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Three Killed In Church,
CONVENTION
EFFORT TO
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Taft Forces Win
Second Test Vote,
FIGHT OVER CONTESTS
Credentials Committee Gets
Delegate Disputes.
HADLEY WILDLY CHEERED
Great Demonstration Sweeps
«Convention For T. R. Man.
Chairman Root called the third days
session of the Republican national
convention to o n Chicago. The
first business is port of the cre
dentials committe ontested seats
The Taft forces the initial vic
tory in the Repub national con
vention at Chicago by electing Senato:
Elihu Root, of New York, temporary
chairman over Francis G. McGovern
of Wisconsin, after a tumultuous ses
gion, in which the Roosevelt forces
lost every point they attempted tc
make, preceding the first test vote ol
strength.
The vote stood Root 558, McGovern
502, with thriteen votes scattering, a
few absentees and two delegates—
Root and McGovern—not voting.
Prior to the election of Senator
Root, Governor Hadley, of Missouri.
the Roosevelt floor leader, attempted
to have a substitute roll of Roosevelt
delegates seated in the place of the
contested Taft delegates, but Chair
man Rosewater ruled the motion out
of order, and after a short argument
the election of Senator Root was car
ried.
The vote, called by individual dele
gates, bore out the prediction of the
Taft men, who declared that Senator
Root would win, and also showed that
there had been few if any desertions
from the Taft ranks. The LaFollette
men divided their vote, thirteen going
to McGovern, their howe governor,
and the others were cast for Walter
L. Houser, manager of the LaFollette
campaign; Frank Lauder, of North Da-
Jot and Senator Gronna, of North
ota. “3 is
During the@fkuments on the motion
of Governor Hadley there were tu.
multuous scenes, the Taft delegates
loudly cheering at each mention of a
point for their side, while the Roose
velt forces were equally noisy when
the argument was their advantage
At one point in the argument Senator
Bradley, of Kentucky, answered an in-
terrogator with the word “liar,” re
peated three times.
Francis J. Heney, of California, a
staunch Roosevelt supporter, also was
on his feet frequently, attacking the
seating of the contested Taft dele
gates, and the action of the national
convention, and was cheered and
jeered intermittently.
Governor Johnson, of California, an-
other Roosevelt leader, announced
that he would cast the solid vote of
the California delegation for Roose.
velt, but his protests were unavailing.
Chairman Rosewater rapped for or-
der several times during the argu.
ments, and at one time threatened to
have all the noisemakers ejected from
the hall if quiet were not restored,
and in this he was successful, for the
delegates were less vociferous in their
cheers and yells thereafter.
Following his election, Temporary
Chairman Root was escorted to the
platform and in an address of welcome
thanked the delegates and predicted a
Republican victory at the fall elec.
tion. During his address Chairman
Root was interrupted with jeers, start
ed and led by the Pennsylvania delega-
tion, who were joined later by other
Roosevelt adherents.
Then followed the second motion of
Governor Hadley to have the substi
tute roll call for the Roosevelt dele-
gates to take the place of the contest.
ed Taft delegates.
Policemen at every corner, at every
door and in every aisle were the dis-
tinguishing feature of the scene at the
Coliseum in the early hours before
the doors were opened to the ticket
holders. :
The nervous tension due to genera}
expectation of tumultuous scenes
“from the drop of the hat” at the
opening of the convention was appar-
ent on all sides. police were as
nervous as anybody else. It was diffi
cult even for persons with proper tick-
ets, including newspaper men, to get
into the hall.
Assistant sergeants-at-arms, door.
kepers, ushers and other subordinate
officials were so keenly alive to the
possibfities that their hands led
DEFEATS
PURGE ROLL
be “shown” a ticket, the right kind of
a ticket, at the right door. There
were Chicago politicians who had not
been able :o get tickets, but whe
thought they kad a “pull.” No sort oi
pull—no sort of local pull, at any rate
was of any use.
It hardly seemed possible that the
ball, huge as it looked, could hol¢
nearly 14,000 persons. Yet that is onl)
a few more than the total—other pub
lished figures to the contrary notwith
standing—that the Coliseum will hold
as arranged for this convention. Seats |
platform, press benches, aisles, run
ways, etc, are figured to held a total
of 13,770 persons. This total include:
11,270 in the body of the hall, 199¢ op
the platform, 150 sergeants-atarms
600 policemen and 400 messenger:
ushers and pages.
Five minutes later a thin procession
of men in plain clothes came in at
one of the entrances. Assistant ser
geants-at-arms they were, but police
pounced upon them as if chey were @
hostile army.
Colonel William F. Stone, sergean:
atarms of the convention, who was
on tip-toe with solicitude for the ma.u
tenance of peace and smooth fulfill
ment of orders, had his assistants
quickly ordered out of the aisles an.
seats,
The soft click of the “secret scuni
ers” of the newspaper telegraph oe.
ators began to be audible near .ue
platform about 10 o'clock; the pres.
section, with its upward of 400 seats
was filling up; the convention h.l
“story” of the momentous Republ.cau
convention of 1912 was streaming oul
to the newspapers of the civilizey
world.
The forces of President Taft won
their second victory when they lai!
on the table, by a vote of 564 to 51v,
an amendment to a motion of Gover
nor Herbert S. Hadley, of Missou.i
aimed to deprive contested delegates
from casting their ballots on the (on
tested cases.
The vote showed a gain of six de.¢
gates for the Taft forces over the voix
cast on the initial test of the conven
tion, which also was won by the fol
lowers of the president by 558 to 502.
Following the second test, the Had.
ley motion to “purge” the convention
of ninety-two of the contested dele
gates was referred to the credentials
committee.
Governor Hadley offered his motion
to substitute Roosevelt delegates for
the ninety-two Taft men who are con
tested by the colonels leaders imme
diately on the call of order.
James Watson, of Indiana, the floo:
leader of the Taft forces, objected.
and Governor Deneen, of Illinois, a
Roosevelt follower, offered the amend
ment that no contested delegate be al
lowed to vote.
The motion to table, by Mr. Watson,
came next, and then the vote by staies,
showing the Taft victory and gain
over Tuesday. Preceding the voic
there were three hours’ debate an
almost an hour of demonstration.
The cheering took the form of an
ovation to Governor Hadley and added
his name to the list of dark horse
candidates for the nomination for the
presidency. The demonstration was
started by W. H. Coleman, a Roosevelt
delegate from western Pennsylvania,
who had leaped upon the platform and
yelled through a megaphone:
“Three cheers for Hadley, the next
president of the United States.”
Then followed the demonstration, led
by the Roosevelt delegates, who were
aided by a few of the Taft men.
Before the official announcement o.
the tabling of the Deneen amendment
was made upon a point of order of
Governor Hadley, Chairman Root mled
that while a contested delegate could
not vote upon his own right to a seat,
he could vote on other identical cases.
Otherwise, Chairman Root said, a mi.
nority could control the convention
by bringing a sufficient number of con-
tests,
The ruling was greeted with ap
plause by the Taft forces and the con-
vention adjourned.
Notwithstanding personal utterances
on the part of Colonel Roosevelt, Wil-
liam Flinn and others in Colonel
Roosevelt's camp, and notwithstanding
the remarks to the contrary of a num-
ber of President Taft's
Theer are well grounded re
ed on substantial evidences
to bring a“out the nom
compromise or harmony
president.
A number of President Taft's friends
are to continue their efforts to nomi:
nate him on the first ballot. But ac-
cording to the best figures the presi.
dent has no more than a majority of
ten over the necessary 540 votes to
nominate him on the first ballot. In
words, the president's friends
550 votes. Others in the presi.
dents camp claim 562 votes. Colonel
elt has but 470 votes. Senator
LaFollette has 36, the votes of Wis.
consin and North Dakota, and Senator
Cummins has 10 from the state of
Iowa.
Director McKinley, of the Taft bu.
reau, issued a statement, saying,
among other things:
“President Taft will be renominated
by the Republican national convention,
now in session in Chicago. Theodore
Roosevelt has been eiminated as a
candidate before the convention. The
two test votes forced by his eaders
have demonstrated that he cannot be
intensely bitter,
The debate was
frequently interrupted by hoots and
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plein intimations from the Roosevelt
men that they would win their point
r bolt.
Governor Hadley, the Roosevelt
floor leader and father of the motion
to exclade the ninety-two contested
Taft delegates, was the first speaker
and he emphasized the Roosevelt po
sition by declaring that the contested
men must not be allowed to vote or
their right to retain their seats.
He was well reecived, but the firs
speaker against the motion, W. T
Dovell, of Washington, was greetec
with jeers. Then H. J. Alien, of Kan
sas, and later George L. Record, o
New Jersey, made it evident that
bolt was a strong possibility.
ROOTAPPEALS FOR HARMONY
Fitness to Govern Depends on Willing
ness to Act In Unison.
After his election as temporary
chairman had been announced, Sena
tor Root addressed the convention ir
part as follows:
“Gentlemen of the Convention—Be
lieve that | appreciate this expressior
of confidence. 1 wish I were more
competent for the service you require
of me.
“The struggle for leadership in the
Republican party which has so lons
engrossed the attention and excited
the feelings of its members is abou!
to be determined by the selection ol
a candidate. The varying claims o!
opinion for recognition in the politi
cal creed of the party are about to be
settled by the adoption of a platform
“In the performance of this duty
by the convention and in the accept
ance of its conclusions by Republicans
is to be applied the ever-recurring tes!
of a party's fitness to govern, its co
herence and its formative and con
trolling power of organization.
“Without these things t’ ere can bs
no party worthy of the name. Wit
out them party association is a rope
of sand, party organization is an inef
fective form, party responsibility dis
appears, and with it disappears the
right to public confidence.
“Without organized parties, having
these qualities of coherence and loy
alty, free popular government becomes
a confused and continual conflict be
tween a vast multitude of individual
opinions, individual interests, individ
ual attractions and repulsions, fror
which effective government can on)
emerge by answering to the universa)
law of necessary organization an‘
again forming parties.
“The lofty purposes of {ts great
originators has been transmitted by
spiritual succession from generation tc
generation of party leaders, and it is
no idle rhetoric when we say, as we
have to often said and are about tc
say again to the American people:
“‘We are entitled to your belief in
the sincerity of the principles we pro
feas and the loyalty of our candidates
to those principles, because we are the
party of Lincoln, and Sumner, and
Seward, and Andrew, and Morton, and
Grant, and Hayes, and Garfield, and
Arthur, and Harrison, and Blaine, and
Hoar, and McKinley.’ .
“We claim that we are entitled tr
& popular vote of confidence at the
coming election because we have
demonstrated that we are the party of
affirmative, constructive policies for
the betterment and progress of ou
country in all the fields upon which
the activity and influence of govern
ment can rightly enter,
“We claim it because we have
shown ourselves a party of honest
efficient and economical administra
tion, in which public moneys are faith
fully applied, appointments are made
on grounds of merit, efficient service
is rigorously exacted, graft is reduced
to 2 minimum, derelictions from offi
cial duty are sternly punished and go
high standard of official morality is
maintained.
“We challenge the judgment of the
American people on the policies of Mc
Kinley and Roosevelt and Taft. The
Republican party stands now, as Me
Kinley stood, for a protective tariff
while the Democratic party stands
against the principles of protection and
for a tariff for revenue only. We stand
not for the abuses of the tariff, but
for the beneficent uses. No tariff can
be devised so moderate, so reasonable,
that it will not be rejected by the Dem:
ocratic party, provided its duties be
adjusted with reference to labor cost
0 as to protect American products
against being driven out of the marke!
by foreign underselling made possible
through the lower rate of wages in
other countries.
“The American foreign merchant
service has been driven off the face
of the waters because with American
sailors’ wages and the American
standard of living it could not com
pete with foreign shipping. The Demo
cratic party proposes to put American
miils and factories and mines in the
same position, and the American peo
e have now to say whether they wish
to be done.
“I have said that we do not stand
for the abuses of the tariff. The chief
cause of abuse has been that we have
outgrown our old method of tarifl
making. Our productive industries
have become too vast and complicated,
our commercial relations too extensive.
for any committtee of congress of
itself to get at the facts to which the
principle of protection may be prop
erly applied.”
Mr. Root then praised the tarifi
board and declared that now that the
house is Democratic the tariff com
mission is dead. He pointed out the
country’s need of currency reform and
defended the Republican party and
President Taft's administration in the
prosecution of the trusts. He declared
the gove'nment had done its duty tc
the wage earners of the country by
passing an employers’ liability act that
has been sustained by the supreme
spurt.
Three persons were killed and a
score more injured when a tornadc
caused the steeple of St. Thomas
Catholic church in Zanesville, Ohig,
to crash through the roof while ser
vices were in progress.
Rev. F. R. Roach was struck and
killed while administering the last
sacraments, as 500 of the congregation
were fleeing from the church, panic
stricken.
When the steeple came crashing
through the roof the congregation
made a mad rush for the doors, and forever
the victims were killed and injured by
the falling roof or in the crush nea:
the doors.
The storm did terrific damage in
Zanesville. Hundreds of homes were
practically ruined and thousands of
trees uprooted. The loss is estimated
at $500,000.
Machine Half Scalps Her.
Grace Pfeffer, seventeen years old
was perhaps fatally injured in the fac
tory of the American Flag Manutac
turing company in Easton, Pa. when
her hair caught in a machine that she
was operating and was torn from hai
head, together with a portion of th.
scalp.
She was bending over to pick up
an article that had fallen under the
machine, and her hair caught in a
shaft. It drew her toward the machine
and in an instant stripped a portion ol
the scalp bare, beside tearing off the
flesh clean to the bone on one side of
her head.
Her screams brought other opera.
tives to her assistance, and they shut
off the power. Physicians say her re
covery is doubtful.
Hotel Man's Wife Badly Burned.
Through the mysterious explosion of
a can of gasoline on the third floor of
the Auditorium hotel in Burlingten,
N. J, Mrs. Charles Lanning, wife of |
the proprietor of the establishment,
was seriously burned and is in a criti
cal condition.
New Advertisements,
WO HOMES FOR SALE.—~The heirs of the
late John Pacini offer at private sale two
homes on frp Allegheny street, both in
$0 arranged as make
h has good pi Non
which to erect another . properties
will be sold as a whole If so desired. Ary
57-17-2m MRS, C. E. ROBB, Bellefonte.
OTICE OF PRIVATE SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
In the Orphans’ Court of Centre County.
Shdersigned, guardian of Virginia Dale
and John M. Dale, Jr., minor children of John M.
Dale, late of the borough of Bellefonte, deceased.
does hereby give notice that he has entered into
an Article Agreement for private sale to Har-
ry E. Zimmerman, for the sum of twelve hundred
seventy-five dollars, of the following described
ate belonging to the aforesaid minors, to
certain messuage or tenement and
Stuateon 3 urtin street, in the
Bellefonte, in county of Centre
and Stat of Pennsylvania, bounced and describ.
ed as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point on the
street fifty
east
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west from
land
south ht Curtin
alley, t south: of
or formerly of J. C. Harper, on th east, two hun-
dred feet to an alley,
erected
TWO DWELLING HOUSES
and out buildings, Sneof wh Swelling houses
was ii re.
a of sale will be made to the
re county on Monday, the
a. m., where-
then
ret day of July, 1912, at ten o'c i
upon unless
made and filed to the said private sale, the said
confirmed
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Farmers
IT PAYS TO BUY
QUALITY GOODS
Wyoming Dockash Ranges,
Leather and Canvas Belting,
Atlas Portland Cement,
Crown Wall Plaster,
Extension Ladders,
Rutber Roofings,
Alaska Freezers,
Woven Fencing,
Beaver Board,
Everything in Hardware.
Olewine’s Hardware Store.
New Buggies
and Carriages
Forrest L. Bullock, the Water
street dealer, has just receiv-
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New Advertisements.
NOTICE. wai2. he. Oumhane' ANTED.— pine o
A fae i Spt. Renna vans, write FP “edibER 485%, ©
Collins, late of the borough of Bellefonte, in the 57.2011
Ra ad, £
DY the said Orphosl ghed; an, auditor appointed ANTED.— oul or» good
make {*fort,a distribution of the fund in the second
CR RL said Coming, de. 57-184f ¢ Mn JAMES TC HUGHES
{Rased. as shown by the first and final account of ——
Sheriffs Sales.
the h day Jul. A.D. 1912, at pda, an ALE RE CE —
the said fund directed, there will be to sale
JOHN BLANCHARD, | at the court house, in the bovuh of Beiiommle
57.25.3¢ ‘Auditor. | Pa., on
, late of Belle- west by four acre corner. (which four acre cores
ry Cunningham,
fonte, having been granted to the he westward of the Peter Keichline,
requests all bersons knowing. themselves Indebt ws the Tease Harper a int ind
0 said estate to make payment and those hav- southward to a the northern line
ing claims against the same to present them, du bry i A Dope Kd dl SX
ly authenticated, for settlement. 180 rods to post at line of
J. M. CUNNINGHAM, Administrator, | tract part of same farm, heretofore agreed to be
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| tothe northerly line of farm known as the Kusta*
Buggies, Etc. No.2. ' in at a post the north-east cor-
perches to road; thence said
Still at the Old Stand TE Ea oa es To ub:
Furnishing the Good Work.
istion & Co., announce a full line of
BOCES Sf Goi “Cun : LR Kustaborder farm
tured by the Ligonier :
Painting, Trimming and Black.
Sihivg. hi ]
smit Rubber Tires a let terre
\ TERMS OF SALE.—No deed will be acknowledg-
TOME. AR Spe US od unt he purchase money paid in al
McQuistion & Co., Sheriff's office, Bellefonte, p2RTH Rr " Shade.
57-20-4m. Thomas Street. Bellefonte, Pa. | Mav 31st, 1912. 57-23-4¢
Pennsylvania Railroad.
PHILADELPHIA
Account
SAENGERFEST
Tickets sold June 28, 29, 30, and July 1, and returning to reach orig-
inal starting point before midnight, July 8, 1912,
For time of trains, and full information, consult Ticket Agent.
Chance to make a side trip to Atlantic City, Cape May, and
other seashore resorts.
57-25-1t
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PAYING BY CHECK
It adds to the credit of any man to be
able to write his check in settlement of
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the transaction that may save trouble later
on.
The First National Bank,
Bellefonte, Pa.
The Centre County Banking Company.
Strength and Conservatism
are the banking qualities demanded by careful
depositors. With forty years of banking ex-
perience we invite you to become a depositor,
assuring you of every courtesy and attention.
We pay 3 per cent interest on savings and
cheerfully give you any information at our
command concerning investments you may
desire to make.
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Bellefonte, Pa. 566