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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1912
Page
2
A garbled string of quips and editorial asides features jokes on golf slang, Sunday money, baseball, eggs fried by wire, and aviation. It wryly notes New York police guarding shoppers, elopements in Atlantic City, alimony cases, and a boastful list of humorous observations about society, England and American wealth, with scattered oddities and local tidbits.
At the Chicago Republican national convention crowds roared for Governor Hadley of Missouri for over forty minutes, with Teddy Roosevelt also drawing cheers. The Taft Roosevelt split surfaced in a test vote on delegations as credentials arguments continued.
Result of test vote shows a chaotic scene in which a cheering crowd, a waving Roosevelt picture, and a California bear prop dominated the gallery. Mrs. W. A. Davis of Chicago was escorted to the aisle amid uproar as delegates endured a forty minute disruption before Governor Hadley closed the debate. Governor Deneen proposed referring the contested delegation to the credentials committee with no vote on disposition.
Chicago delegates faced a crowded scene as the Republican convention battled credential contests. Roosevelt supporters clashed with Taft forces over seating, with chairmen Root and Hadley central to debates and threats of seizing power. The credentials committee proceeded slowly, seating Alabama by a 34 to 14 vote and moving through cases amid bitter acrimony.
Fifty thousand visitors sleep in the loop with an estimated 25 000 Cook County residents moving in to be near the Roosevelt Taft battle at the Coliseum. The convention draws the largest crowd ever, 20 percent above four years ago, with hotels at capacity and delegates from multiple states filing into city headquarters.
Mexican rancher discovers a saddled horse tied to a dead federal officer on the Aguaje battlefield. The horse had been left in the field a week after the fight on the Northwestern railroad. In the saddle bags lay $5000.
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