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A . A . CIRCULATION IS OVER 4000 DAILY - s FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES , s n : V i I Vv - CU n n o nnnm--Mi ) n o n n THIRTY-NINTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1916 PRICE TWO CENTS gS?3gSS fin I fitmirrmfffi i i r f r i iii it t bi ii t i .pi r i ii c .MOOSE HERD GOES WILD AT MENTION OF TEDDY'S NAME Band Played, Harns Tooted, Flags Waved and Bedlam Broke Loose AN HOUR AND 34 MINUTES Oregon Delegation Sprung Umbrella Parade, Mrs. Hill Leading It By H. L. Eennick. (t'niti'd Press staff correspondent.) Auditorium, Chicago, June 7. The progressive national convention went wild 35 minutes after it assembled to tiny ut the first iiiention of Theodore .oos.'elt 'a name from the piitt'orm. Tho ccii-gutes f'u-eied, yel.'ed, shout i l, jumped hi) in the air and -waved banners and everything else they could find, when Temporary Chairman Hobins ramed Roosevelt as tho "greatest rend er of his time, " one minute after he had Htarted speaking. 'The natioi) is clamoring for one man Roosevelt," Robins 'declared in li is keynofe speech. Robins named the colonel as the "bravest and wisest leader o'f the peo ple in our time, the foremost private citizen of the world." "We have listened for mouths to the wrangling voices of the selfish, nar row groups,' said Robins. "What wo vant is the nations favorite son, not the favorite son of any state." Declaring "that we should speak plainly to our brothers in spirit, espe cially in the republican-.piittv,!'. Rob ins asked for unity on Americanism nd warned "those of an easy and ac commodating political virtue that will v it surrender a principle. " Demonstration Began. Then the Roosevelt demonstration be gan, the delegates seizing a big banner -and carrying it to the stage. Pennsylvania followed, with Califor nia, North Dakota, Texas and Colorado falling into line. , Within a minute practically all the ntnte delegation standards were planted in a cluster about the speaker's stand. As the demonstration proceeded, the riotous mob of cheering delegates crushed so closely nbout Robins and Murdock that the two were completely iost from sight. Drums beat, "moose horns" tooted and everybody yelled in a bedlam of sound. They were all primed and ready for the start after days of waiting. The entire crowd sang "We Want Teddy" until the arches of the audi torium nearly cracked under the vol ume of sound. Finally thoy got tired of singing it nud yelled it. The band played all the patriotic songs it knew, and started to repeat them. Robins let the crowd have its head and made no attempt to cheek the dem onst ration. As dozens of delegates inarched in single file in front of the speaker's stand, Perkins climbed on a table above the crowd and held an impromptu re eeption, shaking hnnds with the pass ing delegates and beating time to the music. Red Headed Delegate It. At 1:25 p. m. when the demonstra tion had been on for 2.1 minutes and was apparently (lying down, the band (Continued on rice Two ) ABE MARTIN ' sjfi s( f sjc Th' diff 'reuce between a arter an' a Ir.iiued seal is that you have t' feed tire sea. A country preacher dressed li.ie a corpse. AMERICANISM I IE E IH KEYNOTE TALK FA'ded Olive Branch to digals Fatted Calf V Awaited Them ADf ' PROSPERITY BUT S IT IS OF BAD KIND Aoast of Democracy Causei Laugh, Lone Ray of Light In the Gloom Chicago, June 7. "Americanism" wag the keynote and party unity the appeal of .Senator Warren G. Harding's speech, formally opening the republi can national convention today. The vast majority of the people, Harding said, expected the party sponsors "to write anew the sacred covenant of re publication and re-consecrate the party to tho nation's service." "We. did not very well in making for harmony the lust time we met." the temporary chairman said in open ing his address. "The country has re gretted; let us forget and make amends to our country. We did not di vide over f unilnmental principles; we did not disagree over a national policy. We split over methods of party proced-' ure arid preferred personalities. "The allied hosts of the believers in republican principles are in n vast majority in this country w&en the ban- z$mz WARREN G. HARDING ners of harmony are unfurled. We have seen the re-enlistment of those who believe in republican doctrines. Re dedicating here and now the republican party to progress and glory of the. re public, let us bury party prefixes with the administration which our differ ences put into power." Harding expressed the belief that there was not a reactionary republican bearing credentials in the conven-tron and added "no party can endure which is not progressive, 'i know the repub lican party is genuinely progressive and effective." He Tlayed Wilson. After extending the olive branch to the progressives, in convention at the Auditorium, Harding outlined the fun damentals upon which the party plan ned to re-construct its power. At the same time, he flayed the Wilson ad ministration, concluding that "every thing is abnormal except the depicted condition of the federal treasury, which is characteristic of democratic con trol." and the facility of the adminis tration for "writing varied notes with out effective notice," and speaking "with more rhetoric than resolution "Bleeding Kurope," he said, "is a warning 'for prudent, patriotic and ample national defense. Let him who is anxious about the cost remember that republican policies afford the ample means without burdens upon the people. "We proclaim justice and we love peace and wo menn to have them even if we have to fight for them." "Of the prosperity wave in the country now, no one disputes it," Hard ing said. "Rut it u ...... ;,.,.! ; factory aspect, abnormal in its fevered uu, iiciuious in its essentials und preventing in its tendency. Worse, it is gold, sluiced from the river of blood, poured out by the horrifying sacrifice of millions of our 'fellow-men." Hardincr's thrust nt thn ,lnmA..ni., . -' ' . ..bin lui their "variability from Baltimore to .irn Lru7." brought a huge roar of laughter and applause. He. was warm ing up his audience at this time, and as his sharp ironic shafts were rammed home, his speech was interrupted fre quentJy with laughter and handclan- ping. The Ohio delegation was riglit ou the job in leading the applause. naming Had been at his warming tip process for nearly au hour when his rmwr uegan iit snow Ins own warmth. Huge drops of sweat stood out on his fnl'head. but his voice strenirtlioiii..! n he proceeded. He Warmed Himself. .Sergeant at Arms Stone was another volunteer Gunga Din. after the seniitur had been speaking for an hour He seized upon a moment 's applause to hand the one perspiring and really (Continued on Fuge Five) HARDING'S THEM rtt rA - " ' . Xw " ft- l ' ' NATIONAL CHMfZMfiH HILLES AND CROWD GATHERING AT COLISEUM. Some Little Stories From Chicago's Big Conventions Chicago, June 7. Willium Alden Smith, of Michigan, says the real con- . test here is not over the presidential I uominatiou nt all. "Wo must name a man who can lead us to a clenn majority in tho senate," j said Smith today, "and that menus we must carry Missouri. A republican president with the present senate might juBt as well sit down and twiddlo his thumbs four vears." Indiana, Maine, Nevada, Missouri and Nebraska are tho states Smith says must elect republican senators. No Harmony There. Chicago, June 7. A contingent of Sherman enthusists mixed with a dele gation of Roosevelt rooters early today and in the amicable exchange of fists, one face and two Roosevelt banners were badly damaged. The clash occurred when Shormanites endeavored to break up a Roosevelt hurrah inciting. City detectives assist ed in bunging nbout an armistice. The Stampede Stunt. Chicago, June 7. The "gallery queen in red" will be on the job for T. it. at the 0. 0. P. convention today, with n more spectacular stunt thnn that with which she stirred up the 1!U2 conven tion. "I'll do something that will create more of a furore than jumping on the platform in u red satin dress and wav ing "Teddy's" picture and a red para sol," declared Mis. William A. Davis, "the queen" today. "Maybe I'll ar range to have u monster American flag with 'Teddy's' picture in the center shoot down and unfold from the center of the Coliseum ceiling." Hughes Not Interested. Washington, Juno 7. Whatever re publicans have done, are doing today, or will do tomorrow or next day, or the next, had no surface reflection today at 2100 Sixteenth street, northwest. There was every surface indication that Russian Offense Grows Daily In Extent Along Austrian Front London, June 7. The interest of the military critics of Kurope is now centered on the armies of the cw. The Bear 'a offensive has now- been in operation for a week, each day grow ing in length of line attack and in j frequency of infantry rushes. Ai-cui-.l. ing to official announcement f ruin I retrograu, the drive has already re sulted in the capture of nearly 30,000 prisoners together with cannon andi small arms. The sar has morn than 1,000,000 men, massed along the line from the Pripct marshes to J'ruth, in the TU'Ssarian reuinn criticu hnliava The Austrian defenders are but half that number. Russians Take 40,000 Prisoners London, June i. The total number of prisoners taken by the Russians in their grand offensive against tho Aus triaU9 on the 2."0mile I'ripet l'ruth front has reached 40,000, according to an official statement from 1'clrogM.l. In this total, 100 officers era included. Artillery actions are in progress all Justice Hughes expects and hopes no expectations nor hopes. As evidence tending to bear this out, inquiry at the Capitol lunch room where tho jurist sends for his lunch every Monday at 2 o'clock, elicited the infor mation that tho usual weekly order for an orange nud two lamb chops stands for next Monday, wn his next "de cision" day at the supreme court. The justice spent today, as ho docs most days, in hi library where he- is working ou opinion ho is expected to hand down Monday. If the thick weath er doesn't thin out by afternoon, when Hughes and his wife or one of his chil dren usually take an afternoon drive in his wobbly-looking, box-like electric. Teddy Didn't Hear It. Oyster Buy. 1J- ! 3ane 7, Despite the fact that Cvlunel Roosevelt's pri vate telephone lino connecting him di rect with the Blackstona hotel in Chi cage ho said iie had not heard of the treineudous denionstmticn in his behalf until a United Tress correspondent told of it after it was more than an horn old. Roosevelt was in the library of his inrue rending a book and when nMt ed f..r a statement on the demonstration he irniiired "What demonstration T" and when informed, said: "I enn make no statement on any demonstra tion." He then resumedhis reading. Alice Fools Photographers. Chicago, June 7. Alice Roosevelt Loii'vcrth coaxed her husband, Con gressman Nick Longworth', into holding hands with her French maid on their arrival here to deceive a flock of news paper photographers who were on the job to snap the colonel's daughter. Several of tho snap shot artists focused through the fog and gloom and brought back to their city editors pic tures of the maid. None of them ap reured in print today. While Longworth wns walking along with the maid, Mrs. Longworth dodged into the erowd and made her way to luir hotel alone. HOW THE SPORTS LOOK AT CANDIDATES CHANCES Chicago, June 7. Jheodorc Roosevelt was mnde the favor- ite for the republican president- inl nomination by Chicago book- $ makers today. They quoted Teddy 's chances at even money. ,lim O'Leury, Chicago ' prem- ier layer, is strong for the colonel as a betting proposition. "Looks like T. R.," he said. One freak bet was recorded. A western cattle man put up $7."0 against 3,000 that Roose- velt would be the nominee of both tho progressives and re- )j publicans nud elected over Wilson, ' Supreme Court Justice Hughes was made second choice at odds of six to five, L'lihu Root 4-5 to 1, Senator Burton of Ohio 0 to 1, Senators Cummins of Iowa it and Weeks of Massachusetts 7 to I. No bets were recorded on Henry Ford or Senator La- Follette, " Name your own price on 'em and it's a go," said O 'Leary. 3c afc )c sfc sc sfe s(e ae 34c sfc sfc ?c 3fc along the, line, with frequent infantry charges by the czar's men, Fierce Fighting at Vaux Paris, June 7. Fort Vaux has been under violent bombardment Bince the sanguinary repulse of a massed Ger man infantry attack last night, accord ing to the official statement of the French war office today. Zk1 ' trvHl ! v , is 1 rtlliMtTfl ii 1 $ By George Martin. (United Press staff oorres- pondent.) Coliseum, Chicago, June 7. (12:45. p. m.) (Passed by tho censor.) Senator Harding aver- aged 45 emphatic, arm gestures, seven takings off and puttings on of his rubber tired pince-nez $ and 1 risings up on his heels nud coming down plump, to tho 4c minute. He mopped his brow with a handkerchief an average of e)c once every three minutes and stumbled in his delivery about once every 15 minutes. His fa- se vorite gesturo was to raise his 4c right hand as high above his 4s head as ho could reach, and then 4c 4c let it tremble there, vibrating 4c with his foghorn voice. 4c - Victor Roscwatcr, of Ne- 4c 4e braskn, coal boy and assistant 4c 4e wiper on the 1912 steam roller, 4; nits down among the scullions oJE 4c the press as a mere reporter to; 4c day. 4 4c National Committee Secretary James B. Reynolds in rending 4c 4c the convention call by sections, 4c 4e designated them: 4c "Foist, second, thoid, nnd so 4c 4c on." 4c But for all that anyone could 4c or wanted to hear him, he might 4: as well have been talking down 4c 4c a holt. 4c 4c 4c 4e Governor Frank B. Willes, 4c of Ohio, Bat under tho gavel 4c chewing gum audibly and uc- 4c 4 tivcly, 4 4c 4c "Uncle Joe" Cannon, sans 4c 4c cigar, sn:is enmpaign hat, suns cuss words, sans everything by 4c which ho iB ordinarily recng- 4 4c nized, sat on the platform with 4c 4 tho national committee. 4c 4c 4c Chnuncey DePew sat among 4c 4c his mutton chops nud the New 4c York delegation, with his mouth 4c 4c open. . 4c 4c No one renlized how bald- 4e headed this convention is until 4c it sat down and formed a per- 4 feet pink carpet on the Coli- 4c scum floor with n black fringe 4c of cord all around it. . 4c There is an unbroken wave of 4c baldness from the platform back to Knnsng, where it is 4c broken by a reef of hnir and 4c 4c then goes baldly on to barren- 4c 4c domed Wyoming. 4 4c How Cherry Queen Contestants Stand Tiic Rose festival seems to be occu pying the attention of those who hnvo been boosting their favoriVi for' queen of the Cherry fair, and the voto toiiay shows but little change from yesterday. The totals are. as follows: llstella Wilson 27,8X0 Verua Cooder !ili,2."i0 Inez Stege 18,.ri70 Gertrude Corey '. N,.'I70 (In the left bank of the Meuse, the arfillery fighting in the region of Hill '.M uiul Cauretto woods continue. Asquitb. Takes Charge London, June 7. Premier Asqulth bus tuken charge of the war office temporarily, It was announced today HIES 1 Oil FIRST BALLOT, ConserYatiye Estimate Gives Him 210-HitchcockY Figures Are 340 ROOSEVELT DONE WITH REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Total Vote For Favorite Sons As Against Hughes Said To Be 781 sjc sc sj i(c sjc fc Jc s sjc sjc sjs REPUBLICAN PROGRAM 4e 4s Meets nt 11 a. m. 4c 4c Temporary chairman, Varren 4c 4: G. Harding of Ohio, makes 4 4c "koynoto" speech. Resolutions committee begins 4c open hearings on platform. 4 Senator William E. Borah an- 4 nounces withdrawal from presi- 4c 4e dentinl race. 4c Allies claim three times nam- 4c 4c ber of votes that Hughes has. 4c nitchcock claims for Hughes 4c more than total number of fa- 4c vorite Bona vote. Informal details of their nego- 4c 4e tintions still pending botween 4c 4c progressives and republicans. 4c 4 sfc s(c sjc sfc s(c sc sjc sfc sjc sj( c By Perry Arnold. (United Press Btaff correspondent.) Coliseum, Chicago, June 7. Under the handicap of a drab, dull day, with a rnin-sonked assemblage, the republi nra national 'eonTention got under way today. The weather was plainly ou the nerves of tho delegates who quieted down at 11:2S when Chairman Hilda' gavel fell 23 minutes after tho time sot. It was not until Temporary Chairman Hurding had gotten well along in his keynote speech that tho air really warmed up. The Ohioan, reputed to be one of tho handsomest men in the Uni ted .States senate ami a polished speak er, drew tho 'first old-fashioned hall rocking spontaneous applause, when, having warmed up himself and warm ed his rain-soaked audience, he pleaded for a navy, "that fears none in the world," applause that lasted through a minuto of frenzied cheers greeted his declaration that the United States should "not be too proud to fight." Hurding greeted an audience that was wet and cold, freezing with ap proaching colds and uncomfortable in I ho musty atmosphere of the great hall. He got merely a polite reception at first, but as his polished phrases sank into tho audience, he gradually warmed the air. The 15,000 began to forget their snif fles, their cold feet nnd wet clothes. Tho republicans convened without, any sort of agreement on the candi dates whom they will select. It was still Hughes and Roosevelt and Burton and Fairbanks, and all the rest with nobody knowing exactly what would happen. There was no doubt, that the G. O. P. convention was slightly in terested in what was happening and nbout to happen at the auditorium, where those who broke the bonds four years ago were holding conference. That thero would be nu attempt frr u "get together" meeting of commit tees of both conventions whb certain. At least one resolution wns to be intro duced, suggesting a combination of in terests. This was the one offered by tho New Jersey delegation, asking that a committee be appointed to advise the progressives as to the republicans' plans for a platform. This Js the scheme advanced by Kd ward C. Hreannn of Jersey City. Borah and Hughes Dominate. Chicago, June 7. Unless a majority of tho resolutions committee turns down the resolutions of Senators Bornh and Lodge, who are expected to be its dominating figures, the republican plat form will include a flat declaration for universal military training. The feas ibility of this isue wns discussed in conferences among leaders todny. Lead ers found they would have more support for it thnn hnd seemed likely. Delegates representing fnvorite sons are expect ed to furnish the principal opposition. The wholo platform will be built around tho word Americanism, nnd in content and context will be designed to catch tho npprovnl of Colonel Roose velt. Aside from the preparedness isue, the lending planks will be protection of American rights abroad, woman suf frage nnd a protective tariff. Though the platform is to be formed theoretically only after a public, henring lute this afternoon nnd evening, the foregoing cardinal points have been agreed upon in meetings among lend ers and drafts have been prepared. Fireworks 1n the hearings late today hio expected from President Oompers and Secretary Morrison of tho Amer- (Continuod on Pago Nine.) HUGHES 1 LEAD ALLEL E! I PROGRESSIVES TO FiEETAtlDAOJOil LTli Situation Gets Away From Perkins, Due To Radical Forces FIREWORKS WILL START AT NAME OF ROOSEVELT Radicals Ready For War cr Peace But It Must Be On Their Own Terms ;c 4c 4t PROGRESSIVE PROGRAM 4c 4c Meets at noon. 4c Temporary chairman, Ray- 4c moud Robins, of Chicago, doliv- 4c crs "keynote" address. Committees are assigucd. 4c . Convention adjourns until Thursday. v Progressive Platform. Chicago, June 7. Kvery prepared ness and "Americanism" plank that Colonel Roosevelt has espoused in the jast year is to bo included, along with, woman suffrage and lubor reform planks, in the platform of the progres sive party. William Allen White, member of pro gressive resolutions c ommittec, from Kansas', and Dean Walter Lewis, of the department of law, University of Penn sylvania, have completed a preliminary draft of tho platform, largely under Colonel Roosevelt's direction. Tho platform is understood t iaelude the following planks: Preparedness, including universal ser vice and a great navy, Americanism, with emphasis on tin necessity of a strong foreign policy. National woman suffrnge. Improve ment of lubor conditions through en forcement of u strict child lubor law. Further extension of tho initiative and referendum. Advocacy of more liberal changes in the national constitution. Tariff commission, or some other means of regulating tho tariff with ex perience. Extension of American trado with en larged merchant marine. Predictions wero made today that all efforts of prohibitionists to secure in troduction of a "dry" plank in the bull moose platform would meet with fail ure. Many planks are expected to be in troduced from the floor and conside--able debute is anticipated. Will Preserve Party. By H. L. Rennlck. (United Press staff correspondent) Chicago, Juno 7. The bull moose hords tramped through the rain amt gloom to the auditorium today for their second national convention, ready for war or peace, at their owu terms, wit the O. O. P. Fireworks were expected to start early, at tho instant that Theodora l Roosevelt is mentioned. A hasty conference preceding the opening of tho convention at noon. 'George W. Perkins, chairman of the prr Igressivo national committee and chivf (factor in the move to make peace with jtho republicans, wus prepared to block any premature nomination of the eol onel before official moves were made to get together with the (1. (). P. Hetermined to nominate T, R., nvea at the cost of maintaining a third tic set in the national race, tho progressive .radicals under tho leadership of Il.nry Allen, of Kansas, were prepared to block any move toward a permanent compromise. Following a telephnne conversation with Colonel Hoosovelt, (leorgo Perkins made the following statement prior to the opening of the convention. "I am very well satisfied with tlx situation as it stands. I believe that a fine atmosphere exists and that proper spirit has been created for best results in both conventions." (Continued oa Tag Three.) THE WEATHER 4 4c 'Hope the" PONT NQIAttfME tA Oregon: Fair tonight and Thursday, warm er tonight south west portion ex cept near the const j northerly winds. ) J Tl JRSDAY mm.