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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1912
Page
11
Former Speaker and Republican gubernatorial candidate Mr. Walker accuses Old Guard leaders of pressuring Republicans with a bare majority. He laments the defeat of the senatorial primary bill and urges a primary to choose a United States Senator.
The Walker message shocks party leaders as they plan the session and aim to choose a Senator. It urges open discussion, warns against coercion, and advocates delaying a caucus to let public sentiment form a new leadership rather than favor the old guard.
Walker vows to end caucus influence and pledges pressure on Republicans to reject the old guard. He argues for a new leader after the senatorial primary defeat tied to old guard influence and calls for direct primaries if possible.
The American Civic Association re elected all incumbents to its principal offices. J Horace McFarland of Harrisburg Penn re elected president John Nolan of Cambridge Mass first vice president William B Howland of New York treasurer and Richard Watrous of Washington D C secretary The British ambassador James Bryce was elected honorary life member A civic tour of Europe next summer probably July August was announced The convention closed this afternoon.
In Hammond Indiana on November 21 Frank Cravens aged 19 shot his stepmother Mrs Lincoln Cravens during a quarrel then fatally shot himself. Lincoln Cravens a noted lawyer and Mason was at the head of the family. Mrs Cravens and the stepson were reported in hopeless condition.
Professor William E Chandler an organist and noted composer dies at his New Haven home in his 74th year. He had been a prominent figure in local music circles and his work extended to church and concert compositions.
The Hon. Michael J. Ryan city solicitor of Philadelphia and national president of the United Irish League of America received a letter from Hon. John Redmond chairman of the Irish National Parliamentary Party expressing thanks of the Irish party and people for earnest and substantial support for Home Rule through the organization in this country.
The letter from J. E. Redmond, dated 12 November 1912 in London, expresses gratitude to Michael J. Ryan and American friends for their strong backing of the Irish movement. It notes US and Canadian support, praise for Philadelphia convention coverage, and confidence in a future home rule victory with shared credit.
Mrs. J Ward Carter of London was arrested at a fashionable hotel in San Francisco and taken to the federal detention station as an undesirable alien. She will be deported by the steamer Nile sailing November 23 and must return home by a route other than across the United States, immigration officials announced.
New York Psi Upsilon Club marked the 79th Founders Day with a dinner at an uptown hotel. Herbert L. Bridgman, longtime secretary treasurer of the Peary Arctic Club and 1866 Amherst College graduate, received a silver loving cup for fifty years of membership.
Miss Pauline Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer Frank Smith of 369 Marlboro street led the Back Bay debutantes this season. Her formal presentation occurred in the royal suite at Copley Plaza on Wednesday night drawing a large guest list. Miss Smith stood with her mother and a circle of chaperones from Malden Dedham Brookline Jamaica Plain and Boston.
President Taft orders clemency for two federal prisoners amid family hardship. Ivan McClarty, 4 year term for breaking into post offices in Ohio, will be released immediately. A man jailed in Columbus and another in Atlanta were pardoned to care for a motherless child and his ill mother.
French aviator Andre Frey, noted for his Chicago international race participation, collapsed his aeroplane during a flight at the Reims aerodrome and fell 150 feet. He earned his pilot certificate on June 10, 1910.
District Attorney Henry C. Attwill plans to argue for the Commonwealth in the Ettor Giovannitti and Caruso Lopizzo murder case in Lawrence. He will follow W Scott Peters for Giovannitti unless Ettor is allowed to address the jury. The unusual sequence was considered unlikely tonight.
Attorney Peters denounces the charges against Ettor Giovannitti as flimsy and argues the case stems from mill owners seeking to ruin strike leaders. He blasts witnesses as scum and accuses police and detectives of bias while depicting the trial as a conspiracy to suppress workers.
In a courtroom recount, Giovannitti weighed the character of witnesses and directly denied their testimony, while a dozen witnesses testified that he had said nothing of the kind and urged the strikers to stay away from soldiers who sought their blood.
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