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THE RALEIGH TIMES THE WEATHER UNSETTLED LAST EDITION Vol. LXXI. No. 142. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Double the Nvimber of Paid Subscribers in Raleigh of any Other Newspaper. THE CONVENTION MAY The Delegates Seem to Be at Sea Over the Probable Nominee With Beliet That Fight lies Beteen Wilson, Clark and Bryan WILSON WINS SOUTH DAKOTA MiliCH ON SITUATION THE DARK HORSE TALK DECREASING Name of Nominee May He Known Sometime Tonight if Selection Can He Made Without Too Many Hal lots WilHon People More Hope ful Today Than They Have Vet Been, Because of Victory laxst Night ("lurk People Show Some Resentment Fight on Credentials Committee Report Platform Committee Having Kasy Time. Baltimore, June 27. Before the adjournment of the third day's ses sion of the democratic national con vention, beginning at noon, the names of the party's standard bearer in the presidential contest will be known. Nominating speeches will be in order tbis afternoon probably, and as a reasonable !i.-iit will be put on the flow of oratory the balloting should begin this evening. Political wiseacres, familiar with the situa tion, believed the convention might continue voting until a choice was made, requiring a session extending Well into the night. Many leaders though thought it probably that a recess would follow the iirst or sec ond ballot to permit conferences looking to the withdrawal of candi dates showing the least strength. Woodrow W'llson"s friends approach ed the crucial test with greater con fidence than they have yet manifest ed. They regarded the overthrow ing of the unit rule by the conven tion last night, though the coali tion of the Bryan and Wilson forces, as significant of the final outcome. The Clark followers apparently think Bryan has turned against the speaker, for they show some feeling because of the Nebreskan's strength was lined Up with the Wilson crowd on the vote last night. Up to the actual opening of the present con vention Bryan treated both Clark and Wilson on equal terms as pro gressives. If Hryan has determined to wage his fight for progressive principles with Wilson as his can didate, he has not made it known. The credentials committee report was the pending business before the con vention today. Confusion in hall compelled adjournment last night before the minority report could be read and the matter was deferred until today. Encouraged by their success last night, the Wilson forces were prepared to tight the majority seating ten Clark delegates from South Dakota over ten Wilson dele gates. Platform Committee Taking Time. The change in the order of busi ness in placing the adoption of the V f i iwnidt ii Arftfnfciftjyft MfaWWh ; HtHW&A TAMMANY LKADKR'8 KALT1MORE - - , KMIIiK. Charles Francis Murphy, successor to Dick Croker tut the democratic Mar of New York politics, photo graphed in Baltimore, where he is attending the convention with large following of "braves." He Is )utit m big mystery (lie news paper men ever, smiling, Renin!, evasive replies, but direct answers? - platform after the nomination of the ticket, made the resolution commit tee's work comparatively easy. In stead of an all night session, the committee found ItBelf able to ad journ last night at a reasonable hour, with another day before it within which to shape the platform. Some of the big matters the committee is wrestling with were turned over to a sub-committee to work out. Byan is "sawing wood." it is planned to fit the platform to the ticket. Bryan made it plain to the committee that the platform should be one Which the progressives could stand on con sistently. There has been little gossip thus far on the vice-presidency. Probably on serious attetion will be given to the running mate for the standard bearer until the latter has been se lected. Today's developments are exnected to clear the situation ma terially. Some predicted the conven tion would ballot for several uays on the presidency but this is improb able. Delegates Slow. The delegates were slow arising after the midnight session. The filled, with the prospects of a large crowd as Strug pie over the nomination drew near Mrs. Taft, the president's wife, took a seat irt one of the boxes lm mediately flanking the platform The convention floor presented a scene of great animation as the hour for the opening approached, the delegations filling their seats, : the aisles choked, the galleies fast aug menting, and the band sending form familiar melodies. Delegates at Sea. As the delegates poured into the hall, they appeared as much at sea as ever over the probable nominee. Various boomers were ready to start demonstrations and smother demon strations. It seemed certain that the delays would be such as to throw the actual balloting late into the evening. AH sorts of rumors were afloat about deals and combinations, but not one of these seemed to have a trustworthy foundation. Wilson's supporters, encouraged by the so called "Wilson-Bryan" victory last night, in the fight for the abrogation of the unit rule, claimed that Wil son would sweep the convention to day and secure the nomination. They expressed the hope that Bryan might be induced to come out squarely for Wilson, and felt if this could be brought about that ultimate victory was certain. This morning there was renewed talk of Bryan as the nominee, some so-called conservatives being quoted as saying so long as the naming of a progressive seemed inevitable, it might be just as well to have Bryan lead the fight for the fourth time Some of Bryan's friends indicated tlio Nebraskan was apparently con tent with the position ho now occu pied in the convention, the right to name the candidate being all but conceded to him. Clark's supporters were claiming the nomination with as much out ward confidence as ever as they gathered for the day's session. The speaker's headquarters gave out statemnt that "there has been no de fection from the Clark ranks." "Dark horse" talk decreased to day. The consensus of opinion appears to be that the light lies between the supporters of Wilson, Clark and Bryan. Bryan had not committed himself on the presidency In anyway up to the time the convention met. Convention Opens. There was much noise and confu sion in tho auditorium during the wait for the proceedings to begin. The band continued a lively racket "Dixie" was played many times, and brought forth cheers. For the first time during the convention the band struck up "Tammany." It was both hissed and cheered. For the flrBt time since the convention opened every seat on the floor and galleries was filled. The big galleries at each end of the hall were masses of flut tering fans. Chairman Parker reached the platform at twelve-ten and conferred with Parliamentarian Crisp, and Senator John Sharp Wil liams, leader of the Wilson-Bryan forces. The galleries and floor stood while the band played the "Star Spangled Banner." The Dakota Case. The chairman began pounding for order at 12:45 and five minutes later Uabbl Outtmacher delivered the opening prayer. The convention plunged Into the South Dakota con test. R. S. Morris, of Pennsylvania, submitted the minority report that majority report. Frequent cheers greeted Clark's name during the dis suasion. Delegate Crane, of Texas, spoke for the minority report. : Former Governor Blanchard, of Louisiana, defended the majority report on the South Dakota contests. A nervous THE PLATFORM ESSIVE Is Being Written By Bryan and O'Gorman and They Report Tonight Baltimore, June 27.- Bryan and O'Gornian will write the platform of the convention, When the. work ing sub-committee of the resolutions committee met the members found themselves without a platform' .draft of sufficient cohesiveness for i form for the committee's operations. The conclusion was reached to apoint a second sub-cojnmittee to prepare a draft for the convenience of the sub committee and later the full com mittee. Bryan and O'Gorman were designated to perform that sei-virn. The sub-committee adjourned to re convent at four o'clock. The full committee'.' meets at seven tonU;hi. The subcomniittpe progressed so fur as to justify the conclusion by Its members that it will be prepared to present a fairly complete platform at seven o'clock. Bryan and O'Gorman went to ork immediately and to thrash the piri form into shape, they turned me of the committee.' rooms into a vork shop, giving strict orders that there would bo neither coming In or sol ig out while they were at work. Two stalwart guards were placed at their door. Before beginning work Bryan told some of his friends the plat form would he "an essentially pro gressive document." Episcopal stress will be laid on the tariff which will declare for a tariff for revenue only. Tho party will be pledged to continue its work in downward revision of the tariff schedules. Many Visitor See Bryan. Baltimore, June -27. Bryan's presence at the resolution's commit tee meetings this morning was de layed by the crush of visitors at his hotel. Collarless and coatless, the Nebraskan was surrounded in his rooms and given an enthusiastic re ception. "Is there anything you can do for us?" Inquired the newspaper men. "There will be something produced hourly and dally," replied Bryan. "Now J can't say anything more. I've been so busy fighting bosses I haven't had time to shave." Mitt. Taft Goes to Convention. Washington, June 27. Mrs. Wil liam II. Taft went to Baltimore to day to see the democratic conven tion choose ithe man who will op pose her husband for the presidency. Mrs. Taft, accompanied by a woman friend, went by train. Seats were reserved for them in the convention ball, .'..,..'. Farmer Killed by Bees. Parkersburg, W. Va., June 27. Drury B. Badgley, a wealthy farmer, was attacked by a swarm of bees, which settled In his hair and' beard and stung him to death before medi cal aid reached him. Mrs. C A. Goodwin left today for Bluellelds, W. Va., to visit her - H- SUSPENSE. BAXKKRS COXVKXK President llraHwell of ltocky Mount Makes Annual Address. ' . (Special to Tlie Times.) ; Morehead City, June 27. Two hundred bankers bailing from almost every county in the state a number having come from beyong the lllue Ridge are here to attend the six teenth annual convention of the North Carolina Bankers' Association, the first session of whir n was held in the assembly all of -ho Atlantic hotel last night. In keeping with a custom that is as old as the organ ization itself tin; meeting this year is held on the sea coast, the conven tion last year having, been held -in the mountains of the western part of the stale. President J. ('. ISraswell, of ltocky .Mount called the-.meeting 'to order promptly at ! o'clock and after the invocation liy Hcv. Kik lid Mc Whorter of the .Morehead .Methodist church the address of .welcome on behalf of the city was made by V. L. Arendell which was responded to by W. SI Blakenpy, president of the Bank of I'nion, Monroe. President liraswell's annual ad dress which followed was easily the feature of ' the opening session and evoked wide discussion by reason of the many reforms w hich the speaker sponsored ami several suggestions which he oui lined.' ADVISKIt TO ( MASK I.IOXS Will I'rotmhly Take African Hunting Trip Similar to That of T. It. Atlanta, .tune 27. Governor Joseph M. Bum n Ih being strongly urged to folhnv his retirement from gubernatorial politics by Inking a hunting. .trip into the heart of Africa similar to lliai Itoosevelt took. S. W. Scot l,. or i'Ulioltv Ga., has already wiilMn 1he governor offer ing to go with him as guide, and claiming a' familiarity with the upper Nile territory. Governor lirow n, who is a deep student of natural history. Is him self as familiar as book knowledge can make a man. w ith the Interior of the dark continent. Hank Itohbei- Arrested. Detroit, Mich., June 2. The po lice claimed thai they Identified positively ..'.four : thousand dollars found on Martin Powell, arrested here, a money stolen in the three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollar bank robbery at New West minster, II. X'., last September. Rizo Says: "The clock In the tower had struck midnight, and Boylnn's bridge was totterlag under the weight of a Tom cat, when tho weather man raised up and yelled with a horrible scream: "Fair weather lor 36 8md.?," THE TEST-FARM IDEA POPULAR Forsyth County Wants To bacco Farm Located There By Committee Mr. J. S. Kuykendall, secretary, and .Messrs. P. A. Gorrell and James K. Nortieet, , members of the Win ston-Salem hoard of trade, and pro gressive business men .appeared be fore the test-farm committee of the board of agriculture today to pre sent the claims of Forsyth county for a tobacco test-farm The committee has just returned from Guilford Durham and Granville counties where proposed sites were Inspect ed. It was expected at noon that the committee-, would decide before ad journing the matter of location. The Winslon-Salem men have a largi tract of land near Kernersvillu on the national highway which they pro pose to put in commission provided the stale and federal departments will favor them. The other counties interested have also been at work The committee did not reach i decision this afternoon with regard lo the location of a test-farm, but left the mailer open until the next meeting. Guilford and Forsyth counties are backing the Kerners- ville farm local ion. Jei sou county has submitted u proposil ion also lillYAX pi.K.si:i Thinks the Convention Hits Clipped The Tail of Imn Uyan'.s tm Baltimore. June .27. William . J. Bryan, before leaving to attend th' resolutions committee deliberations remarked this inorliina that "thi convention yesterday clipped off the tail of Thomas F. Ryan s cat. ltrv:in nrevioiislv bad depleted Ryan as cracking a cat o' nine tails over tie convention. 1 hell .1H course of progressivism is moving along more smoothly," was suggest ed. Bryan replied: "Well, yester day's proceedings would indicati that they had not made any inroads on us." That the course of the last twenty-four hours were pleasing to Bryan, he makes no effort to con ceal. J. A. It. Tliorne Dead. (Special to Tho Times.) Rocky Mount, Juno 27. Mr. J. A. 1). Thome, perhaps the oldest veteran In both the civil and Mexi can wars in this section, being in his eighty-fourth year passed away Mon dny afternoon at his home, near Maccleasfleld. Mr. Thome enlisted In the confederate army In lKtil and served throughout tho four years of the war, being severely wounded at the battle of Petersburg. He served in the Mexican war as a private, and it Is thought that there Is no living veteran of this war at the age of tho deceased. He leaves a wife and three children. Vermont It'-publlcanx. Burlington, Vt June 27.-The re publican state convention nominat ed. Allen M. Fletcher Jor governor Contest Case Between Wilson and Ck forces Goes to Jein Bait imore. June 2 i . i -V.ryan-essives won ' Xhci- Wilson projj victory, when the convention over turned, the credentials committee report, and seated ten Wilson dele gates from South Dakota. 1 lie Wil son supporters claimed the vole made Wilson's uomina'ion a practi cal certainty. New York's ninety votes which yesterday Went to the Clark-Harmon combination. were today cast in a block for the Wilson delegates. Announcement, of New York's vote was greet d with cheers by 1he Wilson delegates. North ( arolina'o vote on the mi nority report was: Yeas, 21; nays, 24; nays, 0. To- Virginia: Yeas, tal 'to adopt the minority report, seating the w ilson delegates: Yeas, not voting, 5 ' ; t!3:j 1;! : nays,- 437; absent, -. Thomas Fortune Ryan was a member of the Virginia delegation voting solidly for the: Wilson dele gates. WIUj fJIVK trouble For F.verv Man Who Dese rt.s Colonel Asserts. Two Join His Ranks lie Oy.ter Ray, N. V.. June 27. Col onel Roosevelt said he had heard no news from the democratic conven tion and seemed surprised when he was told that Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, and others of his support ers, were in Baltimore. He said he did not know what they were doing there, llhis chief interest was in re ports which appeared in the morn ing '.newspapers that Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany, was assuming a commanding position at Baltimore, The report pleased the colonel, who professed to see in them a parallel to the conditions which existed in Chicago, 1 m going to make a good deal more trouble than they think, said Colonel Roosevelt. "It is perfectly surprlsiv" to. see the amount of sup port which I am receiving. "For every man who was for me up to the Chicago convention and is now leaving me, I am getting two men who were against me at. Chi cago. A good many men, the colonel ex plained, opposed him at Chicago be cause they thought an honest ma jority was against him. But these men, lie said, would not "tolerate theft" and were now coming out for h mi because they believed that im proper meet hods had been used to defeat him.--Among his hard and fast opponents, he said, there were many who honestly thought he was preaching something like anarchy, and that he was a menace to the safety of property, "This is-the lair of the anarchist," he said, pointing to his house as ho stood on the lawn outside. "When 1 passed through the village this morning the people ran out to the street and shook my hand." Deatli of Pliiiiiinei' Davis. '(.Special 'lo The Times.) : I.ouisburg, June 27,- .Mr. Plum met' Davis died' Tuesday 'at "his n si deiice in Sandy Creek township, this county, lie had been in had health for several years, his age was ti years, lie was widely known, hud been in the register of deeds ollic nere, and was a inemtior ol Hie leg islature at the time the constitution al amendment was passed. A large crowd, some from adjoining counties. attended ' the funeral conducted a his home by Rev. Mr. Thompson, ol Warrentoii. Interment was at ih family burying' ground. The Seamen's Strike. Paris, June 2 7. The French gov eminent is considerably disturbed over the 'seamen s strike, winch is causing -tremendous loss to French shipping. The ship owners declare It is Impossible. lo pay higher wages, House and Senate. Washington, Juno 27. The senate met at ten o'clock anil alter a lortv minuics session, adjourned until Monday. The house met at noon and 'adjourned soon afterward until Monday. Five Seamen Dying- Toulon. France. June 27. Five of the twenty-three seuinen injured yeslerday aboard the French armor ed cruiser Jlichelet, off H yores, by tho - premature explosion of a si-v Inch gun, ure dying in the hospital William M. Bullitt to Succeed l.ehiiiHiui. Washington, Juno 27. William M. Dnllitt,. of Louisville, will b( iiiMii.il hv the ni'csfilent til succeed Frederick W. Leliinunu, as solicitor general. Automobilixt Killed. Detroit, Mich., June 27. Edward Skae, a capitalist, was Instantly klllod, wljon his automobile ran ov er an euibaukuicnt pear Pontiac, Thinks Roosevelt People Will Capture Next Convention and Hold State Organization (Special to The Times.) Charlotte, June 27. Sam S. Mc Ninch, or "Sunset" McNinch, as he is more intimately known, attended the republican convention in Chica go, and is back in Charlotte, jubi lant over the formation of the third party and the nomination of Roose velt to lead its fortunes. Mr. Mc Ninch is closely identified with tne republican situation in North Caro lina, and speaks with considerable authority on the stand North Caro lina will take in the coming cam paign. : When he was asked whether the progressive" party would put out an electoral ticket in tne siaie, nr. McNinch said: "Understand, please, that I am not authorized to speak, but we republi cans of North Carolina will simply turn our state over to Roosevelt, for he owns it. At the state convention which is expected to be held In Charlotte in August, we will pick out Roos'-velt men for electors and instruct them to vote for him. There will be no Taft electors chosen. We owe no allegiance to the situation framed up by the rotten-borough. bosses, Penrose and Barnes. We owe it to Ourselves to be self- respecting republicans and we'll slampede the state for Roosevelt. "There will be no protest of con sequence lrom the Tart.-following - in this state, because it is so small. At our recent state convention 98 per cent., certainly 95 per cent, of the delegates were for Roosevelt. He won over 1,000 of the 1,080 votes cast in the election of the four delegates at large: Taft carried only one small county in the eastern part of the state. Charlotte is about the only place where Taft has any fol lowing." Mr. McNinch doesn't think that it will be necessary to change the name of the party In the state at the approaching Charlotte convention. "Just so a progressive piattorm is adopted,". -declared' Mr. McNinch and the electors are instructed to vote for Roosevelt, this will be sur licieiit. Personally, however, I think it would be a good thing for south ern republicans to change the name. That's the way they are going at it in Illinois and other states. "The colored brother and some of our fellow southern republicans do not stand very high up there, but we of North Carolina, are there on all four feet, and they look on us as a great people." .Engineer Killed. Chicago, 111., June 27. Engineer Hendricks was killed and a score of passengers injured when the "Dixie Flyer," of the Chicago and Eastern Railroad, w ben running at a high rate of speed near Alartinton, The locomotive turned over. : The train left -Chicago last night for Jackson ville. BKNATOH JAM KM O'GORMAN, Of New .York, who Is rapidly ctftab lishlng himself us a power among the Xew York democrat in Haiti more, and whose friends are said to ho . aiming ' to dethrone Charley Murphy and place the senator at the head of the Taiuuiany Hall organU (f " J tL ' WPl.
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