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Platform Submitted by Com
mittee on Resolutions Al
most Same as "Tentative
Draft" Sent Out From the
White House.
One of Most Important Fea
tures is The Anti-Injunction
Plank Several New
Provisions The Platform
As it Stands.
Press.
The platform
committee in the
K,- Associated
Chii'':'!-'1- June IS.
jYsoluti'UiN differs in few unimportant
Tiui!vs from
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the tentative draft, an
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,!.,,. .iispatcnes.
(if sju-i-ial interest is the anti-infuat-ti-n
plank. The platform first
iu'vs ii- respects to President Roose
;:n,i lauds his administration
i t,,-:iis:- Hie It'lUlU lit- lias IUilUC,
. words contained in the
iw draft.
Tin' J !.,! form declares unequivocally
lor "tariff revision by a special ses
;ii'n of enyress immediately after the
injiicuratioii.
AmoiiiT the new features injected
V,v the ' committee on resolutions is
tl';ti ,, ;!! at ion that native citizens
f p,,r;o Rico should be collectively
m-W citizens of the United States.
1; "; dsu favors the admission of New
;a,:.ico and Arizona as separate
j:a;r. Ii declares with respect to
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ro v.unotu reservation iui
t-iiluI'i'f'.i'.fUt
aiut-iiiim-'ii's
lHth. 14th and
ot
of the constitution. In
;k favoring conservation of
i:d resources specific men
tion is male in the tentative
,n,ix favoring White Mountain and
AmiMfuhk'ii forest reserves is elimi-
iuwA. Pvoi action
:,vi: is u!T-'d.
WILLIAM H. TAFT OF OHIO.
to American citi-
Convention
. Bulletins
nnnn Hall. Chicago, 111., June
!'. 12:r. ). m. The roll call is being
ia;i-,l on the adoption of the minority
.hi the platform, excepting the
is widen publicity, physical valuation
ni rt'ilrua.is and election of senators
iyih . iifopie. planks upon which sep
ar.t;" votes were demanded.
VI :K p. m The roll call resulted:
Ayes noes ftrrt, thereby defeating
til-1 minority report, except those three
Planks on which separate votes will be
taken.
Publicity Plank Lost.
12:22 n. in The nnblicitv Blank of
minority report defeated.
I2:::i p. in The minority plank for
physical valuation of railroads is lost.
Other Measures Lost.
12: to p. in The minority plank for
aVriion of senators by direct vote is
l'i.-t.
12:40 p. m. The platform adopted toy
"iva voce vote. Nominations for presi
'init if iid vice-presidential candidates
I'i'.v to be ma.de. A practical agree
ment to adjourn for the day after com
pleting the nomination of the presiden
h:d candidate has commenced. The
;fi''ct will be to postpone the ice-pres-i'h-mial
nomination until tomorrow.
Cannon Named.
12:4s p. m. As the states were call-l
H.1 ua r,. Was no response until Illi
nois wax '.oached, when Congressman
B'-titf-li u,,- the platform to nomi
nate SpKiker Cannon.
Presidential
Candidates In
minatio
No
cur great chieftains from Lincoln and
Grant to McKinley and Roosevelt!
Very near us today are the spirits of
those leaders of our party whose work
is finished Lincoln and Grant, Logan
and Oglesby, Morton, of Indiana;
Chandler, of Michigan; Sherman, of
Ohio; Hawley and Piatt, of Connecti
cut; Conkling and Arthur, Sumner and
Hoar, Blaine and Garfield, Harrison
and McKinley. What pictures these
names call up of courage on the field,
of eloquence in the forum, of devotion
to party, of loyalty to the state! Of
them and their associates we may say,
as we contemplate the outcome of the
principles for which they lived, truly,
their works do follow them. Through
the triumph of these principles, in the
fullness of time, the American flag
floats over one hundred million peo
ple from Porto Rico to Luzon, who live
in the enjoyment of enlightened free
dom sanctified by law.
Inspired by these memories and en
couraged by these reflections, we meet
to gird ourselves for another combat,
and choose another captain. Today Il
linois once more offers to the party
of Lincoln and Grant a leader under
whom defeat will be impossible and
victory will be complete and glorious
ail along the line. And nothing less
than complete victory should be our
aim in these deliberations.
Speaker Cannon knows the people
and sympathizes, with them in their
struggles because his own life has been
a constant struggle crowned by suc
cess. His sympathy for the suffering
and oppressed came to .him naturally
by inheritance and early associations.
His father, Dr. Cannon, was a pious
Quaker who bore tetimony against
slavery. He was an early director in
that railroad from which the Repub
lican party took all the passengers ;
the road on which men journeyed only
one way, from the dark underworld
of bondage up into the joyous light of
freedom. It is little wonder that with
such a father the son's first campaign
work and first vote should have been
for the Great Emancipator.
Not only does Speaker Cannon know
the people, but what is of more im
portance in a presidential candidate,
the people know him, and those who
know him best love him best. His per
sonality is made tip of those manly
traits that attract the admiration of
his fellow men. He has met in the
lists the bravest champions of his day.
Sometimes he has been the victor; of
ten the vanquished; hut always he has
been cheerful and stout-hearted, re
membering the past and its defeats
without resentment, and facing the fu
ture ever with imdinimed hope and
courage undismayed.
His opponents dwell upon his years
as a handicap, but with him years
(Continued on page 9.)
Charges Against Charlotte
Medical Journal
Spr-cia! to The News.
Wjnsifiri-Salem, June 18. The State
Ucilifai society adjourned this after
wn without completing the program
l'PHiod iv,r this session.
'Hie most important matter that
f;tmo In-fore the society this morning
was t ho reading of charges against the
'liarloite Medical Journal, the organ
ft the society, for the publication of
'n iidwrrisement of the Biggs Sanita
ll!n of Greensboro, which was alleg
"'1 to bo an unethical institution.
Uio fii;,rses Were preferred by the
iiiioiM .Medical society, which offered
emphatic protest against the pub-
."''""II oi iius advertisement, "For a
'""n whom we have endeavored to sup
N'ss i,y aWj tllat we regar(i it is an
!isali to nu self-respecting physicians,
' n'l t'coninif nd that all patronage be
l '"iir.: wn until all unethical advertise-
"" m me excluded."
Illf' council decided to furnish the
,"1'"1' "I Hie Medical Journal with a
'my of the charges, and cite him to
il "earing.
How Mecklenburg's Twentv
Two Votes Will Be Cast
f coi ding to the popular vote record-
,'.",' niesday's primary.
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20 voles will be divided as fol-
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By "Associated -Press.
Chicago, June 18. The decided
change in the temperature" gives
promise of the first hot day of the
convention, and early arrivals evid
denced their intention to be as com
fortable as possible by the discarding
of heavier clothing.
Half hour before the hour of meet
ing the building was filling. A crowd
to tax the capacity of the Coliseum
is expected. The Taft managers, in
order to fully conserve the interests
of their candidate, early in the day,
placed on the lloor of convention, but
not in capacity of either delegate or
alternates, a number of the most
prominent men in the party.
Their duty was to watch the work
of the opposing candidates and to
head off any possible defection of
strength. At 10 o'clock delegates'
seats and galleries began to fill. The
convention was called to order at
10:17.
Senator Hopkins had difficulty in
reading, owing to the noise and confu
sion. When the anti-injunction plank
was reached, the words "Integrity of
the courts" called forth applause.
There were cries of "No, No," when
the suggestion was made that the ne
cessity existed for a change in the
present manner of isuing injunctions.
The conclusion of thep lank was gener
ally aplauded. The reference to the
negro in the platform and the reitera
tion of the party's demand for the en
forcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th
amendments of the constitution called
out a brief period of applause.
The tariff revision plank was not
heard, or, if it was, it was disregarded
entirely. Not a single hand-clap fol
lowed as the senator finished reading
that plank.
Cooper, of Wisconsin, submitted the
minority report of the committee on
resolutions. This insists, among other
things, on the physical valuation of
railroads as the basis of a proper ad
justment of rates, as decided by the
United States supreme court and rec
ommended by the interstate commerce
commission, the publicity of campaign
contributions and the election of Unit
ed States senators by direct vote.
When the two reports had been sub
mitted a 40 minutes debate was al
lowed.
Today's Program.
Chicago, 111., June 18. It is now the
understanding that the name of Taft
will not be placed in nomination until
Ohio is reached in the regular roll call
of states. If this is carried out, the
presentation of Taft will follow the
naming of other favorite sons, instead
of coming at the outset, as first plan
ned. The original program was that Ala
bama, which heads the roll of states,
would yield to Ohio, so that the spokes
man of the Ohioans would put the sec
retary in nomination immediately after
the roll call -began. While Alabama
continues ready, to yield the honor to
Ohio, yet the plans have now been
revised, so that the" nominations will
come in regular order of the call of
states, thus placing the nomination of
the most favorite sons, instead of that
of Secretary Taft.
It was exactly 10:17 a. m. when
Chairman Lodge rapped the convention
to order.
He introduced Rev. John Westry
Hill, who opened the session with pray-
Senator Fulton, of Oregon, was rec
ognized to introduce to the convention
George IT. Williams, SO years of age,
and a surviving members of President
Grant's cabinet. Senator Hopkins, of
the resolution committee, received the
recognition, of the chair, and there was
a great wave of applause as he stepped
to the stage.
Representative Cooper, of Wisconsin,
was selected to make the minority re
port on the platform, and he also went
on the stage with a ripple of applause
following him.
Chaiiman Lodge formally presented
Senator Hopkins to the convention,
who read the platform.
It was not long before the reader
came to the first passages of the pre
amble, according high praise to the
president, and at the mention of his
having went to so conspicuous a place
in the history of the world, there was
some applause and some cheering, but
no attempt at a demonstration.
The opening phrase of the anti-injunction
plank caused a ripple of ap
plause when read, but that portion re
ferring to the changing of the pro
cedure of the courts so as to more lib
erally interpret them, respecting in
junction, brought some cries of "No!
No!" :
Speaker Cannon Nominated.
When Mr. Hopkins concluded speak
ing, the resolutions were reported by
52 out of 53 members of the resolu
tions committee.
Representative Cooper (Wisconsin),
then presented the minority report.
The latter was voted down and the
majority report adopted, when the roll
was called for nominations. '
There was no response until Illinois
was reached, when Representative
Bouteli nominated Speaker Cannon
VKED
BY M R . SMALL
BontelFs Speech
Nominating Cannon
The following is the speech of Rep
resentative Henry Sherman Bouteli' in
the Republican National convention,
nominating Joseph G. Cannon, of Illi
nois, for president:
Air. President and Members of the
Fourteenth Republican National Con
vention :
In the name of half a century of
Republican triumphs, Illinois bids you
welcome, to prepare for still further
triumphs. These are the scenes of the
first conflicts and the earliest victo
ries of our party. ; Fifty years ago
men wer listening for the words of
the great debate that guided the des
tiny of the nation. In this city, eight
and forty years ago, our predecessors,
as ministers and stewards of the Re
publican faith, chose their first victo
rious leader. Then the hopes and
yearnings of the people found expres
sion in their call to him who had spo
ken as never man spake when he stir
red the conscience of the nation, Abra
ham Lincoln, of Illinois.
And here it was, two score years
ago, that we gave our colors into the
keeping of the Great Commander,
great alike in peace and in war, with
out fear and without reproach, who
never knew defeat. For the nation,
seeking a man to carry on the work
that. Lincoln had begun, turned her
face again to Illinois and called for
Grant.
Within these very walls, only four,
yejirs since, we named our present
matchless leader, Theodore Roosevelt.
What glorious memories crowd upon
us from across the years of mighty
deeds wrought by the Republican par
ty for freedom and humanity under
Special to The News.
Raleigh, N. C, June 18.The con
struction by the state of two great
highways, one to extend throughout
the length of the state, from the sea
shore to and beyond the mountains,
and the other across the state, north
to south, from the Virginia to the
South Carolina line, is being advocat
ed by Congressman John H. Small. He
calls upon the state board of geograph
ical survey to take the initiative and
bring about through its departments
preliminary surveys and estimates of
cost on which the next sesion of the
general assembly could take some defi
nite action. He advises the use of
convicts in the road-building and
thinks that if the money to defray the
expense is not all available now it
should be secured through a bond Is
sue, the immediate sections through
which the road would run to aid pro
portionate to the benefit they would re
ceive.
The rapid multiplication of the use
of automobiles and the numerous pur
poses to which they will be put in
travel and in commercial effort is in
creasing the necessity for such roads
and Mr. Small insists that great bene
fit would come to the state from their
construction.
K IN IN
EQOD SPIRITS
Special to The News.
Raleigh, N. C, June 18. Managers
of the campaign of Hon. Ashley Home
in various parts of the state are here
in conference with Mr. Home and
his close friends and supporters with
reference to the policy that will be
pursued in winding up the campaign
for the gubernatorial nomination and
in the approaching Democratic conven
tion at Charlotte.
Mr. -Home and his lieutenants are
one iand all, in the highest spirits and
express great confidence in the cer
tainty of a Horne triumph in the great
contest that is to be waged in the
convention. They say he will go into
the convention with at least 150 votes
securely pledged to him, and in such
attitude as to draw rapidly from the
delegates of both the other candidates
as the balloting proceeds.
Among those prominent in the
Horne campaign here for the confer
ence are Col. James A. Bryan, of New
Bern: Col. Tayloe, Washington; Geo
H. Bellamy. Brunswick: T. W. Bick-
ert, Louisburg; J. A. Thomas, Louis
burs: R. L. Smith, Stanly; J. T. El
lington. Johnston, and others. Also
number of prominent citizens of Ral
eigh, including E.. Chalmers Smith
James H. Pou, R. M. Simms, Walter
Clark, jr.
MUSIC NOT FIE i
MAKES TURTLES
UNDO THE DOOR
Supt. F. G. Blair, of Illinois,
Illustrates That Subtle
Fineness Which is Requi
site foi Successful Teach
ing of Children.
When the Guilford County Delegate Comes to the State
Convention !
Great Shrinkage In ,
Freight Shipments
By Associated Press.
New York, June 18. Agents of the
steamship companies which have been
hard hit by the general depression in
freight traffic to Europe, say that no
relief is in sight. Since , the first of
the year, they say, there has been a
gradual falling off in freights, and a
number of lines have decided to either
take some of the f reight ships off alto
gether, or to transfer some of them to
other ports, where the shrinkage in
freight has not been so great as here.
They say that although the depression
in the freight-carrying business is gen
erakat the principal ports, it has been
felt most heavily by the steamship
lines at this port.
Second Regiment to Take
Part In Manoeuvres
Special to The News.
Raleigh, N. C, June 18.Adjutant
eral T. R. Robertson, of the North Car
olina national guard, announces that
it is definitely settled that all the
Second regiment, North Carolina Na
tional guard, except Company C, will
participate in the maneuvres with
the regulars at Chickamauga for 10
days beginning July 1. Company C is
the Wilmington company.
The companies that will take part
are Tarboro, Kinston, two Goldsboro
companies, Fayetteville, Washington,
Clinton, Edenton, Wilson, , Lumber
Bridge, Maxton.
THREE MEN DEAD
-FIVE OTHERS ILL
Special to The News.
Raleigh, N. C, June 18. Three men
died this morning and five others are !
desperately ill after having spent sev
eral hours yesterday evening re
pairing one" of the big chambers cf
the Raleiarh PhosDhate Works.
The dead are Sam Jones, Lee Ste-i.
vciiouu ami ueu. ojJiKt:.
The officials claim that every pre
caution was used to clear the cham
ber of sases before the men were
sent . to work and that there could
not have been enough gas in the
place to cause death.
The claim that heavy drinking of
mean whiskey during the night must
have caused the fatalities.
The matter is being investigated.
President Matheson's Ad--dress
And Fine Speeches
by Dr. Corson, T)r. Clax
ton And Others Delight
The Teachers. j
The Teachers' Assembly is to be
reorganized, and a new constitution
adopted. When the session was call
ed to order last night, Secretary R. I).
W. Conner, read a report from the
executive committee, which met Tues
day suggesting some changes in the
constitution. Mr. Connor stated that
it was realized that the assembly had
not been doing the work for which
it was organized, and that the com
mittee had made some changes in the
constitution which it thought wouid
put the assembly on a surer founda
tion. He stated that the rules of the
assembly were that any amendment to
constitution should be presented, and
then go over for one day, and that
the changes in the constitution would
be voted on at the business meeting
on Friday.
The constitution as read by the sec
retary, Connor, in section three, calls
for a division of the assembly into
two classes, regular members and
associate members, , the first to pay
$2 annual dues and ?2 registration
fee, and the latter to pay only the
registration fee. The associate mem
be eligible to hold office, nor will
be ellegible to hold office, nor will
they receive a copy of the published
proceedings.
There were several other minor
changes made in the present consti
tution. The report was filed in the
office of the college, and all mem
bers who did not understand it, were
Fourth District Declares
Foi Wm. J. Bryan
Special to The News.
Raleigh, N. C, June 18. The 4th
congressional district Democratic con
vention this afternoon made the re-
nomination of Edward W. Pou, for
congress unanimous and adopted res
olutions endorsing W. J. Bryan for
president.
Mr. Pou was brought before the
convention and received an ovation.
JOSEPH G. CANNON OF ILLINOIS.
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President J. A. Matheson.
invited to inspect it before - voting
on it tomorrow.
Dr. Blair's Address.
A magnificently 'inspirational ad
dress this morning was that by Hon.
F. G. Blair, superintendent of the pub
lic schools of Illinois. His subject was
"The Country 'School Teacher."
Dr. Blair's speed in speech is like
unto the running of a race horse, or
the flight of a hawk through the air.
He must be the terror of stenogra
phers! "But every word is valuable.
The outstanding feature of his address
was his happiness in illustration. His
illustrations were plentiful and large
ly new. Many of them were the chil
dren of his own experience, and ha
brought them forward at all ages and
sizes, from the first to the tenth,
grade.
Dr. Blair seems to believe that the
teacher is born, not made to order.
He had a clever illustration to show
how this was. He said when he was
a boy he belonged to a gang, and they
had a terrapin out, teasing it. They,
wanted to make it poke its head out
of the front door which was locked,
and bolted against the youngsters, aa
indeed was all of its shell weather
boarded house. Somebody said fire on
the roof of the house would send Mr.
Terrapin scurrying out of the front
door. They were about to" try fire, and
had piled fat pine on the tortoise's
back for the purpose. Just then an
old farmer, with a kindly smile, drove
along. He got onto the game, but said
he had heard of a more perfect way,
which, was to give a concert for the
benefit of the turtle. One of the lads
produced a Jews-harp and, sure
enough, soon the terrapin was poking
its beady eyes out of the front door,
while the tail showed up out of the
kitchin. , It began to move off, and the
speaker declared that he firmly believ
ed it was because of the music. There
are fire-brand teachers who never suc
ceed with children. Then, again, there
is the teacher who moves the child
with the very music of her personality,
and this is the teacher who is needed
and who trains the child best. -The
Suggestive Teacher.
Mark Hopkins, in his great book
on "Mental Development," said that
teachers were possessed of both. posi
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