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I HOES TO BILL TAFT HE AND SHERMAN NOMINATED DY THE REPUBLICANS WORK OF STEAM ROLLER Taft Receives Twenty-One Votes More Than Necessary to Nominate and Roosevelt's Name Was Not Presented, Many of His Delegates Refusing to Vote at All. With nearly 3 50 of the Roosevelt delegates declining to vote and hastening away at adjournment time to tender to Col. Roosevelt the nomination of a new nartv. tlio ilfteenth Re publican National Convention, at the end of a long and tumultuous session, Friday night re-nominated William Howard Taft, of Ohio, for President, and James Schoolcraft Sherman, of New York, for Vice-President. President Taft received 5C1 of the 1,078 votes in the Convention, or 21 more than a majority. The decision of the Roosevelt people, under direction of their leader, to refrain from voting, left no other candidate near the President. The announcement of the Taft victory was greeted with cheering from his adherents and groans and hisses from the opposition. When it became absolutely certain early Friday that Mr. Taft would be nominated without great difficulty, the leaders in control of the Conven4!^.. .1 A ^! J 1 i j-v ? t 1. ~ nun ueciueu iu mm, <i? a, run3iing mate, his companion on the ticket of 1908. All others dropped from the race and Mr. Sherman was the only candidate placed before the Convention. A motion from New Hampshire to make the nomination by acclamation wn3 declared out of order. There were many scattering votes on the roll call that ensued. Tho Convention, amid much confusion, adjourned sine die. At no time was there an Indication of a walk-out of Roosevelt delegates. They expressed their revolt in solence. In the confusion just before adjournTirnt a resolution was adopted giving the national committee power to declare vacant the seat of any man on the committee refusing to support nominees of the regular Convention of 1912. Sherman's vote was 597. The revolt of many Roosevelt delegates in the Convention was open from the moment the permanent roll, containing the names of contested delegates, was approved. A "valedictory" statement was read in behalf of Col. Roosevelt asking that his name be not presented that his delegates sit in mute protest against all further proceedings. A great majority of the Roosevelt delegates in the Illinois and all in the 'Missouri and Idaho delegations declined to follow this advice, hut Col. Roosevelt's sway over the delegations from California, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and West Virginia was all but absolute. Most of the delegates from these States announced their purpose of helping to give Mr. Roosevelt an independent nomination. The split in the Convention occasioned no surprise. It was but fulfillment of predictions that had been made during the last few days. The closing scenes of the Convention were marked by counter demonstrations for Taft and Col. Roosevelt. The first test vote after the announcement "valedictory" came on the adoption of the party platform. The affirmative vote was 666. Roosevelt delegates present and not voting t. .1 n i o nuniDereu There were 53 noes, 36 of them from the T.aFollette States of Wisconsin and North Dakota. Senator LaFollette was placed before the Convention, but Col. Roosevelt's wishes were carried out by his followers and they remained silent during the call of the States for nomination. On the voting for President the Roosevelt delegates again, as a rule, remained silent. 1 Bryan is Doudly Cheered. At Chicago William J. Bryan was a renter of attraction in the nre- cin vcnfoion scene Monday and though appearing at the headquarters of leaders of a rival party as a newspaper reporter, was given a demonstration by the throng of visitors and delegates. Three nt The Birth. At Pittsburg, Pa., Mrs. Harriet MacFarland, 35 years of age, and weighing les than 80 pounds, Monday gave birth to triplets?boys? each weighing 4 pounds. The babioe are stronb and physicians say they wil live. / ? * * Two Aviators Die. Douai France, Captain Dubois and Lieut. Peignan both officers in tlio French army, and trained airmen were killed when the biplanes, they were piloting around the military flying ground, collided with terrific force In mid-air^ BE HEADS NEW PARTY2 KOOSEVEIiT RUNS AS INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE. Defeated in Regular Convention His Delegate** Hold Separate Convention and Nominate Him. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for President on an independent ticket Friday night in the dying hours of the Republican National Convention, in which he had met defeat. The followers of Col. Roosevelt gathered in Orchestra Hall, Jess than a mile from the Coliseum, and pledged their support to the former President. In accepting the nomination, Col. Roosevelt appealed to the people of all sections, regardless of party affiliations, to stand with the founders of the new party, one of whose cardinal principles he said was to be "Thou Shalt Not Steal!" The informal nomination of Col. Roosevelt was said to be chiefly for organization. Beginning Saturday, when a call was issue dfor a State Convention in Illinois, the work of organization will be pushed forward rapidly, State by State. At a later time, probably early In August, it is intended that a National Convention .shall ,be held. Col Roosevelt, in accepting the nomination Friday night, said he did so understanding that he would willingly step aside if it should be the desire of the new party, when organized, to Select another standard-bearer. The speech nominating Col. Roosevelt was made by Comptroller William A. Prendergast, of New York, who was to have presented the Colonel's name to the Convention. Dean William Draper Lewis, of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, who was to make one of tlie seconding speeches, delivered Friday night the address which he had prepared for the Republican Convention. Representatives of twenty-two States composed the notification committee which informed Col. Roosevelt of his nomination and in a sense stood as sponsors for the movement. The committee consisted of Comptroller W. A. Prendergast, New York; Meyer Lissner, of California; former Congressman Richmond Pearson, of North Carolina; Frank Knox, of Michigan; Matthew Hale, of Massachusetts; A. R. Clifford, of Ohio; David Browning, of Kentucky; Everard Blerar Jr., Utah; Walter Thompson, Vermont; Judge Oscar R. Hundley, Alabama; Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of Colorado; Andrew Rahn, Minnesota; Judge Stevens, Iowa; Judge Tvowder, North Dakota; William Allen White, Kansas; John C. Green way, Arizona; Ex-Governor .jonII r ranKiin rorr, .now .jersey; tCol. E. C. Carrington, Maryland; Pearl Wight, Louisiana; Lorenzo Dow, Washington; Walter Clyde Jones Illinois; Frank Frantz, Oklahoma. A REMARKABLE RECOVERY. ? Girl Whose Neck Was Broken is Now Said to bo Cured. Picked up for dead but saved from the dead wagon before it started for the morgue, when a faint sign of life was detected, eighteen-year-old Esther Harris, whose escape from the Triange fire last year was made at the cost of a broken neck and back, has been cured. Unable to move even a finger for eleven months after the tragedy, in which 147 men and women were killed, she can now stand and walk unassisted, a feat rare in surgery, whose teachings are that in almost every case of total paralysis resulting from a fracture of the neck the victim never regains command of motion. Sho now wears a steel and leather harness to support her head, but in a few months hopes to discard this. In other respocts she is perfectly well. I Kill Valuable Bull Bog. Edgewood Patton, the prize winning bulldog, valued at $1,000, owned by Frank Dole, of New Haven, was not down at the opening of tho Allentown Dog Show. Dole's trainer was taking Edgewood Patton through a field for exercise, when tho dog spied a hen. He hroke the leash and killed it. Before tho trainer could catch the dog an Italian, who owned the dead chicken, killed tho dog with an axe. ? ? Tiost One of Ills Tjogs. The State says Michael Adams, a negro, foil under a northbound train on tho Southern railway, near the Taylor street crossing, about. 7 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, receiving injuries which neccessiated the amputation of one of his legs. Adams, an employe was riding home on the tfoln on<1 In anmn wn\i fnll II <1111; UUV1 I" WV/1II V ?1 IVJ1 1 V?.. Merry Rrhles Come. Tho Anchor liner Cameronia brought into New York eighteen Scothch brides-to-be in her second cabin yesterday. They are all bound for the middle West, where most of them aro to mary prosderous farmers who left their native heather and sweethearts behind them a few years ago. ATTACK ON JONES ? BLEASE CRITICIZES HIS DECISIONS AND VOTES. NOT ALLOWED TO REPLY - In a Sharp Clash at Blshopville Governor Blease Criticises the Record of Jones as a Legislator and a Judge, Who is Refused a Reply by the Chairman. In his speech at Bishopvllle on Wednesday Governor Blease criticised the votes of Jones as a Legislator and his decisions as a Judge. Blease spoke after Jones, and when the latter rose to reply Blease objected to his doing so and was sustained by Chairman L. L. Boker. The incident created some little excitement, which soon subsided however, and the meeting ended without any serious disturbance. Organizing at Sumter Tuesday just before the meeting there the party of candidates adopted a rule for tho campaign, which is as follows, according to tho records of the secretary, S. T. Carter. "When statements are made by onw candidate which are objectionable to another candidate, ne snail oe anoweu 10 ue11 y the charges and to furnish a categorical answer when the candidate malting the statements has finished or at the close of the meeting." Under the rule B. B. Evans was Tuesday and Wednesday allowed a reply to statements by the attorneygeneral, Mr. Lyon, ana under the saino rule Judge Jones, Wednesday, when Gov. Blease, the last speaker, had concluded, arose to make his reply, the governor's address having consisted principally of a vigorous attack on him. Gov. Blease vehemently protested against Judge Jones being heard, shouting: "He's had his speech, let him answer to-morrow.' The governor moved forward again to the front of the platform, objecting to his opponent's attempt to say anything. He was plainly excited, as his words and gesticulations indicated. A policeman was on hand at once and attempted to separate the two candidates, who were standing, with shoulders jammed against each other, fairly bristling defiance. The county chairman sidetracked the policeman, saying he would call in }>i? HorvirRH when necessary. There they stood, Judge Jones waiting a moment for quiet. Governor Blease objecting vigorously to any attempt to speak, both facing the audience, carrying on a little contest in shouldering. Judge Jones had taken his stand and refused to he ousted; the Governor determined that lie should not say a word. "Governor, I command you to he quiet," was the warning sounded by Chairman Baker, at one juncture. "There will he no more speaking," declared the chairman. When this was said Judge Jones acquiesced and walked calmly off the stand, accompanied by a few friends, who had gathered about. Governor Bloase left the stand surrounded by a great crowd, which followed him down the street for a short distance. The people were somewhat excited over the incident, which at first they did not understand, not being acquainted with the rule adopted by tho candidates, which permits reply in denial of charges made by opponents. There was really no danger, however, of a general row, for Chairman Baker, while admitting Judge Jones' right to speak in reply and declaring that ho pursued the course he did for the sake of quiet, was amply able to handle the situation, even though it had developed into something more serious. Governor IMease charged Judge Jones with voting for J. L?. *M. Irby for United States Senator against Gen. Wade IlamptoH, with voting against Judge Wallace, speaker of the Wallace House; with voting for prohibiion and against the dispensary and local option and afterwards voting to force the dispensary in Marlboro and other dry counties. References were given to prove all the charges. Rlease also charged Jones with voting to have a divorce law in South Carolina; with voting against reducing the rate of interest in this State with i.i f <-v o 11 a \tr Hi a niilllfinuf Inn r? f vwi.ilifs ?iant i tic Iiuiiiuvuviuit I the labor law by working the operatives 110 hours extra; for voting for free passes in the legislature and riding on one; with voting against the bill providing seperate coaches for the races on railroads in this State. Governor Mease also referred to several of Judge .Tones decisions while on the Supreme Bench in which with other members of the court decided cases against citizens in favor of railroads and telegraph companies and other corporations. The Governor only mentioned four cases, but said there were a great many others. It is reasonable to suppose ne picked out those that he thought would show the Judge up in a bad light. Governor Blease also charged that Judge Jones' son was an attorney of the Southern Railway and that he resigned as soon as the Judge resigned QUITS BLEASE'S STAFF 0 COLONEL CHESHIRE SENDS IN HIS RESIGNATION. t Colonel Leon M. Green Makes the Announcement in a Statement to the Press. Governor Blease seems to be having trouble with his colonels. Coincident with the testimony of Mayor Grace, of Charleston, colonel of the governor's office, came the announcement cf the resignation of Col. V. B. Cheshire, of Anderson, another colone1 on the governor's staff, the announcement of the resignation having been sent out from Anderson by Col. Iveon iM. Green, still another colonel on the governor's staff. The fight which the anti-Bleaseites have been making on the governor seems secondary with the onslaught now being made on the chief executive by the members of his official family, formerly his warmest political supporters and admirers. The resignation of Colonel Cheshire is accounted the most significant development of the day and seems to foreshadow a stampede, and a further strengthening of the assertion that Blease will go down to defeat under an avalanche of Jones votes and "Bleaseism" be consigned to oblivion. The following card explains itself: "On the eve of the opening of the state campaign and close upon the recent break between Col. John P. Grace, mayor of Charleston, and governor Cole \j. Please, is the announcement made that Col. Victor P. Cheshire, publisher of the Anderson Intelligence^ has resigned from the staff of Governor Please. This is a political break of extreme importance, for Colonel Cheshire holds the balance of power in Anderson County, which polls <S,()00 votes, and which Governor Please carried in the last election by about S00. Political observers say this break means a loss of Anderson County to the governor and seriously affects his chances for re-election. "Colonel Cheshire was attacked In his office by a local magistrate and another citizen while a constable of Governor Please stood guard on a nearby railway bridge. Colonel Cheshire asked for the removal of the two men and the governor refused, thereupon Colonel Cheshire resigned and will not support the Governor in his race for re-election. "The mayor of Charleston begins testimony to-morrow morning in Columbia as to his charge that he can trace graft practically to the governor. This, with the break to-night betuTpn Please. and Cheshire, mav change the entire political situation in the state. L. M. Green." Colonel Green has been basking in the favor of the governor of South Carolina for more than a year. Last year he was a Columbia newspaper correspondent and resigned his position when asked to resign from the staff of the governor as a lieutenant colonel. Colonel Green's first public service in the state was as a factory inspector. lie was appointed by the governor, who gave him $200 a month to raid the columns of newspapers and the annual report of Commissioner Watson to gain some second-hand information as to child labor conditions. For this work Colonel Green was rewarded with warrants aggregating $1,000.. This little income to the colonel was cut off by the last general assembly when the provision wfts made for paying the two factory inspectors under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of agriculture. During the first part of this year the colonel found himself without a job and Governor Dlease said that he would take care of a friend by making him the chief detective of the state. Colonel Green traveled some as a detective. He was the highest priced odloial in the State of South Carolina, having received $20 a day for his labors ? 1 ) ^*?lr rxl /Mr P/\nn If 'Ph ? \lf O O ill I )t'I ncii'j V>uuutj? i uv; wiwuvt n uo detailed by Governor lllea.se to other sections of the state, lie absolutely refused to work for less than $10 a day. Mo turned in his expense account, amounting to about $100 for two month's expense account, which tbe governor approved. Comptroller General Jones turned down the account. because it was not properly itemized. The account, amounting to about $.180, was later paid when rhe colonel properly itemized his account. After tho general discussion throughout the state as to the high salary paid the colonel, he decided to quit tho service of the governor and a detective and enter tho newspaper business. Me was elected by Colonel Cheshire as editor of The Anderson Intelligencer. The tone of Colonel Green's statement would indicate that he is preparing to leave tho fold of tho chief executive. from the Supreme H-ench. Ho also blamed Judge Jones for tho late Democratic State Convention voting down a resolution favoring the repeal of the of the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution of the United States which places tho negro on equal footing of citizenship with the white man and deprives tho State of the right to disfranchise him. [JONES COMES BACK j , c HE SHOWS UP THE RECORD OF j GOVERNOR BLEASE. J DON'T WANT A GRAFTER j q Jones Declares That Mouse Was a J Traitor Twico in the Irby-Hampton c C Contest and Proves by the Record p that lllooso Voted Against the An- ' S ti-Freo Puss 1w. c The correspondent of The News and K Courier says coming back in lighting a style, the vigorous reply of Judge a Jones to the onslaught of Wednesday \ made upon him by Governor Dlease, j was the feature of tlie State campaign u meeting at Darlington Thursday. t] Judge Jones did not only defend_his i own record but he carried the light into Governor DIease's camp and 8 brought to the attention of the peo- t( pie some of his acts not known gen- a e rally. Cl Taking up in detail the charges o which Governor Dlease had preferred against him, Judge Jones answered n them in clear cut Style and with ef- ti fective argument. Not merely this, d as he even turned some of Governor s' Bleaso's own arraignment back y against him, particularly in refer- s< ence to voting for Hampton and the d free railroad passes, and showed that e Dlease had done the things ho had S charged him with doing. g Judge Jones charged Governor n Dlease with being twice a traitor in tlie Ilampton-Irby contest for the Un- o ited States Senatorship, pointing out 8 that Dlease had on a test vote sup- ii ported Hampton, then turned over to i< Irby, thus betraying the reform par- a ty, in mo nrst. instance, tnen going ' back on Hampton in the next. Judge i' Jones said ho was a contestant Re- n former, supporting Irby throughout t the light. h Ovation for Judge Jones. Judge Jones, upon being introduc- R ed, received almost an ovation. To a this he responded felicitously. Al- I most at once the speaker entered t into a discussion of the Bishopvillo t meeting and the charges made by r Governor Rlease. He accused the t Governor of assisting in denying him the right of denial yesterday. Ad- C mitting that his record as a public of- t llcer was a proper subject for attack, 1 he stated that he proposed now to de- c fend himself. t "I suppose out of all the cases I decided when a Judge," said the * speaker, "there would bo some which ( somebody would not like. One of 1 these cases was one conducted by * Governor Rlease himself; of course, ( lie did not like it. 1 "1 made my record as a legislator A and Judge, and I stick to it. I have no apologies to make." 1 Speaking of the qualifications the I Governor of a great State should N have, Judge Jones said, "We want ' no crook in that office, no man who n has the charge of graft brought G against him." Replying to some of the charges made Wednesday by the governor, v Judge Jones said that ho frankly ad- * mitted voting for Col. J. L. M. Lrby 1 for the United States Senate against * Wade Hampton, claiming that Irby was IiIr personal friend, had honored him politically, and was the candidate of the reform party. Consistency and loyalty to his party and his friends were Judge Jones' reasons for supporting Irby. Turning upon Governor Mease, the speaker charged him with heing twice a trai,tor in this very instance, saying that Mease in the preliminary test vote in the House voted for Hamilton, but when the real vote in the joint assembly came, Hlease supported Irby, thus betraying the reform party first, and then going back 011 Hampton. "I voted for Y. J. Pope,' said Judge Jones, "against Judge Wallace. Of course, 1 did. Ho was a lifelong friend, a Newberryian with me, a valiant soldier with seven bullet wounds in his body. It was merely a choice of men." As to his charge of front on the liquor question, voting for prohibition in the Legislature and now advocating local option, Judge Jones declared that he went to the Legislature instructed to vote for prohibl tion, and that ho would have boon li false to his trust had ho done other- f wise. o "There were two ballot boxes in 1 that primary, one for tho candidates and the other for and against prohibi- t tion," said tho speaker. "Tho men elected were bound to support in the ( Legislature the decision of tho county u in tho liquor issue. I was elected a c prohibition man, and I carried out my f trust." c Regarding his support of a divorce law some years ago, Judge Jones c said: "I did believe then, and do ( now, that divorce, for adultry alone, s should be granted. Rut the State of t South Carolina has written her will t against it, and I accept her peculiar ( attitude in the matter," Judge Jones t declared that ho held his own view t on this great debatable question, but that ho was content to abide the will < of his State, and that ho could not ^ change the law if he wished. ( In the matter of free railroad pass yp a 1 I s Judge Jones admitted that in those lays he was fool enough to thijak hat the acceptance of a free pas# ould not, by any means, influence in official. He soon found that the >ublic conception was otherwise and mmedlately gave them up. "I repented of that," said Judge ones, "but Blease must answer to ou on this very matter which he harges against me. In the vote on he acceptance of free passes, Blease, rhile in the Legislature, skipped the luestion, and did not vote, but in the ournal of 1892, on the question of epealing the Act allowing the aceptance of passes, you will find that !ole L. Blease voted against the reeal and fer the acceptance of passes, n that vote I had seen my error and tood against accepting passes. Judge Jones was Wednesday acused by the Governor as favoring the amo railroad coaches for both whites nd blacks. A bill providing for seprate coaches was introduced in the / ,egislatiiro in 1892. This, Judge ones stated Thursday, he knew to be nconstitutional. That was prior to lie Constitutional Convention in 4 895. 1 "That bill, as presented," said the 1 peaker, "could not have stood the I :>sts of the Courts five minutes. 1 m heartily in favor of separate uaches for negroes, of course, and it r social equality." "No," said Judge Jones, "you canot. tear down a man by finding a aw here and there in some of his in- ' ividual acts; if you cannot make a uccessful attack upon his character, v on cannot damage him by cfting 01110 errors of judgment. I am toay making a fight against the greatst. demagogue who ever ruled in outh Carolina. I defy an investiation of my whole life, the lives of ly whole family." Turning his guns upon the record f Governor Bleaso, Judge Jones aid: "You don't have to go hack ato ancient history to find valuer* >n restaurant, told the committee bVe points in this man's record, tlease vetoed the bill providing an lvostigat ion of the Murray windingp commission, thus holding against liese honorable men tlio slander that ad been made. "The Factory Inspection Act," aid the speaker, "was vetoed by him, nd yet he goes ahead and pays Col. .. M. Green about $900 a month, I hink, to make long distance inspecion of factories and make up his re>ort from the findings of the agriculural commissioner." The speaker then charged that the Governor had crippled the work of lie State board of health by not alowing an appropriation of $4,163 to over a deficit in the funds for diplieria antitoxin. Judge Jones merely mentioned the Governor's pardon record Wednes lay, calling attention to tno wasn. lunter case, in which he said Blease ried to bamboozle the Supreme 3ourt on the issue of a "true bill" , lading, attempting to show analogy \ vtth tlie Lazarus case. Judge Jones declared that the Su)rente Court had not roversed itself n this, and that Blease's charges vas a reflection on Justice Woods, udge Jones was given rousing cheers inj hearty handclaps as he concludid. Applause and Ifisses for Blease. Mingled with the applause with vhich Governor Blease was received here were a few hisses. "I am sur rised to hear hisses from a Darllngon audience," said the Governor, vlio ?t once struck a defiant attiude, proclaiming independence and tatlng that he expected opposition lere. He said he knew that "there ,re men in this audience who would lot vote for me if their souls' getting o Heaven depended on it." The speaker explained that he had lot refused to aid the work of the Itate board of health by declining o approve an appropriation, but he ontended that deficits should be nade up out of the $15,000 continent fund. Denying that he had insulted Jusice Woods, the Governor read from lis "book of pardons" extracts from lis Wash Hunter case, in which Jusice Woods was mentioned as a disinguished, high-toned, Christian genleman. "Yes, I pardoned Wash runter, and I'm going to pardon omo more," he shouted, when some me in the audience taunted him on lis record. One man asked him the question a ittlo later: "Were you under no lersonal obligation to Wash Huntr?" "No," replied the Governor, "and 10 has not even paid my attorney's ee yet. They have tied up his proprty in bankruptcy proceedings and I laven't got my money." Referring to Judge Jones' explanaion of the unconstitutionality of the Jim Crow" law as llrst prepared, ? jovernor lUease said: "Constitutlontl or not unconstitutional, I never xpect to vote for white peoplo and Tee niggers riding in the samo oaches." As to the general scope of his 'barges made at Bishopvllle Wedues lay, Governor Bleaso said he wo aid I mbmit it to any three men, his pit- I crest enemies, if necessary, and If I here is an untrue charge in it ho w'l! luit the race at once, resign his of- I lco, leave the country and never rs* The Governor Is confident of his I dection, 9tating Thursday that hsfl vould dofeat Judgo Jones by 20,?*l )0O majority. In addition, ho madofl (Continued on last page.)