The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-18

IT hcF oiStcis Auas DToDaDly IaLdIly h. lJ1ed when run over by an automo-
 bile driven by Hezekiah Brickford, sec
 rehry of a local stove company. The
 gits had just alighted from a street
 cat and stepped around the rear when
 thf automobile struck them.
 l Rrfolk. va.-with 300 midshipmen
 ao4rd the battleships composing the
 secnd division of the Atlantic fleet
 wef to sea today for maneuvers on
 the Fouthern drill grounds Tho ships
 are the Louisiana, New Hampshire,
 kantas and South Carolina. They prob ahlyl will remain on the drill grounds
 for week or 10 days.
 Winnipeg, Man.--John Cochran, pres ident of the Corcoran Construction company, and four laborers were crowned today in a flood which swept over their camp west of High River. Alberta, where hundreds of workmen l lay sleeping. Twenty-four hours of rain sent the water in Highwood river over its banks, flooding the valley.
 
 1 pear before the Illinois delegates in per son and make direct appeal to his 56 instructed delegates to vote against the Tart candidate for presiding officer. It l was resolved later that 20 of the Illinois deiegales instructed for Roosevelt would | vote for MT. Root. Governor Deneen denied this, and asserted that not more than eight of the delegation would sup port MT. Root.
 Senator Root III Senator Root was i'll tonight. He could speak scarcely above a whisper, but hoped 10 be in condition tomorrow to make the opening address
 The Taft people tonight selected former Representative James Watson of Indiana as their floor leader to match wit and parliamentary knowledge with Governor Hadley of Missouri Both chieftains will nave staff of assistants constantly at his side and some shrewd moves are ex- lpected.
 The Taft headquarters issued a state ment tonight declaring nearly all dele gates claimed last night by the Roose- Welt people as having gone over to their side today had signed pledges of feslty to Taft.
 An interesting light on the tense situa- ton was the action of the Roosevelt Oklahoma delegation today in defeating lS to motion to bind the delegates to support the nominee of the convention. Colonel Roosevelt tonight expressed his confidence that his followers would con- trol the convention.
 T am not certain,' said MT Roosevelt. when asked about the plans of his friends for tomorrow. just when the first test of our strength will come. It may be on the election of temporary chairman
 Dixon Talks to Negroes
 Senator Dixon. head of the Roosevelt campaign, spent hours talking with southern delegates, many of them ne- groes, and they reiterated his claim that many of the Taft delegates had come over to Roosevelt
 They are coming to us in punches. declared Senator Dixon.
 You can put 1t down that we will con trol the organization and nominate Roose- e.. r,A-e. We will have at least 42 majority ~, N1oseVelt Tor the nomination..
 MT Roosevelt received i-s r.~ zss..nr- teVSu sa7u1n Iowa, instructed Tor oum- mins. who were declared to have pledged their support to the Roosevelt organi. zation, two of the Taft delegates from Hawaii. ana others.
 Members of the Wisconsin, LaFaollette instructed delegation were the last to call and their visit caused considerable comment That some of the delegates. and probably all of them. would support the Roosevelt organization programme was reported.
 Summarizing the events of the day the Taft managers tonight issued a state- ment declaring that there had been no defections from the Taft forces and that efforts of Roosevelt managers to get Taft votes was a confession of weak ness.
 Mckinley Claims Majority
 'sThat President Taft has an ample number of votes for his renomination has been conceded by Colonel Roosevelt throughout the day." said the statement.
 This concession takes the strongest possible form--frantic efforts to induce Taft delegates to violate their instruc- Ic ha at nothing is being done by the Taft forces to induce Roosevelt delegates to desert and go to Taft.
 "Since coming to Chicago Colonel Roose- welt has completely abandoned his strenuous insistence that all he wanted was the popular expression of the people. He now wants delegates who are in- structed for Taft and wants them badly. fThe campaign of blow apd buster is 1 ended This is the third day the Roose- 1 welt people have tried to cause stam- 1 pede by nisrepresentation of facts and claims of defection from the Taft ranks and for the thiru tiiIe 1t has signally l failed. /.
 The Roosevelt delegation from California I today sent to each delegate to the con- l yention and to each national commit | teeman a statement of ,he contest on the l Fourth California district before the na- 1 tional committee, which seated the Taft I contestants.
 l The letter characterized the case as ''an assault on the whole primary system" l Delegations Caucus chicago, June 17.--While delegates to ithe retniblican national convention were not in conference with party leaders,
 following brass bands around the
 streets shouting for their choice for
 the lonination or engaging in many
 other strenuous occupations. state dele gatiofs held caucuses today. At the Nebraska meeting the 16 dele gates signed a resolution condeming Victor Rosewater for his action as chairman of the national committee , ldurng the hearing of contest cases. The fepubIicans of Nebraska have 1 been humiliated,' they state, by the actions of our national committeeman. |. MT. Victor Rosewater, who has been 3 personally repudiated by the republi- : leans of our state and who did not : represent the wishes or the voice or n | the republican party of Nebraska Tn . the deliberations of the national com Q mittee. We condemn and repudiate in : the stron gest terms his actions s There was a brisk fight in the eau q GUS against the adoption of more Dit l. ter resolutions. and the foregoing was
 accepted as compromise. . Texas Result Results in the caucus of the Texas . ldeleeation were: John E. Elgin for h lpermanent organization; rules and or e der of hlsiness, P. F.. Baer; credentials e lC E. Waernicke; platform and resolu- n tions. VI. NJ Mcdonald; national com e mittee. 1T. F. McGregor-