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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1912
Page
4
At the Chicago convention, daylong proceedings feature orderly and riotous moments with taft and Roosevelt factions contending over credentials. Gov Hadley and Sen Wadsworth press motions as Bryan attends and cheers erupt for various leaders amid interruptions and roll calls.
President Taft spent the day narrowing political talk to his Chicago managers, consulting Cabinet briefings and advisers, playing golf, and reading front-line bulletins. A blue clay elephant on a desk amused staff, then appeared as a warning omen to some, while officials stressed keeping political remarks private unless Chicago clarifies.
Copies of a telegram dated June 21 1922 were given out in New York to Senator Root and the National Republican Convention committee. It praises Taft administration efforts to dissolve the Bath Tub Trust and restore competition and sanitary commerce nationwide. The message urges continuation of Taft policies to restore business confidence.
Crowds gathered around the Times Building bulletin boards in Chicago as Roosevelt supporters and Democrats debated the colonel’s electability. The crowd debated whether Roosevelt could win Alderman and cheered Chauncey Depew’s Taft prediction amid police guidance.
Senator La Follette in his magazine renews attacks on the American press. He endorses Arnold Bennett’s claim that half an hour of daily reading is wasted and promotes reading Dana's Two Years Before the Mast and Darwin Beagle. He argues two days without papers shows the daily press often serves little value.
Federal Immigration Service teams are gathering evidence on a large scale Chinese smuggling operation. Prosecutions target coastwise smugglers led by Adolph Adolphson of the schooner Earl K Dodge. Ensenada and Half Moon Bay are noted landing points as authorities seek to dismantle a protective network of immigrant laborers. Separately James Devine alias Jim the Penman and Chester Errico were sentenced for forgery totaling 8200 dollars.
Gov Dix and Tammany chief Murphy left New York for Baltimore on different trains to attend the Democratic national convention amid rival campaigns for Gaynor and Wilson. Dix said he would not bargain or accept a VP nomination, while Murphy asserted the party will win and backed Gaynor as a leading candidate.
Four battleships Louisiana Kansas New Hampshire and South Carolina departed Norfolk Virginia for Baltimore to remain during the eratic National Convention with ships en route today for the event.
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