Taft Allies Push Contested Delegates At National Committee
The allied bloc of presidential candidates resumes presenting their contested delegate cases to the national committee. They plan to appeal to credentials and then the convention if needed, while denying endorsement of all current decisions. The piece notes Taft’s dominance, hints at potential vice presidential options, and mentions proxies and key figures such as Hitchcock Statter Phelps McKenzie Kieling and Luna with Guam-like shifts possible in Alaska proxies.
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Luneheon
National Committee
Crane
Bradley
Taft
Gay
Committee On
Hitchcock
Messrs. Statter
Washington
Phelps
Connecticut
Statter
The
Treasury
Congress
West
Brooker
Senator Platt
Messrs. Hitchcock
Mr. Phelps
Alexander McKenzie
North Dakota
McKenzie
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Senator Foraker
Kentucky
Fairbanks
Missouri
Hughes
Foraker
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Alaska
Arizona
Messrs. Phelps
Statters
Alsius
Butler Ames Denies Forged Florida Convention Tickets
Lowell Mass June 7 Congressman Butler Ames arrives home from New York and rebuts charges before the Republican National Committee that he was responsible for forged Florida State Convention admission tickets He declares he had no involvement with tickets their receipt or distribution and calls J M Stripling's claim untrue He notes Taft managers insisted only ticket holders enter and says he opposed delegate instructions for the national convention focusing on the party's good rather than personal interest
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Lowell
Mass
Butler Ames
New York
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Florida
Ames
J. M. Stripling
United States District Attorney
Taft
St. Augustine
North
Foraker
Mr. Taft
Colonel Stripling
Plague Reported in Caracas Amid Trade Shutdown
The French steamer Martinique reports plague cases at Caracas confirmed by the steamer Caracas. La Guayra remains cut off from the world as the plague worsens. Merchants’ funds are exhausted and aid is lacking while repeated reports of the plague surface and are denied, time and again.
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Willemstad
Martinique
Caracas
Castro
la Guayra
Plague Details From La Guayra Disturb American Consul
American Consul Thomas P. Moffat described La Guayra's plague conditions from his nine day stay. He cited eighteen deaths before leaving, uncertain daily totals, and said quarantine halted port activity with scarce meat. He noted Americans dwindling to two and the U S gunboat Paducah aiding his exit.
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Thomas P. Moffat
la Guayra
Venezuela
Santiago
Royal Mal
Steam Packet Company
Trinidad
Moffat
United States
Paducah
Guayaquil
Guantanamo
Cuba
Brooklyn
Washington
Ambrose H. Carner renders May accounting in court
In Caracas on June 2 via Willemstad on June 7, the Federal Court judge says Ambrose H. Carner former receiver of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company has rendered May accounting for court review. The Venezuelan government sued to compel accounting of his four years’ administration. bond set at $200000.
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Caracas
Willemstad
Ambrose H. Carner
New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company
Carner
Prize for first aeroplane to remain aloft five minutes
Paris June 7. René Quinton offers 2009 dollars to the first aviation inventor who can fly five minutes with the engine stopped at a height of at least fifty metres. Quinton believes no man can match birds in duration of flight.
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Parix
René Quinton
Quinton
Republican platform draft endorses Roosevelt policies at Chicago
The coming Republican platform, drafted by Wade Ellis and Senator Hopkins with input from the President and Taft, will pledge support for Theodore Roosevelt’s policies, praise the party’s record on protection and sound money, and contrast it with Democratic aims. It emphasizes tariff revision, financial reform, canal and forest policies, labor protections, and imperial affairs in Cuba and the Philippines, plus civil rights and navy expansion.
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Washington
Chicago
Wade Ellis
Ohio
Hopkins
Committee On
Long
Kansas
Taft
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Party of Progress
Cuba
Philippines
Porto Rico
Congress
Panama Canal
United States
Arizona
New Mexico
Orient
China
South America
Australasia
Uphold the Judiciary Memorial Letter from Republican leaders
A memorial by New York Republicans urges the Republican National Convention to affirm confidence in the judiciary as essential to the American system. Signers include Nicholas Murray Butler Cornelius Bliss D O Mills James M Taylor and others. They warn of attacks on courts by parties in 1896 and 1908 campaigns.
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Philippines
Cuba
New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Charles Andrews
Cornelius N. Bliss
Thomas L. James
John L. Cadwalader
John A. Stewart
D. O. Mills
William N. Cohen
James M. Taylor
Joseph H. Choate
William J. Wallace
Asks Work Not Charity From East Side Hunger Crisis
President McStay of the Central Federated Union urged finding the cause of food shortages for East Side children. He opposed charity for workers, calling for work and arguing some contributions come from firms maintaining high prices. He warned against motives of notoriety or political gain.
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McStay
Central Federated Union
East Side
Haywood Sparks Labor Rally With Constitution Rage
William D. Haywood addressed five thousand at Sulzer's Westchester Park in a Socialist party picnic. He linked labor and the Supreme Court citing Buck Stove Co. He exclaimed to hell with the Constitution then corrected to to hell with the injunction amid scattered laughter.
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William D. Haywood
Boise City
Idaho
Socialist Party
Sulzer
Westchester Park
Haywood
United States Supreme Court
Labor
Buck Stove Company
Speeding motorcyclist arrested after hill climb crash
William H. Wray of 53 West 638th Street was arrested on a John Doe warrant for speeding over a month after a crash. Bicycle Patrolman Martin chased him at 72nd Street and Riverside Drive during a hill climb event by the New York Motorcycle Club at Fort George. Wray’s motorcycle somersaulted on Dyckman Street and St Nicholas Avenue, rolled 200 feet, he was aided and then charged.
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William H. Wray
West 638d Street
Martin
Wray
72D Street
Riverside Drive
New York Motorcycle Club
Fort George
Dyckman Street
St. Nicholas Avenue
Venona Wins Marblehead to Bermuda Race in Class C
Venona owned by George E. Bliss of Boston sails from Marblehead to Hamilton Bermuda in 99 hours 32 minutes elapsed time and 98 hours 56 minutes corrected time. The small доставed yacht led from mid-race despite heavy seas, finishing June 7 in Hamilton harbor with full flags and cheers from local yachtsmen.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Venona
George E. Bliss
Boston
Eastern Yacht Club
Marblehead
Bliss
Highland Light
Gulf Stream
John B. Crozier
Philadelphia
Marchioness
Hamilton Harbor
Fire devastates Salvation Army meeting in Jersey City
A Mor gan Street Salvation Army industrial home fire forced evacuation during Captain W W Winchell led service. The blaze spread to a rear tenement and a stable where sixteen horses died. several firemen were injured and Captain Murdock and officials sustained injuries.
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Salvation Army
W. W. Winchell
Army
Morgan Street
Jersey City
Dundon
Winchell
Margaret Morris
Murdock
Engine Company 1
Meehan
Board of Fire Commissioners
Ruddy
Anti Bryan Move in North Carolina
A strong anti Bryan movement forms in North Carolina to oppose instructing delegates to back William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic National Convention. Senators Simmons and Overman back the opposition and may steer delegates away from Bryan, as Governor Johnson’s candidacy heats up and a convention clash looms on June 24.
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Asheville
Bryan
Johnson
United States
Simmons
Overman
Flores
Denver
City to sue Hearst over Madison Square disaster
City officials plan eighty lawsuits seeking damages linked to the Madison Square disaster. Assistant Corporation Counsel Frank B. Pierce will serve Hearst upon his return from Europe. The city argues Hearst furnished contributions or aided in causing the nuisance, making him liable with the city.
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Court of Appeals
Corporation Counsel
Hearst
Frank B. Pierce
Mr. Hearst
Europe
Law Department
M& Hearst
Pendleton
Madison Square
Tim
Presidents Commission Returns From Canal Zone Inquiry
James Bronson Reynolds Samuel B Donnell and Henry Beach Needham arrived on the Panama liner Alliance from Colon to brief President Roosevelt on canal labor and commissary conditions They plan to recommend limiting married couples in the zone due to housing shortages The Alliance also brought ashore the bodies of Ford Coggan a civil engineer and Joseph Roach a powder foreman killed May 22 by a premature dynamite blast.
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James Bronson Reynolds
Samuel B Donnell
Henry Beach Needham
Canal Zone
Panama
Inez Allanca
Colon
Washington
Offord Coggan
Joseph Roach
Poor Man's Son Reported Strayed By Family
The three year old Julius Zarin vanished near Orchard Street while his father, a tailor, shopped at a butcher's shop. The parents received Black Hand letters and fear kidnapping though they doubt it. The boy wore a white suit and a red cap and can identify himself if found.
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Abraham Zarin
Julius
Orchard Street
Pao
Gerry Society
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