Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, June 07, 1916, Image 1
End of Republican Feud Is Seen by Leaders as Conventions Open at Chicago HARRISBURG ifSSlll TELEGRAPH LXXXV— Xo. 130 REPUBLICAN LEADERS HARMONIOUS ACTION WILL BE TAKEN; ROOSEVELT IN Eftort on to Have Him Lead Progressives Into Joint Con vention of Reunited Pa rty; Eagerly Discuss Pro posal to Have Both Assemblages Appoint Confer ence Committees FEAR CONVENTION WILL NOMINATIONS BEFORE Favorite Sons Considering Question of Holding Their Own Supporters it the Nomination Is Delayed; Peace Negotiations May Throw Meeting Over Into Next Week Coliseum. Chicago, June 7. —Practical reunion of the two elements of the Republican party is confidently predicted as a result of negotiations and exchanges which have been under way since last night and which are expected to take form dur ing the day. These exchanges are proceeding along lines which contemplate a return to the Republican fold of the Pro gressives under the direct leadership of Colonel Roosevelt and upon a platform which will meet the views of the most ad vanced thinkers of the party. There is a strong undercurrent favorable to party peace and this sentiment was strongly voiced in the speech of the temporary chairman. It need surprise no body to see the most spectacular political reunion in the history of the country with Roosevelt himself leading the Progressive forces into the joint session which is now being discussed. E. J. S. Coliseum. June 7.—The Republican National Convention after a two-and-a-half-hour meeting to-day adjourned until 11 o'clock to morrow. after hearing the keynote speech of Senator Harding, of Ohio, and doing the usual preliminary organization work. Emphasizing that it was not a time for recrimination but of reconsecration. Senator Harding urged the delegates to forget the disastrous differences of four years ago and plunge into the coming campaign with a declaration of principles which would bring suc cess at the polls. The convention received the temporary chairman's speech with punctuations of applause and cheers and his sallies against the Dem ocratic administration with loud laughter and hand clapping. Senator Harding spoke about an hour and closed with a peroration of Americanism and Republicanism. By Associated Hre.'s Chicago. June 7. As the Re publican and Progressive Conventions assembled to-day there was no out ward evidence of any marked change in the situation. Overnight con ferences among the leaders failed to develop any definite plan on which they could agree on a candidate who would receive the undivided support of both factions but talk of peace was in the air. The proposal to have both conventions appoint conference com mittees was being discussed on both sices and some of the Republican leaders persisted in their predictions that ultimately there would be harmonious action in some way. The convention leaders themselves were so engrossed in petty details of getting under way, taking care of delegations from their own States, and guests, that they had little time for further serious discussion of candi dntes and realized that the considera tion of that question had actually mo\ed to the conventions themselves. Some of the Republican leaders felt to-day that their convention vnicht not proceed to nominations be fore Friday and even later if pros pects of harmony develop at the last moment. The favorite sons were con sidering the question of holding their THE WEATHER For Harrlshurg; and vicinity: Rain thin afternoon and to-nl K ht. fol lowed by clearing weather Thursday: not much change in temperature. For Kastern Pennsyl* aula: Hnin to-night, folio** cd by clearing Thursdays frc*h, shifting wind* becoming west. River The rain that liaa fallen during the laat twenty-four hour* bus not been aufficlent to materially af fect the atreama of the *usque hanna river system, and they will continue to fall, but more slow ly, unleaa considerably heavier ralna occur, except possibly the Juniata, where the rainfall has been moderately heavy. A stage of about fl.r» feet I* Indicated for Harrlfthurg Thursday morning. (■eneral Conditions The Southwestern storm has con tinued to move north wnrd with out much change In Intensity, and Is now central at Chicago. It liaa caused rain generally eaat of the Mississippi river la the last twenty-four hours, except in fcew Knglnnd. It Is i to 22 degrees cooler over most of the Southwest, and there has been a general fall of 2 to 10 degrees In temperature over the country east of the Mississippi river, except In Florida. Temperature: fi a. m.. 56. Sun: Rises, 4:30 a m.: acta, 7:31 p. m. Moon : Flrat quarter, June fi, <l:s© p. m. River Stage: Seven feet above low-water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 73. l-oweat temperature, .%®. Mean temperature. 00. Normal temperature, 0«. i \ Vacation Season Is Here Rest and recreation will not be complete unless you have all the newt from home dally. The Har risburg Telegraph will fill the gap. Don't «pend your precious vaca tion time trying to "get used" to strange newspapers. Just drop a postal or call the Circulation Department and the next issue will meet you, no mat ter where you are. BY CARRIER n CENTS \ WEEK. lIN'Gt.E COPIES 2 CENTS. [ cwn supporters it me nomination were ; to be delayed beyond the time origin s ally planned. Most of the Republicans ■ have agreed that a presidential candl : 1 date will be nominated Friday but some predict it will be Saturday and i there are others who feel that the i prospects of peace negotiations at the eleventh hour might even throw the J convention over into next week. j Huglics Gains strength If there was any change at all in i the line-up over night it showed an. increase in the strength of Hughes. J For the most part, the figures of the managers of favorite son booms were not changed. On this the convention day of two j parties, bringing together more thanj t»wo thousand delegates, there was; not a sign of a demonstration or a band parading until an hour before; the time of assembly. This was partially explained by the notable lack j of demonstration which has been one of the unique features of this conven- i tion period and partly by the fact that a cold rain continued to sweep the city. As the hour of assembling ap pi cached the bands and the delegates started moving toward the convention halls. They were a sorry soaked and bedraggled looking lot as they | marched in. The conventions opened here to-day an hour apart, with grow ing hopes of harmony and a possi [Continued on Page 5] CONVENTION BY BULLETIN Republican Convention, Chicago. June 7, 10.45 a. m. Convention hall i filling rapidly. Practically all the delegates in their places. Band plav .ing popular airs. 11a. m. fradically all delegates! seated. No demonstrations. Quietest | convention ever held. Lodge, Crane,' Penrose and every other leader pass to their seats without recognition. 11.05 a. m. Large vacant spaces noted in the galleries. Hitchcock Just : entered unannounced. 11.20 a. m. Reported that Ford has notified Michigan delegation in structed to vote for him. that after j first vote closed but before announced I they should change to Hughes. Detroit, June 7. Henry Ford's, secretary to-day denied a report that i Mr. Ford has notified the Michigan Republican delegation that they should ' vote for Justice Hughes after they had voted for Ford on the first ballot. 11.25 a. m. Aisles cleared ard! delegates asked to be seated. Hilles calls to order. 11.27 a. m. Audience rises and sings two verses of America. 11.29 a. m. Hilles asks the Rev. j John Stone of Chicago to offer prayer. 11.31 a. m. Dr. Stone offers praver > amid perfect silence. 11.33 a. m. Band plays "Star 1 Spangled Banner." First cheer of the day as everyone rose. Convention ■ then relapsed Into quietude. 11.35 a. m. Hilles asks everyone to rise and be photographed. 11.35 a. m. The convention Te rr ained seated whlie the photograph was being taken. Call read bv Secre tary Reynolds who is applauded. Chairman Hilles presents the name of Senator Warren G. Harding as tem porary chairman. An outburst of ap- I plause. the first demonstration of the | convention greeted the announcement. There were no other nominations and Mr. Harding was declared elected.! [Continued on Page 5] (Other convention news on pages ] 4 and 5) HARRISBURG, PA.. WEDNESDAY EVENING JUNE 7, 1916. 50-50: HUGHESVELT 50-50 Cover Thia Portrait Below the Noatriia and See Who's Here; Reverse the Proceae and Another Favorite Appears. fe lllllr y - i lUK:. *. • ♦ _ V : -#>v- ■ -v.-; , BRITISH ARMY MOURNS CHIEF Officers Wear Bunds of Crop?; Flood of Telegrams Ex pressing Sympathy i London, June 7.—The British army went into mourning for its late chief. ! Every officer wore a band of crepe on his left arm. Through the country . flags were at halfmast. There was of course no suspension j of activities having to do with pros- ' I ecution of the war and at the war of- i ! tice and other governmental depart (Con tin lied on Pnge 7) Holder of American Altitude Record Dies From Burns Newport News, Va.. June 7. Steve j Mac Gordon, aviator at the Atlantic! coast aeronanutical station, here j I last night from burns received yester- j day when his aeroplane was destroyed 1 by fire. Mac Gordon and E. F. Keefer. a student, had started on a flight when the engine fell from its place causing the machine to strike the ground with such force that the gasoline tank ex ploded and set the craft afire. Keefer was not seriously Injured. Mac Gordon was 33 years old and a native of New York City. He was the holder of the American altitude i record, having ascended more than' 15,000 feet. One of his latest achieve- ! ments was a none-stop flight from Newport News to Sheepshead Bay ! where he took part In a tournament last week. FOIR MTXERS TRAPPED Special to the Telegraph Shenandoah, Pa., June 7. Caught behind a rush of coal at the Stanton mine at MaizevUle. near here, last 1 night. Thomas and William Lawson. of A. land: James Wonn. of Frack \iile, and John Ostra. of Mahanoy Plane, were entombed three thousand i feet underground. The men were at tempting to reach the body of Peter Chronic, a 7-year-old boy," who was swallowed up ten days ago when sev eral homes were engulfed. A rescue force Is at work. The entombed men are all married and have large families. ENDORSES HIGH SCHOOL PUN Special to the Telegraph Wormleyshurg. Pa.. June 7. Last night the Wormlevsburg School Board passed resolutions endorsing the proposition for a Central High School for the West Shore. The hoard favors Increasing the indebtedness of the dis tr'ct $7,500 to pay Its share in the election of the building. \ PUBLIC SERVICE ROTARY KEYNOTE New President. Howard C. Fry, Outlines Policy and Ap points Committees Under the adminstration of Presi dent Howard t'. Pry. the Harrisburg ( Kotary club dedicated itself anew to the work so well carried ■ forward by the retiring president. Ar thur D. Bacon, at the annual meeting of the club last night. President Fry, i in his inaugural address, struck the keynote of the coming year when he (■Continued on Pago 9] 30,000 Upstate Miners May Strike if Officials Do Not Grant Demands By Associated Press "Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 7. The | Lehigh and Wilkes-Burre Coal Com j psn> is facing the threat of a strike I of its thirty thousand employes un !'««! the officials recede from the stand they have taken on the eight-hour day plan under the anthracite agreement recently effected in New York. | There are three collieries of the company Idle, two at Plymouth, Pa., and one at Buttonwood, near here and 4,000 men are on strike because of the controversy. The men of the three colleries have repudiated the , mine union officials and say they will not return to work until the company giants their demand. The companies insists that the miners spend eight hours at their places in the mine re gardless of whether they have mined ! all the coal available for that day The men insist that they are at liberty to go home leaving their laborers to load the coal. The miners are paid by contract and not by the day. GETTYSBURG CONFERSDKGRFE ON EX-JUDGE JACOBS Among those receiving honorarv degrees to-day at the Gettysburg com mencement exercises was Ex-Jndo-e Michael William Jacobs, of Harris burg, Pa., upon -whom was conferred the degree of doctor of laws in recognition of his legal attainments and for his writings on legal and his- 1 torical subjects. Graduated from the i ctlleg at the early age of seventeen he expects to attend the fiftieth re"' union of his class, 1867, at Oettv* burg next June. >s GERMAN DESTROVKH SUNK fly Associated I'rtst Amsterdam. June 7. The Tele graaf says that a German destroyer j struck a mine and went down olt' Zeebrugge on May 31, BULL MOOSE GO WILD AT MENTION OF ROOSEVELT Delegates Shout ancl March Through Convention Hall During Keynote Address HUBBUB OF CONFUSION Bobbins Forced to Leave Name of Progressive Leader From His Speech By dissociated Press Chicago. 111., June 7.—Delegates and guests of the Progressive national con vention arrived slowly for the opening of the convention at 12 o'clock, one hour after the Republicans' assembled at the Coliseum. The band began to play at 11 o'clock, but there were few to be entertained, and the musicians gave up without completing their first number. When delegates began to take their places they did so quietly. Only a few of the states attempted anything like massed entry. Apparently nothing had occurred to stimulate enthusiasm and nothing was expected before Raymond Robins de livered his keynote address as tem porary chairman. At 12.27 the convention was called to order by Victor Murdock, chairman of the national committee. He rapped with his gavel for several minutes be fore quiet was obtained. Bishop William Fraser McDowell, of Chicago, offered the invocation, a voice shouting "Everybody up." The prayer expressed hope that the efforts of the convention would redound to the benefit of the republic; that the national convention "may serve hu manity to lead the world to liberty, truth and righteousness." The bishop asked for help for "the war-stricken world" and for Divine help to "bind up thf nations that are broken and wounded." Following *he prajer "America" was! sung, the entire convention standing and all joining in the national anthem. Reports that there might be an in sistent demand for an iinin> diate nonii- • nat'on of Colonel Roosevelt as notice to tli* Republicans that tliej could not lie ignored, were discouraged. anil al most si|tieiv)ied. I>y a statement issued by George \V. Perkins. the chief spokes man for the party, who declared that the Progressives were meeting in a con ciliatory spirit and would not act pr cipltatel.v while the possibility of agree ment with the Republicans remained. Nnl < luince of \nmlnatlon Mr. Perkins was asked if Colonel Roosevelt would be nominated to-day. "There is not a chance," he replied, i "We are not going to take any snap | Jud*"nent." Mr. Perkins said a telephone conver- j sation he had with Colonel Roosevelt, i this morning, was devoted almost en- i tirely to the bad weather. Neither of ' them, said Mr. Perkins, regarded the weather as an ill omen. , Mr. Roosevelt will »he kept in close I touch with developments in the Pro ' gresslve convention by long-distance I telephone, but the Oyster Bay wire will not be strung directly to the conven | tion. Chairman Murdock and Secretary | Davis, of the national committee, ar i rived just before the hour set. con ; ferrlng with leaders. The balconies | were about -•» 1 f filled antl the two up ! per balconies were almost l are of spte j tators. A quartet, sinking "Teddy" | songs from the balcony, kept the crowd cheering and waving hats while the ! fall of thp opening gavel was awaited. Teddy. You're n Hear | The Michigan delegation bearing a huge j banner, inscribed. "Roosevelt Carried ! Michigan by fin.noft In Ifll2 and ("an I Carry It By 100.000 In 1916," and Ameri can tlags was the first to form outside I the Auditorium. They started to march into the building through an adjoining: i hotel, when their leaders demanded an i outdoor demonstration. I "Teddy Isn't afraid of the rain," they I shouted. "Get out and march." I So In a body they marched out Into i the rain, shouting and singing "Teddy, you're a bear." The delegations exchanged State [Continued on Case 5] Degrees For Harrisburg Students at Dickinson Special to the Telegraph Carlisle, Pa., June ".—-Degrees were conferred at the one hundred and thirty-first annual commencement ex | ercises of Dickinson College and I School of J-aw held this morning. ! The Rev. I*. Clarence Hunt, presi | dent of Albright College, Myerstown, ; Pa., was given honorary degree, and | degrees in course included the follow | tng from nearby towns: A. M.—Mary Emily Co.vle, Carlisle; Lawson S. I.averty, Harrisburg: Julia I Morgan, Carlisle; J. Dress Pannell, I Steelton; Roberta Rife, New Cumber land; John J. Shelley, Jr., Meehanics ; burg, and Francis G. Wilson, Harris , burg. A. B.—Albert H. Allison, Shippens burg; Mabel V. Bucher, Carlisle; Rob ert L. Ganoe, Chambersburg; C. Dick son Garner, Harrisburg; Daniel F. N. Graham. Harrisbut-g; Helen D. Lau man, Carlisle; J. Wayne Lepperd, Car lisle; Sylvia P. Lutz, Carlisle; Thomas W. MacGregor, Carlisle; Mary J. Mc- Mahon, Harrisburg; Olga M. Meloy, Harrisburg; Raymond S. Michaels, Harrisburg; Anna M. Mohler, Mt. Holly Sprinss; Beatrice K. Rupert, Carlisle; David M. Rupp, Shiremans town; D. Hummel Shelley, Mechanics burg: Edxvard P. 1,. Shore, Harris bun?: William G. Stephens, Carlisle, and Amelia K. Wiener, Carlisle. So. B.—Clarence D. MacGregor, Carlisle, and D. Paul Rogers, Harris burg. L.L. B.—J. Basehore Leopold, Leb anon; John C. McKone, Carlisle; A. F. Miller, Lebanon: John Dress Panneil, Steelton; John Lawrence Shellev, Me dian icsburg, and Clarence G. Shetron, Carlisle. FRENCH DESTROYER SL'.NK By Associated I'ress Paris, June 7. The French de stroyer Fantassin has been sunk In a collision. Her crew was rescued. The Fantassin was built in 1909. She was 213 feet long and displaced 440 tons. DESPITE RAIN, HIVKR FAI,I,S Despite the steady rainfall since late last night. less than an Inch fell until ' a latn hour to-riay and little trouble In expected to result because of high water. A river stage of 8.5 fpet Is pre dicted for Harrisburg. according to K. R. Demain, local forecaster In the Weather Bureau office. The river this, morning stood at seven feet, but fell slowly. The rainfall, although general I throughout the State, was not as heavy 1 as last week, clearing weather is ex pected to-morrow, I' PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION HAS FOUR FAVORITES Governor Brumbaugh Leads With 35 to 38 Votes on First Ballot HUGHES HAS HALF DOZEN Booscvelt and Knox Have Some; Wanamaker Makes Keynote Speech I (By a Staff Correspondent) Chicago, 111., June 7. Pennsyl vania's Republican delegation appears to be split between four candidates on tlie morning of the assembling of the most important convention in years. Friends of Governor Brumbaugh are claiming that he will have from thirty-five to thirty-eight votes from the Keystone State and that he will hold them on the second ballot and that he will be given votes from Nebraska and some Western States and that he stands a show of getting something from Porto Rico and Louisiana where he is well known be cause of work as an educator. Roosevelt is said to have six or sc\en from Pennsylvania and Hughes a half dozen, the rest being inclined to Knox. Efforts to get the delegation [Continued on Page I] REPORT OK OKI M.VS DEATH PROVES FALSE Tokio, June 7. —The report circu lated in the United States yesterday that Count Shigenobu Okuma, the Jap anese Prime Minister, had been assas sinated, was without foundation. The secretary of Count Okuma said this morning that the Premier was hale and hearty and that he was then in conference with the emperor. SENATOR M\RTIN TREASURER At a meeting of the Soldiers' Orphans* School Commission, yesterday, in their offices in the Kunkei Building, Senator Franklin Martin, of West Fairview, was elected treasurer of the commission to succeed the late ex-Congressman Thad deus M. Mahon, of Chambersburg. ? I 1 National Committee the report persisted late JL a I tion itself name a conference committee at I i the Progressives. Senator Penrc f J of Pennsylvania, was said to have been ready to present t. i tion to the convention t< *► T f as chairman. Charles D. if T C >mmitteeman, from Michigan, said thgt when i j | ► ? who w is .seated on the floor with the 1 ; I t T I I - Roosevelt would be able to name their own con- £, 1 * I ' ' ' I >-morrow to name such a committee. 1 «* 1 , POWERFUL GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED < i i Paris. June 7. —The repulse of a powerful German attack ; R t Vaux on the Verdun line with heavy losse; i > attackers is announced in an official statement issued by j 1 the Wa Office to-day. Violent bombardment of the fort j | is still being carried on Germans. ' J Harrisburg, Pa.—Orders will be issued to-night by i y tcwart for the annual encampment of the J" ! t First Cavalry National Guard, including the Governor's K 1 1 it Mt. Gretna, July 22-29. The Fourth Brigade will i^. r cai Gretna, August 5-12. The dates are tentative jfc < 1 lit probably will be announo \ , New York. June 7.—Consel for Dr. Waite, sentence.: I ' * 5 1 to die during the week of July 10 for the murder of his ' 'j father-in-law, John E.. Peck, filed a notice of appeal for a j . new trial to day. This action will delay the time of e;-;c- ' ' cution. 1 | «i"ad, June 7.—ln their new offensive movement » T the Russians have captured more than forty thousand men, I I it was announced to-day. K MAUHIAia: MCKNhES ! I <'hnrl»n M. Knitlf and Marlliu 11. Forney, l.rkina. ' Frank Klurniim* t-r, I nion llrponU. ami Slulirl K. \lleimi:i, I'nlii yra I .lohu i on n tin I anil Katnrliin Ttsak, Mnlliig. , *. Grant Forrer, oily, ami I'earl l<"»iiiinu ' oulirr, Keedavllle. I.f*lle laaac Campbell, .Northumberland, and Barbara Anna Wolfff J f, J i, i. >/y.i ..Am- «■ w ra CITY EDITION 16 PAGES G. A. R. TO HOLD BIG CAMPFIRE AT AUDITORIUM Parade and Grand Review Called Off Until Tomorrow Morning at 9 O'clock BUSINESS ON TOMORROW Three Allied Women's Organi zations Busy; Officers Elected by L. G. A. R. Parade Postponed Owinjr to tlic iwlenient weather, 5 tli«> parade of \rloralis scheduled ' for 2 o'clock this afternoon was ' postponed until il o'clock to-tuor- < roti morning! s With the one big feuture on to-day'.■ program, the parade, called oft on ac count of rain. Civil War veterans her ■ for the fiftieth encampment, of tli Department of Pennsylvania, Gran ! 1 Army of the Republic, spent most i the day visiting the Capitol and greet ; ing old friends. The llrst gathering o' the comrades will Vie held to-night a' Chestnut Stret Auditorium. A camp fire for veterans will start promptly a* 1 S o'clock. A feature of this gathering will l - the exemplification of the opening am' cMosing ceremonies of the O. A. R. am' ; the mustering in ol' a raw recrul'. Commander-in-Chief Ellas R. Mont- I fort, of Cincinnati, who arrived to day. will make an address. The nur |tering-in ceremonies and meeting wi" 1 he in charge of Post No. 2, of Philr. t dolphia. The convention proper wi open to-morrow morning at Jf> o'cloe l in Technical high school auditoriut and will be presided over by Con mander C. F. Gramlich, of Phllade. phia. Dauuliters of eVterans The third annui'l convention of th •• Pennsylvania State Pcpartmen" Daughters of Veterans, opened r' Cameron Hall this morning, with Mi " Ellen Searie. Montrose. presUin' 1 Miss Emily l<ott Ainey, secretary, wr unable to attend becaus» of sicknef Miss Bertha Trump of Montrose wit elected acting secretary. The president reported a larr growth in membership during tl year. Two tents were organized r Hallstead and Pittsburgh. Arrange [Continued on Page 12]