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VOLUME 30.
RALEIGH, N. 0., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1908.
PRICE 5 CENTO. .
JUL
REAL FIOHT COMING
WHEN INJUNCTION
PLANK IS REACHED
Carious Situation at Chicago, for Wail Street Sends High
Priced Ambassadors from financial Zone to Republi
can Convention Id Order to Assist Measure De
manded by Gompers and Organized Labor.
SENATOR CRANE SAYS ANTIS WILL LOSE DN
COMMITTEE ROLLCALL BY VOTE OF 33 TO 20
With Bookwalter as Leader, "Allies" Plan Fight U a Finish
Against Taft on Floor When Credential Committee Sub
mits Report Sealing AH Taft Delegates.
- Chicago, June 17 If anybody hail any lingering douht aliout
if)' the nomination of William H. Taft, of Ohio, for president on the
first ballot, he must have lost It this morning when the report
from tlie committee on credentials came in. a)
The committed simply took up the work of seating the Taft 9)
- delegate in contested cases aloir; the lines used by the national
committee last week and put the finishing touches on the work,
i The committee began work at 4 o'clock yesterday and at day- e)
e) .' light thfH morning the following contests had been decided: )
In favor of Taft Alabama, 22; Arkansas, 2; Georgia, 4;
Florida, 10; Kentucky, 8; Miwdssippi, 10; Miiwoqil, ; Ohio. 7.
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In favor of the "allies." Ohio (Foraker), U
In addition, the "allies" abandoned 115 of their original con- 0
tests, so that w hen Kentucky had locn reached early in the morn-
0) : ing the names of enough Taft delegates already were on the per- )
nianent roll of the convention to nominate him, according to the
O) "allies" own figures, even if the committee were to deride the re- 0
f maiiiing 40 contests against him. The expectation is that it will
0 do exactly the other thing.
Chicago, June 17. With Chart 's A. Bookwalter, of Indianapolis, as
leader, the "allies" today plan a fight to the finish against William H.
Taft on the floor of the republican convention when the credentials com
mittee submits its report tills afternoon, seating all of the contested Taft
delegates. This action was decided after an all night session.
"This is the most outrageous c induct that I have ever witnessed in
all my political experience," said Mayor Bookwalter. , "The steam roller,
which did such effective work In the national committee, worked even
smoother in the committee on credentials. The tactics Were even more
high-handed and unjust.
"It was certainly a fine example of the 'square deal' of which we
have heard so much. Justice was absolutely ignored. Contests on the
merit or virtue they had were choked to death under the wheels of this
steam-roller."
EVERYTHING MAY BE OUT OF
' (By W. G. F. Price.)
Chicago, June 17. The committee on credentials having proved a
pretty slow working piece of Taft machinery and having made the tem
porary roll as set up by the "steam-roller" permanent, the decks are now
cleared for action and it Is possible the convention will be able to finish
up its work Friday morning and without the necessity of holding any
very late night sessions.
It had been anticipated that the contestants before the credentials
committee would be numerous and long-drawn-out, but the allies soon
recognized the judgment and accuracy with which the Taft managers had
prepared the committee. With the; resignation of hopelessness, many of
the contestants were dropped and tho others were presented In a more
or less perfunctory manner. -
One tall Kentucklan, standing tt the door of the committee-room
waiting the call to go In and tell why he instead of the other man
should be given a seat In the convention, remarked:
"I don't see why I'm naming my time here. Why, those fellows al
ready have their verdict made up, even before the case is called. They'll
find out who represents Kentucky when the votes are counted next No
vember.". It may not be doubted that the unsuccessful delegates are ex
tremely incensed at what they call the high-handed manner In which the
contests are handled, and speak of retaliation at the polls. Whether the
resentment will last until November is a question which Is likely to have
no little effect oq the presidential election.
In the meantime, Frank H. Hitchcock smiles his prettiest smile and
sticks to bis original proposition that 700 will be the low mark for Taft
when the vote la counted. -
There were some bitter personalities in the credentials committee
rooms between opposing counsel and contestants, and In some Instances
they almost reached the point of violence, but no actual blows Wore struck.
With only Texas to be passed upon this morning, as the Kentucklan re
marked, and the verdict In that case made up, there was every prospect
the committee would bo ready with the report by the lime it was called
for In regular order.'
It Is not all harmony In the committee on resolutions, and there Is
more than likely to be some fireworks when that committee meets this
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The sub-committee is getting along swimmingly.
It Is a Roosevelt sub-committee, and while it Is not as ruthless in Its
work as the credentials committee, the ideas of Roosevelt and Taft are to
bt followed in the draft to be submitted to the full committee this after
noon. The allies claim a majority of the full committee and, under the
skilled guidance of Uncle Joe Cannon, Senator Foraker and others, will
make a bitter fight to mould the platform to suit their views. They may
be able to do it, but it is the best belief that substantially the document
as drafted by the aub-comm!t,tn will be presented to the convention, with
(Continued on
WAY BY FRIDAY MORNING.
Page Two.)
Prominent Figures in Convention Hull Today
imf I NATiONtfU.
Snapshot and sketches lv Artist Igoe of prominent figures in politi
cal arena in Chicago. From left to right, ill the top are t II. Tall, Mrs.
Taft iul Thomas I). Knight. The photo Immediately beneath.'. Mr. 'Taft
Is that of Myron T. Herrick, of Ohio.
Boomers Have
While Committees Ars Out,
Staters Will Be
(By ERNEST KM HOESER)
Chicago, June 17 The boomers
are to have their opportunity today
to malce a noise. Tho session Is not
likely to he of great importance, for
after proceedings have been reported
by various committees the conven
tion will be thrown open ' to the
marching clubs and shouters in gen
eral. The result Is awaited with
much speculation. Sonie think there
Is not going to be a great deal of
shouting. It is reported that the
managers of all the candidates, Taft
men in particular, don't want too
much enthusiasm because it may
carry some delegates in the wrong
direction.
There seems to be good ground for
this report. The strength of the
Taft forces should have guaranteed
plenty of cheering before and during
the session, but developments proved
otherwise.
This is probably the first national
convention In history where there was
not a cheer of some kind for the can
didates and for the favorite candi
date in particular. There always has
been some enthusiastic delegate or
spectator to leap on a chair, swing
his hat and yell ''Hurrah" for his
candidate.
The attempt nt a stampede will be
made. Of this there is no longer a
doubt. The "allies" have provided
the keg of powder. They have not
yet produced the match, nor have
they let anyone know they are united
la this one task.
. The Taft forces have stopped talk
ing. They are not so free with pre
dictions, and they seem to feel, oa
the eve of the battle, that their
; ;k THECONMION
Opportunity
Bands, Marching Clubs and
Free to Enthuse.
strength needs husbanding.
The convention is "anxiously await
ing the action on Congresman Jim
Burke's resolution for "'reapportion
ment In the south. Jim is trying 'to
do what Matthew Stanley Quay fulled
to do.
He has the grit, all right, but it
looks dubious for his resolution. It
would be dubious for Taft if it were
to go through. There are a number
of obscure politicians who are musing
over the opportunity of becoming
famous by this convention. The first
man who nominates Roosevelt will
be talked about. He will have a
place in history. That's quite a temp
tation.: Suppose Roosevelt's name Is
brought before the convention for
this selfish purpose. No one in Chi
cago today knows what will happen.
No one knows what those foxy peoplo
in the "allies" ramp have been ar
ranging. A. snowball, if rolled and rolled,
will become so large that'- it will
break in pieces. A great fly-wheel
can revolve faster and faster, until it
I breaks In thousands of fragments. A
ponderous movement, with speed at
tained, Is uncertain and hard to
guide. That's why this Taft cam
pnlgn needs firm guidance. !
Cnoker's Horse is Beaten.
(By Cable to The Times.)
London, June 17. Richard Croker's
Rhodora, the favorite, was beaten to
day In the race for the Ascot Dlen
nlal stake, White Eagle at 7 to 1 tak
ing the went.
SOCIAL SIDE OF
THE
Mrs. Nick Stands First, But Up
m Buffet luncheon's a
Very Close Second.
(Ily Marion II cat li Freeman.)
('incai!0, June 17. Two features
of -the great . republican convention
are rivals in interest, among the
temlnme. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
perhaps lias ju.st a shade best ol it.
all around, But a close second is
the Upliam buffet luncheon. "I'll
meet you in" the Upham box after ad
journment," is the most popular form
of parting" among the women attend
ing the convention. Wherever guests
of women who enter the great hall
together are obliged by the exigen
cies of the seating scheme to sepa
rate (for the convention could not
take all friendships into considera
tion in arranging this detail) they
fall back upon the "Upham box" and
the "Upham luncheon as the most
promising rendezvous, where it will
lie most pleasant to "meet up."
Most of the "quality" assembled
there after the meeting yesterday,
and Hi' crowd promises to be larger
today, the men as well as the wo-iiicii-
for the plan was conceived in
their behalf and the official host later
deckled to broaden its scope and
have it include the views of his
friends and Miss Upham's friends,
All of which has made It lovely for
the politicians having their women
folks along, and for the women folks
in particular.
And such a luncheon as one gets!;
But for the smalliiess of the quart
ers one could fancy that there was a
fully equipped cuisine in operation:
It is, indeed, a privilege to be per
mitted to partake of hot coffee of
excellent quality and of other sub
stantial faro, including croquettes,
also hot, and done to a turn, right
on the scene of activities, and all so
quiet and cozy and apparently re
moved from the convention and poli
tics! "Such an idea was never conceived
at a convention before," say those to
whom conventions, and the regula
tion commercial convention sand
wiches are no novelty.
A prominent figure In these quar
ters was Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew.
She was gowned In a dark blue tail
ored suit. Mrs. Scott, wife of the
senator ' from West .Virginia, was
also there, wearing a grav dresden
silk with tin' pink' rosebuds. , Mrs.
D. W. MuKane was charmingly
gowned In Jight tan rajah silk and
wore her bei Mtlful corsals. Sh3 was
with Mrs. Mlvaine and Miss Kent,
of Chicago.: Urs, Edward Tnayer
and Mrs. Mulvane was also along.
Mrs. Stone, wife of the sergeat-at-arms,
brought In her party of flv,
including ' Mrs. C. W. Mann, Mr
(Continued on Page Seven.).
COMPLICATIONS IPT
PATH OF CANDIDATE
Col. Graves Sees Danger and Obstructions Looming Up All
Along the. Line for Taft Between Convention anl
Election, for All Course's Strewn With Roses Now.
SQUABBLE OVER INJUNCTION PLANK WILL
BRING BUSINESS INTERESTS TO FIGHT Mf.I
And tadiny Rsce Wrangle Won't Be Forgotten by. Ene
mies of Administration's Choice for President Inds
icndcnt Party Must Be Reckoned With, He Declares.
(By JOHX T KM PMC GRAVES)
Chicago, June 17 There was never a candidate whose pathway of :
roses .scums so ripped with political thorns as that of William Howard
Talt. 'I here is nothing to halt him on his royal road to the nomination.
The. ' allies" are gadflies that sting, but do not stop. There is only
one tongue in all the world that can avail now to put a quietus upoa
the full-grown boom of Taft, and that tongue If. proclaiming through tho
lips of 500 henchmen the wedding bans of William, the legatee to tho
republican nomination. It is after the running, when the shouting and '
the tumult dies, that the flowers will fade away and the thorns will lino
the rougher road that leads on to November.
For the thorns in the way of Mr. Tqft are already evident, a goodly .
cropland the convention is planting new ones every hour. If the Injuno-
lion plank is inserted under the white house demand, the "allies" declare v
it .will array every business man in the country against the republican
party. So, upon one or the other of these two horns Of deadly dilemma.
Candidate Taft must go forth to battle for the presidency.
The negro vote of Chicago, which is numerous and radical, is lead-
ing so impassioned a campaign against Taft that the stalwart Chicago'';
Tribune declares in wrath that the leaders should be put in padded cells.
And the Chicago negroes are simply leading the protest of hundred of .'
uf.lier -negroeu, soitiw delegbles aud some visitor, throughout the country, '
w ho are here and participating in the protest with threats for revolt and '
an independent, party, for which they claim nearly a million votes.
hen the platform committeemen come to smooth out the record of
their nominee on the negro question, they will be again between the devil
of race prejudice and the deep sea of the south, and will be more than
likely to straddle a compromise which will not be acceptable to either. It
is difficult to see how Taft, can handle this issue to his political project.
The reduction of southern representation in the next convention has
thrown the southern delegates into fury and dismay. ' The negro is reek
ing with danger tor Candidate Taft.
The visit to the czar and the subsequent eulogy of that autocrat of
Kishineff is so intangible an incident that it Is as hard to explain away In
person as it Is to smooth away in a platform. But there It Is, and it men
aces the republican November. -
If Taft thinks he has heard the last of the Grant memorial incident,
he has only to refer to the campaign of 1884.
And as loyally as the followers of the republican party have been '
accustomed to heal up their breaches and to fall In behind the leader, the
white house dictation is not likely to be forgotten or forgiven in that
"perfect way that leads to perfect peace." Here, In brief, is the conven
tion's surpassing difficulties in speeding its nominee on the way to suc
cess.'; ''.'.'-,'"'.''
And these are the results which must lie behind the vigorous minor
ity in its opposition to Taft. And these are the results which seem to
indicate that the republican party In this campaign, where Its success is
already doubtful, is about to nominate not the strongest, but the weakest
candidate in its ranks.
The balancing consideration is the usually evident fact that the dem
ocrats will doubtless meet them halfway in their folly. The blundering
tread of the republican elephant, will be timed with the silly footsteps of
of the democratic donkey. Each party will present its weakest candidate
the republicans a nominee forced upon them by a dominant executive,
and the democrats a nominee forced upon them by himself.
The hustings will reek with protests and personalities, and all things
will work together for the good of the Independent party which loves the
people and purifies the ballot. .; :
Meanwhile, let it be mentioned as the astonishing feature of the '
first day's session of this one-man convention that five eulogistic mentions
of Theodore Roosevelt by Senator Burrows and a flaming display of Taft'i
picture in the hall did not go deeper than the throats of the straggling
few who cheered at all. Possibly it was because the multitude was
waiting for the psychological moment nearer to the nomination and pos
sibly it was not.
Governor Will Recommend
State Legalijed Primary
Coventor Glenn will recommend to
the legislature which meets next Jan
uary a legalized primary and will
urge this body to provide for a prim
ary. He will also recommend that
every candidate, manager or other
person caught using money to buy
votes be made to swear where the
money came from 'and for what pur
pose it was paid out. .
"1 am thoroughly satisfied," said
Governor Glenn this afternoon, "that
the present primary plan Is a fail
ure, und that a legalized primary is
what we eed. I shall recommend
this to the legislature. The state
will bear the expense."
Governor Glenn said he had con
versed with leading citizens in vari
ous parts of the state and that all
agreed with him that the present plan
,1s a failure. After awhile, he said,
! a poor man would not be able to run
; for office, as he could not possibly
! raise the money. The governor did '
' not say It, but in Wake county gome
of the candidates were assessed as
mucn as $25 each and possibly tie
candidates for governor were made
to contribute more.
In line with the primary plan that
Governor Glenn will recommend wilt
be a campaign publicity law. In the
event that a candidate or any of his
men Is caught paying over money On
election days, he will h nd in "
swear where he got the money and for
wnat purpose he was disposing ot it
The governor believes that these
renommnnHntlnfia tt m,t l-n 1.
' be of great benefit to the state.
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