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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
1
The Morning Journal notes Vice President Fairbanks rejects a second bid, urging irrevocable refusal to run again. Indiana backed sentiment favors Taft or Cummins for the vice presidency as New York caucus failures narrow choices.
Delegates split over a New York second place as Woodruff declines caucus and western candidates gain favor. Rumors center on Fairbanks Cummins and Knight with California backing Knight. Sherman’s name resurfaces, while Fairbanks bolstered by Vice President’s vow and Cummins’ viability prompts further shifts.
June 17 report from Hong Kong notes the anti-Japanese boycott remains strict. Government bars meetings at restaurants discussing self government and related topics. A missionary from Hainan reports people dying from the plague as the scourge eases in Hong Kong.
Chicago reports a pact among candidates to curb nominating and seconding speeches at the presidential nominating process. Taft will be nominated by Theodore Burton and seconded by George A. Knight. Several long lists of seconders retire from the platform to shorten proceedings. Foraker appears in nomination by C. Rose Coy and will be seconded by W. S. Emory. Stevenson declined to estimate expected votes but predicted support from many delegates.
Chicago jurors acquitted hip Lung Moy Dong Hoy and his brother Moy Dong Hoy and Harry Lee of murdering Chin Wai, a Chinese merchant shot on Clark Street last October. The verdict released tonight follows a high profile case tied to Chicago's Chinatown.
In Ashboro North Carolina on June 17 the Seventh District Democratic convention renominated Robert N Page for Congress and elected delegates to the Denver convention to support Bryan.
The full committee on resolutions at Chicago restored the plank calling for admission of Arizona and New Mexico as states after it had been struck by the subcommittee. Governor Curry, Delegate Andrews, former Delegate Rodey, and NM-AZ delegates urged its inclusion amid arguments for statehood.
Chicago June 17 a Republican platform plank favoring immediate admission of New Mexico and Arizona as separate states appears unlikely. Delegates Andrews Rodey and the New Mexico group push for New Mexico statehood but face weak support in the resolutions committee. By tonight only two of six New Mexico delegates are seated and veteran leader Tom Catron foresees a Democratic win in New Mexico next fall, while Taft is seen as likely to be nominated tomorrow despite Roosevelt talk.
Washington reports that Postmaster General Meyer issued orders barring publications with anarchistic tendencies from the U S mail. The amendment to the postal laws classifies objectionable matter as inciting arson murder or assassination and directs postmasters to exercise discretion to avoid harming innocent publishers.
A U S special dispatch from Techita reports the American car arriving in Paris on Saturday, establishing a new distance record for a single day in the New York to Paris race. It left Monday morning at o'clock.
Report of Credentials Committee seats show over seven hundred supporters of the Ohioan adopted by acclamation as opposition to Taft increases. Allies give up the threatened fight on the floor. The committee’s seating signal marks a turning point in the nomination battle.
The Coliseum packed with 14 000 as Roosevelt rally dominates day two of the Republican National Convention. Senator Lodge presides, credentials committee clears Taft delegates, and party unity grows as plans for the ticket firm up.
President Roosevelt listened by telephone to the wild display greeting his name at the Republican convention in Chicago. Wires and disks above the delegates transmitted each speech and cheer, with Roosevelt and Taft receiving instant reports and bulletins from the hall as events unfolded.
The crowd roared as Senator Lodge faced heckling and cheers in a disorderly gallery scene. Delegates and spectators rose, waved banners, and shouted for Teddy, while the band clashed and the uproar persisted for minutes as security sought control.
Chicago June 18 The sub committee of the Republican National Convention votes 35 to 16 to adopt a plank limiting court injunctions in labor disputes, with several states unrecorded. Arizona and New Mexico statehood planks are approved, despite earlier sub committee action. The room remains in secrecy as further deliberations continue.
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