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E RALEIGH TIMES THE WEATHER FAIR LAST EDITION VoLLXXI. No. 138. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Double the Nvimber of Paid Subscribers in Raleigh of eny Other Newspaper, STEAM ROLLER STILL IN GOOD WORKIMi ORDER Taft Delegates Being Rapidly Seated Today The Convention Hopes to Get Through With Its Work late to Night-New Party Talk BRYAN WILL CONTINUE THE FIGHf ON PARKER THE FOURTH NORTH CAROLINA SEATED Hoped to Bring the Convention to a Close Tonight by Molding Three Sessions Roosevelt's Name Prob ably Will Not Be Presented to the Convention Talk About Vice Presidential Candidates Sher man, Hadley, Kenyon, Borah, Nicholas, Murray, Butler and John Wanamakcr Most :, Frequently Mentioned Much Interest in New Rides to Be Presented to the Con vention. Chicago, June 22. To bring to a close tonight the republican na tional convention was the hope of the party leaders as the fifth day opened. The leaders believed all the convention work could be con cluded by then. The leaders agreed upon a tentative program which may be subject to possible sudden change, if unexpected developments occur on the convention floor. According' to the program, there will be a morn ing, afternoon and night session. With the nomination of the presi dential and vice presidential candi dates as a climax of the final ses sion. If events force the conven tion over to Monday it was intimat ed there would be at least two days debate next week before a conclu sion is reached. It was strongly in dicated Roosevelts name would not be presented to the convention. His final instructions to his leaders were that his name should be withheld. With Roosevelt out of the flghtl in this convention and : Taft's , renom ination apparently a foregone con clusion, chief interst centers in the vice presidential nominee. Vice President Sherman, Gov. Hadley, Senator Borah, Nicholas Murray Butler, and John Wanamaker were most frequently mentioned as pos sibilities. Fight Over Rules. Next to the Vice presidential sit uation the new rules to be present ed the convention, aroused most In terest. Progressive leaders prepared to launch a bitter attack upon the rules. It was a weary, irritable crowd of delegates that assembled at the Coliseum today. Many delegates who were preparing to leave Chicago were represnted by alternates. Rest lessness was . apparent everywhere. There was ,-. inch conjecture about what Roosevelt would do after the convention's final adjournment. His plans for organizing a new party were debated and commented upon by most men on both sides of the fight. In this third party gossip it was said a convention would be called, probably in August, at which progressive- members of both the re publican and democratic parties would bo asked to participate. Roosevelt and New Pory. Before galng to the convention hall, Hadley conferred with Rooso velt. "I shall remain in the con vention," Hadley said. "Whether I shall join any party but the republi can party is a question." Roosevelt gave little heed today to convention proceedings, bending his efforts chiefly toward the formation of the temporary organization of a new party. Some time today he will meet the rejected Roosevelt dele gates, who, he contends were re placed by fraudulent Taft delegates. He may remain here a day or two after the convention adjournment. The band played, "The Last Rose of Summer" as the delegates began arriving around 10 o'clock. Not more than a hundred were in their seats at that hour. It was evident the convention would be late con vening. Temporary Chairman Root, Crane, Barnes, Smoot and Hllles were in conference on the platform before the convention came to order. Called to Order. The convention was called to order by Chalrmal Root at 10:43, with delegates hoping for adjournment some time before daylight Sunday. As Root's gavel fell, opening the convention, several delegates cried, "All Aboard." Root was amused by the Interjection. The convention stood during Rev. J. W. Hill's nravsr. Htranf Roller at Work. The convention immediately took up the credentials committee report, seating delegates at large In Missis sippi. There were two reports, The minority report was tabled by a viva vorce vote, amid cries of "toot- toot," The majority report was adopted, seating the Taft delegates. The Taft delegate in the ' second, fifth, sixth, and seventh Mississippi districts were seated. , The . same dUpoBlt.lQB wM Hjajj4 oj.jhj cases, that followed. The fourth North Carolina was hustled through so fast it Was hard to keep track of the proceedings. The third Oklahoma and second Tennessee were rushed through amid great confusion and shouts of "let her rip," "exceeding the speed Unit," "where is the traffic cup?" and similar cries. Some body had a whistle, which ha sig naled like a street car conductor. As the result of each vote was an nounced a spectator, seated in the rear gallery blew two short shrill blasts with a mechanical whistle. Good Nature Prevails. The good nature prevailing yes terday was again in evidence. One by one the contest reports were brought in and read in a near riot of disorder, and passed. The con vention sobered down somewhat as a result of the 'chairman's admoni tion. The Washington cases came next. The majority report favored the Taft delegates. Every Roose velt member of the credentials com mittee signed a dissenting report. There was some delay in the action on the reports, and some delegate shouted out: "Say, Watson, sand your track." Bedlam in the Hall. A conference was held on the platform to arrange for debate on the motion. Bedlam broke loose on the floor. A storm of yells and jeers swept the hall. Root, leaning on his gavel, smiled out upon the disorder. ''More gasoline, more gasoline," cried the Pennsylvania . delegation. Starting somewhere in the rear, the crowd began singing: "Nearer, My Ood to Thee," and it swelled into a chorus, followed by "Lead, Kindly Light." Another chorus across the way, caught the spirit and sang: "John Brown's Body," altering the final lines of chorus to "As we go rolling on." Hugh Halberd spoke supporting the minority report when quiet was restored, a limited debate having been decided upon. Bryan in Wrong Pew, Chicago, June 22.- William Jen nings Bryan "got in tha wrong pew," as he expressed it at the re publican national convention. He has been attending the sessions as a reporter, sitting in the tenth row of the press seats, facing the dele gates. This morning he got into the sixth row of the press seats and settled down for the day's work. Then the regular scat holders ap peared and Bryan laughingly made way for them. Mrs. Bryan was with him. .':' : Taft Got Washington IMegutes. Washington's Taft delegates-at-large and Taft delegates in the first, second and third districts were all seated. This finishes the Washing ton contest. Delay in Proceeding. There was delay in proceedings, the convention awaiting for further report from the credentials commit tee, which was working on today's contests. Word came from the com mittee that there wouhl bo no fur ther report for an hour. Mrs. Flo Jacobson, a Chicago soprano, in the band gallery began to sing "Moon light Bay." The noisy demonstra tions around the hall stopped. As she finished the woman was wildly cheered, and had to repeat the song. During the intermission a huge sign was hung over the gallery, reading: "What Root said of the Penrose ma chine: 'They're an aggregation of criminals masquerading under the banner of republicanism,' " The sight of it started a great uproar among the Roosevelt people. The police finally tore it down. Flinn, of Pennsylvania started to address the Pennsylvania delegation; he was Interrupted by Mrs. Jacobson singing: "America." The crowds caught up the song, and- made a great volume of sound. At the end of the song Lissner, of California, got recognition and moved: "That during the Intermission we listen to the addresses on party regularity by Senators Penrose and Crane." This caused great laughter. The chair man did not put the motion. Platform Committee Report. The republican platform commit tee voted down by bare majority of one, a proposition by Hadley to In corporate a plank favoring a direct primary. The platform committee finished its deliberations at 12:30 Its principal discussion was a ques tion whether the tariff resolutions should Include specific recognition of the fact that certain duties were too high, with a pledge for their re duction. Action making such rec ognition was taken. The credentials committee, con sidering the fifth Virginia district, where the national committee seat ed two delegates who have been voting with' Roosevelt forces since the convention began, unanimously voted to put these two delegates on the convention's permanent roil. At 1 o'clock, after over two hours of Intermission, the convention was NEGRO HANGS HIMSELF (Special to The Times.) Charlotte, June 22. Inventing a gallows of his trousers Tom Adams, a well-liked negro of the city, hanged himself a few minutes after he had been locked in the police station Tor drunkenness. The screams of a negro boy in the cell adjoining, brought the officers in a hurry, but too late to do more than Inspect the care with which the suicide had been planned. The drop was not over a foot and a half, yet the negro was dead In less than ten minutes, "a 'record time for death by hanging. He had thrown his trous ers over one of the iron bars in the top of thfvcell, and by standing on his bunk had succeeded In tying the back of his neck against the bar so that It would bo broken when he jumped. FINEHAL Or MRS. PARK Conducted From Edenton Street .Methodist Church at II a. in. The funeral service of Mrs. Fannie Heavers Park, who passed away yesr terday morning after only a week's illness, was held this morning at 11 o'clock at Edenton Street -Methodist church. Quite a little company of her old time friends and -acquaintances-had gathered to- attend-the service. : Around the chancel a;id on the casket wero banked the beau tiful floral designs, tributes of love from many friends. The service for the dead was read by Rev. H. M. North, pastor of the church of which she had so long been a member. He also added a few personal comforting words. The choir Bang "More Love Oh Christ to Thee,". "Abide With Me" and "Asleep in Jesus." The interment followed in Oak wood cemetery. Tre pall bearers were: Messrs. Jos. .0. Brown, Thos A. Partln, Ed. H. King, Thos. H. Brlggs, 'Walter Hunter and J. B. Pearce. 1TXEUAL OF MRS. BLEDSOE. Held Yesterday Afteroon at Old Home in Burton's Crock Town . ship. The funeral of Mrs. Aurelia Bled soe, mother of Mrs. B. C. Beckwlth, of this city, and Mr. E. T. Bledsoe, of Barton's Creek, was hsld yester day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the old homestead, ton miles north of Raleigh. A large crowd of neigh bors and friends of the family, in cluding a number from Raleigh and Wake Forest, gathered to pay their last respects to the deceased. The burial service of the Metho dist church was read by Mr. W, O. Allon. a life-long friend of the de ceased. Mrs. Bledsoe was 82 years of age. She was reared in Rallgh, but ever since her marriage had liver In Barton's Creek township. She had been In 11-health for some time but was a patient sufferer and no word of complaint ever came from her Hps. She was greatly esteemed In the community. Cook County Democrats Start. Chicago, June 2,2. Three hun dred members of the Cook county democracy left for the democratic convention at Baltimore today, ac companied by a band of sixty-five CAREFUL, MAUD, CAREFUL! GOOD BRHIGE Seaboard (hero and Norfolk Sou to Build On Hilisboro Street Announced by Cliiiii'iiian Cooper of .Street Committee That Engineers of Two Koiiils Submitted Plan Which Was Approved Xo Con tract Yet but. Nothing is in Way Southern and Seaboard Expect ed to Erect Suitaliln Bridge on Ho) la ii Heights. That the Seaboard Air Line has come ..handsomely" around and will erect with the Norfolk Southern a Jtclnforced concrete ...bridge on I lilts- boiO street is the announcement, tint was made toiiay by Mr. V. A. Cooim t, chairman of the: street com- mhtco of the : board ot ultlermer... No -rout I aft has Ik-pii entered into by the Seaboard, but. the engineers of both roads submitted a design which was-approved by the committee.'- The bridge will, be a credit to that part of the it y and will ex tend the. full., length' across the street. Mr. Cooper expressed, the opinion that the -Southern 'and Seaboard would erect n substantial and suit able bridge on Hoylan Ilelghls. , It Is absolutely necessary to build a new bridge on Hoylan Heights and the roads concluded that a thorough structure, would be acceptable to the citizens and less worry to them. Raleigh people generally will be glad to learn that tho bridge across the railroad tracks on Hilisboro street will be built. The proposi tion has been pending for years and has been worrying the various boards ot aldermen from time ; to time. The present board, like its pre decessors, went alter the bridge and. under the earnest efforts of Mr, Cooper, chairman of the Btreet com mittee, the bridge seems to be re alized at last. OPTICAL SOCIETY Fifth Annual Convention Closed Vesterday. (Special to The Times.) Charlotte. June 22. The fifth an nual convention of th State Optlral Society came to a close yesterday after a two days' session In this city. During the session President J. D. Hathaway, of Elizabeth City, pre sided over the meetings. The busi ness transacted was largely of a routine nature, but the delegates who were in attendance were royal' ly entertained by th city. They were tendered a smoker at Lake- wood Park, and wero taken In auto mobiles over the city of Charlotte and on the good roadB of Mecklen- ! PLANS COMPLETED Baltimore, June 22. Plans to hear' -on'. Monday, the rival delega tions for seats in the democratic na tional convention, were completed today, by the members of the demo cratic national committee. To date there are contests affect ing the entire delegations from the Districts of 'Columbia,- Porto Rico, Vermont, the .-Philippines and Alaska. In addition, rival claims aro made to the seats of the dele-gates-at-large from Illinois, the first ten districts of that state and also the twentieth. Other contests inaugurated are three' 'Rhode Island seats, two Penn sylvania seals and two Texas seats. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS MEET Boston (iets Convention of American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Boston. June 22. The twenty- ninth annual convention of the .Am erican Institute of Electrical 'Engi neers will open in this city on Mon day. The sessions will close on the evening of the 2Sth of June, and convention hondriuarters will be established at the Hotel Somerset, where tho technical ' meetings will be held. The engineers will open their-an nual convention with a reception and dance, on Monday evening. -The formal sessions will convene on the following, morning, with an address by PreBiden: (lano Dunn. The papers to be read before the delegates have been divided into eight sections-.'-Including --"The Ten sion Transmission Session;' "Electro-Chemical and Electro-Physics Session;" ."Electric- Lighting , Ses sion;" "Railway , Session;" "Educa tional .Session:" "Telegraphy and Telephony Session;'' "Electrical Measuremen Session," nnd the !' Power Station and Industrial Pow er Session." Technical addresses dealing with matters of interest to each of these divisions of the profession will be delivered by some of the most noted men in the ranks of American elec trical engineering, NATION-WIDE EIUCATOKS Meet for Furtherance of Cause of Education Will be Held in Mimic uiiolls. Minneapolis, June 22. Famous educators from every section of the United States will meet here on Monday to attend the opening of, the convention of the Nnnional Speech Arts Association. This body will re main In session during the week nnd will discuss such educational matters its oral English, public read ing, reading In schools and dra matics in college and high school. The object of the National Speech Arts Association, as defined by the bandguard of delegates who are to attend Its meeting. Is to promote all of the Interest., connected with the teaching and practice of the arts of speech. The addresses to be delivered at the convention will deal with these subjects almost entirely. Among the papers to be read are "Some Elements, of Strength In W riting and Speaking," by Presi dent Alston Ellis, of Ohio Unlverr jBjtvj. "The Science, of, Per9.ujBon". Gets No Encouragement to Whom Be Appealed, But Will Carry Fight to the Floor ot the Convention oy t'rol. Charles H. Yvoolbert, u V Alvion College: "A Comparative of Speech' Melody." by Prof. I). E. Wat kins, of Knox College:. "Some Fun damentals of Public Speaking," by Prof. .1. S. Gaylord, of the State Normal .School, Winona, Minn., and ' Di aina.ics in High School and "College,."- by Prof.. .Charles M.- Holt, of the University of '.Minnesota. NATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION Hold Twciity-EiKhtli Annual Con-: vent ion in Chicago. j Chicago, June 22.- Editors, great and small, are. flocking to this city today to be present, when the twenty-eigli'li annual convention of the National Pre-s Association of America convenes hero on Monday. The convention, which will ad journ on the evening of June 27, offers an educational program and entertainment features unsurpassed in the history of the organization and will bo attended by some of the foremost newspaper men in the United States. In the forefront of those who will address the delegates will be Wil liam Jennings Bryan. Mr. Bryan, the editor of the Commoner,- will probably speak during Monday's session,.-terminating his address in time to catch a train for Baltimore,' where lie will attend the democratic national convention. Besides !Ur. Bryan, the speaker's list numbers among its members such men as (leorge S. Johns, of the St. Louis Post -Dispatch; H. J. Has kell, of the Kansas City Star; James Schoi'merhorn, of the Detroit Times; Julius Schneider, of the Chicago Tribune; Lafayette Young, of the Des Moines Capitol;'-'. Gov. Charles S. Osborne, 6f Michigan, and Jeukin Lloyd Jones, of the Madison (Wis consin) Journal. These men and other celebrities in the journalistic world, will discuss such questions as journalistic education, the print er, publisher and the cos' system; daily: --newspapers;- editorials; busi ness; Weekly newspapers and adver tisings ., The routine work of the conven tion is to bo leavened with an ex n-uane entertainment program, which will include a theatre party, oanriuet, excursions and luncheons in audition to tins, there will be several features of entertainment devoted solely to the wives of the delegates. FISHINt; AT MOKEHEAI) Orcnt Bun of Spanish Mackeral and isiicrmen Are Having L( MVKV t alclies. Morehead City. NY C, June 22. I ne greatest run of Spanish mack eral in live years is off Morehead now and the Meet of fishing boats is maKing great catches. Jolin ;. Morehead's sharpie brought in a boat load this morn ing and a party beaded by K. Hooker Jones caught :;2 pounds. 254 mack erel. Local liHhermen declare tii ironing win ue line tor several weeks. Kentucky Delegation Starts For Baltimore. Louisville, June 22. The greater part of the KiVifucky 'delegation to the Haltimore ion vent ion left t,n a special train today..-. -The remainder of the delegates, including those trom Louisville, leave tonight. Gov ei-mir .nci reary and party were in the delegation leaving this morn ing. . Two Killed in Collision. conncaut, Ohio, June 22. Con doctor I.yttle. and brakeman Han Kom, were killed In a rear-end col lision, of two Xiekle Plate frelgli trains at Crayton. Pa., in a heavy tog. l wo other trainment may die Stokes Jackson Bead. Greenfield, Ind., June 22. Stokes Jackson, sergeant-at-arms. of t he national house of representatives ai former democratic state -chairman died ut his home here this after noon. He was ill several weeks. Clark Will Xot Attend Convention Washington, June 22, Speaker t lark will not attend tho Baltimore convention. Clark will remain here and follow the convention proceed ings by regular telegraph wires to the capitol. : Aviator Killed. Boeberitz,, 'Germany, June 22. Lieut. Von Falkenhayn, army avi ator, was killed making a flight in a military aeroplane, a false move ment of one of the levers caused the crash. Ijawrencp Sherman 111. Chicago, III., June 22. Lawrence Y. Sherman, of Illinois, mentioned as vice-presidential possibility was Stricken with stomach disorder, In the Coliseum. He was-reinoved to the. emergen?, hospital, From the Candidates, 'm SAYS CONIEST IS INEVITABLE National Committeeman Hull Said The Reports From the Candidates Indicate That .They Do Not Care To Take Sides, But Their Position Would .Make Xo Difference to Bryan Some Talk of a Bolt and The Forming of a Progressive Party Platform Committee Will Present Short Platform With the Tariff as the Dominant Issue It Is Not Expected That There Will Be Any Quarrel Over the Plat form. Baltimore, June 22. William Jennings Bryan will make a fight against naming Alton B. Parker as temporary chairman of the demo cratic national convention regard less of the attitude of the five presi dential candidates, to whom Bryan sent telegrams asking them to join him in opposing Parker. P. L. Hall, Nebraska's national committeeman, made this' - statement this morning. Hall has kept Hryan informed of developments here. Hall declared the issue over Parker was more . learly defined now and the fight was inevitable. Hall Baid the re ports from candidates indicate that they do not. care to take sides, but that it would make no difference to Bryan. Hall said: "Bryan will newer let up in his fight and It will be carried to the convention floor." The fight against Parker on the floor. Hall said, might be close, as many delegates would support the issue of progresslvism and vote for . the urrangemet committee's choice, in order that the matter might be strictly settled hoping to . prevent any party breaks. National commit teemen aligned with Parker assert that the replies to Bryan's tele graphic appeal to the candidates, of fered little comfort to the Nebras kan. Some leaders hoped Bryan could be persuaded, to withdraw the fight and abide the decision of the committee in party harmony inter est. There were reports of a bolt if Parker was finally selected and a party of progressives formed. None of the men close to the Bryan lead ers would confirm this, saying it was idle talk. The Platform. " The democratic national platform builders promise to present to the convention next week a- document, short and expressive. On most ma jor points the leaders seemed agreed. Some say the differences likely to aries in the resolutions committee, when it considers the platform, will be matters of langu age rather than of contents. If Hryan wins the fight to have the convention keynote sounded by a progressive chairman, Bryan proba bly will be made chairman of the resolutions committee. Under any circumstances ho Is expected to play an important part in constructing this document. In view of tho re publication situation and hints that leaders of a third ticket may appeal to progressive.- democrats for sup port, there Is little doubt that what ever may be the convention's com plexion, the plat fo.-ni will make sweeping concessions to the party'B radical element. Senator O'Gorman, New York's probable representative on the-resolutions. committee, says it is the con census of opinion that the tariff should be the dominant Issue and that a vigorous tariff plank should be the committee's first care. The next plank will relate to business policies. Concessions to progres sives will bo declarations favoring more popular government. Some oJ the leaders say there will be no ref erence to the Initiative, referendum and recall. These are regarded as state issues. The states probably will be asked to consider a recom mendation for the adoption of pref erential primaries. A division of opinion has arisen over the possible regulation of the money Interests. ': Thu' progressives plan advocating a strong plank against the "money trust." A milder plank proposed Is a simple declaration favoring re form of the currency system to make it more elastic and better able to meet conditions In money panics. A universal woman suffrage plank will be urged by several prominent suffragists who arrived today and were promised a bearing before the committee. Other planks the committee wHl consider are: Declaring for a regular increase of the navy, probably the construc tion of two battlehlps annually; permitting postal employes to or ganize; improvement of rivers and
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