Attempt To Avert Fight On Floor Over Chairmanship
This Baltimore dispatch reports a compromise attempt in the Democratic National Committee to prevent a floor clash over the temporary chairmanship of the national convention. Judge Alton B Parker was favored by some as temporary chair, opposed by W. J. Bryan, with party leaders seeking harmony and peace negotiations ahead of the convention.
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National Committee
Baltimore
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Nebraska
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Alton BR. Parker
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Kremer
Montana
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Henry
Texas
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Theodore Bell
California
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Colorado
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Sullivan
Illinois
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Belvidere
Williams
Mississippi
Newlands
Nevada
John Sunderland
Mr. Browne
Vermont
A. B. Parker
Woodrow Wilson
Robert S. Hudspeth
New Jersey
Kentucky
Champ Clark
Thirty Die As Buffalo Resort Dock Collapses
A doomed Niagara river excursion dock at Eagle Park near Grand Island collapsed during a Buffalo outing. Up to noon today thirty six people are dead or missing after more than one hundred were plunged into the river. Identified dead include Mrs Arthur Mayer Mrs John Hayes and Mrs Lillie Kellogg. The crowd gathered while Court Amherst Lodge Foresters of America members prepared to depart on the Henry Koerber and a supporting barge. Reasons cited include rotten planks and missing piles beneath the collapsed section.
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M&s
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Gallagher
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Court Amherst Lodge
Foresters of America
Eagle Park
Henry Koerber
Labor leaders held guilty again in DC contempt case
Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchell were found guilty of contempt of court by the District of Columbia supreme court over the Bucks Stove and Range boycott. They plan to appeal to the U S Supreme Court. Sentences: Gompers one year Mitchell nine months Morrison six months.
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Washington, D. C
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
John Mitchell
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Supreme Court of the United States
Wright
Supreme Court
Gompers
Mitchell
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Shonts Resignation Accepted. Worthington New Chicago & Alton President
At a directors meeting in New York on June 24, Theodore P. Shonts’ resignation as Chicago and Alton president was formally accepted. B A Worthington, ex-receiver of Wheeling and Lake Erie lines and related coal firms, was elected president and named to the board and executive committee, succeeding J S Mackle.
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Chicago & Alton Railroad
New York
N. Y
Chicago & Alton Railroad Company
Theodore P. Shonts
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company
Pittsburgh, Wheeling & Lake Erie Coal Company
Worthington
The
Chicago & Alton
J. S. Mackle
Pig Iron Freight Increase Suspended by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended about a $1.05 per ton rise in pig iron rates from Duluth and upper Minnesota and Michigan to Kansas City Omaha Sioux City and other middle western destinations until October 29.
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Omaha
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Roosevelt confirms progressives nomination stance and new party committee
Roosevelt says he will accept the progressive nomination on a progressive platform and fight through to the end. Gov Johnson names an expanded organizing committee for the new party, led by Hiram W. Johnson, with members from multiple states and prominent editors and politicians.
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Powell Clayton named temporary chairman of new Republican committee
The Republican National Committee convened in executive session with Powell Clayton of Arkansas named temporary chairman and Alvah H. Martin of Virginia as temporary secretary. F B Stanley of Kansas attended in place of William Allen White, while Roosevelt supporters observed but took no decisive action. A nine member committee was appointed to confer with President Taft on leadership naming. Six states were unrepresented among those present.
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Powell Clayton
Arkansas
Republican National Committee
Alvah H. Martin
Virginia
William Allen White
Kansas
F. B. Stanley
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Taft
Stanley
Roosevelt
National Committee
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Ohio
Roy O. West
Illinois
John J. Adams
Iowa
Charles B. Warren
Michigan
Thomas K. Niedringhaus
Missouri
I. W. Estabrook
New Hampshire
Newell Sanders
Tennessee
Alvah EH. Martin
S. A. Perkins
Washington
California
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New Jersey
North Carolina
South Dakota
Massachusetts
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Maine
West Virginia
Count Ballots On Strike In Federation Vote
Officials of the Federation of Federations in St. Louis begin counting ballots from members on a strike question. About 300,000 members reportedly voted, with a sympathy strike planned affecting about 150 railroad lines west of Chicago if approved.
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St. Louis
the Federations of Federations
Harriman Lines
Chicago
Jury selection begins in Henning v Funk suit in Chicago
Selection of a jury to hear the $26,000 alienation of affections case against Clarence S. Funk, general manager of International Harvester, began in Circuit Judge Slusser’s court in Chicago. Funk was not present.
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Ill
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Clarence S. Funk
International Harvester Company
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Slusser
Roosevelt Leaves Chicago in Campaign Fight
Colonel Roosevelt departed Chicago on the Twentieth Century Limited toward New York, accompanied by Alexander H. Revell and campaign leaders. A crowd cheered as he shouted I am in the fight to win. James R. Garfield will ride with him to Cleveland. In New York Comptroller Prendergast said he will join Theodore Roosevelt’s new Progressive party, calling it a full battle rather than a skirmish.
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James R. Garfield
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New Progressive Party
Delegates Arrive As Democratic Convention Opens
Baltimore prepares for the Democratic National Convention with 10delegates arriving and a focus on the temporary chairmanship amid a Bryan influenced power struggle. The national committee will review contested delegations set roll calls and name a temporary chair. state caucuses will shape committee representation and nominee backing. The clash between progressives and conservatives surrounds Bryan and Parker with Clark and Wilson as leading alternatives.
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Fifth Regiment
Aramory
Wm. I. Bryan
Bryan
Alton
B. Parker
Clark
National Committee
Judge Parker
Wilson
New York
Norman Mack
Ilinois
Indiana
Marshall
Alabama
Underwood
Belvidere
Baltimore Delegation Reaches City for Democratic Convention Meet
Baltimore on June 24 welcomed a 126 member Town delegation led by Judge Wade and Representative Pepper. The group planned a 5 PM meeting to organize for the convention, with Clark supporters facing pressure as talks favor Wilson or a dark horse like Marshall or Gaynor. Healy will shape platform planks on tariff, trusts, labor, conservation, and national resources, while Schive on resolutions and income tax loom.
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Baltimore
Judge Wade
Representative Pepper
Clark
Rennett
Mr. Pepper
Claude R Porter
Wilson
Marshall
Gaynor
Taft
Roosevelt
House
Ballinger
Congress
House of Representatives
Weather forecast roundup for Illinois and JOWA region
The forecast calls for fair skies and a warmer trend tonight through Tuesday. Illinois expects continued fair conditions with rising temperatures. Sunrise times noted as 7:15 and sunset around 2:50.
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