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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1916
Page
6
Delegates shifted loyalties throughout the session leading to Hughes’s nomination. Throughout the roll call, Hughes drew votes from nearly every state and territory, with many factions withdrawing favorites as unity formed, despite Roosevelt’s provocative silence and the Progressive stance.
The Chicago convention endorsed the nomination of Fairbanks after quiet deliberations. Theodore Roosevelt sent a brief message from Oyster Bay declining the nomination, prompting a tense adjournment and questions about future alliances and platform choices.
Colonel Roosevelt tells reporters he will not seek further political office. He outlined steps toward uniting Republicans and Progressives around Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, indicated a possible compromise candidate, and declined to comment further until the Progressive National Committee meets. The report includes state election tallies and party fortunes in several districts and counties.
In incomplete district tallies the Republican side leads in several races. Continna and Murray show 54 191, Shawkey 99 888, giving a 5 697 margin. Stewart trails by 2 519 as southern counties threaten to erase the balance. Only protest recorded cites Fleming with 243 and Hearne at 7 137, signaling Fleming’s majority in that contest.
SETTLING QUESTIONS NEW YORK June 10 Seventy per cent of the questions railroad and theophers have then satisfactorily wetted by mediation. The remaining which Include the tions of wages and hours of labor will 30 to 0 hoard of arbitration some time next week.
London June 10 The British admiralty confirms the dreadnought Warspite reached port after the North Sea battle. In St Louis reporters describe preparations as the Democratic convention nears. National Chairman McCombs says renominating Wilson and Marshall remains likely despite Chicago delegates. Governor Major of Missouri competes for vice president with rumors of Moorehead and Owen also possible nominees.
Captain Bowen Colthurst stood trial in London for the killings of Skeffington Dickson and McIntyre during the Irish rebellion. The court-martial found him guilty of murder while also deeming him insane at the time of the shootings. General Maxwell confirmed the verdict and he is to be confined during the King's pleasure.
Wiley of Ripley visited the city Saturday evening on a bus mission. T. T. Flesher came from Parkershore Saturday. W. McCray of Roanoke is here for 20 a Digital News unit. W. White of Huntington plans a short visit Saturday night. Regina Canis has returned home from Notre Dame College after nine months. Caul Geld, 1915 Washington Irving graduate, studies music at Notre Dame. Mrs. Richard Brooks and grandson Robert Quinn travel to Parkershore to visit Mrs. Clarence Brooks Eld. Denmark has 07,000 honey hives.
A newly photographed Duchess de Vizen, formerly Anita Brewert, an American girl, is depicted as a potential heir to a throne. The caption notes her as a leading figure in the nation’s social scene and monarchy circles.
Taft receives hundreds of telegrams in Washington on June 19 including a notable message to Charles E Hughes praising his “stanist as a state man citizen and patriot.” Other Republican candidates Fitzhanks Root Cummins Weeks Morton and Knox send congratulations and support.
John C. Chapman former outfielder for the Atlantics, prominent in the late 1800s, died of heart disease at his Brooklyn home at age 72. He played in the 11 inning 1870 game when the Atlantics beat the Cincinnati Red Stockings 11 to 7, a noted early triumph for the club.
A Reuters dispatch from Ymuths en, Holland, reports sailors aboard a trawler captured by Germans and later released learned at Cuxhaven that among German ships in the Skagerrak battle, six great vessels and seventeen destroyers did not return. The despatch notes the loss list includes vessels of about 22,440 tons.
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