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University cf Orcrjon HrTTTV: ' i n WEATHER .Maximum Yesterday 05$ Minimum Today It). Medford Mail Tribune FORECAST l-'nlr Tonight nnd Thursday. Continued Win in. i i 1 i Forty-sixth Tear. Daily Kli-vcnth Ypr. atEDFORD OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Jt'XH II, 1916 NO. 72 ' ' r V harmony hovers m li CONVENTION Democrats Prepare to Nominate Wil son ami Marshall Without a Hitch In Program Keynote Speeches V Delivered by McCombs and Glynn Vlce-Prcsidcntial Booms Wilt on Word From Washington Suffrage Plank to Be In Platform America First Slogan of Campaign. COLISEUM, St. Louis, Juno II. -With tho koyuofo of "Americanism mid peace, proparednosB and pros perity," tho democratic national con vontlon began 'Its first sosslon short ly after noon today with not a single olomont In sight to disturb tho har monious ro-nomlnatlon of President Wilson and Vice I'rosldont Marshall. "When National Chairman McComhH called tho convention to order twelvo thousnnd dolegatos, alternates and HpcctatorH packod tho big Coliseum to tho roof. Mombors of tho nation al committee, membors of President Wilson's cabinet and party loaders from all over tho country had places on tho platform. Plaster medallions of Washington, Jackson, Jefferson and Cleveland looked down upon tho delegates from tho decorations, which consisted uniformly of nothing hut the American flag. Tho only picture of President Wilson In the hall hung In front of tho speaker's desk Inscrib ed "America First." Vlco President llooiu.s Wilt Vice presidential booms wilted up on word from President Wilson that ho desired tho ro-nomlnatlon of Vlco President Marshall, and woro brought to tho convention hall only as favor ite hour compliments. ; When National Chairman Mi-Combs railed tho convention to ordor tho uoxt buslnosa was tho r willing of the call by Socrotary J, Hruce Kromer. Formor Governor (llynn of Now Yoik was noxt with the keynote speech. Down under tho spoakor's stand direct tolephouo and telegraph wire to tho white houso carried momen tary reports of tho proceedings l tho hall. All prospect of n fight In tho convention had gouo glimmering "ovor night with William J. Hrynn's announcement that ho did not pro pout) to press certain planks boforo tho resolutions oommlttoo and and that ho would mako campaign speech es for the domoeratle nominee. ltijim Quiescent When Mr. Wilson prodlctod tho ro- olectlon of Proeldont Wilson tho del- agate rose on masse and elieorod, waving flags and whistling shrilly. The band helped along the demon stration. Aftor sixteen minutes, quiet was rotitorod and Mr. Glynn wont on. Tho crowd forced Mr. Glynn to re peat that portion of his addons, drowned In applauso, In which he doclttrod that the men of America will fight and die for our flag when roasou primes the rifle, whon honor draws tho sword and when Justice broathos a Mossing on the cause that thoy uphold." Another prolonged demonstration followed. From his doak William J. Hrynu Joined in, hie face flushed with emotion. t The rules of the houso of repre sentative wore adopted, and the or ganisation of the convention was com pleted by the call or the state for their assignments on the several com mittees. As usual all resolutions (Continued on page two.) 10 LEAD CAMPAIGN SALT LAKE. I'Uh. June 11. United States SewHtoi Keed SmhhU of Utah, on hu return to Sslt Uke row Chiftmo lat night, announced that ho hud hee ottered the enair taiNHkhip of the repiMican national Vittnuiittee aud bud declined the honor. Senator Snoot said he would lie so taken" up with the work in eoa re that he eould nut davote the CALLS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TO ORDER William F. Met oiubs, chairman of untiomil committee. LIQUID CYANIDE CAUSED DEATH OF WAUKKGAN, III., Juno 14. J)r. John L. Taylor, coroner, tostlfled to day at tho trial of Will II. Orpot, for tho allogcd murder of Marlon Lam bert, that tho cyanide of potassium which caused death was taken In liquid form. Ho based this state ment on allegation that stains of tho poison on MIhh Lambert's person was sediment and not cyanide In crystal form. This point was rognrded as Impor tant by tho state In connection with the charge that young Orpot bought a two ounro bottle from Charles Has- selngor, a frloud in tho drug busi ness at Madison, Wis. The defense, It Is said, will contend that Miss Lambert brought the corroslvo In crystal form with Jior, probably wrap pod In a "bit of papor. Dr. Taylor said stains of sediment, an Imiwlpable powder, wore on Miss Lamport's hands and In a stroak from tho cornor of her mouth toward her forohond, as If loft thnro by a trickle of liquid. At tlui afternoon session William "Marshall, a professional golfer of the Onwontsia chili, told of going into the wood and finding .Marion lm bort' body, lie described tho posi tion of (lie body minutely, lie said he followed the track of the "man who wh with Marion" for about twenty yard, then traced them baek to the three oak trees where the body lay. "Did ,oh sue any print in the 'uow other than those made by .Mir ion and her eomiHtition and yourself and her father?" "I did not." (MI'S III MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE PROMINENT ftCY PtTTMAN GLYNN MAKES KEYNO OF Temporary Chairman of Democratic Convention Declares the Issues Are Americanism ami Peace, Prepared ness and Prosperity Foreign Pol icy Defended. ST. LOUIS, June II. With the assertion that no president since the civil wur lint had ns oruoinl problems to solve, and no president has dis played a grasp more mire, tv slates miiuship more profound, ns President Wilson, Hon. .Martin II. Glynn, for mer governor of New York, opened the democratic national convention here today. Declaring that "Ameri canism and peace, preparedness ami prosperity are the inula upon which the democratic patty slunds, mid the heart of democracy swells with pride that is more than u pride of party, as it hails the man, who has assorted thi Americanism, assured this pence, advocated this propamine and produced this prosperity," he predict ed the re-election of President Wil son, l-Nirelgn Notations Taking up our foreign relations that has been called into emphatic prominence by the worldwide war, the speaker declared that "Wo have en tered this hall as democrats; we shall deliberate as Americans." . . . Tim policy of neutrality, he nrgitcd, is us truly American as the American flag. For 'J00 years neutrality, was u theory; America made il a fact. "It took Washington and his Hiiaoehsor eighty years of endless negotiation to win recognition of Ainorloun neutral ity. And this eighty years of strug gle wove the dtfrlriuu of neutrality so clooly into the wnrp and woof of our national life that to tear it out now would unravel the very threads ot our existence." Ily the records ot history Mr. Glynn maintained that it Washington and Lincoln were right, President Wilson is right. The neu trality that Piesiilent Wilson stands for today whs advocated by Wash ington, by Hamilton, by Jefferson and by Lincoln. "The citixons of this country must stand behind their president, be cause his policies are right. TlioJ will stand behind him because his pol icies are the policies which have brought the nation a century of pros porous and honored ponce. They will stand behind him because they want these policies continued, that pros perity prolonged, that hco as sured." Promises 1'iiirill.sl He pointed out that the promise made four year hk that a demo cratic administration would liberate the nation from the chain of indus trial tyranny has been carried out lie eiilogixcil the federal reserve act and declared that the "seholnr hUtosnian whose rod lias struck the golden rock of America's- resources, to set free the wealth imprisoned foi half a century, is a Moses who. has led America's industries from the wilderness of doubt and despair to (Continued on page two.) - Ollic Jam a r DEMOCRACY zx:rt!mii -i -Ssi mumt Ter FOREIGN BORN TOM MARSHALL'S NOMINATION ASSURED EVOKE CRITICISM Sp.k FROMPRKIDENT r "ffik Wilson Declares In America First atStf .k.-, , &v JPlSMivBftl Flag Day Speech Some Foreigners Trying To Levy a Kind of Political Blackmail on the American Polit ical Parties In Foreign Interests. WASHINGTON, .lime II. In a Flag- day speech here today, Presi dent Wilson charged that there were some foreign-born persons in the United States who were trying to levy u kind of political blackmail on the American political parties in the in terest of foreign governments. This, the piesiilent declared, must he stop ped, lie was sounding what some of his advisers said would be ono of the issues of the coming presidential campaign. Caused by llitorbtls The president's eriticisni of the political activity of foreign-born oil irons was caused, administration of ficials explained Intel-, by recent ed itorials in foreign language newspa pers in the United States ami pub lished statements of so-called hy phenated Amorionu on the coming campaign. It is understood that the address will be echoed af the demo cratic national convention at St. Louis. Speaking of disloyulty in .the Unit ed States, the president said: "I proceed from it minority, a vcrv small minority, hut uu active and subtle minority, woiking under ground, but also showing its uglj head whore il may be een, and it It this minority that at litis very mo ment is striving to levy a hind of po litical blackmail or wreak its venge ance at the polls. That is the sort of thing against which the American people will turn. That is the lesson which I come to remind you of to day." Tost on Again The president, introduced liv Sec retary Lansing-, spoke to a great crowd gitthered on the Washington monument grounds, immediately af ter he had reviewed Flair day prepar edness pantile at the head of which he marched up Pennsylvania avenue this morning. The exercises had op ened with the hoisting of a big Amer ican flag at tho top of (ho monument while the audience sang the "Star Spangled Manner" and national guardsmen fired a salute. Itoforring to the mmdo of the Sous of the Blue and tho (Intv to gether through the street of Wash ington today as an evidence of a re united country, Mr. Wilsoip said: "Yet the test auaiu is on us. You know that wo ajre derived from all sorts of people. Whilu sentiment iiihv be disturbed, loyalty ought not to bo." The provident was cheered again am again and as he concluded the audience stood and ailuudud. He remained on the platform while a chorus of nOO gou-mmont employe sang patriotic airs. AMONG THE DELEGATES TO Jl r L "W'VU 'a -"n r -nigggfc. ?y fr- liLLwiLLLLLH 'watnBiHil oAsaiLLLA. 1'ivsldcut Wilson is said to have withdrawn opssltioii to tho iv nomination of lfi President Marshall ns running mate. HUGHES CONSULTS PARTY LEADERS NKW YOIIK, Juno 1 1. Clmrloa K. Ilughos, republican candidate for president, entorod his headquarter hero shoitly before noon. Itarly callers Included John Hays Ham mond and Coorgo W. Wlekorshsin, Jr., and a utiuibor of weeteru repub licans. .Mr. HughoH' OHinpsIgn plans were still Indefinite today. He will remain here until Saturday afternoon when ho will go out ot town over the week end, returning late guuday night. Among subjects which Mr. Hughea Is dlsousslng with callers Is tho ques tion of solectlug a national chair man. Men understood to be under consideration Include Herbert Par sons, national committeeman from Now York; Frederick Tanner, Now York statu chairman; Frank IL Hitchcock, a leader of tho Hughes forces at Chicage: William Haywaid, a public service commissioner of this city, and Ralph It. Williams, nation al committeeman from Oregon. Mr. Hughe today reconslderod' his decision of yesterday not to meet suf frage leader before making his speech at the notification ceremony and Indicated his willingness to meet representatives of the CougreealoHal union for Woman Suffrage wllhla a day or two. II. II. Ilrowuell of Portland, ! it lateral at the Holland. OVER 1 THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN ST. LOUIS r IV y9n Vl THOMAS R MAR5HALL ALLIES DISCUSS E PAULS, June II. Premier Ilriaud delivered nil address of Welcome to day to the delegittes to the ecouomio conference of the entente allies. "It is not enough to conquer by inilitarr union," he aaid. "There must iriso he diplomatic ami ccniiomie union which will bung about intuits ive develoiHiieal or the material io- sources of the allies, exchange of their product ami distribution! among the markets or tho world. Wu have to assure economic liberation of the world to restore healthy eom mercial methods and to recover our commercial independence." The confeieuce opened today dif fers from the previous gathering held during the war to consider questions of economics as affecting the entente allies. The earlier con fe fences wen largely academic ami the delegates did not lepreeent their goteiiMiieiiU. The present assemblage is for the direct interchange of views among the government concerned, which are represeuted by leading members of the cabinet of each al lied country. The ministers of com mere of all the allies and the minis ters of finance of four nations are present. The sessions are seeret and will continue for several days. Win. Shepard, of San Franelsco, Is registered at the Medford. fyfo CiZ. S.rjfin J. fteep AfSJ. AlQ. ?SOftt NIC UNION FOLLOWING WAR SLAVS PASS CZERNOWITZ !N ADVANCE Railroad to Bukowina's Capital Cut Towns Arc Occupied Beyond Criislilnn Strokes Delivered by the Russian Army Exhaustion Pre vents Resumption of Verdun Bat tleRussian Attacks Upon Von Hlndenburo's Forces Repulsed. PKTHOCIIIAl), June M, via Lou don. In their advance upon Czerno witz, the capital of Hukowiiin, the ItusHiaiiH have occupied tho village of Sniatyn, twenty inilos northwest of the eity, tho war office unnoiiiiccd today. In addition lo thuir previous cap tures, the lfussians havo taken 120 offieors, (iOOll men, six guns mid ten machine guns. LONDON, Juno R Report from the eastern front indioate that the Russians are making sub.Htantial progrosa in effoit to capture Czor itowit, the eitpital of Hukowina. A Kuuter dispalcli from Pclrograd stiy the ItiiNjians have interrupted tho Austrian communications by cutting; the railway running north from Czor nowitz. Heavy fighting is in progress in the eastern, southwestern and western outskirts of tho eity. A wireless dispatch from Home quotes tho Russian ambasHador to Italy lo the effect that IliiKsinu onv ulry Iiiih reached a ponit twenty miles beyond Czernowitz. Further nuriji Jh Russian forces huvb rollftu-cd u( thnfr vuiloriuf 'along the RivertStyr and ro ptuadily, ad vancing 'o the nortiiwcst (towards Vladimir Yolyuski. In this sector the Russians have covered tho ground embraced in from ono and ono half to two marches from the Ro-jitclie-Lutsk line. Having reached the Stokliod river, the Russian are separated from Ki vel, the vital center of the Teuton railway, ami road communication in this sector, by lows than one-third the distance thoy oovurod during their crushing stroke westward from the Olykn region. Thoy aro al ien dv more than half wuy from Olyka to Vladlmir-Volyinki. Itxhaiislloii at Wnluii PARIS, June II. Tho fighting around Verdun hit once more died down from sheer exhaustion of com batant. An entire division, half of whom wore llavHrian and half Pomeran ians, whs used up by the Oermaug in twelve separate attempt .Monday to storm the French poeitlons north of Thiaiimout. From thia position tho French flanking fire prevents tho en emy from advancing un Vaux plat eau. No result Imvinjf boon attained hy nightfall, fresh troo woro Itiought up and an attempt made to turn the iwsition from the outhwot. After a desperate struggle a footing wa obtained in some of tho t run olios on Hill No. 381, half a mile wost of Thiaumont and a mile oaat of Hras. No effort wa made to iuuroaso thia advantage yeetarde owing probably to the loses on Monday, whieh, according to prisoners, wore o.veeptionsllv heavy. A man helong iag to the sixteenth Itavarian Infan try stated that his regiment hud linen held in n-M-ru- lor a big offensive against the last loits of Venliin, hut (Continued on pngo six) NEW PRESIDENT fiAiNTO DOMINGO. Dominican o IMlklle, June IL The sonata toduy dMlisnated Jaoluto De Oostro to bo urenldent of the ropubllo, in success Ion to I'realdeut Jlminez. His namo was tent to the chamber of doputlos for approval. The ohambor last month took a vote for provisional president, but Hear Admiral Capor ton, in command of the Auiurlwui foreei of oeoupatlou, requaatsd that the election be poitpouad up til quiet wag restorel throughout tho repute las la ttoe 4ic'l"B W :W&r'6 I 4r? 0cArtUC,