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SECOND DAY OF REPUBLICAN CONVENTION FINDS JUSTICE HUGHES GAINING STRENGTH HOUR BY HOUR
DISTINGUISHED
MEN AT CHICAGO
Characteristics of National
Delegates as They Wander
Through Crowds Described
(By a Staff Correspondent.)
Chicago, June S.—The mighty can
fall and fall hard in a convention
crowd. * William Jennings Bryan,
newspaper reporter, took up a place in
the middle of the court of the Con
gress and forgot that he was no long
er Secretary of State and Democratic
oracle. He started to talk and Just
then a Fairbanks band came in fol
lowed by a crowd of vociferous Hoos
ier». Mr. Bryan was pushed, shoved,
rustled and hustled back to the side
lines.
When it comes down to attracting
attention Mr. Bryan is not a drawing
card like Chauncey M. Depew. The
aged New Yorker roams in and out
of the crowds, but he carries a big
bundle of papers and magazines in his
right hand so that he does not have
to shake hands. If he did his right
would be worn off.
Theodore N. Vail, head of the Bell
Telephone Companies, attracts much
attention in the throngs. He Is chair
man of the Vermont delegation and is
very strong on preparedness. He Is a
distinguished figure with his white
hair and keen eyes.
Senator Reed Smoot Is probably the
most active of the big leaders. He
is constantly on the move. When one
sees him buzzing around it can be
understood how Utah cuts so much
ice in Washington.
Ezra Meeker, of Washington State,
is here with an automobile built like
a Conestoga wagon. He crossed the
plains in one and is now rich enough
to come back anyway he likes. He is
a delegate and tells everyone about It.
Will »ver Pass Out
Victor Murdock, the red-headed and
optimistic leader of the Bull Moose,
in the Sunflower State and elsewhere,
declared to-day that there was dis
tinct line of clearage between the
Republican and Progressive parties,
and that It would be absurd to as
sume that any nomination would be
followed by the passing out of the
Progressive organization. It Is also
becoming evident that a considerable
section of the Progressives from the
middle and western States will not
follow the Colonel into the Republican
party, even should he decide to re
turn to the fold. Upon the other hand
there are many Progressive delegates
who will refuse to bolt the Republi
can nominee in the event that he be
selected upon a fair and square basis
and a Progressive platform. .
Uncle Joe Cannon stood against a
pillar in the Congress and laughed
at the passing crowd and its freaks.
The old warrior begins to show his
age. although he Insisted that his
cigars were not bothering him half
as much as the stogies the Pennsylva
nians effect.
Mary Garden Anon Tired
Carl Hoenig, the leader of the Co
lumbus Glee Club, met a lake squall
yesterday. He ventured out without
looking at the skies and his Panama
hat and Palm Beach suit were sights
to behold. The glee club took half
an hour off while he changed. Hoenig
says if he ever comes to Pennsylvania
he will stop off at Harrlsburg and tell
how to organize the singers.
John Dalzell, whiskered and wan,
is here to tell how he helped nomi
nate 'Lincoln. He has been doing It
ever since the 1860 convention and hl»
voice had to work hard to make It
self heard in what one of the Chi
cago scribes called "the Havana fog"
of the Congress. The air of the aver
age hotel corridor is made up of three
layers. The ground swell is the odor
of shoe polish, the second of perspira
tion and the third of smoke.
Harry K. Thaw's press agent an
nounced that he would be hero.
National Committeeman W. R. Jack
son. of Maryland, Is a big lumberman
and has the delegation from his State
well In tow.
Mary Garden did some newspaper
work for one of the Chicago papers,
but she did not like being bumped
about In the crowd.
A. B. H.
Kill Three When Negro Mob
Tries to Free Prisoners
Bluefield, W. Va., June B.—Three
persons were killed and two seriously
wounded late last night at Beckley,
W. Va., fifty miles from Bluefield,
when a mob composed of negroes at
tempted to take three negro prisoners
from a party of deputy sheriffs, ac
cording to advices received here.
Mob leaders, it is claimed, thought
an attempt was going lo be made to
lynch the prisoners and opened fire on
the deputies. Many shots were ex
changed and a deputy sheriff and two
negroes were killed and two deputies
wounded.
Six arrests have been made.
MACHINIST GOES WEST
Annville, Pa.. June 8. Jonas
Krall, a machinist at the Miller Auto
Company garage left to-day for Ra
cine, Wisconsin, where he has accepted
a position.
Mr. Went-And-Sut-lt
—Here's Mr. 'Gets-It'
The New Plan Corn Cure That's
as Sure as the Rising Sun
"Glad to meat you!" says the razor
to the corn. "I'll hired for you!" says
the corn to the razor. Razors and
corns love each other. Corns love to
♦TVky, O Whr. Did I Do MV
for Me After This—lf I Lire 1"
be cut, picked, gouged, salved, plaster
ed and Jerked out —they grow faster.
Mr. and Mrs. Went-and-Cut-It realize It
now—they use "Gets-It" instead—it's
the wonderful, simple corn-cure that
never fails. Stops pain. You apply it
in 2 seconds. It dries at once, the corn
is doomed. Nothing to stick to the
stocking or press on the corn. It means
good-night to plasters, salves, diggers,
razors and toe-bundling You can wear
smaller shoes. Your corns will come
right orf, 'clean as a wyiiatle." Neve;-
inflames healthy flesh. The world's
biggest selling corn cure.
"Gets-It" is sold by druggists every
where, 25c a bottle, or sent direct by
£. L»wrtne» * Co., Chicago, lU.
THURSDAY EVENING,
ROOSEVELT MAY
ADDRESS CONVENTION
[Continued From first Pa«e]
"differences that have divided not
merely Republicans and Progressives,
but good Americans of all shades of
political belief. • • • • 9 j n i< into
nothing when compared with the is
sues now demanding decision • » •
the isues of unified Americanism and
national preparedness."
The answer in full follows:
"Honorable William B. Jackson,
"Republican Headquarters,
"Chicago, 111.
"In answer to your telegram I can
only say that the matter lies with the
Republican convention and that if the
convention desires me to address it I
shall be glad to do so.
"I very earnestly hope that the Re
publicans and Progressives assembled
at Chicago will keep steadily in mind
the gravity of this crisis, not only for
America, but for the world and the
need that their action in dignity, fore
sight and patriotism shall rise level to
the crisis. I hope that their aim will
be not merely to nominate a man who
can be elected next November, but a
man of such power, character, stead
fast conviction and proved ability that
If elected he will again place this na
tion where it belongs by making it
true to itself and therefore true to all
mankind. President Wilson, however
amiable his intention, has rendered to
this people the most evil service that
can be rendered to a great democracy
by its chosen leader. He has dulled
the national conscience and relaxed
the spring of lofty national motive
by teaching our people to accept high
sounding words as the offset and
atonement for shabby deeds and to use
words which mean nothing in order
to draw all meaning from those which
have a meaning. It will be no easy
task to arouse the austere self-respect
which has been lulled to slumber by
these means. To this task we should
bend our united energies in the spirit
of Washington and Lincoln, the spirit
of genuine democratic leadership, the
spirit which sets the standard to which
the nation ought to rise, and then
with confident hope appeal to the soul
of the people so that they may in fact
support the standard thus raised.
DlfTorenoes Sink Away
"The differences that have divided,
not merely Republicans and Progres
sives but good Americans of all
shades of political belief, from one an
other in the past sink into nothing
when compared with the issues now
demanding decision, for these issues
are vital to the national life. They
are the issues of a unified American
ism and of national preparedness. If
we are not all of us Americans and
nothing else, scorning to divide all
lines of section, of creed or of national
origin, then the nation itself will
crumble into dust.
"If we are not thoroughly prepared,
if we have not developed a strength
which respects the rights of others
but which is also ready to enforce
from others respect for its own rights,
then sooner or later we shall have to
submit to the will of an alien con
queror.
"These questions are not in the
realms of abstract thought. They must
be taken out of the world of cloudy
promise and vague phrasing into the
world of performance and of fact.
They are to-day in concrete form be
fore you and your fellows for decision.
For two years, in the face of the awful
world cataclysm, this nation has stood
supine and helpless and has not in the
smallest degree prepared itself to ward
off the danger. No promise, no excuse
now made by those responsible for
this inaction is entitled to serious con
sideration. If is for you and your as
sociates to show the people that they
have a worthy alternative to which to
turn.
"The professional German-Ameri
cans. acting through various agencies,
including so-called German-American
Alliances, are at this moment serving
notice on the members of your con
vention that your action must be taken
with a view to the interests, not of the
United States, but of Germany, and of
that section of the German-American
vote which is anti-American to the
core. I believe with all my heart that
the action of these sinister professional
German-Americans will be repudiated
with angry contempt by the great
mass of our fellow-citizens who are in
whole or in part of German blood—
and who, as I well know, are unsur
passed in rugged and whole-souled
Americanism by any other citizens of
our land. But the professional Ger
man-Americans are seeking to ter
rorize your convention; for they wish
to elect next November a man who
shall not be In good faith an American
president, but the viceroy of a foreign
government. It Is for your convention
in emphatic fashion to repudiate them.
This can be done In effective manner
only If such action !t> taken as to en
able Republicans, Progressives, Demo
crats who are true to the principles
of Andrew Jackson, unrt independents
—ln short, all loyal Americans—to
Join in the effort to reach the goal
we all have in view.
Pleads for Harmony
"Can we not, forgetting past differ
ences, join for the safety and honor
of our country to enforce the policies
of genuine Americanism and genuine
preparedness? Surely we can afford
to act in accordance with the words of
Abraham Lincoln when he said: 'May
not all having a common interest re
unite in a common effort to save our
common country? May we ask those
who have not differed with us to Join
in this same spirit toward those who
have?'
"As far as my own soul is known
to me, it is in this same spirit that
at this time I make my appeal to Re
publicans and Progressives assembled
at Chlrago. fSlgnertl
THEODORE: ROOSEVELT."
ARREST VICTIM'S SON-IN-LAW
FOR FRUTAI, TEXAS MURDER
Willspoint, Texas, June 8. —Follow-
ing the death of H. F. Goodright. late
yesterday his son-in-law, R. J. Moran,
was arrested for murder. Goodright,
who was president of the Vansant Na
tional Bank, was found fatally
wounded, his wife dead and their
daughter seriously wounded in their
home here.
They had been beaten with a large
hammer or ax. Moran was removed
from here by the sheriff and it is be
lieved he was taken to Canton.
GRAHAME-WHITE DIVORCED
London, June B.—Mrs. Claude Gra
hame-Wliite, formerly Miss Dorothy
Taylor, of New York, yesterday was
granted a divorce from her husband,
th eaviator. The decree was granted
on the grounds that Grahame-White,
now a flight commander in the British
aviation service, had not compiled
with the decree for the restitution of
conjugal rights granted his wife last
January.
NEW SILK MILL
Sfecial lo the Telegrafh
Miffllnhurg, Pa., June 7. Capital
ists from a distance were in MifTlin
burg yesterday and made final ar
rangements for the purchase of a
large tract of land In East Walnut
street, whereon they will a large
sill; mill.
THREE TRUSTIES ESCAPE
Pottsv ilie. Pa., June B.—John O'Neill
and Thomas McLaughlin, of Ashland,
and Martin Collier, of New Philadel
phia, pri.«onei*s In thp county Jail here,
escaped yesterday. They were trusties
nnd were engaged in wheeling out
, ashes. They would have completed
I tblr terms In a lew weeks.
CONVENTION IS
VERY PATRIOTIC
Bands and Singing Clubs Make
Hotel Lobbies Vibrate
With State Tunes
[B.T a Staff Correspondent]
Chicago, June 8. This Is the most
patriotic convention known since the
Civil War. All one needs to do Is to
get a band to play an ail-American
tune and everyone takes off his hat
and stands at attention. Men who
probably went walking on when the
band played the "Star Spangled Ban
ner at home get excited when they
hear America and tell their neighbors
to uncover.
The Roosevelt people are making a
tremendous play on Americanism and
as Chicago was considerably stirred up
by the preparedness parade on Satur
day and the general sentiment is for
defense planks which will beat any
thing the Democrats may do It does
not take much to stir up enthusiasm.
Convention crowds are given to waving
the starry banner anyhow and when
you have a rainy day or two and peo
ple have to stay insiae patriotism gets
started without much trouble.
A band which has been employed by
the Sherman people to visit hotel lob
bies, the Columbus Glee Club and some
never wearying musical prodigies at
the Congress are largely responsible
for the euphonic end of the patriotic
outbursts. The general atmosphere
does not rest. You are standing peace
ably with a friend in a hotel corridor
whe nthe crowds about you part as
though a motor was coming and you
are standing with your hat off while
the "Red, White and Blue" is played
about you. Then the crowd will ,loin
in the singing of "America," and prob
ably before you get done you are hum
ming the air "Wake Up, America," or
"You'll Be There."
, It is astonishing the number of State
tunes. Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, Il
linois and other States have special
airs and the Southerners get up and
howl when the bands play "Dixie." It
is a great convention for patriotism
and the music helps a lot.
Here is one of the popular patriotic
songs:
"The American Flag"
Your flag and my flag, and how
it flies to-day
In your land and my land and half
a world away;
Rose red and blood red its
stripes forever gleam.
Snow white and soul white, the
good forefathers' dream:
Sky blue and true blue with
stars that gleam aright;
The gloried guidon of the day, a
shelter through the night.
Your flag and my flag, and, oh,
how much It holds!
Your land and my land, secure
within its folds;
Your heart and my heart beat
quicker at the sight.
Sun-kissed and wind-tossed, the
red and blue and white:
The one flag—the great flag—
the flag for me and you,
Glorifies all else beside, the red
and white and blue.
A. B. H.
MAY SWING INTO
LINE BEHIND T. R.
[Continued From First Page J
West Virginia and Ohio and that if
nothing is done on this ballot that he
will loom up.
There are persistent rumors that
Senator Penrose is In such close touch
with the Roosevelt people that if the
tide turns in favor of the Colonel that
he will be In position to lead Penn
sylxania into line.
Confer Witli Penrose
Senator Penrose, after the conven
tion, returned promptly to his hotel
rooms and continued the conference
with big party leaners. Senator
Weeks, ex-Senator Dick, ex-Governor
Murphy, of New Jersey; Senator
Smoot and Senator Curtis were among
the callers who talked the national
situation with him. Senator Penrose
and Senator Borah, the latter rep
resenting the Hughes faction, while
Penrose is for a compromise an har
mony candidate, are now the center
of the fight, while Perkins and Van
Valker.burg are working to obtain
Roosevelt if possible as the Republi
can candidate.
For Harmony
"There is no real change in the
situation," said Senator Penrose. "I
and others are doing all that we can
to bring harmony between the two
wings of the party.
"Very little progress has been made
and no compromise candidate has
arisen yet who is acceptable to Roose
velt. I think that the convention after
duf deliberation and without coercion
will finally end its sessions by naming
a man as a candidate for President
who will unite the party."
Senator Penrose would not admit
that the trend to Hughes was increas
ing. He denied, however, that Hughes
would obtain Ml votes on the first
ballot.
'"He will not t(ct near that num
ber," he added.
While Senator Penrose appears to
be a strong figure in the situation, he
is opposed by the attitude of Murray
Crane, of Massachusetts, and Senator
Smoot, Old Guard leaders, supporting
Hughe::, because they believe he is
the only man who can win against
Wilson. Senator Borah, the Progres
sive Republican leader, holds the
same view, and he can swing a large
following of Progressive Republicans,
while the other two men can influence
Old Guard jlelegates.
Representative W. W. Oriest, a
Hughes njan, predicted that more than
half of the Pennsylvania delegation
wculd go to Hughes on the second or
third ballot.
Speaking about the tenor of the;
opening day of the Republican con-!
vention, Congressman Vare said:
"The speech of Senator Harding will !
appeal to both factions of the Re-1
publican party. It was strong in its
Americanism, it was full of the spirit
that made the nation in the early days
and it was specific with reference to
the kind of a navy and army we
should have. It showed the weak
ness of the present Democratic Ad
ministration. not merely with respect
to foreign affairs, especially Mexico,
but with reference to the piling up of
taxes which would be unnecessary un
der a protective tariff that would give
security to wastes as well as industry.
"It was evident that the convention
was looking for a harmonizer. Next
to his demand for real preparedness
the part of Mr. Harding's speech that
won the most applause was his ap
peal for the reconsocratlon of the Re
publican party. When he said that
the party should stand together and
that the minority should accept the
will of the majority there was great
enthusiasm."
i, A. B. H.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LEADERS CONVINCED
BE TWO TICKETS
[Continued FYom First Pa*c]
irdicate what its tenor would be. The
Republican nomination for President
piobably will be made in the Coliseum
to-morrow but It is not expected the
convention will adjourn before Satur
day. Ostensibly the session will be
prolonged to give more deliberate
consideration than is usual for the
nomination for second place, but the
real purpose, it is believed. Is to avoid
adjournment before the Progressive
convention has acted.
Progressives Nomina!- Saturday
The Progressive convention prob
ably will not nominate before Satur
day. There will only be a few hours
of session to-day and that will be de
voted to platform making and routine.
1 li« delegates are confident that on
Saturday they will name as their
ticket Roosevelt and Johnson, their
stundard bearers of four years ago.
While there has been little real dis
cussion by Republicans of vice-presi
dential possibilities and it is recog
nized that geographical conditions and
political expediency will govern, con
siderable talk was heard to-day indi
cating that there might be concentra
tion on either former Vice-President
Fairbanks, of Indiana, or former Sen
ator Burton of Ohio.
Nothing will be settled as to the
Vice Presidency, however, until the
head of the ticket has been chosen.
Nominating May Be Delayed
The developments of the last twenty
four hours made it plain that neither
contention would come to the point of
making a nomination before Friday,
and that It was possible the time of
nominating might be delayed beyond
that time.
Committees of both conventions,
named yesterday, worked most of the
night and this morning endeavoring to
clean up their work. The resolutions
subcommittee of the Republican con
vention finished its deliberations at
1.30 o'clock this morning, having
drafted a platform. Other committees
pressed forward with their programs
trying to be ready with reports when
the convention sesions were resumed.
Expect T. R. to Arrive
Meanwhile discussions of possible
peace and fusion of the two parties
assumed a more concrete trend and
the rumor became 'persistent that
Colonel Roosevelt might come to Chi
cago and appear before both conven
tions in the role ot pacificator. Re
publican leaders discussed the pro
posal to invite Roosevelt to Chicago
and decided, it was said, that if Roose
velt Is prepared to declare himself out
of the contest for the nomination and
enter Into an agreement for the selec
tion of one of the Republican candi
dates, the invitation would be forth
coming.
Contrary to this view, leading Pro
gressives declared that Colonel Roose
velt would be nominated by the Pro
gressive convention regardless of what
was done at the Coliseum or in the
counsel rooms of the Republican party
leaders. William Allen White, of Kan
sas, insisted that Roosevelt would be
nominated before midnight to-night
and that Governor Hiram Johnson, of
California, would be nominated for
Vice-President by the Progressives.
But the peace pian discussion in
volved Progcsslves in considerable
numbers to-day. The word went out
that a peace conference between re
sponsible leaders of both parties might
be begun before nightfall. The con
ference would take up the suggestion
that the Republican and Progressive
conventions name committees to meet
and attempt to reach an agreement as
to a joint candidate and a Joint plat
form.
Delay yesterday in this matter, some
! Republicans said, was due to lack of
j authority in the rules adopted for the
j temporary organization of the conven
} tion. Authority is forthcoming, how
ever, it was said, in the new rules. j
Others stated that this was a mere
| subterfuge; that the leaders in the
j Republican camp have come to the
| conclusion that Hughes will get the
nomination and that there will be no :
considerable opposition from Roose-
I velt.
Some Bull Moose Against Peace
From Progressive quarters came re
ports that certain western Progressive
delegations were solidly against any
plans for fusion and peace. It was
said that North Dakota and other Pro
gressive state delegations desired a
j third party above all else, ana would
do everything possible to prevent the
Auditorium convention from entering
| into or ratifying any sort of peace
| These state delegations, it was
| reported, were sufficient in numbers to
block efforts of George W. Perkins
and other Progressive leaders from
entering into agreement with the Re
publicans.
If this situation is correct, it means
in all probability that the Progressive
convention will go on and complete
its work regardless of what the lead
ers may suggest or order, and that
Colonel Roosevelt will receive a nomi
nation whether he wants it or not.
Such conditions arc serving in part to
increase expectancy of Roosevelt's
coming to Chicago, and it was stated
by men closely in touch with develop
ments that only Roosevelt's arrival on
the ground would head off the rank
and file of Progressive delegates In the
mood they exhibited yesterday and
to-day.
Free-for-AU Fist Fight
Three days of rain, putting a stop to
nearly all outdoor activity, has had a
depressing effect upon many of the
delegates, and as ? result there has
been developed a strain of belligerency
in many normally not observable.
There have occurred several personal
clashes among delegates-tn hotel lob
bies and last night in the lobby of the
Congress Hotel Sherman adherents
and Roosevelt followers engaged In a
free-for-all fight and scramble that in
volved several score men. Police ex
perienced difficulty in restoring order
and several persons were slightly in
jured.
Hall Cold and Damp
I When the doors of the Coliseum
; were opened this morning two hours
I before the Republican convention was
\ due to begin business the pouring rain
! which has soaked the delegates and
\ spectators for three days was still fall
ing. ,
The hall was cold and damp, drip
ping raincoats and umbrellas soaked
the floor, but the bedraggled delegates
made the best of it. The band up in
the gallery enlivened the wait as the
| crowd began assembling.
The usual line of ticket speculators
i braved the rain, hawking admissions
s —the price of which steadily decline.
I Inasmuch as the temporary organiza
tion had been made permanent yester
| day nothing remained but to report
j the proceeding to the convention and
i ask its approval. The continued
; gloomy weather was beginning to
show Us depressing effect on all phases
,; of the convention. There was evl
, dent among the early arriving dele
, gates something of a disposition to be
' i lleve that it might hasten the progress
and bring about a final adjournment
>on Friday, but among the men who
! control th« sessions of the convention
1 i there was. an absence of prediction as
to final adjournment.
"Uncle Joe" Lands
"Uncle Joe" Cannon was one of the
, early arrivals. He was having some
.(trouble petting to the Illinois delega
;; tion and a big policeman bucked the
I line to let him through.
Police Chief Healy looked over the
hall and reported to Colonel Stone,
the sergeant-at-arma that It was the
most orderly convention he had seen
in thirty year*..
Eleven o'clock passed without a sign
of the convention coming to order.
The aisles were crowded with dele
gates moving to their seats, but the
hall was only about naif full.
Opens at 11:22 a. in.
It was 11:22 when Chairman Hard
ing brought down the gavel.
His call for order brought immedi
ate response and the aisles were
cleared.
Chairman Harding asked the con
vention to rise while Monsignor Fran
cis O. Kelley road a prayer. The con
vention stood in silence.
Hughes Rumors Revived
A rumor circulated last night that
Justice Hughes had sent word to the
Hughes campaign managers that he
would not accept the Republican nom
ination unless it comes from a united
party, was revived to-day. It was de
nied by Hitchcock and others at
Hughes' headquarters. The favorite
son combination and Roosevelt sup
porters were greatly Interested in the
report and naturally took no steps to
counteract it.
It was said to-day by those in charge
of the Hughes forces that former
Senator Pulton, of Oregon, will be
floor leader in the convention for
Hughes.
•V. Y. Will lie First
It seems certain that New York will
be the first to place candidates in
nomination at the Republican conven
tion. Whether it will be Alabama or
Arizona that will yield is not settled.
If New York Is recognized there
may be some conflct as to whether the
name of Justice Hughes or that of
former Senator Root will be first pre
sented. The delegation Itself will de
cide this question, but both of New
York's sons will be placed before the
convention before another State is
called up.
Chairman Harding was ready to go
on with the next business but the
band began "Rock of Ages." When
through the first bar, however, the
band leader saw he was out of order
and stopped.
Mr. Harding then called for the re
port of the credentials committee. Sen
ator Smoot, the chairman, came up
on the platform to make the report
and was greeted with applause.
Reads Credentials Report
The report recommending the seat
ing of 987 delegates was read by the
senator with a list of the decisions in
contested cases. It excluded two dele
gates from the District of Columbia,
admitted two each from Alaska and
Hawaii.
The reading of the report was a
lengthy affair but the senator was in
good voice and as the convention was
able to hear him it paid attention.
Scattering applause greeted an
nouncement of some of the contents.
At its close Senator Smoot moved the
adoption of the report. There was no
objection. A rolling cheers of ayes
put it through.
The report of the committee on per
manent organization was next. Wil
liam S. Hahn, of Ohio, made the re
port recommending the temporary or
ganization be made permanent. For
mer Representative Bennett, of New
York took the gavel and put the ques
tion and it was carried.
Demonstration For Harding
Mr. Bennett then presented Senator
Harding: as permanent chairman.
There was quite a demonstration and
when he tried to gavel it down the
crowd cheered a little louder.
Repeated whacks of the Ravel only
brought more of a demonstration. The
delegates rose and the cheers rolled
louder;
It was the longest sustained demon
stration of the convention so far.
Finally the crowd quieted and Mr.
Harding thanked the convention for
Its approval.
The report of the rules committee
was next but it was not ready and at
the chairman's request the band start
ed up again while awaiting the re
port.
989 Votes Now
The chairman stopped the music to
recognize Senator Smoot again for a
supplemental report from the creden
tials committee. It proposed to give
votes to the six delegates from Hawaii,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. It
was adopted without opposition.
That made the total number of
votes in the convention 989, making
495 votes necessary to a nomination.
Finally the report of the rules com
mittee was ready and National Com
mitteeman C. D. Warren, of Michigan
presented it. It was a unanimous re
port and has been published.
Briefly the rules of the convention
are those of the House of Representa
tives with certain modifications to
adapt them to the needs of so different
a body.
Favors T. R. Presence
One of the rules prohibits a state
delegation from changing its vote
unless there has been an error in cast
ing it. Heretofore delegates have been
able to do so.
While the report of the rules com
mittee was being read an Associated
Press dispatch from Oyster Bav quot
ing Colonel Roosevelt as willing to
come to Chicago if the Republican
convention wanted him to address it
was handed to Chairman Harding. He
showed it to Senator Borah, Murray
Crane and Charles D. Hilles and it
was then passed around to others.
Senator Harding had no comment
to make, but Senator Borah said:
"If I were sure Roosevelt actually
said that himself, I would be in favor
of inviting him here."
Depew Makes Speech
The report of the resolutions com
mittee was the next order of business,
but the chairman announced that with
the arbitrary authority which goes
with the gavel he would appoint
ex-Secretary Stlmson and Speaker
Sweet, of New York, to escort Chaun
cey M. Depew to the platform. Bow
ing and smiling, Mr. Depew took his
place while the dele gates applauded.
This was taken to mean there was a
delay in bringing In the resolutions
report. Some of the delegates shouted
"Speech" and Mr. Depew began.
Speaks On Preparedness
Klghty-two years old, the famous
New Yorker faced the convention. His
voice, still full and round, carried bet
ter than those of younger men who
had preceded him, and he was given
closest attention.
Mr. Depew told the convention it
was the sixty-first anniversary of his
preaching of Republicanism.
The general tone of Mr. Depew's
speech was for national preparedness
and ihe convention approved it.
Congressman Joseph G. Cannon was
next introduced.
Without the celebrated black cigar,
"Uncle Joe" bowed and smiled. The
resolution committee still was at work
and the speakers devoted their efforts
to killing time.
Then Comes "Uncle Joe"
"Chauncey." said "Uncle Joe." turn
ing »o Mr. Depew, "I am coming: to
your one hundredth anniversary." The
crowd laughed.
When he got to discussing Ameri
canism Mr. Cannon practically re
pented the "melting pot" speech he
delivered several months ago in the
House during the passage of the im
migration bill.
Mr. Cannon cloned by predicting
that "the gates of hell" would not
JUNE 8, 1916.
BADGES OF ALL
KINDS ARE WORN
Republican Emblem Cost
Couple of Dollars; Prettily
Ornamented
[B.v a Staff Correspondent]
Chicago. June 8. Thousands of
dollars have heen spent for the badges
for the two conventions held here this
week. The official emblems provided
for the Republican convention are es
timated to cost, a couple of dollars
apiece and the Progressive designs are
not so far behind. They are hard to
get and those who are able to accumu
late two or three stalk about like field
marshals wearing the decorations of
hard-fought campaigns. Some of the
badges have been selling for figures
which would astonish even a collector
of such souvenirs.
The official Republican badges have
the national capltol in either old gold
or Oerman silver and the official rank
on a bar In red, blue or some other
colored enamel according to the classi
fication. The pendant is a spread eagle
and a wreath of laurel. It contains
the words "Republican National Con
vention, 1916." It is ornamented with
the stars and stripes In enamel. Even
the pages have badges that loolt like
knights of a foreign order.
Badges of All Descriptions,
The Progressive official badge is cop
per or silver colored according to class
with a big capitol dome at the top.
The rank of the wearer is shown by
bars and some of the officials look like
winners of twenty years' militia rifle
matches. Then there is a trl-color rib
bon and the medal contains the effi
gies of Washington, Jefferson and Lin
coln.
Then there are the State badges.
The Fairbanks people must have spent
a small fortune on the gilt and enamel
affairs which their partisans wear.
The Root people also have some hand
some badges, but the State delegations
outdo al! candidates. These badges
are mostly on geographical plans. Cali
fornia, Maine and other States have
pendants cut in the outlines of their
Commonwealth and Maine's emblem is
ornamented with a pine tree In green
enamel. Indiana Roosevelt men have
a picture of the colonel as big as a
saucer and Kansas sports the Inevit
able sunflowers.
Candidates" badges are chiefly cellu
loid portraits, although the Sherman
people have ribbons with the name of
their favorite stitched on in gold.
There are no official Hughes or Knox
badges or buttons except what volun
teers choose to provide, a condition
which excites much comment. For a
candidate as much in the limelight as
Hughes it would seem that badges
would be a necessary adjunct. But
this convention is breaking records
even in the badge line. A. B. H.
prevail against the Republican plat
form if it were made broad enough to
cover all Americans.
Chairman Harding then presented
Senator Borah, of Idaho. There was a
good bit of a demonstration for him.
"A nation which declares itself too
proud to flglit," said Borah, "will
soon be regarded as too cowardly to
live."
Borah spoke eighteen minutes, hold
ing his audience in lils usual way, and
then Herbert Parsons moved that the
convention recess untii 4 p. m. to wait
further for the resolutions committee.
There were shouts of "Good" and the
delegates were moving out before the
motion was formally carried. The
recess was taken at 1.31 o'clock.
Roosevelt Gets Seventeen
Delegates in North Carolina
Raleigh, N. C., June 8. Theodore
Roosevelt was the choice of Republi
can voters in the State at large and
eight districts In the presidential pref
erential primary of last Saturday, ac
cording to complete returns received
last night. Justice Hughes carried
two districts.
This would give Roosevelt 17 of
North Carolina's delegates in the na
tional convention and Hughes four.
Federal Judge J. C. Pritchara was the
Republican preference for vice-presi
dent. President Wilson and Vice-Pres
ident Marshall received the Democra
tic vote.
Keynotes of Ball Moose
Platform Are Americanism
and Full Preparedness
Chicago, June B.—Ringing declara
tions of Americanism and for pre
paredness, military, spiritual, econo
mic and industrial, are keynotes of
the Progressive national platform
completed to-day in co-operation with
the Republican convention platform
builders. The Progressive platform
leaders hoped to present their docu
ment to the convention today or to
morrow at the latest.
The "Americanism" planks, minus
direct reference to hypenism de
clared for upholding American rights
on land and-sea, guarding "the honor
and influence of our nation" and main
tenance of "the Integrity of interna
tional law."
The platform also declares that the
supreme duty of civilization is to make
peace permanent after the war, for
which this nation should be prepared
in every sphere. Regarding military
preparedness the platform declares for
"a navy restored to at least, second
rank in battle efficiency," a standing
army of 250,000 men and "a system
of universal military training—a citi
zen soldiery—controlled by the Na
tional government." '
Regarding Mexico, the platform as
serts that "every resource of the gov
ernment should be forthwith used to
end these conditions.
Other platform declarations are for
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SUFFRAGISTS ARE
BUZZING ABOUT
Wear More Badges Than Aver
age Western Delegate; Ready
With Arguments
[By a Staff Correspondent.]
Chicago, 111., June B.—The average
Pennsylvanlan is just. a bit bewildered
by the manner in which the suffragists
are swishing around in this crowd.
Just imagine a Pennsylvania suffrage
conference being held in Harrisburg
on the same day that, a Republican or
Democratic State committee was meet
ing and the good ladies buzzing aboiW
in the corridors of the Commonwealth
and the Bolton just like the men. It
anything, they are wearing mora
badges than the average western dele
gate and they are ready with argu
ments.
There have been two suffrage, or, as»
they call It here, women's party, con
ventions under way here for a couple
of days, with the Congressional Union
holding afternoon teas at the Black
stone. No one seems to have ascer
tained why there should be two wom
en's parties, but the most plausibl»
explanation is that the cause is not as
well supplied with generalcies as a.
Mexican army.
Wn U-liing Pennsylvania
The suffragists are going at their
conventions and caucus meetings with
a good hit of seriousness and as they
have a right to vote here they are on
the same plane as us mere men. They
are bright, alert, well-posted women,
and the way a couple talked to a
squad of newspaper men from Penn
sylvania about the recent "crime" was
a treat. They could not understand
why we would not go out and carry
the banner through the sixty-seven
counties and predicted that we would
all be writing our fingers off In favor
of the amendment at the next election.
"We are watching Pennsylvania anc*
we hope to welcome her to the sister
hood of commonwealths which have
given woman her rightful place ' was
the parting shot of one young woman
who knew as much about, the recent
amendment campaign in Pennsylvania
as I did.
The suffragists, or woman's party
women, as they like to be called, do
not hesitate to act like real conven
tion folks. One woman had a bale of
notes in her hand and walked up and
down in the crowd rehearsing, utterlj
oblivious to the throng. I'd like to
hear that speech. A. B. H.
STRIKE CLOSES GLASS PLANT
Kane, Pa., June 8. —The Hazelhurst
window glass plant at Hazelhurst
closed yesterday when the ring ranch
ers and blowers struck, the company
having refused to recognize their
newly organized union. The Hazel
hurst plant Is the third to close within
forty-eight hours.
woman suffrage, regulation of indus
try and "just distribution of its re
turns;" conservation, re-establishment
of the American merchant marine; na
tional highways development; a per
manent tariff commission and a pro
tective tariff.
BURGESS* WIFE DIES
Special to the Telegraph
Miftllnburg, Pa., June 8. Yester
day tl.e wife of Thomas O. Gutellus,
burgess of Mifflinburg, died at her
home in Market street, aged about 50
years.
RAP PREACHERS
WHO RUN DEBTS
[Continued From First Pajrc] j
Pennsylvania and Delaware, ajid fol
lowed an address by Dr. B. F. Watson,
of Washington, secretary of the Gen
eral Church Extension Society, who
gave a report of conditions in this con
ference. A lengthy discussion follow
ed, which was interrupted by Bishop
Tyree when he began his criticism.
Associated with Bishop Tyree is
Bishop W. H. Heard, of Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia conference is the old
est In the world and wits organized
one hundred years ago last April in
Philadelphia. During the day reports
were read from pastors showing big
Increases In membership and finances
for various church movements.
Among the foremost were those of the
Revs. C. C. Dunlap, former pastor in
Harrisburg; W. S. Carpenter, of Phila
delphia; W. H. Hoxter, of Wilmington,
Del.; H. Y. Arnett, and H. H. Cooper,
of Philadelphia. Harrisburg reports
will be submitted later in the week.
Committee reports will begin to
morrow, and appointments of pastors
will be announced next Monday morn
ing by Bishop Tyree, before conference
adjourns. A number of changes are
expected In several of the districts. It
was not known to-day whether any
would be made in Harrisburg. The
Rev. George F. Woodson, dean of the
speakers this evening at the informal
observance of Educational Anniver
sary Night. To-morrow afternoon the
Woman's Missionary Society will have
sessions and report on the work of
the last year. A place for the 101 st
session next year will probably be se
lected on Saturday.
Sunday morninfi ordination services
will be the feature with Sunday school
and Christian Endeavor rallies later
in the day and a special service in the
Bethel church in the evening. Visiting
pastors will speak in other local
churches during the day.
Among the candidates who applied
to-day for admission are Daniel
Wright, Samuel Murray, Andrew Roth
well and Hezekiah Tilghman.
Short addresses were given this
morning by the Rev. J. I. Lowe, of
Philadelphia; the Rev. R. R. Wright,
Jr., of Philadelphia, and the Rev. R.
C. Ransom, of New York city.