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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION v 4:00 P. M. Weather Forecast. OCCASIONAL SHOWKHS. mtm ASHEVILLE, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 26, 1912. ' 3c PER COFY ; ' i -4- MISSOURI GOES Delegates-at-Large Instructed For Him After Long Dead lock in St. Loui3 Convention. SCENES ARE STORMY IN FACTIONAL FIGHT Ousted Roosevelt Committee man Takes His Case to Court Effort to Unseat T. R. Delegates. PI. I.miln, April :. The Missouri republican state convention concluded lit 6:.'! o'clock tills morning after n L'4 hours deadlock.'. .Tint eight dele gates at large to the national conven tion are Instructed for "Roosevelt." The convention session was stormy unit the fight for control bitter. The efforts of the Taft men centered in getting control of the temporary or ganization of the convention and throwing iut the Kansas City delega tion instructed for Roosevelt In n pref erence primary, 4 to 1, and which gave the Roosevelt forces control of the convention. These efTorts failed. In tne effort to control the state executive committee and thus have a lien hand In organizing the conven tion. Thomas K. Nledrlnghatis, Itoos cvelt manager in St. lunula, was ousted unci Henry I. Weeks, an active Taft worker, was elected in his place as n member of the republican state com mittee Wednesday afternoon at a meeting of the committee. 'nmediatcly following his ouster Irom the committee, Niodrlnghuiis tiled in the circuit court an application lor a mandamus to compel the com mittee to recognize him as a member of Hie committee and a decision was yesterday rendered sustaining him. ARRESTEOTBR MUTINY Giant Liner Forced to Aban don Voyage Because of Strike Aboard. Southampton, England. April 26. Tlie W hite Star liner Olympic's voyage In New York has been abandoned and Hie lim r today returned to port be cause or a strike, of firemen and sea man on the vessel. Abandonment of the Olympic's voy xv was made necessary w hen the line idtmipted to replace striking liremcn with non-union men. The Olympic's whole complement of iseamoii. num bering 54, were arrested when they '"line ashore. They will be arraigned, charged with mutiny. "lie hundred und twvnty-onn pas 'niters awaiting the Olympic at Jiiii nslown wore transferred to the Haltle. leaving today for New York. I'ourleen hundred sacks of mail will held at Quoenstown for the Lusl buila, Railing from Liverpool tomor row, MRS. SARAH T. REAGAN HAS PASSED INTO REST Voiinic W ir,. anil .M oilier Died nl rjirly lour Today, of Exhnii.tlon, After an Operation. airs. Sarah T. Rcugun died ut in. today, ut the age of 31. follow 'bif an operation, at the Meriwether hospital. , Death was due to exhuus "". Mrs. Reagan had been in 111 health for a lonK while. Kile was married In 1US3 to J. ltov 111 "Kan, The husband ami a son ami " daughter survive; also her parents, Hev. and. Mrs. II. M. Taylor of Mt. Ucagun. The husband and a son and 'ry. and five brothers, w. K. Tayior j "i rvew York: George, or Louisiana; lardln, of Burlington; and Roy and Wesley of. Ml. Airy. She had bcfen "r a Inn while a member of the Methodist ehurch. The remains will be Interred In the UesKan family cemetery at Weaver Mile. V...... i , .tif l.l.l ..t tl... tilHTIll HCrwccs will Of loot i . ,.v- Vi . , . . . . i..., '"mshii. rcsiuenee, rso, n oi i.nv , street, at H.iO n m.. tomorrow. At .1 n. m ',. ,...,.l ear will leave for I', in. n special I in win - Weavtrvllle. conveying Hip body, e- vompnnleil by relatives anu memo;, "nil the services will lie concluded Ut the cemetery at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Reagan's was a rarely deautl fl character, and she was greatly be loved by a wide circle, of friends who will cherish the memory of her gen tleness, charm and Kindness, and who ""urn with the stricken father and little motherless tmes. $;!M,0(0 Flrr at Columbus, (in. . Culumbus, On.. April 2. Three firemen were Injured snd property loss estimated at t-'IOO.OOO was caused by the most destructive fire In the his tory nf the city yesterday afternoon. Nuarlv two Mocks of residences In the 'fishionnhle part nf the city, hounded by Twelfth and Thirteenth streets snd Fourth and Sixth avenues, were le-etioKd. SEVELT CALLS HflRVESIER CHflRGENONSENSE Roosevelt bays He Had No Reason to Favor Morgan Interests. Oyster Pay, N. Y... April 2U. "The talk about the suppression or the re port is nonsense," said !0. Roose veil last ninht, in a statement set ling forth his conduction with i,u . let national Harvester Company case Colonel Roosevelt asserted that at a meeting with his cabinet.- at .which Air. Taft was present, it was decided that the bureau of corporations be instructed to complete its investiga tion of the harvester company before any suit was instituted, following the usual course of procedure in such cases. .Mr. Tail, he added, concurred in this decision. During the remainder of his admin istration a period of a year und a half, Colonel 'Roosevelt said, the com missioner of corporations was unable to complete bus investigation. Ik said liml in the three years of the present administration Mr. Taft at any time could have ordered the at torney general to bring suit against the harvester company, or could have requested the commissioner of cor porations to hasten his investigation, but that .Mr. Taft had taken no ac tion, "except that now taken live (lays before tile .Massachusetts primary." Colonel Roosevelt also said lhat when' the Northern Securities suit was drought against the Morgan in terests in 1IKI4, he was expecting to run for president, but that 'when the harvester company matter came up in 1 !H) 7 he knew he would not be a candidate the following year, so thai if the action taken In this case did secure the good will "of any of the Morgan interests for anybody, -it Se cured their good will for Taft." Colonel Roosevelt then refers in detail to correspondence regarding the harvester trust matter between himself, Chi-rl, b.,1. l.ii jjiarU-f ttttiit- ney jcnncral under President -Roosevelt, and Herbert Knox Smith, then and now commissioner of corpora tions. Colonel Sums I'p. Tlie colonel then sums up as fol lows: ' "1 ! tool; precisely the action In tlie banister trust case that I loi in all similar cases. "2 -I am entirely responsible for the action taken, but it was lake with the full approval of the entire cabinet, including .Mr. Taft, who wi rheii nienibi-r of Ibe caiiiio-t. "3 There remained at the time less than a year and a halt ol my minim istration. During this time, for lh' reasons given by Mr. Smith, he wa not able to llnish the report ordcrei by the senate. During this period, as Mr. Smith writes me, Ibe only inslrin Hons I gac him In regard to the re port were o'rders intended to furilitat its nri-miratlon and nuhlicntion. "4 Over three years have elapsed since Mr. Taft became president, linr Ing this entire time the letter of Mr. Smith has been In the office of the attorney general, and Mr. Taft can not have forgotten the debate about It in ibo i-iililni't meeting when he was n member of the cabinet, and In which he took part. 1 Miring these three years .Mr. Taft could at any time have rilereil the attorney general to pro ceed against the harvester trust with out regard to the report, or have re nonKteil the commissioner of corpora tions either to hurry up the report or to give him the reasons why it was im possible to hurry It up. T. Vot nnlv did I not suppress any puers connected with the ease. hut I left every paper on tile eitner in the department "f justice or In the bureau of corporations, and if any thing wrong had been done, either In ih., u-iiv of omission or commission. the administration hsd three years and two months In which to correct tne wrong. Mr. Taft has been over three veers In the while house. During thai pcrion ne hub oho mo to publish the fads or against the harvester period he has had iimplo time either to lake action trust. He has taken no ucnon except that now- taken live days before the Massachu setts primary. -7 This matter was brought up In the senate on the motion of Senator Johnston who. as a member of both committees to Investigate Mr. Larimer, has been his earnest supporter and advocate. The elrruinstances under which it was passed and responucu , - ... (,. irnmnil for the belief that the ... p.,.,, r pre-arranged Biirposo was to snow that for some Improper reason 1 Una IIIM. 1". ' , ' favored the harvester trust, and the Morgan Interests. When under m administration the Northern Securities suit was brought against Mr. Morgan. I was expecting to run. and as a matter of fact did run, for president In 1904. When this harvester trust matter dime up, It was certain that I was not going to run. and Mr. Taft expected to run, and I expected that he would run In 1908. The sctlon that I took against Mr Morgan was tsken when I person ally was to pay for any consequences resulting from Mr. Morgan's 111 will If the action taken In the harvtster trust did secure the good will of that trust, or nv of the Morgan Interests I'or anybody. It secured; their good will for Mr. Taft. Tint as a matter of fact, in neither ease did I consider In any way ...... .nnwirt would he gabled wneiioi t". ..i'---- ----- . for or alienated from either in or Mr.) nnniini,il on ni.sre: six. - ivi. -'---' - - t Calif ornian hut Her Copt - '"'j - Distress Rockets Visible From Deck, Swears Ship's Wire less Operator. Washington. April 2'!. A sworn statement that the captain of the liner Californian refused to go to the Ti lanle'a aid, allhough only a few miles away, was tiled by lOrnest Hill, the Callfornian's wireless operator, with the senate committee today, Gill said distress rockets were plainly vis ible from the Californiun's deck and must have been visible to both the bridge and lookout, lie tried to or ganize a committee of the crew to go to the captain and protest against bis course, but he said Ibe men "were afraid they'd lose their jobs." Denies tilll's Statement. Captain Lord of the Californian in Remains of C. M. Hays, Anoth er Titanic Victim, Also Found by Cableship. New York, A-ril 2H. The bodies of John Jacob Astor and Isidor Stratus, Titanic blims, were recovered und are uboanl the cableship Mackay- RciiiK-tt. This news was wirelessed lo the While Star liner offices this morning. The body of C M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railroad, was added to the list of identified (lead picked up near the scene of the Tl- lanic disaster, according to a wireless from the cableship Mlnla. A wireless through tlie steamer Caledonia and Cape Race from the iblodilp .Mai-kay-Kennett stales there have been 411 additional Ideutilicutions or the recovered Titanic dead. Among others, the bodies of Astor and Straus were embalmed. The While Star line expects the Mackay-llennett to reach port lale to night or early tomorrow. ENGLAND IS TO PBOBE TNE IlliC DISASTER Survivors of Crew Will Ee Subpoenaed to Testify in London. London, April 26. Survivors of the Tilanlc'B crew, returning here on the Uiplnnd, will be subpoenaed to appear before a court of Inquiry when the vessel arrives nt Plymouth tomorrow. The court will be headed by Iord Morsey and commences Its Investiga tion next week. TRAIN IS BLOWN FROM RAILS IN WINDSTORM Omahn, Neb., April 26. Twenty niiij persons Injured, one of them. James Davis, perhaps fatally, when a windstorm struck tnlon Pacliie pas senger train No. 3u u mile west of North lyoup, Nob., late yesterduy after noon. The entire train, the engine ex- epted was blown from the track, and all the cars overturned. A mile of telegraph line was blown down, cutting olT direct communicat ion with larger outside cities for tuv- eral hours. The train, composed of a combina tion mall, baggage and express car tnd two day coaches, was running at ii moderato rate when the gale strueh it. As soon as Engineer O'Brien real ised what had happened he ran his en gine to Ord and returned with. a ear. In which the Injured were taken to Ord, - - - - .. ,- ASTQR ANQ STRAUS BOOIES RECOVERED Near as ain iuit w smith J SENATOR Roston denied Gill's statement. "J saw a ship, which I took to be the Titanic," said Gill, after being sworn, "sometime before midnight. She was about 10 miles away and went past us apparently at full sliced. She wan a big ship, and I saw two tiers of lights. The Californian at the time was caught in a Held of ice, her en gines were stopped and she was drift ing with the floe." Gill testified the vessel must have been plainly visible to the bridge and the "lookouts, ns well us rockets sent up, from the vessel. "The Caliror nlan's captain, he said, paid no atten tion to the distress signals and his refusal to get up steam and go to the aid of the strangers incensed the crew.. Ciil triert to organize a urn. testing p-pty among the men. He laiicit neeause ol the timidity of the men. Krotn the rockets mil tu.r,i the distressed ship was' not over 20 nines oil. Ho described the rockets, his description tallying with that giv Js,Ufi tinm jj F6 'ItT Transport Goes to Mexico A fter A merican Refugees Va;5hington. April 2li. The army transport Hul'ord leaves San Francisco Sunday for the west coast of Mexico to pick upUiny American refugees who wish to leave the country. 'Die Uu ford will visit Topolobampo, Altata and Maxatlan In the stale of Kiouli:i Sinblas, Tepic and Manzanillo in Co- iina, and Acapulco In Gurrero. The OF REVENUE OFFICERS Reports of Big- Seizures Re-ceivef-Raid Planned in Virginia Counties. For the past week the iue..ue men under Internal Revenue Agent A. H. Sams have not been very active in raiding the moonshiners r the dis trict us most of thorn have I n called In to tho central olllce for (.no rea.-on or another, but early this week the men were sent out again und already reports of sleziires are coming in. This morning a report wni received at Mr. Sams' ' dice hero of tho siezure of a complete illicit outlit and' the de struction of a ii.iiunlity of beer by Deputy Collector J. B. Ensley in Jack son county and the report of another big siczure was received from Special Employe I). A. Kanipo In llnrke county. Deputy Collector W. W. llarkinsre turned this afternoon from Virginia where 1 1 of the men made a concen trated raid this week In Nelson and Amherst counties and captured three large illicit plants. One was of 150 gallons capacity, one of 200 gallons, and the last of 350 gallons capacity. Along with tho plants about 8000 gallons of beer was captured Hnd three barrels of whiskey poured out. (mo or the plants, the, largest of the three, had Just been Installed and had 25 fermenters. The plants were all In a short distance of lyiwesvllle and tho- revenue officers were accom panied on tho raid by Several deputy marshals and possemen. Three moon shiners were captured. - ' APPEAL FOR RICHESON Counsel for Condemned, Murderer of Girl Ask Governor to Couitiiulo Ills Kentein e. Boston, Mass., April 28 -Final steps are being taken by rounsel for'Clar ence V. T. Rlcheson, Avis Llnnell's murderer, to secure commutation of tho death sentence to life Imprison ment. Attorneys this afternoon ap peared before the governor In his be half. - the Titanic Refused to NEWLANW. 3EMATOR rLETCHETf , VTR- TSMAV en by Fourth Officer lioxhall or the Titanic, who sent them aloft. Washington, April 2fi. Members of the senate committee of Inquiry into the Titanic disaster, who examined in dividually British sailors and stewards of the Titanic crew, (fathered . this morning in Chairman .Smith's office to prepare a report of their Investigations for the full committee. Only a few members of the crew could be found who shed llgh on occurrences of the fateful night other than had been elicited from surviving flicers and passengers during previous committee hearings. One of tlie most stirring recitals was from V. O. Evans of the Titan ic's crew. Evans told Senator Smith it was necessary for women and chil dren on the sinking Titanic to Jump a three-foot chasm from the deck to the lifeboats. To this methods of loading the lifeboats, Evans attributed the large loss of life among Women and children. Evans Bnid that when the vessel is sent at the slate department's reriuest after urgent reojiicKts from many Americans stranded in tho states bordering the Pacific. Today's state department advices declare the situation throughout Mex ico generally is becoming worse. Hands of maurauders are causing much un easiness. ATTENDANCE FAR L01ER THAN WAS EXPECTATION For This Reason Sunday School Delegates Had to Pay Full Fare Home. On the lirst day of the meeting hero of the North Carolina Sunday School association, last Tuesday, It was stated In The Gazette-News that the conven tion of the association was attended by about .'S00 delegates from various parts of the slate. This Information came from a member of tho associa tion who was closely connected with Its affairs and the Information thus furnished by him was accepted by this paper without question. - loiter It was learned that this esti mate was greatly exaggerated anil that possibly there were only a llttlo more than half that number In attend ance but the matter Boomed to be conjecture more or less and no cor rection was made. It Is now stated, however, that the actual number of accredited delegates In attendance was mo. It had been expected before the as sociation met here that tho number would reach 500 or 600 and the South ern railway being assured of this fact had provided special rates for the del egates from all over the state. These special rates were provided for tho trips both coming to Ashevillc and re turn, each person buying a ticket be ing provided with a certificate which would entitle him to receive the spe cial rates on the return trip. Yesterday District Passenger Agent J. II. Wood wired (leneral Passenger Agent H. K. Cary advising him of the condition of affairs and that there were only 120 delegates here and ask ed for Instructions ns to what to do about the return certificates. lie re ceived a reply that tho certificates wore not to be honored and the delegates leaving the city last night and this morning were forced to pay straight fares to their homes' Kallroad Mediators In Session. New York, April S. Grand Chief Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive engineers and 60 district chair men of the organization today re sumed their conference with Commis sioner Nelll and Judge Knapp, medi ators In the wage controversy.. J. C. fltuart, chairman of the rail road managers' sub-committee declar ed he did not think caura existed for alarm over the possibility of strike. Sank, Extend Aid boats were swung out they were at least three feet from the steamer's dock, which was 70 feet above the sea. The height was so terrifying that women refused to attempt jumping and several were thrown bodily across the gap. One was propelled with such force that she went over the far side of the boat and was saved from plung ing Into tho sea only by her shoes which caught In an oarsock, Evans said: "Uables and children were tossed Into boats like sack9 of grain, there was no other way." Samuel S. Hemming, a seaman, solil he was asleep when the ship struck and after he looked out he went back to bed. A storekeeper did likewise. Ijiter the boatswain came and said, "Turn out, you fellows. You haven't half an hour to live. That Is from Mr. Andrews. Keep it to your selves and let no one know." An drews, Hemming said, was of the lirm of llarland & Wolff, builders of the ship. SURVEY OF STATE Interest in Insurance Company Mergers-Program for Mon ument Unveiling. Gazette-News Bureau, The Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh, April 26. Raleigh people are greatly Interest ed in the merging of the Jefferson Standard and Greensboro life Insur ance companies, every person asking tho tpiestion, "Where will the home office go?" Although the public gen erally will have nothing to do with the selection of the home office, the people of this section are desirous lhat tho principal office be main tained here. Of the 12 members of the committee from each company, nine each are from the towns of Ral eigh and Greensboro, tho other six members being residents of other towns. The Raleigh Law and Order league met last night and received reports of work done since the last meeting. The Raleigh chamber of commerce has already begun sending out Infor mation to cities and towns within a radius of 100 miles. Every summer scores of Sunday schools run excur sions here and the chamber of com merce takes an Interest in seeing that the visitors are well entertained. J. Wilbur I'.iuin, a Raleigh lawyer. Is the fourth candidate to announce himseir for the legislature. He will aspire to bo a member of the house. J. C. Little Is a candidate for the sen ale and M. A. Griffin and Ernest T. Mills are candidates for the house. The complete program for the un veiling of the Melver monument In Capitol siuare May 15 Is as fol lows: Music. Invocation. Address by Dr. C. Atphonso Smith of the I'nlversity of Virginia. Song, "America," hy Raleigh school children and college students. Poem, by Henry Jerome Ktockard. Address by President J. I. Foust of the Stato Normal and Industrial college Presentation of statue to the state, by J. Y. Joyner, chairman of the com mittee. Acceptance of statue for the state, by Gov. W. W. Kltchin. Cnvelling. Song, "The Old North State," by students of the State Normal and In dustrial college. GRANT LAID TO REST Men lYomlia'iit In Public nmt Private Iflfc Pay Ijjut Tribute to Noted (Soldier. New York, April 26. Men promi nent In public and private life gath i ed here today to pay the last honors t6 Major General Frederick Dent Grant, who died April 11. Funeral services were deferrnil until lndul tn Walt the arrival of his daughter. Princess Cantacuxene, from Russia. Bishop Fallows officiated. FROMTHE CAPITAL MB.TflFT FLftYS COl.BiSllT Bitterly Attacks Former Chief tain as Insincere and Unfit Again to Be Presi dent. : DETAILED ANSWER TO CHARGES MADE Speech Breaking Administra tion's Policy of Silence Care fully Considered in Cab inet Meeting. Doston, April 26. President Taft donned his fir,Mlng clothes yesterday. : abandoning his policy of silence un der the attacks that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt had made upon him and upon his administration, and for the first time since Mr. Roosevelt an nounced his candidacy, launched Into a bitter denunciation of the former president. From the time Mr. Taft entered Massachusetts and made his lirst speech at Springfield shortly aft-V er noon, until late last night, he ham mered away at Colonel Roosevelt. The president made nearly a dozen speeches. His principal Boston address was : delivered in the Arena, to a large crowd, hut before retiring to his private c-ar he spoke briefly to an "overflow" meeting In Symphony hall. His Arena speech was delivered from manuscript, prepared during the last few days in Washington, carefully gone over by members of the cabinet, and containing a detailed answer to many of Mr. Roosevelt's charges. Mr. Taft said in part: "Mr. Roosevelt prides himself on being a true sportsman, and he likes to take from the rules and language of - sport, maxims to be applied to life In general. , ; The maxim which ho hs exalted above all others, to which he has given currency the country over. and which he himself in his conduct of life wishes to have it thought he exemplifies. Is that every man Is enti tled to a square deal. I propose to ex amine the charges he make against me, and to ask you whether In mak ing them he Is giving me a squara deal. Says SH-wli Was Garbled. "In a speech in Carnegie hall he said: '"Mr. Taft fairly defines the Issue when he says that our government la and should be a government of all tha people by a representative part of the people. This Is an excellent and mod erate description of an oligarchy. It defines our government as a govern- , ment of all of the people by a few of the people. Mr. Taft, In his able speech, has made what Is probably the best possible presentation of the case for those who feel in this manner." "The excerpt which Mr. Roosevelt uses is taken from my speech at Toledo. It Is garbled. I did not say this "should ho" a government of all the people by a representative part of the people. I said 'It is a government of all the people by a representative part of the people," and It la. The context shows clearly what I meant. had pointed out that the government was by popular vote, that the voters did not Include the women and chil dren, that In number the voters were less than one-fourth of all the people, and that their action was the action of their majority; so that the govern ment was controlled not by all tha people, and that their action was the.' action of their majority; so that the'; government was controlled not by all the people, but by a representative part of the people, to wit, a majority of the adult males. Does Mr. Roose velt deny this fact? Cltargo as to Dohhps. "He says that all the bosses are In my favor, and all of them against him. This Is not true. By his asso ciation with William Fllnn, of Pitts burgh, there Is being restored to power In that city and in Pennsylvania one of the worst mur;,-lpal bosses that the history of the state knows. Mr. Roosevelt's chief supporter In Ohio today is Walter Brown, the only boss in full commission In the state, and woh is looking forward to state con trol under Mr. Roosevelt's administra tion. He charges me with association with Mr. Barnes, of New York, whll he is silent as to the support and ad vice he is receiving from William Ward, of the same state. Mr. Roo velt knows that In 1910 but for tho support he received from my friends as against Mr. Rarnes and Mr. Ward, ho would not nave been nominated as temporary chairman of the New York convention. Now, Mr. Barnes sup ports me and opposes Mr. Roosevelt on the grqund that he does not be lieve In the principles of government that Mr. Roosevelt proposes to- em body In our fundamental and statutory law. . "The truth with respect to me Is the same as It Is with respect to Mr. Roos- ' evelt. i When 1 am running for ths presidency I gratefully accept such support a comes to me. Mr. Roose velt has done so In the "past; he U doing so now." Referring to Mr. Roosevelt's link ing Mr. Taft's nam with that of Lar imer, the president said: "In Illinois Mr. Lorlmer was con ducting a campaign of his own- with his own nominees. 1 did not ask his support. H did not tender It to me. (Continued on page 2) 'r ' .'
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