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Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDITION
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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