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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
TAFT WILL Be
NOMINATED LAST
His Name Will Not Be Pre-
sented Until After That
of Roosevelt.

Washington. June 7.-President
Taft's name may not be the first to be
presented to the republican national
convention at Chicago. and, in fact.
Taft leaders still in Washington said
that the presidents name might not
be put before the convention until af-
ter Roosevelt has been put in nomina-
ton.
1t became known that when c. d.
Hilles. President Taft's secretary, left
for Chicago last night he carried with
him draft of tentative plan for
the presentation of the Presidents
name to the convention. That plan
was declared to be subject to altera-
tion by Taft leaders now in Chicago.
and, Of course. by Mr.. Taft himself II
he finds it unsuitable. before the day
when the nominations are made.
According to the plan taken away
by Mr.. Hilles, the name of Senator
A. B. Cummins Of Iowa, who has ten
delegates from his own state pledged
to him, may be the first given to the
convention.
Alabama stands at the head of the
list of states on the convention roll.
Counting upon the Alabama delega-
ton as certain for Taft, his political
advisers suggested that she should
yield. not to Ohio. the presidents own
state. which would put him in nom
ination, but to Iowa, that might put
forward the name Of its senior sena-
tor.
Next in the roll Of states comes
Arizona. The Taft adherents claim
Arizona, too. and that state. according
to the approved. scheme, would yield
to New York.
Arkansas, another state claimed by
the Taft leaders under this plan.
would then. yield to Ohio and the
name of the president be put before
the convention by Warren G. Harding,
former lieutenant governor of the
state and one Of its delegates at
large.
With Cummins, Roosevelt and Taft
out Of the way, Wisconsin will nomi-
nate La Toilette and friends of the
president claim that in putting his
name before the convention his
sponsor can be relied upon to leave
with the convention just before the
vote. a denunciation of Roosevelt.
Although this was said to be the
plan most favored at present, others
have been considered. One was for
the presentation of Mr.. Taft's name
by Mr.. Harding before other candi-
dates, another was that Mr.. Taft
might be suggested to the convention
by New York. This appealed to some
of the presidents friends, particularly
because it is Mr.. Roosevelt's home
state.
One reason advanced against the
giving of the honor to Ohio was that
the state has more Roosevelt than
Taft delegates.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
DEMOCRATIC REPORT LOST

Washington, June 7.-Consterna-
tion seized the minority members of
the house ways and means committee
today when. just before adjournment
of the house it was discovered that the
minority report on the democratic cot
ton tariff revision bill had disappeared.
This was the last day under the rules
on which the dissenting report could
be filed. Representative Payne Of
New York begged the house to be
magnanimous and extend the time one
more day.
Mr. Dalzell has the report" he
said, pleadingly. and he has disap-
peared. We have been unable to lind
him.
Representative Payne and Long
worth of ohio had been making fever
ish search for the PENNSYLVANIA mem
l'er throughout the capitol and the
house office building, hut in vain.
They faced the possibility of having
the cotton measure so before the
country apparently on Il unanimous
committee report. The house. how
ever. was magnanimouS and the
searchers We're given another day of
grace in which to run down the miss
ing Mr.. Dalzell.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
WILSON GOT PRAISE
BUT NO DELEGATES
North Carolina Endorsed
His Candidacy But Dele
gates Uninstructed.

Raleigh. N. c.. June AFTER an
all night session. the state democratic
convention elected eight delegates at
large to the Baltimore convention and
by vote of sos to 396 indorsed Gov
ernor Wilson'S candidacy. The dele
gates are uninstructed. but six are
said to favor Wilson an dtwo are said
10 be neutral. The convention was
a tumultuous one and adjourned al
$3.50 o'clock this morning. Each del
egate will have half vote.
The convention battled until after
midnight over the nomination of the
state ticket and RESOLUTIONS endors-
ing North Cardinals state officers and
representatives in congress. The
friends Of Governor Kitchin vainls
endeavored to prevent an endorse.
ment of the record of Senator sim.
mons. whom the governor is oppos.
ing for re-eIection. Nick Craig wa,
unanimously nominated for eovernor
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
MEMBER TR|ED,T0
KILL SPEAKER
He Failed in His Workman
ship and Then Shot Him
self Twice.

Budapest. Hungary. June Count
Tisma. president of the lower house,
had a narrow escape from assassina-
tion in the diet. He was fired upon
three times by Deputy Gulius Kovacs
who then shot himself with fatal eff.
fleet.
Tisza was uncathed. Kovacs wAs
one Of the most militant members Of
the opposition and among those who
were elected from the chamber We'd
nesday because of disorderly conduct.
He was suspended from several sittings
but this morning when the chamber
|reconvened. he managed to evade the
police and he found his way into the
press gallery Soon after the pro.
|ceeding opened. kovacs moved to the
front OF the gallery, and shouting
there are still opposition members in
this chamber" drew a revolver and
emptied three chambers in the direc-
ton of the president. Then. seemingly
chagrined at his bad markmanship he
put two bullets into his own body.
The attack upon the count is the di.
rect outcome of the agitation which
has been persisted in since his election
AZ speaker on May 22.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
MONK CASE APPEAL.

Washington. June ITO save re-
ligious orders. particularly of the
Catholic church, from threatened dis
integration, attorneys Of the Order of
st. Benedict Of New Jersey will ask
the supreme court of the United
States to review the recent decision of
the Eighth United States circuit court
of appeals that the agreement of a
monk to convey all his property to his
order was void. as against public
policy.
The decision was made in the case
of Father Augustin Wirth, for fifty
years member of the Benedictine or
der and at his death priest of Ger
man church society at Springfield.
MINI. The court held that his rela-
tives rather than the order to whom
he had made VOWS of chastity, poverty
and obedience, We're entitled to the
$5. 900 property in his name when he
died.
Many attorneys have filed briefs
with the court in support of their
proposed request for review.
IF carried out to it's full extent, -
the attorneys stated the decision
may eventually dissolve or distinte-
crate the temporal organization of the
church orders"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
The Reasons Why Roosevelt Managers
Are Contesting Washington Delegation

statement and these charges, there is a
sharp issue.
have examined the facts in this
case with care, and I now set them
forth simply and consecutively, and
with an attempt to avoid anything
like exaggeration. Nowhere are the
tactics used by the administration to
venHon majority better illustrated
than in the state of Washington.
Thrust at Colleges.
i commend careful consideration
of the facts set forth below to those
presidents of colleges and leaders in
various movements of progress and re-
form. who have seen fit to lend their
influential names to the candidacy of
Mr.. Taft on the theory, as they assert.
that his cause is that of the safety of
our institutions and the happiness and
well-being of our people. If they can
persist in this attitude In the face of
the following record Of the attempt to
throttle popular majorities, to pervert
the unmistable verdict Of the people
and to substitute for the honest opera
ton Of representative institutions the
methods Of applied anarchy which
prevailed In the state of Washington.
then I would like to know by what
line OF reasoning these gentlemen
CdSu SAtSlt NOuS10cAOAAo VI Ju0Sk4y khClI
conduct.
In the state Of Washington the
Spokesman Review. which has been
friendly to the president and an advo-
cate of his denomination. takes him
sharply to task for his statement that
the charges of fraud and force in the
election of Taft delegates are without
evidence to support them. saying in an
editorial in its issue of May Is:
Entitled to Washington.
"The president in making this state
ment cannot have been rightly inform
ed as to the situation in Washington
/" There is no blur back of
the Roosevelt contesting delegation
from Washington. neither was there
any resort to fraud or force respect
ting this delegation. The people of
Washington know-and none more
than the Taft machine leaders-that
Colonel Roosevelt is entitled to the
fourteen votes from this state. and yet
the effort is being made to hoodwink
President Taft. to lull him into the
belief that the republican delaGation
from Washington ts part OF q cam
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07

paign of bluff. There is certainly go
ing to be an awakening at the republic
can national conventional not before
because then the tactics followed by
different Taft state machines will be
exploded"
In Washington no method is provid-
ed by law for choosing delegates to the
state convention, but a wide discre-
ton is given to the state and county
party committees in that respect. The
state committee has made no rule and
provided no method for choosing such
delegates, but has left the manner Of
selecting delegates from each county
to the county party committees in each
county.
This year. the county committees in
the principal counties Of the state.
Whatcom, duly adopted resolutions
providing for the choosing of delegates
iE these counties by the people at pri-
mary elections. Such elections were
duly held and full Roosevelt delega-
tions were chosen. In Spokane. the
republican primaries were a landslide
for Colonel Roosevelt The Spokes-
man Review of May 3. commenting
upon the Spokane primary, said:
"The victory Of the Roosevelt forces
was so overwhelming that it was even
beyond the most extravagant claims
or hopes of the local managers Of the
Roosevelt campaign. Before the pri-
m aries the Roosevelt leaders were
claiming the city two to one for Roose-
velt. and added that they would not be
surprised II it went three to one. The
result shows that on delegates 1t went
better than eight to one for Roose-
velt. Coupled with this. the outlying
towns went six to one for Roosevelt,
while the rural precincts went better
than seven to one. The primary vote
was one of the heaviest in the city's
history"
Issue Squarely Put.
An commenting editorially on the
primary election the Spokesman Re-
view on May said:
''At the republican primaries Thurs
day every voter was given the oppor-
tunity to express his preference for
president. The republicans Of Spo-
kane county. by the manner in which
the primaries were conducted. have
placed themselves in the front rank Of
the great army Of progress. There will
be no talk Of jobbery or backroom
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
STREET CAR MEN
OPEN THE STRIKE
WITH VIOLENCE
Strike Suddenly Declared
After All-Night Mass
Meeting.
CARS SMASHED IN THE
EARLY HOURS Of THE MORNING
Operators Demand Recognition of
Their Union and Company Refuses
to Consider Employees Except Indi-
vidually-Scveral Cities Involved.

Boston. June 7.-Niolence marked
thousand empoyes of the Boston ele-
waited railway at daylight today. Those
who refused to go to work demanded
recognition by the company of the re-
Gently organized union. The company
refused to deal with them other than
as individuals.
The street railway service and the
elevated road are being operated on
about half time. Five arrests wer"
made early today for assaults on
motormen. Although the strike has
been threatened for a week or more
1t came shortly after O'Clock with n
suddenness and clash that surprised
not only the company officials but the
police of Boston. Brookline. Cam
bridge. Somerville. Everett. Chelsea,
Medford and Maiden.
The men had been discussing the
matter nearly all night at a mass
meeting and as the day was brea king
1t was decided to take a vote. AS soon
as it was seen that those who favored
strike We're in the majority. the
gathering of nearly 1000 men began
cheering and a rush was made for the
first early cars. The first one was met
at Trenton street near Hall. The car
was stopped. the trolley yanked from
the wires windows were smashed and
the motorman and conductor were
badly beaten. A number of passen-
gers rushed out of the car but none
were injured.
| AS the clash proceeded a mail car
came into sight and recognizing the
authority of the government, those
who had stopped the first car sudden.
ly ceased their activities and permit.
ted both cars to resume their way. a
few minutes later word was received
of the strike in the vicinity of tbs
north station and there two cars were
stopped. windows smashed, some OF
the gearing disabled and several pas.
sengers We're slightly injured by flying
glass. Several arrests were made a,
this point. Later there was a smash.
ing crusade on Adams square where
| two arrests we're made.
The outbreak in Charlestown was
almost as severe. while similar occur.
rences took place in Everett and Chel
sea. 1t was announced during the
forenoon that the actual vote in favor
of the strike was 1880 to s.
The strike committee claims that
up to the time of calling the strike
5000 men had signed the papers and
paid the initiation fee At the same
time the company issued a statement
that 5000 employees are still loyal and
that every means will be employed to
keep the car system in operation.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07

New York. June 7.-Honorable
lBainbridge Colby of the firm of Colby
and Goldbeck, New York city, who will
make the argument before the nation
al committee on the various contests,
made the following statement today:
In one of his recent speeches Presi-
dent Taft is reported as saying: "Mr.
Roosevelt says we are resorting to
fraud and force and everything else in
|getting delegates. These are just gen.
leral statements. He does not back
them up with any evidence. because
there is no evidence" The president
added that the Roosevelt contests
were made as the basis of campaign
of bluff
So explicit and sweeping a state
ment from so high a source on a sub
lject of such importance demands at
true.
l have undertaken to sift the truth
Of this statement of the president. ap-
preaching the subject with some ap-
probation of the necessities Of practi-
cal politics. and with little less, pos
sibly, than. the prevalent degree Of
ignorance on such subjects as the cleo
ton of delegates and the organization
of conventions.
dAA uOt q POAAaASA0A' AA"sAAo OOSAA
able to devote to politics within my
own state only such intermitten at
|tention and effort as Is possible under
the pressure Of an active professional
practice. My record has been that of
Ia regular republican. although have
not hesitated to act independently of
the organization when its course in
some essential did not appeal to my
judgment or represent my convictions.
In short, 1 have approached the sub
ject without conscious bias for or
against any particular method Of con-
Quoting local politics. so long as the
method is honest.
1t has seemed to me that the presi-
dents statement is completely refut-
ed II in any single state the contests
that have arisen over the delegat tions
to the national convention disclose tho
fact that resort has been had to fraud
and force in electing Taft delegates.
The methods used in appointing the
Taft contesting delegation In the
state of Washington have been sharp
ly denounced and characterized AZ
fraudulent. Between the presidents
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
Consultin. Americans

Santiago. Cuba June 7.-Lieutenant
Charles Belknap. acting under the or
aers OF captain George *. Cline, COM
mandant of the Guantanamo naval
station. arrived here today to investi-
gate conditions and wishes of Ameri-
can citizens with regard to military
protection. Lieutenant Belknap had
a conference with the American Com
SUI Ross f. Holiday and many Amer
leans and made lists of their applica-
tions for roops for the protection Of
amounting altogether to $50 soldiers.
The lieutenant said that if the
Cuban government was unable to sup.
ply these. American marines would he
sent as soon as possible. Later he
and Consul Holiday had conference
With General Monteagudo the Cuban
commander in chief
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
NOVEL QUESTION.
Is Railroad Carrying Lyncllcrs a Party
to the Crime Committed.

Is ItaIroau Carrying Iynchcfs Party
TO the Crime Committed.
Washington, June 7.-Whether a
railroad that carries a mob to u town
70 lynch man is liable to damages to
i0vel point to be brought before the
,upreme court of the United States.
rhe case will be presented tomorrow
With request to review.
Mrs. Annie May Rogers and three
children sued the Viclksburg railroad
company for having carried by special
rain a mob from Monroe. La. to Haliu-
,ah, La., where Rogers was lynched.
4 man and was about to be released on
the ground that he had been tried once
before on the charge.
The lower federal court held that as
n matter of law. the railroad might be
liable.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
HAS NEW sCHEAIE

Washington. June 7.-Representa.
tive Thomas Upton Sisson Of Mississip-
pi. proposing a new law to curb the
warlike spirit of Americans. has intro
duced revenue measure which would
impose a heavy tax on "gun toters''
and vendors of deadly weapons.
His bill stipulates that from July
I, 1913, every such weapon stored in
|any warehouse. wholesale or retail es-
tablishment in the United States must
bear a revenue stamp which will cost
$3.50 and rs per cent ad valorem in
addition,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
HEADS THE ,fEDTCs

Atlantic City. N. j.. June 7.-Dr
John A. Witherspoon of Nashville,
Tenn. today was elected president of
the American Medical association by
the house Of delegates which looks
after the business of the organization.
DR.. Philander Harris of Paterson. N.
j.. was named first vice president: DR..
John L. Heffron of Syracuse, N. Y,
second vire president. and DR.. II. NJ.
McClanahan OF Omaha. Neb., third
vice president.
With the exception of half dozen
sections which will continue their ses-
Sions tomorrow the convention practi-
cally came to close last night.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
twelve KILLED
IN AN EXPLOSION
Ammunition Factory Elk.
ploded, Destroyed Prop
erty as Well as Lives.

Vienna, June 7.-Twelve persons
were killed and many others were in
jured at the Woellersdorff Ammuni-
tion factory in Wiener -Neustadt today
when an explosion occurred in the
shed containing scarasite, the Austri-
an equivalent for melinite.
The victims were soldiers and work.
men. The shock broke windows
throughout the town and did much
damage in the neighboring watering
places of Baden. Wiener -Neustadt is
IA manufacturing town thirteen miles
from Vienna.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
AFTER THF; FRATERNITIEs

Chicago. June High school fra
ternities and .sororities will have an
opportunity to take their fight for the
right to exist to the Illinois supreme
court The Chicago board of educa-
tion, on recommendation Of Superin-
tendent Ella Flagg Young. voted to en-
act pledge from students that they
would belong to no secret society. with
the idea that some student would take
the fight into the courts for final ad-
Indication
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
NEW SUPERVISOR

Washington. June Oscar wende.
roth Of the firm of Carrere & Hastings
of New York, was selected by Secre.
tary MacVeagh today as supervising
architect of the treasury department
to succeed James Knox Taylor who
resigned yesterday.
The new official will assume his du-
ties July Is.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
FAVORs PARCEI,S POST.

Washington, June IA convention
providing for the immediate establish
ment of the system of parcels post be-
tween the United States and the Re-
public Of Panama was concluded to-
day.
Postmaster General Hitchcock is ne
gotiating with Portugal, French Gui-
ana. Martinique and Guadalupe for
the extension Of the parcels post sys-
tenn to them.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
WOULD BUILD SUGAR FACTORIES,

New York. June THE Great
Western Sugar company would be
erecting two other beet sugar factories
in Colorado and Montana now. "if
things were right" according to the
testimony today by Chester S. Morey
of Denver. president of the company,
in the governments dissolution suit
against the so-called sugar trust.
Mr.. Morey added that his company
had received requests from several
sections of Montana to erect beet
sugar plants and had recently turned
down a request to put up a factory at
Julesburg. Col"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
STRIKERS AND
POLICE CLASH
Several Were Injured in the
Fray, One of Whom Was
a Woman.

Middleton. Conn.,. June 7.-several
strikers and police officers were in
jured in riot today at the South
Farms mills Of the Russell Manufac-
turing company, about 100 Of whose
employees are on strike for an advance
In wages and readiustment Of work.
ing conditions. There were three ar
rests.
One of the strikers. woman. was
SO badly injured that she was sent to
the hospital.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
ARRESTED FOR TARIFF FRAUD.

New YORK, June 7.-Harry 7. Tur-
tie. an importer of linens. was arrest
ed TODAY and held in $4,000 bail for
examination June 20 on a charge of
defrauding the government of duties
by under-Naluing imports of linens
Treasury agents allege that cases
thus far investigated involve frauds
approNima ting SlO0.O0O.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
srANDARDIzING NURSING.

Chicago. June Observation-Disclosures
of the profession Of nursing so that
only those who have had ample train
ing would be permitted to bear the
title OF nurse WAS advocated today at
the convention Of the American nurs-
es association.
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and hustleed away in an automobile
to Jefferson to avoid a possible lynch
Ing.
Sharp was an employe of the yards.
The cause Of the shooting Is not
known.
Brydle was wealthy and prominent
here.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07

STERLING HAS
1852 MAJORITY
OVER GAMBLE

. . . : : . . .
Redfield. s. D.. June, Com =
plete returns from fifty-nine out =
of siXty-one counties give Thorn =
' as Sterling a plurality of 1,152 =
over Gamble for the republican =
nomination for United States sem =
ator. =
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
NEARLY LYNCHED.

COnncaut,. Ohio. June IF. y.
Brydle was shot and killed today at
the. yards Of the Pond Lumber COM
pany OF which he was vice president
~ IeAsce sharp. Sharp was srrestsd
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
Near Havana.

Havana, June BODY of negroes
armed with rifles attacked the Toledo
sugar mill at Marians, a suburb of
Havana, at > o'clock this morning.
evidently with the intention of burning
IT. They were held at bay by the
private guards. but the firing continu-
ca until troop of cavalry. summoned
ny telephone from Camp Columbia APP
peared, when the INSURGENTS vanished
Juan Ducassi, who was prominen;
negro general in the war of the revo-
luton, was arrested in Havana this
morning charged with conspiring to
SUPPORT the insurrection. p. Galvez.
the leader of the negroes in Pinar Del
Rio was also arrested,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-07
Military LlaW Passc(l.

Hartford, Conn.,. June Tt was
unohicially reported here that 9 COM
pany OF the state national s,,ard had
middleton.