Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-18

stroyed by fire which originated on The
third floor OF the building last night
The building covered an entire block
10 the heart OF Richmond's business
center and adjoined the 81, 900, OOC
plant of the American Tobacco Com
pany, whose private apparatus wa:
kept constantly engaged entiDguishlnp
sparks which fell on the property. The
loss is estimated at 5000, 900, with only
800. 900 insurance. Two hundred
employees OF the company are tenn per
arily out of work.
TIE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
Yesterdays proceedings in the ma
tional republican convention in Chicago
showed thst the administration has COM
oil, to control of the situation. It's mas
tery was made manifest from the very
outset. The report OF the committee on
credentials, seating the delegates whose
seats had been contested, was a mere
formal Endorsement of what the nstionsl
committee had done last week. BY
adot ting the report the convention gave
seats to more than 200 additional Taft
delep, tss, 80 that now the Taft forces on
the floor amount to over 700, and Mr..
Tsft's nomination on the first ballot is
unques,ioned even by the allies.
And what is mora impoltIDt, the day
showed that these delegates sre we'll dis
ciplined. As it, perhaps, to test them,
Mr. Lodge in his address, when sssnm-
ing the chair, deliberately invited the
stampede" to Mr.. Roosevelt that has
hung like shadow on the horizon OF
Mr.. Taft's success. He is the best hated
and the most popular man in America
today" said Mr.. Lodge, and then
stopped t. wait for the storm. 1t came
like q whirlwind; it swept over the great
hall and the audience was carried away.
For 40 minutes the spectators went in
sane, but the majority OF them sat I'M
moved.
In reply to the president Senator
Lodge said: "The presidents refusal
of a denomination, dictated by the loftiest
motives and by q noble loyalty to Amer
lean tradition, is final and irrevocable.
But, although the president rsties, he
leaves his policies behind him. To
those policies the republican party stands
pledged. We must carry out as we
have begun, regardless of the radicals OF
reaction and the radicals Of revolution. "
The Taft forces again showed Their
control OF the convention when the
Burke resolution cutting down the num-
Der of southern delegates was defeated
by a decisive vote OF All to SOY.
Here the line was shsrply drawn. The
delegates that have aligned themselves
with the allied opposition to TAFT voted
for the Burke resolution; Mr.. TafFs
friends opposed il.
Immediately after the roll call on
Burke's resolution the convention ad-
joDrned til noon tomorrow.
Vice President Fairbanks sent let
ter to Senator Hemenwsy again saying
that be would not be candidate for the
second place on the ticket.
After holding of all day the subcom-
mitJee at 10 p. 20. agreed to submit an
anti-iDjunction plank to the full CON-
miltse on resolutions.
So recalcitrsut did the committee on
resolutions seem in regsr ID the admin
STATIONS spti-ipjunction plank that
this yelled threat Was made by its advO-
cst,s:
III the republican convention deliber-
st.ly refuses II adopt that platform on
which Secretary Taft feels he can make
a winning race the republican conven-
ton will have to nominate mau who
needs no platform to win"
The inunet on plank, approved last
night by the subcommittee on resolu-
tons, asserts that the republican party
always has and always will uphold the
processes and proceedings OF the courts,
and has absolute faith in their integrity
and upr ghtness.
Nevei leless, it believes that the in
junction practice should be so modified
as to provide that only where irrepsr'
able dsmsge u property is imminent the
courts may grant iujunctions without
notice.
1t is also specified that, in cases where
notice is given, the time shall not ex
coed seven dsy.