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Only Afternoon Paper in the State of North Carolina With Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatches; LAST EDITION i ALL THE MABXET3 THE RALEIGH EVE TIME VOLUME 30. RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1908. PRICE 5 CENTS. NINO ADMINISTRATION'S CANDIDATE WILL BE NAMED BY TONIGHT Placed in Nomlaatton This Afternoon by Congressman Bur ton, of Cleveland, Who Extols Secretary's Record as Philippine Governor and in Cabinet and Says He's Only Man to Carry Out Roosevelt Policies in Ac cordance With Spirit of Their Originator. Sec,Taft,WhomilPromMmmed Today STEAM ROLLER PUTS THROUGH MAJORITY REPORT OF PLATFORM COMMITTEE IN HURRY Cooper, of Wisconsin, Only Delegate Who Signed the Mi nority Report Opposing Ami-injunction Plank and Call ing For Campaign Fund Publicity and Physical Valu ation of RailroadsWarm Debate on Planks. PROGRAM FOR TODAY. ft a. m. Coliseum doom opened. . Baud oourei. - ' v.- -; - I ':;- ' v: "... 10 a. ui. Call to order by Chairman Lodge. , Invocation by Itabbl Tobias Schanfarber. . . Report of committee on resolutions, V Debate. : : r' : Presidential nominating speeches and seconds: -.'-. Taft Theodore E. Burton, Ohio; Geo. A. Knight, California. Fairbanks J. Frank Hnnlcy, Indiana; Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana.: ' Cannon Henry a Bnutoll, JlUhlRan. Fopaker c. It. McCoy, Ohio! W. O. Kmery, Ohio. 4) Lafoll.tte H. K. Cochems, W'swn'n. Hughes Stewart L. Woodford. Xw Vork. Knox R. 8. Murphy, Pennsylvania. Balloting. Announcement of result. f) : Vice-presidential nominations and seconds (perhaps not until Friday). ' (By W. G. F. PRICK) Convention Hall, Chicago, June 18 Before the convention day, which began at 10 o'clock this morning, comes to an end, William H. Taft will have been nominated for the presidency of the United States, and the platform on which his candidacy will stand will have been completed, provided things go as they are expected to go. The delegates are ready for business today, and the managers of the various candidates can see nothing further to be gained by waiting. The weather may have some effect In hurrying things along. Chicago has been good to the convention In the matter of weather heretofore. It has been delightfully cool, with a refreshing lake breeze blowing nearly all the time. As the Coliseum filled up this morning, however, the weather was sizzling, the hot sun shot down Its rays through a thick, muggy haze which absolutely prevented all possibility of keeping cool. If the second day of the convention was entitled to be called ladles' day the third was certainly shirt-sleeves day. And this was fitting, for it was to be preeminently a day of work. The Taft managers were quick to seize the opportunity, and thous ands of fans Were distributed throughout the big auditorium, each fan bearing the likeness of the secretary of war, with the Taft slogan "Tried and found true." . -. The band amused the crowd during the wait. It is estimated the band lias played "Suwanee River" not less than 5 times since the convention opened. There is a suspicion that it Is done to make the southern dele gates homesick and in a hurry to get home. "Dixie" Is a close second with the band, while "Columbia" Is a frequent number. "America Is reserved for more or less state occasions. It is always a signal to rise. This morning many of the crowd joined with the band when it played the national anthem, preliminary to Chairman Lodge calling the convention to order, which he did at 10:80, after a brief prayer, which, as usual, was listened to standing. There was a tedious wait until the platform committee could be heard from the committee on resolutions. Senator Hopkins made the report. His voice could not be heard 20 feet away, thougb the convention was very quiet, until cries of "Louder,"; "Louder," caused some confusion. There was Improvement then, but hardly 25 per cent, heard not more than one word out of four. . The first applause came with tne mention of the name of Roosevelt. The reading was slow and dry. Senator Hopkin's voice Is not of Colis eum capacity. He tried hard to apeak loud enough, but his voice was very indistinct, Most of the delegates gave up all effort to follow the read ing. The convention teemed to be about atf enthusiastic over Its platform as it was over its candidate. -.. The first burst of applause for any part of the platform was the plank declaring for the Integrity of the courts. There were cries of "No, No," .when the anti-injunction feature was read. The whole antf-lnjunctlon plank was cheered. , ; " ' It Is doubtful If In the whole history of American politics a platform dealing with vital policies which have threatened to split up party align ments, and which still have great elements of danger to party unity, was ever enunciated in just such a way and received by the. men who are to pass upon It, nominally at least, with such absolute apparent Indiffer ence. The best hit made by Senator Hopkins was when he concluded. The majority report on the platform was carried by a viva voce vote and made unanimous, :. (Continued on Page Two.) Srwaiv. 4A tjC&fL I I m v1: w&y&fcwKii&ffl I t I "PUBLIC OFFICIAL NOT OWN MASTER" This Utterance of Roosevelt, Drafted from Speeches He Has Made, Taken Up as Slogan of Men Who Plan to Stam pede Convention and Force President tu Run Again Picture shows Secretary of War Wilhuni If. 'I alt, li'inlinii iiniilidati' for the iviulln'iin presidential noinl- inilion, mid his (hmuhli'i' llcll'll. Three Negroes Succumb to (liy KRNKST KM ROESER) ( liK iino, June iv :"A; piiblle oiHcial is but the servant of the people. He in nor In.- own uinstci'.' . 'I his utterance ol President Roosevelt, nulled from the record of his speeches,, is being used to offset his declaration that he would not again be a c;iii(li(l;i!i( for preKidont. It is )osiiible that the naming of the candidate will be reached at today s .session, . this depending, of course, on the nature of the fight if a fi2. it there be on. plat form planks. . When nominations are in order there will be another attempt at a stampede. Tne arrangements to bring about this result are all completed; only the application ot the match to the powder keg is needed to cause the explosion.' J' may be that someone has poured sufficient water into the l;eg to make the powder ineffective, but the mine has been set, and it will be fired. 'I he distribution of Roosevelt literature, Roosevelt flags, Uoosevelt buttons, ami Teddy Hears continued this morning, and their ap pearance developed keen expectancy in all who are In attendance at today's rcssion. . From one ol the leading figures in the filibuster forces, It was learned that Roosevelt will be named for nomination, whether he wants to bo or not. 1 he; man who nominates him will challenge him on the strength of thy utterance quoted, "A public official is not his own master." Kery detail of the plan for the nomination has been completed. A megaphone w ill be used by the delegate who launches the attempt at a stampede, so that the galleries can instantaneously take up their share of the burden and create a pandemonium, in which lies the hope of the allies and ihe managers of the filibuster. . . -. The whips of the various delegations have been active all the morn ing, adding warning to the Instructions of last night that the delegates hold their, seals, maintain silence and do all" possible to discourage all attempts to stampede. Most likely the delegates will be slower to feel the Roosevelt lever than they were yesterday, or, feeling It, they will strive more steadlastlv to resist its delirium. ' . F OhMER Fill OF LONGlf ORIH'S Takes Poison by Mistake and Lives Only Few Minutes After Fatal Draught. Three negroes are dead and ten are probably critically 111 as the re sult of Inhaling sulphuric acid gas in the tower of the Carnleigh Phosphate Works yesterday. The' men', were '.work ing In shifts of two in the large tower and Inhaled the deadly gas, becoming 111 shortly afterward. The dead are: Frank Spikes, Lee Stephenson and Dan Jones. Those ill are: Phil (Juess, T.owis Cotton, Handy Burt, Mack Williams, Galloway Tucker, Arthur Hamlet, Her bert Thomas, Arthur Upchurch, .Sher man Jones and Simon Clifton. It is: not known, the authorities at the works stated today, how the escape of gas in such quantities as to produce death occurred. The building in .which the tower Is located hnd been shut down for a week and had only been running recently. Always some of the gas escapes and for this reason ex treme caution must be exercised in en tering the place, The men enter two at a time and are relieved by others almost Instantly. Yesterday, however, the escape of gas must have been unusually great, for as many as thirteon or fourteen men Buffered from It. Three have died Stephenson lust evening, F)aii Jones last night and Spikes today. Phil Guess Is critically 111 and may die before night. It Is not known yet whether any of the others will succumb. All of the negroes either live on south Fayettevllle or south West streets and the majority of them are married and have families. , A reporter of The Evening Times, after going tq the phosphate works to get an accurate account of the nffnir, called at' the homes of Phil Guess and Lewis Cotton. The men were lying In their beds, conscious, but unable to talk. The deadly poison, breathed into their lungs, left them stupefied. Tho- authorities at the phosphate works state that this is the first time In the history or the works that such a thing has occurred. Mr. C. V. Albright, secretary and (Continued on Page Two.) tttUtHMiHSItlHlOHIKMI .':...-. TE.XT OF INMl'XCTION PLANK AS KECOMMKXDFh IJY SI' It-' COMMITTEE, -'AFTER ALL XUJHT HEARING. Chicago. June lS,FolJowlng is the text of the Injunction plank -adopted by the sub-committee of the resolutions committee to take place of the plank set out in the administration platform. "Court Procedure The republican party will uphold at all times the authority and integrity of the courts, state and federal, and will ever insist that their powers to enforce their process and to protect life, liberty and properly shall be preserved invio late. We believe, however, the rules of procedure hi the federal courts with respect to issuance of writ.s of injunction should be more accurately defined by stat'iin, and that no injunction or temporary restraining order should' be issued wti bout, notice, ex cept irreparable injury would result from delay, ill w hich ease a speedy hen ring 'thereafter should be granted," This plunk, was virtually' adopted by the full committee by a vote of So to lti at 2:10 this morning. This was a test on a mo tion made by Mr, .McCarthy, of Xcw Jersey, to reject the entire in junction plank, the compromise winning by the vote indicated, which is almost n complete reversal of tho sentiment of the com mittee yesterday morning. The states that voted in the negative were California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Michi gan, Montana, Nevada, New .'-Hampshire, North Dakota, New Jer sey, Oregon, Utah, West Virginia and District of Columbia. Louisiana did not vote, not having a representative on the committee. This compromise', while by no means satisfactory to either side, will probably put an e(l to a good deal of the oppo sition which has been stirred up within the last two or three days, and, on the whole, it is considered by 'the leaders of the con vention something in the nature of a happy thought. The four members of the sub-committee, Senators Crane and Clark and Representatives Dalz 'll and Payne, made strong argu ments against the adoption of any anti-injunction plank whatso ever, They declared that the effect or such a declaration by the republican national convention would be to give the Impression that the courts were insecure and not. to be trusted. Telegrams were read showing thut manufacturers and mer chants oil over the country were bitterly opposed to the plank, In the first place because they co.usideted it an unnecessary sur render to the extravagant demands of the labor element, and, sec ondly and more especially, because they feel that if the right of Issuing an injunction were denied to a federal court, except upon notice, the result would be to encourage violence and boycott. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, June 18 Miss Marian Frances Bloomer, formerly a fiance I of Congressman Nicholas Longworth, I president -Roosevelt's son-in-law, is ueau oy cvanniue poisoning. Accord ing to the police and the coroner, the acid was swallowed as a mistake for water. She drank the fatal draught in the Madison Square apartments, .No. 40 East 26th street. Her brother, J. Ralph Bloomer, a broker, and a mn id were with her at the time. Beautifully gowned and wearing her jewels, she entered the bath room after having choked as she 1 munched a cracker. On .'the, wash stand were two glasses. One con tained water, the other cyannide of potasium. Aii instant later Mr. Bloomer heard his sister cry, "Oh, Ralph, I've swallowed poison. I took the wrong glass! Run, quick, and get. a doctor," ' Bloomer rushed into the room and (Continued on Page Five.) PLAIN WORDS OF GOVERNOR GUILD "Are You Supporting fie it are You Making a Foal of Me?" He Asks. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, June 18 It was reported last night that Gov. Curtis Guild", of Massachusetts, had become offended at the seeming apathy of the dele gates from his state regarding his candidacy for the vice-presidency. At the same time, it was said he had wired the leaders of the delegation asking for an explanation. The governor, in Boston, admitted he had sent something like the fol lowing message sizzling over the wire: -, "Are you supporting me or are you making a fool of me?" Gov. Guild would not state that those were his exact words, but he said they "represented the general drift of his conversation." Senator Lodge declared he had re ceived no such message. Senator Crane had retired and could not be seen. "Of course I have heard from Got. (Continued on Second Page.) Great Defeat of Southern Reapportionment Effort ; (Ry'JOHX TK.MPLK CRAVKS) Chicago, June 18 The overwhelm ing defeat of the movement for the Reapportionment of the south Is an other proof of the masterful and all prevailing power of the convention from whom came the message that it be destroyed. The first consideration that would satisfy the south Is the idea that the utter collapse of the movement In convention would seem to make It likely that there would be no effort on the part of the republi cans to reduce representation In cong ress aad Its use for campaign pur poses has been destroyed, ' The menacing feature of the Inci dent was the fact that such states as New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, In diana and Wisconsin should have voted unanimously In favor of the minority report, which was defeated largely by the solid south, the small states In the northwest and the terri tories, reinforced by Ohio, Of course, the only motive which could be Imagined for the president to Influence the Taft forces to curry favor with the southern delegations Is the final vote on the administra tion nominee, because not one south ern state will be likely to furnish him any electoral votes in the November election. It is a sop to Cerebus, but whether Cerebus will be satisfied can only be seen by the results in November. The movement seems to hare grown out ot some, petty Impatience with the majority because of aa In. effective southern vote, and the op portunity is offered to obedient office holders to line up states always in favor of the administration la na tional affairs.
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