Waterloo Times-Tribune, The (Newspaper) - July 17, 1912, Waterloo, Iowa ESTABLISHED 1879 Wednesday warmer WATERLOO IOWA WEDNESDAY JULY PRICE THREE CENTS Redaction in Duty Would Relieve Country of Many Evils BELIEVES WILSON WILL SWEEP COUNTRY Democratic Party is United While Opposition is Demoralized Influencing of Senators a Violation of the Con- DEMOCRATS SOLID FOR RESOLUTION OUTLINE CAMPAIGN Nominee aid House Leader Select States in Which to Wage Fight t Associated Press Trenton N J July W Underwood leader of the cratic majority in the house talked politics for two hours and a half day with Woodrow Wilson at the Country club Mr Underwood came up from Washington by train and the governor motored over from Seagirt When they parted Mr Underwood could not say too many kind things about the nominee and Governor Wilson said he had been delighted by the visit They talked of the coming campaign tion before the house and Mr Un- derwood's proffer of his services Mr Underwood told reporters what could not discuss for publication what they had talked about He was ling to talk on almost any other sub- ject he said and was asked wiat he thought of the platform of the cratic party I think a clear forceful and Strong expression of Democratic he said I think the cipal issue in the campaign is bound to be the tariff Of course there are other issues of more or less tance but the leading issue before the people is the question as to whether they want to maintain the tariff the present system of tariff taxation or whether they want to revise the tariff downward I believe most of the evils that exist In the country today that are being complained of grow out of the protective duties system and that the prohibitive duties must be re- removed before we can get any real relief both from the high cost of living and from many other evils that are complained of today Praised Wilson Of Governor Wilson as a leader Mr Underwood I think Governor Wilson is a great leader of men I do not have any doubt in my mind that he is going to be elected president of the United States I believe that his tion will live up to every promise of the party I don't think I ever saw the democratic party more united and in better condition to win a victory than it is today On the other hand I never saw the republican party more demoralized and I think that our op- feed themselves that they are on losing ground MAY AFFECT COMPROMISE Chicago July of Ar- thur W Charles as chairman of the Democratic stale central committee and the naming of Fred J Kern of Belleville to head the special com- which is to direct the state campaign appears to be the probable solution of the mix-up between bers of the regular state committee and Win L O'Connell personal campaign manager for Edward P Dunne Democratic nominee for Gov- ernor Mr Dunne has announced his op- position to Chairman Charles as ager of the state campaign because of the fact that Mr Charles holds a position under Governor een Friends of Mr Charles have pointed out that the position on the rivers and lakes commission held by Mr Charles belongs to the minority as a matter of law but apparently this has not appeased the Dunne horts who insist on the retirement of the present chairman of the state tral committee It is said that man Charles is not anxious to under- take the management of the state campaign in view of Mr Dunne's at- and is willing to have Fred J Kern named as chairman of the committee which the state body authorized at its meeting last Monday to manage the fall campaign The compromise suggested will be considered at a meeting to be held in a few days PLANS POR BATTLE Seagirt N J July tical battle ground of the campaign of 1912 where the democratic party will strain its sinews for every vote was placed before Governor Wilson this afternoon by the man he regards as better informed than any other on the country Oscar W Underwood leader of the Democratic majority of the house State by state the nominee and the Six Republicans Also Joined With Led Attack Washington July senate today indirectly rebuked President Taft for Ms course in the Lorimer case Once blocked from a vote by the impeachment proceedings a resolution scarred in a protracted bitter de- bate finally was adopted 35 to 23 denouncing any attempt on the part of a president to exercise the er of his office a vote on questions the senate's ex- jurisdiction The resolution originally framed by Senator Bailey who had arraigned President Taft asserting he had been some in endeavoring to line up ular republican senators in the ffier case The resolution as adopted that any attempt on the part of a president of the United States to exercise the powers and influence of his great office for the purpose of controlling the vote of any senator upon a question ing a right to a seat in the senate or upon any other matter within the exclusive jurisdiction of the senate would the spirit if not the letter of the constitution and invade the rights of the senate Not a democrat voted against the resolution but six republicans voted for it Republicans voted for it Senator Bourne Clapp Fall linger McCumber and Toted for the Ashurst Bacon Bailey Bryan Chamberlain Culberson Fletcher Gardner Hitchcock Johnston tine Newlands O'Gorman Over- man Percy Reed ly Simmons Smith of Arizona Smith of Georgia Smith of land Smith of South Carolina Stone Swanson Thronton and man Those republicans voted against the resolution Borah Brandege Bristow ham Burton Catron Crawford Cummins Dupont Gronna Jones Massey McLean Nelson Oliver Page Perkins Root Smith of Michigan Smoot Sutherland and Townsend Senator Bailey who introduced the denounced the course of President Taft as described in the letter the president wrote to Colonel Roosevelt on January 6 1910 which the president made public in a re- cent speech during the primary The original resolution was ed at presidential influence on votes upon the right of senators to retain their seats Senator Bailey concluded he accepted an amendment offered by Senator McCumber ing out words of condemnation from the resolution and extending it to other matters within the jurisdiction of the senate He also accepted an amendment by Senator Heyburn to insert the word would so as to make the resolution more impersonal The vote was demanded and for an instant It appeared that the tion as amended would pass mously At this moment Senator Wm Alden Smith took the floor to declare the president had done ing improper and that it was sible to disconnect Senator Bailey's argument from the resolution Strike out the then suggested Senator Bailey Some of it ought and some of it may be ter consideration shouted the MichT igan senator v Cummins Had Amendment Senator Cummins wanted the amended so as to also apply to the use of office to influence votes for or against a He said people would imply by this omission that such a practice was approved by the senate He spoke of reports that presidents had warned senators if they did not vote in a certain way they would be considered out of the party Senator Smith of Michigan de- manded that the senator from Iowa be more specific I make the assertion that such has said Mr Cummins and in the Interest of party mony I the senator will allow the incident to be forgotten as fast as the human memory will mit Senator Borah suggested to the senate that he had heard that the legislative branch of the government was intruding on the executive and thereupon read at length from row book on congressional I government In that the author spoke of the prestige of the press having declined and of GUI ON DENEEN Must Express Preference for President Taft or Col Roosevelt MEMBERS DO NOT FAVOR STATE TICKET Charles E Merriam and Other Leaders Bolted When This Plan Was Endorsed Continued on Page Nine Continued on page Nine Chicago July of Colonel Roosevelt in Illinois issued a call for a state convention to be held in Chicago August 3 to elect delegates to the third party national convention in Chicago ust 5 The delegates to the state convention are to be selected at a mass meeting by wards or counties on July 27 A resolution was adopted calling upon Governor Deneen and other candidates for state offices to cate whether they would support Col Roosevelt or President Taft A com- is to wait upon Governor De- neen and give his answer to the on July 23 The call sorting it was made necessary by politicians and privileged classes so strongly entrenched within the organization of the two old parties was voted upon by one Roosevelt supporter from each of the 25 congressional districts of the state Charles E Merriam of and several delegates withdrew their names from the call because it did not provide specifically for a full state ticket but only for the national ticket Merriam declared that be- cause of this omission he proposes to stay in the republican party Walter S Rogers of Chicago said the question was whether Colonel Roosevelt was running as an pendent republican or whether there was to be a third party He ed out that those present were about evenly divided on the question if there was to be a third party in the state it necessarily meant an- other state ticket No State Ticket A vote to amend the call to vide for a state ticket was lost 11 to 14 The call was then adopted Fred S Wilbur of East St Louis John Doyle of Springfield Julius Kesphol of Quincy and John Simon of Chicago who had signed the call afterwards withdrew their names State Senator Walter Clyde Jones before the business was com- saying he had expressed a wish that a full third parly slate ticket be put out The meeting over which Medill McCormick presided and which lasted throughout the day was held behind closed doors all newspaper men be- ing excluded The call for the state convention To the people of Illinois without regard to political differences who through long and bitter experience realize that today crooked politicians and the privileged classes behind them are so strongly intrenched within the organization of the two old political parties that the inter- ests of the people cannot be served by either of them Convention Call A call hereby is issued that they meet in mass conventions by or by wards as local conditions may require on Saturday July 27 to elect delegates to the state con- vention to meet in Chicago at eleven o'clock on the morning of Saturday the third day of August 1913 for the purpose of electing delegates to the National Progressive convention to be held In the city of Chicago on the day of August 1912 as vided in the call by the provisional committee of the National sive party as One delegate and one elector for each United States senator and for each and a tional committeeman to be elected by all the delegates to the state tions and one delegate one nate one elector and one member of the state central committee from each congressional district to be chosen by the delegates to the state conventions elected from each of said congressional districts and for the nomination of such other candidates as the state conventions mny deem proper No man shall be declared the nominee of this convention who does not receive a majority vote of the delegates in attendance at this con- vention No person shall participate in this convention or in the ies thereto who does not subscribe in to the call for the state national conventions The basis of representation in the state convention shall be one gate to every one thousand votes or major portions thereof cast by all parties at the last presidential tion in each county or in Cook county in each ward or country dis- Some of the members said they Continued on Page Nine ARE YOU TOO THEN PERHAPS YOU CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM THESE TOTS WHO KEEP COOL THROUGH THE HOTTEST DAYS Does this scorching July weather make you wisn that you were an Does t take a lot joy out of living and cause you to say mean and miserable things about the weather man? Then cheer up All you have to flo to get back to enjoying life is to follow the ex- ample of the children shown in the accompanying pictures Not signs ot grief on faces of the little girls are And the seen in the lower picture as cool as you please and couldn't be happier It Is very comforting to know that la a way to keep cool and that these little tota have found It Engineer Seriously injured and May Train t Associated Press sons were injured is the wreck enroute from northern Michigan to Chicago two and one-half miles east of Chesterton Ind They ENGINEER DAVIDSON Grand Rapids Michigan spine injured and hurt internally condition may die FIREMAN FRANK A GERMAN Grand Rapids Mich seriously cut and about condition not dangerous MRS F A COOLBY Chicago shoulder injured and cut oh face and body condition not dangerous A dozen other passengers were slightly cut by flying glass but their wounds were attended by a physician The struck a heavy plank that protruded from a crossing and was derailed After bumping over the ties for forty feet the locomotive rolled down an embankment taking the baggage car three day coaches with it The other cars remained on the track The train was crowded with gers and was running at a high rate of speed when the accident occurred The fireman and a traveling engineer who were in of the locomotive jumped when track After an inspection of the track at the place of the wreck railroad men said that the truck had apparently climbed the rails on the straight piece of but the cause accident could not be fully determined until later Charged With Forging Name of Milwaukee facturer Press July A stm 50 years old an attorney ami formerly president of a which failed thirteen years ago was arrested today on a charge of for- gery preferred by Fred A Flader circulation manager of a newspaper Flader asserts that recently lie sold I an automobile to Paulson j ed as part payment a note for alleged to have been signed by J F Conant a Milwaukee I who is said to have repudiated l he note as a forgery Six notes aggregating bearing the name of Couant were found in Paulson's possession ing to the police Paulson who lives in Aurora but has offices in Chicago his arrest was the result of a understanding and affair would be straightened out as soon as he had an opportunity to talk with Flader I gave Flader a copy of Conant's he said the original is at the office of the Chicago Title and Trust company NO WITNESSES HEARD Press Chicago July witnesses were heard today by the grand jury in the investigation of the alleged con- to ruin the reputation of Clarence S Funk general manager of the International Harvester com- pany States Attorney devoted the day to the questioning of es preparatory to taking them before the inquisitorial body It is ed that the testimony in the case will be presented to the grand jury tomorrow police and private detectives continued their search for John C who charged Mr Funk with alienating the affections of his wife Mrs Josephine Henning who recently is said to have confessed her part in the alleged plot G 0 P EDITORS REPORT Press Springfield Ills July Republican editors of the state con- ference here today and then signed a telegram protesting against the posed launching of a third party state ticket in Illinois The protest was addressed to McCormick at Chicago After the meeting the editors ed on Governor Deneen The of calling a conference of all Republican editors of the state wai discussed GOES EAST Chicago July F Coombs chairman of the Democratic National Committee left for New Tork today and tomorrow will go to girt for a conference with Governor Wilson They will talk over the sonel of the campaign committee of nine or more which was provided for in the meeting of the National Com- yesterday and on Thursday the chairman expects to make the names of the committeemen public HIGHWAY Granted ambition and ability there's a highway to it is via the Want Col- To the capable conscientious and ambitious the Wants point to bigger broader fields where endeavor counts the high places are more easily attained The skilled worker who can broaden into larger spheres can find chances for betterment if he can make good by using the Wants to tell of his ability and his experience Watching the Wants has been the means advancement for many Want Ad Dept Phone 2664 Alleged to Have Given Money to the Bribed Jurors in McNamara Case Press Los Angeles Cal July witnesses testified today at the ery trial of Clarence S Darrow that Bert H Franklin in conversations with hud exonerated Darrow from any complicity in the alleged jury bribery Franklin when on the stand has denied making such ments The mysterious man the de- fense probably will attempt to show furnished the bribe money again brought into the record by Geo He testified that lin had told him the unidentified man was within ii few feet of him when the money was passed to Juror wood Franklin witness said told him he believed the mysterious stranger came from San Francisco Hood was not THROWN FROM TRAIN Press Wis July Slady of Belvidere Ills lost both arms and both legs near here today when he was thrown from a swiftly moving railroad train He died ly afterwards and Frank Schmidt of Marquette Michigan his companion is being held as a witness pending the verdict of the coroners jury DROWNED IN V POOL Press Indianapolis Ind July dore aged 21 of Cincinnati Ohio was drowned in the Y M C A swimming pool here today vins entered the pool alone and it not known how he met death The bady was found this afternoon in six feet of water CLOUDBURST IN NEW MEXICO Pross Santa Fe July power dam of the Hondo Irrigation project was swept out by a terrific cloud hurst shortly before midnight last night A twenty foot wall of water swept down the narrow canyon and out on the mesa destroying all crops fences and small buildings So far as known no lives were lost INJURIES PROVED FATAL Teddy Roosevelt's New ty Strikes Terror to Their Souls WHERE THEY WELL US County Leaders Used to Be Are HOPELESS DEADLOCK Estherville Iowa July 16 The fourteenth judicial district can convention is hopelessly locked here over a nomination for judge The convention adjourned late today after twenty-two ballots had been taken Judge Bailie has a slight lead in a field of live dates New Hartford Iowa July Wm Leverence while engaged in mowing near here today lie was thrown in front of the sickle bar and received injuries which caused his death The clothing was cut from his body and his legs were cut and gashed in a horrible manner He was 25 year old RESOLUTIONS OF VELT PARTY Resolved That the National Progressive Party be and is hereby declared to be a ate and distinct political for the purpose of and securing social and industrial justice and political liberty in Nation and Resolved That the National Progressive Party place dates in nomination for every office to be filled by election National State and As Wellington prayed for night or so prayeth the local re- publican for some great light that will reveal to nim of what the people of blessed memory are going to do when they come to elect officers this fall Utterly demoralized hope and depending upon the io save them from utter rout by the de- forces this fall the lican party in Black Hawk county stands before the people the very acme of helplessness and the attitude of its leaders only serves to size utter for ment For several Jays reporters have been scouring the city for a can leader who knew enough about where he stood on the or factional affiliation so as to be able to but apparently such a republican does not exist in Waterloo at least be is a rara avis that can't be found ordinary methods On Saturday afternoon in the court house will he held a county convention of the tional Progressive party the that represents the gang who were so badly robbed at Chicago who at that time swore by all that was good and holy that they would never rest until the crime had been punished who declared there and then that a new party would be born with the magnificiant and terrible Teddy ing them on to splendid victory But things have changed In the cold grey dawn of the morning after the night before the firy spirit has been and for some reason or other a half and half mixture ot eral apathy and innocuous seems to prevail in the camp of the G O P You are either for me or agin me shouts the Colonel as he mounts his charger to make the trip to the state convention of the progressive party at Des Moines July and the local leaders shiver in their boors A few a very few of the braver spirits are out in the cold trying to cheer their drooping spirits by mournfully singing When the roll is called up yonder I'll be but when it comes down to brass tacks and a republican leader in is asked where he stands he is so high up on the fence hanging on to his party regularity for fear get broke that you can't hear his answer A new party has been founded and composed of the men who refused to abide by decisions of the Chicago con- vention in the country were men so pronounced in their op- inions of the actions of that tion than the local republican ers most of them posing as sive but now that they have an to climb into the progressive bandwagon their to an office that can be realized only by party regularity and ability to draw voters from both factions regardless ot whether or not the votes represent stolen begins to enter the periphery of their political vision and all chances for an expression on she political situation especially that part of it that affects their own standing vanishes like a dream One Standpatter Left One only one was found stood for the republican party as ed by the Chicago convention and he an old leader and one highly honored by the state of Iowa did not tate to say he was there and there with both feet One said lie was a republican on tlie but and he is holding down a job The rest of them are anything cares to make of them at for the present until the becomes clarified and the weather is more con- genial and until the political shines bright enough to enable a low to see more clearly which the cat is going to jump One prominent republican said he was a sick man and hoped lie be spared the trouble of discussing a subject requiring so much mental effort as was in saying which side of the fence he was on He ed sick and the reporter didn't to push the matter lest it affect man's heart action Another recipient of republican honors in the way of a life job in the Continued Page Five
