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ornflon Historical aue(i City Hall ' 'ttarttm Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Clear nnil wnroi, Mm 83 J Mln aj ltd. Hum. 27. Korly.iineimil Yiwir. Dully HcmmiIIi Venr MIODJfORI), ORKOOiX, jMONIM Y, jrNK 17, 1912. NO. 74. ,4ZZ aP OF COMPROMISE CANDIDATE IS FUTILE K v ., nJ TAFT LEADERS SHATTER HOPES TURNED DOWN TEDDY'S MEN OF DARK HORSE BY ROOSEVELT MAPPED OUT Altrr Countliiii Nnscs, Administration Party Confident of Holdlnn. Their Own Police Protrctlon Relied Up on to Control Colonel's Boomrrs Two Conventions In Same Hall Seem Inevitable Platform to Bo Kept Clear for Action. HOW TIIIJ SI STATION MMKH Coiii:rcMinuo Nlrliolnn l.ongworth, UooimivoU'n won-In-linv: "It'H pretty hunt to telj. I wouldn't cant to Kiii'Hn." Churlos l. Taft. brother of tin preitliloiit. "Tim president has Iwon-l)-flvti tntm; to npnro, Tim Mooiuivcli nwHiitilt uu tint lltm linn nut changed u single voto Unit i did not already Ituotv Would go. Wit llllll tlll'lll beaten." CIIICAdO. June 17. Alt talk of n -mijii tmiino candidate mi whom tin ptognwdtoH anil dm '1'nlt incit could iimtii to lii'iit lln breach in tin) repub lii'iin puilv wan shuttered today. The Tail leader, niter counting uohch. do cultnl Unit I hey Mill holt! control. They accepted Hut iiHNiiraiii't' of William Kami's, junior, that In Intel enough toton to elect I'.lilm Knot temporary chaiimuii. Iinniciliiitely lliry stiffened tlii'ir liuon ami piopurml to present u united front. Two Contentions l,lkcl). Two eomoiitioiirt in tlin hiunc Imll KCI'lUI'll illOtitllblo. Till' RonsCtl'It lighting IIU'll lllivo ilri'lili'il to go Ihiough with ihtiir piogruin. They iiiNittnl toilav that they would pi tight ahead ami imiiiinntc Rnosotelt anil mlopt a progressitc plat form. They declared tlmy could ilo it in I lie luce of tlm Tn ft delegates ami lh.it tlii'v would protect thciuscltos from "stioiig-uini" nu'tlioiU. Tlu'y will light, limy added, to take I lie enliven tiou a way fiom (lie national commit tee. Violor Rosottulcr, eliiiiiuuiu of the eominitlei), on whom, nutlet the rules tint duly of calling 'h' eouteiitiuu i onler ruhtH, Iiiik lieitu in consultation with the Tuft men on the committee. Ha haw iiiNtrueleil Colonel Hill Stone, the Heigeuiit-iit-uinm of the enntcii tiou, that Int will expect pioleetiuii in the iliwchurgo of Ins duties. Stone litis nrrnitged for Hum. lie ileeliiit'il today to ilihiMiHH what he htm ilone. "Thin contention will lie conducted ho (hat Hid tegular topicHoulalitos of the icpuhlieaii patty in tin' nation can entry llii iili their work,'" declined Stone. Police to 1'rotet.t. "Let those who wish to make IIiicuIh; nil I etui miy is that the olfi curs of iIi'ih contention will he pin teoteil in currying out the duties with which limy-aio charged." It was Iwuruod, hottotor, Ihal Statin Iiiih Heeured what he cuiih'uIoih ample pulicu protection. Though the Chici Ko Citizens' ciiiumittco Iiiih had police officers deliiiled to obey his instine tioiiH, if tut attempt is imtde to nihil the phitfotiu it is anticipated that Stone will licop it clear with his tiiun. CIIICAUO, Juno 17. That pleilnes liuvn linen ohliiiucil from ilolojrutos nil over tlm country to switch to Cum mins of I own on curly ballots was the. (lcolimitiou today of ti.-.Iutlj;o Jesse. A. Ilillcr of DosMuinuH, oun of Urn forcmosl boosters for Iowa's fuvonto sou. Uo said tho tun Cummins tlolu- gutes hud noon proHUlytiii'j' in bolh (ho Tul'l inl Room-volt camps, CUMMINS SECOND CHOICE PLEDGES (PROGRESSIVES KRAI FOR Colonel Vetoes Planks In Platform Drclarlnn for Initiative, Referen dum and Recall Endorsed So Wrakly that They Are Slaughtered. Question Is Left to Localities Except Direct Election of Senators and Presidential Primaries. CIIK'At'O. June 17 Tim lultla the. referendum itiiil the recall, an federal piopiiMllloiiH deuuitiilluK Hicc Iflc ilelineiillon, lutvit lieeu turned down by Colonel Itoortevelt In the tentative draft of the platform which Iiiih been prepared by Urn Itooiotvitlt forced tlieno problem held to be vltnl by the proKteHnlvc In tint u cittern stateH, huvo been left out. lleliiK only mentioned In n Kneral way, they are endorned, bill the en dorticiimiit In mo weak tluil the ultra- proKreriNlte leaderti are today prepur liiK to ntarl it Koucral flttht for a bold. iitirnmpumlMln-; platform ulate ineut on' thititit prlnclplcH. Tim plank as Milnnltted to the committee, nnil which In believed to hate the eiidomemeut of ItooHovelt, in ul( en the ipicHtlnu one of the local I licit to deal tvllh. The direct oloc tlou of United Staten HeiuttorH and Hie prcnlilciil!al preferciicn prlmiirlcN urn held to bo absolutely ncccnury for the welfare of the people. The Kooxcveli platform provide the nereMHiiry lenlHlntlnn to carry HiIh out. Tim neccioilty of direct IcKlidatlou, In to be held to be one for the mitten tlieturtelven. It Is declared that they uiiiHt nolvo l his problem iih IiohI MiiltM the community affected. The platform will Hpcclflcally declare that tlm republican party will at tempt no dictation a it to methods neither will It make an effort to force one community tn udpol moth oiIh utinatlMfuctory to another com munity. IS REPUDIATED BY HIS 01 STATE CIIICAdO, June 17. Repudiation of their uiitloiuil eouunitteemiiii. Vic tor Roiewutcr, ehuiimau of the mi tioiuil committee, lioeiuiMt "lie did not leprchcnt the wishes of the republi can paity in NVhraska in the duliheia Iioiis of the niitiouul eoiniuittcc," was voted by the Nebraska ilclcKiitioii to day. A icMilulion ilemamiiiu; that Rohcwuter, "cilher chuuno bis atti tude or reii'mi," was nttendctl prin cipally throtijjh tlm efforts of J. T. Duam of Omaha, hut strong condem nation was voiced in it substitute umiuiinoiisly approved, Tho resolution declutcil: "Wn repicseut a stale in which tlie uipuhlicans vnted for tlm pnin-HMu policies reprehonted by Roosevelt by an overwholniiuj,' inujority. Tho re publicans of Nebraska have been liu miliutcil by tho chiiirmuii of our na tional committee, Victor Rosewutor, who bus been personally leptttliutcil by tlm republicans of tho state, Wo condemn and repudiate in tlm strong est terms, his uetious mid hereby ilu imiuil, in the iiiuue of tho republican party of our slate, that he cIiuiiko his attitude and truly lcpiCMUit the re publican putty of the slate of Ncbi'iit' kn." RELIEF SHIP OFF TO AID ALASKA SUFFERERS SHATTLH, Juim 17. Tho Ahisltn coast stciiinship coiupuny'rt liimr Ad inirul Samphiiu loft hero last niht for westorn Alaska points, ciirryiiiK !I0, (100 Kovoruumut rations cousiued for tlm United Slates tovonuo ttutUtr AruuniuK Tlm Manning will distribute tho food ainoiiL' tlmso made destituto by tlm volcanio oru)tiuus on Kodiaic leluiid. R EM Protjram of Action Prepared by Lieu tenants Covcrlufi All Contingencies Minority Report From Committee Probably First in History. Colonel's Followers Ready to Mob the Convention if Teddy Says the Word and Hope He Will Lead the Charpc CIIICAdO, June 17. Sci.aloi )ix on, ut noon today, issued a statement claiming Roosetelt's uominaliou in the limt ballot with a margin of t'l votes. Di.Min alsii said the Hohm'wiIi mn will control a linger muiority than Unit on orgiiuiiitiou of Ibc couveu tioii. The effect of the big Roosevelt ral ly to be held tonight is obviously tear ci by the Taft leaders. Tlmy sav that it will bate little e fleet on the Taft delcgntch but that they expect the utteriiiiccs of the colonel to in flame Ihh follower-, to ".neb an extent that tlmy will eeitniiilv make trouble at the contention Imll tomoriow. The Roosetclt rank and file i without tickets. Their leaders charge that they bate been "robbed of their right-," in older that the galleiics may be packed bv the Taft shunters This the Tuit committeemen deny. HooM'telt I'rogrnin Made. ltig delegations of Roosevelt shunt ers are here from the west mid south west, who threaten foice to enter the contention hall. All (hut was needed was the word of some one in authority and they expicss the hope that Colonel Roosetelt himself would lead them. When Cluiirmnu Roewater raps for order tomorrow the Roo-etelt lieutenants will bate already prepared a complete plan a ptogratn mapped out in advance and tluesbcd out at conferences between nil the generals of the colonel's staff, entering every possible contingency. A limit d of strategy, including Geo. t. Record of New Jersey, Oovcrnor Johnson of California and (iotcruor lludlov of Missouri labored with the proginin today. The colonel's lenders will be drilled in this program so (hut they will be able to understand just what to do when the field marshal of the forces floternor IJudley, enters the fray. Minority Itcport. r'or the first time in Urn history of the parly, it seemed probable today there might be n minoiity report fiom the niitiouul committee on the seating of contested delegate. Senator Borah is now preparing such n list, but whe ther it will be actually presented mi the floor tomorrow or the fight wngod about another issue hud not been do tei mined up to a late hour this after noon. In pursuance of the battle pto gram, however, u minority report will be ready for Introduction. CIIICAdO, Juno 17. Ton thous and mon talking of olio toplu eighteen hours dally, wearing a chnnnol In their hraliiH with tho constant ham mer, hammer, of a slugto lino ot thought, aro standing In tho hotel lobbies, today, half liyatorlc.nl, with norvoa. It will ho u tromoiidoiiH toilet when tho gavol tails tomorrow at tho CoIIhoiiiu and the convention begins. Thoro aro countless visitors hoio for tho convention, but tho ton thousand aro tho mou whoso fortunes, In one way or another, aro bound up In tho result of this wook'u balloting. Tho lobby of tho Congress Hotol, In which liostolry aro tho Tuft, Koosovolt, nnil Cummins hoadipiart cia today was jammed with human ity, and filled with a clamor that resolved Itself into a continuous roar. Tho sumo questions, tho sumo unsworn woro ronnutoil twlco a thou Band Union an hour. Tho tiled floor la hard on tho foot and tho dologatos and nthor politicians shlftod wearily from ono foot to anothor. Yet thoy stood to tullt, NERVOUSlENlf I TELLING ONHYSTERICAL CROWDS Bryan Favored as Dark Horse li , HHIHk''- 'i 1' ... -H WLUAI'I JLNlvflioiUVii BRYAN PAYS CALL AND IS WELCOMED CIIICAdO. June 17. Wtlli.tui J Brian, demoi i.itic leader and tlitce times beaten fur pfiwidetit of tlm Tinted State-, is occupying the at tention of the malingers for both Tatt nnil Roosetclt. Arriving here unher alded estcrdiiy be was given a we1 eonie which he him-clf mlmittcd was as warm ns any he ever roceited tioin i democratic iisseiublagu .unl toda.t as tut moved almitl the corrulors ot the hotel, he was enthusiastically ac claimed. The majority of tint dele gates seem to bebcte that Brxan will bo nominated at Baltimore and that he is studying conditions here first hand in older to be wull prepared for shaping things in the Maryland city. To the Cnited Press, bowctcr. Bryan tciiettcd bis denial that be is it candidate or that he eteu bad a belief that lie would he named again n tho democratic candidate, lie expect the tight to be between Clink and Wilso.i, and will tour the country for which ever shall be named. Ilrau Is Welcomed. "I waul a chance to show bow I can fight for a ptogrcsfeiye democrat" Bryan said. "Our convention at Bal timore will be controlled by (he pi"-! gressitcs. The coiisurvntitccs me ah cad v whipped They will cut little fi'oiic in the plattorm. Our plutfotiu will be u model ot brevity and elantv uiiil will oxpic-s in plain terms jn-t what the people may expect from the democratic pint v." To all who bate pioniiscd tiport and ho has public pionii-os fmm T.Ut (Continued on Page G) talk, talk from e.irh morning on. Cow See ltiNKiHvoIi. It Is tho b,nuo slow moving crowd, massed together In llttlo groups, that llngois In tho fetid, tobacco holes Bpaco. A band comes blaring Into tho lobby. Uvorjlmdy crowds about tlm delegation It Is escorting and a moment later tho ciowd takes It.s plnco again In tho lobby. Upstairs in a corner cpitto on tho parlor floor Is Koosovolt. Ills outer door Is closed hut thoro htauds a hopoful group of thlity to roityinou. It seoins never to ary. Somotlmes ono gets In to sco tho colonel but not ono out of ton. Tho hall and tho vast garish Klorontlno room of tho hotel, devoted to Itnnsovolt Is full of mou and wo men, Women, too, aio nt tho Taft hondiiu!ters in tho oven moro garish gold room nt tho far otul of tho snuio floor, a half block away. Hondqiuu- totH of Senator Cummins of Iowa nro alongside of Tuft's, Sonntor Konyou Is In charge and Scnntor Konyou's wlfo holds couvoisntlons with two thousand women nud twlco tlmt num UPON EVE TAFT EFFORTS TO RANKS IN LINE CIIICAdO, June 17. The stiffen ing pntcosH to hold Tatt supporter firmly in Ime, tts tbr-vnlcr of the ilny around heie. Tonight direct jr McKinlcy bits arranged a conference of all the prcidcnt's delegates. Aside fiom the dc-ire to kceu the delegates away front the Roosevelt meeting, tho plan is to put through a pledge for acceptance by every delegate thnt he will stick to tho president through thick ami thin. The cull for the meeting was issued after Manager MeKinley eauto out with a statement claiming that the situation was unchanged today. "Mr. Roosevelt lias been sending for delegates who aro opposed to bis nomination and bus endeavored to (Hirsuade them to come over to bis staudnrd," MeKinley said. "This woik has been a failure." Taft inuitugors, bo asset ted, hnx-e polled each delegation from which de settions to Roootelt were claimed and found only two, Charlo-. Banks of Mississippi and Timothy Woodruff f New York. "If their line is broken by Roose tclt, the Taftites say the missing will he made up by accessions to the Tatt ranks fiom tho Roosevelt delegates in Illinois, Oregon, Maryland and Ponnsyluinin. ROLAND GARROS WINS GRAND PRIX AEROPLANE ANdKRS. France, Juno 17. Ro lautl darros this afternoon won the grand pnx aeroplane race. The vic tory was worth $ir,000 to tho winner. ber of men dally. Once In a while ono of the leaders otlges through tho crowd, a string of satellites In his wako and ovory body In his path suspends talk for a moment but only for a moment. Tension Most Tense. Tlm rulers of tho convention ro main out of sight nearly all of tho time and help thereby to make the tension more tense, On tho sidewalk outsldo tho Con gress Is another crowd, a thousand o moio shitting In and out, btarlng, talking. Hoio as evorywhoro olso. In tho crowd tho talk is all tho sume: "Can ho do It?" "Is ho getting Tuft's dologatos?" "Is It true tho Southorn negroes nro deserting?" "Ilo" In lobby convorsutlon, al ways Is Koosovolt. Sunday night tho vibration of lila porsonnllty was shaking all tho crowd. Tho Taft mou cheered little, tho Koosovolt mon much, Saturday night It had been n half and halt proposition, with florco quarrel Ing. NOW HOLD L Republican Organization Breaking Up and Offcrinn to Socialism Its Op portunity Says Presidential Candi dateSituation of I860 Repeated. Roosevelt and Taft Doinn Great Ser vice to Country by Telling the Truth About Each Other. CHICAGO. June 17. "The dcnlh knell of the republican party will be sounded tomorrow and socialism wil be Kttept into control on November 7." That was the way Kugenc V. Debs, socialist aspirant for presidential honors, sired up the outlook to a Unit ed I'ress reported today. "The present situation" declared he, "is exactly the nmc as it was in ISo'O when the whig party disappear ed and the democratic party broke up. It wa then that the republican purty was born and it swept the country. The socialists will sweep the country this time in the face of the coming smash. "The republican party is now bound to break up. Jf the democrats nominate a reactionary, they too, will split. The socialists will then march across the country with seven league boots. "Roosevelt nnd Taft arc doing some excellent campaigning for me. They ure telling the truth about each other and verifying what the s-oeialists have been saying about them and their kind for a long time. "Roosevelt never bad n principle. He will subscribe to anything to get into office. He has the air of a brag gart and a loafer. He compares him self to Lincoln. Think of Lincoln snying: "We'll slug them through the roH?s.' Roosevelt is a madman. If by some turn of fate the people of tho United States would become anar chists by a large majority, Roosevelt would become a rampant anarchist. "Roosevelt U called socialistic. I resent the imputation. We would not take him into the socialist party. "I admire Bryan personally. He is a clean character and a gentleman, lie lias never besmirched the office to which he has aspired. But he is wrong politically. He would smash the trusts and that would be going back to the days of the baudtool and the canal boat." Debs is in Chicago to attend the socialist national committee meeting. y BILL IS VETOED BV TfT TO SAVE WASHINGTON, Juno 17. Presi dent Taft today sont to congress a veto of the army appropriation bill. Among tho reasons given by tho president for his veto nre: Thnt tlm army bill contained a body of legislation which would substnn tially reorganize nnd change tho ex isting army establishment. That tho bill would render ineligible after March f, 101U, for sorvico in tho most important position of the army tho plnco chiof of stuff und many others of the most efficient of ficers of tho tinny. Ho said thnt in cu&es of urgency, when tho president and congress were agreed, legislation bud been ineludd in appropriation bills, but no condi tion of tirgoncy is horo disclosed, nor can it bo claimed that thoro is any reason for attaching the present legis lation to this hill. "Taken as a whole," the president said, "it would bo liurd to conceivo of n cleuror instiiuco of nil uttompt to force upon tho oxeoutivo legislation well known to bo disapproved by him. Thoro cum bu no constitutionul de fense for Mich a pruotieo." Tho Shuborta will next souson sond throo companies on tour In "A But terfly on tho Wheel," e N AW N M WD FORTY PERISH STORM SWEPT T Most Disastrous Storm in History of Missouri Oklahoma and Kansas Also Suffer Cyclonic Wind Up roots Trees and Wrecks Houses. Baby is Carried Over a Mile and Set Down Uninjured Streams Out sf Their Banks From Cloudbursts. ST. LOUIS, June, 17. Knin contin ued falling today after one of the most devastating storms in the his tory of the state. Forty persons hovo been reported killed nnd many others injured. Nineteen persona were killed near Merwin, Mo., and ten others perished in adjoining counties. Eleven others are reported to have been killed at Harrisonvillo and Shawnee. Tho storm also swept parts of Oklahoma and Knnsns. Many wore injured but no faltalities have been reported from thnt section. The Missouri storm wns accompan ied by a wind of cyclonic proportions which uprooted trees and wrecked houses. Lightning also caused heavy damage. Small streams aro flooded out of their batiks today,out of their banks today und damage resulted from the high waters. The suburbs of St. Louis were flooded. Near Merwin a baby wns carried over u mile by tho wind und set down uninjured. Damage from the storm probably will reach more than $J 00,000. Tn the vicinity of Wnrrcnsburg, Mo., alone, more than $GO,000 damnge wns done, bouses and bams being wrecked und live stock killed. Three persons were killed nnd two fatally injured nt Wnrrcnsburg. Wire communication with the affected territory is almost entirely cut off und reports nro being brought to tho large towns by messen ger. Many localities have not begta heard from. Moro than hn-f of the dead are said to be women and chil dren. The bodies of several xvero found a mile or moro from their homes. SMALL LOSS OE LIFE IN ALASKA SEWARD, Alaska, Juno 17. Tho levenuo cutter McCulloch has arrived hero from Kodiuk with tho news that conditions thoro aro much improved and thnt thero is no confirmation of tho reports of heavy loss of lifo on tho mainland. All tho inhabitants of Kntraui, a mainland village near tho volcano, nro sufo und have been tak en to Afgouuk. Tho only fatalities to fur us known woro thoso of a wo man and a baby who woro ill before tho eruption and probnbly would huvo succumbed in u short time any way. Heavy rains followed by drought huvo caked tho layer of ashes which covers tho bind. Tho unlives aro killing und salting their stock, as thoro is no grnss loft for them. Tho water is uudrinkublo. S WASHINGTON, Juno 17. In ft declslson today on an application by tho Southern Pacific to raloo ratea la tho territory betwoon Portland and San Francisco, tho iutor-stuto com morco commission hold that the railroad was not Justified In applica tion of tho samo rates from other points upon San Francisco Bay and points Inland to Portland as are ex tended from San Francisco to Port land or on application of hlghor rates to points on tho Willamette River on truffle from Sun FrancUco than aro applied on trufflo from Port land to points on tho Sucratnwito Rlvor, ID W HAD BOTH WN AND HIS