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Only Afternoon Paper in the State of North Carolina With Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatches, LAST EDITION a . i ALL THE MARKETS THE RALEIGH EVENING T VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. ALLIES FIGHTING FAVORITE, BUT WITHOUT HOPE OF SUCCESS Native Sods Will Get Complimentary Vote On First Ballot and Then, If More Than One is Needed, Every Delegate Will Climb Into Taft Band Wagon. HAND OF ROOSEVIXT 18 SEEN IN EVERYTHING Telephone Wires Kept Hot Between White House and Chi capnd Frank Hitchcock Does What Teddy Tells Him Taft Delegates From South Carolina Seated. (By Loused Wire to The Times.) ' Chicago, June 11. Secretary of War William H. Taft was today conceded enough instructed delegates to nominate him by the allied candidate, but these men more effectually entrenched their anti-Taft organization, prepara tory to meeting Taft on the floor of the convention and In the credentials committee, where they expect to start such a muss that Taft's confidentially expected nomination by acclamation will be made impossible. , When the national committee convened today it was admitted by the a(tes that Taft needed but four more votes to give him the required 4!il foi nomination, even by the previous figures of the "allies." It was also admitted that the "steam-roller" committee would say "Toot, toot" and flatten out enough more delegates to cover Taft's nomination pie. Il-esldent Bossing Job By Long Distance Telephone Every Day. This concession has been looked for because the action of the : national, committee has plainly indicated which way the wind blew; The committee has been apparently under the eye of President Roosevelt by long-distance telephone and will be today. In view of this and the nomination of Frank H. Hitchcock, Toft's manager, who is on the ground, little may be expected for the "allies." .:' "I know the committee has beaten us flat," said one ally today. "They put us down and out in short order, but that does not mean that we are there to stay. Lots of people think we have been fanned Into a deep sleep and declare that when the nominations are on we will awaken and climb into the bund wagon. Nothing like that for us. We will carry this fight to the credentials committee, and if that has adopted the 'steam roller," which will he abandoned by the national committee, we will go before the, convention nil put up a scrap. We have not laid down and will not." Samuel Gompers Will Fight For Washington, June 11. Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, left Washington this afternoon over the Pennsylvania road for Chi cago.--.-Ho will fight for an anti-injunctfbn plank In the platform. He has called the quarterly session of the executive council 'to be held in the Kaiser-. hof hotel. Chicago, Saturday morning. At this meeting the plans for labor's campaign will he definitely determined on, and the course of the federation with respect to candidates and polirjes will be mapped out, Frank Morri son, secretary of the A. F. of L., left With Mr. Gompers. "It matters not to me," said Mr. (tompers. "who is president or who holds any office. It is immaterial.. I am for measures, not for men." Mr, Gompers expressed himself as follows on the proposed candidacy of John Mitchell for governor of Illinois: "I am heartily In favor of Air. Mitchell's candidacy for governor. Not only that, but I would favor him for any other office. He is a man of vast ability und unusual 'attainments. I would favor him as a good man for the presidency, or any office. He is the sort of man who should get the votes of every true American." Mr. Gompers said a bitter fight would be made on the memorial to be presented to the convention from New York asking for a plank in the plat form affirming confidence in the courts. ...'.- "We believe In and uphold the courts," said Mr. Gompers, "but no one can deny that the power of Injunction has been abused." . Representative J. Francis Burke and others expressed themselves as deep In the blue shade today. "Good Lord. Is the national committee working outside or inside?" was Burke's explosion, He characterized the work of the committee as savoring of the work of a steam-roller, the first use of this term by any of the politicians. The feeling of joy In the Taft camp today was reflected in the reports that the "allies had practically abandoned the fight and were preparing to climb in the band wagon. On the first ballot they would cast their ballots for the favorite sons and then nomlniite Taft by 'acclamation. There arc a couple of highly Interesting contests to still go before the national committee. The fight in Texas is a warm one. Federal patronage there is one of the charges. It Is a case of Taft and anti-Taft. and National Committeeman C. A. Lyon is the leader of the Taftites. Although It Is a real contest, the allies believe It will be futile on their part, although they are prepared to do their best and take the bumping like men. The Taft people have had time toduy to take u deep breath and look over the vice-presidential proposition. Probably the two most prominently mentlonod are Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyon and Represen tative James II. Sherman, of New York. South Carolina Taft- Men Get Their Seats This Morning. The Taft delegates from the first and fifth district of South Carolina were seated by the committee this morning. This gives Taft 491 votes on the temporary roll of the convention. This Is the exact number to nominate him on the first ballot. It h expected Taft will capture the entire state delegations of Ten nessee, Texas and Virginia, which will 2conslderably Increase his total. The third-term slogan of Texas has been silenced and there Is not likely to be any attompt from that quarter to stampede the convention. It is heard In the headquarters of the "allies" that many of the dele gates from southern states who have been seated by the national commit tee will not vote as they are expected. However, the Taft managers are con fident they will have a sufficient number of votes to nominate their candi date without a fight on the floor of the convention. "BOGUS DELEGATES," SAYS ONE FORAKER MAN FROM ALABAMA. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago, June 11. In a riot of Invective oratory which must have left Kim spent and weakened from his efforts, J. Manning, of Alabama, a white supporter of the Foraker candidacy, last night led the ."black troops" of the "allies" in their most sensational assault upon the admin istration and the Taft i candidacy since the campaign begun. "If the fellows have the sand in your Rlzzards that I have in my craw," said Mr. Manning, who Is editor of the Southern Republican and a former member of the legisla ture, "we'll go out and blow the re- Anti - Injunction Plank in Platform... publican party to atoms, where It belongs, If It goes for Taft. The ark of liberty Is going to sail Boon, and you won't see anything of T. Roose velt and his teeth when we slip the moorings, either. "Roosevelt has sent his secretary of war to Panama to stop ballot-box , stuffing, and now this same secretary ( ; of war, by means of his henchmen, is (engaged in ballot-box stuffing i through the national committee, j This man Hitchcock, after he had i bribed delegates as much as he could, was transferred here where he could tine the most influence. I cnarge here tonight, without equivo cation, that the national admlnlstra- (Contined on Page Seven,) : ILjL till i , I is! V - SEC'V OF WAR WILLIAM 11. TAFT Lending Candidate for the Republi can Nomination. MASS MEETINGS TO SAVE BILLIK Paulist Father Working Ilord for Condemned Murderer. Priest Will Make What He Calls "Whirlwind Finish of Campaign For Justice For An Innocent Man." If This Fails. Prisoner Will He Hanged Tomorrow For Killing of Mary Vrzal. ( By Leased Wire to The Times. ) Chicago, June 11. What will be the most unusual efforts ever made to save the life of a condemned mur derer will bo made today oti behalf of Herman Billik, sentenced to be hanged tomorrow for the murder of Mary Vrzal. A series of meetings, beginning with one at noon in the Great Northern theatre, has been ar ranged by Kat her Peter .1. O'Calla ghan of the Paulist fathers, The meetings are, termed by -Father O'Cal laghan as "a whirlwind finish of a campaign for justice for an innocent man." ..''. Arrangements for holding five meetings were made yesterday and more halls may be added to the list today in the event that Judge Landis refuses to grant a writ of habeas cor pus, an application for -which will be made by Attorney S. S. Gregory. Father O'Callaghah will bo tin principal 'speaker- at the meeting In favor of the condemned man. Ionilon linr Silver, (By Calle to The Times.) . London, June .'..11. Oar' silver steady at 24 5-Sd, advance 1-Sd. V. S. SENATOR HENRY C. LODGE, Of Massachusetts, who will nominates Gov. Curtbv Guild, Jr., of Massachu- wtts, for vice-president. mi) l ill I- i I ttf7- LASTDAYOFTHE GBArS REUNION TRACK GAMBLING of Grizzled Warriors. Column Throe Miles Long Is Led y (en. Evans, Newly-elect e Com mander,' mid Cheers King Loud All Along the Way Fitting Close to One of the Most Successful Gath erings of Old Soldiers. . .(By Leased Wire to The Times.) : Birmingham, Ala., June 11. -Tueii, as today, it was an inspiring pei.-tacle. Gray.-, the choice of their uniformed youth, -was the color today of tin- Con federate veterans in- their I.Stii .annual reunion. The animus '.of . '61-5 was" dis placed by the comradeship of one army lacing the last roll-call. Multitudes along the line of parade .'.were hut sympathetic chords touched on by the grizzled warriors, the thousand not re sponding so much to the drum and cimbal as to the call i'f hushed memory. . . A process three miles in length was lead by (ten. Clement A. Kvaris. the newly-elected comniander-in-i-hii f. who was .enthusiastically cheered over the entire route. Record of Gen. Evans. . Gen. Clement A. Evans, 1 he new commander-in-chief, is a man of : pleasant''-' address and one of the most loved in the army. He is a na tive of Georgia anil born of North Carolina and Virginia revolul ionary parentage.: He is a graduate of the j Georgia law school and began the j practice of law at. 19 years. of age. j He was elected judge of the' county court at 22 and state senator at: 23. The civil war commenced when : he was a senator and,'' although he i was exempt from military service, lit ! joined a company in his county In j.Tanuary. 1861, and began his mili J t'ary career. . He was first elected j major of the 3 1st . Georgia .- regiment and then was prompted- to colonol. His regiment was pel 'n Lawtori's j brigade, afterwTil'- . jrj'iiii's. Gen. I ". '.ins sti" t.'eiiix . uc. "v.rdon when . . , as promoted to niiijoor hutnal, j and again succeeded Gen. Gordon in ' command of the division. General ' Evans'- service was in the army of , northern Virginia,';. He participated ' in air the battles fought oti the soil of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsyl vania. He was ''-wounded five times, (twice very seriously, once at Mono- cai-y and once at Gettysburg, j In command of his division at Ap pomattox he made the . last fight .which -was- after the surrender, be cause he had not received notice of the truce. . i Gen. Evans has been active in the United Confederate Veterans, having attended every reunion except one. He was commander of the Georgia division 12 years with the rank of -major-general, succeeding Gen. Gor don as tor niandor of the department of the army of Tennessee with the ! (Continued on Page Two.) IN CAGE IN JAIL Young White Man Hangs Him self With Rope of Bedclothes. Charged With ComniittiiiR Unnatural Crime On Small Colored Hoy, 1'rls oner Was Overcome IJy Shnme and I)ecldel to Take Own Life Was Found By Jailer's Daughter at Meal Time. (Special to The Kvening Times.) Columbus. N. C. June 11. Dan Moss, a young white man, aged about 21. from the Mill Springs section, i com mitted suicide yesterday In the Jail here by hanging himself from the over head bars of the . steel cage In which he was conllned. ' When the Jailer's daughter went up to feed the prisoner she found him dangling by a rope made of the bed clothing. Moss was in jail for com mitting an unnatural crime on a small colored boy last week. Primaries For Saturday Bertie county is holding a primary today, Chowan held yesterday and the following counties will hold prl- mnries Saturday. Anson, Carteret Franklin, Gaston, Nash, Vance and Tyrrell. Carteret will hold Saturdny and Wednesday. 1SS SUICIDES death blow of n. Senate By One Majority. Senator Foelker. Who Promised to' Rise From "Sickbed anil Vote For Measure Fathered liv Governor' Hughes, Makes (.ood His Word.1 '1 hough He Collapses immediately Alter Casting Decisive ISallot. i (Bv Leased Wire to The Times.) Albiinv, N, Y.. June 1 1.-- Racing is dead in New York state. The sen-j ate passed the. ant i-racel rack gam!)-, ling bill by a vote of 26 to 25.. Thus : ended the famous campaign against j the monopoly gamblers who. in their : ellort. to control all gambling in the; state, shut oil all the smaller, pool-j sellers. And thus Gov. Hughes whip- .;. ped into line the. members of the senate, who. in his previous eiforts l.o secure a vote, defied .him.- I Senator Foelker, the . sick man,! tottering and swaying as he stood !. upon his feet to answer to the call, ol lus name, cast the deciding v;ite. When he answered "aye." lie sank to' his seat, exhausted. The nervous strain, terrific for all senators and spectators, was too -much for .him. Physicians were immediately sum-j. nioned to his side to administer res-, . orntives. . - - . : I he scene was bv tar the w ildest ever witnessed in jhe "'famous senate 4- GOV. CHAS. E. IIIGHKS, Father of Anti-Racetrack Gambling Rill. chamber. On the brows of the sena lS' B tor stood out-great beads the last rollcall was si could have .'hoard' Hie drop of a pin. j Each answer to the rail' rang like a ; shout, through the chamber, notwith standing that the tension tended to' subdue -the ..voices of the .anions. ; : '-"After Senator Foelker had cast his vote; thoM' .who had fought so yal-i iantly for the. racetrack, iniereslsl knew the game was lost. Theyi looked at one another, looked at their leader, -then looked at the lloor. j Their breh th came hard, and fast and. no doubt, - they began to think of the; future of what effect their support of public gambling -.would have in their district...' For it has beeji pre-' dieted that every man who voted and held out for gambling was trilling with the--alternative of political oblivion.- -: ; The bill makes it a felony punish able by one year's Imprisonment, without the option of fine, for any-' one detected of gainbling and "-proved to have violated the law. i JACK Ol TPOl NTS JACK. Philadelphia O'Riien Victor Over Rlacklmrn In Quaker City Rout, (By Leased YY'ire to Tin: Times.) Philadelphia, Pa.. June VL Phil adelphia Jack OTirien outpointed Jack Blackburn, the negro ...middle weight. In a six-round contes at the National Athletic Club-:. -last night. The men put up a fast fight,-'.but both lacked the steam behind ther blows to do real damage. O'Brien's Mows were the clearer, and for that re.tson he was ,uiltled to the decision. Each landed often enough to settle half a dozen battles. Their judgment of distance was superb, for they, sel dom mlsseii There was but one knockdown. O'Brien sending the co gro to the mat in the first round. Fight ittg Rob Feeling Stroiifter, (By Leased YViro to The Times.) New York, .Tune 11, Rear Admiral Rohely n. Evans Is In thlR city on his way to Lake Mohonk, where he will stay seversl weeks. Admiral Evans still walks on erutchen. but snvg he feels . very much better, 1 , A, ACTOR HITCHCOCK FOUND NOT GUILTY Jury, Out Eight Hours, Clears Comedian of Charge of Tam pering .With Young Girls at New York House and Summer Home in Great Neck, L. I. t liv Leased Wire to The Tunes.) New York: .lime 1 I "Not guillv was the verdict brought In ear'yi l-pday ..bythe jury, in the case of Raymoiid Hitchcock, the actor, who was tried heloro Justice Golf on charges made by two young girls. The Jury hiiil deliberated eight hours arid 'wice asked instructions from the court. Iliti-hcock was remanded nack to the Tombs, pending the considera tion of an application tor trial todav in the case of other indictments of a-similar i-luiraclcr. T he actor s wife had remained in court all night and clung to her hushttnd when fh jurv bled in. hen the verdict was announced, site exclaimed:. .' : "f am so .'happy -so .happy.'" ' . ' ' Hail wiir he readv for Hitchr.'i'.-k when Justice Goff announces his decision. II. was earlv todav that tile pirv filed in with the last series of questions. I ne (juestions were written and Judge Goff studied them very carefully, before speaking to 1 lie. jury. Finally he said: , "Gentleiiien. von liave asKed Tile two questions. One I cannot an swer and the other, being m regar .1 to the testimony of Helen Von Hagen in relation lo the ijiiesiion of there being a curtain in the house on West 41st street behind which tne valet of the defendant was said to lave 'beenhidden," I -will have the '.stenographer read the testimony as given." The court stenographer t hen read the- testimony of Helen Von Ha gen Elsie Yoecks and Marv lirooks. the colored maid employed in the West -list street house. . The two girls said they did not see any curtain anil Hie maid testified there was one. The. jury: started to file back when No. S. John C. Ciiswold. asked the indue If they could use, in forming an opinion as to a reasonable doubt, the evidence of the first trial. The nidge informed them that - they must consider only the evi dence presented in this present trial and must particularly pay no atten tion to statements made by counsel on either side.. 'I he jurv then retired and the court officials and spectators settled themselves lor another long wait. To (he surprise of all, in a short lime thev returned 'again and stated thev were ready to present a vr dict. . - ' -' Hitchcock seemed to luirdlv realize his good fortue when the verdict was announced. He sat . motionless, gazing on the jury with a vacant expression on his face, as though stunned. He held a short levee in the corridor of the criminal court building later, and then went to the sheriff s room, where he had a short interview before leaving for the Tombs.. "1 am satisfied with the verdict. - said Hitchcock.- ' How could I bp otherwise? 1 knew that when a jurv. heard the true story of the inci dents in the room where I took the girls thev would acquit me." ' NAN PATTERSON KILLED IN RENO?! Pvate Dispatch Says Famous Actress is No More, j Relatives In Wasliington Scout the Report Says She I.eft Home There Only Few Pays Ago ami IMil Not Go To Reno at All Won't Disclose YVIierealsiuts of Caesar Y oung's Old I'l iend. : ( By Leased Wire to The Times) Pitt shut-;;. Pa., .l ime .1 1 . --A pri vate, dispatch 'from.-'Reno,, Nov., says that Mrs. l.oon Marl in, formerly Nan : Pal te'rsoti; who was ncipiined of the 'murder of Caesar Y'oung in New.Y'oik alter three : sensational trials, . was killed there early this morning:-- The j dispatch gives no details..; . . I Relatives Say Is Isn't So, i YYashitiKton. 1). C.. June 11. Nan ; Patlerson's relatives In Washington pronounce absurd the report that she has- been killed In For! Kent), Nev. Thev-say' ehe was here until' within' a I few days alio, and that when "she. left j she did not go to Reno! They de 'cline to state where she is. but they i say she is alive and -well. vol N; tiiRi GETS FORTINI' Ami Ry Midnight is Married to Man of Her Choice, (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Hmtc, Mint., Jnt.e 1 1 Mary Montana LaiRey, IS year. Old. youtiRcst of the Lavgoy mim tr., came into her fortune of $1.510,000. yes terday and at 'midnight was married 10 Raymond J, McDonald, a young clerk in a Broadway cab office, -who had been working for $1)0 a month. Some friends asked the girl Why she w anted lo marry .'the poor cab clerk. "Because I love him and have enough money for both," she re plied, ; Shrlners Off For Asheville. i. A number of Raleigh Masons left the city today to attend the Shrlners' convention at Asheville, which will be In session today and tomorrow. Among the number arc Messrs. J. V. High am and A, P. Andrews, Jr. FOREST CITY HAS MORNING WRECK Four Passengers and Two Trol- Ievmen Hurt in Cleveland. Cedar A venue St reet Car Wrecked at Murray Hill, Supposedly By Charge of Dynamite Floor Torn I p and Windows Shuttered May Re Ft ho of Recent Street Car Strike. '.: (I!y Leased YYire to The Times.) Cleveland. O.. June 1 1. Four passengers and the niotorman and 'conduct or were injured early this morning, when a Cedar avenue street ear was wrecked on Murray hill by what is supposed to have been a charge of dynamite. The injured are Father Gilday, of St. Mary's church, Moi, Ills.; Justice Murphy, W P, Wiley and wife. Fred Singer. i niotorman j The car Robert llirst, conductor, was ascending the hill as i it. passed over the explosive and was i hurled from the tracks. The floor was torn out and the windows were (shattered.. The passengers and crew were cut by glass and bruised by be ing thrown against the woodwork. The police believe the dyynamlt '.ng is an echo of''-the street car strike, which lias not jet been offi cially declared oft. : GUM, OF IS, ROY OF trt Relieved to Have Eloped From Chi cago Stockjnvds Section. Chicago, June 11.: The stockyards police are searching for Johnny Lee, 10 years old, and Alice O'Brien, two years his senior, who, It Is thought, have eloped. Johnny's parents live In West Forty-third street and the O'Brien home is only a block away. Alice did not return from school Monday and Tuesday Johnny disappeared from Jiome. Neighborhood children told the police they saw the youth ful lovers together In Sherman park yesterday afternoon. A description of the pair has beon sent to all the Irity stations and the entire police I force is now on the lookout for the elopers.
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