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CHEERS FOR
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Tumultous Demonstration for Roose
velt by Progressive Convention
When Name Is Mentioned by Chair
man BobbinsOregon Women Play
Leading Part Convention Well
Under Control of Bull Mooso Lead
ers, Who Delay Nomination.
ArniTomr.M hall, ciiicaho,
.)m in- 7. Willi a tumultous demou
nt nition for Theodore Roosevelt, the
progteasivo lintionul convention op
ened hero today while the republican
national convention wan in progress
at the Coliseum. KnthiiaiiiHm for
Roosevelt wiih prcuipitutod when
Raymond Robin, of Chiengo, the
tcninornry ehninuun of the conven
tion, referred to him iih the "foremost
citizen of the world." The demon
stration liiwled two hour.
During t lit cnthumiistio outburst
for Roosevelt, which inturrupted the
speech of the timiporury eliainiinn,
there wns every iudieation that the
progressive leaders hud the conven
tion in control and that no nomina
tion for the presidency would lie at
tempted until conference, already
hogtiii with republican lender, had
buun coiisiuninutod.
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The coiivenlion was culled to order
by Victor Murdoch of Kuiihhh, chuir
,iiiHii of the progressive national com
mittee, and hi apponmnco on the
platform, Hiirroiinded by fleorge W.
Purkiue, O-ear Straus, IlirHiu .lohn
miii of California and other progres
sive lenders, was the wiiciihI for a pre
liminary demonstration which delay
ed the opening of llio convention for
more than half an hour.
At the first mention of Colonel
Roosevelt' mime by Mr. Robin the
convciitiou went into a wro..V"in of
enthusiasm. Waving hand, hat and
flag they ninilo a tninnltou human
MH of the floor. The ovation roo
and fell in IiiioU or sound waxen,
those near (lie Mage aimarcnllv lend
ing the cheering. Delegation then
began h march through the aisle.
Hanner were broiiiiht upon the stage
and earned through the ball. One of
the moot conspicuous banner waved
to the delegate taid: "II Tcddv Wore
President. Whom Would Villa He?"
Ituiniers I'tifiultMl
"T. II. and Safety 1'in.t." rend one
of the banner waved by a woman af
ter it hud been carried h round the
great lull among the surgiug and
shout iu" delegate.
"Rmnevelt, m lendur, not h trader."
read another, and on the npHite
hide wa thi: "In lBlIi Rooevelf'H
vote wa I.HU.MS; Tuft' vote wa.
a, 18 1,8(111."
Other bander reading:
"T. K. a regular American."
'.Missouri, Roosevelt first, last ami
VII the time."
"Why take chanee? We know
what Rooeelt can do."
After unoiyauiiMHl demonstration
fur some minute the urowd -weid
into a tremendous ehant to the
word :
"We want Teddy."
'I'll o.xeiltMHunt spread from the
floor lo the Iwloouy, whore the. alter
Hate alao begHH inarching through
the aWe despite thu handicap of
U to climb.
rniliiullas liaised
Disregarding all iierstitions. sev
eral delegate raised umbrella and
began uiareiunt; areoud the hail wav.
jaw them abfcve their taNtd.
llawijtun Vk, Jr.. of N'ew York
nd auother huaky delagata carried i.
flag-hiarer arau4 tba hall on their
bouldrtt.
Chairman Murdoek hekj an infor
mal reception on Ifee lafe, ohakinu
handu with the delegate thev
marched by. Hi eollar became lunp
frm the exercise. Mr. Perkiu and
the other leader on the etaue were
jolted and buffeted by manlier..
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Seualof Warivu (.'. IIiiiiIIiik or
Ohio, ulxivo, and Itajinoiul Itolilnson,
IhIow,
TO SUIT TEDDY
lllICA(K), June 7. With the
member of the republican committee
on resolution all xelwted bv their
dule(alion4, it ia growing evident that
the work of the committee n a whole
will lie one of elimination rather than
of construction.
AlmuM evei y mail on the coiiunittcc
U loaded with plank of hi own milk
ing and many of them have taken the
earn of extra declaration for outside
friend who feel called iihu to out
line the mlicy of the wrty for the
next four year.
If there in one gcuernl Mhhmu Imt
ter definwl than any other on the
atrt of the leading members of the
committee it i to give the rty de
claraliou such an advaaced tone aa
will meet the demand of t'olouel
Itwihevelt and Ida follower, and to
this end they have made clone study
of the colonel'a recent utterance
along the line of preparedtte.
"We aball meet the colonel's wihe
in thi reaoect and will endeavor to
make the pronouncement ao atrong
that he cannot allord to opMtse any
man that may be placed in nomiua
thin," aaid Senator Smoot, who, al
though he ia not' u member of the rex
oliition commit lee, is in eloae touch
with what i being done toward fram
iug the nlatfonn.
Here and there a word in opposi
tion to extensive prfjuirednes i en
countered, but the o(oitiou ia in
fciich complete minority aa to render
their proleet ahnot negligible.
IIsh Xewataa of Olendale, a miner
of that section, la auendlng the weak
in the otty attending to bueiaeea mat
ten.
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REPUBLICANS TO
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PROGRESSIVES
('IIU'A(II), June 7. A tcntatixc
draft of the pmiiiv-MW platform
framed by a committee of leader to
day hhowe that the piimipal appeal
of the (tarty will be made on prer
wlaes. with Auerieanim aa the
fouudatUHi. The draft i hort, not
more than 1500 word in length. It
diaeuaaes preiarediietf uuder three
head, "military," o"of the pirit."
and "wduatrial." Under the "atHrit"
come Americanism and under "in
dustrial" prepareducs come the
tariff and quetin of social ami in-
du trial rcfonn
iluch of the 1U12 platform i
outitUsI from the draft, but there i
a general reiteration of its priuciple.
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SEVELT
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GOSEVELT
Colonel Opposes Nomination of Just
tlce and Will Probably Be Candi
date Himself If Hughes Is Nnmd
Hughes1 So-Called Flag Spcccli
Bcgardcd as "Further Evidence of
Pussy-Footing" The Progressives
Feel G. 0. P. Shoould Take the In
itiative. j OYSTKIt HAY, N. Y.. June 7. -
Wlillo Colonel lloosuvolt retrained
from ntaltliiK any public Htatemcnt of
fklnlly (IIrcIobIiik IiIh roal nttltmle
toward the polltlcnl elluntlon In Cht
cnico, It Is woll known to IiIh Inti
mates hero that ho Id oppoitod to thu
nomination of JuhIIco IIukIick and
It Ib their coiKldont tiulloC that It
Justice HiikIiud Ib iiomlnatuil Colonel
Ilno8cvc.lt will liliusolf bocomo n can
dldntc. Colonel lloosuvult, It la well under
stood, Is not at all Hatlnfleil with
JiiBtlco HiiKhofl' ho caltod "fliiK
speech" which ho Is said to roKnrd
ns merely n Fourth of July addroeR
IiiivIiik no vnluo an tllsaloaltiK the jus
tico'H uttltudo toward thu roal Irhiioh
of thu day. In tho word of IiIh fol
lowers hero, tho colonel ruKirds tho
speech as "further evidence of pussy,
footing-"
Colouol Itoosovolt Is roportcd feel
liiK bettor today In renurd to hl-t own
chnncoH toward being unmliiated than
at any other tlmo. His followon
look for a brndsldo from him within
a day or two which they say wlll.hu
calculated to olliulnute Justloo
HiikIioh and any other candidHto
whom tho colonel regards as repre
iontliiK the "pinury-'oot" 1 U oa .
I'crhliih SipielilicH Mmo
AUDITOItHJ.M, CHICAGO, June 7.
lteport that there might ho an In
sistent demand for an Imiiutdlutu
nomination of Colonel Itoosovult as
notice to tho lopubllcauH that thoy
could not bo iKiiorod wore dlscour
MKOil ami almost squelchod by a stuto
munt Issuod by (iiHirge W. I'urklua,
tho chief spokesman for tha iwrt
who doclarod that (he progre-elve
woro mootliiK In n conciliatory spirit
and would not act precipitately, while
the possibility of agreement with tho
reimbllcans roiualued. His statement
aald:
"At the moment of the opening
ot the conventions the pio?roslvos
are very woll satisfied with tho at
mosphore surrounding thoin and he
Have that n projier spirit has boon
created from which the roeults so do
alraulo In the beet Intereeta of the
country may b6 finally obtained."
Mr. I'orklns was asked If Colonel
Itoosovolt would be nominated to
day. "Thero Is not a chance," he replied.
"We are not going to lake any map
jtidgmont."
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fTho progressives feel that the first
peace move ought to coino from the
republicans hut Mr. I'erklui thought
It possible that the progreaahos
would take the Initiative In efforts of
peace.
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but- CHANCES WOBbLY
BY PROGRESSIVE
WOMAN
SCARES
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A liandHonio oinan Is caiiHliiK tho old Kimnl (J. (). P. dult'Kiilua at
tho (lilcap) ivpiibllcan ctimcntloii u lot of worry.
She It .Miis. Wllllain A. Pavlt, tho aanio "woiimu or nijlcry" ho
Matted tlio hlniiiiH-do for Itcaisuvclt at the republican coiivuntlou in
iiii-.
Tho fact that Mrs. Davis seemed a ticket to this jcar' Kutlicriiiu,
stni tcl u story that she would pull another stampede.
RUSSIANS CLAIM
Ei
ra'HOdllAD, dune 7, via . Lon
don. In (heir uew offensive Move
ment the Ituxaiaua have capture!
more than 10,000 men, it was an
nounced officially today.
The statement say that on the line
between the I'rijMt and Itnmanian
frontier, over which the camimigu la
being fought, the l(uian thu far
have taken 1)00 officer, 10,000 men,
77 gun, KM machine gumi and dl)
humh-thuiMcra.
PARIS. Jiin'o 7.- The reiml of a
powtufiil (li'iiiiaii attack on r'orl
Vau on the Verdun line with heavy
lo! to the attacker i announeed
in an official Htatemcnt Issued bv the
war office today. Violent homlmrtl
meat of the fort i still being carried
out by the Herman.
The attack on Fort Vaux turted at
H o'clock last night and wa prompt
ly checked by the fire of, the 1'rench
machine gun. It ia announced that
the Herman retreated in disorder,
abandoning muuy dead. 'At Hill M
an artillery duel ia in prore and
alo at the Caurettea wimmI. Two Ger
man alroltt which tried to cro the
lliver Aiaue, wet of 8ion, welt
dispersed.
IIOMK, June 7. via lindon.--Check
for the Austrian all along the
line of their attack in the southern
Tyrol are reported today by the war
office. The iinrtiiiii t'oni Kugnn
posilion m the Adigc alley i aiill
firmly held, while near Cuiiipo Wlillo,
northeast of Aiao, an Italian coun
ter attack wa notably siicceful.
CAPTURE OF 40.000
AUSTRIAN
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REPUBLICAN DELEGATES
WOMEN PARADE
FOREQUALSUF
CIIICAHO, June 7. Four emiar-
ie from the comer state of the
Union headed a mrade expected to
include about 20,000 visiting and lo-
cal auffragiatM, to preent tmlay to
the reimhlicaii national convention
reolutiun asking for that lairly's in-
doraeiueiit of woman suffrage.
The resolutions and the iwrade are
the reault of the convention of the
National American Woman Huffrage
awtuHdalioii, but the member of the
convention of the Coiigreaaloiml
Union for Woman Suffrage voted to
join in the march to the Coliseum,
which suffrage headquarter today
announced would take dace, rain or
hine.
The program for the national ao
ciatiou for today called for a "vic
tory eion of their convention, fol
lowed by a luncheon and the aasum-i
bling for the parade. A meetong of
convention committee of the con
greawinnnl union thi morning wa to
be followed bv a luncheon nt which
Helen Keller, lues Mulhollaud, Itoi
Hevain, Itclu Childc Dorr mid Cryatal
latman were scIumIuImI to mieuk.
A committee of the Kational Ao-
cialion ()pMed to Woman Suffrage,
headed by Mr. Arthur M. Hodge of
N'ew York, will apt tear before the tea
olution committee of the republican
convention to npMe anv mention of
suffrage in the platfonn, it wa aiu
iiounccd hv .Mr. Hodge today.
HURLEY CHAIRMAN OF
TRADE COMMISSION
WAHIIIMITON, June 7. Mem
Iser of the federal trade commiion
have voted lo make Commiioner
I'alwanl N. Hurley chairmuu to ue
ceed Jo-cph '.. )aie, etfective .lulv
1, and to .idofil the rotation system in
the ctiaiiiiinii-hip employed bv the in
terstate I'oiiiineri'c commission.
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REPUBL!
UNDERWAY
Senator Harding Reads Kcynoto
Speech Which Brings Little Ap
plauseHarmony Talk Lost Sight
Of in Organization WorkPlan of
Appointing Conference Committee
to Talk With Progressives Consid
ered Party Harmony and Criti
cism Hardlng'vS Subjects.
COLISHl'M, CHICAGO. Juno 7.- -The
republican nntlonnl Ooiivcntion,
nftur u two mid a half hour Wetin
today, adjoiirnuil until 11 o'clock to
morrow morning nftur henrint: tlio
kcynoto 8hioci by Senator Hnnliii(C
of Ohio nud doing tho usual prelim
iimry oixiiuiiuitiou work.
Hmphiieixing Hint it wiih not a timn
for rcuritnination; but of u recon
struction! Senator Hurdinc uracil tho
duluKiitce to forget thu dlsnstroiiH te
siilta of four years no mid pluiiKU
into tho uoinliijonmpnigM with a dec
luratioii of iriiielpIo8 whiuh would
hrinu; wiiccea nt thu noils.
Thu convention received tho tciu
Miniry chuinnnn' speech with punc
tuations of upplausu and nhcura, and
his Hiillleif agninst thu dumouratfu nd
ininiNtrntiou with Inuxlitur and hnnd
idupping. Mr. Harding closed with u perora
tion on Americanism nud rupubbcuu
imiii. The close of his nihlroa was
greeted by a brief optlmrat of hiind
clnpping and oheoring lasting less
than a minute.
IViico. Connulttco
The talk of harmony with thu pro
gressives who assembled in conven
tion about the ame time vrne lost tor
the time being in thu work of organ
ising the convention, but It wont on
under the surface inontiwhilu and
there were renewed iudioiitious that
thu republican lenders were consider
ing thu plan of appointing it confer
ence committee to talk with (he pro
greive in the hope of finding n
compromise ground.
Among member of thu republican
national committee the rupoit pcr
ited that there wa a plan to hao
the republican convention usu the
name of such a candidate.
Senator Penrose of Peniisvlwuun
wa said to have been ready to pre
eut such a resolution to the coin ca
tion today with the idea of iiamiti
Senator Imrah or some other man
frieudly to Colonel ltaievelt at
cliainnan. Charles I). Warren, na
tional committeeman from Michigan,
seal that when the other member of
the committee learned of thi plan,
Senator Penrose, who was seated on
fhe floor with the Pennsylvania dele
gation, wa called to the platform
and told that if uch a resolution wa
presented the element opposed to
Colouel Roosevelt would be ublo to
name their own conference commit
tee. Senator Penrose, Sir. Warren
said, then eprccda willingness to
withhold the motion.
Committees Scuttuifl
IiamcdiiitcU after the coilVOlltlUlt
(Continued on page six)
LONDON, June 7- A Central N
dispatch fromb CoienluKeu says that
the Swedish steamer Vaiida pamed
the wreck of a glgautie warship on
Saturday, the nationality of whMi It
was unable to ascertain. IlundreUs
of bodies Here floating around the
wrecK and for thiee hours the Vaml.t
steaiiK'it among dead aoUlicr Neai
the spot where the dorelWt wan cn
oouiinrcd the wreck of a ik salllni;
veaeel, apparently an Innocent victim
of the Jutlaud battle, wag sighted,
wck"of gigantic
whip sighted
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