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COLUMBUS,.!. C, THURSDAY MAY 21 , 1908.
NO. 3,
When, with "tremendous enthusi
asm." "tumultuous applause," and
resounding cheers," some American
citizen is nominated for the Presi
dency of the United States at Chicago,
and when, later, some other American
citizen, with ditto enthusiasm, ditto
applause and ditto cheers, is nom
inated for the same office at Denver,
There is usually little trouble over
the election of a temporary chairman.
The chairman then appoints a com
mittee to escort the temporary chair
man to the platform; the band plays,
the delegation from Mr. So-and-so's
State makes a lot of noise, and all is
merry. ;
It is incumbent on the temporary
COLISEUM AT CHICAGO WHERE THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
CONVENTION WILL BE HELD.
the male population of the United
States, or the great majority of it, at
any rate, will want to know just how
it was done, why it was done, and
'who Gone it."
At a National Convention each
State has its own headquarters, where
the delegates gather. They do a lot
of "conferring" with each other and
chairman to make a speech. He in
variably takes advantage of the op
portunity. He "sounds a keynote."
After the speech various resolu
tions are offered. Usually these
have been arranged for in advance,
and the temporary chairman works
according to a printed schedule,
calling on John Doe and Richard Roe
at the right time, so that there may
tion, adopted the platform. Tta.0
Committee on Contested Seats and
that on Permanent Organization,
however, are ready and they report.
The contests iecided, no matter
how, the permanent roll of the con
vention is made up and called. Then
the Committee on Permanent Organ
ization reports, and the permanent
chairman is named, cheered and es
corted to the platform. The pro
cedure is identical with the election
of the temporary chairman. The per
manent chairman, too, must make a
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Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota.
speech. It, too, is of the "keynote"
variety.
The Committee on Platform re
ports after the permanent chairman
has made his speech. When the mat
ter of the platform is disposed of,
either by the committee reporting or
by the announcement that it is not
ready to report, the permanent chair
man announces another recess; may-
PROMINBNT PEOPLE.
been
William J. Bryan.
with delegates from other States.
They hold meetings and elect chair
men and honorary vice-presidents.
The honorary vice-president has a
seat on the platform and an extra
ticket, but little else.
Prior to the calling of the conven
tion to order the National Committee
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IN THE PRESIDENTIAL PANTRY.
( The Favorite Sons (in chorus)-
Somebody's taken a bite out of my
pie."'
-Fr
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the Journal (Minneapolis.)
be no hitch. Committees are appoint
ed; one on resolutions, which will
have the drafting of the platform;
one on credentials or contested seats;
one on permanent organization.
These are the important ones. When
they are. all chosen, and there has
been a lot of hand-clapping and cheer
ing, as well-known men are appointed
to this or that committee, the tem
porary chairman announces an ad
journment, usually until the next day.
J! virtally in command of the situa
tion. With it lies the arranging of
tne details, the "framing up" of the
procedure of the first session, the se-
ection of the temporary chairman,
and, in a great many cases, though
not always, the program making of
ne whole convention, temporary and
Permanent organizations, nominating,
ai'd platform building.
It is the chairman of the National
ommittee who calls the convention
to order, usually about noon upon the
aay set. This year the Republican
national Convention will be called to
'der by Harry C. New on June 16,
ai'd the Democratic Convention will
je called to order by Thomas Taggart
n July 7.
The convention called to order, the
Chairman requests the secretary to
r';fi the call for the convention,
V ; if h is done. Then the roll call is
gone through, and this takes a lot of
Uil: The next step is the announce
ment by the chairman that the com
Jnittee offers to the convention as Its
temporary chairman the name of So-and-so.
There "are loud and pro
longed cheers, and by a viva voce vote
Mr. So-and-so is unanimously elected.
-A Leap Year Dilemma.
From the Washington Star.
During the recess a lot of real work
is done. Three or four men, some
times more, but never many, get to
gether in a back room of a hotel and
talk and smoke cigars. They are the
leaders.
Part Played by Committees.
At the second session of the con
vention the committees report. They
have held sessions in the meanwhile
and have decided the contests, ar
ranged for the permanent organiza-
Vice-President Fairbanks.
be until the next day, possibly till
later in the same day.
Now back to the little room go the
four or more bosses who do the heavy
work; back to the hotel lobbies, the
theatres, the cafes, the sight-seeing
tours go the other delegates. Com
promises are effected, promises are
made. Eventually, in the back room
Gov. Folk.
Judge Geo. Gray.
and not in the convention ball, what
is to be done is finally determined as
a rule.
Again the convention meets. If
the platform has not been adopted it
is now. Then nominations are in or-
I der.
AUDITORIUM AT DENVER WHERE THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL.
CONVENTION WILL BE HELD.
The Set Programme of the Last Day
Swept Aside and the President,
With Characteristic Progressive
ness, Lets it be Known That Action
is What is Needed and There Will
he no Halting for Precedent or Bed
Tape.
Washington, Special The first
conference of the Governors of the
States of the American Union ended
Friday. The final accomplishment
of the conferencec, which has been in
progress at the 'White House for
three days cannot be set forth with
mathematical precision. That its im
mediate results are more than ample
is the expression of President Roose
velt and of the Governor who par
ticipated. The printed record of the confer
ence, which will later be available to
every American home, will be a com
pilation of facts, startling in their
meaning, convincing in their univer
sal conclusion that the States must
act, and that the States and the na
tion mnst co-operate that to the end
the whole people of the nation may
accure the lasting benefit of its nat
ural resources. 1
"Declaration of Co-operation."
Besides the compilation of facts
Dy tue experts and the ireely ex
pressed opinion of the Governors, the
conference leaves? as its permanent
record a thousand word "declaration
of co-operation."
Perhaps greater in importance than
all else was the determination of the
Governors of the States to perfect a
permanent organization whereby a
heretofore unknown intimacy may be
developed among the Executives of
the forty-six soverign States, made
strong by a common purpose and
made potent by a pro-announcements
which may not lightly be disregarded.
Of the last day the story is one
of many features. The set pro
gramme was swept aside. The Pres
ident presided hroughout. The pre
pared papers were not presented, but
they will be printed in the permanent
record. Their places were taken first
Dv the "declaration" which was
adopted after discussion which
brought to light no serious objection
to its affirmations.
.President Koosevelt nimselr an
swering the one criticism that or
Governor Folk, of Missouri to the
declaration, aroused the conference
to its warmest demonstration of ap
proval . tie swept aside tne 'aca
demic question" of where the line of
authority should be drawn between
theStates and the nation. He want
ed action, and what he said received
endorsement at each period. It was
this :
Roosevelt for Action,
" Just a woyd on what has been
called the twilight land between the
powers of the Federal and state gov
ernments. Mv ; primary aim in the
legislation that I have advocated f oi
the regulation of the great corpora
tions has been to provide some effec
tive popular sovereign for each cor
poratiori. I do not wish to keep this
twilight land one of large and vague
boundaries, by judicial decision that
in a given case the State cannot act,
and then a few years later by other
decisions that in practically similar
cases the nation cannot act either
I am trying to find out where one or
the other can act, so there shall al
ways be some sovereign power that
on behalf of the people can hold
every big corporation, every big in
dividual, to an accountabiliy so that
its or his acts shall be beneficia
to the people as a whole. In matters
that relate only to the people within
the State of course the State is to
be sovereign and it should have the
power to act. If the matter is such
that the State itself cannot act the?
I wish on behalf of all the States
that he national government should
act.
The declaration, upon which the
President's remarks were predicated
was presented to the conference by
Governor Blanchard, of Louisiana, at
the ODeninfir of the session. The de
claration begins:
"We, the Governors of the States
and Territories of the United States
of America, in conference assembled
do hereby declare the conviction tha
the great prosperity of our country
rests upon the abundant resources o
the land chosen by our forefathers
for their homes and where they lai
the foundation of this great nation.'
The declaration states that the nat
oral resources of the country are the
common heritage of all the people,
and that the duty of the government
is to censure the same for future gen
erations. Reclamation work is advised and
the streams and watercourses should
be protected and improved. Forestry
ought to be encouraged by the States
and the general government. The
final work of the conference was to
make it a permanency.
to
Fernando E. Guachalle has
elected President of Bolivia.
President Roosevelt returned
Washington from Pine Knot, Va.
J. Ogden Armour Is preparing to
retire as head of the great Armour
packing house.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, says
he will retire to private life after
March 4, 1909.
Andrew Carnegie has interested
himself to a certain extent in the
new language, Esperanto.
The engagement of Joseph Letter;
of Chicago, and Miss Juliette Will
iams was announced at Washington,
D. C.
Dr. "D. K. Pearsons, the college
philanthropist, celebrated his eighty
eighth birthday recently at Pomona
College.
Sir Alexander Condie Stephen, K.
C. M. G., who was a groom in waiting
to the King died in London. He was
born in 1850.
Lincoln Steffins has ceased his ac
tive connection with the American
Magazine and will devote himself to
sociological studies.
Tributes to the memory of Repre
sentative Adolph Meyer, of Louisiana,
were paid in the House of Represen
tatives at Washington. D. C.
Augustus Thomas, himself promi
nently mentioned for the place, de
clared Daniel Frohman was the man
be&t fitted in America for director of
the New Theatre.
A signal honor is to be conferred
upon Frederick M. Crunden, who has
served St. Louis as librarian for thirty-one
years. The new branch library
is to bear his name.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, de
clares that if the combined armies of
the world were to attack the United
States chey would never get an op
portunity "to drink from the Ohio
River."
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
7
"Raron S. Sakatani. ex-Minister of
Finance of Japan, arrived in New
York City,
Congressional conferees agreed on
a fiat increase of $500 in thevpay of
navy officers.
Maine timbermen declared publish
ers' statements as to the low cost of
pulp wood are all wrong.
At Madrid the Infant Prince of the
Asturias was made a private in
Spanish regiment on his first birth
day. Cardinal Logue preached in St.
Patrick's Cathedral, New York, from
the text, "God is Wonderful in His
Saints."
The Navy Department prepared a
new skeleton mast to be tested by
shells when the monitor Florida is
fired upon.
The Rev. Dr. Aked, of New York
City, in preaching n the "Decay of
Christianity," asserted all faiths were
losing believers.
A meaal with the President's head
on one side will be presented to Isth
mian Canal employes having rendered
two years' service.
Over 200 prisoners have died from
typhoid at Kieff, Russia, and practi
cally all the inmates of the jail have
contracted the disease.
Representative Townsend an
nounced in Washington, D. C, that
the proposed anti-injunction bill will
be dropped for the present.
The foundation stone of a new city,
to supplant Cettin.Te as capital of
Montenegro, was laid on the Adriatic
Sea by the Prince of Montenegro.
The Temps expresses French re
sentment over President Castro's eff
rmlsicn of Frenchmen, and urgO
cnat stern measures be taken againtft
Venezuela
A Second Gillette Case.
Kanab, Utah, Special Alvin Heat-
on, aged 18, confessed to the murder
of Mary Stevens in the canyen back
or (Jrdervilie under circumstances re
sembling Gillette's murder of Grace
Brown. Heaton declared that the
girl pleaded with him to marry her.
Driven to desperation he asked hei
to meet, him m tlje canyon, and shot
Ijer While she begged him to wed her
The body was fo'und two days latei
where it was hidden under a pile oi
rocks.
Leo's Secretary of State.
Cardinal Rampolla cherishes the
peace and seclusion which he so well
deserves. Almost every afternoon
about two hours before dusk, he drives
from his isolated house under the
shadow of St. Peter's, and returns
shortly before the bells ring out the
Angelus. Two or three times a week
he attends the Congregations which
he is a member. With those excep
tions he never leaves his house, and
within it nearly all his time is spent
is his private library, which also
serves him for a reception room. He
never leaves Rome even for a day,
and not even in tho fiercest heats of
summer. He has lately published a
very erudite work on the life and
times of St. Melania the Elder and
ho. is now engaged in another histor
cal work which may see the light
early next year. Rome Letter to Lon
don Tablet
Torpedo Flotilla at Savannah.
Savannah, Ga., Special. The tor
pedo boat flotila, commanded by
Lieutenant W. G. Mitchell and com
prising the Porter, flagship, De Long. '
Thornton, Blakeley and Tingey.
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from Brunswick and tied up at the
docks. At sunrise the vessels will
sail, taking the inside route foi
Charleston. They are bound foi
Northern waters.
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