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THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WHOSE SHOOTING SHOCKED THE NATION— PRESIDENT ELECT WOOD
ROW WILSON— THE LATE VICE PRESIDENT SHERM AN— TITANIC STRIKING ICEBERG.
H O T Y OF 1912
IN UNITED STATES
Chief Ennis In PoJIlics— Ois-
astsrs, Obituary, Sports.
Bv J A M E S A. EDGERTON.
KRE is nnotlier year to be re­
viewed. They are going by
with ever increasing' f r e q u e n ­
cy, like stations seen from an
express train. Why is it that Father
Time seems to sprint faster the older
we get? lie should be arrested for
overspeeding.
The chief events of 1912 in the "good
old C. S. A." were the presidential
campaign, the attempted assassination
of Theodore Itoosevelt and the Titanic
disaster. While in a technical sense
tlie sinking of the Titanic was more of
a foreign than a domestic happening,
there were so many noted Americans
who lost their lives in the wreck that
we should have the melancholy priv
liege of claiming it as our own.
The unusual features of the tight for
the presidency were the first trial on
an extensive scale of the preferential
primary, the Roosevelt cnndidacy. the
fierce preconvention campaign in which
f o r the first time in oar history a presi­
dent of the United States was driven
to take the stump In his own defense,
the splitting of the Republican party
and the organization of the Progres­
sive party, the long and fierce fight in
the Democratic convention ending in
the nomination of Governor Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey, the death of
Vice President Sherman and the great
plurality given Wilson at the [tolls.
It was some time nfter the announce­
ment of Colonel Rtstsevelt that "my
hat Is In the ring” ere the title began
to show in his favor, lie had pre­
viously sain that he would not again
be a candidate, anil the renomination
of President Taft was taken as a mat-(
ter of course. States having the old
convention system still continued for
Taft, but most of the primary states
began swinging into line for Roosevelt
Illinois and Pennsylvania going with a
rush that made the politicians gasp.
H
Taft W ins and Loses.
Roosevelt was on the stump through
out this struggle, and Mr. Taft now
followed him. The two campaigned
Massachusetts. Mnryland and Ohic
Massachusetts and Maryland wet
close. Taft ca-rying one and Roosevelt
the other, but Ohio gave a large plural
Ity to the colonel.
The Republican convention was pre-
ceded by an acrimonious struggle In
the national committee over contested
teats.
Roosevelt and his friend»
Charged fraud aud theft, and the for­
mer president went to Chicago in per­
son. In the convention Taft and Sher­
man were renominated by a slim ma­
jority, while the colonel's followers re­
fused to vote. Later they organized
the Progressive party and held a na­
tional convention in Chicago, which
nominated Colonel Roosevelt for pres­
ident and Governor Hiram W. John­
son of California for vice president.
This launching of the long expected
new party alone makes 1912 historic.
The fight in the Democratic conven­
tion was almost ns fierce. Champ Clark
led at the start, gaining for ten ballots
an actual majority, but lacking the
two-thirds necessary to nominate. Wil­
liam J. Bryan, who had fought Judge
Alton B. Parker for the temporary
chairmanship, laid written much of
the platform and forced through reso­
lutions attacking the reactionary ele­
ment, here threw his Influence against
Clark. Wilson had been steadily forg­
ing to the front and was nominated on
the forty-seventh ballot.
The actual campaign was milder
than had been the fight for tlie nomi­
nation. and tlie vote was surprisingly
light. Wilson carried the election by
more than 2,000.000 plurality in the
popular vote and by about 340 majori­
ty In the electoral college. Both
houses of congress went with him. the
senate by n narrow margin. Roose­
velt led Taft in the balloting. The So­
cialists materially increased their vote,
and woman suffrage captured Arizona.
Kansas and Oregon.
The Titanic Disaster.
The other big domestic event of tbe
year was the collision of the Titanic
with an iceberg In mldocean. sinking
with 1,501 out of 2,208 souls aboard.
Many of those who perished were men
of worldwide fame, such as W. T.
Stead, the British Journalist; Charles
M. Hays, president of tlie Grand Trunk
railroad; Colonel John Jacob Astor,
Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus. Major A.
W. Butt, the aid to the president;
Francis D. Millet, the artist; Jacques
Futrelle. the novelist, nnd many more
almost as well known. The Titanic
was the largest steamship then nfloat
and was making her maiden voyage.
Inquiries Into the disaster were held
on liotb sides of the Atlantic.
The shooting of Colonel Roosevelt
occurred on Oct 14 at Milwaukee.
The nssailant was John Scbrank of
New York, afterward adjudged insane
The bullet lodged against a rib, which
It broke. Despite his wound, the colo­
nel made a speech to which he was
going when attacked and before the
month was out was back on tbe stump
The death of Vice President James
Schoolcraft Sherman occurred only a
few days before election at his borne,
in Utica, N. Y. He was tbe first Re­
publican vice president ever renomi­
nated.
Other Important domestic events of
tne year were as follows: Proclama­
tion of statehood for New Mexico and
Arizona; flouting of the wreck of tbe
Maine in Havana harbor; appointment
of Mahlon Pitney of New Jersey asso­
ciate Justice of the United States su­
preme court; resignation of Dr. H. W.
Wiley, the pure food crusader; Chicago
meat packers declared not guilty by a
Jury; passage by congress of tlie con­
stitutional amendment for popular
election of United States senators; the
expulsion of William Lorimer of Illi­
nois from the senate; opening of the
Pulitzer school of journalism; award­
ing of the Nobel prize In surgery to
Dr. Alexis Carrel of New York; an­
nouncement of the resignation of Brit­
ish Ambassador Janies Bryce; dissolu­
tion of tlie bath tub trust; the investi­
gation of the money trust; the passage
of a parcels post law; the report of
Explorer Stefansson that he had found
a race of white Eskimos on the north­
ern edge of the continent, and the
fight over the Panama canal tolls.
Labor Strikes and Trials.
In the world of labor tbe chief event
was the trial of more than forty union
officials at Indianapolis on dynamite
charges growing out of the McNamara
case. Clarence S. Darrow was acquit­
ted on a charge of jury bribing in con­
nection with the same case. Tbe strike
at Lawrence, Maas., resulted in the ar­
rest of three labor lenders on a murder
charge. They were acquitted. The an­
thracite coal strike was ended by a
compromise, and a board of arbitration
decided in favor of the engineers in
their fight with northeastern railroads.
Sporting features were the splendid
showing of American athletes in the
Olympic games at Stockholm; winning
of tlie American golf championship by
Jerome I). Travers over the British
champion nnd others; the fight-for the
world's baseball championship between
the Boston Red Sox and the New York
Giants, Boston wlnnlng.nnd Harvard de­
feating Yale and Princeton In football.
The Russian treaty expired on Dec.
31. America warned Mexico to protect
the lives of Americans aud sent troops
into Cuba and Nicaragua during upris­
ings in those countries.
Some of the noted Americans who
died during tlie year were, in addition
to those already named. Rear Admi­
rals Ilobley D. Evans nnd G. W. Mel­
ville; General James B. Weaver. Popu­
list candidate for president; General H.
H. Bingham, "father of the house;"
Senators It. L. Taylor, W. B. Hey burn
and Isidor Rayner and ex-Senntors II.
D. Money. W. A. PefTer, James <¡onion
and John I*. Jones; Genernl Frederick
Dent Grant; Dr. D. K. Pearsons, the
philanthropist; Homer Davenport, the
cartoonist; Wllbnr Wright. Inventor of
the aeroplane; Margaret Snngster; Gen­
eral Edward S. Bragg; Miss Harriet
tjiilmby. the first woman to fly across
the English channel; General Arthur
McArthur; General Homer Lea, who
had assisted in the Chinese revolution;
Caibraitb P. Rodgers, who had flown
across the American continent, aud
Rev. Robert Collyer.
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