation. The clever Mr. Bry
an shook each hand and smiled and
’ replied with apparent appreciation.
It looks like Mi Bryan for the
next president to me. That which
was to be a Republican convention
full of surprises turned out to be
a Bryan reception full of assur
ances. No wonder the Democrats
said when Root was made chair
man. “All over but the cheering of
the Democrats,” and then went
away, smiling, satisfied to lay plans
for next week. There is where
Toddy missed it.
lion afraid to
taste the roast.
If instead of sitting down in the
Auditorium Annek with detectives
and guards and policemen sur
rounding him as if he were the
Kohinow and the crons jewels all
in one, he had walked, or taken a
taxi, if he preferred, and come
down to the convention the first
day, walked in, like a free Ameri
can citizen and said: “Here I am,
gentlemen. I have 500 votes and
then 90.1100 persons' back of me
who want me, I demand the nom
ination," he would have got it. He
< ,ime like/ . Hon and scared them
dead and ifiep ho stopped within
♦ ion feet of their camp fire, smelt
the roast and never uttered a
growl
And the steam roller, finding the
Wild Scene at
Credentials Meeting
CHICAGO, June 22. —Though defeat
ed in every contest which they had
carried 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 in
Texas, two delegates in Virginia and
possibly two in Missouri. Os the 30
Texas delegates the national commit
tee had given four to Roosevelt and 28
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.
He declared the statement which was
given to the-morning newspapers was
“as dastardly a piece of falsification as
was ever concocted." Chairman Devine
announced that the majority would is
sue a reply.
Lie Repeatedly Passed.
Devine declared that any one who
asserted that the majority report of the
credentials committee liacf been pre
pared in advance was a "willful and
deliberate liar."
R. R. McCormick, of Illinois, who
gave out the statement, rose to reply.
Devine surrendered rhe gavel and
threatened a personal attack on Mc-
Cormick. He sat down.
Committeeman St. Clair, of Idaho,
said hr did not. believe the committee
had been crooked, but when he made a
"fraud" reference to Arizona. Commit
teemau* 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
Devine was an impartial chairman.
Esterbrook, of New Jersey, asked
Halbert if lie intended to support Taft
if nominated.
Halbert replied that he, would not
tell you.
“He is going to boil.” shouted Ester
brook.
There was a sharp exchange between
the Taft and Roosevelt men, involving
Blum, of Georgia; Summers, of Vir
ginia; Monde!], of Wyoming, and Lib
bey. of Maine.
Chairman Devine then appointed the
following men upon a committee to
make a reply to the McCormick state
ment: J. A. Hemenway, of Indiana;
O. M. Landstrum, of Montana; M. B.
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
delegates at large in Texas were
seated, by the committee by a vote of
27 to 16.
This ended the contests.
Lion had not jumped upon it, grew'
bold and said to its followers:
“You see that Lion is afraid.
You smell that roast? Well, if you
desert camp you’ll not get a bite
and we’ll take away even that
which you have."
So he lost, the Lion did. Sup
posing Napoleon had ridden that
white horse into Paris and rushed
into a stable and stayed there;
the trouble is—that Teddy did not
take thejiurdle.
EVERYBODY waits
FOR IT TO HAPPEN.
Thence Democrats rejoice.
The things that didn’t happen in
the morning were promised, so
back tjie fifteen or twenty thou
sand expectants shot. Then the
same message, "No session until
two.” Everybody yelled. In tlie
top row one could hear the name
of Taft. A hoarse and well inten
tioned individual skied his hat and
issued an unintelligible and hoarse
cry through a megaphone. Some
one picked up an American flag
with Teddy’s picture beneath and
started to move- through the hall.'
It was doleful—no one seemed to
be courageous enough to swell the
ranks mutinally. Sudden spurts of
yelling broke out in different loca
tions. but they did not last long or
create much sensation. But no one
went away. The order was made
to clear the hall.
A threatening gentleman in a
badly fitting suit told us by mega
phone from the piatform that the
hall must be emptied as the lights
would go out in five minutes. No
one left. The chief of police tried
it. He looked fine in his uniform
and he knew it. He stepped upon
tlie platform and announced that
the hall must be cleared. Nobody
moved. Then he turned to the
press division And said: “You’ll
hav? to get out. We have orders
to clear the building.”
"But we can’t go," yelled back a
press representative. “We are here
to see something happen,” and they
stayed.
ROOT STARTS AWAY,
BUT FEARFULLY STOPS.
Chairman Root took up his coat
and hat. s He was going. Good.
All we Teddy people liked to see it.
A cry from the depths of the
crowd started: "We want Teddy.’
A score of steam roller stock
holders rushed to Mr. Root and
every one tried to whisper to him
at the same time. He sat down
suddenly, fearfully.
“He’s afraid to go, lest Teddy
comes and steals the convention,”
1 said, and everybody whispered to
everybody else: "He’s afraid to
leave for fear Roosevelt comes." I
jumped on the platform—l shook
hands with him.
“How do you do. Mr. Root?” I
asked. "I have come to talk to
yon. and Nell Brinkley has come
to illustrate you.”
"Very good.” he said. "I will
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help along with the interview.”
Then I did it.
"Mr. Root, do you really think if
Mr. Roosevelt is out of it that the
Republicans can elect a president?"
He looked shocked. He glanced
at me frightenedly, then stepped
back as if to retreat. There was
no place to go. He looked appeal
ingly to his friends for aid. "Real
ly—” he hesitated. His friends
closed in and that interview termi
nated.
Moral: When you want to catch
a. hawk, don’t introduce yourself
with an explosion of dynamite.
Dr. Depew' came on the platform
to speak to some friends (politi
cal), Mrs. Depew holding his arm.
She’s a qwiet person and generally
in blue, and though she says noth
ing one feels her strength and that
Chauncey is leaning entirely upon
her .and obeying—and that is a
good thing for Chauncey.
HISTORY ALL WRONG
ABOUT THE REBELLION.
You ought to see the colored del
egate from Kentucky. He was
having - a white shirt argument
with one from Texas.
Tt was a fighting that war gave
you the right to wear that white—
shirt.”
"My father fought, yes. sir, he
fought in that war to give me the
right to wear a white shirt.”
That’s the first intimation I ever
had that a white shirt was the is
sue of the rebellion. I have always
felt history is inaccurate. Now 1
am convinced. But then, writers
used to have a false modesty in
the days when no one had legs. It
was startling to know a white shirt
caused a long and bloody war, un
der the cloak of the slave market.
One little delegate from Georgia
was murmuring despondently and
miserably to himself: “Samuel’s in
the Lion’s den.” “Did you just hear
it?’ I asked. "That was’long ago
—don’t feel so bad.”
"Teddy’s my Samuel, and he’s
in the Lion’s den,” he wailed.
Time proved—no Teddy arrived
—the crowd began to dwindle—not
because they had been told to just
because Teddy was a prisoner in
Elba and nothing happened.
Even the white-haired woman
who had held her place against a
dozen officers and ushers, when
the order first came to clear the
house, got and left weary, de
spondently. Nothing had hap
pened. The rain began to come
through the roof. The crowd got
hungry. Te.ddy di'd not come.
Nothing happened. Everybody went
home disappointed.
T. R. Shows Record
Os Barnes and Root
CHICAGO, June 22. —Colonel Roose
velt today authorized the publication
of the following statement headed;
"ROOT. BARNES AND GRAFT,
THE BOSS VERSUS THE PEOPLE.
BOSS BARNES:
"From the unanimous report of the
specie! committee of the New York
state senate appointed to investigate
the city and county of Albany:
“ ‘The most conspicuous beneficiary
of graft, public extravagance and raid
ing of the municipal treasury, we find
from the 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
uncontradicted facts brought out be
fore us to the effect that 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 his bid lower than any
outside printer could do the work for;
the work was padded to an incredi
ble extent merely to increase the cost
of the job and the value of the con
tract thus obtained; that Mr. Barnes’
concern, the Journal company, without
having any plant to do the work with,
nevertheless got. in violation of law,
orders for duplicate copies of the 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 biddirig, 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 the facts, Mr Barnes dictated
w’here the printing goes and The Argus
gives up to The Journal in order to
obtain the printing. How much money
The Journal company received from
these sources did not appear.rbut it did
appear before us that Mr. Barnes’s
company had obtained unlawfully from
the state the sum of $13,504.50 and from
the county of Albany the sum of sl,-
559.50, on the pretext of furnishing
work which his concern had not done.’
“ROOT.
“Once a corporation jackal always a
corporation jackal. Roosevelt knows
that is true. He made the discovery in
experimenting with Elihu Root.
“Elihu Root was the man who, ac
cording to William C. Whitney, could
tell a rich man how to evade the law
safely.
“Any lawyer," said Mr. Whitney,
“can tell me what. I must not do. Root
is the one man who ca.n tell me what I
can do and how.
"Root is the man whom Thomas
Ryan set to work to carry out this
plans in the Equitable. What those
plans were the investigation showed-
Root is the man to whom Thomas F.
Ryan referred when he said as one
who would speak of his hunting dog or
his valet:
“‘J instructed Root to do so and
so.’
"Root Is the man whom Theodore
Roosevelt took out of She jackal law
yer’s office, where he belonged, to put
him in the service of the United States,
where he was out of place. A big na
tion does not need legal jackals. A
big thief does need them.
"Part of Root’s business in the ser
vices of corporations was to get hold
of Theodore Roosevelt, ‘and deliver
him.’ if he could. He got hold of Theo
dore Roosevelt.
He convinced Roosevelt that he.
Root, was the one grand brilliant man.
Thanks to Roosevelt he became secre
tary of war and secretary of state. As
secretary of state he became very use
ful to his employer—the corporations—
this was proved in negotiations with
Belgium, which gave Congo interests to
Thomas F. Ryan and his friends, and
in negotiations with Russia, very valu
able to the steel trust, the oil trust and
others.
THIS BURGLArIsN’T
UP ON HIS FRENCH;
OVERLOOKS A “BET’’
If tlie burglar who entered the home
of W. D. Green, 256 Ivy street, had
been a college graduate he wouldn’t
have overlooked the bet he did.
Mr. Green went home to find a win
dow' had been broken, his family being
away, and there were traces of a
stranger having ransacked the place.
“But the only thing I missed," said
Mr. Green, “was a bottle of ordinary
corn liquor which stood on a table.
Right beside it was a bottle of fine
French brandy, but the label was also
French, and I reckorvthe negro wasn’t
up on that language.
RIVFRS REALTY CO.
TO SELL FIVE LOTS
AT AUCTION JUNE 27
The E. Rivers Realty Company will
hold an auction sale of central proper
ties Thursday, June 27.
Three lots at the southwest corner of
Houstpn street and Piedmont avenue
and two lots on the east side of Pied
mont avenue just north of Decatur
street will be sold. Each lot measures
25 by 200. Spirited bidding is expected
and the sale Will be marked by good
old auction-time enthusiasm.
Eat Peaches and Cream
You can get the cream at home, but I’ll send the peaches direct from my orchard.
I’ve made a hit with my FROM-ORCHARD-TO-HOME PEACH Proposition. Folks
seem to like the big. luscious peaches I send them, freshly picked from the trees. The
dew is hardly off of them.
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Write for prices and terms to points outside Georgia.
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COLONEL’S HUT IN
HING FOREVER,
HE mis
Plans for Formation of New
Party Go On—Denver to
Get Convention.
CHICAGO. June 22. —Active steps to
ward the formation of a progressive
party, with Theodore Roosevelt as its
standard bearer, were taken today.
Colonel Roosevelt went 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 he held during the
first week in August in Denver.
James R. Garfield, who waAi 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
lam now going. It is possible that the
nomination may be made in Chicago
tonight, but I am Inclined to the view
that it will be deferred until August,
and that Denver will be selected aa 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 he 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 tha t the new party should be formed
merely io meet emergency situations,
and that' 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.
Tlie persons present at the confer
ence represent everything progressive
from the Roosevelt steering committee
for the six New England states to the
ultra-raxllcal 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.”
This 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, 1s the fifth member of ths
representative list who takes a. place
behind the colonel. The proportion of
five out of 36 Massachusetts delegates
is said to be a fair indication of rela
tive strength of the party factions in
Massachusetts. The other New Eng
land states will have more or less part
in the movement, with the predicted
possibility of throwing this iron-bound j
Republican stronghold into the Demo-
cratic column along with ' the solid
South in the coming election.
Oklahoma
Behind T. R.
“Dynamite Ed” Perry, of Oklahoma,
wants to nominate Roosevelt, fpr the
presidency either tonight or early to
morrow morning, immediately after the
Taft contingent in the convention ad
journs.
“Our delegation of sixteen men,” said
Perry today, “will remain throughout
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 gr> 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 third party movement
Probably Perry and Herriff will be ths
two men to go to Baltimore.
The backbone of the new movement
is, of course, th® 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 ths
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
of her own, is playing extremely doss’
until th® definite program is outlined,
Minnesota's progressive Republicans
are for Roosevelt on a third party tick- '
eL according to W. A, Eaton, of Du-j
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 oonypia.int.'" eeJIS
Mr. Baton. “Ths third party move-*;
ment was not started soon enough td.;
stilt us. We've wanted Roosevelt on *
progressive platform as the progressive
candidate from the beginning. While I ’
can speak only for myself, I am satis- '
fled that this sentiment is unanimous."*
The actual work of preparing for tbs
convention at Denver is to be dona
largely under the direction of Judge
Re.n B. Lindsey, of Denver, who Is lead - ;
tng the Colorado contingent into th«
new camp. The judge la enthusiasti
cally for tlie Roosevelt movement and
he Is today doing much preliminary
work looking to the general meeting
which Is to come in hie 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.
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FUNERAL NOTICE. '
HALL— Friends and relatives es Dr. and
Mrs. J. P. Hall and family ar® invited
to attend the funeral of Dr. J. P.
Hall Sunday, June 23. 1912. at 3 p. m.,
from his late residence, 137 West Fair
street. The members of W. H. T.
Walker camp and Comanche tribe ofi
Red Men, No. «, are especially invited j
to attend. Carriages will leave the of
fice of H. M. Patterson fe Son at 2:30.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
iTo the Chiefs and
Members of Comanche
Tribe No. 6, Improved
Order Red Men: You
are hereby commanded
to be at the Red Men's
Wigwam Association,
No. 86 Central avenue.
Sunday, June 23, 1912.
at 2 p m„ for purpose
of attending the funeral
of our decreased broth
er, Dr. J. P. Hall, No.
138 West Fair street.
Interment at Westview
camelry. Ail brethren
of other tribes are ex
tended a cordial invitation to meet
with us..
E. K GRIMMETT. Sachem.
Attest:
HENRY H. GREEN,
Chief of Records.
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