BAY CITIZEN THE XTCXTHZR. - FAIR VOL. XXVIIL NO. 279. ASHEYILLE, X. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 2S, 1912. TRICE FIVE CENTS. THE 00 mrs. TCDAT ; ALDERMEN TIE II HMD mwi III -HOBDMISM Ask Mayor Gayoor to Call Special Meeting to Inves tigate Police THREATEN HIM WITH WRIT OF MANDAMUS Jack Sulllvar. Arraigned Be fore Coroner and Held Without Ball NEW YORK, July JT. Unles May or Gaynor call special meeting of the hoard of aldermen to vote upon ordering an investigation of the police department and the Rosenthal mur der, a writ of mandamus compelling him to do ao will be aerved opon Mm. 8uch I the announcement made today by Alderman Henry Curran, chairman of the finance commute of the board, who, with sixteen other aldermen, yes terday petitioned the mayor to call a meeting August 1st. When the mayor was approached last night on the subject tie declared with considerable asperity that the pe titioning aldermen were trying to em barrass htm in trying to clear up the case. Hs put the matter over until Monday. As three days notice is neo. esa&ry, the meeting cannot be called beflre August 2 In any event. Jack Sullivan, who rode about town with Police Lieutenant Becker on the night that Rosenthal was shot, was arraigned before Coroner Fetnberg to day on a charge of homicide and held 'without ball for further examination Monday. ' Sullivan, who was originally held a a material witness, was Identified in coroner's court yesterday by Louis Kress, a waiter who was an eye-witness of Rosenthal's assassination. ene of those whom he saw at the scene immediately after the shooting. SV)lllvan this afternoon declared to re porters that the Identification was a "frame up" by District Attorney Whit man. ' ,. .vis-. .5 - ,f ' ' ... Folios tmmtmtmmmmm reiterated that there has always been petty grafting, in the police depart ment despite efforts to stamp It out, but doubted the truth of protection being bought. "However," gald the. commissioner, "If Becker has been taking graft from gamblers as has been plainly lnttmat. ed In the published reports In the newspapers he has been fooling the ramblers, for Tie has nothing to sell them. There could be no collusion be tween the gambler and the police even if Becker told the gamblers so." t L GOIUIMITTEETO OPERATE BULL M OOSEGONVEHTION Will Have Charge of Con tests and Other Mat ters in Convention CONTESTS IN SOUTH OT8TBR BAT, N. T., July 27. The provisional national committee of the national progressive party will take the helm when the representa tives of the new party assemble In Chicago nest month for the conven tion and decide what delegates are entitled to seats. Contests have be gun In several states from which it Is reported rival delegates will be sent to Chicago. Colonel Roosevelt declined tonight to express an opin ion as to the merits of these contro versies, most of which have risen In the south. He said It was his un derstanding that In deciding contests the recommendations of the commit teeman from each state would be fol lowed. The committeemen, through neces sity, were appointed and not elected he said, but as It Is the only body which represents the new party of ficially Its rulings would be followed until the oonventldn Is assembled. It Is probable that a permanent na tional committee then would be se lected. Cntll the convention opens the affairs of the new party will be conducted In an informal way. Col onel Roosevelt said the recent rul ing of the supremo court of Kansas, which thwarted the effort to prevent the placing of candidates for elec tors on the republican ballot would have an Important bearing upon ths affairs of the new party. APPOINTED TREARCRfJt. DANVILLE, Va- July J 7. Judge R. W. Peetross, of the corporation court today appointed George P. Geoghegan to he city treasurer for the unexpired term of seventeen months of W. 8. Paylor, who recently quit the position and disappeared. Geoghegan , was Paylor's predecessor, but volun tarily relinquished the position. Pay tor! accounts with the city balance. The state has not yet Investigated his CHAIRMAN HILLES PAYS RESPECTS TO BULLMOOSE PARTY Says Roosevelt's of "Fraud' 'and Noise to Cover Evidence. NEW YORK, July IT. Charles D. Hlllea, formerly secretary to Presl dent Tart and now chairman of the republican national committee, gave out a statement today at the head quarters of the republican national committee la this city tonight as fol lows: 'The only possible Justification of the avowed efforts of the third term party ' leaders to induce the repub lican electors In at least six states to betray their trust snd cast their votes In the electoral college '.'or ex Prealdejit Roosevelt would be the truth of the charge that President Taft was nominated by the fraudu lent seaming of a sufficient number of delegates to affect the choice of the national convention. No Truth In Charge. "There Is no truth whatever in that cbanie. Mr. Roosevelt and his as sociates know that there Is no truth In It, but they have been attempting, by vociferation 'and reiterstlon, to beoloud the fact that they have no proof to offer. They would drown out all attempts to establish the truth by persistent cries of 'theft'l and 'fraud.' "The third term iparty is the self confessed sponsor for. 1(0 Take' con tests by which It attempted to se cure fraudulent control of the na tional convention and now it has the temerity to ask the American public to believe that In the remaining 78 contests the right was all on its aide. "Ot the 231 contests which Mr. Roosevelt ordered to be brought he fore the national committee his po litical managers voluntarily abandon ed 1(0 and one of his press agents announced that these contests were Instituted solely 'for psychological ef fect,' and In order that a table of deWMates elected miirht not reveal the large majority of legitimately elected delegates instructd for President TsOt. . - 'This toss misrepresentation of the republican party his attained proportions far greater than a fac tional, quarrel, ... Were the charges true It would be a national scandal. For that Teason the proper authori ties have caused to be prepared a complete review of all ths controvert ed cases, a review which It Is the duty of every loyal American to read. Takes t'p Alabama. "Why, tak the Btate of Alabama. Mr. Roosevelt, through his political managers, asked the nations) com mittee to unseat 22 Tart delegates. Twenty of the (contestants were thrown out by practically the unani mous vote of the committee and one avowed Roosevelt committeeman re marked: 'I am convinced the coun try will be astounded by the flimsy character of the Roosevelt contests. There wae no steam roller In opera- tion ; the committee voted in ac- DETROIT ALDERMEN WiLL FOB IHEinilHTl City Officials Under Arrest for Graft Will Make Race Again OUT ON BOND DETROIT, Mich., July All of ths nine aldermen under arrest on the chargs of accepting money for their votes In a street closing case will ge before their constituents for re-election, according to the list of primary candidates when It was completed this afternoon and time had expired for ruins' of petitions. Alderman Gtln mb and Alderman Rosenthal, both on $5,00 ball, field their petitions today. The effect of the alleged graft dis closures on ths filing of primary pe titions was evident, wkea shortly after the arrests were made a rush to the city clerk's office of previously un heralded aldermanlc candidates de veloped. By direction of Asslstsnt Prosecu tion Attorney Jasnowskt the safe In the office of Council Committee Clerk Ed ward Schreiter was forced opened by a lock expert late today. The Burnt detectives who worked up ths graft cae sllege that Schreiter was the leader In arranging for the payment of the bribe money. It is ld he had refused to open his safe for the in spection of the officers. When the authorities left the office they carried a bandit of papers taken out of the safe with them. Schreiter, who wss released on bail todsy. will bo arraigned with the sine aldermen next Tuesday. MR. FORBES ILL. NEW BEDFORD, Muss., July 27. W. Cameron Forbes, governor gen eral of the Philippines Is reported seriously ill on Xashawena Island, wtftre he hae fceen spending th summer Three physicians har vls JBedthLjslnd to attend him. Vociferotis Shouts "Thief f Are Only His Utter Lack of cordan.ee with Its convictions and as It was compelled to on the evidence.' Mr. Roosevelt confessed his own knowledge of the fraudulent charac ter of his contests and testified te the justice of the committee's work when, at Oyster Bay, on the night the committee's action was taken hs showed to the representatives of the press section of his confidential list' of delegates. This list showed that Mr. RooseveK expected only two of his contesting delegates! In Ala bama to be seated and Mr- Roosevelt sdded 'We had not counted on any, but those two.' Tct he sought to cast a cloud over the t tl to twenty other seats. " 'When yu go seeking equity, do equity." That Is an old maxim of equity law and a Just one. Mr. lloosevelt, prote.nd!n,T to seek equity from the republican national I om mlttee, sought to Induce that com mittee to unsest at least 100 regu larly elected delegates and In their etead to seat Roosevelt delegates whose election he had admitted was fraudulent admitted It by abandon ing the cases either before the na tional committee or before the time came 4o present them to the commit tee on credentials of the convention. Only PoTU'ht JuMflablc. "What would you t h I nit of a lawyer who advised his client to bring 23S suits knowing there wo justice, if In any, at least in only 78? Would not such a course prejudice the moat just court on earth? But that la practically what Colonel Roosevelt's lawyers did In the case of the repub lican national committee. Why? They knew tho revelation of the fraudulent character of their cases In one contest after another must prej udice the court ,talnet them and thus tend to lose any of their cases which possessed merit. Were they fools to pursue such a course? No. They were wie, W unscrupulous, politic ians. They cams not seeking equity but 'political advantage. They knew none of their eases possessed merit But they sought to deceive ths public . k . t.,. Klareaslves lined vl. It would cut liaved that by Instituting and pressing many fraudulent contests they could either Induce the committee as a matter of political expediency to se tt some 'fako' contestants rather than reject them all, or compel the com mittee to reject them all In order that they might deceive the public Into believing: that steam roller meth ods had been used. The correct ness of thin reasoning will be shown by the full statement of the 'facts. "Mr. Roosevelt 1 too shrewd a polltlcbui, had there been real merit In the contests of ths 78 delegates whose title hs tald was 'plain,' ever to have Jeopardised them by giv ing them up with over 160 contests which he knew and has admitted were pure fakes." HEAVILY TINES I LEFT STATE Had Given Bonds Not to Engage in Business Again BONDS FORFEITED WILMINGTON, N. C, July 27. Fines segregating 111,000 against Ave defendant who had left the state and forfeiture of bonds aggregating perhaps Ave times that amount were Imposed In the state superior court her by Judge frank Carter, of Ashe vill.e, today when sixty odd cases In thk'h defendants had slven bonds under nolo corttendtts proceedings riot to engage in the liquor business laraln after a former trial last Jan uary were called. Letciv W. M. Pinson. who figured recently in a "cleaning up of Bhreveport, La., had been brought here with assistants by the Good Government league when it was seen that certain ot the de fendants Vers not living up to their arreement with the court and when ;hls presence became known with the a.emfIlng of the grand Jury this week, there was a yssral uodos of defendants from the city. Calling of I the cses followed and Judge Carter ! held that while he could not peas j Imprisonment eentences upon ths de ! ff-ndanta in their shsen-e. he could 1 impose a fine and forfeiture of bonds. I Other cases go over to next week. ARMY WORM D.t XGETiOl'S. WASHINGTON, July 27. Ths srmy worm which Is "marching through Georgia" will do a million dollars worth of damage gto the corn, cotton and other cT of that state, accord tng to sn estimate by state entomolo gist of eorgta in ft report to the de partment of agriculture. What " the amount of injury will be In the other southern at ate, which the pest has la vs led has not yet been figured, al though it is feared that farmer and plnters will suffer heavily.- I " i I ' 1 1 I 1 . . 1 "I IIIIUIIU I I 7t A' rT"T X" V r LK-TTl-Ni I J" REPUBLICAN SUGAR TARIFF FINALLY ADOPTED BY Passed Over Practically United Strength of Democrats in House, the Progressives . Uniting With the Regulars in Supporting Measure First Purely Republican Revision Passed, WASJlINOTaV, July IT.-A repub lican sugar tariff bill, ths Drat pure ly republican revision measure of the present congress, was adopted In the senate today agalnat practically the united ' strength ot the demo crats. Deserting their allies of ths last two days, the republican pro gressives, by an Ironclad agreement with the regulars, succeeded In pass ing a tariff reduction bill which they believe President Taft wll sign If It roaches hlni. i Ths sugar but wia compromise between the Lodge plan, ' endorsed by the regular republicans and the Brlstow bill, behind whUh.the pro ths present sugar duty ot 11.10 to ll.JOl would abolish ths Dutch standard, under which practlculiy no refined sugar can be Imported end would abolish the . 7 1-1 cents "refiners differential," an additional duty on refined sugar which. It la claimed, has accrued directly to ths profit of the, suijnr refiners. "Big Politics." The republican! played "big poll tics" In the third and last days' right on tariff ttieumjes. The regulars came down from the 11.11 1-1 duty of the Lodge till, while the progres sive moved upward from the 11.52 1-2 rate In the original Rrlstow bill. The compromise, which Is only 7 -t cents shove the lowest flgurea BLAGKAKD W Florida Rooseveltians Draw Color Line, Holding Sep arate Conventions greeslve party was formally launch ed in Folrlda today amidst some con fusion, Whe separate convention were held by the white and black aympsthlnera of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, the white ''action meeting here and h neKroe at t, Augus tine. Each faction elected half of th state delegation to the progres sive national convention at Chicago next month. The loral mass convention wai character ted by the eatuslon of ne gores snd bluer attacks oi leadfrfl of the repufclUan party, particular Preslde-rit Tai't. Ths meeting of th. negroes at fit. AuirtlBe was murk I br a dispute betw-n two factions for control of th (or.vcntton. When the arino in-wnt went nut early in ,th morning that negro would not be allowed fb participate, trouble was far-d Many ngrois had gathered to participate. Kxtri police irotu-tkin "-a afforded but when th convent on wa called to order at two ocln ic good order pre vailed. A numtr of the dlagruntlel negro delegate occupied seats in the gallery ss spec w tor. X EGRI VS VYJXV.S FROM TOWX ROME, Oa., Jily 27. As a result of bad blood between the rscus all the i negroes wre driven from the twn of Plalnviiie in Gordot county, this afternoon by th White resi dent. Bcores of shot were ex chanced but so f can he learn ed none were killed. Officers and vilunteer Prs are on th way to th r-ene of the trouble, the white are well srmd an no further trou ble 1 expected. f ' AXLfl l.MW FEET, CANTON, Ohio, July 27, When J. 000 feet In the air a rop sttach-1-ig the trspez bar'w his parachute Ww erft Thomas E. Flick, 22, of Qoiney, lit., fell to his death her this afternoon. His body struck in th soft earth of a eeiery Held, head first, and w hurled u the knees. Climbing the Pennant Pole. named by the progressives, la consid ered a vi.'tory for Benatur Briaiow, who has' been the moat active advo cate of sugar tariff reduction on the republican side of the senate. 'l'iis democratic (res sugar bill passed by the house of representa tives did not come to a vote In the senate, The ltrletow-UxlKe amend ment was first adopted In ths com mittee of the whole by a vote of 17 to 26, Henatnrs Thornton and Kos tew of Louisiana, democrats, voting witfi the republicans. The senste demooratg then offered their substitute for . ths house bill, proposing a one-third . reduction la the existing sugar tariff. This was defeated, M to , 24. tM jyipubllcan regulaiVn8T(lfOKt noliling to their agreement, The Urlstew-Lodge bin finally passed the mnate with all hut two democrats Voting for. It. The final vote was tl to B, ths nega tive votes being cast Iby Senators Heyhurn, republican and Poster and Thornton, democrats. May Influence. I ton mi. The attitude of the senate demo crats In finally supporting the Tepuh ll-aji bljl is expected' to have In fiifnre with the democrats of ths house when ths amended hill gone bficif there.. The senats prohaMy will nsme Renntor Penrose and lodge. republican and Simmons, demonrat, on ths conferencs committee. An sttempt to sttach the Canadian IN raise, pum Colquitt and Ramsey Are Running Very Close Race for Governor DALLAS. Tex., July 27. Return at midnight from th democratic state primary election today, ths reaults of which ere equivalent to an election, show that Congressman Morris Hhop ifrd, candl'late for th I'nlted fltste senate to succeed Benstor Joseph W. Kaller, Is lending Jacob F. Wolters, of Houston, Congressman C, B. Rsadell and Mdtthew Jollier, of Rockwall county, the other csndldates, Keturn Indicate that the race be tween Governor Colquitt for re-election, and Wm, F. Ragniey, his only opponent, l very flo snd It may tske the full returns to decide. in this primary election the vof was the heaviest In many year and th ballot the longest In the history of the state. In the rc for congren man at large there were 22 candidate with two place:1 to be filled. Returns as to ths offices and to congress man by districts are too mesgr to Iri dic t results. NOT ON HOARD ftTKAMflK. PLYMOUTH. Ensland, July 27. When th steamer President Lincoln arrived here tonight from New York It was definitely learned that Mis Dorcas y.nodtrraa. who disappeared recently from the Mount Vernon hos pital, was not aboard. Vr. Norr n Smith, formerly an Intern In ths hoepltnl, whoe name was associated with that of the missing woman de nies having eloped with her and ; that he knows nothing of her whereabout!!. 1, Pm:th explained thst Miss Pnodrras left the hospital weral days before he embarked on the rre,id-nt Llft-oin. He Is pro eeedinj to Germany. EXTKXDFD ORDER DRILL, ANNICTON, Ala., July 27. Ex tended order drHI snd tactical les sens for offti-ers composed1 th bar den of th work for the soldier en rased In rummer maneuver ' st Camp Pettu today. Tomorrow will be day of rest In camp, with th real work to start Monday, - BILL THE SEN ATE reciprocity repeal amendment to the bill made by senator McCukber was defeated 41 to 24. This vote showed the purpose of the republicans Jo prevent any chaage In the osr hill that might mean Its defeat when la goes back to the house of repre sents lives. "We now have the opportunity," Mid Senator BrUtow, "of fstiing a reduction In duty, oil en of the most Imports si of American com modules. 1 have no doubt that If th" house swept this measure It will meet th apprbvat of the presi dent and become law. It I time we were getting some fruit front aur tariff lights and t believe this means success and not failure." Th fea sts bill would red ucs th duty on Cuba a migar which come in un dsr th reciprocity treaty at ll.lt te g bout II. SO per hundred pounds. The maximum reduction of duty oq all refitted sugar I three-tenth of a cent a teund. The abolition of th Dutch stand, it Is expected, will make possible mora foreign eompetl Hon In cheep gratis of sugar. Th bill would require th branding of sugars to show their degre ot purl y. ,'... It I estimated that the sugar tar Iff reduction, If It become effective, will reduce government custom re ceipts about 11,100,000 whlls It v. In In th retail sugar bill of th nation Is estimated st lld.OOH.OOO. STJH.DJIRD OIL MAGNATE IS liTjnO TESTIFY John D. Archbold Asked to Tell Committee About Campaign Contributions WASHINGTON, July 27,Johl. D. Archbold, of Nw York, of th Stand ard Oil interests, was Invited today by th senat commute Investigating1 pO' lltleal csmiatgn contributions and ex penditure te appear before It a w lines. No dst wag set for hi ap pearance, but unless ther should b a ready acceptance a ubpoena may b iud directing him to appear to testi fy on a certain day, . - Not only wilt Mr, Archbold bessked to appear to tell what h kpow of contribution to presidential cam paigns of 1204 nd 10, but he will bs quizzed shout contributions to con gressional csmpslgn of 1104, 1(04, 1102 and 1110. "Another who ha been asked t" ap pear is 8. 0. O Dell, former governor of New York, whose nam haa been linked with th Harrimao contribution of 1204. CIAKH ETVKD. ATLANTA, Ga July 27. Th i clash In tb opening session of tn j national convention of Oldeona, th jrellrloiis organisation of traveling jmen yesterday, over an stuck on Methodists, was cleared up today when M. P. AsMrook, of. Ohio, -plained hi statement of yesterJay. Me declared he had been Mnlsunder atoed, because he wa ta short In th midst of his remsrks snd had not referred to Methodlst as being narrow-minded. B. M. Jo in son of Tennessee, replied reptlng Mr. Ash brook's statement on behalf of th Slethodlst and th Incidei I ws Closed. ! V At the afternoon cession A. B, T. Moore of Cedsr Kaplds Iowa, was re-elected president Other of flcer named were: Edgar Oliver, Atlanta, virepreeldent; Nets nlan der, Chicago, trawe re-f eted; Rev, L. C. Smith, Wisconsin,, -hap-laln, re-elected, 1 Toronto, Canada, wa chosen . th "-etrng plac for th 1211 ecinvn tion. , .' LI III FIRST DEGREE VERDICT 1ST C, ILLED Young Man Must go to Elec. trie Chair for Killing Attorney SECOND CHARfiF. AGAINST ALLEN Father. Floyd Allen, and Son Bom to Die for Hllhvlllo Trefledy WTTMEVILLK. Va . July It Claud Allen, on of the Hlllavllle out. law, wa tpdiy convicted ot murdaf In th first degree for th' killing of Commonwealth' Attorney William M. Foster. At a former trial h wa found guilty of murder In th second degree tor the killing of Judge Thornton U Masai. " i ., . - . He I th second of th Allen daft to be convicted of first degree mur der, hi father, Floyd Allen, being th other, , i . . The closing arguments of counsel consumed the morning suasion ot court today, snd th case wa given to th Jury when 'court ' reconvened at I 10 thja afternoon. After dellberat' ing for an hour and a half the Juror tiled hack Into th jury box and th foreman announced their .verdict. When tit learned that h must py the penalty of hi crime In the eleclrl chair, the prisoner broke down and wept bitterly, a did lo hi fiance, who wa with him tn th court roum. It ws th first tlm h had displayed ths least ilgn of emotion ilnc hi trial begin. ,- ,. Whlls th iury w considering It! verdict, Kldna Kdwarda, and Victor and Frlsl Allen were brought Into the court room In order that motion might k mad for ft chang ot vntr. On motion of th commonwealth venire of 71 wilt be summoned from Mford fourity tor th next trial.. Th commonwealth -alas lhd to, av th three remaining caaea eofl-' animated, hut th defsna wotild not igre, nd It we decided to try Fflal Allan hsit. TWh.'trjel." -''i-b"" Au gust 14 ,nd wnTbe on the' Indictment upon which Claud ind Floyd Allen hav been tound guilty 0 flrat da gre murder. : . -i , ? Hentenc wss not passed on Claud Allen In order that h my teitlfy In th other wise. .. f.; -.y-. . , . GOVERNOR WILSON STILL IN seclusion. pdssreLY OUTSIDEJKEl'l JEfiSEY Secretary, Only Man Who , Knowi Whereabouti and HeWon'tTeir : 14 HAVING GOOD REST" dOVERNOR WILRON MBA OIHT, N; J-, July 17. Gover nor Wilson still I in seclusion end It I bellvd tonight that h may now b t th horn of a friend outstd of New Jersey, ,;-. ., ... ... ' Ther 1 only on man, with th exception of th governor host, who know wher th democratic prl destlal nomine has gone. . II I Jo.j J. Tumulty, th governor" prlvat lo retary, and h hs besn pledged te erecy. . ;,:s. .-.,- William Q. McAdoo, th NW Tork tunnel builder who financed In targ measure the governor- campaign for' th nomination and leader of the parj ty In Naw Jersey, cam nrt thl aft rne2 expecting to see th goverhor, The.f were told simply that he had not returned from writing hi speech ot acceptgnc. Joseph E, Davl, ecr tary of th actional commltte. wa expected her tonight and th lam) answer awaited htm. Mr. Tumulty ha tcted on order snd taken nobody Into kl confldenc. ' Teaterday afternoon th announce ment wa mad her that th gover nor would return at noon today with his speech written to m'et 100 mem bers of th Brooklyn Democratic elubv wl h whom he had sn appointment,' Short) bf ore noon today an assist ant secretary who supposed ther hail been no rjv-ing In the situation saldl the governor had motored to Be Gfrt, Later it wa said that he had left Immediately teeming that the Brook lyn delegation had akd htm to post, pons the meeting. - It developed t nlght that the governor had hot bee)' here alt diy and the assistant secre tary had been mistaken in making th announcement ; Mr. Tumulty I not worried about th governor's whereabout. He ex pect Governor Wilson back Monday and smiled when asked if the governor! wa well. . , "He' having rest, good rest," Mr. Tumulty said. . t WEvtTKER REPORT. ' WAHIN3TO?. July 2T east for North Carolina day n2 Monday. MIIRO Ml

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